Paul Walker In Talks For Luc Bessons District B 13 Redo Brick Mansions

EXCLUSIVE: Paul Walker is in talks to star in Brick Mansions, the Americanized remake of the Paris-set Banlieue 13. The film has a script by Luc Besson (who co-wrote the original) and Robert Mark Kamen, Bessons collaborator on Taken. The idea is for Walker to star with David Belle. Belle starred in the original and the sequel District 13: Ultimatum and he is also credited with creating Parkour, a sport that involves agility and leaping and climbing around obstacles. There is a lot of that in these films. The film will be set in American city, most likely Chicago. Walker will play an undercover detective chasing a weapon of mass destruction that was stolen by a drug dealer in the ghetto known as Brick Mansions. He seeks help from the incredibly agile Lino (Belle), who knows Brick Mansions better than anyone and is the only person not cowering in fear of the drug dealers. Bessons Europa Corp is producing, and while a number of Hollywood actors wanted the Lino role, Besson would not make the movie unless Belle was in it. The original Banlieue 13 was directed by Pierre Morel, who went on to direct Bessons Taken and From Paris With Love. Besson is giving this directing job to another protg, but the company would not reveal who he is. Europa Corp will soon make a domestic distribution deal, which never seems to be a problem with the modestly budgeted smart action thrillers that Besson hatches. Im sure there will be AFM action on Brick Mansions, though Besson is preoccupied with the Oscar season launch of The Lady, the film he directed with Michelle Yeoh starring as Burmese democracy reformist Aung San Suu Kyi and David Thewlis playing her husband Michael Aris, who kept their family together while she was placed under house arrest for more than a decade. Both are expected to be in the awards season mix after the film bowed at 2011 Toronto Film Festival and was acquired for domestic distribution by Cohen Media Group. Walker will make the film before reprising his role in The Fast and the Furious 6. Hes repped by UTA and Luber Rocklin. Here is a trailer from the sequel that captures the acrobatics and action that distinguished both films:

Screen Gems launches 'B Boy' production

Screen Gems has commenced production round the dance film "Planet B Boy," which will star Josh Holloway ("Lost"), Laz Alonso, Josh Peck, Chris Brown and Caity Lotz.Benson Lee is pointing in the script by Brin Hill and Chris Parker. Love Flynn and Tripp Vinson will produce with Amy Lo.Inspired by Lee's award-winning documentary "Planet B-Boy," the feature follows a thrilling-star American b-boy crew training to compete within the Fight of year Worldwide Game titles in France. The crew in addition to their coach must go facing the most effective b-boys in the world -- the Koreans, the Russians as well as the French, who've centered the first American dance form in the last decade.Undertaking a short shoot in La, the film continues production in Montpellier, France.Most broadly noted for playing Sawyer on ABC's "Lost," Holloway will rapidly be seen alongside Tom Cruise in Paramount's "Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol," which hits IMAX theaters on 12 ,. 16 and many types of other screens on 12 ,. 21.Alonso recently starred in Spike Lee's "Miracle at St. Anna" and James Cameron's "Avatar."Peck, who next appears opposite Chris Hemsworth in MGM's remake of "Red-colored-colored Beginning," also stars in IFC's approaching thriller "ATM."A common recording artist, Brown has formerly starred in Screen Gems' "Takers" and "Stomp the Yard." He'll next be viewed in "Think As being a Guy."Lotz, which has had roles on AMC's "Mad Males" and NBC's "Law & Order: La,Inch will next be viewed in "The Pact."Holloway and Hill are represented by WME, while UTA as well as the Collective repetition Peck. ICM reps Lee and Alonso, who's handled by Thruline Entertainment. Lotz is represented by Greene & Affiliate marketers Talent Agency. Brown is repped by CAA and manager Tina Davis. Parker is repped with the Gersh Agency and manager Noah Rosen. Contact Rob Sneider at rob.sneider@variety.com

Jobs 'Saturday Evening Live' Skit Hits Web (Video)

An unaired skit in the March. 15 Anna Faris-located episode of Saturday Evening Live was launched on Tuesday, showing an appropriate tribute towards the late Apple co-founder Jobs.our editor recommendsSteve Jobs: 10 Memorable Key events from the Apple Co-Founder's CareerSteve Jobs Dying: Tech and Entertainment Industry Responds "SNL was continue doing this week but enjoy Charlie Rose speaking Jobs in #CutFromDress sketch," Seth Meyers authored on Twitter. PHOTOS: Jobs: 10 Memorable Key events from the Apple Co-Founder's Career The clip shows other leaders of tech, including Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg (Andy Samberg), Huffington Publish Editor-in-Chief Arianna Huffington (Nasim Pedrad), Netflix Boss Reed Hastings (Jason Sudeikis), and News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch (Fred Armisen) within an interview with Charlie Rose (Bill Hader). Rose asks our prime-profile figures what Jobs trained them. "Mr. Jobs trained me you could bring beauty to everything about technology," states Zuckerberg, who "outfitted up" for that occasion. PHOTOS: Apple Items in TV and films "Facebook.com began off like a simple easy to use website, however it is simply chaos,Inch younger crowd states "I have visited the Huffington Publish office maybe 10 or five occasions," states Huffington, whose over-pronunciation by Pedrad is place-on. PHOTOS: Hollywood's Notable Deaths "He'd great ideas, he labored incredibly hard and that he never jeopardized. He set an irritatingly high standard of integrity," states Hastings. "We suck at this time,Inch stated Hastings. "Evaluating Apple to Netflix is much like evaluating apples to oranges. Particularly if the oranges made a lot of mistakes that individuals stopped eating oranges and returned to Blockbuster." Watch the entire clip below: Jobs Saturday Evening Live Arianna Huffington Reed Hastings

The Talk Taps Aisha Tyler as Co-Host

Aisha Tyler Aisha Tyler will join CBS' The Talk as co-host, Deadline reviews. Tyler, 41. begins her new gig on Monday and may sit alongside co-hosts Sara Gilbert, Julie Chen, Sheryl Underwood and Sharon Osbourne. She and Underwood replace Leah Remini and Carol Robinson Peete who left the show in August. Have a look at really current day news Tyler, whose credits include Pals and Ghost Whisperer, already has some hosting experience. Besides formerly guesting round the talk show, she situated E!'s Talk Soup in 2001.

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Viacom Urges Appeals Court To Order Jury Trial In YouTube Suit

Viacom and Google/YouTube were back in court Tuesday arguing over last year’s federal district court ruling that relieved YouTube and its parent Google of massive copyright infringement charges, Bloomberg reported. Viacom told a panel of three judges in the court of appeals in Manhattan that the lower court should have let a jury hear the case in which YouTube was accused of allowing users to upload videos of Viacom shows South Park and The Daily Show With Jon Stewart and other shows as well as movies from Paramount Pictures. Viacom’s attorney said YouTube willfully ignored copyright violations by users posting video clips without authorization. That unauthorized content, Viacom argued, fueled the company’s rapid growth and Google eventually bought YouTube for $1.65 billion. YouTube pointed out that Viacom also had been a suitor and it was only after negotiations broke down and Google made the winning bid that Viacom sent the legally required takedown notices for infringing videos. YouTube’s lawyer told the appellate court panel it removed infringing videos as soon as it was notified by copyright owners. On that basis, U.S. District Judge Louis Stanton ruled last year that YouTube was protected from liability under the “safe harbor” provision of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The judges appeared skeptical of sending the case back to a jury for trial, PaidContent said, because of the difficulty of ascertaining whether many thousands of clips were infringing and how much to award in damages. YouTube’s attorney urged the appellate panel not to disturb the the lower court ruling, and the panel appeared receptive to his position that it was not YouTube’s job to monitor infringements but the responsibility of copyright holders. British soccer organization Football Association Premier League Ltd. and some music publishers who had followed Viacom in suing YouTube also appealed the lower-court ruling. The judges said they would rule later.

GSN Taps Amy Introcaso-Davis to Lead Programming Department

Amy Introcaso-Davis has been tapped as head of programming at Game Show Network.our editor recommendsOxygen Programming Chief Amy Introcaso-Davis Steps Down (Exclusive) She'll join GSN as executive vp programming beginning Nov. 1, reporting to president and CEO David Goldhill and based in Los Angeles. PHOTOS: 'Glee' Season 3: The Episodics At GSN, she'll be responsible for developing and acquiring programming designed to grow GSN's core audience of adult females. "Amy has an impressive track record of creating phenomenally successful and culturally relevant content. We're particularly pleased to have her join GSN in a year when we've substantially increased our original programming and acquired some exciting series to engage our audience," Goldhill said in a statement. "Amy's creative vision and leadership will be critical as we continue to enhance our programming choices for our viewers." STORY: Oxygen Programming Chief Amy Introcaso-Davis Steps Down (Exclusive) Added Introcaso-Davis: "As a fan, I have loved watching updates of such iconic series as The Newlywed Game on GSN. I am energized by the network's commitment to increasing original production and am excited by the prospect of leading the charge to redefine the game show for this multiplatform world." Introcaso-Davis led programming and development at Bravo and Oxygen during transformational periods at both networks. At Bravo, she developed and executive produced Queer Eye for the Straight Guy --the series that helped re-define Bravo -- as well as Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List and the Real Housewives franchise. She segued from Bravo to Oxygen in 2008. Her three-year--plus tenure as head of programming at Oxygen was marked by ratings growth in the network's core demographic of young women. But Oxygen's ratings surge may have plateaued. And Introcaso-Davis left Oxygen last summer in the wake of disappointing runs for heavily hyped series The World According to Paris and Glee reality spinoff The Glee Project. Related Topics Bravo Oxygen

New Line, McCarthy in talks for 'Tammy'

New Line may be headed on the journey with Melissa McCarthy, developing "Tammy" while using "Bridesmaids" thesp as an starring vehicle from her spec script. The Warner Bros. subsidiary confirmed Monday it's at predicts acquire McCarthy's script of a lady who handles to get rid of her job at Hardee's, uncover that her husband is cheating on her behalf account and continues a trip along with her foul-mouthed grandmother. McCarthy may even professional produce "Tammy." McCarthy won an Emmy lately for CBS's "Mike & Molly" and may appear Judd Apatow's "Knocked Up spin-off for Universal. She's also installed on Uni's comedy "I.D. Robbery" opposite Jason Bateman of a guy which has identity stolen having a lady. McCarthy is represented by CAA. Contact Dork McNary at dork.mcnary@variety.com

Shame Trailer: Michael Fassbender Battles Sex Addiction For an Oscar

For the past few weeks, Movieline’s own S.T. VanAirsdale has been listing Michael Fassbender as one of the top five front runners for next year’s Best Actor Oscar for his work in Steve McQueen’s* upcoming erotic drama Shame. Finally, a trailer for the acclaimed film has surfaced, giving evidence again for why Fassbender — who played X-Men: First Class’s Magneto — is so worthy of your crushes, why he ran away with the Best Actor Award at this year’s Venice Film Festival and why all of those early rave reviews for Shame were warranted. *Not the Steve McQueen you’re thinking of. This Steve McQueen is a British filmmaker responsible for the 2008 film Hunger. Stephanie Zacharek, who saw the film in Venice this September, set up Shame’s premise elegantly for Movieline: Fassbender plays Brandon, a successful NY professional who suffers from sexual compulsive behavior. You might call him a sex addict if that term didn’t conjure visions of David Duchovny and Charlie Sheen acting out like spoiled schoolyard kids, and what Brandon suffers is more peculiar and more painful. He has assignations with hookers; he initiates potential encounters with luscious strangers he sees on the subway; at work, he leaves his desk for the men’s room, where he relieves his urges with joyless efficiency. His boss, David (James Badge Dale), is also something of a buddy — the two troll city bars together, looking to pick up women, though the prattling David strikes out more often than he scores, while Brandon barely needs to arch an eyebrow. Even as David tries to glom onto Brandon’s subterranean attractiveness, he also seems to be finding subtle ways to register his disgust with Brandon’s beyond-healthy sex drive: Early in the movie, Brandon finds that his computer has been whisked away temporarily by the company’s tech department. He knows — and we know — why. Brandon’s world is further shaken when his jazz singer sister Sissy (Carey Mulligan) shows up, requesting a place to crash for a week or two. Her reappearance in Brandon’s life forces him to deal with his own pain and self-hatred and to wage war on his own body. The drama also stars James Badge Dale and Nicole Beharie and was filmed last spring in NY City. Fassbender last worked with McQueen on Hunger, the BAFTA-winning feature about the 1981 Irish hunger strike. Shame, which was acquired by Fox Searchlight for approximately $400,000, will work its way into U.S. theaters December 2. Read Zacharek’s full write-up here. [Guardian via CinemaBlend]

HBOs Enlightened On A Soft Start

Opening a brand new evening of original programming is difficult, so anticipation for Cinemax’s new Monday 9 PM comedy block — which faces CBS’ comedies, ABC’s Dwts, Fox’s House and ESPN’s Monday Evening Football — were modest. Even with that standard, the well-received new Mike Whitened/Laura Dern comedy Enlightened opened up low with 210,000 audiences at 9:30 PM. It ended up just a little from the lead-in, the 3rd season premiere of Bored To Dying, which came 240,000 audiences. Cool noir comedy Bored To Dead was lower significantly from the season premiere last fall, which averaged 1.05 million audiences, but in those days, the show broadcast every sunday following Boardwalk Empire, which came 3.33 million audiences around the evening from the Bored debut. This time around around, it's dark comedy Hung that follows Boardwalk Empire and, like Bored to Dying this past year, it opened up with 1.a million audiences earlier this year. (Boardwalk Empire drenched 2.six million that evening) Sophomore comedy Steps To Make It To America dropped further to 467,000 audiences at 10:30 PM. While soft, the amounts for Bored and Enlightened were only slightly lower in the average for an additional half-hour series that broadcast outdoors Cinemax’s signature Sunday evening, drama In Treatment.

Kelsey Grammer's Daughter Spencer Gives Birth to some Choosing

Spencer Grammer Greek alum Spencer Grammer delivered an infant boy on Monday, People reviews. The 28-year-old daughter of Kelsey Grammer has become a parent to Emmett Emmanual, who considered in at 7 pounds, 7 oz .. "Mother and boy do wonderfully," a repetition for that actress told playboy. Spencer Grammer marries This is actually the first child for Grammer and husband James Hesketh, who married in Feb only one next day of her father and stepmother Camille Grammer completed their divorce. Spencer may be the Frasier's star only daughter together with his first wife, dance instructor Doreen Alderman.

Busan: Fest maps new future

'Always'It's been a difficult year for that folks running the Busan Intl. Film Festival. Because the retirement of former director Kim Dong-ho, they have needed to fight experts from both domestic film industry and also the worldwide community the fest might seriously decline without Kim's leadership. However the 16th edition of Asia's biggest film festival is able to step forward right into a new trend, with a brand new title and new headquarters.Festival director Lee Yong-kwan, overtaking from Mr. Kim, because he is passionately known, reaches participate in the completed Busan Cinema Center -- planned since 2004, finally breaking ground in 2008. Despite worries within the $137 million construction, the conclusion was spurred through the city government this season. The festival re-top quality itself using the city's British title Busan (from Pusan) as well as re-named its project market, the Pusan Promotion Plan, the Asian Project Market.The festival geography has moved from Haeundae and Nampodong to Centum City, that is situated three subway stops from Haeundae. "You will find there's total five new screens within the center. The theaters in Nampodong are a little backward for screening venues," states Lee.The Centum City continues to be developed being an infrastructure for film industry. Shops, hotels and production clothes pepper the middle together with the Busan Cinema Center and Bexco, the city's convention center. Asian Film Market, Bifcom and Asian Film Policy will even occupy Bexco, because of the little space within the rooms in hotels in Haeundae, where these were locked in previous years.Opening with Korean helmer Song Il-gon's "Always," 307 films from 70 nations happen to be asked including 71 features making world premieres. When it comes to Asian films, the festival offers a mixture of veteran helmers and new talents."In a Window on Asian Cinema section, you'll be able to see many new names transfusing fresh bloodstream in to the world cinema, for example Philippines' Adolfo Alix Junior. and Japan's Ishii Yuya," states the executive programmer Kim Ji-seok."For Brand New Power, the Asian film competition section, we attempted to broaden our selection scope toward various areas in West Asia and South Asia, with a feeling of balance" Kim adds. However, experts observe that the choice shows the festival's preference for Japanese films over other nations, and does not include enough Chinese films, thinking about the output and economic might of this country.Nonetheless, the festival has extended itself by starting occasions and increasing the size of support programs. You will find festival honours, a cash prize for that non-Asian film competition section Expensive Forward, and also the Asian Cinema Fund. Also new may be the Busan Cinema Forum, an academic conference, and World Documentary Exchange (WDE), a documentary network between Europe, America and Asia to spread out in the options of multinational co-production.The alterations goal to construct Busan right into a heavyweight cinema center. Awaiting the moving from the Korean Film Council to Busan in 2013, the festival has began to bolster collaborations with Kofic. Their goal would be to continue the status because the representative Asian film festival on the planet, in addition to to become gateway for Korean films toward worldwide market.HIGHLIGHTSSHIFT IN FOCUSThe Busan Cinema Center will host most tests and occasions, shifting the fest's center from Haeundae and Nampodong towards the just-finished $137 million headquarters.REGIONAL SPOTLIGHTKorean film "Always" opens the fest while Japanese pic "Chronicle of My Mother," from Harada Masato, shuts the big event.Around The Red-colored CARPETLee Jeong-hyang's "Grounds to reside,Inch Luc Besson's "The Woman,Inch Peter Chan's "Wu xia," Amir Naderi's "Cut" and Johnnie To's "Existence Without Principle" are probably the gala tests.EXTRA DIMENSIONBong Joon-ho's monster classic "The Host" will get a three dimensional conversion along with a gala screening slot.TEACHABLE MOMENTSMaster classes scheduled include Isabelle Huppert, who's also the topic of a photograph exhibition, Yonfan, Luc Besson and Hirokazu Kore-eda. Huppert, Besson, Yonfan and Kim Ki-duk will even take part in the fest's hands-printing ceremony, restricted to special honorees.SCHOOL'S IN SESSIONThe BIFF Academy will host various workshops varying from piracy to three dimensional to extreme Portuguese cinema.ASIA FOCUSAs always, BIFF's programs A Window on Asian Cinema, Korean Cinema Today and New Power highlight the very best of the region's film fare.FEST TRAVELER: BUSAN INTL. FILM FESTIVAL Fest maps new future Regional leader Hark made Hong Kong a worldwide pressure Q&A: Lee Yong-kwan Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com

Somewhere

A Vintage Globe presentation from the play by 50 percent operates by Matthew Lopez. Directed by Giovanna Sardelli. Choreography, Greg Graham. Sets, Campbell Baird costumes, Charlotte now now Devaux lighting, Lap Chi Chu appear, Jeremy J. Lee. Opened up up Sept. 29, 2011. Examined March. 1. Runs through March. 30. Running time: 2 Several hours, 35 MIN.Inez Candelaria - Priscilla Lopez Alejandro Candelaria - Jon Rua Francisco Candelaria - Juan Javier Cardenas Rebecca Candelaria - Benita Robledo Jamie MacRae - Leo Ash EvensThere's an excellent play somewhere within "Somewhere," though not. A Puerto Rican family's embrace of Broadway tuners becoming an avoid harsh reality circa 1959 is a good premise, although one according to harsh reality's really being described. This doesn't happen much in Giovanna Sardelli's world premiere Old Globe production. Obviously, the devil's inside the particulars, and too often scribe Matthew Lopez's choices are baffling, lame or perverse inside the extreme. In outline, Lopez seems intentionally being aping "The Glass Menagerie." Like the Wingfields of St. Louis, the Candelarias of West 66th St., Manhattan are actually abandoned by father, departing overpossessive, delusional mother a too-sensitive daughter together with a inflammed boy hooked in difficult physical work. You will discover a "gentleman caller," a childhood friend now which causes it to be large inside the The The Big Apple, together with an additional sister whose dream would be the following Brando. The playing in the cast albums cheers everyone simply because they watch out for Pop to redeem their perennial shortness of cash. (He's allegedly experienced California trying to find use couple of years now, though from the way they mourn his absence you'd think he'd been sent up in Sputnik.) Yet unaccountably, Lopez has run out of his approach to imbue these figures avoid hopelessness though energy and promise. Consequently, each of their problems ring spectacularly false. Showbiz is not any mirage in this household. Mama Inez (Priscilla Lopez) can certainly sing and dance, while Rebecca (Benita Robledo) has Broadway-ready stems. Grocery clerk Alejandro (Jon Rua) will be a kid actor with Yul Brynner in "The King which i,Inch and could still go tap-for-tap with old friend Jamie (Leo Ash Evens), now being Jerome Robbins' assistant. It's not apparent whether Francisco (Juan Javier Cardenas) has any genuine gift when he re-produces "Round the Waterfront," but no less than he's attractive and spirited stars have built careers on less. The bottom line is, this is often a family full of talent and fire, whom Lopez demands on representing as calcified sufferers. Our eagerness becomes almost incalculable because they self-pitying wheezers won't begin existence. Figures say "Nothing ever changes around here" on no less than three separate occasions, however when it doesn't, whose fault is always that? No real peril ever expects the Candelarias. Even their imminent eviction to produce way of Lincoln subsequently subsequently Center can be a non-problem, because they are being resettled in the better flat in Brooklyn. Yet Lopez gets the nerve to keep pushing the buttons for poignancy, feebly playing the race card in order to boost the stakes. The supreme buzz-killer is Alejandro, every word from whose mouth is "no" but whose hereditary negativity is not adequately established. "Maybe we just can't afford to dream any more,Inch he muses in the typical burst of corny bringdown. All you want to do is shake the mind at Lopez's handling from the monumental killjoy, who concocts instructions-writing plan tailor-made to ruin his mother's existence but is not referred to as about it. Getting composed a script we're introduced to consider has real possible ways to save your family, the lad tosses it of the question in the phony literary gesture much like a college freshman's first short story. Lap Chi Chu is relevant his lighting wizardry to periodic pink-well toned fantasy sequences, in which the figures dance out their secret desires. Greg Graham's choreography is top quality, and Charlotte now now Devaux's costumes show keen knowledge of the period's materials and silhouettes. However, these interludes would play much more effective once they offered really a contrast while using overdone, overacted "book moments" surrounding them, so when the dreams described weren't so clearly within the dreamers' real-existence grasp. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com

'Moneyball' can't catch 'Lion King'

'Moneyball' and 'Dolphin Tale' turn to have legs in the B.O. 'Dolphin Tale'While "Moneyball" starts Sony's fall control of adult-skewing photos, a set of family photos, Disney's "The Lion King" and WB's "Dolphin Tale," demonstrated to become heavy players too. The Kaira Pitt starrer first showed Stateside within the Sept. 23-25 weekend with $19.5 million, sufficient to conquer Warner Bros.' decently allocated "Dolphin Tale" (costing within the mid-$$ 30 million range), which arrived in third place with $19.two million.Nor new entry gained enough to top Disney's steady three dimensional reissue "The Lion King," which made $21.9 million, for any minimal soph-sesh drop of 27%. For "Moneyball," The new sony used exactly the same plan it had for "The Social Networking" last fall, when that film opened up to $22 million and continued to cume $97 million locally. The studio states "Moneyball" may also gross around four occasions its opening the pic's greatest problem will arise with worldwide auds, the majority of whom (except in Japan and Columbia) aren't baseball fans.So that they can lower the pic's overseas hurdle, The new sony used a worldwide online marketing strategy that centered on Pitt, and fewer on baseball. The pic's early one-sheet, for example, portrayed a virtually unrecognizable Pitt sitting on a baseball area, that was later transformed to have a close-from the actor."Moneyball" will face tough competish around the adult front, including Sony's own George Clooney-helmed "The Ides of March" bowing March. 7. Contact Andrew Stewart at andrew.stewart@variety.com