Woody Allen’s romantic fantasy Midnight In Paris took top prize at the Writers Guild Awards Sunday. The iconic director won for best original screenplay about a modern-day Hollywood writer [Owen Wilson] who gets the opportunity to hang out with his literary idols, Hemingway and Fitzgerald, in Paris.

The George Clooney film The Descendants won for best adapted screenplay for director Alexander Payne’s version of the novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings — an honor he shared with co-writers Nat Faxon and Jim Rash.

This boosts the prospects for each film, of a win at next Sunday’s Academy Awards, where both movies are in the running for best picture.

LOS ANGELES, California (X17online) – Lawyers from Warner Bros. have sent a cease and desist letter to the actor for using a Two and a Half Men image to promote his upcoming FX show, Anger Management.

At least two shots were included in a promotional publication distributed by the network and production company Debmar-Mercury in January at the NATPE conference in January when Sheen and his team were pitching their show for domestic and international buyers, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

“That you are using Warner’s intellectual property for a commercial purpose – namely, to sell another show – is especially egregious,” studio lawyer Katherine Chilton wrote in the letter, a copy of which was obtained by The Hollywood Reporter. “Please immediately cease and desist from using these photographs or any other intellectual property belonging to Warner.”

Statutory damages for copyright infringement are $150,000 per infraction and actual damages can be much higher.

FX, Debmar-Mercury and Sheen attorney Martin Singer declined to comment to THR.

LOS ANGELES, California (X17online) – Amazon.com has landed a content licensing deal with Viacom that will expand its streaming video offerings.

Amazon’s Prime Instant Videos library, available only to Amazon Prime members ($79/year), will now feature hit shows from Viacom properties – BET, Comedy Central, LOGO, MTV, Nickelodeon, Spike, TV Land, and VH1, among others – including Jersey Shore, iCarly, and Mob Wives.

“This deal with Viacom brings Prime customers and Kindle Fire users thousands of comedies, kids’ shows, reality TV and much more from some of the best cable networks available,” Amazon’s director of video content acquisition Brad Beale said in a statement. “We now offer more than 15,000 movies and TV shows in Prime Instant Videos and are working hard to add even more great content.”

LOS ANGELES, California (X17online) – NBC is receiving flack for its failure to blur M.I.A.’s middle finger during the Super Bowl halftime show.

The rapper “flipped the bird” during her performance with Madonna and Nicki Minaj on Sunday night, prompting groups such as the PTC (Parents Television Council) to criticize NBC, as well as the NFL, for enabling it.

“The NFL hired the talent and produced the halftime show,” NBC said in a statement. “Our system was late to obscure the inappropriate gesture and we apologize to our viewers.”

The controversy is reminiscent to that of Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake’s 2004 Super Bowl halftime show, during which Jackson infamously flashed her nipple as a result of a “wardrobe malfunction.”

LOS ANGELES, California (X17online) – Sunday night’s Super Bowl XLVI became the most watched TV program in history.

With an average of 111.3 million viewers, this year’s game surpassed last year’s record-breaking average viewership of 111.0 million.

The New York Giants-New England Patriots playoff may have been the cause célèbre – viewership peaked during the fourth quarter at 117.7 average viewers – but Madonna’s much-anticipated halftime performance managed to rake in 114.0 million average viewers alone.

LOS ANGELES, California (X17online) – CAA has signed its first Bollywood star, Priyanka Chopra.

The Bollywood actress and former Miss World has had a prolific film career – she is best known for her performances in Fashion (2008), Kaminey (2009), What’s Your Raashee? (2009) and 7 Khoon Maaf (2011) – and recently launched her music career with a Universal Music Group record deal.

Chopra joins fellow CAA clients Jennifer Aniston, Tom Cruise, George Clooney, Robert Downey, Jr., Natalie Portman, and Reese Witherspoon.

LOS ANGELES, California (X17online) – The Voice and Smash are smashes for NBC.

Following its post-Super Bowl debut, the second season of The Voice pulled in an impressive 17.7 million viewers Monday night – more than the most recent episode of American Idol and NBC’s highest-rated regular entertainment series telecast in over four years.

The Steven Spielberg-produced musical Smash drew 11.5 million viewers, making it the highest-rated program in its time slot and the third-highest series debut of the season.

In more positive news for NBC, its Super Bowl XLVI broadcast became the most watched TV program in history Sunday night.

LOS ANGELES, California (X17online) – Survivor producer and alleged murderer Bruce Beresford-Redman will be extradited to Mexico on Wednesday, RadarOnline.com reports.

Beresford-Redman is accused of murdering his wife Monica in April 2010 at the Moon Palace resort in Cancun, where the couple had been vacationing with their two children. After being reported as missing, Monica’s body was discovered in a sewer at the resort with signs of asphyxiation.

Beresford-Redman and his legal team unsuccessfully fought extradition to Mexico, and the producer will be forced to turn himself in to Mexican authorities.

“We are disappointed in the court’s decision denying our request to prevent the extradition of our client, Bruce Beresford-Redman,” Beresford Redman’s attorneys said in a statement. “After consultation with him, Bruce has decided not to appeal the decision and to return to Mexico and defend himself on the charges.”

If convicted, Beresford-Redman faces up to 30 years in Mexican prison.

LOS ANGELES, California (X17online) – Bravo has renewed The Real Housewives of Miami for a second season, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Ratings for Miami lagged behind other installments in the Real Housewives franchise, but Bravo has enough confidence in the series to push for a comeback.

The network has enlisted the help of Purveyors of Pop, a production company that produced the successful Atlanta, New York, and Jersey installments of the Real Housewives.

LOS ANGELES, California (X17online) – Soul Train creator Don Cornelius has died of an apparent suicide.

The 75-year-old’s body was found in his Sherman Oaks home Wednesday morning, and he was pronounced dead at Cedars-Sinai Hospital one hour later of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Cornelius first created and hosted Soul Train in 1970 as a local dance show in his hometown of Chicago, and by 1971, it expanded to become a nationally televised show. The show, which came to an end in 2006 after a record-breaking 35 years, was celebrated for its promotion of racial, cultural, and musical diversity in the years following the Civil Rights Movement.

“Don was a visionary pioneer and a giant in our business,” said Quincy Jones, a friend and business partner of the late Cornelius, said in a statement. “Before MTV, there was ‘Soul Train,’ that will be the great legacy of Don Cornelius. His contributions to television, music and our culture as a whole will never be matched.”