ABC's Duets Lands Kelly Clarkson, Robin Thicke, Lionel Richie, Jennifer Nettles

Jermaine Johnson With little competition, American Idol's Top 13 performance show ruled Wednesday evening.The 2-hour episode received 18.5 million audiences along with a 5.6 rating within the grown ups 18-to-49 demographic, surging 7 and 12 %, correspondingly, in the previous week.Idol recap: Is your champion?Other implies that loved bumps: Survivor: One World (10.six million, 3.2) - which hit a season full of the demo - Whitney (4.3 million, 1.6) and therefore are You There, Chelsea? (3.7 million, 1.5).Around the switch side, Happy Being, hampered with a Modern Family repeat, dropped about 25 % to some paltry 4.53 million along with a 2..8 p.m.CBS: Survivor: One World 10.six million audiences (3.2 demo rating)ABC: The Center (R) 5.25 million (1.5) Suburgatory (R) 4.six million (1.5)Fox: The American Idol Show 18.5 million (5.6) [8-10 p.m.]NBC: Whitney 4.3 million (1.6) Are You Currently There, Chelsea? 3.7 million (1.5)CW: One Tree Hill 1.48 million (.7)9 p.m.CBS: Criminal Minds (R) 7.two million (1.6)ABC: Modern Family (R) 6.15 million (2.4) Happy Being 4.53 million (2.)NBC: Law & Order: Special Sufferers Unit (R) 3.six million (1.)CW: America's Next Top Model 1.41 million (.6)10 p.m.CBS: CSI: Crime Scene Analysis (R) 8.3 million (1.8)ABC: Revenge legitimate 5.a million (1.4)NBC: Rock Center with John Williams 3.six million (1.)

British Actor Theo James Gets The Lead In CBS Pilot Golden Boy

British actor Theo James has landed the lead in CBS’ drama pilot Golden Boy, from Nick Wootton and Greg Berlanti. The project, produced by Warner Bros TV and Berlanti Prods., centers on Clark (James), a cop, and chronicles his meteoric rise from officer to detective and ultimately police commissioner. Ryan Phillippe was originally tapped for the role but exited shortly thereafter, triggering a lengthy auditioning process that resulted in the casting of James. James, who has a handful of credits in his native Britain, including a lead on the BBC series Bedlam, is virtually unknown in the U.S. aside from a guest spot in the first season of Downton Abbey where he played Kemal Pamuk, the Turk who died in Lady Marys bed. He made his Hollywood debut in the recent Underworld: Awakening. James is the latest non-American actor to get the lead in a pilot this pilot season. RELATED: American Actors Not Fairest Of Them All In Pilot Lead Castings

Ron Perlman drags up for Frankie Go Boom poster

Frankie Go Boom has debuted a new poster ahead of its premiere at SXSW, and it's fair to say it's one of the more attention grabbing one-sheets we've seen in the past few years.Do not adjust your set, because that is indeed Ron Perlman in a wig, make-up and a frock, starring as probably the most incongruous man in drag since Divine did her "thing" in Pink Flamingos. As for the plot, a brief synopsis has been recovered by Movieline, and it sounds just as off-the-wall as the poster would suggest."While trying to remove a compromising video from the internet, two brothers (Charlie Hunnam and Chris O'Dowd) visit a brilliant computer hacker named Phil (Ron Perlman). But when they get there, they discover that Phil is now Phyllis... and she has no intention of helping them for free."Yikes. If that didn't make you shudder, you've stronger stomachs than ours. Still, the cast is strong (Lizzie Caplan and Chris Noth are also involved) and we can't help but feel compelled by Perlman's makeover...Directed by Jordan Roberts, the film is expected to arrive later this year with a specific release date yet to be confirmed.

Fox Cancels Terra Nova, Nevertheless the Show Could Still Survive

Terra Nova Terra Nova went extinct - no less than on Fox. The dino drama not successful to acquire a renewal order within the network, TVGuide.com has confirmed. But relax a bit, Terra Nova fans: last century TV will probably shop the series along with other systems. Fall TV Scorecard: Which shows are returning? Which aren't The series, which adopted the Shannon family simply because they traveled over time in the dystopian future with a prehistoric Earth, opened up to 9.2 million audiences together with a 3.1 grownups 18-49 rating, but that fell to 7.2 million together with a couple.1 with the season finale. Terra Nova appeared to become one of the season's more pricey series to produce, the pilot alone costing a reported $10 to $20 million. Within The month of the month of january, Fox Leader of Entertainment Kevin Reilly told reporters the show "would be a thrilling wager to think about. It absolutely was helpful. We're racking your brains on... if that's the most effective show [for that schedule]. Whenever we had more holes, we'd be thrilled to lock that in. ... If this describes all we produce, we made money on it, the studio made money on it, as well as the audience loved it." Do you want another season of Terra Nova? Which network is a good fit?

Lindsay Lohan's Saturday Night Live Scores Second Highest Ratings of the Season

GCB got off to an OK start for ABC.The series opened to 7.6 million viewers and a 2.2 rating in the adults 18-to-49 demo - a marked improvement over predecessor Pan Am's final outing (3.77 million, 1.2), but well below the jet-setting show's series premiere (11 million, 3.1).Still, GCB's was the second-highest rated show in the 10 o'clock hour, helping ... Read More > Other Links From TVGuide.com CSI: MiamiDesperate HousewivesFamily GuyThe ApprenticeThe SimpsonsAmerican Dad!The Good WifeOnce Upon a TimeGCBNapoleon DynamiteAmazing Race 20

Report: WGA distributed $104 million in levies

The Authors Guild of the usa has collected nearly $130 million in foreign levies from 19 nations in the last 2 decades and distributed $104 million of individuals funds, based on a lately completed report through the KPMG talking to firm.The report, spurred through the lengthy-running legal challenge towards the guild's handling of these funds, was published now around the WGA West site.Selection reported on Jan. 10 that lawyers for that WGA revealed the $104 million figure throughout a standing conference on that day in La Superior Court within the 2010 settlement of the class-action suit by William Richert ("Winter Kills").5-page KPMG report consists of formerly undisclosed particulars:The funds collected go as far back to 1992, when $1.28 million was collected from France and Germany.The biggest quantity of funds collected is at 2008, with $19.76 million.Investment interest collected in the funds within the 2 decades totaled $8.95 million $7.sixty five million of that's been moved towards the WGA West general fund to counterbalance the costs of giving this program.Admin costs, which add up to 5% of what is been sent towards the authors since 2004, came to almost $5 million.The very best year for funds given to authors was which are more recent fiscal year ended March 31, 2011, with $21.04 million.The WGA West had $21.62 million in "funds locked in balance" by last March 31.A Q&A concerning the report, also published around the WGA website, noted that 85% from the $104 million in distributed funds visited films and television projects included in WGA contracts. The rest of funds distributed were for "non-covered" works including news, sports, adult films and non-WGA animation."The report verifies the prosperity of this program, that has distributed $104 million to authors over two decades,Inch the guild stated inside a Jan. 10 statement. "Whether it wasn't for that efforts from the WGA West, these funds might have continued to be at the disposal of the foreign collection communities."Richert's 2005 suit alleged the WGA hadn't correctly handled foreign funds due scribes as compensation for telecasts along with other exhibition of writers' works. The settlement needed the WGA to pursue "best efforts" to pay for all foreign funds within 3 years and problem a study with a Large Four accounting firm to examine the foreign levies using their beginning in early the nineteen nineties.The settlement, signed this year by Judge Carl West, also needed a yearly overview of the foreign levies program included in its official annual are accountable to people. Richert attorney Neville Manley elevated concerns throughout the The month of january hearing the annual report would are unsuccessful on particulars, adding the foreign levies programs operated through the guilds have been stored under systems for fifteen years.WGA West general counsel Anthony Segall stated in reaction the annual report will have a significant degree of detail concerning the program, equal to the KPMG report.The WGA West revealed in the last annual report in This summer it was holding $25.4 million "because of people" but didn't bust out the amount of that figure originates from foreign levies. The levies for U.S. creatives started circulation following the U.S. agreement in 1989 to the Berne Convention, which determines the best of authorship for people who create pieces of art. The levies are addressed by collecting communities.West has additionally supervised pay outs of sophistication-action foreign levies suits which were filed from the Screen Stars Guild by Ken Osmond and also the Company directors Guild of the usa by William Webb. West lately left his judicial publish, departing supervision from the cases to evaluate Kenneth Freeman.Film writer Eric Hughes, who's offered like a consultant towards the litigants, belittled KMPG's review and stated it isn't an audit."An evaluation won't uncover fraud or any other improper financial activity," he stated."KPMG used the information and knowledge provided by the WGAW with no independent analysis or verification.The WGAW continues to have not created a shred of evidence within this situation and this isn't the accounting the court had guaranteed the objectors." Contact Dork McNary at dork.mcnary@variety.com

Old Racists, Ex-Colleagues Among Harvey Weinstein's Latest Enemies

What week for Harvey Weinstein: Win a truckload of Oscars on Sunday, re-up on a PR war with the MPAA on Tuesday, and then today - as his company's other notable French import Intouchables prepares for its U.S. premiere in NY City - start a trans-Atlantic flame war with France's most infamously racist old coot. It's like Linsanity, but for Hollywood megalomaniacs! Weinsanity! And there's more. First though, here's the notorious, ultra-conservative French nationalist and political firebrand asshole Jean-Marie Le Pen weighing in on Intouchables, the blockbuster buddy flick about (per a Weinstein Co. statement) "a wealthy, physically disabled risk taker, the picture of established French nobility, who lost his wife in an accident and whose world is turned upside down when he hires a young, good-humored, black Muslim ex-con as his caretaker." I don't know how one exclaims, "Say whaaaa?" in French, but it probably sounds something like this: That aforementioned Weinstein Company statement translates: France is like this handicapped person stuck in this wheelchair, and we are going to have to wait for the help of these suburb youngsters and the immigration in general. I don't subscribe to this point of view. It's a movie, a novel. And we have to take it that way and not like an example for the future. It would be a disaster if France would find itself in the same situation as this poor handicapped person. On the one hand, this is just Le Pen being Le Pen. Big deal. On the other, check out Harvey being Harvey - i.e. waiting a full month after the interview aired (he acquired Intouchables' distribution and English-language remake rights last summer) to lay into the easiest, fattest target imaginable on his film's behalf: "It's not a surprise to hear such an intolerant statement from the man who founded and was president of the extreme-right, xenophobic, racist National Front party. Le Pen made a repulsive statement, representing a bigoted world view. And right now, Jean-Marie's daughter, Marine Le Pen, is running for president of France as the leader of the National Front party -- and she is fourth in the polls with almost 16% of the population intending to vote for her. That's frightening to me, and I think it's important to speak up and speak out against Le Pen and his ideas. That's why I'm proud to bring THE INTOUCHABLES to American audiences. This movie is based on a true story, and it's a funny, extremely entertaining illustration of how simple human connection trounces socioeconomic, religious and racial divides." Perfect. Did I mention Intouchables premieres this evening as the Opening Night film of Lincoln Center's prestigious Rendez-Vous with French Cinema series and opens May 25 in limited release? Ahem. Meanwhile, all of Harvey's recent protesting-too-much has received one of its most devastating rebuttals to date from Jeff Lipsky, the former indie exec turned filmmaker who got his start in the Weinsteins' Miramax regime. That experience yielded today's extraordinary takedown at indieWIRE, where Lipsky further exposed Harvey's hypocritical, gratuitously self-serving and exploitative handling of his documentary Bully: I hate bullying and always have. I also have an abiding contempt for hypocrisy. If Harvey has, in fact, reformed, he needs to come out and say so publicly. He needs to own his past behavior, admit to his addiction bullying is an addiction, after all, both to power and dominance and pledge to never bully anyone again. If hes looking for ink and controversy (and he certainly is) theres no more honest or powerful way for him and the film to get it. [...] Harvey, you have a rare opportunity with Bully to actually move the needle and leave the world a better place. I believe that youd like to see bullying stop. I believe that you want every child, parent, and educator in America to see Bully, and not just for the boxoffice. So get up on that incredibly high horse of yours and use that bully pulpit to assure children, parents and educators everywhere that if you can reform, anyone can. Light a fire, Harvey, for every kid thats ever bullied someone and for every parent who taught them how. Ouch. Your move, Harvey. Follow S.T. VanAirsdale on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.

Watch three Safe House clips online

Safe House, the experience thriller starring Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds, continues to be carrying out strongly in the US box office, and you can aquire a taste from it by watching 3 new clips.Ryan Reynolds' rookie CIA 'housekeeper' relies in Nigeria, and the mundane role will get all shaken track of the appearance of wanted rogue agent, Tobin Frost (Denzel Washington).A powerful cat-and-mouse game develops, with sparks flying between your charming pair. But that is not saying that Safe Home is short on action, as evidenced through the high-octane footage below.Get watching the clips now:[brightcove]1463516264001[/brightcove][brightcove]1463516263001[/brightcove][brightcove]1463516265001[/brightcove]Safe House opens within the United kingdom on 24 Feb 2012. Read Total Film's Safe House review

Moody key art set tone for kudo challengers

By their posters, ye shall know them.The important thing art for 2011's nine top Oscar nominees drops hints concerning the films in contention, and might appear to provide commentary around the best picture race itself.A fast scan, not to mention a detailed study from the nine instantly verifies they are class functions -- serious, important-searching pix on the mission. Yet these points of interest don't wish to call an excessive amount of focus on themselves. They are content to create modest claims through shadowy figures and moderate colors, as though going too gaudy might jinx their chances.The cheeriest from the bunch, "The Assistance,Inch has got the only apparent saying in "Change starts having a whisper." So, obviously, does movie marketing, because you need to squint to discover that "Hugo" is definitely an "remarkable adventure" shepherded with a "legendary director," or that the boy and the "War Equine" were "separated by birth, examined by fight, bound by friendship."It's a strain to uncover "Moneyball" is dependant on a genuine story, though they are definitely not shy about announcing Kaira Pitt's presence. Yet how lonely the star themself seems, relaxing in that large empty stadium! Despite the fact that these movies have starpower to spare, the majority of the folks portrayed are pint-sized, distracted, alienated or the suggestions above.The "Large Mind" method of advertising has ruled key art for any decade or even more, however for "The Descendants," George Clooney sits in shadowy profile as though attempting to steer clear of the paparazzi. The only real nominee to fill its space with face is "Very Noisy & Incredibly Close," and many of this mug is included up.(Oddly enough, recommended Large Mind points of interest "The Lady Using the Dragon Tattoo," "The Ides of March," "J. Edgar" and "Mess Tailor Soldier Spy" all unsuccessful to create the cut. Now there is something for Oscar mavens, or Cost Waterhouse or J. Edgar, to research.)When the posters often miniaturize their characters' physical presences -- a wee row of "Help," dangling little "Hugo," diminutive Owen Wilson -- "The Tree of Existence" goes practically bonsai. Obviously, because the most esoteric work from the bunch, it realistically boasts the artiest pictures, all individuals delicate Emmanuel Lubezki images inside a 14x5 power grid like a lot of museum postcards. Really, it's kind of an indication of a highfalutin "Hollywood Squares," with tiny Kaira Pitt (again), Sean Penn and Jessica Chastain designated comfortable spots and also the title taking Paul Lynde's center chair. (You will probably find Rose Marie and Charley Weaver inside should you look with enough contentration.)Whenever a film is incorporated in the running for the best picture, its audiences are after that always conscious of its extra cachet. The poster, too, can start looking different, recommending new and unintentional symbolic content. May be the "Very Noisy" kid indicating surprise at its mere two nominations? Are Joey and Albert distractedly, wistfully wondering why Steven Spielberg was snubbed for "War Equine"? When the Van Gogh starry sky of "Night time in Paris" enables you to think about Academy Award hoopla, exactly what does it mean to possess Woodsy Allen surrogate Wilson pointedly striding away without giving the spectacle another thought?After which, obviously, there is the elephant within the room, probably the most humble key art of. Decently underselling the Cannes best actor prize, setting one little red-colored blip against a ocean of black and whitened, twinkling Art Deco lettering barely catching your skills, "The Artist" sets its stars looking at one another in heedless self-absorption, with confidence lost in l'amour. This can be a picture that's certain of itself. You begin to question what Clooney is moodily mulling because he looks at that couple relaxing in the shoreline. Does he, for one second, think they could be Jean and Berenice, honoring prior to February. 26? Peut-etre!Poster children for any year of reflection, uncertaintyTHE ARTISTOther nominations: Actor, supporting actress, director, original script, cinemato-graphy, original score, editing, art direction, costume designWhy it could win: To place it punnily, its silence has almost been deafening. It's difficult to deny movie love when it is ended within an audience-pleasing pastiche of nostalgia, aesthetic imitation and gratifaction style, most particularly from smiling, dancing French star Jean Dujardin.Not: Despite its need to enchant and stimulate a period of motion picture innocence, it is a movie having a great amount of detractors who aren't taken away by its charms.Oscar clip: Devastated through the stock exchange crash, diminishing quiet film star George Valentin (Dujardin) burns personal copies of his films. -- Robert Abele * * * THE DESCENDANTSOther nominations: Actor, director, modified script, editingWhy it could win: Very adult in theme and feelings, Alexander Payne's bittersweetly funny film about dying, family and legacy fits nicely in to the Academy's passion for sincere contemporary tales. Additionally, it features George Clooney with what many believe is his best performance.Not: Though dealing particularly using its characters' emotional limbo, its insufficient outsized drama will make it not exciting a good enough option for voters.Oscar clip: Finally removed associated with a reason to extend his hope or push away his grief, Matt King (Clooney) states goodbye to his comatose wife.-- Robert Abele * * * Very Noisy And Extremely CLOSEOther nominations: Supporting actorWhy it could win: In mind it is really an adventure film, a legendary look for unknowable solutions by an innocent that uplifts even while it scrapes at Americans' raw reminiscences.Not: Many think about the film tricky, taking advantage of a terrible terrorist attack as peripheral catalyst for any cool, go-nowhere story. So far, 9/11 films have experienced limited traction on Oscar evening.Oscar clip: Oskar (Thomas Horn) and the mother (Sandra Bullock) reconcile because they reminisce over their loss -- or, reflecting the film's other nomination, the explosion of frustration and grief Oskar hurls in the Renter (Max von Sydow) when their search appears ended.-- Randee Beginning * * * THE HELPOther nominations: Actress, two supporting actressesWhy it could win: The mixture of the crowdpleaser, a potent ensemble of strong stars brought by nominees Viola Davis, Jessica Chastain and Octavia Spencer along with a civil-privileges fable made to warm liberal hearts proves too irresistible for Oscar voters.Not: The truth that "The AssistanceInch obtained only four noms, with three within the acting category and none in almost any other, does not bode wonderfully because of its prospects on Oscar evening.Oscar clip: The movie's level, when determined, no-nonsense Minny Jackson (Spencer) changes her mind and sits lower before fledgling author Skeeter (Emma Stone) to inform her story.-- Robert Koehler * * * HUGOOther nominations: Director, modified script, cinematography, seem mixing, seem editing, original score, costume design, art direction, film editing, visual effectsWhy it could win: Hollywood loves a movie that references movie history with this particular make of stylish panache and nostalgia for George Melies' inventive quiet cinema, particularly when that style is used by Martin Scorsese inside a broad-appeal mood.Not: A higher quantity of nominations does not always translate to some best picture win -- just take a look at "True Grit" and "Avatar" previously 2 yrs.Oscar clip: Even though it does not feature the determined orphan hero Hugo, the clip would surely need to be Ben Kingsley like a youthful Melies creating fantastic quiet films in the busy atelier-studio.-- Robert Koehler * * * Night time IN PARISOther nominations: Director, original script, art directionWhy it could win: Woody's back, many feel, offering an illusion premise that resonated using the old-school romanticism, literate humor and enjoyable performances which were key points of his regularly Oscar-nommed heyday.Not: Its easygoing lightheartedness might be too airy to warrant the very best prize for voters searching to recognition something weighty and dramatic. Additionally, it might not compare positively within the Academy's eyes to Woody's previous Oscar nominees.Oscar clip: Present-day Paris wanderer Gil (Owen Wilson) is escorted to some bar late one evening, where he realizes he's meeting F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Cole Porter and Ernest Hemingway.-- Robert Abele * * * MONEYBALLOther nominations: Actor, supporting actor, script, seem mixing, film editingWhy it could win: The Oscar pedigree of numerous nominees (including Kaira Pitt, Jonah Hill and year-ago modified script champion Aaron Sorkin), as well as the mixture of wise entertainment with different broadly talked about nonfiction source, makes "Moneyball" a speaking-point kind of entry within the area.Not: It is also the 2011 "The Social Networking," which emerged short on Oscar evening. The Academy may see the film as too inside baseball.Oscar clip: When Pitt, as Concord A's ace gm Billy Beane, begins banging the phones to create trades and delighting his assistant, Peter Brand (Hill).-- Robert Koehler * * * THE TREE OF LIFEOther nominations: Director, cinematographyWhy it could win: The Academy voters may sense that it is now time to finally acknowledge Malick, probably the most legendary and highly respected filmmakers within the talent. Additionally they may think about the film's Palme d'Or win in Cannes a kind of permission to choose an acknowledged outdoors choice.Not: Most likely, too outdoors. The film's unconventional narrative structure, dense poetics and insufficient dramatic tension have a very good possibility of boring more voters compared to what they entrance. Rather, like a consolation prize, Emmanuel Lubezki's cinematography might be preferred.Oscar clip: Kaira Pitt sternly reprimands his sons, triggering a schism in the household unit.-- Robert Koehler * * * WAR HORSEOther nominations: Art direction, cinematography, original score, seem editing, seem mixingWhy it could win: Inside a nostalgia-heavy race, Steven Spielberg's lushly captured pics of, epic ode to animal tearjerkers of years past and studio system-era pageantry could unite voters who split around the category's quirkier, quieter records.Not: With no Oscar nomination for Spielberg's direction, the script or even the acting talent, it sits aside from individuals nominees that carry more buzzworthy warmth and galvanizing performances.Oscar clip: Running a fish tank, Joey tears through no-man's-land throughout the fight from the Somme, narrowly getting away harm until he's agonizingly held in barbed wire.-- Robert Abele Eye around the Academy awards: Best Picture PreviewTrippin' to yesteryear Moody key art set tone for kudo challengers Poster children for any year of reflection, uncertainty Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com

Sheen sells 'Anger' at NATPE

Charlie Sheen and Lionsgates Jon Feltheimer were chummy at the companys NATPE bash. At Monday night's blowout party for "Anger Management," Charlie Sheen was, for the first time in a while, a picture of contentment. "I'm excited to be in a work environment that's a playground for the imagination and not a f---ing, you know, a quagmire of oppression," Sheen told Variety at the Fontainebleau Resort's Arkadia nightclub. The party capped off the first full day of NATPE, and, as Lionsgate's TV and digital distrib topper Jim Packer put it later, "A little bit of the you-can-still-have-fun-and-work came back." Along with Starz skein "Boss," Sheen's first post-"Two and a Half Men" project has generated plenty of interest for Lionsgate at the show. "The last few years at NATPE have been a slog and everybody's wondering if we're going to make it, but to see Katie Couric want to come hang out with Charlie Sheen. ... I just felt like we were the cool kid, the hipster at the bar." Nobody threw a true bacchanal at NATPE last year, but the "Anger Management" party was one for the books. Local live entertainment company Zhantra supplied two girls in full-blown mermaid gear to swim in the club's extravagant pool and pout for the camera while guests posed with them. Other models were "living tables," extending like centerpieces from the center of tables loaded with wine and champagne. "The bash was mostly to say thank you," Packer said Tuesday morning, adding that "Anger Management" is "going to be one of the best-selling shows we've ever had." The series is a smallscreen version of the 2003 Jack Nicholson/Adam Sandler starrer and features Sheen as a therapist whose counseling methods cause his patients plenty of problems. It's run by writer-producer Bruce Helford, a crucial pick after Sheen's public falling out with "Men" co-creator Chuck Lorre, and Sheen has nothing but praise for his new boss, whom he called "the best showrunner in the business." Packer said he has faith in Sheen's ability to deliver the goods, despite the "Men" meltdown. "Regardless of what you think of what happened, the guy made hundreds of episodes of television," Packer said. "We trust he can deliver a show. Assuming he doesn't have his problems, he can deliver a hundred episodes." Contact Sam Thielman at sam.thielman@variety.com

Technicolor beefs up French biz

PARIS -- Technicolor is striving being key player in France's publish-production and film distribution biz using purchasing most of the bankrupt Quinta Industries' subsidiaries. A French commercial court greenlit Technicolor's bid to think about over audio companies Auditorium of Joinville (ADJ) and SIS additionally to write-production house Scanlab, which gives digital conversion, including VOD and digital cinema package learning. Technicolor formerly possessed 17% of Tarak Ben Ammar's Quinta Industries -- which went bankrupt lately -- but didn't include an operational role. "Technicolor was already a worldwide leader in digital publish-production and distribution, specifically in Hollywood, Canada, Italia, U.K., The nation and Asia, which i was trying to find an opportunity to bolster our position in France, which has one of the world's best film industries," mentioned Michel Vaquin, prexy of Technicolor Entertainment Services France, the recently launched banner that will collect yourself the prior Quinta companies. Added Vaquin, "Celebrate sense for people to experience a bigger presence in France, especially since our headquarters will be in Paris and that we take presctiption the Paris stock market." Technicolor aims to earn millions of ($13 million) this year in the Gallic arm, Technicolor's Boss Frederic Rose told business trade Ces Echos. Vaquin mentioned the business uses its credibility, research assets, huge network and expertise to exhibit french shingles into profit-making clothes. Technicolor can keep on 70% of ADJ, SIS and Scanlab's work force -- some 34 staffers. Furthermore, Technicolor is investing in an offer to obtain Quinta's Duboi, Gaul's top vfx and publish-production shingle. Once the purchase meets the approval from the courts, Technicolor will hire 20 more staffers from Duboi. Technicolor Entertainment Services France has furthermore introduced the opening from the dubbing facility for film and tv content near Paris. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com

'Players,' 'Seeds,' 'Dads' meet at Rendez-Vous

PARIS -- Wild Bunch's "The Players," with "The Artist's" star Jean Dujardin which is helmer Michel Hazanavicius, Memento's "Bad Seed items" and Pathe's "Sunday Fathers" will screen within the 14th Rendez-Vous With French Cinema. Our planet's finest national film showcase, the Rendez-Vous starts Wednesday getting a gala screening of Sylvie Testud's Kinology-offered "Another Woman's Existence," toplining Juliette Binoche and Mathieu Kassovitz, a greater-concept romantic dramedy. Put together by Dujardin and Gilles Lellouche, star of Magnolia U.S. pick-up "Point Blank," "Players," a seven-part sexcom, is amongst the-anticipated films in the tests. This can be due to its subject, a Judd Apatow-ant undertake thirty-something male infidelit its cast, introduced by Guillaume Canet ("Last Evening") which is star company company directors, including Hazanavicius, Fred Cavaye ("Anything on herInch), Dujardin, Lellouche and Eric Lartigau ("The Big Picture"). A dark tale of two schoolboys' kidnapping a teacher, "Seed items" is Nebbou's follow-around critical hits "Dumas" and "Mark from the Angel." Compiled by Pathe in France, social comedy "Fathers" reps the directorial debut of Louis Becker, boy of Jean Becker ("My Days With Marguerite"). Of other lately revealed RDV screeners, Studiocanal will showcase "The Adopted," the directorial debut of Melanie Laurent ("Inglourious Basterds"), and movies du Losange has Tony Gatlif's "Indignados," a Berlin Panorama player. Sales companies will talk up movies in a number of stages of production. Potential buzz game game titles include Agnes Jouai's "Beneath the Rainbow," provided by Indication, EuropaCorp's spy thriller "Mobius," with Dujardin, Gaumont's "The Chef," with Jean Reno, and Valerie Donzelli's "Commitment of War" follow-up "Submit Hands," repped by Wild Bunch. Around 450 customers will attend. Forty-three in the 82 films screening are market premieres. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com

MTV Movie Brawl 2012: 'Dark Knight Rises' Vs. 'Avengers'

The MTV Movie Brawl 2012 is officially on! After the initial play-in and wild card rounds, 16 films have been selected to compete in a series of head-to-head single elimination matches in our March Madness-style bracket. In the end, only one of these flicks can be crowned the can't-miss movie of the year, and the choice is entirely up to YOU. Which movie will win the brawl for it all? Vote at MTV Movies Blog and make your choice known! Two of the most important comic book movies of 2012 heck, of all time are about to enter the arena in a head-to-head match-up that many would agree is a long time coming. In one corner, the hero that Gotham needs. In the other, Earth's Mightiest Heroes. How can one superpower-less crime-fighter defeat a veritable army of superheroes? Well you do know he's Batman, right? (3) "The Dark Knight Rises" vs. (6) "Marvel's The Avengers" Christopher Nolan's conclusion to his Batman trilogy, "The Dark Knight Rises," is easily one of the most anticipated movies of the year. But the exact same could be said for "The Avengers," Marvel's answer to DC's biggest effort of 2012. Two rival universes are about to collide as the Caped Crusader charges headfirst at Iron Man, Thor, Cap and their allies in this first round battle. Both movies performed well beneath our expectations in round one, so our guess is as good as yours. We do know this, though: whoever wins, it's going to be one hell of an epic fight. Watch our MTV Movie Brawl 2012 analysis!

Richard Schiff joins 'Man of Steel'

SchiffRichard Schiff has became a member of the cast of Warner Bros.' "Guy of Steel," playing a personality named Dr. Hamilton.The Zack Snyder pic continues to be lensing in Vancouver and Chicago.Schiff, an Emmy champion for his role on NBC's "Free Airline Wing," has most lately guested on numerous TV skeins, including ABC's "Not so long ago," NBC's "Up Through The Night" and USA's "Whitened Collar." Contact Variety Staff at news@variety.com

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