AMPAS announces Nicholl finalists

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has announced the finalists for the 2011 Nicholl Screenwriting Fellowship. Finalists were parsed from a record 6,730 submitted scripts and include seven individual writers and three writing teams. Scripts will be judged by the Academy's Nicholl Committee, and up to five of the $30,000 fellowships could be awarded. Winners will be expected to complete a feature-length screenplay during their fellowship year. Selected scripts in running for the fellowships are "Guns and Saris" (Chris Bessounian and Tianna Langham); "Cutter" (Dion Cook); "Blood Bound" (K.E. Greenberg); "Parasite" (Ehud Lavski); "Outside the Wire" (John MacInnes); "Fig Hunt: The Quest for Battle Armor Star Captain" (Aaron Marshall); "A Man of Clay" (Khurram Mozaffar); "Unicorn" (Matthew Murphy); "The Tiger's Child" (Abel Vang and Burlee Vang); and "A Many Splintered Thing" (Paul Vicknair and Chris Shafer). This year's fellowships will be presented Nov. 3 at the Beverly Wilshire in Los Angeles. Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com

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Finally: The Harrison Ford/Sean Young Reunion You've Been Waiting For

In the discussion as to whether or not Daniel Craig is the new Harrison Ford, we should note one critical factor separating screen legend from his younger, blonder Hollywood counterpart: Just one of them has weathered a film with Sean Young and lived to not only tell the tale, but also keep the flame alive in a moment of late-career triumph. That was the spirit on Saturday night, anyway, when the Blade Runner co-stars were reunited in L.A. for the 50th Anniversary Stuntmens Gala Honoring Harrison Ford. Fun! I mean, think how easy it would have been to just bring out Carrie Fisher. Still, this only makes me wonder what Alison Doody is up to these days. [Click right for full-size image; photo via Getty Images]

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Fantastic Fest: Frodo Manages to lose Epic Nerd Fantasy Boxing Match

A fast update from Austin, in which the Fantastic Debates happened at night time pitting filmmakers, stars, and astrophysicists against one another in spoken debates before pounding it within the boxing ring: Should you be betting on Elijah Wood to reign victorious over The almighty from the Rings buddy Dominic Monaghan (or perhaps in Hobbit terms, Frodo versus. Merry, who have been discussing the masterdom of some other fantasy nerd obsession, Wow), you’d have forfeit. Monaghan triumphed handily within the ring and won everyone else over by revealing he plays the overall game being an Undead Warlock and when met a comely lady WoW player personally simply to uncover she was “a guy named Dork.” Stars — they’re much like us? Have more updates from Fantastic Fest here and follow Movieline on Twitter.

Roseannes Nuts Axed!

FIRST Released: September 22, 2011 11:34 AM EDT La, Calif. -- It seems reality TV would be a tough nut for Roseanne Barr to hack! Lifetime confirmed to gain access to Hollywood that Roseannes Nuts continues to be cancelled. Roseanne first introduced this news on Twitter on Wednesday. Roseannes Nuts continues to be cancelled, she authored. thanks everybody for watching! Including another Tweet, glad everyone loved #roseannesnuts-@Lifetimetv made the decision to not renew it. Despite her reality series getting axed, Roseanne is placed to come back to everything about primetime sitcoms in Downwardly Mobile, a project shes slated to create and star in. Her new sitcom will apparently focus on a blue-collar family coping with hard occasions, Entertainment Weekly reported recently. Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Corporation. All privileges reserved.These components might not be released, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

John Turteltaub On Last Las vegas

Pointing senior citizens' stag nightEighteen several weeks ago the sale was to Jack Nicholson to star within the geriatric bachelor party movie Last Las vegas. It appears as though he either passed or perhaps is biding his time, but Last Las vegas has acquired a director, in National Treasure's John Turteltaub. It has been all change at the very top, since Turteltaub is changing Peter Chelsom (Shall We Dance, Hannah Montana) that has departed for reasons unspecified. Turteltaub gets a script by Serta Fogelman (Cars, Bolt, Crazy Stupid Love) four lengthy out-of-touch buddies in the 50s who reunite in Las vegas for that wedding of Billy, the group's playboy and allegedly confirmed bachelor. The truth is, widower Paddy also requires a shine to Billy's lounge singer fiance.... It's Bachelor Party meets The Bucket List or even the Hangover meets Irritated Old Males or perhaps a gift to make lazy seem-bitey explanations from older films. The project is going ahead at Mandate pictures, with Ray Mark (Dreamgirls) creating and Nathan Kahane (Juno) professional-creating. Nicholson aside (and Nicholson is not inside it yet), there is no cast to date, but considering the fact that the director made both National Treasures and also the Sorcerer's Apprentice, surely he is able to make room for Nicolas Cage to revisit the town that won him his Oscar.... A dishonest croupier maybe? Billy's wayward boy, along for that ride and also the chicks?

First The Kids Stars Sign Onto Remain On The Program

Prospect Park, the business, that's overpowering from ABC in creating canceled soaps The Kids then one Existence To Reside In for online distribution, just introduced it's showed up at the beginning agreement with AMC cast people to continue around the program. Pending one last sign off by AFTRA, the heavens who've dedicated to stick to AMC are Cameron Mathison (Ryan Lavery) and Lindsay Hartley (Dr. Cara Castillo Martin). The initial cleaning cleaning soap actor Prospect Park showed up at to after obtaining the rights to AMC and OLTL was AMC star Susan Lucci. After she ultimately switched lower the financial offer, mentioned being matching her current salary at ABC, Prospect Park moved its target the greater-rated OLTL, signing four stars within the show additionally to executive producer Frank Valentini who'll continue AMC since it migrates online in addition to work as V . p . Serial Dramas at Prospect Park.

Dying from the Superhero

A Bavaria Film Intl. presentation from the Bavaria Pictures and Grand Pictures production in co-production with Picture Circle, Cinemendo/Trixter, CinePostproduction and Bavaria Film. (Worldwide sales: Bavaria Film Intl., Geiselgasteig, Germany.) Produced by Astrid Kahmke, Philipp Kreuzer, Michael Garland. Executive producers, Matthias Esche, Jan S. Kaiser, Anthony McCarten, Paul Donovan. Co-producers, Mark Porsche, Michael Coldewey, Christian Sommer. Directed by Ian FitzGibbon. Script, Anthony McCarten, from his novel.With: Andy Serkis, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Aisling Loftus, Michael McElhatton, Sharon Horgan. (British dialogue)Adolescence is generally referred to needs to be existence and dying, but that's virtually the problem in helmer Ian FitzGibbon's coming-of-age-with-cancer romance "Dying from the Superhero.Inch Pic sidesteps cloying sentimentality and high-handedness using a good cast, introduced by Thomas Brodie-Sangster just like a budding graphic novelist whose days may be designated, but whose imagination fills the screen with macabre cartoons fueled by anger, frustration plus an artistic soul. Combination of live-action and animation could attract a youth audience, nevertheless the pic's general appeal will lie within the honesty and touching performances. Modified by film author Andrew McCarten using their own novel, the film relocates the story from New Zealand to Dublin (due to the participation of Grand Pictures as well as the Irish Film Board) and contains the advantages of the strong cast. Nonetheless its chief onscreen innovation is the way changes between toon and live-figures, a daredevil trapeze act that keeps it from succumbing to mawkishness assisting to draw attention away from the normally fairly rudimentary narrative. Jesse (Brodie-Sangster), lank, pale and bald from chemo, imagines cartoon eruptions including his muscular, mute alter ego additionally to his arch enemy, the Glove, a villain with syringes for fingers (his sexy, busty accomplice includes an even more typical teenage fantasy). Brodie-Sangster features a challenging role on his hands because Jesse is not some pity he's funny and keeps things in perspective, except when his fuming anger can get the higher of him, compelling the misbehavior that keeps his parents (Michael McElhatton, Sharon Horgan) on tenterhooks. As fine as McElhatton and Horgan are, they're overshadowed by two standouts furthermore to Brodie-Sangster. The very first is Andy Serkis, who plays Dr. Adrian King, the unorthodox dying counselor, or thanatologist, to whom Donald's parents bring their boy with whom he forms a bond. Serkis is a factor from the thought, possibly because his best-known roles make him disguised as something otherworldly or animalistic (Caesar inside the recent "Rise in the Planet in the Apes," for instance, or Gollum inside the "Our god in the Rings" trilogy), here's very human indeed. FitzGibbon's other natural resource might be the wonderful Aisling Loftus ("Oranges and Sunshine") as Shelly, a wry, acerbic teen who seems being 16 happening 37 and offers Jesse precisely what he needs: grounds to feel attractive and alive to someone aside from his parents. Dying from the SuperheroInch doesn't sugarcoat anything -- neither cancer nor the awkward, uncomfortable ways people deal with it. It is within the bigger comedy in the current "50/50," there's however a kinship between both films inside their attempts to make cancer something aside from a plot point or possibly an ominous dying sentence, also to acknowledge that people ordinarily deal with incipient catastrophe through a combination of disappointment and laughter, graveyard humor and tears. In by doing this, FitzGibbon ("Perrier's Bounty") has accomplished something a late scene, through which Donald's pals (with Dr. King becoming an accomplice) request a prostitute to make certain that Jesse doesn't die a virgin, is handled well. Many of the loan with this particular visits Jessica Schwarz, playing probably the most sensitive hookers in recent cinema. Production values are wonderful, despite the fact that music cues are every once in awhile absurd.Camera (color, HD), Tom Fahrmann editor, Tony Cranstoun production designer, Mark Geraghty music, Marius Ruhland costume designer, Kathy Strachan appear (Dolby Digital 5.1), Ray Mix, Frank Heidbrink appear designer/supervisory appear editor, Christoph von Schonburg re-recording mixer, Benjamin Rosenkind visual effects/animation supervisor, Alessandro Cioffi connect producers, Ailish McElmeel, Lukas Batthyany, Tilo Seiffert casting, Ros Hubbard, Louise Kiely, Siegfried Wagner. Examined at Toronto Film Festival (Special Presentations), Sept.13, 2011. Running time: 96 MIN. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com

George Clooney Describes Slamming Nosy Reporter

TORONTO, Canada -- George Clooney doesn't mind when reporters as dumb questions but he might contact you onto it as you're watching world! Access Hollywood guest correspondent and Entertainment Weekly Senior Author Dork Karger taken up while using actor within the 2011 Toronto Worldwide Film Festival and asked for about ripping in to a People reporter not to become personal getting an issue. Theres always one, however, you could point them out. Plus they always obtain a bit more compact since the press conference continues. It OK, George, which has two movies The Ides of March as well as the Descendants within the festival, told Dork. You nailed him for the wall, Dork mentioned. Honestly, I type of enjoy that. I had been elevated just like a boy from the newsman, you know, he ongoing. So, I love watching people request dumb questions, makes me laugh. As formerly reported on AccessHollywood.com, each time a People magazine reporter asked for Clooney inside a panel while marketing his new film, they also directs The Ides of March which was harder pointing or dating the primary attraction, the Oscar champion scolded the scribe. Well, you understand, its funny. I understood someone would take action. Im slightly disappointed its you, Clooney told the reporter on Friday. Everyone this can be a little embarrassed about you at this time around. Honestly Listen, In my opinion its tremendous you asked for the question, return and tell your editor you asked for the question. While Clooney has ongoing to become mother about former Dwts contestant and girlfriend Stacy Keibler, the two certainly havent been keeping a small profile throughout Toronto pictures in the pair have made an appearance hopping in a single event to a different. Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Corporation. All rights reserved.These elements is probably not launched, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Toronto: Fox Searchlight To Get Shame

UPDATE: Fox Searchlight cake toppers Nancy Utley and Stephen Gilula have confirmed the purchase ofShame at Toronto. Searchlight’s official release is following the jump. EXCLUSIVE: Within the initial deal from the Toronto Film Festival, Fox Searchlight has acquiredShame, the Steve McQueen-directed NC-17 drama which was the talk of Telluride. Putting in a bid came lower to Searchlight and also the Weinstein Company. The film is stated to showcase an excursion p pressure performance by Michael Fassbender, who plays a brand new Yorker not able to handle his sex existence when his wayward more youthful sister (Carey Mulligan) moves into his apartment, and the world spirals unmanageable. Searchlight have been the leader within the putting in a bid. The film is really a provocative purchase for several reasons: It's unabashedly NC-17, features graphic sex moments and nudity — one source stated “think dungeon sex” — and McQueen has final cut and won't change a frame. It will likely be a questionable release for Searchlight, whose parent company has endured lots of scandal recently. Also, the offer requires a late-year release and finest Actor campaign for Fassbender Searchlight will be fighting an offer within the same category for George Clooney within the Alexander Payne-directed The Descendants. Hanway brokered the Shame deal. Here’s Searchlight’s release: TORONTO, Ontario, Canada September 9, 2011 Fox Searchlight Pictures Presidents Nancy Utley and Stephen Gilula introduced today that the organization has acquired U. S. privileges towards the intimate and provocative drama SHAME. The film is directed by Steve McQueen, compiled by McQueen and Abi Morgan and stars Michael Fassbender and Carey Mulligan. SHAME is really a See-Saw Films production for Film4 and U.K. Film Council and created by Iain Canning and Emile Sherman. Tessa Ross, Robert Walak, Peter Hampden and Tim Haslam are executive producers with Bergen Swanson as co-producer. HanWay Films is handling worldwide sales. The film is scheduled to become launched this year. Steve McQueens courageous search for modern lifes extremes is breathtaking. He's crafted an remarkable film that probes a few of the greatest and pitch-dark issues ever described on the watch's screen with amazingly gifted performances by Michael Fassbender and Carey Mulligan, stated Gilula and Utley. Fox Searchlight approached us soon after the screening in Telluride to inform us just how much they loved the film. Their method of marketing and disbursing the film this season was incredibly detailed and impressive. We're excited to become dealing with them on the film that's causing debate along with a strong emotional reaction from audiences, stated Canning and Sherman. This can be a brave statement as well as an important move by Fox Searchlight. I'm happy they came aboard release a Shame within the U.S. It’s great to become using a team that's so enthusiastic about cinema, stated McQueen. Brandon (Michael Fassbender) is really a New Yorker who shuns closeness with females but feeds his desires having a compulsive dependence on sex. When his wayward more youthful sister (Carey Mulligan) moves into his apartment stirring reminiscences of the shared painful past, Brandons insular existence spirals unmanageable. The offer was brokered by Fox Searchlights Executive V . P . of Worldwide Purchases Tony Safford, Senior V . P . of economic Matters Megan OBrien, V . P . of Purchases Ray Strache with Thorsten Schumacher and Claire Taylor of HanWay Films with respect to the filmmakers. Fox Searchlight Pictures is really a niche film company that both finances and acquires movies. It features its own marketing and distribution procedures, and it is films are distributed worldwide by Last Century Fox. Fox Searchlight Pictures is really a unit of Fox Shot Entertainment, one of Fox Entertainment Group.

Cinedigm Launches Distribution Tool For Indie Films

Cinedigm introduced today it has created Indie Direct, a complete-service distribution and marketing platform for indie filmmakers and marketers that will permit producers a chance to manage all areas of digital distribution to become shipped via the organization’s digital-cinema system. The suite choices include booking software, content delivery, sales, distribution strategy, marketing planning and execution, and box office recoupment. The brand new service already has a few clients: ARC Entertainment and Seven Arts Pictures. ARC will release eight game titles by year’s finish, including its recent Sundance pickup Knucke. Seven Arts will bow it is the Pool Boys on Sept. 30. This is actually the latest move by Cinedigm to hone the organization’s focus. Throughout yesteryear handful of several weeks, it's offered off noncore assets inside a play being much more of a content-delivery and software company, and Indie Direct falls into that plan.

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'CSI' Books 'Switched at Birth's' Vanessa Marano for Harrowing Role (Exclusive)

Jason LaVeris/FilmMagic/Getty ImagesVanessa Marano Switched at Birth star Vanessa Marano is going to CSI. The actress, who plays artistic teen Bay Kennish about the ABC Family drama, will guest star within an approaching episode of CBS' CSI: Crime Scene Analysis as Samantha, The Hollywood Reporter has learned solely. Within the harrowing role, Marano will have the estranged daughter of the ex-disadvantage named Frank, who definitely are performed through the O.C.'s Johnny Messner. Within the episode, Frank is definitely an ex-disadvantage who lost touch with Samantha and discovers she would be a street gang groupie and continues a 1-guy war to obtain his young girl back. Marano joins her Switched at Birth co-star Katie Leclerc with guest roles on CBS' series: Leclerc was drawn on a week ago to guest star on CBS' The Large Bang Theory. Marano is repped by Paradigm, Marano Entertainment and Morris, Yorn, Barnes, Levine, Krintzman, Rubenstein & Kohner. Messner, repped by Gersh, Zero Gravity Management and Morris, Yorn, Barnes, Levine, Krintzman, Rubenstein & Kohner, also made an appearance in instances of Cold Situation, Chuck and Law & Order: Special Sufferers Unit. CSI returns to CBS in the new time slot on Wednesday, Sept. 21. Email: Lesley.Goldberg@thr.com Twitter: @Snoodit RELATED: 'CSI': 5 Things to understand about the Ted Danson Reboot CBS CSI: Crime Scene Analysis Fall TV Preview