'Mad Max' May Get New Trilogy, Two Game Game titles

In Hollywood, trilogies will be the new follow-up. So that it shojuld 't be an unexpected that George Burns, creator in the original "Mad Max" series, features a new trilogy inside the works well with the franchise. The initial film inside the new series, "Mad Max: Fury Road," has extended had Tom Sturdy and Charlize Theron attached becasue it is leads, but that flick is just the first in three films Burns has written. Inside an interview while using Financial Occasions, Burns recognized the trilogy will be a natural growth of the writing process. "We started with ['Fury Road'], however we started to carry out a second story together with another. Weve written the script for your second and almost finished the next. We never designed to, they were part of the look for the figures," he mentioned. Clearly, first "Fury Road" really must be created. The flick remains infamously postponed, first last summer season, again in March and however recently because of unforeseen conditions australia wide. So, most most likely, as extended as "Fury Road" finally goes as you're watching camera and comprises an income, we might see Miller's entire new vision. Furthermore for the film, Burns also mentioned the "Mad Max" videogame influences works. Apparently Burns and Warner Bros are joining up to experience a studio in Sweden develop the sport. "While using government government bodies support we could immediately proceed with two games, Miller's partner Doug Mitchell mentioned inside the interview. "Warner Bros delays, ready to do 'Fury Road' the incentive brings it back inside a NY minute. It is not immediately apparent nevertheless the potential within the overall game game titles sector is big.In . Is it possible to get behind a completely new "Mad Max" trilogy and gaming(s)? Reveal inside the comments section below or on Twitter!

Netflix Analyst Upgrades Stock Rating From 'Negative' to 'Neutral'

Kevin Winter/Getty ImagesCharlize Theron This short article first made an appearance within the 12 ,. 2 problem from the Hollywood Reporter magazine. The Gotham Honours, presented through the Independent Filmmaker Project and based on small committees of journalists, aim to recognition the entire year's best indie films and filmmakers. The Hollywood Reporter swept up with four indie stalwarts who're receiving award tributes only at that year's ceremony. Fox Shot Entertainment co-chairman and Boss Tom Rothman, who's finding the Industry Tribute, started his film career in NY like a producer, continued to mind Samuel Goldwyn throughout the heyday of independent film and founded Fox Searchlight in 1994. This season's Career Tribute readers are actor Gary Oldman, that has made an appearance in additional than 40 films and stars in Mess Tailor Soldier Spy A Harmful Method author-director David Cronenberg and Oscar-winning actress Charlize Theron, who stars like a troubled author in Jason Reitman's Youthful Adult. PHOTOS: THR's Actress Roundtable 2011 CHARLIZE THERON Around the character of art: "I don't think art is black and whitened or includes a beginning or perhaps an finish. It's a continuing discovery process. It's an evolution of recent things -- within the situation of the actor, a persons condition -- that inspire you thus making you obsessive and haunt you and also capture your imagination.Inch On just as one actor at 19 following a knee injuries sidelined work in ballet: "I had been mourning something I figured I'd lost completely. I needed to reexamine why I loved dance a lot to be able to find something which could substitute it. It required me really searching in internet marketing and knowning that it had been the storytelling. It had been dealing with a personality in storytelling, and [acting] would be a natural." On which she won't do on film: "It's not by what you won't do. For me personally, it's much more about, "Is the storyline that I wish to explore for the following year of my existence?" THR's Actress Roundtable: Six A-Listers Seem Off on Bad Reviews, Nudity and Playing Hitler TOM ROTHMAN Around the company directors he labored with throughout the eighties and early the nineteen nineties: "There have been a lot of seminal films: Jim Jarmusch's Lower legally, Ang Lee's first film, The Marriage Banquet, Spike Lee's School Daze, Norman Rene's Longtime Companion -- the very first commercial movie about Helps -- David Lynch's 1990 Wild in mind, Anthony Minghella's Truly, Crazily Deeply and Henry V, directed by Kenneth Branagh." On which his Gotham Award way to him: "It feels as though a homecoming, however in another sense, it feels as though my career is a continuation of individuals days. I've ongoing to utilize most of the company directors I met then, for example Ang, who's making Existence of Pi for Fox 2000. I've been fortunate during my time at Fox for the reason that the studio overall constitutes a very eclectic group of movies. Even though specialized companies came and gone, Searchlight has ongoing passionate support from myself and fellow chairman-Boss Jim Gianopulos." THR's Author Roundtable: 6 Top Scribes Talk Standing to Clint Eastwood, Coping with Rewrites and Being Fired because of your Wife GARY OLDMAN On following in Alec Guinness' actions playing George Smiley in Focus Features' Mess Tailor Soldier Spy: "One was greatly within the shadow of Guinness, since it's this kind of legendary role. Initially, I had been just a little nervous about this. You're walking across the same path, oftentimes, you're saying exactly the same words. However it's different because Guinness was nearly 70 when he performed the role, and that i'm more youthful [he's 53]. You will find facets of the smoothness that talk to me too. In the finish during the day, I contacted it exactly the same being an actor would with any classical role like Hamlet or King Lear." On which's next: "I'm unsure things i'm likely to be doing next, but that's area of the terror and excitement from the work. You are able to chase things and steer work to some degree, however, you don't get offered everything, which means you are subject to the and also the imagination of those who cast you. Inside my kids' schools, these were more impressed which i did the voice for Viktor Reznov within the Cod videogames than which i performed Sirius Black [within the Harry Potter movies]. None of it's been really planned." THR's Company directors Roundtable: How you can Fire People, Who to Steal From, and Amy Pascal's Secret Advice DAVID CRONENBERG Around the motivations behind the tales he informs: "I've no real agenda. I don't have something that I'm using film to advertise. The fundamental function would be to explore what it really way to be human: "What's the human condition? What's the character of existence? How can we live?" On the potential of "going Hollywood": "I haven't really attempted to prevent it. I've frequently joked and stated, "I've been selling out for a long time, but nobody's purchasing!" Used to do attempt to perform the Matarese Circle with Tom Cruise and Denzel Washington at MGM, but MGM went belly-up for some time. The only real in-house studio movie I ever really did was Past Violence with New Line. I've attempted, as well as in each situation, it's not happened for a myriad of reasons." PHOTO GALLERY: View Gallery Behind the curtain of THR's Actress Roundtable 2011 Gotham Honours Charlize Theron David Cronenberg Fox Shot Entertainment Gary Oldman A Harmful Method Youthful Adult Tom Rothman Mess Tailor Soldier Spy

'Descendants,' 'Marilyn' to fly to Dubai

The eighth edition from the Dubai Film Festival revealed its selection of 171 photos from 56 areas on Monday, including Alexander Payne's "The Descendants" and British drama "My Week With Marilyn." The 2010 fest, which opens 12 ,. 7 using the world preem of "Mission: Impossible -- Ghost Protocol," will host 46 world premieres and 78 Middle Eastern preems and include a number of gala photos, including Bollywood romance "Ladies versus. Ough Bahl," Disney's "The Muppets," Germany comedy "Three-Quarter Moon," Italian immigrant drama "Terraferma" and Egyptian romance "An Entire One." Lifetime achievement honours will be provided to Werner Herzog, Egyptian thesp Gamil Rateb and Indian composer A.R. Rahman. Talent likely to touch lower within the emirate throughout the fest include Tom Cruise, Simon Pegg, Paula Patton, Anil Kapoor, Jum Seydoux and "Mission: Impossible" helmer Kaira Bird. Payne, Peter Weir, Shah Rukh Khan and Ranveer Singh will also be confirmed to go to the fest. Arab talent includes Amr Waked, Ezzat Abou Ouf, Lebleba and Yousra from Egypt Ahmed El Zein from Lebanon and Mohammed Miftah from The other agents. A lot more than 70 photos in the Arabian Peninsula will feature within the fest this season, and 89 films will vie for that Muhr Honours, with prize money adding up to $600,000. This season, DIFF may have a unique concentrate on Germany with six photos in the territory: "Three Quarter's Moon," "Burnout," "Combat Girl," "Westwind," "Under Snow" and Georg Wilhelm Pabst's 1929 pic "Pandora's Box." "This eighth edition, a lot more than every other before it, crystallizes our standing like a complete cinema ecosystem," stated DIFF chairman Abdulhamid Juma. "Although we're a youthful festival, we now have electricity costs every year since our launch in 2004, refining our program, building exclusive competitions, strengthening our industry choices, even while planting seed products over the Arab, Asian, African and global cinema landscape. This season our harvest is abundant." Contact Diana Lodderhose at diana.lodderhose@variety.com

Casting Standout: 'The Help'

Casting Standout: 'The Help' By Jamie Painter Young November 21, 2011 Photo by Dale Robinette/DreamWorks "We had an embarrassment of riches. A lot of people wanted to be a part of this film," says Kerry Barden of casting the adaptation of Kathryn Stockett's best-selling novel "The Help." "There was a lot of momentum on the project, and people who would normally have just taken a meeting with the director were willing to read," adds Paul Schnee, who has been Barden's casting partner since 2008 and whose credits with Barden include "The Visitor," "Pineapple Express," and the upcoming musical "Pitch Perfect." Among those willing to audition was Bryce Dallas Howard, who was cast in the villainous and comedic role of Hilly Holbrook, a racist snob who gets what she deserves. Says Barden, "Bryce came and read, and we were howling with laughter because she was so funny. She was so great. She [set] the bar at that point. You would have to beat her audition to be able to get this role. Because she nailed it, she ended up getting it." Meanwhile, many fine actors, such as Sissy Spacek (as Hilly's mother), Cicely Tyson (as Skeeter's beloved maid, Constantine), Aunjanue Ellis (as Yule Mae Davis), Dana Ivey (as Gracie Higginbotham), LaChanze (as Rachel), Roslyn Ruff (as Pascagoula), and David Oyelowo (as Preacher Green), were happy to take smaller roles, just to be a part of the project.As for the lead roles of Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan, the white writer, and Aibileen Clark, the black maid who confides in Skeeter, Barden says screenwriter-director Tate Taylor was interested in finding actors who best personified the characters, even if they didn't perfectly match the physical descriptions in Stockett's novel. Skeeter, for example, is described as tall, plain, and awkwardnot qualities associated with Emma Stone ("Crazy, Stupid, Love," "Easy A"). "Tate really just liked her," explains Barden. "He had always seen Skeeter as a young Joan Cusack, and even though in the book she's kind of the homely, gawky girl who is never going to be the beauty, and Emma's a gorgeous person, Tate just really, really loved Emma's energy."Likewise, when casting the role of Aibileen Clark, who is described as chunky, Viola Davis ("Doubt," "Eat Pray Love") is not probably someone that the novel's readers immediately pictured. However, as Barden explains, Davis fit the bill when it came to possessing the emotional qualities in Aibileen. Barden says, "She's an incredible actress, as we all know, and certainly found some interesting layers to Aibileen that made us realize how, even though Viola is not as Aibileen is physically written, she was great."As for casting Octavia Spencer in the breakout role of the forthright Minny Jackson, Barden says although Taylor was always sure of Spencer (a longtime friend of Taylor's and Stockett's), DreamWorks, which produced the film, needed to be convinced. Says Barden, "DreamWorks wanted to make sure that they felt as comfortable as Tate and quite frankly all of us, the casting office, felt in casting Octavia. We had cast Octavia a couple of times before. I've known Octavia and Tate and Brunson Green, the producer, for many years. So we were delighted that we were working with Tate on this first big film of his. We'd done his independent film [2008's "Pretty Ugly People"] as well, which also has Octavia in one of the leads. We were confident that she would be fine. The studio did want her to audition, which she happily did. And also she was kind enough to be our reader in Los Angeles for most of the audition sessions."As for casting the juicy role of bombshell Celia Foote, Minny's latest employer, Jessica Chastain ("The Tree of Life") was someone Barden and Schnee suggested as a fit, but a number of other actors were considered before she got the role. Says Barden, "We were simultaneously casting a film called 'Texas Killing Fields' that Jessica is in. I had not met her at that point, because we came on to the project when three of the leads were already attached, one of them Jessica. So when it came time to start auditions for Celia, I knew that she was shooting in Louisiana, and I had the shooting schedule. So I called her manager and said, 'Can she come in during this four-day time period when she's not shooting and audition for us?' And he said, 'Yes.' We were pretty deep into the process at that point. We had done NY auditions with a lot of people, and also L.A. auditions. So she flew in and read, and when she was finished with her reading, we all had wet faces because she was so stunning. We kind of knew at that point that she was our choice. We ended up doing screen tests for her character and for the Elizabeth Leefolt character [played by Ahna O'Reilly]. So Jessica did not only audition but had to come back and test for the studio. After the test, there was a lot of discussion on her and the other girls that had tested, and it finally was clear that we were all on the Jessica Chastain team."Barden particularly enjoyed the on-location casting for "The Help." He says, "I hadn't done location casting in probably a decade, and I went down to Mississippi and did the location casting with the person that was on location down there, Kim Petrofsky. So I got to meet every one of those wonderful faces that are in the film, including the twin little girls [Eleanor and Emma Henry] that play Mae Mobley. And that was a challenge, trying to find a little girl that could have that much humor and pathos. We did several open calls, and those girls came to the open call in Jackson, [Miss]."Other standouts discovered through open calls were most of the women who play the maids that show up at Aibileen's house to offer help sharing their stories for Skeeter's book. Says Barden, "They were just women who were locals in Greenwood, Miss., who had been brave enough to come to an open call because they wanted to be a part of the film. They came in and auditioned two or three times, some of them. So they have little or no acting experience."As for collaborating with Taylor on this project, Barden and Schneewho also worked with casting associates Allison Estrin and Rich Delia on itonly had good things to say. Says Schnee of Taylor, "He's been a working actor a long time before. So he has a sensitivity and a feel for what it's like from the actors' perspective." Adds Barden, "One of Tate's things was casting Southern people, and so most of the people in the film had some sort of Southern heritage, whether it was Bryce's grandparents being from Mississippi or Sissy being from Virginia or all the boys being from the Southlike Chris [Lowell, who plays Stuart] and Wes [Chatham, who plays Skeeter's brother, Carlton]. Tate wanted to keep everything authentic. He wanted to make sure that he honored the vision that Kitty had in the book, along with making sure that nobody said, 'Oh you cast the wrong person because she's not this, that, or the other.'"Casting Directors: Kerry Barden and Paul SchneeDirector: Tate TaylorWriter: Tate Taylor, based on the novel by Kathryn StockettStarring: Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer, Jessica Chastain, Bryce Dallas Howard, Ahna O'Reilly, Allison JanneyThe Pitch: Amid the civil rights movement, an aspiring writer (Stone) pitches a book about African-American maids and the Southern white women who employ them. To read Back Stage's complete coverage of Awards Season, please get our FREE SAG Nomination Committee Guide. Or follow all our daily coverage with Back Stage's new online Awards Season section. Casting Standout: 'The Help' By Jamie Painter Young November 21, 2011 PHOTO CREDIT Dale Robinette/DreamWorks "We had an embarrassment of riches. A lot of people wanted to be a part of this film," says Kerry Barden of casting the adaptation of Kathryn Stockett's best-selling novel "The Help." "There was a lot of momentum on the project, and people who would normally have just taken a meeting with the director were willing to read," adds Paul Schnee, who has been Barden's casting partner since 2008 and whose credits with Barden include "The Visitor," "Pineapple Express," and the upcoming musical "Pitch Perfect." Among those willing to audition was Bryce Dallas Howard, who was cast in the villainous and comedic role of Hilly Holbrook, a racist snob who gets what she deserves. Says Barden, "Bryce came and read, and we were howling with laughter because she was so funny. She was so great. She [set] the bar at that point. You would have to beat her audition to be able to get this role. Because she nailed it, she ended up getting it." Meanwhile, many fine actors, such as Sissy Spacek (as Hilly's mother), Cicely Tyson (as Skeeter's beloved maid, Constantine), Aunjanue Ellis (as Yule Mae Davis), Dana Ivey (as Gracie Higginbotham), LaChanze (as Rachel), Roslyn Ruff (as Pascagoula), and David Oyelowo (as Preacher Green), were happy to take smaller roles, just to be a part of the project.As for the lead roles of Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan, the white writer, and Aibileen Clark, the black maid who confides in Skeeter, Barden says screenwriter-director Tate Taylor was interested in finding actors who best personified the characters, even if they didn't perfectly match the physical descriptions in Stockett's novel. Skeeter, for example, is described as tall, plain, and awkwardnot qualities associated with Emma Stone ("Crazy, Stupid, Love," "Easy A"). "Tate really just liked her," explains Barden. "He had always seen Skeeter as a young Joan Cusack, and even though in the book she's kind of the homely, gawky girl who is never going to be the beauty, and Emma's a gorgeous person, Tate just really, really loved Emma's energy."Likewise, when casting the role of Aibileen Clark, who is described as chunky, Viola Davis ("Doubt," "Eat Pray Love") is not probably someone that the novel's readers immediately pictured. However, as Barden explains, Davis fit the bill when it came to possessing the emotional qualities in Aibileen. Barden says, "She's an incredible actress, as we all know, and certainly found some interesting layers to Aibileen that made us realize how, even though Viola is not as Aibileen is physically written, she was great."As for casting Octavia Spencer in the breakout role of the forthright Minny Jackson, Barden says although Taylor was always sure of Spencer (a longtime friend of Taylor's and Stockett's), DreamWorks, which produced the film, needed to be convinced. Says Barden, "DreamWorks wanted to make sure that they felt as comfortable as Tate and quite frankly all of us, the casting office, felt in casting Octavia. We had cast Octavia a couple of times before. I've known Octavia and Tate and Brunson Green, the producer, for many years. So we were delighted that we were working with Tate on this first big film of his. We'd done his independent film [2008's "Pretty Ugly People"] as well, which also has Octavia in one of the leads. We were confident that she would be fine. The studio did want her to audition, which she happily did. And also she was kind enough to be our reader in Los Angeles for most of the audition sessions."As for casting the juicy role of bombshell Celia Foote, Minny's latest employer, Jessica Chastain ("The Tree of Life") was someone Barden and Schnee suggested as a fit, but a number of other actors were considered before she got the role. Says Barden, "We were simultaneously casting a film called 'Texas Killing Fields' that Jessica is in. I had not met her at that point, because we came on to the project when three of the leads were already attached, one of them Jessica. So when it came time to start auditions for Celia, I knew that she was shooting in Louisiana, and I had the shooting schedule. So I called her manager and said, 'Can she come in during this four-day time period when she's not shooting and audition for us?' And he said, 'Yes.' We were pretty deep into the process at that point. We had done NY auditions with a lot of people, and also L.A. auditions. So she flew in and read, and when she was finished with her reading, we all had wet faces because she was so stunning. We kind of knew at that point that she was our choice. We ended up doing screen tests for her character and for the Elizabeth Leefolt character [played by Ahna O'Reilly]. So Jessica did not only audition but had to come back and test for the studio. After the test, there was a lot of discussion on her and the other girls that had tested, and it finally was clear that we were all on the Jessica Chastain team."Barden particularly enjoyed the on-location casting for "The Help." He says, "I hadn't done location casting in probably a decade, and I went down to Mississippi and did the location casting with the person that was on location down there, Kim Petrofsky. So I got to meet every one of those wonderful faces that are in the film, including the twin little girls [Eleanor and Emma Henry] that play Mae Mobley. And that was a challenge, trying to find a little girl that could have that much humor and pathos. We did several open calls, and those girls came to the open call in Jackson, [Miss]."Other standouts discovered through open calls were most of the women who play the maids that show up at Aibileen's house to offer help sharing their stories for Skeeter's book. Says Barden, "They were just women who were locals in Greenwood, Miss., who had been brave enough to come to an open call because they wanted to be a part of the film. They came in and auditioned two or three times, some of them. So they have little or no acting experience."As for collaborating with Taylor on this project, Barden and Schneewho also worked with casting associates Allison Estrin and Rich Delia on itonly had good things to say. Says Schnee of Taylor, "He's been a working actor a long time before. So he has a sensitivity and a feel for what it's like from the actors' perspective." Adds Barden, "One of Tate's things was casting Southern people, and so most of the people in the film had some sort of Southern heritage, whether it was Bryce's grandparents being from Mississippi or Sissy being from Virginia or all the boys being from the Southlike Chris [Lowell, who plays Stuart] and Wes [Chatham, who plays Skeeter's brother, Carlton]. Tate wanted to keep everything authentic. He wanted to make sure that he honored the vision that Kitty had in the book, along with making sure that nobody said, 'Oh you cast the wrong person because she's not this, that, or the other.'"Casting Directors: Kerry Barden and Paul SchneeDirector: Tate TaylorWriter: Tate Taylor, based on the novel by Kathryn StockettStarring: Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer, Jessica Chastain, Bryce Dallas Howard, Ahna O'Reilly, Allison JanneyThe Pitch: Amid the civil rights movement, an aspiring writer (Stone) pitches a book about African-American maids and the Southern white women who employ them. To read Back Stage's complete coverage of Awards Season, please get our FREE SAG Nomination Committee Guide. Or follow all our daily coverage with Back Stage's new online Awards Season section.

No-limit rule a boon for global pic parade

Belgium records The Little One Having a Bike and Bullhead are generally qualified within the foreign-language film category underneath the HFPA rule that enables multiple films to become posted through the same country. 'Bullhead'The Academy awards might be America's prominent film honours, there is however one category where the Golden Globes ask them to beat: foreign-language cinema. Which makes some sense considering the makeup from the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn."We think about this category extremely important since it provides for us the sensation that people are worldwide journalists," states Serge Rakhlin, chairman from the Globes' language category, mentioning the org's people visit many festivals during the period of the entire year.While the Academy adheres to some decades-old system where a committee from each country picks one film to compete, the HFPA will consider any overseas pic posted and tested for that org, provided it opened up abroad inside the prior 14 several weeks."Unlike the Academy, we do not accept only one per country," Rakhlin states. "By our rules, they are able to submit as much as they need. There is no limit."That's essential for nations such has France, Italia and The country, which produce many quality features every year. The Academy forces these to choose. "Remember, the Oscar would go to the nation, not the filmmaker," states Mark Manley, chair from the Acad's foreign-language film professional committee. That's rarely simple for a rustic like Belgium, distinctively divided between two language factions -- French and Flemish.Belgium's committee elevated eye brows this season after picking "Bullhead," the champion of six Flanders Film Honours, over French-language Cannes grand jury champion "The Little One Having a Bike," directed by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne."The Dardenne siblings are just like symbols," states "Bullhead" helmer Michael R. Roskam, who fully expected everyone else-pleasing "Kid" to obtain Belgium's bid over his film, a thriller inspired by murder and corruption perpetrated through the country's "hormone mafia" within the 1990's."This is an recognition, not just to function as the associated with your country, but to possess this type of strong film as the competitor," states Roskam, whose pic won the crowd prize at AFI earlier this year.Roskam wasn't the only person surprised at Belgium's choice. The committee had formerly posted three Dardenne photos -- "Rosetta," "The Boy" and "The Kid,Inch none which was nommed -- and several consider "Kid," featuring an authentic superstar in Cecile p France, to become the Dardennes' most positive and Oscar-friendly film yet."We feel you will find individuals who really didn't would like it to be our film," confides Luc Dardenne. "We're able to state that our quasi-celebrity status in other nations made sure people jealous, also it can most likely be pinned lower to that particular.InchWhile the HFPA will consider both "Bullhead" and "Kid" because of its foreign-language prize, the Academy is subject to such political maneuvers in other nations. Another 2011 scandal involves Russia's selection of "The Citadel," Nikita Mikhalkov's significantly panned follow-as much as his Oscar-winning 1994 pic "Burnt through the Sun," for Acad consideration. Passed over were such celebrated options as "Elena" (from "The Return" director Andrei Zvyagintsev) and Aleksandr Sokurov's "Faust" (which won the Golden Lion at Venice)."Being from Russia initially, I will tell you you will find individuals who say you will find better films to represent the nation,Inch states Rakhlin, mentioning the only Russian pic up for Globes contention this season is "Elena." "I am glad we now have this film because it wasn't posted for Oscar."The HFPA's approach can also be more appropriate to support worldwide co-productions."I kind of think of it as 'The Motorcycle Diaries' problem," Manley states. "I was come to job for not getting nominated the film, however it never was posted. For reasons uknown, no country would claim it, most likely since it was this kind of worldwide film." The film did receive two other noms, original song and modified script, winning the first kind.How's that possible? Using the Academy awards, language may be the only feature category by which films don't need a 1-week being approved operate on La screens to become qualified, though doing this technically enables these to compete in other groups.That happened in 2002, when The country selected "Mondays under the sunInch over Pedro Almodovar's "Speak with Her," which continued to win a screenwriting Oscar. The country has had critique this season for selecting Agusti Villaronga's "Black Bread" rather than Almodovar's "Your Skin My home is.InchThis kind of choices are inevitably painful and potentially questionable. Films can slip with the cracks using the Globes too, though Rakhlin along with other people frequently walk out their method to encourage producers of quality foreign photos to submit -- the greater the better."Theoretically, if two works of art range from same country, have you considered both of them?Inch he states.GOLDEN GLOBES PREVIEWRicky did not lose their number Peace for some time as org and prodco collaborate No-limit rule a boon for global pic parade HFPA declines being starstruck in noms process Marketing methods can change at Globes time No relaxation for that bleary-eyed New kids on the market Contact Peter Debruge at peter.debruge@variety.com

Tim Burton's 'Peculiar Children,' 'Munsters' Live Again

"Dark Shadows" director Tim Burton will be adapting a haunted gothic novel about a dark family tragedy (shocking, we know), "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children." The story comes from author Ransom Riggs' book of the same name that feels similar to Edward Gorey by way of a vintage photo nightmare depicting peculiar children (a few of the misfits include a girl who had the ability to hold fire in her hands, another who always levitated off the ground, and there were twins who could talk without actually speaking ). Teenage Jacob visits the home in question, located on a remote island off the coast of Wales. Once there he realizes that the abandoned abode holds a darker and more dangerous secret than previously imagined. Get more on the news over here. We'll find out more when Burton collects his cast and crew, but for now visit more Horror Bites past the break. Night Vision Nightmare for 'The Devil Inside' If you've been anxious for a new exorcism flick, "The Devil Inside" should cure what ails you. Arriving in January, Paramount's new supernatural menace reunites a daughter with her criminally insane mother. A chilling 911 call from the past has everyone wondering if mom's really possessed. Enter two young exorcists who face-off with evil four powerful demons to be exact. The recently released still is a night vision image that will get you excited if you've been counting the hours until the new "Paranormal Activity." "Hellboy's" Ron Perlman Joins Del Toro Monster Movie In 2025 a long-running alien war rages on. The creatures live in the depths of the Pacific Ocean and battle massive robots piloted by humans. Wired revealed in a recent interview with Guillermo del Toro about his new monster movie, "Pacific Rim," that "Hellboy" actor Ron Perlman will be joining the cast. He'll star alongside the previously announced Charlie Hunnam, Charlie Day, Idris Elba, Diego Klattenhoff, Rinko Kikuchi, and Rob Kazinsky who try to thwart the 25-story-high creatures from a hostile takeover. "Its really, its a very, very beautiful poem to giant monsters," the director told the magazine. Sold! Zoe Bell and Rachel Nichols Kick Ass in 'Raze' Described as "Hostel" meets "Fight Club," Zoe Bell ("Kill Bill") and Rachel Nichols ("Star Trek") have gotten everyone's attention with this new trailer for "Raze." The kickass female fight fest will start out as a web series, eventually transitioning into a feature film. 'The Host' Director to Film a Snowy Apocalypse Bong Joon-ho, who directed creature feature "The Host," will be directing an adaptation of the French post-apocalyptic novel, "Le Transperceneige." The movie is being dubbed "Snow Piercer," and "Oldboy's" Park Chan-wook is set to produce. The Korean filmmakers will tell the tale about a group of people on a train with no set destination during the dawn of a new ice age. The film starts shooting in Prague next March. See 'Resident Evil: Retribution's' Creature Claw on Set The cast of ''Resident Evil: Retribution" loves Twitter. Star Milla Jovovich is always chatting about her new movie with hubby Paul Anderson. She's starring alongside Boris Kodjoe, Shawn Roberts, Michelle Rodriguez, Sienna Guillory, Li Bingbing, Kevin Durand, Johann Urb, and Colin Salmon for the new installment in the popular videogame-film franchise. Kodjoe Tweeted a pic from the set, which shows the giant claw of "Resident Evil's" Licker a deadly, mutated zombie. 'The ABCs of Death' Finds a Winner We've been telling you about "The ABCs of Death" for a while now, but the gory alphabet contest has finally come to a close. Makers of the new anthology asked 25 well-known genre filmmakers (Ti West, Simon Rumley, Jason Eisner and others) to make 25 short films each. They needed a 26th though (hopefully you figured that part out on your own) and asked people to submit a movie representing a the letter "T." It was Lee Hardcastle's "T is for Toilet" that won everybody over about a young boy using the bathroom by himself for the first time. Watch the claymation short over here. 'The Munsters' Make it to Back to TV The family at 1313 Mockingbird Lane is returning to prime time. We know we're a movie blog, but this news was too great to pass up. If you're a fan of the 1960's family "The Munsters" who resembled all the classic movie monsters from the past you'll be thrilled to know that NBC is releasing a new pilot episode that will reboot the lovable, creepy characters for a possible summer series. There have been several Munsters films, all of them pretty ridiculous, but it's the TV show that won horror fans over across the globe. Tell us what you think of this week's Horror Bites in the comments and on Twitter!

Muppet Christmas: What 'Muppets' Stars Got A Typical Plush Puppets for your Holidays

It seems like the Muppets did their holiday shopping early this year. The Holiday Gift Guide in this week's NY Magazine unveils just what the stars in the approaching movie got each other for Christmas. Even though some lead toward the apparent (Could Be got Miss Piggy some Tiffany's shades), other people are just a little surprising (Sarah Silverman got Statler and Waldorf two nights inside the Honeymoon Suite within the Waldorf-Astoria because "marriage for everyone is finally legal in NY"). Moviefone has listed some favorite picks below. To consider the whole list, mind onto NY online. &bull Kristen Schaal got Mike the Novelty helmet a "toupee styled like Ronald Reagan's infamously sleek pompadour. If Mike is ever feeling frustrated while using country's morality, it'll have the preferred effect." &bull Rashida Manley got the Swedish Chef 'Painless British for Sound system of Other Languages.' As she states, "It is time for him to talk along with his Muppet pals." &bull Jason Segel got Kermit a eco-friendly banjo created from recycled material. [via NYMag] [Photo: Disney] Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook

Rachel Korine joins 'Spring Breakers'

KorineRachel Korine, the wife of indie filmmaker Harmony Korine, has showed up the ultimate lead within the next project, "Spring Breakers."The ladies gone wild pic follows four college ladies who who make the most of a fast food restaurant to cover springbreak in Florida. Upon arrival, they get arrested and obtain together getting a shady criminal who bails them from jail and encourages those to kill his arch-rival. Emma Roberts, Vanessa Hudgens and Selena Gomez will be in predicts play in the other three women alongside Korine, while James Franco is installed on play in the drug and arms dealer they get wrongly identified as.Tranquility Korine, who's most broadly noted for writing Ray Clark's seminal film "Kids," is pointing using their own script. MJZ prexy David Zander will produce "Spring Breakers" with Chris Hanley of Muse Prods., additionally to Charles-Marie Anthonioz and Jordan Gertner. Production will occur throughout springbreak in Florida. CAA packed the project and may repetition its domestic distribution rights.Rachel Korine, who most recently starred in Michael Tully's Sundance entry "Septien," formerly carried out Little Red-colored-colored Riding Hood in their husband's 2007 pic "Mister Lonely" in addition to came out within the latest film, "Trash Humpers." Contact Rob Sneider at rob.sneider@variety.com

REVIEW: Lars von Trier's Melancholia Offers a Glorious Peep into the Sugar Easter Egg of Doom

Lars von Trier’s Melancholia is neither the provocation nor the yowl of anguish that his last picture, Antichrist, was. For those reasons, it’s less effective and also far less of a workout: Antichrist was the first von Trier movie I genuinely loved, after a decade’s worth of railing against the sufferdome atmosphere of pictures like Dogville, Dancer in the Dark, and even the mildly bearable Breaking the Waves. Antichrist stunned and upset me, but it also filled me with compassion toward the man who made it, a feeling I’d never imagined I could have. The gift of Antichrist — with its horrific depictions of emotional suffering, its wailing-wind subtext of “Nature is everywhere, inside you and outside, and it is not your friend” — was that von Trier had surprised me. That is a critic’s greatest pleasure — or at least it’s mine. With Melancholia, von Trier hasn’t tried to top himself, thank God. Despite the somber nature of the title, the movie is something of a breather, a respite, a chance for von Trier to explore emotional anguish and intricacies in vibrant, often elegant visual ways, with no self-mutilation involved. Melancholia is gorgeous to look at, deeply moody and atmospheric, and it’s always in on its own grim little joke. At the press conference following the movie’s Cannes press screening — before the director put his foot in his mouth with those ill-advised Nazi comments — von Trier said this movie is a comedy. He’s right. Melancholia is the story of the end of the world, a day that’s coming very soon according to numerous doomsayers. And yet for one of the movie’s two heroines, it turns out that end can’t come soon enough. The end of everything we know also means we no longer have to worry about any of it: It’s kind of like the maid’s day off, except it lasts an eternity. Justine (Kirsten Dunst) is a new bride, married only a few hours when the movie opens, and the first chapter of the film (one of two) belongs to her. She and her husband (Alexander Skarsgrd, son of Stellan, who also appears in the film) are en route to their own wedding reception at a palatial golf resort owned by her brother-in-law (Kiefer Sutherland, a marvelous scowling sourpuss) — the place looks like Augusta National transplanted to Versailles. The massive, hours-long wedding celebration has been overseen by Justine’s sister, Claire (Charlotte Gainsbourg), whose efficiency seemingly goes unappreciated by everyone other than herself. But it becomes clear early on that this magnificent celebration — presided over by the sisters’ feuding, long-separated parents, played with great fireball energy by John Hurt and Charlotte Rampling — won’t be enough to draw Justine through the emotional keyhole that connects her dark, interior world with the regular one outside. Her gown looks as if it were made of translucent meringue, all rosettes and furbelows; but when the camera tracks to her face, we see a dull blankness that signifies internal terror. The groom is an afterthought. In fact, Justine indulges in a brutal act of female seduction, if you could even call it that, with another wedding “guest” out on the golf course, beneath a floodlight. Her insides and her outsides are mixed up: She flagrantly exposes everything that should be kept private and guards with utmost secrecy the things she ought to be sharing. Claire looks on with exasperation. But she has her own worries, as the movie’s second chapter reveals. Her husband, an astronomy enthusiast, has gotten her and the couple’s young son hepped up about an impending event, a planet (named Melancholia) that is quickly approaching the earth, though he assures them there will be no collision. Claire isn’t so sure, and when the planet does appear in the sky — it’s an orb that glows powder-blue by day and whitish by night, like the moon’s long-lost twin — she uses a home-made astronomer’s tool, devised by her son, to make sure it’s not coming any closer. But she can’t ignore the signs of impending disaster, and neither, it seems, can the horses hunkered down in the resort’s stables. When Claire and Justine go out riding in the mornings, Justine’s horse, a normally docile creature, repeatedly stops at the same location, unwilling to budge even when Justine beats him. But as Claire becomes more anxious about the bitter end, Justine blossoms, almost literally: One night Claire catches her lying naked on a riverbank, lounging placidly in the glow of Melancholia — it coats her skin with a pearlescent sheen. She’s already accepted the worst; the apocalypse will just be the icing on the cake. Gainsbourg’s Claire and Dunst’s Justine are both individual, distinctly human figures, possessed of varying degrees of fear and bravery. Justine, so fragile in the movie’s first half, is an armor-clad warrior in the second — paradoxically, once she concedes defeat, victory is hers. Claire is self-assured in the first half and hesitant in the second: Because she knows how to function in the real world, she’s much less sure about the unreal one she may be stepping into. The actresses’ performances intertwine beautifully, like twin climbing vines vying for the attention of the sun. Claire and Justine are also inhabitants of a landscape, and that’s where von Trier outdoes himself. With cinematographer Manuel Alberto Claro, he’s created a natural world of highly unnatural, manicured beauty. That’s particularly true of the movie’s opening sequence, a preview (set to Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde prelude) of everything to come. By design, von Trier tells us the whole plot of the movie in the first 10 minutes, using a series of slow-moving pictures rendered in High Renaissance colors. The images include Justine facing the camera, and the world, as dead birds drop from the sky around her; a horse easing himself to the ground, either in pain or out of exhaustion; a nightmare vision of Gainsbourg’s Claire attempting to carry her child across the grassy golf course, her feet sinking deeper into the soil with each step; the bride Justine as John Millais’ floating, lifeless Ophelia. These are somber, glorious images: They incite both dread and shivery anticipation — the effect is that of gazing deep into the sugar Easter Egg of doom. What, exactly, is von Trier trying to say here? Antichrist was a scream of pain; Melancholia is more like a heavy sigh, a gasp at the horrible wonder of it all. It isn’t nearly as somber as its title would lead you to believe, and it’s so beautiful to look at that it feels decadent, almost luxurious. It’s also, for all its weirdness, reasonably accessible, as if von Trier had decided — tentatively — that once in a while it might feel good to be part of the human race instead of just railing against it. If it’s true that misery loves company, maybe this is von Trier’s way of reaching out. Melancholia may be as close as he’ll ever come to giving us a bear hug. Editor’s note: This review appeared earlier, in a slightly different form, in Stephanie Zacharek’s Cannes Film Festival coverage. Follow Stephanie Zacharek on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.

Tweaks on tap for broadcast lineups

ABC drama 'GCB,' with Kristin Chenoweth, and NBC's 'Awake,' starring Jason Isaacs, are probably the high-profile midseason records. 'GCB'While Fox and CBS can make a couple of changes for their skeds at midseason, exactly the same can not be stated for ABC and NBC, where there's lots of product waiting in the future in from the bench. The Alphabet, a minimum of, has some momentum on its side, as a number of its new shows have labored this fall the Peacock, meanwhile, continues to be looking for its first sustained scripted hit since "Work.InchPossibly ABC's greatest midseason goal would be to improve Thursday, in which the aging but nonetheless potent "Grey's Anatomy" can use some support on each side.1 possibility is always to change "Castle" or "Body of Proof" using their early-week 10 p.m. slots towards the leadoff hour on Thursday something needs to go opposite "Large Bang Theory" and "The American Idol Show,Inch along with a mystery series perform good enough within an hour without any competing Large Four dramas. The evening could then be assigned by Shonda Rhimes' new crisis-manager drama "Scandal." On Sunday, the internet could turn to follow "Not so long ago" and "Desperate Average women" using the cleaning soap "GCB" (which hopefully is going to be retitled). If effective, after that it turns into a logical option to replace "Average women" next fall.Overtaking the ten p.m. slot on Monday or Tuesday after "DwtsInch might be new Ashley Judd thriller "Missing."ABC also offers "The River," there is however no apparent place with this save drama that some liken to "Paranormal Activity."In comedy, the "Bosom Pals"-like "Arrange ItInch appears just like a better fit Tuesdays at after Tim Allen's "Last Guy Standing" compared to current "Guy Up." The internet could go with "Cougar Town" and "Don't Trust the B---- in Apt. 23" (hopefully retitled) within the 9 p.m. hour before "Dancing" returns in March.(ABC will keep close track of Fox's 9 p.m. Tuesday comedy "New Girl," which opened up strong but fell upon its baseball-determined hiatus, possibly departing the doorway open for ABC to complete better within the hour with comedy than may have appeared possible the 2009 fall.) At NBC, singing competition "The Voice" leading into "Smash" is a great enough arrange for Mondays, however the internet must consider paring "The Greatest Loser" lower for an hour on Tuesday to create room for something at 9. There's not a lot of midweek openings, but this really is possibly the Peacock's best shot at developing a new hour for drama.Thursday at 10 is sensible for alternate-reality drama "Awake," that ought to hold some male appeal within an hour that skews female around the competish also, the net's Thursday comedy block is well-liked by males, and current 10 p.m. Thursday drama "Prime Suspect" is not performing.Obviously, you can make a disagreement that NBC must have never abandoned its six-comedy Thursday template of last season. Bad it does not still possess "Outsourced," that was a great pairing with "WorkInch and probably could be doing much better than this fall's "Whitney" within the publish-"Office" slot at 9:30.The internet should think about a selection of "30 Rock," "Community," "Work,Inch "Parks and Entertainment," "Up Through The Night" and possibly a rotating wheel of repeats or something like that such as the "SNL: Weekend Update" special offers it did a couple of years back.For "Whitney," possibly the internet has another multicamera half-hour it may pair with elsewhere since it really sticks out being an ill match the only-camera half-hrs on Thursday.Meanwhile, back in the relatively stable nets, Fox has introduced a Monday plan which will return "House" to eight o'clock, then the brand new "Alcatraz." In the other finish each week, the internet will most likely plug "Bob's Hamburgers" within the 8:30 Sunday slot sooner than expected following a weak begin in the timeslot March. 30 for that preem of "Allen Gregory."For CBS, the lackluster perf of "Memorable" on Tuesdays could cause a change to Friday at 8, making room for brand new cop drama "The Two-2" (hopefully retitled), which may fit well on Tuesday behind a mans-friendly "NCIS" duo.A change to four laffers on Thursday will most likely have to hang about until the autumn, as "Person of great interestInch does OK within the 9 o'clock hour there and also the internet will have to find out if the Monday tandem of rookie "2 Broke Women" and also the restarted "2 . 5 Males" endure before splitting up its signature comedy evening. Contact Ron Kissell at ron.kissell@variety.com

Exclusive two and a half Males Video: Watch Jon Cryer Become Charlie!

Jon Cryer Charlie Harper has came back! Well, type of.On Monday's episode of two and a half Males, the spirit of Charlie Sheen's dead decadent bachelor will rear his ugly mind as... Alan (Jon Cryer)?Have a look at photos from two and a half MenDon't worry. You will discover no Ouija board shenanigans or anything. But poor Alan has not be ready for his bro's dying, so after Walden (Ashton Kutcher) gives Charlie's piano, Alan handles to get rid of his marbles and becomes Charlie.Watch this exclusive clip below to find out Cryer do his best Sheen. two and a half Males airs Mondays at 9/8c on CBS.

Crown Media States Hallmark Movie Funnel Adds To Strong 3Q

Who owns The Hallmark Funnel were built with a happy story of their own to inform in 3Q as ad sales enhanced, marketing expenses dropped — also it recorded a large gain from the deferred tax resource. With this $191.7M one-time tax jolt,Crown had net gain of $203.3M, up from $5.9M this quarter this past year, on revenues of $74M, up 18%. The organization states that ad revenue was up 15% to $56M because it elevated average per-viewer prices, while obligations from pay TV marketers were up 29% to $18M. The Hallmark Movie Funnel led $7.8M in ad sales, up 69.6%. Crown states additionally, it achieved positive results from enhanced rankings from shows within the Hallmark Funnel’s daytime block, including The Martha Stewart Show, Martha Bakes, and Mad Hungry With Lucinda Scala Quinn. Crown didn’t spend just as much on marketing earlier this quarter because it did last year if this released The Martha Stewart Show. “We have observed solid growth for the overall advertising sales revenues and therefore are positive the trend continues,” states Boss Bill Abbott.

Jobs Bio Scores Greatest Debut of the season

Jobs,Walt Isaacson's biography from the late Apple co-founder, offered a lot more than 379,000 copies in the first six times of available on the market, based on a study within the British magazineThe Booksellerusing figures supplied by Nielsen BookScan. PHOTOS: 10 Memorable Key events from the Apple Co-Founder's Career Jobs, released by Simon & Schuster, had the very best debut week since November 2010, whenThe Diary of the Wimpy Kid: The Ugly TruthbyJeff KinneyandDecision PointsbyGeorge W. Bushboth offered more than 430,000 copies within the first week.The Diary of the Wimpy Kid, released by Abrams,continued to market 3.3 million copies this year andDecision Points, released by Crown, 2.six million copies. Isaacson's book sold more copies than the week's other high-profile debut-John Grisham'sThe Litigators(Random House)-with a margin more than three to 1.In accordance toThe Bookseller,Steve Jobsis already the year's 18thbestselling book, just ahead ofGrisham'sThe Confession. STORY: Eulogy by Jobs Sister Sparks Sincere Reaction The Bookselleralso reported the Uk sales forSteve Jobs, released by Little, Brown within the United kingdom, at 37,645 copies for that first week, which makes it the 5th best-selling debut ofbiography or memoir within the United kingdom since BookScan started in 1998 . The state amounts underestimate the particular sales ofSteve Jobs. Calculating book sales is infamously difficult. Nielsen BookScan only covers around three-quarters of U.S. book sales.Consider it depends on point-of-purchase data, the information it collects is extremely accurate.Invoice discounting within the missing retail shops, first week sales forSteve Jobslikely exceed 500,000. Related Subjects Jobs Apple