Ridley Scott Signs Up for Japan in a Day Doc, To Benefit Tsunami Survivors

This is lovely: Ridley Scott is executive producing the "self-portrait" doc Japan in a Day, in the crowd-sourced collected footage vein of Kevin MacDonald's Life in a Day, to draw attention to and benefit the survivors of Japan's devastating 2011 tsunami and nuclear disaster. Fuji will donate 200 cameras to the project, which will cull from submissions uploaded to Youtube on March 11 with all profits reportedly going back to the victims. Now that's how you show support, Hollywood. [Deadline]

The Very Best 20 Tweets from the Academy awards

Gwyneth Paltrow Throughout Sunday's Oscars, we frequently found ourselves more amused in what everyone was tweeting concerning the show, compared to reveal. There is a great deal to discuss, you realize? Angelina's leg! The overzealous quantity of montages! Adam Sandler's sweatsuit! So we have put together a listing in our favorite tweets from the evening. Share your faves within the comments below.1. @LisaLampanelli: "Sandy Bullock -- her cheekbones have experienced more injections the Walgreens Flu clinic. "2. @RyanSeacrest: "My mother always explained to bring along two jackets for red-colored carpets, always wondered why. Now we all know.Inch3. @GwynethPaltrow: "Dude. Seriously. I really like my existence. say.ly/eOO1utJ"4. @KellyOxford (blogger): "Putting the Twilight clip into that montage was probably the most effective joke from the evening. "5. @MrJoshCharles: "Personally i think exactly the same about JLo's nipple. RT @TVGuide: A remarkable Cirque du Soleil perf. Not totally highly relevant to the #Academy awards, but we'll go.Inch6. @Jezebel_Tracie: (Tracie Egan Morrissey, Jezebel): "Your dog in the Artist and Julia Roberts are gonna visit some parties, revealed, and lift their legs."7. @SteveMartinToGo: "I swear, basically don't win an Oscar this season, it will likely be like all other year."8. @PiersMorgan: "'Wow, I did not expect this!' states the three,456th Hugo champion from the evening. #Academy awards"9. @DannyZuker (executive producer, Modern Family): " 'These have to function as the worst Academy awards ever, am I right?!' - James Franco"10. @WhitneyCummings: "Did Cameron and j.lo fall on baby oil"11. @AntDerosa (Anthony DeRosa, CNN): "Emma Stone's stylist moonlights like a gift wrapper."12. @AlecBaldwin: "I'm formally announcing that i'm re-making THE ARTIST with seem."13. @NormMacdonald: "I understand George Clooney is known for his practical jokes but he went just a little far using the Descendants."14. @CapriceCrane (film writer): "George Clooney and Kaira Pitt both lost. They'll cry themselves to rest atop their hot women & piles of cash.Inch15. @RealJeffreyRoss: "If the ceremony continues considerably longer they've got to chop to Christopher Plummer throughout the in memorium. "16. @JennyJohnsonHi5 (TV producer): "'Angelina Jolie is preferable to you.' -Julia Roberts #Academy awards"17. @RichardDreyfuss: "The Descendants is an excellent film that asks us to think that somebody would ever cheat on George Clooney with Matthew Lillard."18. @Mbyhoff (Mike Byhoff, Yahoo!): "Adam Sandler nominated for 12 razzies discusses the earnestness of film while putting on sweatpants."19. @MichaelIanBlack: "The Academy awards have been receiving such a long time, a couple of more and more people most likely died. (Somebody check up on Mickey Rooney.)"20. @KateWalsh: "...dear Hollywood stars, stop f---ing your faces, it's searching [like] the the bar scene in The Exorcist."

Gerard Butler Leaves Rehab

Scottish actor Darius Campbell has been cast in ABC's reimagining of Beauty and the Beast, TVLine.com reports. Campbell, primarily known for his theater work, will play Shiro, a bodyguard who forms an unexpected bond with Grace, a princess. Read More > Other Links From TVGuide.com Linda HamiltonGary FlederJonathan SteinbergChristopher Egan

Spartacus, Episode 4: Items That Made Us Go "Ew!"

Spartacus: Vengeance Spartacus: Vengeance lulled us in to a false sense of security in regards to the violence it has been showing to date this season. Ignore. All the bloodshed that has come before remains positively civilized -- dare we're saying, boring -- in contrast for the heinousness that went reduced the Roman house party. However, we get together with Spartacus and also the crew, that are on the go carrying out a semi-effective Naevia save mission. Despite the fact that former gladiators kill greater than their great deal of pursuing Romans, the rebels are eventually selected off one at a time until all that's left certainly are a fierce Mira, frightened Naevia, formidable Spartacus and seriously hurt Nasir. They have to jettison the Syrian, but Spartacus is "no slave omittedInch and follows Naevia's advice to cauterize his wound with fire. Just if the seems that new Romans have taken up on their behalf, it calculates being another digital digital rebel faction introduced by Agron. Huzzah! From Wager on Thrones to Spartacus: TV's unsexiest sex moments Meanwhile, prisoner Oenomaus greets his new cell mates that have been obtained from Spartacus' raid: Crixus, Rhaskos and... uh-oh, we don't know this third guy. When the were the area of The Exorcist, he'd have a very red-colored-colored shirt on. Because this is the area of Spartacus, he's hardly anything else on apart from a loin cloth. Inside a party Gaius and Ilithyia hold for Varrenius, he's offered the chance to eliminate the slaves as party entertainment. At first he demurs, proclaiming that their deaths might be better offered if this involves where all Capua can savor the spectacle, however he allows anyone to be destroyed becoming an appetizer to appease Seppius, whose cousin Sextus happen to be wiped out by Spartacus' males. The indegent, unrecognizable fourth slave is chosen, which is tortured and bloodied with the evening. With the finish in the evening, we learn that Ilithyia is speaking to acquire Varrenius as her new husband (if father will annul her marriage to Gaius), Lucretia helps her plan, which Seppius and dear sister Seppia might be a little closer than siblings and siblings needs to be. Onto people "Ew!" moments: The Blood stream - It is not a Sparty party unless of course obviously someone can get humiliated, naked, destroyed... or even the 3. The nameless slave that individuals stated above is systematically sliced and diced as if he were a particularly prime little bit of protein on top Chef... a little of protein that was still alive and human, that's. First, Seppius get rid of the slave's tongue (Ouch!), then Cossutius sliced off a choice cutlet (breast). We could escape a lot of the other torture until Ilithiya procedures in for just about any quailing Seppia and progressively, nonchalantly runs the guy through while using sword. We'd hate doing next party trick. The relaxation from the spectacular violence inside the episode -- Mira stabbing a Roman frequently, multiple geysers of blood stream, a severed arm flying using the air -- are not in comparison to Roman house party fun. The Physiques - Gauis and Ilithyia's party also presented a feast of flesh, slave flesh clearly, for your site visitors and audiences in your house. There's the writhing, sex-filled tableau in the middle of the house, a guys servers inside their full-frontal nude glory. And despite the fact that they ongoing to become outfitted, Varrenius feeling up Ilithiya's crotch while speaking about her possibly divorcing her husband will be a rather stomach-turning moment. Less arousing was Lucinda's mechanical mounting in the aging Albinius within the finish in the episode. Oh, which we suppose we ought to mention Seppius kissing his sister Seppia here and hinting at losing themselves in one another peoples comforting embrace. The Bites - How do Albinius munch away around the cookie (or whatever that snack was) as you are watching the slave's p-tongueing? Bad taste, that. Which moments unsettled you?

NBC orders J.J. Abrams pilot

NBC has bought drama pilot "Revolution" from Warner Bros. TV and Bad Robot Prods. Eric Kripke ("Supernatural") is writing and executive creating the knowledge-adventure series along with J.J. Abrams and Bryan Burk, that are running a business while using Peacock the first time since the short-were living drama "Undercovers" couple of years ago. "Revolution" follows several figures fighting to live and reunite with family people in the world where all kinds of energy have strangely stopped to exist. The hour will be a put pilot getting a hefty penalty attached once the Peacock didn't order it. "Revolution" marks Bad Robot's second pilot pickup for your 2012-13 season following "Shelter" with "One Tree Hill" executive producer Mark Schwahn within the CW. Bad Robot is now offering two series on Fox's schedule, "Fringe" as well as the new "Alcatraz." Contact Andrew Wallenstein at andrew.wallenstein@variety.com