2010.07.30 - New Pictures in 2010 Gallery

2010.07.27 - Chris Meloni on Jeopardy Part 2

2010.07.24 - Paula Patton Joins SVU

PAULA PATTON ('PRECIOUS') JOINS 'LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT' FOR MULTI-EPISODE STINT AS NEW ADA

UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. -- July 21, 2010 -- Actress Paula Patton ("Precious") will be joining the cast of "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" for a multi-episode stint as ADA Mikka Von, it was announced today by Creator and Executive Producer Dick Wolf.

Patton, who was nominated for multiple honors including the SAG Award (ensemble), NAACP Image Award (Supporting Actress) and the Critics Choice Award (ensemble) for her role as Ms. Blu Rain in the Oscar winning film "Precious," will play a charming and savvy ADA who works with the Special Victims Unit on the Wolf Films/Universal Media Studios series, entering its 12th season on NBC.

"Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" premieres September 22 in a new time period, Wednesdays at 9:00 p.m. (ET/PT) on NBC.

"When I saw Paula Patton give that terrific performance in the multi-Oscar nominated Precious, I knew she'd be perfect for SVU's new Assistant District Attorney -- she's funny, warm and witty with a penchant for justice. And it happened. She's starting in episode five. How cool is that?" executive producer Neal Baer said.

Patton is currently filming Sony’s “Jumping the Broom” and other credits include the feature films "Just Wright”, “Déjà Vu” and “Swing Vote.”

Dick Wolf, Ted Kotcheff, Neal Baer and Peter Jankowski are Executive Producers of "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit," which stars Christopher Meloni, Mariska Hargitay, Ice-T, Richard Belzer, B.D Wong, Tamara Tunie and Dann Florek.

Source: AllthingsLawandOrder

2010.07.24 - SVU Bloopers

2010.07.16 - Chris attends 2010 Tupperware Party

Chris Meloni (Law & Order SVU) attended the 2010 Tupperware Summer Party at the Glass Houses. The event was hosted by Jane Krakowski. Here are a few photos of Chris at this event - click here or on the Picture to see pictures.

I have added a 2010 category in Gallery. /MadneZ

Source: AllLawandOrder

2010.06.30 - Palisade Magazine

2010.06.28 - Law & Order SVU leaves New Jersey slot over...

nixed tax credit. May move in to old Law & Order digs.

EXCLUSIVE: Law & Order: SVU has become the first victim of New Jersey’s pending suspension of its film and TV production tax credit. The veteran NBC crime drama has been the highest profile TV series based in New Jersey. Its sets have been housed at NBC's Central Archives building in North Bergen. But faced with losing the state's 20% tax incentive, the show is headed to New York, which recently proposed boosting its incentive to $420 million annually.

In New York, Law & Order: SVU might move into the studio space at Chelsea Piers that has been occupied by the mothership Law & Order series. I hear Universal Media Studios, which co-produces the Law & Order franchise with Wolf Films, is looking into the viability of moving Law & Order: SVU into Law & Order’s old digs, which will be vacant soon, following the veteran series’ cancellation by NBC last month. Such a move would carry on a long tradition: Chelsea Piers has been so closely associated with the franchise, housing the mothership series as well as Law & Order: Criminal Intent, that a road leading to Pier 62 was renamed Law & Order Way in 2004.

L&O:SVU’s exit from New Jersey will probably have an impact on the local economy. L&O:SVU co-star Tamara Tunie and NBC Uni’s tax counsel Brian O’Leary were among those who testified in favor of keeping the New Jersey tax credit at a hearing earlier this month. According to estimates, nearly 7,000 New Jersey production workers earned more than $500 million in wages in 2008, the latest year available. More than 3,000 small businesses who supplied film and TV productions made a total of $508 million.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s budget reform package, which includes the scrapping of the tax credit, was approved by a state panel yesterday and is expected to pass a vote by both houses on Monday.

Source: DeadLine.com

2010.06.28 - Law & Order SVU looking for a new ADA

Law & Order: SVU is close to reaching a verdict on a new full-time assistant district attorney. Sources confirm to me exclusively that Precious actress Paula Patton is in advanced talks to succeed Sharon Stone as ADA.

Reps for NBC and Wolf Films declined to comment.

Last April, Stone joined SVU for a four-episode arc as ADA Jo Marlowe. She replaced SVU vet Stephanie March, who has since moved on.

In Precious, Patton played Ms. Rain, the alternative high school teacher who served as a mentor of sorts for Gabourey Sidibe’s title character. And she was awesome.

Thoughts? Is it high time SVU hired a permanent ADA? Is Patton the right woman for the job?

Source: AusielloFiles.ew.com

2010.06.17 - Chris on the Beach

Christopher Meloni took some time relaxing and playing on the beach at Club 55 in Saint Tropez yesterday. Son Dante keeps the Law and Order: SVU actor in shape, playing football with dad (who's already in pretty good shape!).

Meloni also sipped some rose on the sand at the swanky beach club: with this kind of life why would he ever give up his sweet gig?

Photos: INF Daily
Website: infdaily.com

Source: SocialiteLife.com

2010.06.05 - Chris Meloni on the D-List preview

2010.05.21 - Chris Meloni buys financial district condo

Meloni and his wife just paid $910,000 for this 800-square-foot 1BR, 1BA apartment at 88 Greenwich Street, the 37-story Art Deco tower in the Financial District converted from rentals a few years back and now going by Greenwich Club. Wet Hot American Summer's fridge humper already owns a pretty fancy spread in the celeb-heavy Park Imperial on West 56th Street, so here's another fun theory: FiDi pied-a-terre! Or, yawn, investment property. He got a discount on the deal.

The apartment in the full-service condo building was first listed for $995K, but the price had been reduced to $925K by the time Meloni came calling. The seller paid $926K for the place back in 2007, and has since gotten married and relocated to Connecticut, so we can see why she was willing to take a bit of a loss. Enjoy a bit of brokerbabble:

Open & airy one bedroom enjoys exquisite direct southern views of the Hudson River, Governor's Island, & the Downtown cityscape from the exclusive Tower of the building, where there are only 5 units per floor & laundry right across the hall. The designer kitchen has the highest end stainless steel appliances (Viking, Sub-Zero, Fisher & Paykel) as well as rift-cut white oak custom cabinetry & floors, Pietra Carnico lava stone countertops & backsplash. The lovely & intelligently designed bath features Mont Blanc glass composite countertops & Siera Negra lava stone floors, overhead rain shower, & Kohler soaking tub.

Already a mouthful, and we didn't even mention the kitchen's built-in ladder! Meloni did great if you believe the $1.1 million appraisal mentioned in the listing—an appraisal dated Nov. 2008. The world of Law & Order isn't the only one that's changed since then, friends. Here's the floorplan, which puts the size as 736 square feet:

Source: NY.Curbed.com

2010.05.15 - Law and Order SVU renewed by NBC

Law & Order has been canceled by NBC, but offshoot Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (SVU) will return next season, according to a May 14, 2010 press release from NBC. LOLA (Law & Order: Los Angeles) the latest incarnation of the Law & Order franchise created by Dick Wolf, has been picked up. The cast of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit includes Christopher Meloni, Mariska Hargitay, Dann Florek, Richard Belzer, Ice-T, B.D. Wong and Tamara Tunie.

"Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" is a hard-hitting and emotional series from NBC's "Law & Order" brand. The elite squad of detectives on the Special Victims Unit of the New York Police Department investigate sexually based crimes. When the series first debuted, there were critics that called the subject matter too creepy, but the series thrived.

SVU follows intense Detective Elliot Stabler (Emmy Award nominee Christopher Meloni) and his sympathetic partner, Detective Olivia Benson (Emmy and Golden Globe Award winner Mariska Hargitay). The ugly nature of the sexual crimes takes a toll on the detectives, who see the worst side of people.

Captain Donald Cragen (Dann Florek) oversees the Special Victims Unit. Detective John Munch (Richard Belzer, "Homicide: Life on the Street") brings his acerbic wit and street-honed investigative skills to the team. John Munch’s partner, Detective Odafin "Fin" Tutuola (Ice-T), adds his unique sense of humor and investigative experience. Forensic psychiatrist, George Huang (B.D. Wong), gives his psychological perspective of the criminal and of the victim. Medical Examiner Melinda Warner (Tamara Tunie) helps uncover forensic evidence.

"Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" is a Wolf Films production in association with Universal Media Studios. Wolf is creator and executive producer; Neal Baer ("ER," "China Beach"), Ted Kotcheff ("Fun with Dick and Jane," "Weekend at Bernie's") and Jankowski are executive producers.

'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit' now airs on Wednesday nights at 10:00 p.m. ET on NBC.

Source: Examiner.com

2010.05.12 - Pictures in Gallery / Chris Meloni & Family

Chris Meloni, with his porkpie hat and his family, and Judith Light attended the ASPCA's "My Dog: An Unconditional Love Story" New York Premiere on May 10, 2010, held at the Directors Guild of America Theater in New York.

Also a few pictures of Chris Meloni in SVU episode "Wannabe".

2010.04.14 - Special Event

Godfather IV

Written by Tom Fontana
(Emmy Award-winning writer of "St. Elsewhere", "Homicide", "OZ" and most recently "The Philanthropist")

Featuring Chris Meloni ("Law & Order: SVU", "OZ")

Dean Winters ("Life on Mars", "30 Rock", "Rescue Me", "OZ"); and Lee Tergesen ("Generation Kill", "OZ", "Desperate Housewives") and a special appearance by Tom Fontana

Directed by Linda Laundra

May 2, 2010
3pm and 7pm
59E59 Theater A

Tickets are $75 for Premium Seating or $50 for general seating.

Three actors from “Oz” sit in a diner, talking about their careers and the works of various screen immortals. When one of the trio (Chris Meloni) attacks the plausibility of the Jack Woltz scene in “The Godfather,” the other two (Lee Tergesen, Dean Winters) decide to “re-enact” the scene by sneaking a horse’s head into Meloni’s bed. Unexpected complications arise.

 
To purchase tickets, contact Director of Development Jessica Comas or Development Assistant Rebecca Aparicio at 212-840-970

Source: PrimaryStages.org

2010.04.08 - Chris Meloni is NOT leaving SVU

Attention Law & Order: Special Victims Unit fans: Chris Meloni has no plans to hand in his badge.

The TV star has finally spoken out about an early February report that claimed he intended to leave the NBC show after shooting season 12.

"It's lies. All lies. No," Meloni told UsMagazine.com Tuesday at the Benefit Gala for Figure Skating in Harlem at NYC's Wollman Rink.The actor, 49, has played Detective Eliot Stabler in the NBC spinoff alongside Mariska Hargitay since it premiered in 1999. Australian newspaper Courier-Mail had quoted him as saying, "I think 12 years is enough, a good number...It will be a difficult transition."

But Meloni explained to Us: "What I said was 'When your contract is done...that will be the end. Because when your contract is done, it's usually the end," he said. "But when [producers] come back to me, you know, we can always talk.' I couched it incorrectly. It wasn't [the reporter's] fault."

To set the record straight, the star clarified: "I had one year [left] on my contract. Our show hasn't been picked up. Those are the facts of the matter."

Source: USmagazine.com

2010.04.02 - Chris Meloni movie with 'Legends of a Suicide'

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit star Chris Meloni has spent his own money to option Legends of A Suicide, a collection of five short stories and a novella by David Vann that focus on the tough relationship between a boy and his Alaskan father, leading up to the latter’s suicide. Meloni plans to mount the book as a feature film which he will direct and star in. He will also write the first draft, and produce through his Yo DC Boy Productions banner.

Meloni recently co-directed, co-wrote and starred in National Lampoon’s Dirty Movie, a comedy that is looking for distribution. Vann's book couldn't be more different. Meloni, no stranger to dark material in the HBO series Oz and the Law & Order spinoff, sparked to the edgy prose penned by Vann, who previously wrote A Mile Down. Legends Of A Suicide was published earlier this month by Harper Perennial to glowing reviews.

“The guy’s writing just seduced me,” Meloni told me this afternoon, in between scenes shot in lower Manhattan. The NBC series, in its 11th season, is enjoying its best ratings ever, he said, since new episodes moved to the Wednesday 10 PM time-slot vacated by Jay Leno. “I’ve yet to figure out whether all the stories can be molded into what I see as a beautifully written, intimate portrait of a father and son struggling to communicate, in a relationship that never forms a real foundation. It is a story with no easy answers, and a very poetic ending. I was drawn to the no-easy-answers part of it. It’s a little like `A Serious Man’ in that regard, in that many people can see it and walk away with a different interpretation of what it actually meant. Vann’s writing is stark, beautiful and intimate, and to put it in that great outdoors landscape, the water, the fishing, there are contrasting elements and images that just struck me.”

Meloni’s Gersh reps closed the book deal this week with Vann’s reps at Inkwell Management. Meloni, hopes the project will serve as a potential next career step.

“I’ve been on an active search to find projects that can help me transition if and when the `Law & Order’ gig should end, not that I’m making a prediction on that,” Meloni said. “I want to figure out stuff for life after this show. This came about after I went to publishers and told them I was interested in finding material to put my stamp on and bring to the screen. One of the books had me written all over it, until I was told Robert De Niro had it.  And then this one came along.”

Source: DeadLine.com

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