'Veronica,' 'Wild' bow in Films happening

MADRID -- Brazilian Marcelo Gomes' "Not so long ago Veronica" and Chilean Marialy Rivas' "Youthful and Wild" will unspool in San Sebastian Films happening, a films at rough cut showcase. Gomes' "Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures," which performed Cannes' 2005 Not Certain Regard, remains probably the most spoken-about Brazilian first options that come with the final decade. "Veronica," in regards to a girl attempting to make a brand new existence for herself in Recife, slots in to the co-production deal between France's Urban Factory and Sara Silveira's Sao Paulo-based Dezenove Som e Imagem. Another burgeoning Latin American artpic producer with experience for brand new talent, Pablo and Juan p Dios Larrain's Fabula in Chile, is creating "Wild," the feature debut of LGBT pioneer Marialy Rivas, concerning the bisexual daughter of fervent Evangelist parents. A youthful love tale set under Argentina's dictatorship, Benjamin Avila's "Clandestine Childhood" is lead created by Luis Puenzo's Historias Cinematograficas. The 3 other FIP challengers are less well-known: Gabriel Marino's Mexican road movie, "A Secret World," in regards to a 19-year-old girl looking for herself Colombian Juan Andres Arango's "The Beach," a Bogota-set coming-of-age drama and Juan Carlos Maneglia and Tana Schembori's thriller "7 Boxes," an uncommon Paraguayan production. Also introduced Tuesday, San Sebastian's Arab cinema rough-cut sidebar Cinema moving will reveal new productions from Palestinian Annemarie Jacir ("Salt from the Ocean") and Lebanese helmer duo Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige ("I wish to See"). Jacir will show '60s-set "After I Saw You," concerning the 12-year-old boy of the Palestinian refugee in Jordan, Hadjithomas and Joreige "Une fusee dans le ciel," a docu-aspect of Lebanon's now-forgotten space program. Cinema moving also features Lebanese Civil War docu "Confession and Struggle," from Eliane Raheb, and Yahya Alabdallah's "The Final Friday," activating a broke taxi motorists tries to regain the lady he loves. Friday" forms area of the Jordanian Royal Film Commission's drive to back low-budget photos rich in-profile stars -- for example Ali Suliman ("Body of Lies"). Cinema moving happens Sept. 19 FIP runs Sept. 21-22. Contact Variety Staff at news@variety.com

Charlie Sheen & Brooke Mueller Back Under The Same Roof

FIRST PUBLISHED: August 19, 2011 6:45 PM EDTLAST UPDATED: August 19, 2011 6:57 PM EDT LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Charlie Sheen and Brooke Mueller are once again under the same roof. Sources told Access Hollywood that the former couple, parents to twins Bob and Max, 2, is living together again. The two were even captured together by photo agency Flynet, boarding a small plane on Friday, bound for an unknown destination. Sheen and Mueller filed for divorce in Nov. 2010, almost a year after the famed Christmas Day incident, where he held a knife to his then-wifes throat, during a vacation in Aspen, Colo. Sheen was sentenced to probation in Aug. 2010 over the incident. The pairs divorce was made official in May 2011. Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Inc. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Academy's Sci-Tech Awards Committee Reviewing RealD, Other Technical Advances

The RealD Cinema System, familiar to moviegoers who've been attending 3D movies, is one of the achievements that is being considered for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' annual Scientific and Technical Awards. The Academy's Sci-Tech Committee released a list Friday of nine achievements that have been selected for further awards consideration. The committee releases the list so that individuals and companies with similar devices or claims can submit their own achievements for review. The deadline to submit additional entries is Aug. 30. After investigations are conducted on each of the entries, the committee will meet in early December to vote on recommendations to the Academy's Board of Governors, which will make the final awards decisions. The 2011 Sci-Tech Awards will be presented at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills on Feb. 11. The methods or devices currently under consideration are: Micro-Voxel Volume Rendering (Side Effects Software, Inc.) Mova CONTOUR Dense Mesh Motion Capture (Mova) ARRI Zeiss Master Primes Lens Family (ARRI, Inc.) Phantom High-Speed Cameras for Motion Picture Production (Vision Research. Inc.) Pictorvision Eclipse (Pictorvision, Inc.) RealD Cinema System for Theatrical Projection of Stereoscopic Content (RealD) The "Lowry Process" (Reliance MediaWorks) FUJIFILM Black and White Recording Film ENTERNA-RDS for Archive (FUJIFILM North America Corporation) Lyre Microphone Suspension (Rycote Microphone Windshields, Ltd.) Awards

Food Network Star: Should Jeff, Susie or Vic Win?

Food Network Star After nearly a dozen weeks of competition, the latest Food Network Star will be crowned on Sunday at 9/8c. But who deserves to invade our homes on a regular basis to help fill our tummies? Let's take a look at the finalists: Jeff Mauro, 32 - His simple "Sandwich King" food concept has wide-ranging possibilities as well as widespread appeal. He's been a strong contender from the start and has won a whopping five star challenges in addition to a camera challenge. Let's not forget that he was also able to actually charm Alton Brown -- no small feat -- during the Iron Chef challenge. What's on your Watchlist? Create one and add favorites like Food Network Star Susie Jimenez, 31 - This catering company owner definitely knows how to "Spice It Up," but Mexican cuisine doesn't seem all that new to the Food Network palate. She's only won three challenges, but the most recent Iron Chef challenge win was by far the most impressive. Not only did she exhibit cooking chops and the ability to perform under pressure, but she showed a latent talent working on camera with her natural, unassuming personality. Vic "Vegas" Moea, 36 - This "Mama's Boy" has won four challenges and has come a long way with his cooking and performance skills. His Iron Chef lamb burger summed up how far he's come, and his sweet demeanor is a hit with the judges. He still makes some strange mistakes though (pre-made mint jelly, anyone?), so it remains to be seen if he can truly own his abilities to become a TV personality. Vote for who should win in our poll below! Who should win Food Network Star? Jeff Susie Vic vote view results

Watch Jay-Z and Kanye Play With Pyrotechnics in the New Spike Jonze-Directed 'Otis' Video

What do you get when you combine Jay-Z, Kanye West, pyrotechnics and an Otis Redding sample? Apparently, the new Spike Jonze-directed music video for “Otis,” a track off of Jay-Z and Kanye West’s collaborative album Watch the Throne inspired by Redding’s “Try a Little Tenderness.” Click through to take a look at the explosive fun and keep an eye out for a cameo by 30 Minutes or Less star Aziz Ansari. Get More: JAY Z and Kanye West, Music, More Music Videos The video was shot last month in Los Angeles against an American flag backdrop designed by Italian fashion designer Riccardo Tisci, which was also featured on the single’s artwork. How do you think it stacks up against Jonze’s extended music video for Arcade Fire? [via BadAssDigest.com]

42West Partner And Oscar Strategist Cynthia Swartz Departing To Begin Own PR Firm

EXCLUSIVE: Cynthia Swartz, who grew to become someone at PR giant 42West six several weeks after Leslee Dart left PMK to create her very own company at the end of 2004, is settling her exit. Swartz, who spent 13 years employed by Harvey and Bob Weinstein at Miramax before joining 42West in May 2005, is a vital Oscar-season strategist and skilled launcher of independent film campaigns. This past year, her Oscar-season clients incorporated The Social Networking. Swartz is dealing with the 42West brain-trust to develop a workable exit plan to ensure that she will form her very own PR shingle. I am told that her longtime partners are now being encouraging which it's expected they'll collaborate on future projects. The exit should happen shortly, and we'll convey more about this because it originates. The timing is interesting, since honours season gears up again using the Telluride and Toronto festivals.

News Corp. preps post-scandal strategy

LONDON -- News Corp.'s board will meet in Los Angeles Tuesday for the first time since the U.K. phone hacking and police scandal re-ignited early July. The conglom aims to use the meeting and its accompanying year-end results presentation "to steer attention away from the scandal," according to the Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal. News Corp.'s numbers are expected to be good, said the Journal, adding that directors need to decide what to do with the company's huge cash pile. This coin was earmarked to pay for the 61% of U.K. paybox BSkyB it does not own. The BSkyB bid collapsed early July after the public outcry that followed the news that British tabloid, the News of the World, owned by News Corp. subsid News Intl., had hacked a phone belonging to murdered British school girl Milly Dowler. In March, News Corp.'s surplus was getting on for a gargantuan $12 billion. The Journal speculated that the company's dividend may be raised -- or there could be another stock buyback on top of the $5 billion program already announced. News Corp.'s stock price remains low -- at Friday's close, it was $14.67, down 19% from July 5, the day after the Dowler revelations were first published by U.K. paper the Guardian. At the board meeting, News Corp.'s nine independent directors are expected to discuss the progress of a committee formed by the conglom to help investigate the hacking and accompanying police corruption allegations. Corporation governance critics claim the committee is not genuinely independent because it reports via News Corp. executive Joel Klein to independent director Viet Dinh. There are concerns too that the board is too easily manipulated by Rupert Murdoch, whose family possesses 40% voting control, despite owning a much smaller financial stake in News Corp. The Journal quoted an institutional investor with a small stake, Christian Brothers Investment Services, which wants Murdoch to be divested of his chairmanship and an independent chairman to be appointed at News Corp.'s AGM in October. Tuesday's meeting was expected to see the appointment of Elisabeth Murdoch to the News Corp. board, but in a statement released Friday the company said the Shine topper would no longer be joining the board. She told directors it would be "inappropriate" for her to join and "the independent directors agreed that the previously planned nomination should be delayed." In February, News Corp. bought Shine. At the time Rupert Murdoch said: "Shine has an outstanding creative team that has built a significant independent production company in major markets in very few years, and I look forward to them becoming an important part of our varied and large content creation activities. I expect Liz Murdoch to join the board of News Corporation on completion of this transaction." There have been reports, subsequently denied, that Elisabeth was unhappy about how her brother, James, and News International's then CEO Rebekah Brooks, were handling the hacking and police corruption crisis. Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com

Mark Neveldine talks Nic Cage in Ghost Driver 2

Director Mark Neveldine saysGhost Driver 2starNicolas Cage shares exactly the same degree of madness as themself and co-director John Taylor.That's saying something, particularly when the pointing duo did from curler skating behind a motorbike to swinging on bungee cords to shoot moments in Ghost Driver: Spirit Of Vengeance."Nic [Cage] is really as insane once we are, that is nice since it is a pleasant mixture of insane forces. A conference from the madness, I suppose you can refer to it as,Inch Neveldine informs Marvel.com.Neveldine, who shot both Crank films together with his pointing partner Taylor, seemed to be astounded by Cage's dedication towards the character."He's so enthusiastic about it and thus cerebral about this. Discuss controlled chaos, that's Nicolas. He considers exactly what he is doing, and he's got grounds for this. An intellectual reason along with a poetic reason behind every choice he makes," Neveldine states."Once he's everything foundation, this is when you allow him to loose. Then it is only a ramping the knob up. "Oh, let us do that undertake 11, Nic. Let us do that one on 15. You may can modulate this lower and do that on nine and half." Once he's that, once they know what he's doing and why, he then really puts your dream within the demon."Ghost Driver: Spirit Of Vengeance opens in United kingdom movie theaters on 22 Feb 2012.

Denis OHare Wishing To Reinvent Russell Edgington For True Bloodstream Return

By Jolie LashBEVERLY Hillsides, Calif. -- True Bloodstream creator Alan Ball has stated hed prefer to bring Russell Edgington to Bon Temps in Season 5, but Denis OHare needs another kind of former Mississippi vampire king when his ancient character returns. The secret is which men are better in internet marketing than I'm however the trick would be to reinvent [Russell], while he cant return and become exactly the same guy, Denis told Access Hollywood on Saturday. Hes gotta return changed in some manner as well as in an unexpected way and that i anticipate whatever theyre selecting related to him. Denis, who stars in Ryan Murphy and Kaira Falchuks American Horror Story on Forex, which premieres on March. 5, stated its all within the True Bloodstream authors hands regarding his go back to the Cinemax show. But, when requested if he, personally, needs Russell to return from his cased-in-concrete Season 3 ending, bent on avenging the staking dying of his longtime love Talbot, Denis stated he thinks his character would return with an infinitely more surprising group of motives. The one thing I really like about him is his dreams arent petty. Hes never motivated by anything petty, and so i cant let's suppose he returned hed be motivated by simple revenge, Denis stated. I believe hes always out for something bigger. While Talbots true dying happened after he was secured by Eric Northman (Alexander Skarsgard), Denis stated Russells experience over the centuries could make his return more complicated. You will find dreams which are larger than that, you will find ambitions larger than that. And hes been alive 2,800 years, he was with Talbot for 700 years. Not saying it was just a short time, but hell do his grieving and hell move ahead, Denis noted. So possibly a submit politics then? Politics sounds great, he smiled. Although hes had roles across film and tv, playing Russell and particularly the scene in which the then-king required on the national news broadcast and gave an address that upset vampire-human politics has fans pleading the actor to repeat his lines in public places. I recieve individuals who want me to express the final line, Now time for that weather. Tiffany? I recieve lots of that, he smiled. However it would be a brilliant monologue that [True Bloodstream author] Alexander Woo produced and that i am pleased to have the ability to get it done. It had been the type of meat that being an actor you imagine getting. And That I am lucky to have the ability to have that. At night rumored True Bloodstream return, Denis is wishing to return to CBS drama, The Great Wife, where he plays the thorn-in-Alicia-Florricks-side-judge, Charles Abernathy. I really hope so. My home is New You are able to and whenever Im there plus they call me up Ive had the opportunity in the future and do one. And Im wishing that theyll call me back because I really like that, he stated. I really like that demonstrate and that i like Alicia fine, as lengthy as shes on point, legally. Things I love about this character is that he's honest and that he has integrity and that he rules against their own instincts once the law informs him he needs to. I believe thats amazing. I really like that. Focusing on The Great Wife also keeps Denis nearer to his family his new husband Hugo Redwood and also the promote child the pair has had in. You want to adopt and that we desired to adopt for a long time and that we made the decision we wanted to get it done in your area and that we wanted to get it done having a child who's already in the region who needed a house, Denis told Access. And our boy was really born in Queens. Hes not ours yet, hes a promote child but were wishing were on the track to consider him. Engaging in the thick from it with diapers in abundance, Denis stated fatherhood is a wonderful. Its great, hes an attractive kid and that we love him, he added. Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Corporation. All privileges reserved.These components might not be released, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Marvel Progressing With Doctor Strange

Script approved; director sought.... Gone are the days when Guillermo Del Toro was planning it as a collaboration with Neil Gaiman, but there's confirmation this morning that Marvel are still moving ahead with a movie based around Sorceror Supreme Doctor Strange. Conan and Sahara writers Josh Oppenheimer and Thomas Dean Donnelly have turned in their their long-awaited script to the House of M, and it's clearly been judged successful enough to be worth pursuing. The current word is that it's now out to a short-list of directors, one of whom will, obviously enough, oversee continued development . Stephen Strange is a key player in the Marvel universe, although he represents the slightly more esoteric magical and supernatural corners rather than the ones that deal with mutant superpowers and military super-armour. A surgeon whose hands were ruined in an accident, he turned to mysticism to compensate, and was good enough at it to become the world's first defence against demons and spectres and things that go bump in the night or even by daylight. For a while there was talk of a series of Marvel short films to support the heavyweight Avengers-related strand, and Strange seemed to have been relegated to those; there was even a brief rumbling that PIxar might be involved. That plan appears now to have been back-burnered (or abandoned), and we're back in a world in which Dr Strange looks to be part of Marvel's full post-Avengers slate, perhaps arriving in 2013. He's one of the best characters we have, Marvel's Kevin Feige said a couple of years back. He represents this fantastic cosmic universe that hasn't yet seen life on screen, and I think he'd be amazing to play with. Watch this space for updates on who exactly will be playing with him, and in the meantime, give us your personal wish-lists in the comments below.