Studiocanal, Lovefilm pact for U.K., Germany

MADRID -- Pan-European film group Studiocanal and Lovefilm, the European online film and TV subscription service, have inked an exclusive long-term deal for the U.K. and Germany. The deal gives British and German Lovefilm members access to new and library titles from Studiocanal for an exclusive 12-month window. First titles available in U.K. and Germany to Lovefilm clients who subscribe to its streaming subscription service include Liam Neeson starrer "Unknown" and "Source Code," with Jake Gyllenhaal. Among future films to be fed into the deal is "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy," Studiocanal's biggest hit to date in the U.K., and the Guillermo del Toro-produced "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark." Studiocanal-owned U.K. distributor Optimum Releasing, which was recently rebranded Studiocanal, inked a volume deal in May with Lovefilm for more than 30 first-run titles on Optimum's 2009-10 theatrical slate. The new pact ups the ante, extending the Studiocanal-Lovefilm entente to Germany, and giving Lovefilm streaming rights in the U.K and Germany to a certain number of movies in Studiocanal's more than 5,000 film title catalog. The deal encompasses Studiocanal library movies such as "The Pianist," "Apocalypse Now" and "Mulholland Drive." As with Lovefilm deals in the past year with U.K. indie distributors Optimum, Momentum, Icon and eOne, the new pact will make films exclusively available for streaming on Lovefilm in U.K. and Germany during their pay TV window, generating substantial new sources of revenue for Studiocanal in the U.K where most indie distributors encounter extreme difficulties selling titles to pay TV operator BSkyB. Lovefilm will also partner with Studiocanal to support Studiocanal's U.K. and German productions from early stages of production with online marketing and promotion. The deal does not cover France. There, given the strength of Gaul's IPTV market, Studiocanal sells VOD rights to multiple platforms on a non-exclusive basis. Adam Dawtrey contributed to this article. Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com

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Two Brothers and sisters (Bi annai)

An Orio Produkzioak presentation and production, in colaboration with ETB. Produced by Benat Ibarbia. Executive producers, Benat Ibarbia, Unai Ibarbia. Directed, put together by Imanol Rayo, good novella by Bernardo Atxaga.With: Bingen Elortza, Aitor Coteron, Kandido Uranga, Loreto Mauleon, Oihan Lopetegi, Mariasun Pagoaga, Klara Badiola, Patxi Santamaria, Inigo Lizarralde, Amaia Lizarralde, Patxo Telleria. (Basque dialogue)"What continues towards the eyes, occurs our souls," states one of the figures in "Two Brothers and sisters," and rookie scribe-helmer Imanol Rayo seems to own taken this to heart for his adaptation of Basque novelist Bernardo Atxaga's dark novella. There is not an regular frame throughout this impeccably designed tale of two siblings and siblings inside the 19 fifties Basque Country, while using exquisite lensing and appear design -- all ticking clocks, creaking floormats, dogs too much barking inside the distance -- doing more to totally immerse auds in comparison to meager scraps of narrative. Fests not frightened of heavily atmospheric fare will fraternize. First word uttered, some six minutes in, is "Silence," and doubles just like a statement of intent. Following a dying from the father, youthful Paulo (Bingen Elortza, photogenic and pensive) will need to take proper care of his slightly older, disabled brother, Daniel (Aitor Coteron, remarkably mercurial), especially after Daniel's fascination with a significant girl (Loreto Mauleon) causes trouble. Like the recent Basque feature "The Stone," "Two Brothers and sisters" works extremely well in creating a sense of place. Heavily symbolic imagery, for instance apples and snakes, is generally more telling than any direct story particulars.Camera (color), Javier Agirre Erauso editor, Guille Sanchez Mahave art director, Peio Villalba costume designer, Josune Lasa. Examined at San Sebastian Film Festival (Zinemira Premieres), Sept. 20, 2011. Running time: 104 MIN. Contact Boyd van Hoeij at news@variety.com

Jeremy Seglem On 'Cop/Cop,' Improvised Web Series at NYTVF

Jeremy Seglem On 'Cop/Cop,' Improvised Web Series at NYTVF By Daniel Lehman September 23, 2011 Jeremy Seglem Jeremy Seglem began his acting career about five years ago, in the range of short comedy web videos referred to as "Treading Water." Ever since then, along with author/director Tim Youthful, he's ongoing to produce original video content for your web -- first because the co-creator and star in the mockumentary series "Twilight with Steve Cooper" which is follow-up, "Behind the Steve," now since the co-creator and author of "Cop/Cop," a completely new improvised comedy series starring Tyler Gilmore and Make the most of Cuthill as two inept cops who'll visit any measures to acquire a confession.The initial episode of "Cop/Cop," titled "Old Dogs," opened up online now, and also the other episode remains selected to debut within the Funnel 101 program as of this year's NY Television Festival on Friday evening in New you are able to city. Funnel 101 can be a monthly series through which five-minute shows are examined for just about any live audience, who election to "cancel" some series and "renew" others, new cases of which are then presented incorporated within the new "prime time selection" in case the following month."I've not experienced an energetic situation, where people will laugh at something I've made," Seglem states. "So transpire is just to own people laugh advertising online. That's really all I am in a position to request. It might be nice to succeed, but as extended as people think it's funny, I don't care."WATCH VIDEOS And Study Q&A WITH SEGLEM ON BLOG STAGE Jeremy Seglem On 'Cop/Cop,' Improvised Web Series at NYTVF By Daniel Lehman September 23, 2011 Jeremy Seglem Jeremy Seglem began his acting career about five years ago, in an amount of short comedy web videos referred to as "Treading Water." Ever since then, along with author/director Tim Youthful, he's ongoing to produce original video content for your web -- first since the co-creator and star in the mockumentary series "Twilight with Steve Cooper" which is follow-up, "Behind the Steve," now since the co-creator and author of "Cop/Cop," a completely new improvised comedy series starring Tyler Gilmore and Make the most of Cuthill as two inept cops who'll visit any measures to acquire a confession.The initial episode of "Cop/Cop," titled "Old Dogs," opened up online now, and also the other episode remains selected to debut within the Funnel 101 program as of this year's NY Television Festival on Friday evening in New you are able to city. Funnel 101 can be a monthly series through which five-minute shows are examined for just about any live audience, who election to "cancel" some series and "renew" others, new cases of which are then presented incorporated within the new "prime time selection" in case the following month."I've not experienced an energetic situation, where people will laugh at something I've made," Seglem states. "So transpire is just to own people laugh advertising online. That's really all I am in a position to request. It might be nice to achieve success, but as extended as people think it's funny, I don't care."WATCH VIDEOS And Study Q&A WITH SEGLEM ON BLOG STAGE

Camilla Belle Pick For Eve In Paradise Lost

EXCLUSIVE: I hear that Camilla Belle is Legendary Entertainment and Alex Proyas’ selection for charge role of Eve in Paradise Lost. She'd join Bradley Cooper as Lucifer and Benjamin Master, who plays the archangel Michael inside the action epic fight between good and evil that's inspired with the John Milton poem. Belle starred in 10,000 B.C. and before that carried out Daniel Day-Lewis’ daughter inside the Ballad of Jack and Rose. Let’s discover if her deal works, but this is often a role plenty of youthful stars wanted. She sparks the war that began all wars money for hard times of mankind. Belle is repped by WME. Warner Bros is disseminating and hoping to get a fourth quarter 2013 release.

Teaser Trailer For 1911 Online

Jackie Chan is revolting!Marking both hundredth anniversary from the Xinghai Revolution, and also the hundredth movie because of its director and star, a trailer for Jackie Chan's historic epic 1911 just showed up online at Apple. It's Chan's first film as director since 1998 (although he shared behind-the-camera responsibilities with Zhang Li), and co-stars Chan's boy Jaycee, Li Bingbing, Winston Chao and Joan Chen. Chan plays Huang Xing, the newest leader and eight fingered general , who, through a number of violent uprisings, was instrumental in overthrowing the Quing Empire and creating China like a republic. It's abnormally serious stuff for that generally knockabout Chan, but around the proof of the clip, all of the better for this. Clearly a work of affection for that director, six several weeks of punishing production finally covered with March this season. 1911 will open the Tokyo, japan Worldwide Film Festival on October 22, and will get a United States release (in the full form, unlike John Woo's superficially similar Red-colored High cliff) on October 12. The United kingdom awaits to start dating ?....

Steven Spielberg Says 'Lincoln' Will Get Released After the 2012 Election

Steven Spielberg is finally about to start filming his long-in-the-works biopic 'Lincoln,' with Daniel Day-Lewis as the esteemed 16th president. Although the film is based on Doris Kearns Goodwin's book 'Team of Rivals' -- which covered Lincoln's entire four-year-presidency -- the movie will focus only on the last four months of his life. Just don't expect to see it in theaters before next November. "The movie will be purposely coming out after next year's election," Spielberg told the Orlando Sentinel. "I didn't want it to become political fodder. [...] It is really a movie about the great work Abraham Lincoln did in the last months of his life." The movie is set to film in Richmond, Va.: "There are battles in it, and being in Virginia, we have access to those historic battlefields," said Spielberg. As for the film's post-election release, that will still leave plenty of time for Oscar voters to support 'Lincoln' as their candidate of choice. Besides filming 'Lincoln,' the busy director will have to take time out to promote 'The Adventures of Tintin' and 'War Horse,' both due before the end of the year. [Orlando Sentinel via CinemaBlend] photo courtesy of HO/AFP/Getty Images

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New Study Shows Kaira Pitt's 'Moneyball' Creating Major Buzz Online (Exclusive)

The brand new the new sony Pictures I have discovered that BoxOffice.com, a common and broadly reliable website that's a specialist in predictions and analysis of movie box office figures, will to create special account to its clients later today about Moneyball, the baseball drama starring Kaira Pitt that will open in theaters this Friday. In line with the release, Moneyball is creating a lot more buzz on social-networking sites in comparison to Social Media, another Scott Rudin-produced film that hit theaters almost exactly this past year (Moneyball will open 7 days earlier) and wound up grossing nearly $225 million and scoring eight Oscar nominations, three which brought to wins. BoxOffice.com editor Phil Contrino notifies me they have been monitoring Facebook activity since May 2010, and based its conclusions -- they states are statistically significant -- on stats collected from monitoring the two sites in the last weekend just before the flicks opened up up. On Facebook, The Social Media received 34,645 "likes" within that period, whereas Moneyball received 64,073. On Twitter, meanwhile, the first sort was the subject of four,120 Tweets, whereas the 2nd was stated in five,264. STORY: 'Moneyball': Just what the Experts Say Simply what does everything mean? "It suggests that Moneyball has genuine breakout potential," states Contrino, who predictions the crowd for the film will skew older than it absolutely was for your Social Media. "Grownups are clearly hungry for serious-minded movies with Oscar buzz carrying out a summer season full of movies specific at teens. Just have a look at how well Evening amount of time in Paris as well as the Help did within the box office." FILM REVIEW: 'Moneyball' He adds, "The idea of putting Pitt in the sports movie could turn that need considering an excellent one. Women who normally wouldn't obtain a wise baseball flick won't get drawn to that certain kicking and screaming." Kaira Pitt Moneyball

Charlie Sheen Embarks on Publish-Roast Publicity Tour

Shaun Kravitz/FilmMagic/Getty Images Apparently Charlie Sheen isn't done speaking. Sheen has reserved a flurry of talk show looks within the wake of his Comedy Central roasted last weekend in La. He'll be about the Tonight Show with Jay Leno Thursday, the Today show on Friday and Wendy Williams' syndicated talker on Sept. 19. The Comedy Central roast, which featured Mike Tyson, Jeffrey Ross, Seth MacFarlane,William Shatner yet others poking fun in the former 2 . 5 Males star, airs Sept. 19, exactly the same evening because the season premeire of Males. The Hollywood Reporter spoke to Sheen and most of the roasters about the red-colored carpet prior to the event recorded on Saturday. VIDEO: Charlie Sheen Roast: THR's Red-colored Carpet Interviews On Today, Sheen informs Lauer: "I could not really place the fire out." And that he provides an explanation of sorts for his extended public tirade. "I'm not sure, the tiger bloodstream... it had been so silly the ones required it so seriously and that i figured, okay, I'll still provide the people what they need, you realize?Inch VIDEO: Charlie Sheen Roast: Start Looking at Seth MacFarlane and Shaun Ross' Performances Sheen also informs Lauer that he's "absolutely" sober. Requested when he last were built with a drink or required drugs, Sheen replies: "I do not really keep an eye on time. It has been some time, because I seem like, without engaging in my feelings about AA and all sorts of that stuff, if you are travelling hanging onto your time and effort, it's only dependent on time prior to it going, you realize?Inch And Sheen states that he's "healing fences" with ex-spouses Denise Richards and Brooke Mueller and "attempting to move ahead and prioritize what matters." PHOTOS: Charlie Sheen's Colorful Career "You realize, just really get in touch with more reality and more," he states. "It's things i call the moments within the moments. I believe this is where the existence is, you realize, it's in individuals quiet moments. It isn't the giant TV deal or even the large party or even the award or whatever, it is the memory of the child's smile in the finish during the day that kind of brings that certain lonesome tear, you will know tear, right Matt?" Charlie Sheen Matt Lauer 2 . 5 Males

Peter Hook Shocked New Order Reunited Without Him

LONDON - These were the definitive eighties dance band using the classic hit "Blue Monday." But New Order's decision to re-form for a number of European benefit gigs has had their former bassist unexpectedly. This guitar rock band is because of perform in The city on March. 17 and Paris on March. 18 along with a selection including Stephen Morrisand Bernard Sumner, but without their original bass player, Peter Hook, who left in 2007. Inside a statement he left fans in without doubt about his surprise. "When i first I learned about this on Monday and contains taken me completely unexpectedly! Everybody recognizes that New Order without Peter Hook is much like Full without Freddie Mercury, U2 with no Edge, Sooty without Sweep!" And that he continued to express the exclusion had made him "very sad." "On the more severe note, I don't comprehend the decision another three took. If only they'd contacted me first. I don't accept the techniques they've used and feel it could have been respectful and professional to possess spoken in my experience prior to the bulletins. It's very sad.'' The 2 gigs would be the band's first live show since 2005, but it's not obvious whether or not they anticipate anymore gigs past the two charitable organisation occasions scheduled for the following month. Related Subjects Worldwide

'I'm Yours' star joins 'King' skein

SutherlandTORONTO -- Rossif Sutherland will join the 2nd season of Toronto-set police-family drama ''King,'' the series' prodco Indian Grove introduced Friday. Sutherland, boy of veteran thesp Jesse Sutherland, stars in Canadian helmer Leonard Farlinger's romantic comedy two-hander ''I'm Yours'' (eOne), which world preems in the Toronto festival Sunday.The thesp starred in Clement Virgo's 2007 fest pic ''Poor Boy's Game,'' and labored this summer time on Wango Films duo April Mullen and Tim Doiron's zombie-demon comedy-chiller ''Dead Before Beginning three dimensional,'' charged because the first 100% Canadian-funded live-action stereoscopic three dimensional feature, and that is presently in publish. ''King'' is definitely an original series produced and professional-created by Bernard Zukerman and Greg Spottiswood for Shaw Media's Showcase funnel. The 2nd season returns towards the schedule winter 2012. The show was acquired France's M6 network earlier this spring. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com