Suits' Patrick J. Adams Reacts to His Surprising SAG Awards Nomination

Patrick J. Adams When nominations for the 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards were revealed this morning, nobody was more surprised than the surprise drama actor nominee himself, Suits star Patrick J. Adams. "I feel so embarrassed to even admit it, but I had no idea that this was being announced today," Adams admitted to TV Guide Magazine hours after getting the news. "This was my first year of pretty much everything professionally, so something pretty wonderful has happened." Viewers may recognize the 30-year-old Adams from small roles on Lost and Pretty Little Liars, but this summer he broke out as leading man Mike Ross in the popular USA Network legal drama. "This was really my first big gig, I even got fired from a show a little under a year before Suits," reveals Adams, who is ready to go up against awards show veterans like Kyle Chandler (Friday Night Lights) and Steve Buscemi (Boardwalk Empire) in the category. "These are people who are teachers - they are masters at what they do - so I really get to consider myself a student of their work," says Adams. "To be nominated or in the same sentence as these people is such an honor." As for his Suits costars, Adams says all of them called immediately to share their congratulations. "Gabriel [Macht] was the first one to reach out, with Rick Hoffman being the funniest," laughs Adams. "It was just a litany of curse words mixed with screams of joy - typical Rick Hoffman response to something he's very happy about." And as Suits prepares to shoot its second season, Adams recognizes the importance of today's nomination to the people on and off screen. "It gives us a little something to hang our hat on and encourage us to go further, dig deeper and keep taking risks as a show," he says. "It's a huge responsibility, and I think we're up for the challenge." The 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards air live on Sunday, Jan. 29 at 8/7c on TBS and TNT. Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!

Budweiser 'United' with ABC on reality show

Anheuser-Busch InBev has inked an offer with ABC to air the truth show "Bud U . s . presents: The In A Major Way" in The month of january. FreemantleMedia is creating the Budweiser-top quality entertainment project which will unspool over seven episodes and center around a youthful number of hopefuls searching to win their opportunity to compete within their favorite sport, prepare alongside an expert chef or obtain opportunity to perform in concert. Series bows Jan. 21 and airs each following Saturday. Evan Weinstein, co-executive producer of "The Astonishing Race" and @radical.media (that has produced other top quality entertainment projects for Nike, The new sony, Apple and IBM) are creating the series, with FreemantleMedia Businesses disbursing the show worldwide. Budweiser brokered the offer with ESPN who required the show to ABC. Budweiser cast the show by selecting from candidates who sent videos towards the Budweiser page on social networking sites like Facebook and China's Renren, showing their passions for basketball, baseball, soccer, racing, music and fashion. Twenty-one participants will compete within the series' run with every episode concentrating on some three fans competing for his or her shot at racing against other professional racecar motorists playing for any team, pitching for any professional baseball team or carrying out on the concert stage, for instance. Participants were trained and mentored by celebs and professionals including racing stories Richard Childress and Kevin Harvick, USA soccer star Alex Morgan, baseball coach Tom House and chef Hubert Keller, amongst others. Budweiser has lengthy been a significant sponsor of sporting occasions, including last year's FIFA World Cup, and saw the series in an effort to have more mileage from its marketing dollars. Show will air online once it airs on ABC, backed by additional content and "In A Major Way" tips from celebrity mentors. "We utilized Budweiser's unequalled use of worldwide sports, entertainment and lifestyle assets to create these contestants' dreams become a reality,Inch stated Frank Abenante, Vice president of worldwide brands at Anheuser-Busch InBev. "We are searching toward giving audiences the chance to talk about during these remarkable journeys of second chances and ambitions satisfied." Budweiser bowed "Bud U . s ." this past year like a global platform for connecting consumers' passions. "We're particularly proud to consider Budweiser to new levels, by turning current assets into top quality content, introduced to existence with unique and exciting storytelling," stated Jason Warner, global Vice president, Budweiser. Contact Marc Graser at marc.graser@variety.com

Clooneys Descendants Leads LA Experts Honours

First Launched: December 12, 2011 9:10 AM EST Credit: WireImage Caption Shailene Woodley and George Clooney emerge the La Premiere in the Descendants in Beverly Slopes, Calif. on November 15, 2011 La, Calif. -- George Clooneys family drama The Descendants was selected Sunday as time best film with the La Film Experts Association, whose honours are an early on influence to be able to the Academy awards. From Sideways director Alexander Payne, The Descendants stars Clooney just like a neglectful father in Hawaii trying to tend his kids after his wife falls into any kind of accident-triggered coma. Michael Fassbender won best actor for just about any breakout year that incorporated leading roles just like a sex addict in Shame, just like a genetic mutant in X-Males: Top Quality, as mental health expert Carl Jung in the Dangerous Method to ensure that as sullen Victorian gentleman Rochester in Jane Eyre. The most effective-actor runner-up was Michael Shannon just like a guy beset by apocalyptic visions in Take Shelter. Professionals group passed over large Hollywood names to provide its best-actress prize on Yun Jung-hee for your South Korean drama Poetry, through which she plays a grandmother in the beginning of Alzheimers who struggles having a completely new have to write a poem. Kirsten Dunst was best-actress runner-like a depressive lady who finds inner strength because the second planet bears lower around the collision course with Earth in Melancholia. Infamously press-shy filmmaker Terrence Malick was named best director for his epic family drama The Tree of Existence, starring Kaira Pitt just like a domineering father who mixes tenderness and cruelty in raising his sons. Tree of Existence was the most effective-picture runner-around The Descendants. The film also aided obtain the supporting-actress recognition for Jessica Chastain, who was simply reported for your Tree of Existence and five other films through which she co-starred this year. Tree of Existence also acquired the cinematography award for Emmanuel Lubezki (the runner-up was Cao Yu for Capital of scotland - Existence and Dying). The pointing runner-up was Martin Scorsese for his 3-D family adventure Hugo, a great orphan boy unraveling a mysterious known as with a toy-seller inside a Paris stop inside the 19 thirties. Christopher Plummer won as supporting actor for beginners, through which he plays an senior citizens father who announces to his boy that hes gay. The runner-up was Patton Oswalt becoming an aging nerd who becomes unlikely pals by getting a classic secondary school bombshell in Youthful Adult. Chastain, largely unknown until this year when she came out in six films, was selected as supporting actress on her behalf hurry of movies, incorporated within this Tree of Existence, through which she plays a being careful of mother as counterpoint to Pitts harsh father. Besides Tree of Existence, Chastains films incorporated The Help, 'Take Shelter and Coriolanus. Jesse McTeer was runner-up for supporting actress on her behalf mix-dressing role just like a lady disguising herself just like a male laborer in Albert Nobbs. The LA experts passed inside the acclaimed quiet film The Artist, considered a potential best-picture favorite within the Feb. 26 Oscars. Their Colonial options, the NY Film Experts Circle, discover the Artist as time best picture the other day. The Artist can also be tied for your lead with five nominations within the Spirit Honours adoring independent film. Honours within the two experts groups help deal with the honours picture one of the crush of Oscar competitors that art galleries fling into theaters within the finish of year. The Oscar outlook will probably be further refined by nominations Wednesday for your Screen Stars Guild Honours and Thursday for your Golden Globes. The LA experts honored Johnny Depps Western comedy Rango in addition to animated film. Steven Spielbergs globe-trotting action tale The Adventures of Tintin was runner-up. The electronic duo caffeine Brothers and sisters acquired the prize for top music score for your action thriller Hanna. The runner-up was High high cliff Martinez for the next action tale, Drive. Also Sunday, the American Film Institute released its report on time top-10 films, listed alphabetically: Bridesmaids, 'The Descendants, 'The Girl while using Dragon Tattoo, 'The Help, 'Hugo, 'J. Edgar, 'Midnight in Paris, 'Moneyball, 'The Tree of Existence and War Equine. The crowd does not rank films on its top-10 list. The AFI, whose honours recognition U.S. films, gave a distinctive prize to French director Michel Hazanavicius The Artist. Other LA experts individuals who win: Script: Asghar Farhadi, A Separation runner-up, Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash, The Descendants. Foreign-language film: Capital of scotland - Existence and Dying runner-up, A Separation. Documentary-nonfiction film: Cave of Forgotten Dreams runner-up, The Arbor. Production design: Dante Ferretti, Hugo runner-up, Maria Djurkovic, Mess Tailor Soldier Spy. New Generation award: Martha Marcy May Marlene. Independent-experimental film: Spark to become. Copyright 2011 with the Connected Press. All rights reserved. These elements is probably not launched, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Uma Thurman To Complete Major Arc On Smash

In her own first series gig, Uma Thurman continues to be drawn on for any major five-episode guest-starring arc on NBCs midseason musical dramaSmash. Around the series, about the entire process of creating and staging Marilyn, a Broadway musical determined by the existence of Marilyn Monroe, Thurman will have a famous and somewhat difficult superstar who flirts with the thought of starring within the production. The Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill star won a Golden Globe for just one of her rare TV stints, within the Cinemax movie Hysterical Blindness. She'll next be observed in the film Eloise in Paris. Smash, which stars Debra Playing, Christian Borle, Katharine McPhee, Megan Hilty, Anjelica Huston and Jack Davenport, premieres on February. 6.

'Chico' merges style with music

Released: Thu., 12 ,. 8, 2011, 4:00am PTBy 'Chico and Rita'With its ambitious sweep and epic story of love, passion, and heartbreak occur the jazz cell phone industry's of Cuba, NY, Paris and Las vegas across several decades, "the big challenge was selecting the best way to inform the story, additionally to nailing the film's style and many types of the particulars," states co-producer Michael Rose. "The the spanish language language designer Javier Mariscal, who directed with Oscar-winning director Fernando Trueba ("Belle Epoque") and Tono Errando, features a very distinct style, and then we labored hard at transforming (his style) into animation. We'd a very complex script, wonderful these dance sequences and club moments, which we remained testing different animation techniques."Ultimately, they made a decision to go to "the pricey route," using classic hands-attracted 2D animation. "You will discover cheaper techniques to make animated films, however, you just don't get the conventional of look and character acting many of us wanted, and CG wasn't suitable for the subject matter," Rose states.It needed they greater than six several days to get the right artists who could "uncover the poetry" in individual cels. "All the design and development and original artwork ended at Mariscal Estudio in Barcelona," according to him, "and much more in the animation was captive-elevated to numerous art galleries around the globe -- nevertheless it was all controlled from Barcelona."The film, getting a financial budget of $13 million, needed seven years from starting to finish to complete, with physical production taking greater than 2 1/24 several weeks. "We now have already spoken about other ideas, employing the same techniques," Rose states. EYE Round The Oscars: ANIMATION Animated photos boost property valuesWhether concentrating on a shoestring hands-attracted project or pushing the limits computer system-created technology, this year's options changed major challenges to get their animated visions to screen. Here's how:'Arthur Christmas' 'Chico and Rita' 'Gnomeo and Juliet' 'Rango' 'Wrinkles' 'Rio' Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com

Ice Cube Developing Drama Series for Forex

Ice Cube Ice Cube is searching for some revenge around the small screen.The 42-year-old rapper-actor is developing the drama Eye To Have An Eye for Forex with what would mark his first series regular role, Deadline reviews.Take a look at photos of Ice CubeCube would play an experienced paramedic who decides to avenge sufferers of violent crimes. He'll also function as executive producer alongside his Cube Vision partner Matt Alvarez and Prospect Park, the organization that nixed online plans for those The Kids and something Existence to reside.Dice, who executive-produces TBS' Shall We Be There Yet?, can next be observed in Rampart and 21 Jump Street.