Snow Ices Box Office: Puss In Boots #1, Paranormal #2, Over Time #3, Rum Diary #4

SATURDAY PM, fifth UPDATE: Jeez, Jeffrey Katzenbergmust have opponents in greater places thananyone thought possible. Becausestudios are saying a few days ago’sfreakishly early New England snow storm will certainly have a bite from box office.(However, maybe JK has buddies in greater places because nowno you will understand what his movie might have done by itself.)There’s without doubt that DreamWorks Animation’s 3DPuss In Boots written by Vital is finishing the weekend #1 withanywhere from$32.2M to $35M. That’s the number among my sources.Therefore it remains to appear once the actuals are available in on Monday when the cat brokethe Halloween weekend record of $33.6M set by Saw III in 2006. The Shrek spinoff’s opening was searching consistent with 2011′s other non-summer time animated three dimensional hits like Rio ($39M, also three dimensional) and Rango ($39M only 2D) prior to the snow.Only one rival studio professional snarked in my experience Friday evening, “What will DWA consider a dent within the $30sM? Dunno, but it may be a lot more like Puss In Cement Boots.” Fox’s sci-fi thrillerIn Time with Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried is soft thinking about the wide release. It’s obvious since Justin, while gifted on SNL, isn't any superstar.FilmDistrict’sThe Rum Diary withJohnny Depp is also carrying out ultralight not surprisingly.Didn’t he get this to movie before and wasn’t it known as Fear And Loathing? (“Yes, with similar hungover result. Ouch,” one rival studio professional reminded me.) The new sony Pictures’ Shakespeare backstoryAnonymous opened up for any $1M weekend ($350K Friday and $400K Saturday)from just 265 locations. That’s an unremarkableper-screen average of $3,775 even thoughaudiencesgave it an ‘A-’ CinemaScore. The studio was to pull it from wide release. Full analysis coming.Here’s the very best 10: 1. Puss In Boots three dimensional (Dreamworks Animation/Vital) NEW [3,952 Theaters] Friday $9.6M, Saturday$14M, Weekend $33M Audiences gave it an ‘A-’ CinemaScore, therefore the person to person and kiddie matinees take into account why attendance increased a huge +45% from Friday to Saturday. 2. Paranormal Activity 3 (Vital) Week 2 [3,329 Theaters] Friday $7.3M, Saturday$7.7M, Weekend $19M (-64%), Cume $81.5M That’s an expected drop from the whopping Friday last weekend. But expect a huge Halloween Monday. 3) Over Time (Fox) NEW [3,001 Theaters] Friday$4.5M, Saturday$4.6M, Weekend $12M Audiences gave the film a ‘B-’ CinemaScore. 4) Footloose (Vital) Week 3 [3,224 Theaters] Friday $2M, Saturday$2.4M, Weekend $5.5M, Cume $38.5M It’s not unanimous, but nearly all galleries tonight have Footloose beating The Rum Diary. 5) The Rum Diary (FilmDistrict) NEW [2,272 Theaters] [2,272 Theaters] Friday $1.7M, Saturday$1.9M, Weekend $5M Audiences gave it merely a “C’ CinemaScore. 6. Real Steel (DreamWorks/Disney) Week 4 [2,914 Theaters] Friday $1.6M, Saturday$2.2M, Weekend $4.9M, Cume $74.1M 7.Three Musketeers three dimensional (Summit) Week 2 [3,017 Theaters] Friday$1.1M, Saturday $1.5M, Weekend $3.5M (-59%), Cume $14.8M 8. Ides Of March (The new sony) Week 4 [1,572 Theaters] Friday $925K, Saturday$1.3M, Weekend $2.7M, Cume $33.5M 9. Moneyball (The new sony) Week 6[1,631 Theaters] Friday$750K, Saturday$1.2M,Weekend $2.4M, Cume $67.4M 10. Courageous (The new sony) Week 5 [1,134 Theaters] Friday $550K, Saturday$775M,Weekend $1.8M, Cume $27.6M

Coroner: Amy Winehouse Died From A Lot Of Alcohol

First Launched: October 26, 2011 9:01 AM EDT Credit: Getty Premium Caption Amy Winehouse undertaking on stage in 2007LONDON, U.K. -- A coroner states Amy Winehouse died since the unintended outcomes of consuming a lot of alcohol. Coroner Suzanne Greenaway gave a verdict of dying by misadventure, saying the singer had of your accord consumed alcohol and risked the results. The singer, who had fought against against substance difficulties for years, is discovered dead in bed mattress at her London home about this summer time 23 at 27. A pathologist told the entertainers inquest Wednesday that Winehouse had consumed a very variety of alcohol and was greater than five occasions inside the legal drunk-driving limit when she died. This Is Often A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Return soon to learn more. APs earlier story is below. LONDON (AP) - A pathologist states Amy Winehouse consumed a very variety of alcohol right before her dying. Suhail Baithun has told an inquest into the entertainers dying that blood stream and urine samples shown she was 4.5 occasions inside the legal drunk-driving limit. The singer, who had fought against against substance difficulties for years, is discovered dead in bed mattress at her London home about this summer time 23 at 27. An initial autopsy shown not proven, despite the fact that it found no traces of illegal drugs in their system. An British coroner is hearing the best several hours of Winehouses existence Wednesday within an inquest into the soul divas dying. Winehouses physician, Dr. Christina Romete, mentioned the singer had began again consuming fathers and moms before her dying with time of abstinence. Copyright 2011 with the Connected Press. All rights reserved. These elements is probably not launched, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

'Avengers' Director Joss Whedon Describes 'Much Ado About Nothing'

Joss Whedon's "Much Ado About Nothing," the "Avengers" director's adaptation from the William Shakespeare comedy classic, is beginning to become little less mysterious. How did Whedon have the ability to shoot this movie while concurrently dealing with Earth's Mightiest Heroes for Marvel Galleries, for instance? What went into his casting process? How was he effective in keeping his cast quiet? Did he need to threaten well known tweeter Nathan Fillion with violence? The solutions to any or all these questions and much more, and several new photos in the secretive project, are here, because of a brand new interview with Entertainment Weekly. Some highlights: » Around the project's roots: "Well, it is not a little secret that Ive done these [Shakespeare] blood pressure measurements before, and that i always were built with a vague perception of shooting 'Much Ado.' However I didnt genuinely have a undertake it. After which, for whatever reason, I kinda sorta did. Once we were finishing 'The Avengers' in NY, we were planning our holiday for our 20th anniversary. And she or he stated, 'Lets require the holiday. Create a movie rather.' I had been like, 'Im not really confident that I'm able to adapt the script, cast the film, and prep it inside a month.' And she or he was like, 'Well, thats your trip time, so you're doing so.A Therefore i did." » On being far too busy: "There's a component of 'I possess a serious problem' thats one factor. After which theres a component of this is actually the best vacation Ive ever taken. I am talking about, yes, it had been super hard, it had been a lot of work, and there have been moments where I went, 'Whats wrong beside me? What am I considering? I have to relaxation!' But Ive never been so well rested and thus well given when i dress in this movie. You realize, you are making time, because no ones will make it for you personally. Theres not going to be a great time to get it done. You are making time and also you have great results should you really, want it. And That I really did." » On keeping the cast quiet: "I requested the cast particularly and everyone involved not saying anything until we wrapped. And, you realize, everything happened very, extremely fast. Thats the way you know. When its something which fast, you really possess a shot. When somethings moving around for 3 years, its harder. This film would be a month from beginning to production, after which 12 days to shoot. Even Nathan didn't tweet for your lengthy." For additional, including interviews with stars Amy Acker and Sean Maher, mind to EW. Inform us what you believe within the comments section as well as on Twitter!

New Game of Shadows Trailer Promises More Violence and Cross-Dressing For Sherlock Holmes

If the recipe for a good holiday blockbuster is three parts violence, one part witty banter and one part cross-dressing, then the new Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows trailer guarantees that this December’s Robert Downey, Jr. sequel will be the best blockbuster all season. Paint on your heaviest blue eyeshadow, drag your quippy sidekick away from his newspaper and click through for the trailer. Like 2009’s Sherlock Holmes, A Game of Shadows is directed by Guy Ritchie and stars Robert Downey, Jr. and Jude Law as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic bickering crime-solving duo. This time around though, the pair face-off against their archenemy Professor Moriarty (Jared Harris) with a new feisty female sidekick (original Girl with the Dragon Tattoo star Noomi Rapace) against a backdrop of explosions, slow-mo action sequences, gorgeous costumes and tightly choreographed umbrella fights. Verdict: In spite of the fact that the cross-dressing gag is already old after two brief previews, I am still in. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows arrives in theaters December 16. [Yahoo!]

TCG, La Mama hands out honours

Dizzia Thesps John Douglas Thompson and Maria Dizzia are among individuals landing fellowships from legit nonprofit Theater Communications Group, that has named a slew of grant readers. Meanwhile, Mike Shepard has drawn on Matthew Paul Olmos to become the emerging playwright whose work will receive a showcase at downtown venue La Mama, included in that theater's recently inaugurated Ellen Stewart Award, which Shepard was the very first recipient. Included in its Fox Foundation Resident Stars Fellowships for professional development, much-famous Off Broadway regular Thompson ("Othello," "The Emperor Johnson") has snagged 1 of 2 distinguished achievement honours alongside Peter Howard. Thompson and Howard will get $25,000 each, with $7,500 visiting the theaters that the stars works. Thompson uses to funds to prep for playing lead roles in Shakespeare comedies with Theater for any New Audience, while Howard, with L.A.'s Cornerstone Theater Company, will write and execute a piece according to travels to 6 towns which have located Cornerstone previously. Dizzia ("Within the next Room, or even the Vibrator Play"), combined with Yale Repetition, is just one of three thesps to obtain an remarkable potential fellowship for early or mid-career stars. Dizzia will visit China to review voice. Sandra Delgado, using the Goodman Theater in Chicago, will study interview-based theater while Miriam Silverman, with Washington's Shakespeare Theater Company, will build up her very own method of voice and verse acting. This version from the fellowship hands out $15,000 to every recipient, with as many as $10,000 more open to be placed toward student financial loans. TCG also named readers of their New Decades grant program, with five pros set to mentor industry newcomers at orgs including NY Theater Workshop and Cornerstone. Another arm of this grant program funds aud development at legit nonprofits, with gold coin this season likely to companies including Gotham's Foundry Theater and Washington's Woolly Mammoth. At La Mama, Shepard's choice of Olmos is an element from the theater's Ellen Stewart Award, named following the downtown mainstay's late founder. Included in the kudo, Shepard was assigned with selecting a youthful scribe who'd produce a new try to be presented by La Mama. Olmos, a author who's also around the staff in the Lark Play Development Center, has composed plays including "Monkey" and "I Place the Anxiety about Mexico in Them." Writer's new play is going to be created at La Mama next season. Contact Gordon Cox at gordon.cox@variety.com

'Real Steel' Is Becoming to begin dating ? Movie, According to Attacking Youthful Boys and Selena Gomez

Why go to the cinema with many different schlubs when you're able to rent the entire factor out yourself? That's what star couple Attacking Youthful Boys and Selena Gomez made a decision to accomplish after they attended an individual screening of -- watch for this -- 'Real Steel' inside a multiplex in Canada. Can't say we blame them: If paparazzi cameras were shoved inside our face every three seconds, we'd want a while to ourselves, too. Gomez will be in Winnipeg, Manitoba on her behalf concert tour when she and Bieber were spotted beginning the cinema. The Winnipeg Free Press looks at the couple allegedly had cheese pizza shipped on their behalf through the screening too. Either in situation, we are surprised while using 'Real Steel' movie pick 'Footloose' seems just like a more sensible choice for just about any date film. Gomez is seen next in the cameo role inside the approaching 'Muppets' movie, out November. 23. [via THR and Winnipeg Free Press] [Photo: AP] Selena Gomez and Attacking Youthful Boys See All Moviefone Galleries » Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook

Film Clip Warner Bros Option To Result In The Stand

Warner Bros has selected Film Clip to evolve and direct The Stand, Stephen King’s apocalyptic mammoth book. Affleck has turned into a cornerstone director for that studio, but this is his finest challenge yet. Even King continues to be reticent about the thought of creating a feature of his book, which formerly was converted into a miniseries. Using The Town and Gone Baby Gone, Affleck has proven the grit essential to handle this kind of memorable tale. It’s beginning, however the studio loves Affleck, who’s now pointing Argo.

Evanescence debuts at No. 1

Hard rock act Evanescence thundered to the U.S. album chart at No. 1 now. "Evanescence" (Wind-Up), the group's third album and first release in 5 years, bows in the apex having a first-week total of 127,000 copies, based on Nielsen SoundScan data for that week ended March. 16. Performance is far in the Arkansas-bred band's debut sales of 447,000 because of its last set, 2006's "Outdoors Door," its first No. 1. Act continues to be something of the turning door, using the departure of their guitarist and drummer in 2007 singer Amy Lee is its lone making it through original member. Adele's "21" (Columbia) hung on at No. 2 with only singlePercent dip, tallying 111,000, because the British singer's No. 1 single "YouInch is constantly on the warmth sales. Year's bestseller will formally top some million mark in a few days. L.A. metal unit Five Finger Dying Punch showed up at No. 3 using its third full-length "American Capitalist" (Prospect Park). First-week score of 91,000 pressed new title over the No. 7 plateau established by its 2009 predecessor, "War May be the Answer." Countrified "The American Idol ShowInch alumni get back-to-back slots within the top 5. Last week's No. 1 entry, Scotty McCreery's "Obvious As Day" (Mercury Nashville), fell to No. 4 behind an 88,000-unit week (off 55%). The '11 "Idol" runner-up Lauren Alaina joined at No. 5 with "Wildflower" (Mercury Nashville), starting with 69,000 offered. Within the week's some of the best 10 debuts, alt-country poster boy Ryan Adams first showed at No. 7 together with his solo album "Ashes and Fire" (PAX/Capitol), which moves along with 49,000 moved. Country vet Martina McBride's "Eleven" (Republic Nashville) moves in at No. 10, selling 40,000 as they are. Week's holdovers include Tony Bennett's "Duets II" (No. 6, 55,000, off 23%), Lady Antebellum's "Own the Evening" (No. 8, 47,000, lower 18%) and Lil Wayne's "Tha Carter IV" (No. 9, 45,000, off 15%). Top-selling Christian rock act Casting Crowns should materialize within the top ten in a few days. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com

Scripters on 'Zombie' trail

Smash Media Films has drawn on Lior Chefetz and Joe Swanson to script the horror pic "Zombie Blondes."Harry Winer and Shelley Hack will produce.Pic is dependant on it by John James and follows a woman in a new senior high school who hopes to locate acceptance using the cheerleader crowd simply to discover there might be something existence-threatening within the activity.Winer is really a producer on "The Expatriate" starring Aaron Eckhart, that will premiere at AFM.Chefetz is repped through the Bauer Co. Contact Justin Kroll at justin.kroll@variety.com

Lady Gaga, Usher Prepare For Clintons Concert

First Published: October 15, 2011 11:50 AM EDT Credit: FilmMagic LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Caption Lady Gaga strikes a pose in London on October 6, 2011 Lady Gaga apparently wont be strutting around former President Bill Clinton in steak. The pop superstar is one of several acts scheduled to perform Saturday night at a Los Angeles concert celebrating the 10th anniversary of the foundation founded by Clinton, who ditched his unhealthy eating habits for a plant-based diet after undergoing a quadruple bypass in 2004 and receiving stent implants to open one of the arteries from that surgery in 2010. In deference to my diet, shell be going meatless that night, Clinton joked of the envelope-pushing artist, who infamously donned a dress made of raw meat at the MTV Video Music Awards last year. She is the most talented person though even if youre an old fogey like me, he told David Letterman on Wednesday nights show. Other artists set to perform at A Decade of Difference: A Concert Celebrating 10 Years of the William J. Clinton Foundation include R&B singer Usher, country star Kenny Chesney, Somali rapper KNaan, Colombian crooner Juanes and rockers Bono and The Edge of U2. Ticket prices for the event, which will be streamed on Yahoo.com, range from $50 to $550. Clinton himself is no stranger to performing. The saxophone-playing politician memorably belted out Heartbreak Hotel when he visited Arsenio Halls show during his 1992 presidential campaign. For the past decade, Clintons foundation has sought to improve global health, strengthen economies worldwide, promote healthier childhoods and protect the environment. Copyright 2011 by The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Pellegrini to adapt Hornby's 'Not a Star'

ROME -- Italo helmer Lucio Pellegrini is adapting U.K. author Nick Hornby's novella "Not a Star," about a mother who learns her teen son is a porn actor, with Warner Bros. on board to co-produce and distribute the pic in Italy. Shooting on the first Italian-language adaptation of Hornby's work is underway in Turin with popular Italo TV comedienne Luciana Littizzetto playing the mother, thesp Rocco Papaleo ("Basilicata Coast to Coast") the father, and Pietro Castellitto, son of Italo A-lister Sergio Castellitto, as the enterprising young porn performer. Pellegrini, known locally for well-crafted commercial laffers, such as "The Easy Life," "Now or Never" and "So Mambo," is transposing to Turin Hornby's Blighty-set tale in which nosy neighbors inform the mom of a live-at-home 19 year old that he is the protag of a film titled "Meet the Fuckers," and other adult vid pics. Topic is especially relevant to Italy, which is plagued by double-digit youth unemployment. Beppe Caschetto's IBC Movie is co-producing with Warner Bros., with support from the Turin/Piedmont Film Commission, and plans for an Italo spring 2012 release via Warners. English-language adaptations of Hornby's works for the big screen include Stephen Frears' "High Fidelity," Chris and Paul Weitz's "About a Boy" and Lone Scherfig's "An Education." Contact Nick Vivarelli at nvivarelli@gmail.com

Apuda (Apuda p shouhou)

Created by Feng Xiaoqiu. Directed, edited by He Yuan.With: Ni'erba Apuda, Father Ni'erba. (Naxi dialogue)A passionate son's virtually single-minded take care of his gradually dying father is offered similarly disciplined concentrate He Yuan's gorgeous "Apuda." Similar to Harvard-based filmmakers Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Elisa Barbash, who mix a very sophisticated method of filmmaking with scientific analysis, He's an ethnographic investigator in the Yunnan Academy of Sciences who also is surely a documaker of considerable artistry. Pic's length and extreme slowness will turn it into a some exotic item for art-centric and docu fests, but this jewel should not be overlooked. Initially from Kunming, the main city of China's Yunnan province, He endeavors north to embed themself within the Naxi-speaking hamlet of orchard player Ni'erba Apuda. Despite a gentle mental disability, Apuda is actually able to maintain his farm work until his father, a guy of indeterminate age, struggles to get away from mattress each morning once the father finally does rise, walk as well as saunter outdoors, it feels almost miraculous. For anybody who's ever looked after an infirm family member, the unvarnished reality of Apuda's day-to-day situation will appear shateringly identifiable -- a real possibility that's typically compressed when portrayed inside a film, but performed out here to remarkable length. Indeed, to carp about "Apuda's" apparently indulgent running time would disregard the film's essential purpose, which would be to immerse the viewer in the subject's difficult existence, such as the lengthy silences and slow dialogue that may ensue between caring child and dying parent. The director also expects to produce, paradoxically, an enormous amount of beauty expressed within the progressively developing designs of sunshine that emerge and recede within the family's hovel. The result is not to melt the grind of Apuda's days and nights by having an aesthetic gloss, but to claim that beauty are available everywhere. He's interior cinematography produces a virtually mystical atmosphere, with shadows sometimes blanketing the look and nearly covering physiques at points, only Apuda's exhausted voice and the father's feeble utterances can pinpoint where they're onscreen. It's as though He's making dying visible. The relatively brief sections outdoors one of the fruit groves where Apuda attempts to work seem like escapes into paradise following the sepulchral home setting. Yet even here, Apuda has amusing run-inches along with other maqui berry farmers, after which it he mutters to themself, a habit he regularly documents.Camera (color, HD), He seem (stereo system), He. Examined on DVD, Vancouver, March. 5, 2011. (In Vancouver Film Festival -- Dragons and Tigers.) Running time: 145 MIN. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com

Hayden Panettiere on Fireflies in the Garden, Battling Typecasting, and the Amanda Knox Aftermath

Opening this weekend in limited release, Fireflies in the Garden isn’t exactly Hayden Panettiere’s “new” film. It’s more like her embattled, shelved, revisited and re-revisited film — shot in 2007, a festival curio in early 2008 and thought lost to the indie-film ages until recently, when plans were finally made for its theatrical distribution. At least she’s in pretty phenomenal company, starring alongside Julia Roberts, Ryan Reynolds, Willem Dafoe and playing a young Emily Watson in the tale of a family grappling with generations of guilt, misunderstanding, tragedy and maybe — just maybe — a future. Panettiere co-stars as Jane, the teenage aunt to Michael Waecther (played in their ’80s era flashbacks by Cayden Boyd, who grows up into Reynolds’s disaffected present-day romance novelist). Gone to stay with her older sister Lisa (Roberts) and her domineering husband Charlie (Dafoe) one summer, she and Michael form a bond that carries over to the tense aftermath of Lisa’s sudden death. Movieline spoke with Panettiere recently about Fireflies’s scenic route to the screen, how both she and the film have changed along the way, plotting her own careful path forward, and her latest thoughts on Amanda Knox, the American student (and TV biopic subject, played by Panettiere) recently released from custody in Italy after her conviction for murdering her roommate. Wow, you look great. Are you off to somewhere after this? No, I just didn’t learn until I got here that it wasn’t going to be on camera! I see. I can totally get my camera if you’d like. Where’s my phone? I feel more relaxed not on camera. Do you really? I do! I do with these interviews. For some reason when the camera comes up, I’ve been doing it for so long that you have this internal instinct to “turn it on.” And when you’re just chatting with someone, you don’t feel as much of a need to do that. That’s interesting. You have spent most of your life working in front of the camera; it seems like it would be natural for you. But you’d say you feel more apprehensive? I have as I’ve gotten older. It’s not that I’m uncomfortable, but I noticed when I was younger that there such an innocence and freedom; you just don’t examine yourself quite as much. I didn’t have myself under quite as much of a microscope. I wasn’t concerned with the things that would come out of my mouth or the way they would sound or the expression on my face, which are all things that you’re not supposed to pay attention to when you’re acting. As I’ve gotten older, I’ve found myself paying a little more attention to it and second-guessing myself and questioning myself. You just have this freedom when you’re younger — this lack of concern to fail or do anything wrong. It comes with an ease that I’ve found has kind of deteriorated over time. I have my moments where I feel really good about it, but it’s all a mindset. If I’m thinking of it that way, then I’m tripping myself out. Fireflies in the Garden has been in limbo for a while. How many times have you actually talked about this film before today? None. Well, you’re the fifth today, but it’s only been today. It shot over four years ago. What’s your remembrance of the film from those days, and how is talking about it today affecting your perspective of it? Well, I rewatched the film last night. It’s interesting, because while I was filming it, there are certain things my character was going through that the audience is not aware of. So it’s interesting to try to describe exactly what my character was going through and the problems she was having in overcoming this big obstacle in her life and why she was at her sister’s house when it’s not something that the audience can see in the film. And I was closer to a teenager back then as well; I was a lot closer to the actual age that this girl was, and that teenage angst, and that feeling of showing up to a house and being handed a list of rules and thinking, “Is this a joke? You’re not my parents. I’ve never had rules like this.” And there’s this odd relationship between her and the family because she holds the title, almost, of an adult, but she’s young. She’s the aunt of this kid and the sister of [Julia Roberts’s character], where it feels like she should be the cousin of, or the daughter of, or something like that. Was your character’s background actually shot, and it’s just not in there? That’s what I was trying to remember. I was trying to remember back to whether or not it was ever mentioned in the film, or whether it was just an underlying issue that the character was going through but the audience wasn’t ever supposed to really know. Or if they were supposed to know that something was going on but were not sure what, or the slim chance of somebody in the audience putting two and two together and going, “OK, I think I understand what’s going on.” Originally I was sent to my sister’s house because I had gotten pregnant. Ooohhhh. Now I get it. That’s what they did back then: send them away to a family member’s house so that they would get an abortion and take care of the kid. There are a couple scenes toward the end where you can see she’s kind of sitting tenderly in this kind of robe, and that’s the inner turmoil that’s going on with her. She’s not in a good place when she gets there, and frankly, neither is anybody else. She takes this kid under her wing — this nephew of hers, who’s more like a best friend — and comes to his rescue and promises that she won’t let anything happen to him.

Nora Ephron finds 'Lost in Austen' in the new the new sony

'Lost in Austen' is founded on the BBC small-series.The brand new the new sony and Nora Ephron have found a completely new project to collaborate on, since the "Julie & Julia" helmer is installed on direct "Lost in Austen," a modern day undertake "Pride and Prejudice."Ephron is writing the script and Mike Mendes and Pippa Harris are coming up with through their Neal Street Prods. banner.Pic is founded on a BBC small-series scripted by Guy Andrews. The story follows a modern day Gotham girl moved into the middle of Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice."Andrea Giannetti and Hannah Minghella will oversee for your studio.Project is smart for that new the new sony, recognized for remaining in operation having its best talent: "Julie and Julia" introduced in than $125 million in worldwide box office with Meryl Streep producing a best actress Oscar nomination.Ephron is repped by CAA.

Jennifer Aniston Sights New Role Without Agency

First Launched: October 4, 2011 9:09 AM EDT Credit: Getty Images GENEVA, Europe -- Caption Jennifer Aniston steps in the premiere in the Tree of Existence within the Bing Theatre within the La County Museum of Art in La on May 24, 2011Angelina Jolie states shes considering handling a completely new and extended role while using U.N. refugee agency that they already may serve as goodwill ambassador. The actress told reporters Tuesday they as well as the agency continue being studying their options and working out the particulars, but havent selected anything because they wish to comprehend it correctly. Jolie stopped with the U.N.s European headquarters to pay attention to the plight of refugees globally inside an address for the agencys executive committee. She referred to as refugees most likely probably the most vulnerable people in the world, and they're also most likely probably the most resilient people. On Monday, she's at Geneva being famous on her work and recognition a Yemeni aid group, the Society for Humanitarian Solidarity, within an honours ceremony. Copyright 2011 by Connected Press. All rights reserved. These elements is probably not launched, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Corporation. All rights reserved. These elements is probably not launched, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Growing 'Woman' keeps Moran busy

Caitlin Moran's 'How To Be A Woman'LONDON -- No one ever tried to make a movie out of "The Female Eunuch" or "The Second Sex." But when London Times columnist Caitlin Moran published her autobiographical feminist manifesto "How to Be a Woman" this summer, it sparked a bidding war between the U.K.'s leading film companies.Described by its publisher as "part memoir, part rant," "How to Be a Woman" draws on Moran's unconventional life experiences to put forward her own version of feminism, but with jokes. This involves a frank and frequently hilarious discussion of issues, including pubic grooming, the naming of female body parts, the pleasures of masturbation, the horrors of childbirth, guilt-free abortion and the merits or otherwise of Lady Gaga and media personality Katie Price as role models.Film4 topper Tessa Ross fended off a strong challenge from Eric Fellner at Working Title to snag the rights -- not so much by offering vast amounts of cash (though Moran admits that helped), but by bribing her with cigarettes."Tessa is the kind of woman I love," Moran says. "She's brilliant, fierce, a proper feminist and a bit nuts. And when she took me to lunch at the Wolseley, she had a pack of (cigarettes) in her bag, even though she doesn't smoke, because she thought I might like one. That's what she had that the others didn't."Moran is co-writing the script with her sister Caroline, with whom she has also written a sitcom pilot for Channel 4, titled "The Big Object."Now 36, Moran was a teen prodigy, the eldest of eight children brought up by hippie parents with no money in a three-bedroom house in working-class Wolverhampton. She left school at 11 to avoid being bullied for being, in her own words, "a freak," won a writing competition, published a novel at 15, became a music journalist, then a national newspaper columnist and TV presenter before she was 20. She has written for the London Times ever since, and was named critic of the year and interviewer of the year at the 2011 British Press Awards."How to Be a Woman" has sold 150,000 copies in the U.K., where many female readers greeted it with a rush of gratitude. Harper Collins will publish it next year in the U.S."I wasn't surprised by its success, because there was such a massive hole where something like this should be," Moran says. "Someone who says, 'Bollocks to all this, I'm just going to relax, take off these uncomfortable shoes, let my belly hang over the waistline of my trousers which I bought one size too small because that's what we do, flop down and tell you the truth about what's it's like to be a woman today.'?" It's not obvious material for a movie, but Moran says the film will draw on her adulthood, while sitcom "The Big Object" will tackle her adolescence. "I'm Woody Allen-ish, in that all I can do is write about myself," she explains. "(The movie's) going to be about having the worst boyfriend ever, and how you dump him. There won't be characters called Caitlin and Caroline, but there will be a Caitlin Moran-style narrator, so you'll get the rants that way."Ross allowed Moran to pick her own producer, so she went for Nira Park at Big Talk, the company behind "Attack the Block" and Edgar Wright's fanboy comedies. Big Talk has an overall deal with Studiocanal, which is co-developing "How to Be a Woman" with Film4. Moran is repped by her film and TV agent Rachel Holroyd at Casarotto Ramsay.On the page and in person, Moran is a whirlwind of words, ideas and gags, which come tumbling out with little attempt at self-censorship.She describes her decision to write a film as "a massive act of Wolverhampton revenge on behalf of womankind for all the shitty movies we've had to put up with for the past 30 years."The success of the book is in danger of turning Moran into what she claims to dread -- a celebrity. After her unhappy flirtation with TV presenting in her teens, she has resisted many offers to lure her back onto the smallscreen. "I don't want to be famous. I don't want to be recognizable. I just want to be a writer behind my desk."After bursting onto the media scene as a teenager, she says she spent five years in her 20s getting high, then the next five having babies, and it was only when her youngest daughter started school three years ago that she rediscovered her drive. Two days later, she sat down to start writing her sitcom, and she says she's worked at least six days a week ever since."Being very, very stoned, and then very, very tired, got in the way, but the minute you are stuck on your own for nine hours a day with a baby, you can't wait to go out to work and earn enough to pay someone else to look after them," she laughs. Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com

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