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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...

The X Factor: Results: ITV, 8pm

Tonight, we find out which three acts will be progressing to the X Factor final next weekend.

Has Andrea lost the public's support? Is Lauren's time up? Is Fleur getting the boot? Or is it time to say 'bye now' to Ben Haenow?

Remember Me: BBC One, 9pm

BBC One's spooky drama starring Michael Palin - perfect for a chilly Sunday night - draws to a close tonight.

Hannah (Jodie Comer) is traumatised by the mysterious disappearance of Tom (Michael Palin), but Di Fairholme has news on the evasive pensioner's whereabouts.

I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!: ITV, 9pm

Last in the series - after three eventful weeks, that's all your jungle fun done for another year.

Ant and Dec will be on hand to crown this year's King or Queen of the Jungle and quiz them on their experience.

The following is a list of all comic books, graphic novels and specialty items that will be available this week and shipped to comic book stores who have placed orders for them.

Aazurn Publishing

Indie Comics Horror #2, $6.49

Abstract Studios

Rachel Rising #17, $3.99

Adhouse Books

Supermag Gn, $9.95

Amigo Comics

Rogues #2, $3.99

Amryl Entertainment

Cavewoman Oasis #2 (Of 2)(Budd Root Special Edition), Ar

Cavewoman Oasis #2 (Of 2)(Devon Massey Regular Cover), $3.75

Cavewoman Oasis #2 (Of 2)(Devon Massey Special Edition), Ar

Andrews McMeel Publishing

Dilbert Your New Job Title Is Accomplice Tp, $12.99

Get Fuzzy Volume 19 The Birth Of Canis Tp (not verified by Diamond), $12.99

Angry Viking Press

Evil Diva Volume 1 Gn (not verified by Diamond), $12.99

Antarctic Press

Macabre #1 (One Shot), $3.50

Ape Entertainment

Drew Hayes’ Poison Elves #3 (Cover A Darick Robertson), $2.99

Drew Hayes’ Poison Elves #3 (Cover B Montos), $2.99

Archie Comic Publications

Archie Comics Super Special #3 (not verified by Diamond), $9.99

Jugheads Double Digest #193, $3.99

Kevin Keller #9 (Dan Parent Regular Cover), $2.99

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A few of us here from GeekTyrant will be hitting up WonderCon 2013, which takes place from Friday, March 29th to Sunday, March 31th at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California. We went for the first time last year, and we had a great time, so we're all excited to be going back for more geek goodness!

WonderCon has released the full three-day schedule! There's a ton of great stuff to check out this year! Enough cool stuff to keep you more than busy! Check out the schedule and start planning out your trip! If you're going and you see us around make sure to say hi! We can talk about geek stuff! See ya there!

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Host Richard Hatch (Capt. Apollo, Tom Zarek), Kevin Grazier (science advisor, Battlestar, Caprica, Defiance),Michael Taylor (writer/producer, Battlestar, Defiance, Caprica...

New York -- Gabriele Muccino, the Italian director and Will Smith collaborator, is setting up a new project.

Muccino will direct "What I Know About Love," a film described as a modern-day "Kramer vs. Kramer."

Like that 1970s custody saga, Muccino said that "Love" will seek to explore the wounds of divorce and single parenthood.

"It's the story of a family's collapse, but with the complexity that relationships have today," Muccino said. "It's a different world now, one that I think is more open and more destructive somehow."

The director is known for exploring the difficulties of romantic couplings as well as parent-child relationships.

Muccino will write "Love" with "Sex and the City" scribe Liz Tuccillo, with whom he collaborated on his latest project, the Mediaset-produced "Four Single Fathers." "Love" likely will be produced by Muccino's Indiana Prods. banner.

The project potentially also could involve Overbrook Entertainment, Smith and James Lassiter's Columbia-set production company with which Muccino made his two most recent films, "The Pursuit of Happyness" and the upcoming "Seven Pounds," both of which star Smith. (Columbia, incidentally, also made "Kramer vs. Kramer.")

The Italy-born Muccino has moved fluidly between borders during his career. Although his past two movies have been English-language, U.S.-set tales, he has a background in Italian cinema, directing and writing the middle-class drama "Ricordati Di Me" as well as "L'ultimo Bacio," the Italian film that became the basis for Tony Goldwyn's 2006 Zach Braff starrer "The Last Kiss."

Muccino's "Fathers," an indie feature that doubles as a pilot for Italian television, crossed borders to tell the story of Italian men who were once married to and had children with American women.

"The Italian in New York tends to import a cultural system, and the question is how, with American children, he can find the right way to communicate with American children," Muccino said of that film.

Muccino also has the immigrant tale "Man & Wife" in development at Universal.

Gabriele Muccino will helm Columbia Pictures' Pursuit of Happyness, starring Will Smith. Muccino most recently directed 2003's Ricordati di me (Remember Me, My Love). His credits include L'Ultimo bacio (One Last Kiss) and Come te nessuno mai (But Forever in My Mind). The project is based on the rags-to-riches tale of investment banker Chris Gardner. The film is being produced by Overbrook Entertainment Escape Artists. Matt Tolmach, Doug Belgrad and Amy Baer are overseeing the project at Columbia. Steve Conrad, who penned The Weather Man for Escape Artists, wrote the script.

NEW YORK -- Howard Cohen and Eric d'Arbeloff's indie film banner, Roadside Attractions, has acquired North American rights to Italian helmer Gabriele Muccino's Remember Me, My Love, a family drama toplining Monica Bellucci. The burgeoning Roadside has been active since its October launch, having previously grabbed rights to the Sundance standout Super Size Me and Israeli import Walk on Water, both with Samuel Goldwyn Films. Love, a bittersweet tale about the lives and loves of a modern Italian family whose individual aspirations threaten to pull them apart, screened at the Toronto and Sundance festivals last year and racked up more than $12 million in its homeland release. Said d'Arbeloff: "We were big fans of Gabriele's last film, The Last Kiss, and are very excited to release ('Love'). It's gorgeous, sexy, modern and very Italian." Roadside is a partner in the IDP distribution label, and Love is slated to hit theaters in the summer. A former UTA vet, Cohen was involved in the packaging and selling of more than 50 films, including Girl With a Pearl Earring, Igby Goes Down and The Banger Sisters. D'Arbeloff's producing credits include Lovely & Amazing. The Love deal was brokered for Roadside by Cohen and attorney Ben Feldman of Epstein, Levinsohn, Bodine, Hurwitz and Weinstein. The film was repped by sales agent the Works.

ROME -- From game shows with half-naked dancers to "talk" shows featuring buxom starlets and raunchy drag queens, channel surfing in Italy usually reveals lowbrow programming and shameless titillation in some form or another. But while beefcake and frivolous frolicking have long been staples of the Italian TV diet, tube sleaze has become a hotly debated issue lately, with critics claiming that in the current age of Silvio Berlusconi, the TV tycoon-turned-prime minister, the quality bar has sunk too low. The backlash against "la televisione volgare," or "vulgar TV," has recently gained momentum thanks to a smash hit movie, Ricordati di Me (Remember Me), which focuses on a 17-year-old girl who is willing to do literally anything to become a TV starlet. Remember Me, which is directed by Gabriele Muccino, whose previous film, The Last Kiss, earned him international renown, is widely considered an indictment of Italian television at its worst. "Female bodies everywhere fill the void of each frame and deliver the triumph of mediocrity," says Muccino, adding that all too often Italian TV screens are filled with "dancers who can't dance, singers who can't sing (and) rambling, dizzy beauties."...

ROME -- Ferzan Ozpetek's La Finestra di fronte (The Window Opposite) and Gabriele Muccino's Ricordati di me (Remember Me) -- movies by young directors that are doing well in current domestic release -- are the leading contenders for Italy's top film prizes, the David di Donatello Awards, it was announced Tuesday. Both pictures nabbed nominations for best picture, director, producer, script and most of the acting Davids. Winners will be announced April 9.