The many retoolings of NBC's "Up All Night" have reportedly taken their toll on Christina Applegate.

According to Deadline, the actress is leaving the sophomore NBC comedy, which is produced by Lorne Michaels. “It’s been a great experience working on 'Up All Night,' but the show has taken a different creative direction and I decided it was best for me to move on to other endeavors,” Applegate said in a statement. “Working with Lorne Michaels has been a dream come true and I am grateful he brought me into his TV family. I will miss the cast, producers and crew, and wish them the best always.”

Deadline reports that NBC is looking to proceed with the series and could be looking to "Friends" alumna Lisa Kudrow to replace Applegate.

"Up All Night," which also stars Will Arnett and Maya Rudolph, has gone through many growing pains since its premiere in September 2011. In its second season, "Up All Night" ditched Rudolph's character Ava's talk-show to create "smaller, lower-key home stories." In October 2012, with ratings sagging, NBC announced that it it was rebooting "Up All Night" from a single-camera to a multicamera series and upping its episode order to six.

Applegate appeared on "Jimmy Kimmel Live" a month later and said the show is going through "a metamorphosis ... a big one." Then, she joked, "None of us are actually gonna be on the show."

The comedy switched showrunners in December, as Linda Wallem replaced Tucker Crawley (who had replaced Jon Pollack) and NBC revealed that the show was scheduled to resume production in February in front of a live studio audience after a three-month hiatus.

In January 2013, "Up All Night" creator and executive producer Emily Spivey left.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, "Up All Night" is scheduled to return to NBC in April or May.

NBC told HuffPost TV they had no comment on Applegate's departure at this time.

"Side Effects," Steven Soderbergh's final theatrical offering before retirement, is out in theaters this weekend, which is good news for people who like good movies. The film -- a twisty thriller about a depressed young woman (Rooney Mara) who commits a crime after being prescribed some mood-altering drugs by her psychiatrist (Jude Law) -- is easily the week's standout release and one of the first great films of 2013.

With "Side Effects" unspooling at theaters now, HuffPost Entertainment is happy to debut a behind-the-scenes look at the film, which details how society's growing reliance on prescription drugs helped build a foundation for the film.

"I really loved the idea that [screenwriter Scott Burns] took a social issue -- a very zeitgeist-y issue -- and used it as a Trojan Horse to hide a thriller inside it," Soderbergh said during a special screening of the film last month.

Watch the special new look at "Side Effects" above. The film is out in theaters now.

For more on "Side Effects," check out this HuffPost Entertainment interview with Burns.

Say what you will about The Pirate Bay: if nothing else, its founders are resilient, defiant, and clever. Two out of its three co-founders have yet to be brought to justice, having been convicted of aiding copyright infringement—none of them have paid a single cent of the multi-million dollar fine ordered by a Swedish court in 2009, and all seem quite resolute on maintaining that position. (Still, each of the three claim to no longer have any involvement in the site.)

There’s not much new information about the founders in Simon Klose’s new film TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard, which debuted Friday at the Berlinale Film Festival in the German capital and is available freely online under a Creative Commons license. The non-narrated, largely Swedish-language film profiles the three co-founders during their prosecution by the Swedish government and doesn’t address—other than through filmed court testimony—the fourth co-defendant, businessman Carl Lundström. (Lundström did serve four months in Sweden under house arrest, but has since returned to living in Switzerland. He also declined to be profiled for the film.)

In February 2012, the Swedish Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal of the case against the co-founders, leaving the three with few, if any, legal options left at their disposal. After being deported late last year on a Cambodian visa violation, Gottfrid “anakata” Svartholm Warg remains in Swedish custody. Meanwhile, Fredrik “tiamo” Neij is still living in Laos with his wife and son.

In the closing minutes of the film (shot in November 26, 2010, on the day the first appeals decision was to be announced), Neij looks straight in the camera while taking a leisurely family lunch aboard a boat in Laos with co-founder Peter Sunde at his side. Neij flatly says: “I can serve a prison sentence. But why do it if I don’t have to?”

Later that day, just moments after the two of them find out that they’ve lost their appeal, Neij adds: “The statute of limitations is five years. They can’t issue an international warrant of arrest. I can sit here and jerk off for five years. And I will.”

The film also reminds us that Neij is wanted by Interpol, although his name does not turn up in Interpol’s online database. Meanwhile, Sunde remains a digital nomad, traveling seemingly freely about Europe and the rest of the world. He’s even answering a Reddit AMA on Saturday.

In other words, these guys seem very comfortable with ignoring Swedish justice.

Late last year, Håkan Roswall, the chief prosecutor in the Pirate Bay trial, told Ars that he has “no doubt whatsoever that every one of those four will serve their sentence.”

New York Times reporter Michael Cieply pulls the lid off the In Memoriam segment of the Academy Awards telecast in a new article ("On Oscar night everyone is dying -- sometimes literally -- to win something," reads the first sentence), which explains how awards-season campaigning even extends to remembering the deceased.

According to Cieply, a group of Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Science members get together to determine which stars make the cut on Oscar night. “Of all the committees, it’s the hardest one to do,” Tom Sherak, who was president of the AMPAS until last year, told the Times. As with everything else in the cloak-and-dagger world of Oscar voting, the group is never outed or discussed in public. “The committee’s names are never mentioned, ever,” said Sherak.

The In Memoriam segment, an obituary in montage form that honors members of the Hollywood filmmaking community lost over the last year, officially became a part of the broadcast in 1994. Since, many departed stars have been unceremoniously snubbed from the roll call -- from Farah Fawcett and Brad Renfro to Corey Haim and Harry Morgan. Those omissions are usually chalked up to time (the AMPAS said Renfro just didn't make the final cut) or big-screen influence (Fawcett and Morgan weren't necessarily best known for their film work). Per Ciepy, however, there could be another reason: a lack of champions on the In Memoriam committee.

“I cannot image why it left my dad out of its tribute segment,” Harry Morgan's son, Charley, told The Times. “It would never have occurred to me to check with or otherwise lobby the Academy to be sure that he was mentioned.”

Lobbying, of course, is a major part of awards season -- and not just the In Memoriam segment. Just this week, Rep. Joe Courtney (D-Conn.) spoke out against "Lincoln," Steven Spielberg's Best Picture nominee, because of apparent inaccuracies in the film's storyline. ("Lincoln" shows two Connecticut representatives voting against the 13th Amendment to abolish slavery; in real life, the men were for the new law.) With Oscar voting open now, that's the type of charge that could make "Lincoln" seem less viable as a Best Picture choice. Not that Courtney probably minds. As Salon notes, "Argo" director Ben Affleck -- who has watched as his film has lept above "Lincoln" to gain status as the Best Picture frontrunner in the last month -- worked to get Courtney elected in 2006.

As always with the Academy Awards, follow the friendships and ulterior motives -- even when it comes to the deceased.

As the first anniversary of Whitney Houston’s death rolls around on Monday, her mother, Cissy Houston, has been in the spotlight. However, the messages she’s been sending when it comes to honoring her daughter’s memory have been a bit … confusing.

On Thursday, the 79-year-old blasted her late daughter’s mentor and close friend, Clive Davis, for inviting her to his annual pre-Grammy party, which takes place at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles on Saturday. It was while Whitney was readying herself for that party last year that she drowned in her hotel bathtub. Drugs were in her system when she died.

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“I got an invitation to the party – which is the most obscene thing,” Cissy told “Access Hollywood.” “I don’t know why they would want me to come to the party in which she died, you know? Unheard of.”

What she didn’t mention was that her son Gary Houston and his wife/Whitney’s manager Pat had accepted invites to the gala and will be in attendance this weekend, according to Davis’ rep.

Cissy celebrating the unveiling of Whitney wax figures at Madame Tussauds on February 7 (Getty Images)Also unusual? Where Cissy was when she lashed out at Davis, who had been so close to the Houston family that spoke at Whitney’s funeral. The Houston matriarch was at an event held at tourist hot spot Madame Tussauds Wax Museum in Manhattan’s Times Square, where she smiled, clapped, and posed happily alongside of eerie lifelike replicas of her famous daughter that were being unveiled to mark Whitney’s death.

And while Cissy found Davis’ party invite “obscene,” many people are questioning her own decision to write a book, Remembering Whitney, about her late daughter, which touched on Houston’s drug use, failed marriage to Bobby Brown, and bad feelings toward Robyn Crawford, the woman with whom Whitney may or may not have had a lesbian affair.