James Mangold Talks Wolverine

It's The Chinatown Josey Wales!When Darren Aronofsky left the project, many feared we might have lost the fascinating left-field new Wolverine film we'd been tacitly promised after the X-Men: Origins instalment. Talking to The Playlist however, new director James Mangold has just demonstrated that his plans for The Wolverine are equally ambitious."It really was a simple choice," Mangold says, "to jump on board and take this thing on... at this moment when they actually want to explore the character."To that end, Mangold believes, the fact that The Wolverine is a franchise sequel is actually a benefit rather than a hindrance to the film he envisions: "You can actually just tell a story about this amazing character from the start, just the way they do when you read a comic. It isn't an origin story, so I'm freed from that burden, and it also isn't a save-the-world movie, which most of them are. It's actually a character piece; it has more in common with The Outlaw Josey Walesand Chinatown. We're not crowded with cutting to nine other action heroes. Wecan really make a movie about this dude."The plan remains to adapt the classic 1982 Wolverine mini-series by Chris Claremont and Frank Miller, which sees Logan heading to Japan, and juggles samurai action against supernatural gangsters The Hand, with a quite surprising romantic thread involving the daughter of a Yakuza family. The screenplay's first iteration was by Christopher McQuarrie, but while we're still talking about the same project, it seems that, understandably, Mangold doesn't quite intend to make that same film."Mark Bomback and myself have done a tremendous amount of writing on the movie," he explains. "There's not a page that hasn't been re-worked and re-thought and story-boarded. Part of connecting to the movie [for me] was developing the scenes and finding the locations and devising the action." For a director used to working on personal projects (Walk The Line, Cop Land, Kate And Leopold), "it's all about making it your own.""This movie is an intense psychological and action-packed character piece," Mangold promises. "It's much more about Logan getting lost in these very insulated worlds of Japanese culture, gangster culture, and ninja culture. The fighting is all influenced by Japanese martial arts, andhalf of the characters in this movie speak Japanese. This is like a foreign-language superhero movie; it's as much a drama and a detective story and a film noir as it is anything like a conventional tentpole film."We really hope that studio Fox are fully on board with those notions, and that this isn't reduced to Wolverine-by-numbers in the cutting room. This is the story that star Hugh Jackman has wanted to make since the beginning (see Empire issue 268, where Jackman also namechecks Clint Eastwood's classic '70s western) so hopefully he has enough adamantium-clawed clout within the franchise to keep The Wolverine on track.Shooting is currently cheduled for spring next year, for a 2013 release.

'Category' bought by New Line

New Line has bought John Swetnam's found-footage script "Category Six" and arrange it with Todd Garner at his Damaged Road banner.New Line confirmed the offer Friday and compensated low six figures.Story is told through camcorders and cell phonesand focuses on high schoolers who attempt to survive a Category 6 hurricane -- the worst in U.S. history.Garner's creating credits include "The Zookeeper" and "Dark night and Day." Contact Dork McNary at dork.mcnary@variety.com

NBC Temporarily Stops Production on Approaching Drama Awake

Jason Isaacs NBC has temporarily stopped production on its midseason supernatural drama Awake to permit additional time to operate around the scripts, Vulture reviews. The series stars Jason Isaacs like a guy who - following a vehicle accident - lives in 2 completely different facts: One where his wife died within the accident but his boy made it, and also the other where his boy did not survive but his wife resided. ER alum Laura Innes joins Awake Awake, executive-created by Lone Star's Kyle Killen and 24's Howard Gordon, has completed production on six episodes. The hiatus can last roughly four days. "We have got [six] scripts and episodes we are very happy with, but we felt the show would take advantage of getting additional time to plot out where we are going," Gordon told the website. "It is a very complex show, and also, since we were not under any gun when it comes to delivering episodes with a deadline, we requested [the hiatus]." Gordon acknowledged "there is a narrow margin for error" due to the complicated narrative, but additionally stated he thinks the break is really a "way of measuring belief in us" from NBC. Awake will debut sometime the coming year on NBC.

Is The Real or Fake Herman Cain Commercial Funnier?

Stephen Colbert Stephen Colbert says he's been "swept up by a Category-5 Herman Cain."And part of what has the host of The Colbert Report so taken by the Republican presidential candidate is a campaign commercial featuring the former Godfather's Pizza CEO's chief of staff, Mark Block. He coolly smokes a cigarette while touting the candidate. As Colbert notes, the web video implies "there's nothing more American than smoking cigarettes."Check out Colbert's full take on the unusual spot -- and his sendups of it: The Colbert Report Get More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,Video Archive

First images of Scarlett Johansson in Under The Skin

The first images of Scarlett Johansson from the sci-fi flickUnder The Skin have been posted online. The movie is based on Michel Faber's novel, in which Johansson's character picks up hitchhikers and drugs them so her alien buddies can fatten them up for dinner.How does she lure them? Well, she looks like Scarlett Johansson and has a high sexual appetite. Nuff said. Directed by Sexy Beast's Jonathan Glazer, Under The Skin is currently shooting in Glasgow and opens in 2012.

Anton Yelchin on Sex Moments With Jennifer Lawrence and Selecting 'Like Crazy' Over Real-Existence Love

It's amazing to appear back in a film like 'Jurassic Park' and find out how good the effects endure. The sequences appear almost too great for a film which was launched in 1994. For your, audiences can thank Dennis Muren, the visual effects wiz who done the very first two movies within the series. Using the 'Jurassic Park' trilogy launched on Blu-ray now, Muren spoke towards the L.A. Occasions Hero Complex blog, where he revealed the entire process of making the dinosaurs as realistic as you possibly can, along with the ongoing legacy from the first 'Jurassic Park.' It began by helping cover their us thinking, 'Well, maybe we're able to do dinosaurs within the distance with computer graphics, and also have Them running and all sorts of, but never get much closer than wide shots.' But once we used to do it, we simply attempted and also got more bold, and also got closer on Them and closer 'til we wound up carrying out a close-on a T. rex having a performance that you have never witnessed before, because you may never obtain the acting of individuals creatures with animatronics or with fishing rod puppets or Muppets or anything. There is just no method of doing it. It had been a real real surprise for that audience and ourselves too, whenever we saw the film and that we saw individuals shots. The piece also offers two awesome behind-the-moments videos in the 'JP' Blu-sun rays, including interviews using the cast about how exactly their operate in the film affected the relaxation of the careers. Click right through to take a look. [via LAT/Hero Complex] Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook

Grand Thievery Auto V Introduced

Rockstar Games taunted the discharge of Grand Thievery Auto V on its official website Tuesday.our editor recommends'Grand Thievery Auto IV' breaks U.K. record'Grand Thievery Auto' Headed to iPads for brand spanking new (Q&A) The organization also introduced the game's trailer will hit the net on November. 2. Game sites instantly searched for additional particulars, and Grand Thievery V grew to become a trending subject on Twitter. VIDEOS: Scream Honours 2011: Red-colored Carpet Interviews Earlier this year, the co-founding father of Rockstar games, Serta Houser, told The Hollywood Reporter the popular games were visiting iPad soon. While you will find gossips the fifth game might be occur a parody of Hollywood, Houser told THR that the organization "got bored" of utilizing notable stars in games. VIDEO: 10 Broadcast and Cable Television Show Most Viewed By Males "You will find two reasons we do not make use of the famous talent any longer. The first is how long requirement for these men from the development perspective," he stated. "Then from the purely greater perspective, we found believe that when the figures are designed so and also the facial animation gets so great, we have really moved past wanting the overall game to seem like its very own Television show or movie arrived at existence. We would like it to end up like our planet arrived at existence. Getting a famous person into that's annoying. It had not been only a practical problem, it had been additionally a greater problem that meant i was no more going after celebrities playing themselves, which is still interesting within the right context then one we'd certainly turn to do again." Grand Thievery Auto III is going to hit its tenth anniversary. Houser told THR the overall game has survived the ages because, "There is a real resolve for making these encounters which are unlike encounters others are providing on games as well as elsewhere. It's a mix of unique gaming experience that enables gamers to understand more about these mobile phone industry's which are filled with a multitude of interesting content. It isn't trying to become a movie." VIDEO: Who's Who on 'Game of Thrones' "It's a game title, however it has cinema-level production values. These games get their own undertake the planet, the industry mixture of gangsterness and cynicism. When combined, it gives this feeling of this factor that's alive and features its own perspective. I believe that's unique within these games. Very few games coping the contemporary world in quite that same manner: he added. Related Subjects

'London Boulevard': Keira Knightley Confesses Feelings for Colin Farrell in New Clip (Video)

A completely new clip for your approaching gangster flick London Boulevard hit the net on Tuesday.our editor recommendsLondon Boulevard -- Film ReviewTRAILER: Colin Farrell in 'London Boulevard' (video)Two join trek lower 'London Boulevard' The film stars Colin Farrell becoming an ex-disadvantage trying to visit straight who'll get attracted in to the criminal underworld. Keira Knightley co-stars as the love interest. FILM REVIEW: 'London Boulevard' Inside the clip, she professes her feelings for him. "I'm apt to be very brave here''m apt to be very bold and extremely brave," she notifies Farrell. "Essentially fell somewhat deeply deeply in love with you ... how would you act relating to this?In . "Anything ... everything," Farrell replies. VIDEO: 'London Boulevard' Trailer London Boulevard marks the directorial debut of Departed author William Monahan. It co-stars David Thewlis, Anna Friel, Ben Chaplin and Ray Winstone. The film, that was already using screens around the globe, opens in limited release inside the U.S. on November. 11 via IFC Films and GK Films. Related Subjects Colin Farrell Keira Knightley

TV Ratings: Tim Allen's 'Last Man Standing' Debuts Well, 'Parenthood' Rises

Peter Hopper/ABC"Last Man Standing" Tim Allen made his return to television with new series, Last Man Standing, and the half-hour ABC sitcom had a good premiere on Tuesday night. The hourlong series debut of Last Man Standing (13 million total viewers, 3.5 rating in adults 18-49 demographic), co-starring Nancy Travis, improved 9 percent from the launch of superhero drama No Ordinary Family last fall. This is a solid start for the show, for which The Hollywood Reporter's chief television critic Tim Goodman declares, "Of course, the series is likely to be a hit. Allen is a proven draw and likeable. ABC is a family-inclined network. And it's on at 8 p.m., when all kinds of soft gruel can be shoveled down the throats of Americans." PHOTOS: Fall TV Death Pool: Which New Show Will Be Axed? With a solid lead-in with Standing, the Dancing With the Stars results show (16.6 million, 3.2) improved 10 percent at 9 p.m., but it didn't rise enough to help Body of Proof (9.4 million, 1.9), which dipped 5 percent. ABC placed second on the night in the 18-49 demo, averaging a 2.8 rating in primetime, behind CBS. Though CBS' lineup all saw minor drops, the network's three-hour slate still topped the night in total viewers (15.3 million) and the demo (3.1). NCIS (18.7 million, 3.9) and NCIS: LA (15.4 million, 3.3) dropped 7 percent and 3 percent, respectively, to season lows. Meanwhile, freshman procedural Unforgettable (11.8 million, 2.3) saw a 8-percent dip for a low. PHOTOS: Fall TV's 12 Most Anticipated Shows NBC's The Biggest Loser (5.5 million, 2.0) keeps sinking, dropping another 5 percent to post its lowest-rated fall telecast ever. Even so, family drama Parenthood (5.3 million, 2.1) -- airing a pivotal episode where the Bravermans welcome a new addition into the family -- improved 5 percent from the previous week. The CW's 90210 (1.5 million, 0.7) improving in total viewers and Ringer (1.7 million, 0.7) -- which featured a big game-changing reveal at the end of the episode -- going up a notch. Refresh for the latest ... TV Ratings

Monkey Adored

A Rogue Machine presentation of a play in two acts by Henry Murray. Directed by John Perrin Flynn. Sonny Bonobo - Edward TournierBrown Spot - Justin Okin/David MauerMadeline Kahn - Amanda MauerJames Rat - Patrick FlanaganElaine Ostrich - Jennifer TaubPenguinito/Mr. Stubbs/Lab Tech - Ron BottittaRogue Machine and scribe Henry Murray have an end-of-worlds romance going. Two years after premiering his postapocalyptic pansexual "Treefall," they bring us his preapocalyptic pansexual "Monkey Adored," in which animals, portrayed by humans, await doomsday by acting out the best traits of their species (i.e. eating and humping) while they're poisoned by the worst traits of ours. An uneven production of an uneven text, the audacious vest-pocket spectacle is nevertheless one of the most captivating attractions around right now. It's mostly la vie en rose for Madeline Kahn the cat (Amanda Mauer) and Brown Spot the dog (Justin Okin, alternating with David Mauer), breakfast buddies at downtown's Le Cafe Cafe. True, the pup has a pulverizing crush on Sonny Bonobo (Edward Tournier), the preening simian who's become Ms. Kahn's latest flame now that he's been released from an animal testing lab. But Sonny has no compunctions about riding Brownie's lap to make occasional zoological whoopie, so who's to complain? But there are storm clouds on the horizon. Rumors about human scientists' testing out remedies for radiation sickness suggest someone's got a finger on the nuclear button. And a "Paw Power" resistance movement is emerging from underground in the person of James Rat (Patrick Flanagan), a rapping rodent whose beady eye is always out for incipient urban terrorists willing to rise up against the oppressors. Murray veers crazily (and at times uncomfortably) between punning and pathos, puppetry and poetry to accommodate all of his allegorical strains. Helmer John Perrin Flynn builds up considerable suspense as act one ends, but act two kicks off with a dead lull from which the play takes a while to rebound. Moreover, two roles seem miscast. Mauer lacks feline allure, hamstrung by the tedious requirement to bugger all her l's and r's in the manner of her namesake's Lili von Shtupp "Blazing Saddles" role. She's heavy-footed, but not as much as Flanagan, vocally forced in a part calling for the hairtrigger nervosity of Brad Pitt in "12 Monkeys." The others embrace their inner critters wholeheartedly. Jennifer Taub glows as Elaine the ostrich, blowsy cafe hostess whose struggle with illness never diminishes her sympathetic spirit. Ron Bottitta drops amusingly gnomic utterances as a droll penguin (this waiter comes with his own tux), contributing a distinctive cameo as a great ape brought down by scientists' unspeakable practices. Tournier's is a memorably physical performance incorporating monkey manner and human frailty. (The jaunty organ-grinder cap is a great touch from designer Stephanie Kerley Schwartz.) If thesp has yet to fully embody Sonny's anarchic lustfulness, he taps into a wealth of emotional authenticity when the damaged creature is drawn to martyrdom as a purifying act of meaning. Throughout, he is sweetly in sync with Okin's sincere, heartbreakingly loyal hound. Their unlikely romance ends up seeming as natural as Romeo and Juliet's and, under Dan Weingarten's delicate lighting effects, equally star-crossed. Magically, through all the monkeyshines, Murray manages to bring us closer to an understanding of the exquisite pain of love as practiced by the human animal.Sets and costumes, Stephanie Kerley Schwartz; lighting, Dan Weingarten; sound, Joseph "Sloe" Slawinski; projections, Adam Flemming; puppeteers, David Combs, Linda Hoag; original music, Michael Wells. Opened Oct. 8, 2011. Reviewed Oct. 9. Running time: 1 HOUR, 45 MIN. Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com

Brnice Marlohe, Helen McCrory and Ben Whishaw on for Bond 23?

Based on the Daily Mail's Baz Bamigboye, French actress Bérénice Marlohe may be the new Bond girl, and Helen McCrory and Ben Whishaw may also be joining her in 007's latest adventure.As the reviews are unconfirmed, Bamigboye comes with form in this region, announcing the kind of Naomie Harris and Rob Fiennes formerly.Marlohe is has not really done anything yet that will have arrived at a large worldwide audience, that could benefit her if this involves playing what's certain to be considered a mysterious, glamourous and unreadable figure.Based on the report, she impressed Mike Mendes in a screen test at Pinewood Galleries.McCrory and Whishaw's roles aren't obvious yet. The first kind is most likely most widely known for playing Narcissa Malfoy inside a couple of Harry Potters, and she or he was Cherie Blair within the Full.It's as simple to assume her playing a high-level agent or someone altogether more sinister (she was initially drawn on to experience HP's Bellatrix Lestrange before pregnancy got in the manner).Likewise, Whishaw would fit the role of the rookie agent in addition to a weaselly villain.Mendes' Bond 23, stated to become known as Skyfall, is shaping as much as be among the classiest Bond excursions yet.Difficulties is coming back as 007, Rob Fiennes and Javier Bardem are arranged because the villains, and Naomie Harris is going to be Moneypenny.And that we just wait just more than a year (26 October 2012, more specifically) to determine it...

NBC Buys Comedy From Damaged Lizard Duo, Adjusts Australian Format Laid

NBC has boughtKept Males, a multi-camera comedy from authors-stars Kevin Heffernan and Steve Lemme, people from the Damaged Lizard comedy filmmaking group behind such movies as Super Military and Beerfest. Heffernan and Lemme will write the project, which informs he story of two buddies who become based on their particular spouses after their business shuts lower. Additionally they will executive produce with 3 Arts. APA-repped Heffernan and UTA-repped Lemme just wrapped photography around the Babymakers with Olivia Munn and Paul Schneider. Furthermore, NBC is creating a U.S. version from the Australian black comedy series Laid, from BermanBraun. Ali Rushfield (Assist Me To Assist You To) will write the script for that project, that was introduced to NBC and BermanBraun by Jeremy Fox and Kary Mchoul of Digital Privileges Group. It focuses on a lady whose ex-men/one-evening stands start dying under suspicious conditions, compelling her to produce an analysis together with her roommate and then try to steer clear of the murder spree. UTA-repped Rushfield, Lloyd Braun, Gail Berman and Gene Stein are executive creating. The initial series, produced by Marieke Sturdy and Kirsty Fisher, opened on ABC1 in Feb. The format was repped by ICM.

As Butch Cassidy, Mike Shepard Rides Again

NY (AP) Mike Shepard is within town.For several years, he's migrated to NY from far-away country houses and existence on the road. NY might be the "arena" for his work: frequently a play a magazine a film.InchI've come and gone using this town a great deal, coming back to '63," Shepard mentioned in the recent interview over tea in SoHo. "It is not the region I choose to reside in. It's the place I choose to use.InchShepard is becoming 67, his eyes tend to be sunken and also the hair grayer, but he remains piercing, charming and mysterious. The routine is remarkably the identical.He drives his truck from his Kentucky equine ranch (he always drives, never flies) and returns to NY, where he first turned up just like a 19-year-old actor from his father's California farm. He came, according to him, "in the desert" and very soon next set the theater world aflame along with his visceral off-off-Broadway plays that hit happens like pulsing jazz riffs.The occasion for Shepard's latest visit might be the release of "Blackthorn," a film that imagines Butch Cassidy (whom Shepard plays) had he were living on into final years in Bolivia. The role is fitting of Shepard: a solitary estimate exile.Shepard, laughing hard, recalls an early on critic remarking, "You don't look anything like Paul Newman!" A gritty and elegiac South American Western, "Blackthorn" bears little resemblance for the classic 1969 "Butch Cassidy as well as the Sundance Kid," which Shepard calls a "cartoon" in comparison.InchHe is really a cowboy, you understand?In . Mateo Gil, the The the spanish language language film author of "Open Your VisionInch making his British-language feature pointing debut, states of Shepard. "He's very interested in horses which he loves large landscapes and loneliness and everything. I believed that some issues i had been dealing with inside the script were similar to Sam's issues."Born by having an Illinois military base, Shepard's father will be a violent, alcoholic World War Ii bomber pilot which has informed many of the playwright's work. Within the one production his father Mike Rogers attended, he noisally cursed his son's representation of family existence.Shepard got music from his father (Rogers will be a Dixieland drummer, Shepard a drummer while using band Holy Modal Rounders, which along with on Bob Dylan's famous Moving Thunder Revue) additionally to struggles with alcoholism. This Past Year, he was billed with driving drunk.Shepard's "family plays" "Tooth in the Crime," ''Curse in the Depriving Class," the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Hidden Child" and "True West" constitute his most well-regarded as as work.Within the 1971 one-act "Cowboy Mouth," they written along with his then girlfriend, music artist and poet Patti Cruz, an autobiographical character states, "People need a street angel. They require a saint though a cowboy mouth.""I used to be writing basically for stars," Shepard states. "And stars immediately made an appearance to experience a handle about it, round the rhythm from this, the appear from this, the figures. I started to understand there's this opportunity of conversation between stars which is the actual way it all started."He's commonly known as to people plays a couple of which he's since rewritten for several reproductions as "clumsy." In the beginning, Shepard rejected to rewrite his plays, considering them "pure," a notion lucrative sights "simply stupid.""I have absolutely nothing against clumsy," according to him. "Sometimes clumsy is okay. By clumsy I meant more that ... I am unsure, I will did them longer."Shepard lives along with his longtime partner Jessica Lange, with whom he's a few his three children. But he's ongoing to become close with Cruz which week recorded several tunes along with her old tunes by Washington Phillips, Ivory Joe Hunter, Slim Harpo and Richard Rabbit Brown."(Our friendship) transcended any youthful difficulties it transcended our different periods of existence," Cruz states. "We're likewise. When Mike which i are together, it's like no particular time. People part those die, but to be capable of have this kind of wealthy history having a person just like a friend is beautiful."Though Shepard frequently raises the inscrutable American qualities so deeply imbedded within the writing, he's remarkably generous throughout the time of the rambling interview. He's readily reflective and also the humble conversation is interspersed with diversions on various passions, old and new: the tunes of Hank Williams Bob Dylan's storytelling french-Romanian playwright Eugene Ionesco Gary Cooper ("How do anybody nothing beats Gary Cooper?") "Crime and Punishment" ("an authentic page-turner") and "Don Quixote," which he's rereading now. "Madness is his exile," according to him.InchHe very pads his privacy, however when he's speaking for you personally and enables you in, he offers everything," states Cruz. "You'll be able to spend some time at his table. You'll be able to ride his equine. You'll be able to try searching in the notebook. It's only dependent on walking using the door."Shepard's latest play was last year's "Age are the Moon." Though he releases less works nowadays, he still produces prodigiously. He movies using the notebook by his side (he always first produces in the notebook, later moving to typewriter), evidencing pages of numerous working plays, tunes, short tales and "stuff kind of like prose poems, I am unsure items to think of it as.InchHe is simply finished "the bones" from the three-act play he must stage within yearly. Shepard earlier swore off longer works, but states that certain found him "which i covered it."A year ago, he launched the story collection "Excursion of Days," an item more than a hundred clips of fiction, largely submitted the street. It's among his finest works, forever fractured but an all natural range of regret and rumination. He opened up up it getting an estimate in a single of his finest literary heroes, Samuel Beckett: "This is actually the mistake I made ... to own wanted an account personally, whereas existence alone is enough.InchPerform the demons of his youth still drive his work?"There's nothing peaceful relating to this,In . according to him, laughing. "Yeah, I'd condition it did result from a fractured sensibility. Which is still fractured because of the health of things. I'm very grateful that we found writing, however it doesn't ensure it is any longer peaceful."In Shepard's 1982 book "Motel Tales," he mentioned he felt like he did not possess a house a feeling according to him remains."I basically live of my truck I'm speaking about around. I'm more in your house throughout my truck than nearly anywhere, the sad step to express but it's true," according to him.He values acting is partly to cover the rent ("You'll be able to write 16 plays and not make as much money as you did doing one movie"), but states he's grown progressively intrigued with acting "because I have a smaller amount fear relating to this.In . He's socialized in than 40 films, but is much better appreciated for his Oscar-nominated performance in "The Very Best Stuff.""Initially initially when i first started in film, I used to be afraid from you,Inch according to him. "Now I've not any nervous about the digital camera whatsoever. None. I've become regarding this completely to the level where I am in a position to honestly say will have the ability to occupy that space that Brando personified when he mentioned, 'Just since they say "action" does not necessarily mean you must do anything.'"Shepard has crisscrossed artistic representations, moving from plays to fiction to acting and music. But also for him, the lines still converge inside the theater."It's my job to felt like playwriting was the thread through everything,Inch according to him. "Theater really if you contemplate it includes everything. It might contain film. Film can't contain theater. Music. Dance. Painting. Acting. It's the whole deal. Which is most likely probably the most ancient. It goes back for the Druids. It absolutely was way pre-Christ. It's the form that we feel quite in your house in, because of that, because of having the ability to usurp everything."Copyright 2011 Connected Press. All rights reserved. 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CinemaNow adds HD films on Computers

Best To Buy digital streaming service CinemaNow has added high-definition movies from Warner Bros. and twentieth century Fox to Computers transporting Apple Insider technology. 1080p HD game titles is going to be readily available for rental or purchase on computer systems transporting second-generation Apple Core processors, that have offered an believed 75 million models. Apple Insider is really a security feature stopping piracy on Computers. CinemaNow only offered movies and Television shows in standard definition up to now library totaled 15,000 game titles. HD capacity was initially revealed in The month of january at Electronic Devices Show, when Apple Insider was referred to as Sandy Bridge. Contact Andrew Wallenstein at andrew.wallenstein@variety.com

GWB

A Numeric Pictures presentation of a GogoPatience Craft + Pictureshow production. Produced by Dave Steck, Jonathan Ullman. Co-producer, Aaron Levine. Directed, written by Jonathan Ullman.With: Rayniel Rufino, Luis Antonio Ramos, Raul Esparza, Antonio Ortiz, Alexandra Metz, Olga Merediz, Pablo Gonzalez, Cruz Santiago, Dominic Colon. (English, Spanish dialogue)A kid's carefree escapade snowballs into a crime that threatens everyone around him in Jonathan Ullman's debut feature, "GWB." Set under the titular bridge that dominates Gotham's Washington Heights cityscape, the pic follows the template of most NY-set Latino films, from its streetside domino players to its bodegas as neighborhood nerve centers. But the caution with which its hero, the kid's older brother, navigates an impossible situation gives "GWB" its own peculiar rhythm. The film's virtues may be too understated to project it beyond cable, but its quiet confidence and unassuming stylistic economy prove impressive in themselves. Helmer Ullman launches his characters into intersecting orbits before revealing the event that will throw them out of alignment. Diego (Rayniel Rufino), a sous chef at an expensive restaurant, prepares breakfast for younger bro Javy (Antonio Ortiz). Javy confers with his best pal and co-conspirator, Robbie (Cruz Santiago), before picking up assorted canines for his dog-walking gig. Diego's g.f., Ana (Alexandra Metz), discovers she's pregnant and sets out to inform the unsuspecting papa-to-be. Though the primal act that triggers all subsequent happenings is kept offscreen, bits and pieces of info slowly filter through. Apparently, the night before, Javy and Robbie ignited illegal fireworks in a building that also housed drugs and money. In the ensuing blaze, someone died, a mountain of dope went up in flames and the kids ran off with a sackful of money. Surveillance cameras clearly captured them in the act, and the druglords whose warehouse they inadvertently torched are hot on their trail. Desperate to save Javy from lethal consequences, Diego summons family and friends: Young compadres arrive with guns, and older folks with baseball bats, gathering in solidarity to protect one of their own. Diego then weighs a wide spectrum of possible solutions to his dilemma, some more feasible than others, from absconding with the money to physically eliminating the gangster threat. In Diego, Ullman has created a character who thinks on his feet, even when surrounded by a bevy of impatient helpers. Carefully negotiating each step, he inches his way forward with a mixture of guts and brains, insisting or compromising as his own moral compass and the situation warrant, and repping a very different kind of heroism than anyone around him is accustomed to. All recognize his power, however, including the insolent drug kingpin (a swaggeringly amused Raul Esparza), who wants to employ him. Thesping is uniformly convincing in its laid-back way; as the local bodega owner, vet character actor Luis Antonio Ramos conjures the entire history of the neighborhood in a single glance over his wire-rimmed glasses. Austin Schmidt's HD lensing sharply delineates day and night in time-driven compositions.Camera (color, HD), Austin Schmidt; editor. Patty Schumann; music, Hex Hector; music supervisor, Anthony Palmini; production designer, Alex Brook Lynn; costume designer, Brandon Atherley; sound, Josh Allen; casting, Judy Henderson. Reviewed on DVD, NY, Sept. 30, 2011. (In NY Latino Film Festival.) Running time: 89 MIN. Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com

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ZenithOptimedia Cuts Global Advertising Growth Outlook for 2011 From 4.1% to three.6%

NEW You are able to - Global advertising investing will rise 3.6 percent this season to $466.3 billion, media planning and purchasing firm ZenithOptimedia predicted on Monday, lowering its outlook from the 4.1 % gain it had forecasted in This summer. It reported "a modest downturn in expenditure growth for the finish of the seasonInch among soft economic trends. This summer time, the organization had forecasted global ad investing would achieve $471 billion its 2011, on componen using the peak level arrived at prior to the latest recession. However, on Monday, additionally, it slightly elevated its expectation for major media investing within the U.S. this season from 2.one to two.2 percent among ongoing ad momentum, specifically in cable television and Internet investing. The organization slightly modified its U.S. estimate for network TV momentum this season though from flat to some 2 percent decline, so it needs to become then single percent drop the coming year. ZenithOptimedia predictions $155. billion in U.S. major media ad investing this season, $160.3 billion in 2012 and $166. billion in 2013. "Once we move further past therecession, we expect bigger increases of three.five percent in2012 and 2013" within the U.S., Zenith stated in the latest forecast. That's slightly much better than its previous projection of gains of three.five percent and three.2 percent, correspondingly, within the next 2 yrs. However it reiterated its expectation it would take many years for U.S. ad investing to achieve the amount it had been at in 2008. Formerly, Jonathan Barnard, mind of predicting at ZenithOptimedia, had stated the U.S. ad marketplace is unlikely to achieve the 2007 investing degree of $177.7 billion until 2015 or 2016. This summer time, the organization, that is a part of advertising giant Publicis Groupe, had already slightly decreased its April global ad growth forecast of four.2 percent. "The downturn in economic recovery within the developed marketplaces, combined with rising fears of double-dip recession, have triggered some marketers to trim back budget increases planned for that finish of 2011, but there's been no manifestation of the cancelled campaigns and sharp budget cuts that signaled the start of the final advertising recession in 2008," Zenith stated on Monday. The organization also cut its growth forecast for 2012 from 5.9 % to five.3 %, while calling that outlook "reassuring." It added: "This picture is in line with past ad market growth after many previous stock exchange shocks, presuming the planet economy doesn't deteriorate significantly." 2012 is really a quadrennial year and can enjoy the Summer time Olympic games working in london, the ecu soccer championship and also the U.S. presidential elections. The organization estimations that they'll add $6.2 billion towards the global ad market the coming year. Growth the coming year will even take advantage of Japan's recovery in the earthquake in March, that could account for the next $800 million, based on Zenith. For 2013, the firm slightly reduced its global ad growth outlook from 5.6 to five.five percent, which may bring global ad spend to $518.2 billion. Zenith outlined that global Internet ad investing will exceed newspaper investing in 2013 with $96.4 billion in costs, in comparison to $91.3 billion. "Overall, we predict web advertising increases its share from the ad market from 14.4 % this year to 18.9 % in 2013, if this will overtake newspapers being the earth's second-biggest medium," the firm stated. For that U.S., Zenith this season forecasts the biggest increases in ad spend on the web (12.6 percent, then 16.2 percent in 2012 and 17.3 % in 2013) and cable television (12. percent this season, 10. percent in 2012 and 10.five percent in 2013). "Online ad growth has been driven, simply, by movie, with video advertisements becoming the mainform of brand name advertising within the digital space," Zenith stated. Network TV investing continues trending lower the coming year regardless of the return from the Olympic games to NBC, it recommended. "Using the Olympic games happening working in london, time difference will meanfewer occasions airing live than there have been for that Vancouver Olympic games," the firm described. Zenith also needs cinema advertising costs to determine a 6. percent rise in 2011 and 5. percent gains in 2012 and 2013. Email: Georg.Szalai@thr.com Twitter: @georgszalai Related Subjects NBC

Brett Ratner being honored at Friars fest

RatnerBrett Ratner will probably be honored incorporated within the Friars Club Comedy Film Festival, opening in Gotham March. 12 with SXSW fave "Natural Selection." Danish comedy "Clown: The FilmInch shuts 5-day event, which will screen SXSW alums "Another F Word" and "The FP," Sundance vet "Prairie Love" and Harvey Keitel starrer "A Beginner's Self-help guide to Being" as spotlight films. Also through the fest, "Natural Selection" helmer Robbie Pickering will score an award for breakout comedy filmmaker. Launched this past year, the Friars fest includes four competish groups including U.S. narrative feature, worldwide narrative feature, documentary and short. Overall slate of some 60 films (including shorts) includes "All for starters,In . starring Rutger Hauer, and documents "Adventures in Plymptoons" and "Dying to accomplish Letterman." Ratner is positioned to obtain a kudo for fulfillment in comedy. Friars Club fest runs March. 12-16. Contact Gordon Cox at gordon.cox@variety.com