Cuba's Oscar hopes relaxation on Padron pic

The Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Arts and Industry has selected helmer Ian Padron's feature debut "Habanastation" becasue it is language Oscar hopeful. An honours committee made up of helmers Manuel Perez, Fernando Perez and film editor Manuel Iglesias selected the buddy movie about two boys from contrasting social abilities. Pic won the most effective-of-the-fest award at documaker Michael Moore's Traverse City Film Festival this year. The deadline for nations to deliver in Oscar distribution is Monday. The 84th Academy awards will probably be held Feb. 26 within the Kodak Theater in Hollywood. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com

Roman Polanski Notifies His Side in the Story in New Documentary

ZURICH - Roman Polanski will state his side in the story of his eventful, questionable existence in the new documentary by Laurent Bouzereau that Polanski shot throughout his house arrest in Europe couple of years ago. The completely new documentary had its world premiere within the Zurich Film Festival Tuesday.our editor recommendsRoman Polanski addresses extradition Polanski was in order to the Zurich Festival couple of years ago when he was arrested by Swiss police around the U.S. warrant from 1978. That's when Polanski fled America after pleading guilty for you to get illegal sex getting a 13-year-old girl. Inside the documentary, referred to as Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir, Polanski gives his version of his existence story, as much as his house arrest and extradition trial. The film will screen following a Oscar-winning director is honored in Zurich tonight getting an eternity achievement award. Zurich Festival planners happen to be keeping the screening under systems, stating that a "secret" documentary might be proven following a honours ceremony. Related Subjects Worldwide Roman Polanski

Foxs Kevin Reilly Hyping Touch At MIPCOM

Fox just picked up Touch last week and already Entertainment President Kevin Reilly is unveiling the new drama series with star Kiefer Sutherland and executive producer Tim Kringat his sidefor a Q&A after his MIPCOM 2011 keynote on October 4th in Cannes.Reilly also will use the keynote occasion to premiere an extended trailer for Touch so international buyers and media will be among the first to see the footage.In this science-meets-spirituality hourlong, Sutherland playsa widower and single father who discovers that his mute 11-year-old son possesses theability to see things that no one else can and the patterns that connect seemingly unrelated events. Reilly’s speech will explore ‘creativity in the connected age’.Touch is a production of 20th Century Fox Television, Tailwind Productions and Chernin Entertainment.

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Time Warner Cable To Offer Low-Cost Service Plan, Without ESPN

Time Warner Cable plans one of the most ambitious efforts yet to combat the rising cost of sports channels:It’s preparing to introduce a low-cost service tier that won’t include expensive networks such as ESPN. Time Warner Cable has said that it’s exploring the “TV Essentials” package that wouldcost between $30-$40 a month. President Rob Marcus says it will be introduced within weeks in the company’s East Coast systems. Marcus told the Goldman Sachs Communicopia Conference that the initiative has been tested for most of the year in two systems and is designed to keep subscribers who are considering cutting the cable TV cord “partly due to affordability.”

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Smallville Showrunners John Billings & Kelly Souders Join The Important Thing Circle

Former Smallville showrunners John Billings and Kelly Souders, who brought the longrunning drama’s final seasons, have grew to become an associate from the CW’s new genre series The Important Thing Circle. The gig is speaking to, no less than for the moment. The Important Thing Circle showrunner Kevin Willimason may use the help — he's 2 series round the air, Circle as well as the Vampire Journals, they is co-running with Julie Plec. The Important Thing Circle got on a good beginning last Thursday with 3 million audiences, having its Vampire Journals lead-in.

Snoop Dogg To Star In Family Sitcom

EXCLUSIVE: Snoop Dogg’ — a sitcom star? The rapper-actor has teamed with sitcom veteran Don Reo for a multi-camera family sitcom project that would star Snoop Dogg as the father. The project has been set up at Warner Bros TV and is yet to be taken out to the networks. Snoop Dogg has played a similar role on TV before, on his E! reality series Snoop Dogg’s Father Hood, which chronicled his family life with his wife and his three kids. Snoop Dogg has been focusing on acting recently and was just cast in the title role in the biopic The Legend of Fillmore Slim. On TV, he did an arc on the Fox sitcom Brothers, which Reo created. The My Wife and Kids co-creator has most recently worked on WBTV’s Two and a Half Men.

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Kevin Bacon Recalls Famous 'Footloose' Moment

FROM HOLLYWOOD CRUSH: Are you ready to cut loose? Ahead of the October 14 premiere of the buzzy "Footloose" reboot (starring Julianne Hough and Kenny Wormald) the original '80s dance flick is being re-released on DVD and Blu-ray! Though you wont be able to kick off your Sunday shoes until September 27, we have an EXCLUSIVE featurette to get your toes tapping in the meantime. Read the full story at Hollywood Crush!

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Charlie Sheen Talks New Movie & TV Series

LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Charlie Sheen hopes his first big screen role since leaving Two and a Half Men will have a big impact with audiences. Access Hollywood caught up with Charlie at the taping of his Comedy Central Roast on Saturday in Los Angeles, where he dished on his new movie, A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charlie Swan III, where hell play a successful ladies man in the midst of a downward spiral. We do that in about a month, so its going to get real busy, the actor told Access. Charlie was impressed with the script, which director Roman Coppola penned. Its a brilliant script and I think Romans a genius, Charlie continued. Its a little character piece, you know, that I think could have a big impact, he said of the film, which also stars Jason Schwartzman. The actor also gave Access an update on his next small screen project, Anger Management, saying, Its going really good, really good, just waiting for a script. The Roast of Charlie Sheen will air on September 19 at 10 PM on Comedy Central. Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Inc. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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Conan O'Brien Sells Comedy Pilot to TBS (Exclusive)

TBS has ordered a half-hour comedy pilot from its late night host,Conan O'Brien. The multi-camera sitcom project, which hails from Warner Horizon and O'Brien's Conaco shingle, centers on a family man who quits his day job and returns to the neighborhood where he grew up. While there, he reunites with his former best friend. Production on the project will begin later this year. O'Brien, Jeff Ross (Conan) and David Kissinger (Eagleheart, Andy Barker, P.I.) will serve as executive producers, along with writersBen Wexler (Still Standing), Ross Novie and Jay Rondot (Secret Girlfriend). Wexler is also on board as showrunner. O'Brien is repped by WME. Email: Lacey.Rose@THR.com; @LaceyVRose Related Topics Conan O'Brien TBS TV Pilots

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Chris Evans Eats Tacos, Talks Conspiracies In Exclusive 'Puncture' Clip

Chris Evans did not always feel entirely awesome or comfortable in the Captain America costume. "Sometimes putting it on and you are like, 'What am I doing? What's this? How is this given serious attention?AInch he accepted to MTV News. "We are trying to produce a reality to think in. But I am playing around inside a red-colored, whitened and blue outfit? This really is so silly." Exactly what does the 30-year-old actor think about his "Puncture" wardrobe a constantly-altering assemblage of gaudy ties, strongly-colored dress t shirts and rumpled suits? Well, a way symbol within this film he is really not...but that is type of the purpose. Evans plays a drug-addicted lawyer named Mike, a man having a penchant for prescription pills, questionable attire and social justice. Included in our Fall Movie Preview, we have got a unique clip in the approaching flick, which hits theaters on September 23, by which a number of these affinities are created obvious. Ideas find Mike and the partner Paul Danziger (performed by Mark Kassen, who co-direceted the film) gobbling lower tacos and talking about the situation that drives the film's action: an ER nurse who's stuck with a contaminated needle is searching to file for a suit that may bring lower a common healthcare conspiracy. Hit experience the recording to listen to what these lawyers are getting out of bed to (too to look at Evans happily rocking a really awful brown shirt, red-colored tie and suspender getup). Inform us what you believe within the comments section as well as on Twitter!

Laika to evolve The Decemberists singer's 'Wildwood'

'Wildwood' was compiled by The Decemberists singer Colin Meloy and highlighted by his wife, Carson Ellis.'Coraline'Laika is searching to its backyard because of its most ambitious project yet. The Tigard, Ore.-based animation studio behind "Coraline" has optioned "Wildwood," a youthful-adult fantasy novel occur another version from the Or capital, compiled by the Decemberists lead singer Colin Meloy and highlighted by his wife, Carson Ellis."Wildwood," released a week ago by HarperCollins' Balzer and Bray imprint, marks the very first book inside a suggested trilogy centering around Prue McKneel, a youthful lady who must confront a global full of miracle and danger after her more youthful brother is kidnapped, forcing her to go in the Impassable Backwoods."It is a story within the grand tradition of Tolkien, as large as 'Lord from the Rings' having a wonderful contemporary quality too,Inch Laika prexy-Boss Travis Dark night told Variety. "Nothing available continues to be attempted within our medium. You've these epic moments alongside very nuanced character moments, what are two toughest things you can do in stop-motion. It's exciting to assume how this may all get together."Though Laika has formerly opposed the thought of doing sequels, Dark night stated the organization is approaching "Wildwood" with the expectation of adapting the 3 areas of the trilogy.Laika will prove to add "Wildwood" to some development slate that consists of a mixture of adaptations and original projects. The toon studio is deep in production on its next three dimensional stop-motion feature, "ParaNorman," which Focus will release on August. 17, 2012. Laika has yet to announce its 2014 release.Based on Dark night, Meloy and Ellis were so protective from the property they initially told their agent they'd permit the book to become optioned only when the variation might be completed in the design and style of either "Watership Lower" or stop-motion. "It was literally the following day that people known as them up and stated, 'We'd like to do this project along with you,AInch he stated."Hands lower, there's not one other movie studio on the planet besides Laika which i would trust 'Wildwood' to," Meloy stated. If this came time for you to commission a toon trailer for that book's release, according to Ellis' illustrations, HarperCollins and also the authors contacted exactly the same studio which will ultimately adapt the novel."Whenever we visited the studio and saw all of the brilliant creative work happening there -- someone creating a waist-high Colonial village, another person sewing pinhead-sized rivets on small jeans -- i was won over completely," Ellis stated.Meloy and Ellis were repped within the deal by Steven Malk of Authors House. Contact Peter Debruge at peter.debruge@variety.com

Director-Producer James Bobin Signs First-Look Deal With HBO

British director-writer-producer James Bobin, co-creator/director of Flight of the Conchords and series director of Sacha Baron Cohen’s Da Ali G Show, has signed a first-look deal with HBO to develop and produce comedy projects through his shingle, The Honourable Company of Gentleman Film-Makers. Bobin’s longtime collaborator Paul Roemen has joined the company as VP development. Honourable Company already has two half-hour projects in development at HBO: Marbury vs. Madison, a comedy set in the world of academic rivalry written by Bobin, and Permanently Temporary, a female inter-generational comedy written by Bobin’s sister, actress Joanna Bobin. The deal formalizes Bobins longtime relationship with HBO that dates back to 2003, when he brought over Baron Cohen’s British series Da Ali G Show to the network, which produced its own version of the mocumentary comedy featuring Baron Cohen’s iconic characters Ali G, Borat Sagdiyev and Bruno. Bobin served as series director on both the British and U.S. incarnation of the show. Through HBO, Bobin also co-created and executive produced with Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie the pay cable network’s comedy series Flight of the Conchords, which earned seven Emmy nominations including best comedy series. Im delighted to continue working with HBO, said Bobin. They understand and appreciate new comedy, and they’re not scared of taking risks and are adventurous in their outlook.” CAA-repped Bobin makes his feature directorial debut with the Walt Disney Pictures The Muppets, which is being released at Thanksgiving.

Pay attention to Blake Shelton Sing the 'Footloose' Title Track

If you feel author/director Craig Maker has his work eliminate for him helming the approaching 'Footloose' remake, then that perhaps goes double for Blake Shelton. Throughout a current interview with AOL's The Boot, Shelton spoken about how exactly he got selected to pay for the legendary title track by Kenny Loggins and also the privilege that accompany it. Regarding how he worked out dealing with Loggins' original, Shelton stated: You will find two methods to restore an audio lesson: the first is to try and allow it to be your personal, and in cases like this, you need to little one it and take on the role of notebook computer for that movie which particular scene. There's really only one method to approach it whenever you think about it this way: an enjoyable, uptempo, appealing version much like Kenny Loggins did. Mind to AOL's The Boot to listen to the song on your own and click on to compare it with Loggins' original. Watch a clip for 'Footloose' Who do you consider sings it better: Kenny Loggins or Blake Shelton? [through the Boot] Photo thanks to Vital Pictures.

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Olivia Munn On For Miracle Mike

She'll romance Channing TatumWhile it isn't strictly in keeping with state that Steven Soderbergh's next planned pic - male stripper drama Miracle Mike - continues to be completely packed with testosterone, it might certainly take advantage of much more of a lady presence. And that is what the director is adding, with Olivia Munn signing onto the cast. Miracle Mike sees Channing Tatum (who based the idea by himself past like a teenage stripper in Florida) playing the titular role, a male exotic dancer who trains up a brand new protégé in Alex Pettyfer. Matthew McConaughey is aboard to experience Dallas, themself an old stripper who now is the owner of the club where Mike works. After which there's True Blood's Joe Manganiello as "Large Dick" Richie, whose title should virtually summarize his attract everyone else, and Matt Bomer as the second clothes-losing type. About the lady side, additionally, there are Cody Horn as Pettyfer's character's sister, and Riley Keough as his troubled girlfriend. Munn is going to be playing the romance interest for Tatum. Getting become her begin US geek fest Attack from the Show, Munn has spun that early recognition right into a career which includes more TV work (The Daily Show) and many small film roles, including looks in Iron Guy 2 and Date Evening. She's parts in I'm Not Sure How She Will It and Freeloaders approaching, together with what might end up being her truly large break, among the leads on Aaron Sorkin's new Cinemax series, More Because This Story Evolves. Working from Reid Carolin's script, Soderbergh begins shooting Miracle Mike later this month.