10 Methods to Know You've Became a member of a Cult (A Minimum Of in Movies)

Already a vital hit because of its film festival runs, 'Martha Marcy May Marlene' is producing an abundance of buzz nowadays. The haunting indie drama stars Elizabeth Olsen as Martha, a youthful lady who struggles to reintegrate into normal existence after getting away from the cult within the Catskills. But author/director Sean Durkin's feature debut is not the very first movie to explore the harmful grasp cults holds over their fans. With 'Martha Marcy May Marlene' out now in theaters (try ordering that ticket five occasions fast), Moviefone think it is time revisit some true "cult" classics if you are just a little wary about why that new social club you registered for keeps suggesting that you try the Kool-Aid, listed here are the very best 10 methods to know you've became a member of a cult -- within the movies a minimum of. 10 Signs You're inside a Cult See All Moviefone Art galleries » Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook RELATED

Handy hired at New Wave

HandyNew Wave Entertainment has drawn on Ri-Karlo Handy since it's Vice president of unscripted development.Handy was most lately co-professional producer for MTV's "Boy of the Gun" and New Wave has hired him to assist using the shingle's elevated production slate. He'll are accountable to John Volk-Weiss, mind of production and senior Vice president of talent management. One of the reality skeins New Wave produces are "Stevie TV" for VH1 and "True Muck" for Analysis Discovery. Additionally, it created recent stand-up special offers featuring Nick Cannon and Whitney Cummings. Contact Stuart Levine at stuart.levine@variety.com

Darrell Hammond Performed on 'SNL' Same Week He Was Taken From NBC in Straitjacket (Video)

Darrell Hammond breaks down in tears describing his childhood abuse, struggles with drug addiction and being checked into psych wards during an interview on CNN.com's Red Chair from early October.our editor recommends'SNL's' Darrell Hammond Reveals Crack Addiction, Leaving NBC 'in a Straitjacket' Russell Brand Draws Mixed Reactions From 'Saturday Night Live' Debut "My dad never really abused me... I was frightened to be around him," says Hammond, who goes on to explain that his father was a veteran who had "nightmares about Nazis" every night. VIDEO: Emmy Roundtable: Comedy Actors "My mom did things that have cost me dearly," adds Hammond, who was the longest-running castmember on Saturday Night Live after 14 seasons. "Stabbing, beating, beating electrocuted...it was my mom." "When I was 19 was the first time I ever cut myself," says Hammond, who is releasing a new memoir, "If You're Not There God, I'm F--ked." "Over the years it became more habitual." PHOTOS: Hollywood's Memorable Mea Culpas "I was never in a mental institution for a long time. I was in psych wards. I was diagnosed with everything from schizophrenia to multiple personality disorder. I was on seven medications at one time... soul-killing drugs." Speaking of SNL, Hammond says, "Performing with anthrax in the building is not nearly as difficult as performing in a home where you might get stabbed at night." PHOTOS: Hollywood's Biggest Blunders He says he used to cut backstage and he was "taken to the psych ward the week I did the [Al] Gore debates. I believe that was when I was taken away in a straightjacket. There's no way for people to know about that. SNL is a place where if Lorne [Michaels] judges you can hit the ball over the wall that night, you'll get up and step up to the plate. I didn't want to let Lorne down, whom I'm close to." Hammond says he struggled playing Senator John McCain on the show. "I didn't want to make fun of a guy whose body and voice were changed by combat. I had a hard time playing John McCain. My father [told me] on his death bed he wanted me to play him." VIDEO: Emmy Roundtable: Comedy Showrunners Hammond says says he's not hiding his past. "I don't feel ashamed for falling down because I got hit by a mac truck," he says of his childhood. "I kept trying to get back up and then I did." After beating his drug addiction, Hammond starred this summer in Sag Harbor as Truman Capote in one-man play Tru. He's also involved in Will Ferrell's Funny or Die website. Related Topics Saturday Night Live

Hannah Montana's Mitchell Musso Charged With Driving under the influence

Mitchel Musso Mitchell Musso remains charged with two counts of driving while impaired following his Monday arrest which is now facing jailtime, TMZ reviews. The Burbank City Attorney has charged the 20-year-old Hannah Montana star with driving drunk of alcohol and driving getting a blood stream alcohol amount of .08 or greater. Both charges are misdemeanors so when billed, he faces a $1,000 fine or even more to six several days in jail. Mitchell Musso billed with Driving under the influence Musso was stopped early Monday morning after he not successful to decelerate to traffic cops. Police force smelled alcohol and proceeded to supply him a area sobriety make certain a breath analyzer. Musso blew within the legal limit of .08 which he was arrested. He presently stars on Disney XD's Group of Nobleman and hosts the Disney Funnel reality show PrankStars.

NBC Buys Comedies From Chelsea Latelys Sarah Colonna & Weeds Stephen Falk

NBC has bought 2 more single-camera comedy projects, Existence When I Mess It Up, from Chelsea Recently and After Recently author/panelist Sarah Colonna and Satellites, a place of work comedy from Weeds author-producer Stephen Falk. Existence When I Mess It Up is dependant on Colonnas approaching book and follows Colonna and her existence within the Area encircled by eccentric buddies and family whose opinions and actions know no limitations. Happy Madison and The new sony TV are creating together with Colonna’s management company New Wave Entertainment, Lunch Large Snail Prods. and Universal TV. Colonna will write the script and executive produce with Danielle Sanchez, who'll supervise, Doug Robinson, Abbey MacDonald, Michael Pelmont and John Volk Weiss. APA-repped Colonna lately carried out on theComedians of Chelsea Recently tour. Satellites is occur the chaotic realm of satellite radio and centers around an old reluctant 󈨞′s boy-band member along with a female blogger/podcaster who co-host a relationship call-in show. They have to contend not just with their loaded bitterness for one another, however the madness of working within the " new world " of radio in which the Stylish-Hop Station is over the hall on the Gay Station that is across the street from the Nothing-But-Windchimes Station. ICM-repped Falk is presently a supervisory producer on Weeds and formerly developed musical comedy Timing with Weeds creator Jenji Kohan at Showtime.

Bots storm 'Smurf' turf overseas

For the first time in nine weeks, "The Smurfs" didn't rule the international B.O. Instead, Disney's robo-fighters in "Real Steel" won overseas bragging rights for the Oct. 7-9 sesh."Real Steel," which launched in 19 territories (25% of the international market), debuted with $22.6 million, scoring No. 1 perfs in markets like Australia, Mexico and Russia, where the pic earned one-third of its entire bow, with $7.4 million. Oz contributed $4.1 million and Mexico, $3.1 million."The Smurfs" tallied $8.5 million overall, with Oz the pic's top territory at $2.2 million."Smurfs" has managed to stay atop the international B.O., primarily because of a lack of new product entering the market.And while "Real Steel" still has plenty of markets to enter, the film had a wide-enough bow to eclipse "Smurfs" overall. That hasn't been the case for previous entries, most of which have avoided extensive day-and-date releases. Post-summer, early-fall berths aren't very popular overseas, since most moviegoers spend the remaining weeks of summer outdoors, and most fall holidays don't arrive until around mid-October -- a boom time for family fare.Universal came closest to surpassing Sony's "Smurfs" during the pic's eight weeks atop foreign wickets, with the launch of "Johnny English Reborn" the weekend of Sept. 16.Over the Oct. 7-9 weekend, "Johnny English" made a run at "Real Steel," adding 10 markets and grossing $21.1 million in its fourth frame, including star Rowan Atkinson's best bow ever in the U.K. at $7.8 million. Pic also opened on top in Germany, with $3.9 million. The pic has cumed $61 million at the international box office, and is poised to play into school holidays in both countries over the next few weeks. Contact Andrew Stewart at andrew.stewart@variety.com

WATCH: Evan Rachel Wood Plugs Ides of March By Covering Justin Bieber on Jimmy Fallon

Ides of March co-star Evan Rachel Wood hit the late night circuit last night to push her latest, George Clooney’s political thriller Ides of March, by talking to Jimmy Fallon about… her recent bout of Bieber Fever. Sure, why not? She plays an eager 20-year-old in the film, after all. And in grabbing the mic to perform an impromptu version of Justin Bieber’s “Baby,” Wood kills two birds with one stone by pimping both the Clooney-Gosling Oscar hopeful AND the concert doc Never Say Never. Judge her Bieber-esque swag and stick around for more Buzz Break. [via THR] After the British Board of Film Classification essentially banned The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence) by refusing to give it any certification, Tom Six’s barf-fest has finally been approved (32 cuts and roughly 2 minutes shorter) with an 18-certification. Yay? [EW] (“Ew” is right.) Which mystery director abused their script supervisor so that star Jennifer Aniston threw a chair at them in protest? Place your guesses below! [Huffington Post] Does this Twitpic of a Criterion-branded Spinal Tap guitar pick mean the out of print Rob Reiner mockumentary classic is coming back via the vaunted label? [@Criterion] Just keep swimming… towards the cash. Finding Nemo is heading to Blu-ray before it gets the 3-D re-release treatment. [Disney]

Star Trek 2 prep includes comics

J.J. Abrams stopped dragging his space boots recently and signed onto direct the follow-up to Star Trek.Where can it be already?Well, co-author Roberto Orci states pre-production is becoming on-going.InchThe cast is excited. There exists a director. We now have started scouting locations. Next time round the crew was already together right from the start, and then we can join in towards the adventure," he told the condition Star Trek website.Orci has furthermore been busy concentrating on more recent and much more effective Star Trek comics with author Mike Manley that will match while using movie follow-up."The initial handful of issues in the series are adaptations in the Original Series episodes, since the 'new' crew encounters a couple of of the identical risks the first crew did, though versions that reflect things like Kirk like a youthful captain and Spock losing his homeworld. After we get nearer to another movie, the tales will begin to foreshadow the occasions in the movie, for instance possibly showing new figures we'll have on-screen... pun greatly intended," Manley taunted.

I'm a Good Person/I'm a Bad Person

A Punk Films presentation. Created, directed, compiled by Ingrid Veninger.With: Ingrid Veninger, Hallie Switzer, Simon Reynolds.Using the "personal film" for an extreme, Canadian auteur Ingrid Veninger's "I'm a Good Person/I'm a Bad Person" is really sketchily attracted and obscure, it might be just the helmer herself you never know exactly what's going on, departing even supportive experts in the emotional cold. Veninger's microbudget third feature may have difficulty mustering even minimal returns, given its anemic narrative and offhanded regard because of its audience. Acclaimed on her second feature, "Modra," Veninger used the ecu tour of this film like a backdrop with this follow-up, where a filmmaker named Ruby Whitened (Veninger) brings her not successful movie before unresponsive festival audiences, shateringly finding what it really was that drove her to create the film to begin with. A brittle and offending personality (which does not result in the film anymore appealing), Ruby eventually drives her pregnant 18-year-old daughter, Sara (Veninger's daughter, Halle Switzer), to separate together with her in Berlin. Sara continues onto Paris to determine how to handle her baby. The end result is foreseeable, the procedure too spare to earn much affection.Camera (color, HD), Benjamin Lichty editor, Chris Wiseman costume designer, Hallie Switzer. Examined at Toronto Film Festival (Vanguard), Sept. 15, 2011. Running time: 82 MIN. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com