Reports: Matthew Fox Accused Of Punching Woman

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Former Lost star Matthew Fox has reportedly been accused of allegedly punching a woman. The actor attempted to board a private party bus on Saturday night in Cleveland, TMZ, Clevelands WKYC-TV 3 and other outlets have reported. According to a police report obtained by Access Hollywood, Heather Bormann, a 29-year-old bus driver, claimed she told the suspect whom TMZ and WKYC have identified as Fox that he was not allowed to board the bus after he asked for a ride to his hotel. She then goes on to claim that the suspect began to punch her in the stomach and chest. Bormann then swung back at the suspect, hitting him in the face, causing his lip to bleed. The bus driver told authorities she might have broken her hand during the incident. According to the police report, the suspect who refused medical treatment was released to a friend and then taken to a hotel. He was detained by authorities, but not charged or arrested. Fox currently has two movies in production, World War Z with Brad Pitt, and I, Alex Cross, with Tyler Perry, which is shooting in both Cleveland and Detroit. A rep for Fox was not immediately available for comment when contacted by Access Hollywood. Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Inc. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

New on DVD & Blu-ray, Week of August 23: 'Win Win,' 'TrollHunter' and 'The Beaver'

What a mixed bag of releases we have this week. First off there's a kinda-sports comedy, 'Win-Win,' revolving around a struggling attorney who coaches the local high school wrestling team and figures out a slightly illegal way to boost his sagging practice and his losing mat squad. Then there's the kinda-documentary 'TrollHunter,' a found-video horror movie about a trio of film students who shadow a trollhunter in the mountains of Norway and get more than they bargained for. Follow that with the kinda-black comedy 'The Beaver,' about a mentally ill man who latches onto a hand puppet as a way to communicate with his family and the outside world in the hopes of turning himself around. And then there's the deliciously seditious 'Pom Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold,' Morgan Spurlock's kinda-expose of the inner workings of the advertising and branding industry that will sell anything to anyone -- for a price. Read on. 'Win Win' What It's About: Paul Giamatti plays a struggling small-town attorney who moonlights as the coach for the perpetually losing high school wrestling team. Just in time to save his law practice, he gets the opportunity to become the legal guardian of a wealthy, elderly client, and uses a loophole to funnel monthly custodial funds into his own bank account. When the client's teenage grandson -- a wrestling champ -- runs away from his negligent mother and shows up on his grandfather's doorstep, Mike puts him on the wrestling team. Now he has a win-win situation -- extra money plus a winning wrestling team -- until the boy's mother shows up fresh from rehab, flat broke ... threatening to derail everything. It's Kinda Like: 'Little Miss Sunshine' meets 'Hoosiers' What We Say: Director-writer Tom McCarthy takes a nice, light touch with his material, pacing his story perfectly with very few missteps. Most importantly, the characterizations are superb. Giamatti is the glue holding the proceedings together and, despite his slightly shady shenanigans and quirks, we root for him because, underneath, he's a decent person with way too many problems. In fact, all the characters here are rich: Giamatti's feisty wife, played by Amy Ryan, his best friend (Bobby Cannavale), the selfish, loser mom (Melanie Lynskey) and teen wrestler, Alex Shaffer. • Extras: Deleted scenes and an OK behind-the-scenes featurette. Rotten Tomatoes Reviews | Buy DVD | Save DVD to your Netflix queue Watch an exclusive DVD clip: 'TrollHunter' What It's About: This cult pseudo-documentary -- using the "found video" conceit -- follows three Norwegian film students as they inadvertently uncover a government conspiracy to cover-up the existence of real-life trolls. While shooting a project in the mountains, they meet up with a man whom they suspect to be a poacher but in reality is a trollhunter, a hunter working for the government whose sole task it is to keep trolls away from humans. The students join the trollhunter on his latest rounds, leading them straight into the path of the menacing monsters and documenting every last second of the man's heroics. It's Kinda Like: 'The Blair Witch Project' meets 'Ice Road Truckers' What We Say: Can we ever get enough of found video horror films? I think not, especially when they're so much fun and well put together as this one. Yes, there are the requisite nighttime shots (plenty of them, in fact, since trolls can't exist in the daylight) and plenty of running, camera dropping, and things that go bump in the dark. But that's more than offset by the interesting plot line and troll backstory. And though the trolls are kinda goofing looking, their size and viciousness make them downright scary when they go after the humans. A fun outing. • Extras: Making-of featurette, deleted scenes. Rotten Tomatoes Reviews | Buy DVD | Save DVD to your Netflix queue Watch a trailer: 'The Beaver' What It's About: Mel Gibson plays Walter Black, a once successful toy executive and family man who, plagued by his own demons, suffers from depression and angst. His life is falling apart, his wife is leaving him, his oldest son hates him, and he can't even commit suicide. All seems lost until he finds a beaver hand-puppet that he uses to communicate with others, allowing his feelings to come out, giving him a new handle on life. It's Kinda Like: 'American Beauty' meets 'Lars and the Real Girl' What We Say: Say what you will about Gibson's life off-screen, his on-screen persona has been multi-faceted and involving. He can be smug, brash, reticent, heroic, romantic -- whatever a part calls for, he can amicably fill the bill. He's not a great thespian by any means; more an everyman actor who gets the job done. And he does that quite well here, dominating the screen with his by-now patented combination of boisterousness and world-weariness. Kudos to Jodie Foster, not for her role as Gibson's suffering wife but for directing a tough script and pulling you in to the story line. There's an excellent side story involving Gibson's son (played by Anton Yelchin) and a high school paramour (Jennifer Lawrence). If you can get past Gibson's real-life nastiness, then you'll get more than you expected from 'The Beaver.' • Extras: Commnetary by Jodie Foster, deleted scenes, behind-the-scenes featurette. Rotten Tomatoes Reviews | Buy DVD | Save DVD to your Netflix queue Watch a trailer: 'Pom Wonderful Presents The Greatest Movie Ever Sold' What It's About: Look around you. What is the most pervasive element in our environment? Advertising. On TV and before movies, on cars, buses, taxis, walls, billboards, on skyscrapers and in schools, on computer screens and mobile phones. And though advertising fuels much of commerce, sometimes it gets to be a bit too much -- in particular the advertising known as branding, the fine art of product placement in films and TV shows, or buying the name of a sports arena or office building. Director-writer Morgan Spurlock dissects the world of advertising and marketing by using his personal integrity as currency to sell out to the highest bidder -- by branding his documentary with advertising. It's Kinda Like: 'Super Size Me' meets Noam Chomsky What We Say: It's a great idea -- sell out while making a documentary about selling out. Spurlock spends most of the movie trying to get some top-level brands to sponsor the film, offering us an unprecedented peek behind the conference room doors at the people who spend the ad dollars that grease the wheels of commerce. Much of the irony of the film's premise is lost on the advertising execs who see the film as just another opportunity to get their message across to American consumers. Spurlock's stye is non-confrontational, making for a light -- but enlightening -- hour-and-a-half expose. • Extras: Commentary, behind-the-scenes featurettes, deleted scenes. Rotten Tomatoes Reviews | Buy DVD | Save DVD to your Netflix queue Watch a trailer: August 23 Blu-ray Debuts: 'Hostage' (2005) 'Rounders' (1998) 'Swingers' (1996) Other New August 23 DVD Releases: 'The Bleeding House': A stranger with mysterious intentions comes to stay the night at a secluded country home, but what he finds inside is a family torn apart by a violent past and a secret more deadly than he expected. Stars Alexandra Chando, Patrick Breen, Charlie Hewson. 'Blitz': When a vicious serial killer begins targeting police officers, renegade cop Brant (Jason Statham) teams up with Officer DC Porter Nash (Paddy Considine) to ensure that the maniac is caught and justice is served. 'Closed for the Season': Trapped in a forgotten amusement park, a young girl finds herself terrorized by the living memories of the park, and she must break free from the park's grasp before she becomes its next victim. Stars Aimee Brooks, Damian Maffei, Joe Unger. 'Henry's Crime': Keanu Reeves stars as Henry Torne, a wrongly accused man who winds up behind bars for a bank robbery he didn't commit. Now,­ having done the time, he decides he may as well do the crime. But his outlandish plan to rob the very same bank spins wildly out of control, as he finds himself performing in a stage play and falling in love with the production's seductive leading lady (Vera Farmiga). Also stars James Caan, Judy Gree, Bill Duke, Peter Stormare. 'Sympathy for Delicious': A newly paralyzed DJ gets more than he bargained for when he seeks out the world of faith healing. Feeling cursed with the power to heal, DJ Delicious contends with all of the glory and attention that comes with his newfound gift. Stars Mark Ruffalo, Christopher Thornton, Juliette Lewis, Orlando Bloom, Laura Linney. Check out more August 23 DVD releases at OnVideo.

TV Rankings: 'Hell's Kitchen,' 'MasterChef' Beat 'Bachelor Pad'

Patrick Wymore/FOX Fox's Monday evening selection of Gordon Ramsay programming capped ABC's telecast of Bachelor Pad. Hell's Kitchen (6.8 million total audiences, 2.8 rating in grown ups 18-49 demographic), steady using the previous week, easily won its 8 p.m. period of time within the key adult demo -- and overall, rated because the evening's greatest-ranked and many-viewed program. As a whole tune-in, your competition series rose 3 %. MasterChef (six million, 2.4) enhanced 4 %, tying its greatest Monday adult rating to date this year. Last evening seemed to be the network's greatest-ranked Monday with original summer time programs in 4 years, calculating a couple.6 rating. ABC's Bachelor Pad (6.3 million, 2.1) dipped 9 percent from a week ago's three-hour season opener. Within the 9 p.m. hour, Bachelor Pad capped MasterChef as a whole tune-in, drawing 6.5 million for your hour. A rerun of Castle (3.9 million, .9) adopted at 10 p.m. CBS, NBC and also the CW broadcast repeats. Fox - 2.6 · Hell's Kitchen: 2.8, 6.8 million · MasterChef: 2.4, six million ABC - 1.7 · Bachelor Pad: 2.1, 6.3 million · Castle (R): .9, 3.9 million CBS - 1.4 · Generate An Income Met Your Mother (R): 1.4, 4.a million · Generate An Income Met Your Mother (R): 1.6, 4.six million · Two & One Half Males (R): 1.5, 5.7 million · Mike & Molly (R): 1.4, 5.4 million · Hawaii Five-O (R): 1.2, 5.a million NBC - .9 · America's Got Talent (R): 1., 4.4 million · Harry's Law (R): .8, 3.3 million CW - .2 · Gossip Girl (R): .2, 588,000 · One Tree Hill (R): .2, 432,000 Email: philiana.ng@thr.com TV Rankings

Rescue Me's Peter Tolan Joins Sean Hayes' Sitcom About Two Gay Dads

Peter Tolan, Sean Hayes Rescue Me co-creator Peter Tolan and his writing partner Michael Wimer have joined Sean Hayes' upcoming NBC sitcom about two gay dads, Entertainment Weekly reports.The untitled project, which was first announced two weeks ago, will star Hayes as half of the couple raising a 12-year-old. Tolan will serve as a writer and executive producer.When can you next catch Sean Hayes on TV, online or on demand? Add him to your Watchlist and you'll know for sureThe show will be Hayes' first regular TV gig since Will & Grace, for which he won an Emmy, ended in 2006. The actor is an executive producer on Hot in Cleveland and the new NBC drama Grimm.Tolan, meanwhile, is keeping busy as Rescue Me wraps up its seven-season run. Besides this deal, he is also developing a drama for ABC with Drop Dead Diva's Josh Berman. Tolan's other credits include The Larry Sanders Show and Murphy Brown.

Disney wants Mark Romanek to direct latest version of Cinderella

Disney has set its sights on Mark Romanek to direct their approaching Cinderella 'reimagining'.The studio is following the Never Allow Me To Go helmer for that project, which is dependant on the script by Aline Brosh McKenna (The Demon Wears Prada, Morning Glory) that was clicked up for seven figures this past year.This latest version from the story apparently sees the prince setup for any "politically arranged marriage" before falling for Cinders. It isn't presently obvious what era this take is occur.Romanek's tearjerking Never Allow Me To Go worked out disappointingly in the box office, so it will be interesting to determine what he is doing having a more commercial project.He formerly directed eerie Robin Williams thriller 1 Hour Photo, making a reputation for themself shooting music videos like Johnny Cash's 'Hurt' and Nine Inch Nails' 'Closer'.Magical stories, you might have observed, are extremely popular right now, with Disney also preparing a Snow Whitened reboot (An Order From The Seven) to visit facing rival projects Snow Whitened And Also The Huntsman and Tarsem Singh's Untitled Snow Whitened Project.Additionally, there are the problem of Maleficent, the brand new undertake the Sleeping Beauty villainess that when had Tim Burton attached, that's also loitering around in pre-production.And let us remember the Cinderella story also got a revision some years back thanks to Came Barrymore vehicle Ever After...Based on Deadline, Romanek is moving towards an offer. If he signs on, expect Cinderella to become priority for that studio.

John Landis Planning French Horror

Heading to Paris for mystery new projectBurke and Hare came out in the UK aaaages ago, but it's only just arriving in the US. Out on the publicity trail once again, director John Landis has revealed a few sketchy details of his next project, a little monster movie with a Gallic setting. Landis told BD that the film has no title yet, but I'm writing it with Alexandre Gavras and we're shooting it within the next two years in Paris. Pressed for specifics he remained cagey, but it seems the project is already some way along: We know who's gonna star in it, but this is all off the radar right now, so I can't tell you. It's interesting: the cast has to be bilingual because it's being shot in French and English. Alexandre Gavras is the son of the Greek film director Costa-Gavras. The family connection to Landis goes back some years - Costa-Gavras has cameos in Landis' Spies Like Us and The Stupids, as well as in Burke and Hare - but Alexandre has been less prolific than his father, although his 1998 short film Killer of Little Fishes won an award at Brest and was nominated for a Cesar. Prior to Burke and Hare, Landis had contributed a couple of segments to Masters of Horror and worked on some other television, but hadn't actually directed a film since 1998, so it's great to hear he has something new in the works already (even if he doesn't explicitly say he'll be behind the camera). Any bilingual stars you think sound likely? We're going to vote for Julie Delpy, for no other reason than that we like her, and that she should probably atone for An American Werewolf in Paris.

'Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol' Photo: Tom Cruise Goes Rogue

Tom Cruise is on another impossible mission to try to look any more recognizable than he does in the latest still from "Ghost Protocol." Unless you've been living under a rock for the last 15 years, you know Tom Cruise stars in this franchise. And unless you're a really bad criminal mastermind, you probably know what Agent Ethan Hunt looks like. Still, Cruise looks like he's trying to be a bit covert as what appears to be Russia burns to the ground behind him. The movie follows Hunt as he and his team are forced to go on the run after they are framed for a massive attack on Russia. With the burning destruction behind him and Cruise doing his best attempt at being incognito, we like the way the image plays around with this premise. When MTV talked to producer J.J. Abrams in May, he said that he's looking forward to Bird's take on action sequences considering he's never directed a live action flick before. "It's so weird to watch scenes for a movie by a director that feels so of that director's style, and yet you realize you've never ever seen a live-action film by that director," he said. "You watch moments where you go, 'That's so Brad Bird!' And then you realize, oh, it's so weird to have seen a Brad Bird moment with actual flesh and blood actors.'" "Mission: Impossible -- Ghost Protocol" hits theaters on December 21, 2011. Are you looking forward to "Mission: Impossible -- Ghost Protocol"? Tell us in the comments section below or on Twitter!

Time Warner 2Q profits jump 14 %

Time Warner published impressive second-quarter earnings Wednesday, as sales growth rose to its greatest rate for that conglom because the third quarter of 2007.Second quarter profits were up 14 % in the future in at $638 million throughout the 3-month period, ended June 30, while revenue rose 10 % to $7.03 billion.More powerful advertising sales and monthly subscriptions sometimes Warner's TV division, its biggest business unit which includes CNN, TNT, The best spinner's and Cinemax, increased revenue by 9 percent to $3.5 billion.Subscription revenue at Cinemax, assisted by ''Game of Thrones,'' increased 7 percent. Ad sales at other channels were up 11 percent, while distribution sales of shows like ''True Bloodstream,'' along with other content revenue was up another 18 percent.Hits at Warner Bros. that incorporated ''The Hangover Part II'' and homevideo sales of ''Harry Potter and also the Deathly Hallows -- Part I" assisted the film studio accrue a 13 percent increase in revenue to $2.8 billion. Videogame sales of ''Mortal Kombat'' also increased biz for that division, an increasing arm at the organization, that is preparing to bow tentpole title ''Batman: Arkham City.''Meanwhile, Time Corporation.'s posting arm saw revenue rise 3 % to $946 million from the 2 percent development in subs, 1 % rise in advertisements along with a 56 percent development in content revenue.Time Warner chairman and Boss Shaun Bewkes stated growth prospects urged the organization to purchase back $2.3 billion of their shares to date this year.He added that the organization was likely to invest further in new programming and marketing to develop its audience.''Our ongoing purchase of our content and brands is having to pay off,'' Bewkes stated. Contact Marc Graser at marc.graser@variety.com