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On Thursday, October 5, Emmy and Tony award-winning actress and singer Kristin Chenoweth will perform under the stars at the 5th Annual Mission: Gratitude benefit gala and rally support for Home Base, a Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital Program.

Guests will enjoy an intimate piano performance by the star, best known for her roles in Hollywood, including “You Again;” on TV shows, like “Pushing Daisies” and “Glee;” and on Broadway, in “Wicked.” The gala celebration will feature a cocktail reception on the USS Constitution and dinner under the stars in a glass tent, on the historic Charlestown Navy Yard.

For Kristin, the evening represents a great responsibility and duty, “It is an honor for me to be able to share my talents to support the greater good of our military community. There are many reasons to support our Armed Forces and the hope Home Base provides to these men...

Wanted: Los Angeles mansion fit for a king and queen. Throne room a must.

New parents of three, Jay-Z and Beyoncé have yet to find a home in Los Angeles that suits their needs and their $100 million budget, a real estate source confirms to People. “They want to find the perfect house to buy for their family, but they haven’t found it yet,” the source says.

With a massive budget, and in a city of mega-mansions, the real estate options are seemingly endless. But when you’re a family of global superstars, even a 9-figure price tag can be limiting.

She’s so “Lucky”… she just unloaded her Thousand Oaks, California, home for $7 million.

Although she originally listed the property for $8.995 million, Britney Spears still made a pretty penny on the estate she bought for $6.744 million in 2012, according to Trulia. The singer put the mansion on the market after purchasing a second five-bedroom, eight-bathroom house in October 2015. Her real estate agent, Rami Eminoufi of Bcb Premiere Estates, shared a tweet about the listing when it first became available in June 2016, below.

https://t.co/Wk05NWJeut

— Rami Elminoufi (@Relminoufi) July 1, 2016

At 8,456 square feet, there was plenty of room for Spears,...

After Jurassic World raked in over $511 million at the worldwide box office this weekend, it’s safe to say that director Colin Trevorrow is now a big time filmmaker. He may not be returning for Jurassic World 2, but he will forever be credited with reinvigorating the Jurassic Park franchise, whether fans are pleased by […]

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Man, they keep dropping like flies on Orphan Black this season.

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Just one week after Rudy put Seth out of his misery, another Castor clone possibly bit the dust in this Saturday’s episode. Meanwhile, Cosima made a big discovery from Seth’s brains and Art confessed his love for one of the female seestras! Oh, and more than one mother proved herself to be a powerful force.

The Hunt For Mark | After Art walks in on her and Felix trying to clean up the mess...

Nadia Dresti, Delegate of the Artistic Direction, Head of International at the Locarno International Film Festival talks to Susan Kouguell about Industry Days (August 10-12), Step In and Carte Blanche.

Nadia Dresti: “The film festival’s role has to become more a place to help a film to be released afterwards, and Locarno is a perfect place to put these people together and mix.”

Dresti is passionate about her work, and about spotlighting independent filmmakers from countries who face challenges getting their work noticed and distributed. Nadia and I met at her office this week to discuss the Locarno International Film Festival’s various initiatives that will take place during Industry Days.

Dresti: “We received 1,300 submissions, and Carlo Chatrian and his team saw between 500-700 films around the world, so 2,000 films altogether. Carlo selected 100 new films. What about the other films? Some go to smaller festivals, but more than 1,000 titles don’t go anywhere; they will not find a release. There is a gap with this small release possibility and the gap is getting bigger. I think the system is wrong.”

The Industry Office

The Industry Office of the Locarno Film Festival was designed to support producers and agents presenting films at the festival by connecting them with international sales and distribution professionals, and exhibitors. Their goal is to play an active role in the support of auteur films; whether launching a new project or extending and optimizing existing services and initiatives, the Industry Office aims to support sales agents, distributors, producers and exhibitors in their respective tasks, ranging from the conception to the release of independent art-house cinema.

Nadia Dresti: “Every activity is tailor made. Most important are the films, and around the films – the producers, buyers, and so on – and the types of films that we believe in.”

Industry Days

Launched in 2010, the Locarno Film Festival’s Industry Days offer international film industry professionals the opportunity to participate in a comprehensive series of initiatives designed for them. The goal -- to facilitate networking. By supporting the sales agents and producers who are presenting films at the Festival, they put them in contact with buyers, distributors and exhibitors. Industry Days also develops through specially organized and exclusive screenings, alongside works-in-progress sessions, discussions, round tables and events that take place under the umbrella of the Industry Home Base, encouraging every opportunity for exchange. These are combined with two further initiatives, Carte Blanche and Step In.

Carte Blanche

Nadia Dresti: “We have Carte Blanche, an initiative we started three years ago, showing films in postproduction by emerging talents from a different country in Asia, Africa, Latin America or Southeast Europe. This year Carte Blanche is dedicated to Chile.”

Carte Blanche will screen seven films in postproduction. Each film will be introduced by its producer and director to the various international sales agents, distributors and festival programmers in order to facilitate post-production and sales partnerships. Following each screening, there will be a Q&A session, during which the industry professionals will have the opportunity to connect with the producers. A three-person industry professional jury will select the best film that will receive a cash prize to support the completion of the film.

Nadia Dresti: “There is a lot of emerging talent. We saw 30 films in postproduction, we selected seven and we invited the seven producers to introduce their films, and Chile brings the directors. We have 20 people from Chile to introduce at Locarno. This is great visibility for them; they are honored as a country -- it’s a win-win. We bring filmmakers to producers. It also gives sales companies time to discover new films, to see the seven films, which helps the producers. In Piazza Grande we’re going to show Gloria directed by Sebastián Lelio, who was in competition in 2011 with El El Año del Tigre. Juan de Dios Larraín, producer of both titles, is on our official jury. CinemaChile is hosting the Industry Days opening party.

Step In

Now in its second year, Step In, an initiative designed as an exchange platform in which new promising strategies for distribution, exhibition and sales of auteur cinema are discussed and developed in small, closed working sessions.

Nadia Dresti: “Last year we had a think tank and decided to focus on eastern countries where theaters are closing down and art-house films are hardly released. We invited key players from different countries -- Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic to come to Locarno and sit down with sales companies and other buyers.”

This think-tank initiative, focusing on issues of distribution for auteur European cinema in Central and Eastern Europe, is organized in collaboration with Europa International, Europa Distribution and Europa Cinemas. This year Step In will wrap up last year’s focus on the festivals of the region, giving voice to professionals of the area, including Tallinn’s Baltic Event, When East Meets West in Trieste, Kino Pavasaris in Vilnius, Sofia Meetings, Romanian Days in Cluj, CineLink in Sarajevo, Connecting Cottbus, New Horizons in Warsaw and the Art Film Festival in Bratislava. But we decided to open the think tank to additional European territories as well, to compare experiences. International sales agents, distributors, exhibitors and funders will discuss key issues of distribution. We also invited Us industry people like Eugene Hernandez from Lincoln Center and Ryan Werner from Radius-tw.

Nadia Dresti: “Step In day takes place on Sunday. First, in the morning, there will be a presentation about the Russian market; the state of distribution and exhibition of art-house films in the Russian market. Among the presenters will be an expert from uniFrance, a big exhibitor from Russia, and three distributors from Russia.”

The working session – the brainstorming part of the morning, gathers distributors, sales agents, members of Europa Distribution, Europa International and Europa Cinemas, some funders, festivals, and co-production markets. After an introduction of the key issues, participants will break into groups to work on a specific challenge pertaining to the future of distribution of art-house films in Europe.

Nadia Dresti: “There will be five working tables that will include different buyers and sellers, discussions of anti-piracy, and so on – we want these people to sit down and talk. This is going to last one-and-a-half hours, then the five different moderators will come out with a statement, present their results, and discuss suggestions about how we can work better together to get a particular film released.”

To learn more about Industry Days and the Locarno International Film Festival visit: http://www.pardolive.ch

---------About the author: Award-winning screenwriter and filmmaker, Susan Kouguell teaches screenwriting and film at Tufts University and presents international seminars. Author of Savvy Characters Sell Screenplays! and The Savvy Screenwriter, she is chairperson of Su-City Pictures East, LLC, a consulting company founded in 1990 where she works with writers, filmmakers, and executives worldwide. www.su-city-pictures.com...

HBO recently announced that its long-running vampire sex comedy True Blood will be back for a seventh season of Southern-fried, fang-bangin’, bloody-merkined fun. The show has taken some unexpected turns in the past few years (especially to people who have read the books), so it’s hard to predict what the hell Sookie, Billith, Eric, and the rest of the Bon Temps crew will be up to next year. Fortunately, we have degrees in Advanced Predictology and are expert at divining the future arcs of aggressively ridiculous episodic supernatural dramedies.

Here are our predictions…

1. Merlotte’s Will Be Home Base Once Again

At last week’s Comic-Con panel, new showrunner Brian “Bucky” Buckner (who stepped in to replace Mark Hudis, who replaced Alan Ball) indicated that he wasn’t happy with the show’s six-ways-’til-Sunday feel, and will be bringing things back to Ben Temps with fewer story threads:...

Movie: Safety Not Guaranteed Director: Colin Trevorrow (first feature film) Screenwriter: Derek Connolly (first feature screenplay) Lead Cast: Aubrey Plaza, Karan Soni, Jake M. Johnson and Mark Duplass Theatrical Release Date: June 8, 2012 Festival Date: Wednesday, May 23 and Friday, May 25 Synopsis: Darius, Amau and Jeff (Aubrey Plaza, Karan Soni and Jake M. Johnson) are three Seattle magazine employees investigating a classified ad posting that reads: Wanted: Someone to go back in time with me. This is not a joke. You'll get paid after we get back. Must bring your own weapons. Safety not guaranteed. I have only done this once before. Not taking the ad seriously and thinking they may have a funny little freak show story on their hands, their search leads them to Kenneth (Mark Duplass), but he's nothing like the crazy person they expected. Quick Thoughts: If I knew then what I know now... This seems an apt...

Michael Bolton made his triumphant return to Saturday Night Live over the weekend guesting in a digital short with The Lonely Island in which his obsession with the Pirates of the Caribbean films heavily influenced the hook he wrote for Andy Samberg’s trio. Watch the video below. It’s the first time Bolton’s been on SNL since he was the musical guest in 1991 and took part in the memorable “We Are the World” spoof “Musicians for Free Range Chickens.” We’ve embedded that below as well. (If it gets taken down, here’s the transcript.)

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It's not easy to design a home energy monitoring device that people actually want to use and pay for. As evidenced by Tendril's recent decision to nix its Ideo-designed dashboard, not even slick devices that look like they came straight from the Apple store will necessarily make it to market (the $200 price tag was deemed too expensive). Enter EnergyHub, a consumer-facing energy management company that thinks it has a solution to the energy monitoring device quandary.

The company has been selling the EnergyHub dashboard (now known as Home Base), a touchscreen dashboard that combines temperature control and home-energy management, since 2009. The device connects to power strips, sockets, thermostats, and smart meters when available to provide users information about and control over their energy use.

Now, with the help of Smart Design, EnergyHub has designed an updated Home Base dashboard that it thinks will appeal to a broader set of users.

Welcome to another edition of Pixmania’s Best Bargains – the weekly pick of products you won’t find cheaper anywhere else – in association with Pixmania, one of the web’s leading technology retailers. Each week we’ll take a look at some of the bargains that are available from Pixmania, and maybe even bring you reviews of some of them!

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A new class of developers ushers major brands into an app-centric world.

When big companies like NBC, Disney, and Amazon want a mobile app for one of their brands, they are increasingly turning to a new breed of developer dedicated solely to the rapidly evolving world of apps. (Smartphones! Tablets! TVs!) Their more sophisticated approach is helping large brands make hay with mobile. Here's how three of these app makers stack up.

Home base: Washington, D.C. Home base: Seattle Home base: Arlington, Massachusetts Clients: 30-plus, including Burger King, Disney, Kohl's, and The Washington Post Co. Clients: 12, including NBC, Xbox, and Marvel (Iron Man); 50-plus brand advertisers Clients: 25, including Amazon, Condé Nast, the New England Patriots, and Viacom Patents pending: 1 Patents pending: 17 Patents pending: 4 (plus 3 granted) Head count: 28 Head count: 33 Head count: 20 Price: $50,000 -- $100,000 Price: Free to publishers (but they share ad revenue with Zumobi); ad-sponsorship fees...

"Extra" has complied a list of the latest medical breakthrough and food danger websites you should be aware of, so check 'em out!

From the brain to the body, to breasts and teeth, check out these websites that could change your life:

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Northwest Biotherapeutics at nwbio.com

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What's the cruelest revenge plan you can think of for when your girlfriend dumps you for your boss? The guy in Home Base has the right idea: get in her mother's pants and flaunt it in front of her. Played with perfect smarminess by Kristoffer Polaha, who had a recurring stint on Mad Men and was just in a recent episode of Dollhouse.

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Venturelli/WireImage The nomadic existence of an actor isn’t always conducive to family life, but Monica Bellucci feels that life is what you make it. “The most important thing with children is to give them your time,” she tells the Daily Mail. “Actually, that’s all that matters.” To that end, while the 44-year-old actress and her daughter Deva — turning five next month — are currently living out of a New York City hotel, Monica concedes that their globetrotting days are coming to a close. “In a year, Deva’s going to have to go to school and I’m going to have to decide where we base ourselves,” she notes.

“She’s very easy. She travels so much that she can fall asleep in any bed — she’s like a gypsy baby. Right now, her base is her mother and her father, even though the scenery changes.”

As for...