Lionsgate, JP Morgan area TV Guide offers

Lionsgate and JP Morgan Chase & Co.'s One Equity Partners wing have acquired several written offers from potential customers for your TV Guide Network cabler and TVGuide.com website. A repetition for Lionsgate declined comment Monday but an origin with knowledge of situation established the bids arrived at greater than the partners taken proper care of the cabler. Lionsgate is mentioned being seeking about $400 million for your resource. The partners are actually shopping the cabler for many days with likely outcome just as one outright purchase -- although there's still an chance that particular Equity, the non-public investment arm of JP Morgan, could spend Lionsgate's 51% stake or the other way round. The channel's distribbed in than 80 million cable/satellite houses and created $20 million in EBIDTA a year ago for your partners. It's restored its carriage handles Time Warner, Comcast and Charter and contains been moving to change the funnel in the records-focused intend to a regular linear funnel. Lionsgate bought the cabler and website in February 2009 for $255 million. By May of the year, Lionsgate had offered a 49% stake inside the assets for $125 million to at least one Equity and investor Allen Shapiro, who had previously been looking for TV Guide concurrently Lionsgate made its bid. Contact Dork McNary at dork.mcnary@variety.com

Exclusive Mad Males Sneak Look: Will Don Cheat Again?

Chris Colfer Glee's Chris Colfer is definitely an very busy guy. He stars round the hit Fox musical, is delivering a children's book in May, and makes his screenwriting - and leading guy - debut later this year at night time secondary school comedy Struck By Lightning. Inside the film, Colfer plays Carson Phillips, a greater school student who blackmails his peers into contributing to his campus literary magazine after which it can get - yup - struck by lightning. Chris Colfer makes leap to silver screen with Struck By Lightning The film also stars Modern Family's Sarah Hyland, Mad Men's Christina Hendricks and Allison Janney as Carson's mother. Watch the initial trailer: Will you see Struck By Lightning?

The Hunger Games discloses three new motion posters

[brightcove]1275910811001[/brightcove]Hunger Games fans could possibly get ready to become a bit more submerged into the field of Panem using the discharge of three new motion posters.Inside a neat marketing move, the posters showcase items available within the imaginary future-realm of Panem (or at best the affluent Capitol, we can not see a lot of District 12 citizens purchasing skyliner.)Featuring around the posters are Lenny Kravitz' Cinna, Stanley Tucci's Caesar Flickerman, and Wes Bentley's Seneca Crane.Check Them out:The 2nd problem of Capitol Couture can also be readily available for reading through pleasure.The Hunger Games opens on 23 March 2012. Read our Complete Help Guide To The Hunger Games.

'Transformers' Cast Not Coming back For Next Movie?

When MTV News talked with "Transformers" producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura lately, he taunted there will be a totally new cast of figures for that approaching Michael Bay-directed "Transformers 4." But we did not realize how literal he had been. Apparently Josh Duhamel did though. The star from the previous "Transformers" films swept up with E! Online lately and stated he wasn't thinking about returning for future years film. And, apparently, neither are his famous costars. "I do not think anybody's doing the work,Inch he stated. "I understand Shia [LaBoeuf]'s not doing the work. I do not think Tyrese or Rosie [Huntington-Whiteley] or anybody else does it." Duhamel did not appear too surprised that Vital Pictures was ongoing the franchise, stating the prior film's large box office haul as ample reason to proceed using the series. "Whenever these movies make much money they are will make as much as they are able to,Inch he stated. "[But] I've not heard anything about this. They haven't known as me." Granted, there's still sufficient time for Bay and di Bonaventura to do this. Bay is pointing "Discomfort and Gain" first, and also the movie is not even likely to hit theaters until June 27, 2014. But Duhamel does not seem particularly excited to return in to the fold, if he's even requested. We'll need to observe how things pan out once "Transformers 4" will get nearer to casting its stars. Will you be disappointed if "Transformers 4" was a completely new cast of stars? Inform us within the comments section below or on Twitter!

Distribution revolution: shifting ranks

'The Front Line' was one of several critically acclaimed local films released by Showbox.One of the big dramas playing out in the Korean film business today is the changing landscape among local distributors.It was ignited by CJ E&M, which was re-established as a massive enterprise in the local entertainment business in April, 2011. The company merged film, music, game and media companies under one roof in order to maximize the synergies of vertical integration.It distributed more than 50 foreign and local films under three labels last year: CJ Entertainment, newly consolidated CJ E&M, and its specialty division Filament Pictures. The three labels dominated the industry by grabbing a total market share of 37.4% -- up 7.1% from the days of CJ Entertainment in 2010.Local distributors' market share was much bigger than that of the U.S. direct distributors last year. In 2010, three direct distribs -- Fox, Warner Bros. and Sony Buena (Sony Pictures Releasing Buena Vista Korea) -- were included in the top five distributors list and got a market share of more than 30%.However in 2011, four out of the top five distributors were local. Only Sony Buena was included in the top five ranking with a relatively small 8.5% take at No. 4. Following CJ E&M, Lotte Entertainment ranked No. 2; Next Entertainment World was No. 3 -- with a 15.4% and 9% market share, respectively. Showbox, which was the second-biggest local distributor until 2009, ranked No. 5 with a 7.9% take.Lotte Entertainment has made the most conspicuous advance among local distribs. It held the second rank with a 15.4% market share for the first time since its launch in 2004; this was up by 3.7% up compared to the previous year.Lotte distributed 30 films, of which 21 were local, including last year's No. 1 at the B.O., "Arrow, the Ultimate Weapon."After Showbox Mediaplex sold off its multiplex chain Megabox, Lotte became the only company that can compete with CJ E&M by vertically integrating its film business division with its affiliate exhibition business, Lotte Cinemas. The company also officially launched its international department in 2011 and plans to expand globally.This ambition was underlined in December, when group chairman Shin Dong-bin exchanged a memorandum of understanding with Los Angeles mayor Antonio V

Glee Sneak Peek: Samuel Larson Makes His Debut! Plus: Rachel's Dads Arrive!

Glee It's Valentine's Day at McKinley High - and apparently it's all about Rachel Berry. Glee Spoiler Pics! Ricky Martin, Rachel's two dads, Mercedes' choice In the Glee sneak peeks below, New Directions and Glee Project co-winner Samuel Larson sing Gym Class Heroes' "Stereo Hearts," to the newly engaged Berry. Plus: Rachel's dads (Jeff Goldblum and Brian Stokes Mitchell) make their debut to celebrate Rachel and Finn's big news. Check out the sneak peeks below: Glee's Valentine's Day episode airs Tuesday at 8/7c on Fox.

Grammy spotlights Shore's 'Shine'

This year's Grammy nominees in the Best Score Soundtrack category contained four predictable scores and one surprise -- music from "The Shrine," a virtually unknown, low-budget, barely released horror film.Ryan Shore, the L.A.-based composer of "The Shrine," admits he was surprised by the nomination, which apparently beat out a number of better-known scores including "Drive," "The Help," "127 Hours" and "True Grit."Shore (nephew of Oscar- and Grammy-winning "Lord of the Rings" composer Howard Shore) says he used the Grammy365 website -- a "social networking" site available only to members -- to alert potential voters. "I do have a profile there and made mention of my submissions this year, like many others," he says.Grammy awards VP Bill Freimuth says while "vote solicitation" is not allowed at Recording Academy events, it's not discouraged on Grammy365. "I'm sure there will be discussion about it" at upcoming Grammy committee meetings, he says. "There may be changes, or there may not be.""I can't believe the company I'm in," says Shore, who faces off against better-known composers Alexandre Desplat, Clint Mansell and French electronic-music duo Daft Punk in the balloting. He created the entire "Shrine" score himself using samples and synths in his studio.GRAMMY AWARDS 2012Year's biggest star lights up Grammys | Revamped Grammys calls for more trims | Macca guarantees fab MusiCares gala | Creative sparks fly from clash of styles | More liberal take on visual media kudos | Grammy spotlights Shore's 'Shine' Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com