Kevin Kline joins 'Frank or Francis'

KlineThe cast of Charlie Kaufman's sophomore feature "Frank or Francis" got a bit more interesting, as Kevin Kline has become mounted on tackle several supporting roles within the film, that is slated to star Jack Black, Steve Carell and Nicolas Cage.A satire of Hollywood set to music, project stories the rear-and-forth from a representative as well as an online blogger who loves berating his motion picture talent.Black will have Francis, a charmless yet very intelligent Internet troll who reviews movies online.Carell is within foretells play Frank, a effective, somewhat pretentious filmmaker who's cheating on his wife.Cage will portray The Emcee, an actress famous for commercial, high-concept films including his newest hit, "Body fat Father."For Kline, he'll play Richard Waller, the brother of Jonathan Waller, the director of the imaginary film entitled "Hiroshima," the greatest-grossing movie of-time. Kline will even play Richard's Mind, an animatronic mind that, by using advanced screenwriting techniques, helps Jonathan create a completely inoffensive creation that may have the largest possible appeal and zero artistic integrity.Likely Story's Anthony Bregman is creating the pic, that is skedded to start lensing in The month of january. WME is packaging the project and casting director Jeanne McCarthy continues to be dealing with Kaufman to cast two femme singing roles.Kline most lately starred in Robert Redford's "The Conspirator" and Ivan Reitman's "No Strings Attached." Thesp lately wrapped Lawrence Kasdan's "Darling Companion," that also stars Diane Keaton, Richard Jenkins and Dianne Wiest.Kline is repped by CAA and Hofflund/Polone. Contact Shaun Sneider at shaun.sneider@variety.com

3 good reasons Courtney Love Is Writing a Tell-All Memoir

Hole singer and sometime actress Courtney Love is working with best-selling rock scribe Anthony Bozza, coauthor of Slash and Tommy Lee's Tommyland, around the memoir for author William Morrow due in stores fall 2012. The author's statement states "Love finally sets the record straight" on her behalf account tumultuous genealogy, marriage with Kurt Cobain, drug worries, associations with Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan and Edward Norton, and Hollywood existence. How come she writing the sunday paper now?our editor recommendsCourtney Love becomes first celebrity punished for Twitter defamationMemories of Nirvana, Grunge Scene: A Reporter's First-Hands Account 1. She's spent 19 years searching to obtain a magazine to define her own identity. In 1992, Love asked for Melissa Rossi to produce a biography to refute Vanity Fair's negative profile of love. She then withdrew cooperation and Rossi written the unauthorized 1996 bio Filled with Noise. Love heavily supported Poppy Z. Brite's puffy 1997 Courtney Love: The Particular Story. When Love's mother Linda Carroll launched her memoir Her Mother's Daughter in 2006, and Love then launched Dirty Blonde: The Journals of Courtney Love a few several days later, Love's editor mentioned, "It's not intended all sorts of answer her mother's book." Love's negative comments for the Hollywood Reporter regarding her mother's account declare that Love's forthcoming memoir might be intended as, no less than simply, an response to her mother's book. Regardless, Dirty Blonde will be a sloppy scrapbook, not just a proper memoir. Love has not fully shared with her own story in the coherent book her very own. Now she clearly needs to. PHOTOS: Past Grunge in Pictures 2. It's the 20 th anniversary of grunge and he or she's jealous for attention. Jewel Jam is riding high and achieving kudos from Cameron Crowe's new doc Jewel Jam Twenty, having a spinoff book. Duff McKagan, a Dallas rock star who found fame with Guns N' Roses and was among the last people to talk to Cobain before his 1994 suicide, just launched his remarkably literate memoir, It's Super Easy together with other Lies. Cobain's heroin dealer Tom Hansen is shopping his grunge memoir American Junkie in Hollywood.Mark Yarm just launched Everybody Loves Our Town, a grunge dental history through which Love gripes that Eddie Vedder's Time Magazine cover should have been Cobain's. Yarm also quotes several sources debunking Love's report that she first met Cobain in Tigard before he will be a star. One states they left Corgan for rising star Cobain. "I didn't dump Billy to day Kurt," Love states in Yarm's book. "We didn't want her to look just like a gold digger," states author Everett True inside the book. "Courtney, exactly how should we say, stood a talent to become slightly liberal while using truth." She'll have an overabundance remedies for that narrative of her own book. PHOTOS: Hollywood's Twitter Feuds 3. There's more earnings in writing books than investing your time and energy to obsessive Twitter updates. This year, among Love's Twitter updates cost her a $430,000 legal settlement. There's unsure just how much her book advance was. However it must make her greater than Twitter, and everybody needs an editor. Related Subjects Courtney Love Kurt Cobain

Chuck Lorre Talks Charlie Sheen Lawsuit, Tell-All Book in New Vanity Card

Chuck Lorre seemingly made another dig against Charlie Sheen in the vanity card that aired Monday night at the end of Two and a Half Men -- the same day Warner Bros., Lorre and Sheen announced they'd settled their $100 million lawsuit. "Sometime last year I realized I had become the unwilling contestant in a reality show. I didn't understand the rules, wasn't sure if there even were any, and pretty much hated every second of it. For many months I kept hoping and praying that it would end. But it did not. Somewhere along the way, something inside me died. Anyway, now, suddenly, I'm being told that the reality show's been cancelled," the vanity card read, seemingly referring to the settlement between Sheen, Warner Bros. and Lorre. PHOTOS: Charlie Sheen's Colorful Career Lorre continued in his vanity card: "Apparently, it was just one of those things that somehow got out of control. Sorry. Whoops. Live and learn. Moving on. Game over. And that's fine. I am so good with that. Yes, please, let's all move on. " Except Lorre may not be ready to move on. "There's just one problem. That thing inside me that died? It walks at night. It's angry. It's hungry. And worst of all...it's writing a tell-all book," the vanity card read. PHOTOS: Charlie Sheen Tour But Lorre didn't only focus on Sheen in his vanity cards Monday night. He also broadcast the raunchy "A Very Short Story," about a man who "who almost manscaped himself to death." The studio issued the following statement on Monday after announcing a settlement to the $100 million lawsuit. "Warner Bros. Television, Chuck Lorre and Charlie Sheen have resolved their dispute to the parties' mutual satisfaction. The pending lawsuit and arbitration will be dismissed as to all parties. The parties have agreed to maintain confidentiality over the terms of the settlement." RELATED: VIDEOS: Charlie Sheen's Wildest TV Interviews Charlie Sheen Files $100 Million Lawsuit Against Warner Bros., Chuck Lorre Charlie Sheen Calls Chuck Lorre 'Maggot,' Wishes Him 'Pain' in Scathing Open Letter EXCLUSIVE: Charlie Sheen Roast-Mortem: Jeffrey Ross Live From the Actor's House Chuck Lorre Charlie Sheen

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Mipcom drama customers choose carefully

'Hit and Miss' with Chloe Sevigny is certainly an intriguing option. 'Slide' gets into industry from Australia's Playmaker. After nabbing only one new U.S. series as of this year's L.A. Tests, the BBC acquired Aussie drama 'The Slap.''Romanzo criminale,' an Italian-language mob melodrama, was known as available by Blighty's BSkyB.As worldwide TV producers improve their efforts inside the scripted market, rivaling the U.S. broadcast and cable systems, acquisition professionals will have a way to gorge by themselves drama skeins and TV movies at Mipcom. But will there be an appetite with this particular glut of drama?Although it may be correct that might be plenty of drama shows in the marketplace, there isn't that numerous that are receiving specific ratings abroad," states Bertrand Villegas of TV becoming a consultant the Wit.Of history season's beginners, basically a few series, including "Hawaii Five-" and "The Walking Dead," have struck a chord with audiences worldwide, Villegas states.Budget cuts as well as the recognition of local productions have introduced many free-to-air tv producers to reduce on foreign purchases. The BBC, for example, made only one purchase within the L.A. Tests, "Pan Am," despite the fact that it recently bought Australian series "The Slap."Just what will customers be hoping to get after they achieve Mipcom?The primary one component that people will be trying to find is just excellent, distinctive pieces," BBC mind of purchases Sue Deeks states. "The kinds of suggests the BBC wouldn't always make itself. A thing that requires a current genre and subverts it or just features a different practice it.InchAdditionally for their primary terrestrial channels, most tv producers additionally have some digital channels catering for just about any niche audience. It's opened up up in the industry for niche drama.The BBC, for example, is now offering a slot for foreign-language drama series on its trendy web BBC4, that Deeks recently bought Danish political thriller "Borgen" (Government).The pubcaster must compete for your U.K. rights to shows with satcaster BSkyB, which, like other pay TV operators, desires to acquire series getting a powerful pedigree to improve its logo design and attract new clients. It's because of the organization a voracious hunger to get the best-dollar drama.Ultimately, we are a pay TV business, and you need to give our clients programming that individuals firmly believe might be worth needing to purchase,Inch states BSkyB controller of entertainment purchases Sarah Wright. "To make sure that's certainly throughout my thoughts: Could it be spoken-about TV? Can it be in the right quality for that clients?"But they're producers delivering the type of suggests these channels need?Wright was amazed through the skeins offered at L.A. Tests, where BSkyB acquired sci-fi series "Terra Nova."America seems by having an appetite for risk-consuming the agendas at this time,Inch she states. "The autumn's interesting. Therefore I think we are in the good way. It feels as if there's a spirit of renaissance."BSkyB doesn't depend solely on U.S. fare. Recent purchases include Australian drama "Cloudstreet" and Italian-language Mafia skein "Romanzo criminale."The competish to fill slots for acquired drama grows increasingly more intense with several worldwide players improving the ante.London-based FremantleMedia, already a respected producer of soaps in many nations, is ramping up its distribution of returning British-language drama series through numerous first-look deals between its commercial division, FremantleMedia Companies, and leading U.S. and worldwide producers.Inside the U.S., it's incorporated development pacts with Mike Tollin, who co-created "One Tree Hill" and "Smallville," and Bob Cooper, the first sort Cinemax Pictures prexy and Artisan Pictures Boss.At Mipcom, FME may even unveil first-look handles three other leading U.S. producers, not been named.FME offered 17 scripts to 13 cable channels in the last development season inside the U.S., and from that came Tollin-produced comedy pilot "The Wedding Band," that's been bought to series through the best spinner's. The skein will probably be one of the cabler's tentpole series next summer season and you'll be launched at Mipcom.FME Boss David Ellender states that there are been a modification of the attitude of U.S. showrunners, that are available these days to what's happening worldwide "because you need to make something that's apt to be effective inside the U.S., but we ought to also produce a property that will travel."FME has inked numerous development handles drama producers inside the U.K. and Australia. Together with a pact while using U.K.'s Paul Abbott, the creator of "Shameless," whose new series for BSkyB, "Like uncertainty,Inch been agreed to some U.S. buyer. The skein stars Chloe Sevigny just like a pre-op transsexual hitman.FME has furthermore inked a preliminary-look deal with Australia's Playmaker, whose transmedia drama project "Slide" will launch at Mipcom.Another leading player, L.A.-based MarVista Entertainment, recently introduced a go of more gold gold coin, which will allow it to double output in the present 15-20 TV movies yearly.The business mainly produces suggests which are specific inside a particular demographic, and curiosity about such technique is rising.We are going to an enormous rise in the roll-out of drama series and TV movies being produced in the U.S., generally because everyone is fighting for room inside the cable landscape and looking to differentiate themselves," MarVista Boss Fernando Szew states.Szew sees shows produced for tweens and teens just like a growth area. MarVista's TV photos created for the foreign exchange market include "Radio Digital digital rebel," and Debby Ryan starrer "16 Wishes," both commissioned with the Disney Funnel.Christina Jennings, chairman and Boss of Canada's Shaftesbury Films, states she's positive in regards to the condition in the TV drama market, with a lot of tv producers verifying a hike in ad revenues and new channels beginning around the globe.We are all very fortunate the marketplace at this time around feels incredibly robust," she states. "You will discover plenty of customers, a lot of us are entering an extremely healthy, competitive Mipcom."RELATED LINKS: Craze yields to caution in tight-fisted era Contact Leo Barraclough at leo.barraclough@variety.com

All My Children Comes to an End: Creator Agnes Nixon and the Cast Look Back

All My Children After nearly 42 years of scandalous affairs, decades-long rivalries, fairy tale romances, kidnapped babies, serial killers, resurrected loved ones and the occasional Pennsylvania tornado, All My Children as fans have known it will come to an end on Friday. Two weeks before production wrapped, TVGuide.com spent a few days behind the scenes of Pine Valley as writers, producers and cast performed something of a three-ring circus, rallying to deliver what they hoped would be a satisfying conclusion for their loyal viewers. During one morning meeting, longtime director Steven Williford planned out the moment in which Angie (Debbi Morgan) would get her sight back, enacting how she would stumble, joyful and teary-eyed, toward Jessie (Darnell Williams). Downstairs on set at the Pine Valley police station, Tad (Michael E. Knight) and Dixie (Cady McClain) -- together, at last - confronted David (Vincent Irizarry) perhaps for the final time, begging to know who else he had brought back from the dead, literally. In the editing bays, producers watched tape of JR's (Jacob Young) final scenes, in which he seems to be hitting rock bottom. Christina Bennett Lind, who plays Bianca, dropped by on her day off to pick up gifts fans had sent congratulating her on her first love scene with Marissa (Sarah Glendening). In the hallways of the production offices, producers who have been with the show for years continued to talk about how wonderful it was having Josh Duhamel reprise the role of Leo DuPres, not to mention a cameo from Carol Burnett, who's declared herself one of All My Children's biggest fans. A few miles away, at the Descanso Gardens, Ryan (Cameron Mathison) and Greenlee (Rebecca Budig) played red rover with Emma and then embraced while looking meaningfully, as they so often do, into the sunny distance... Susan Lucci on All My Children's last day, the big cliff-hanger and her future online We asked the actors who've dedicated the bulk of their careers to the now-canceled show -- Susan Lucci, Michael E. Knight, Cameron Mathison and Rebecca Budig - along with executive producer Julie Hanan Carruthers and series creator Agnes Nixon to talk about the last few months building and taking down Pine Valley, the challenge of ending decades' worth of story, and what the future online holds: How do you wrap almost 42 years of storytelling into a 36-minute episode? Carruthers: The writers felt an immense amount of pressure... Everybody wants everything. We wanted it all. We wanted to see all the faces. We kind of honed in on the feel-good parts of Pine Valley, which is ultimately, I think why the audience watches. Yeah, they want the dish, they want to be outraged, but at the same time, watching is like going home. I think that's why the cancellation was huge news. It's like, "Wait a minute, that's like home to me." Budig: I don't know if anyone will ever really feel satisfied because it's a bummer that it's going off the air. I think that no matter what we do, no matter how good it is, most people are left disappointed. I hope not though! Mathison: In some cases, I think it's as simple as seeing your favorite couple back together. Nixon: Wrapping the run on ABC wasn't as important to me as keeping the show interesting and making people want to watch it once it began again online. We did not wrap everything up with people fading into the sunset with happy endings. It's a continued story. The last episode, we think, will make people want to come back very much to get some answers. Lucci: Knowing how Agnes writes, the end is not shocking at all. I knew she wouldn't tie it up in a neat bow. There are several cliff-hangers. How did you go about crafting the show's final ABC broadcasts? What were the mandates for the big goodbye? Obviously, you wanted to bring back certain characters - some of whom are dead. Nixon: It isn't as far-fetched as one might think! Also, it's David Heyward, and one never knows with him... But yes, we wanted to bring back a lot of the favorite characters who were no longer on the show. The last episodes took three months to write because I just think we were giving the audience exactly what they want. You watch and tell us. Carruthers: We didn't want everything so sugary and saccharine that in the last two weeks people would be saying, "Could they lay it on any thicker?" ... Some people will be able to rise above their conflicts, others won't be as lucky or strong or they'll have so many things weighing against them that it's impossible. We want tears and laughter and warmth. We want you to want to stay there and have it not be over. We want it to be the best feeling. Like the best emotional experience and yet true to All My Children and what it represents, which is a tall order. And you have to sort of pay off the stories you're in the process of telling. It wasn't about the bells and buzzers. Nixon: The cliff-hangers are true to what I feel has been part of the character of All My Children in that they're all related solely to characters and personal emotions. Susan Lucci on early Erica Kane, All My Children without Agnes, and Sarah Michelle Gellar Dixie (McClaine), who sparked fan outrage when she was killed by poison pancakes, came back for several episodes. So did Brooke (Julia Barr) and Adam (David Canary). How did that go? Nixon: Ooh, the tension between Brooke and Erica is delicious. Lucci: David's presence has been so missed. It was truly most exciting for me to have him and Julia back because they were people I worked with so much. On set these past few weeks, I would be running around and have to stop because there's David on a monitor, you know, looking fabulous. It's been so fun playing scenes with them again. I know the audience has missed them very much. Knight: Cady and I weren't even supposed to be together if I remember correctly. We weren't supposed to be a couple. She was pregnant by Adam Chandler, my nemesis. But I think there was a period where I realized we did have something special, when Tad and Dixie went on the run together. Cady and I had a very easy chemistry with a lot of humor that played as romance. The director used to come out and go, "Sexy as a fish!" ... It's been so great for me, having her back. What have these last days on set been like? Lucci: Just before we shot the final scene, Rebecca and I caught each other's eye and both of us just started to tear up. It's been happening to all of us. The emotions come over you when you least expect it. Cameron and I were talking about it, how it just doesn't seem real. I don't know if it's a protective mechanism. At the same time, I'm blown away by how everybody has continued to work on all cylinders, with a great attitude and smile on their face and no whining. And with Agnes here, it's been amazing. Mathison: I'm in denial. I don't think I'm really even acknowledging the end. It's been my life for so long. I've known these people, the cast, the crew, longer than I've known my wife and kids. The whole thing is just surreal. Carruthers: The show ending actually raised the bar in some ways. When you don't have a lot of tomorrows left, hitting your marks takes on a whole new meaning. Everybody's been excited by the material and the stories and having people come back. I'm sure it'll be sad when everybody walks out of the door, but right now, people are excited to be here. It's not only a historical time, but it's kind of a privilege and an honor to be a part of this time. All My Children: Jordi Vilasuso and Lindsay Hartley on what might've been How did you feel at the time the show was canceled, and everything that led up to that? Knight: Agnes was shoved to the side very unceremoniously a few years back by people who shouldn't be in this industry as far as I'm concerned. They didn't know what they were doing... It ended up taking us down. Nixon: I was saddened, but I saw it coming because the ratings were going down and personally I felt the show wasn't being written as it should. It wasn't true to the characters. You know, they had focus groups every three or four months, and I went every time knowing what I would hear. "Oh, we still love the characters, but the stories don't work for us. What happened?" So, it wasn't a total surprise to me... I was the saddest when they killed Stuart. Lucci: The fans were very vocal about not recognizing the character. I wondered why it was allowed to go on so long. I wondered why Lorraine was brought in for two weeks and we were all so happy and then the show got canceled. You could listen to the focus groups and see the ratings were dropping and know that someone was off. Knight: It's been a real roller coaster the last couple of years. We've been doing more with less [money], I think everybody's just sort of been biting the bullet to get through... It's been alternately rewarding and exciting and frustrating and humiliating. Different people came in and tried to adapt the show to ideas they thought were more exciting or whatever, and it didn't work. Then they brought Agnes just to tie everything up in a short amount of time. We've been working at an almost surreal pace. What do you think about the show continuing online? [Mathison and Lindsay Hartley on Monday signed on to the Web series, while Young and Morgan have joined The Bold and the Beautiful and The Young and the Restless, respectively.] Nixon: Why wouldn't our fans watch online? You don't have to watch at 1 o'clock now - you can watch them any time of day and catch up on what you missed. I know it's a transition, but maybe the thing we're making is electronic history. There's no reason this won't work. The story is my world. I call it my real world of make-believe. These people live 24 hours a day for me, and I have no problems with anticipating and creating new stories. ... At the same time, until deals are done, I can't even start to think about plots until we know who we have to plot about. [As for Susan Lucci continuing with the show], she and I are very good friends, but neither one of us wants to talk about that; it's off limits. Lucci: I'll say this: it won't be All My Children if Agnes doesn't do it. Knight: I would say if there is a future for the characters we had on the show, it would have to be under Agnes or someone of her choosing because, for example, my character has been so marginalized over the years, I just don't see how he can carry forward with any relevance because it doesn't make sense... I'm not saying it's not possible, because Agnes is a miracle worker, but I would be surprised. I think she's seen real idiots come in and mess with her legacy and I think she's passionate about it. She could shake things up. You never know. Budig: I don't pooh-pooh anything, and I don't know what they're offering, so who knows? In my estimation, these people who own the show don't have to ask any of us to participate - it's a business and they own the show, they can do whatever they want. All My Children's Rebecca Budig: I wanted Leo and Greenlee to end up together What has been the most fun you've had on the show? Budig: I threw a girl off a yacht. I also remember I had this one dream that I was on Gilligan's Island and I was Mary Ann, and Leo was Gilligan ,and Palmer was in it. Palmer was Howell, and Leo's mom was the Mrs. Howell. There was the time I had to dress like a green butterfly trapeze artist. That might have been, when I was like, "Really, what have I done with my life?" Mathison: I loved my first story line. When I came on to the show, Ryan was broke, a con man. He meets Gillian (Esta TerBlanche), this princess from Europe that he thinks is loaded. She's hot, and Ryan just woos her and uses his charm to get her to fall for him, and he also tells her he's loaded. Meanwhile, he has no idea that she's broke and was also using him. So they get married for all the wrong reasons, and then find out they're both broke... but then, of course, they fall in love for all the right reasons. That was such a fun, smart story. Do you remember being hired on All My Children? Lucci: I remember my audition script. I remember everything. I came in Episode 10, and there were four of us, all playing teenagers, so that's already visionary Agnes in 1970 writing a show where each generation had a major storyline. I hadn't seen it before. I remember thinking Erica had the possibilities to be a modern-day Scarlett O'Hara. I was also moved by her relationship with her mother, Mona. I mean, they would have knock-down-drag-out fights. I have to tell you, my own mother and I loved their scenes, too. We would laugh because they rang true. Budig: I grew up watching the show, so when I started, I was like, "Oh my God. There's Erica! There's Adam!" It was bizarre because I felt like I knew them. I felt so honored, I still feel so honored. Mathison: Oh, totally. Completely. I was shooting in Toronto, I was pretty much the local Canadian guy in all of these American productions. I was on Studio 54 with Mike Meyers and Neve Campbell and Ryan Phillippe and Salma Hayek and I got the call that I had booked the part and I felt like so cool. And it's been a good life. It's maybe not everybody's ultimate goal in the world of acting. But for me, it's a really good fit for my priorities and what I like in life. Budig: Greenlee says the craziest things, I couldn't stay away. Who killed the soaps? 7 culprits including The Real Housewives, Farmville and James Franco All My Children is often cited as daytime's most topical soap. What issues are you most proud to have addressed? Budig: I liked when Fusion was started. I thought that was like...that was to me very different for daytime that these women were sort of taking over the canvas. I mean really. And it was so female dominated, which you just don't see. It's usually all about the men, and the women are all weak and kind of, I don't know, and I just think that on our show we have strong women. Nixon: You know, growing up as a child in the racist South, I would ride buses in which distinguished black men and ladies would have to walk past me to stand in the back of the bus. That really does have an effect on someone. We did stories about teenage prostitution, we were the first to deal with gay culture and having the first lesbian on daytime. We did a yearlong story on AIDS, alcoholism, child abuse... There's been a lot. Tell us what you can about how it all ends. Carruthers: What you get - and this was our No. 1 priority - is a sense of family. So, all of the families, whether they're at the height of dysfunction or they're most connected, all the families come together in one way or another. Our last week is a true tribute to the families that make up the canvas of Pine Valley. Trust me, you will need a Kleenex every day of the final week. Knight: Our major strength in soaps is legacy, the families and people who you get to know and invite into your living room 20 years in a row. They brought Agnes, which was a blessing for us because we get to revisit some of that legacy and that family stuff. The history of the show didn't mean so much for a while, for maybe the last 10 years. I get a curtain call that I don't think I would have without them. Lucci: Adam and Brooke are throwing a party in the final episode, and I was surrounded by the whole cast, so the setting was spectacular and perfect for the last day of shooting. I looked out to all the crew and just mentally took pictures of all of them. And then the last night was a real outpouring of love from the cast and the crew to Agnes. At the end, she said she wanted to sing a song that she felt was really appropriate and she wanted us to sing it with her. It was the Noel Coward song "I'll See You Again." She sang beautifully, and everyone joined in. I will say after that there wasn't a dry eye in the house. How sad are you that All My Children is ending? Will you watch it online?

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Seville mayor Juan Ignacio Zoido greets Sacha Baron Cohen through the shoot of 'The Dictator.'The island of Mallorca"Magnificent, isn't it?" illuminates Harvey Keitel, searching within the terrace of Mallorca's Maricel Hotel around the postcard blue bay.Keitel reaches Mallorca within this summer time along with his scribe-helmer wife, Daphna Kastner, to scout locations for Kastner's "Visit to Mallorca." Which he was right.Spain's sights becoming an worldwide shoot local have elevated lately. But an individual around forever: The breathtaking locations. Like France as well as the U.K., The nation features a large historic heritage, including thousands of forts, as well as the conditions are difficult to argue with."The nation is a good global film set that can bring together diverse scenery and culture in a really handful of kilometers, in contrast for the U.S.," states Elsa Martinez, The nation Film Commission prexy."Worldwide shoots showed up in the country for random reasons just one thing's essential: the sun and rain,In . states line producer Jose Luis Escolar, who's planning the shoot of "Cloud Atlas" in Mallorca.Spain's mainly Mediterranean climate guarantees nearly 300 occasions of sunshine yearly, "which removes risks in filming costs," Martinez states."Inside an turbulent worldwide atmosphere, The nation seems just like a secure country for worldwide producers," states Kanzaman's Denise O'Dell, who's maintenance Vital-produced Sacha Baron Cohen comedy "The Dictator" in Andalusia's Seville and Canary Island's Fuerteventura.But efforts from various The the spanish language language government government bodies have so far not successful to extract full-advantages of most likely the best looking worldwide shoot locations in the world.InchWe're living a greater reason behind The the spanish language language film talent -- think Banderas, Bardem, Almodovar, Cruz, Amenabar, Fresnadillo, Bayona, Collet-Serra ," states Fernando Victoria p Lecea, prexy of film and TV production professionals org Appa. "People worldwide consider The nation just like a land of cinema. Now, the job is always to capitalize in addition to we could on these advantages."Spain's film marketplace is already coping with work. A lobby of film orgs, like the The nation Film Commission and Appa, has prepared a deal for country wide and automatic rebates, in line with France's Tax Rebate, for worldwide production. It must be ready for consideration with a brand new The the spanish language language government following a November. 20 general elections.Meanwhile, you will discover numerous incentives that have been put in this mix.The nation also provides its first-ever first-rate macro studio facility, Alicante's Ciudad p La Luz, which launched in 2005. And several regional government government bodies have began to timidly back worldwide film shoots. Valencia, which hosts the Ciudad p la Luz art galleries, surrenders to twentyPercent rebates on 80% of total region spend. As well as the recently launched Mallorca Film Commission works an initial e350,000 ($504,000) fund to assist worldwide shoots round the island, states its director Pedro Barbadillo.Since 2009, the The the spanish language language film industry has offerred an 18% tax break on movie investment by private financial traders which can be found too for worldwide shoots in case your The nation-based co-producer boards a movie.Recently, Bruce Willis starrer "The Cold Light of Day" and Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures' "Wrath in the Leaders" have accomplished good success using this tax-break formula.Like "Clash in the Leaders," "Wrath" shot in Tenerife, one of the Canary Islands, whose unique tax regime offers around 38% in rules for islands-based companies.But incentives and locations are simply part of the picture -- The nation also boasts an infrasctructure that improves with every major production being situated there. Samuel Bronston's epics, additionally to David Lean's "Lawrence of Arabia" and "Physician Zhivago" not only aided to put The nation round the worldwide film locations map, "furthermore they trained high-profile deckie's which accomplished good success the The the spanish language language cost decades," states Jose Luis Escolar. At the begining of 1990's, Ridley Scott lensed for "1492: Conquest of Paradise" and find the country again for 2005's epic "Kingdom of Paradise."The the spanish language language deckie's "will be the most lovely I've ever experienced," states helmer Kastner, who shot 1998 comedy "The the spanish language language Fly" here. "They enable you to, are really open, encouraging, smart and complex, and so they get it by having an artistic level."Worldwide shoots also favor The the spanish language language production. Lensing in Catalonia, "Perfume: The Story from the Killer" and "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" "trained a frontline crew that later allowed local films inside a greater technical level," states Adrian Guerra, producer of "Hidden" and "Red-colored-colored Lights."And despite Spain's growing closeness for the relaxation from the Eu generally prices, country still boast lower fringes costs."In the united states, fringes represent 15%-to-20% from the total wage, throughout Germany it's 45% and 50% in France," Escolar states.Though challenges remain for tempting worldwide film shoots towards the country, the sights they'll find there can not be doubted.(John Hopewell brought with this report.) WORLD REPORT: SPAINPlay for your match TV tacks in new direction Fest Traveler: San SebastianRookie bow scores large Genre fare reborn under Rebordinos The best way to Shoot in SpainFair-weather filmmaking Studio aims for parity with Euro rivals Key players Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com

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IFC Evening time buys 'The Incident' for U.S.

"The Incident"IFC Evening time is acquiring U . s . States rights to Alexandre Courtes' thriller "The Incident" and expects release a it next season.Provide was introduced Wednesday within the Toronto Intl. Film Festival. ''The Incident'' opened up Monday inside the Evening time Madness selection.The film, getting a script by Jereme Fansten, stars Rupert Evans, Kenny Doughty, Ernest Kennedy, Dork Legeno, Marcus Garvey, and Richard Brake.Producers are Wassim Beji, Yannick Bollor and Emilie Chatel. Roy Lee and Doug Davison professional produced.Story focuses on three band people fighting to record their first album and undertaking small gigs between changes cooking for your inmates in the high-security asylum where these work -- while using average workday requiring little interaction while using disturbed males, who veer between violent responses and near catatonia. This banal routine is interrupted before dinner one evening, each time a storm knocks the power inside the hospital, trapping the three teens in the kitchen area and crippling the security systems which have them protected against the precarious lunatics.The sale was talked about by Rob Deutchman, Manager of Purchases and Productions for Sundance Selects/IFC Films with Paradigm and Charlotte now now Boucon, Sales Director at SND M6, regarding the filmmakers.IFC Evening time can be a sister division to IFC Films and Sundance Selects, which is possessed and operated by AMC Systems. Contact Dork McNary at dork.mcnary@variety.com

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90210 Scoop: Jessica Stroup Teases Trouble for Silver and Navid, Major Story Arc With Teddy

Jessica Stroup After blowing her chance to go to NYU, Silver is cutting out college altogether... to work for Navid? When 90210 returns for its fourth season (Tuesday at 8/7c on The CW), Kelly's little sis will have a whole new set of priorities. 90210 Season 4 spoilers! Is Teddy gone? Can Adrianna be redeemed? Will Naomi have a baby? Over the summer, Silver has sprinted into adulthood: she's now living with Navid (Michael Steger) and playing surrogate mom to his little sister, all while trying to figure out a career for herself. Jessica Stroup, 24, talks to TVGuide.com about her own post-graduation anxiety, why Silver isn't as tight with Naomi this year and teases a "major arc" for her character and ex-beau Teddy. High school shows that matriculate to college have a mixed track record. How did you feel as graduation approached last season? Stroup: I was a little nervous about it because so much of our last couple of years have been focused on school and how it related to what we did in everyday life - even though our lives in Beverly Hills are so extravagant. But I really wanted to branch out and explore things outside of being inside that little bubble of school, and I think the writers did a really good job of that. Not everyone is going to go to college this season. My character does not. Silver doesn't enroll in CU? Stroup: As of right now, she hasn't. Right now, she's exploring her creative side. You live in California and there are opportunities... But she starts out the season working with Navid as an assistant at Shirazi Studios. You can imagine living, working and being in love with someone... all of these things being on top of each other is probably not going to be a very good thing. We hear part of the problem is Navid's sister, Leila (guest star Summer Bishil), who crashes their domestic bliss. What can you tell us about her? Stroup: Navid's family is gone because of the underage porn scandal, and she was supposed to go to Switzerland or somewhere to finish high school. But she begs to stay back because she wants to finish with all her friends, and the only option for that is for her to stay with Navid and Silver. So she moves in and it's just chaos. She's a young brat who likes to get into trouble and doesn't care what she says or what she does or if it affects other people or not. Is Navid aware his sister is sort of evil? Stroup: Well, Silver was a rebel, too, at one point. She was sneaking out away from her mom and Kelly and wanted to be the independent spirit. I think she sees that in Leila and wants to rein her in and try to teach her a lesson before it gets out of control. Navid doesn't see it as a problem at first. 90210 Season 4 preview: Naomi pregnant, half-naked and... heading to the slammer? Naomi (AnnaLynne McCord) announced she was pregnant in the season finale. How has Silver handled that news? Stroup: Well, Naomi is in college when the show comes back and she's very involved in making herself feel like the old Naomi and not the Naomi who is vulnerable and a possible-mother, possible-girlfriend to Max (Josh Zuckerman). As she goes through things, a lot of it she bottles up. Silver and Naomi don't have conversations about what's really going on, so they remain friends but it's not the same. Adrianna (Jessica Lowndes) stole Silver's medicine last season, tried to commit suicide, and spent her summer trying to be a better person. Now she wants the gang's forgiveness. Is Silver buying any of it? Stroup: Silver is having none of that. This girl crossed her. Even if they have all this history between them, what she did was too much. She really begs, but Silver has just had too much loss in her life. It's a non-starter. And it does cause problems between the friends, because Adrianna is trying to change and the other friends are quicker to let her back in. The producers have said Teddy (Trevor Donovan) will be a huge part of the show, even in a reduced capacity. How so? Stroup: Silver was a major part of his coming out. Now they're best friends. He's able to talk to her and let out what he's gone through over the summer. He went on a journey and met someone who is actually going to end up being very influential for Silver. Teddy has a major major arc this season and it's hugely related to my character. We're hanging out a lot. What do you think about Silver deciding to work for Navid instead of going to college? Are you excited to see her spend more time with Teddy? Let us know in the comments below.

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TORONTO TOLDJA! Juan Carlos Fresnadillo To Direct Highlander Remake

Earlier today, we scooped that director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, in Toronto for that premiere of his latest movie The Burglars, was the leading-runner to helm Summit Entertainment’s re-imagining of Highlander, the 1986 fantasy sci-fi film starring Christopher Lambert about immortals who fight with swords, and live and die through the mantra that there might be just one. Well, the distributor just confirmed that Fresnadillo is the only person to direct it: Juan Carlos Fresnadillo will direct Summit Entertainments re-imagination from the cult film HIGHLANDER co-funded by RCR Media Group. Summits HIGHLANDER is compiled by Art Marcum and Matt Holloway. Neal H. Mortiz and Peter Davis will produce the project together with Enrique Lpez Lavigne and Belen Atienza. RCR Media Groups concepts Rui Costa Reis and Eliad Josephson will executive produce the film. Justin Lin will even executive produce. Summit acquired the privileges to remake the cult classic from Davis – Panzer Productions, Corporation. in May of 2008. Production about the film is slated to start spring of 2012. In HIGHLANDER, after centuries of dueling to outlive against others like him, Connor MacLeod, an immortal Scottish swordsman must confront all of the his kind, a murderously brutal barbarian, who lusts for that Prize. Juan Carlos Fresnadillo directed 28 Days LATER in addition to Burglars, that is premiering in the Toronto Film Festival. His other credits range from the The spanish language language INTACTO and Oscar nominated short LINKED. Fresnadillo is symbolized by UTA.

Emmys 2011: Justin Timberlake Named Outstanding Guest Actor for 'Saturday Evening Live'

Justin Timberlake put in his growing Emmy collection Saturday evening getting victory for guest actor in the comedy series for Saturday Evening Live.our editor recommendsCreative Arts Emmys: The WinnersEmmys 2011: 'Glee's' Gwyneth Paltrow Wins Best Guest Actress in the Comedy SeriesEmmys: How Screen Time Affects Guest Actor RacesRelated Subjects•Emmys The Social Media actor had won an Emmy earlier during the night for original music and lyrics for his "Justin Timberlake monologue." Seth Meyers recognized the award for him. Q&A: 'SNL's' Seth Meyers: 'I Pale In Comparison' to Justin Timberlake Saturday Evening Live has proven an solid platform for Timberlake, who won outstanding original music lyrics for "D**k in the Box" in Sept. 2007. Gwyneth Paltrow, Boardwalk Empire, The Kennedys as well as the Borgias were also individuals who win within the Creative Arts Emmys, which happened within the Nokia Theater in downtown La. The Primetime Emmy Honours occur Sept. 18. Related Subjects Justin Timberlake Saturday Evening Live Emmys 2011

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Golden Globes Deal: Ceremony to Air on NBC in 2012

Using the trial within the Golden Globe Honours privileges postponed, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, Dick Clark Productions and NBC make a 1-year deal to broadcast the big event on Jan. 15, 2012.our editor recommendsGolden Globe Honours Trial Pressed Back By 30 DaysGolden Globes Trial Gone to live in Sept., Won't Involve a JuryGolden Globes Trial: Inside Among TV's Messiest, Nastiest Battles Individually, a brand new judge was hired Thursday to consider within the trial, and also to result in the concluding decision as there won't be any jury. The brand new person managing the trial is really a senior judge from the U.S. District Court for that Central District of California, Judge A. Howard Matz. A local of Brooklyn, he attended Harvard law school and was hired towards the federal bench by Leader Bill Clinton in 1998. On Friday, sources near to the HFPA were denying reviews within the L.A. Occasions and elsewhere that the settlement might be close. These sources say there's no settlement, which is unlikely you will be arrived at before an effort. That trial has become likely to come from the very first 1 / 2 of October and take about two days. The main one-year agreement arrived at between your three parties gives every side space and can allow NBC to start selling advertising for that both honours show and also the pre-show, in addition to continue on production efforts associated with the show. The Golden Globes have grown to be an essential TV event, drawing some 17 million audiences this past year, in addition to a key stop about the honours circuit within the eventually get to the Oscars. Nominations with this years Globes is going to be introduced 12 ,. 15 through the HFPA. As continues to be proven within the eventually get to the trial within the privileges, they're also vital that you the HFPA and Dick Clark like a major supply of revenue. The license fee for that 2012 show wasn't revealed. It might be extra time from the existing deal which pays around $14 million (split equally by HFPA and Dick Clark after production costs and expenses), or it may be in line with the new deal NBC had discussed with Dick Clark, w which may place the privileges fee in excess of $18 million. The important thing problem within the situation remains an interpretation of past contracts. Dick Clark claims they've privileges towards the Globes as lengthy as they possibly can create a deal to ensure that they're on NBC as the HFPA states anything expires and there's no such factor as perpetual privileges. Related Subjects Golden Globe Honours Honours

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Showtime Acquires U2 Documentary 'From the Sky Down'

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