Molly Cruz forms Belle Pictures with Alcon

Producer Molly Cruz has created Belle Pictures to build up and convey features and television qualities in colaboration with Warner Bros.-based Alcon Entertainment inside a four-year first-look deal.Belle's first project's an adaptation of "The Bootlegger's Boy," football coach Craig Switzer's memoir about training at Oklahoma College and also the NFL's Dallas Cowboys. Alcon will finance with Cruz creating together with brothers and sisters Thad and Trent Luckinbill, who introduced the project in.Patrick Massett and John Zinmann ("Friday Evening Lights") have been in discussions to pen the variation. Allison Rayne continues to be drawn on Vice president of development at Belle with Jon Schumacher as creative professional and Emma Branch as production professional. Smith's presently creating supernatural love story "Beautiful Animals" together with Erwin Stoff and Alcon cake toppers Andrew Kosove and Broderick Manley. She created "P.S. I Really Like You," professional created "The Blind Side," which she introduced to Alcon. She offered like a production executive at Alcon just before developing 2S Films with Hilary Swank and creating "Something Lent her first feature. Cruz remains partners with Swank on 2S Films. Massett and Zinmann are repped by CAA and Industry Entertainment. Thad Luckinbill is repped by Brillstein Entertainment. Contact Dork McNary at dork.mcnary@variety.com

Terra Novas Allison Burns Joins NBCs Continue, Lauren German Cast In Chicago Fire

EXCLUSIVE: Terra Nova regular Allison Burns remains cast in NBC’s comedy pilot Continue. The only real-camera project, put together by Scott Silveri and directed by Todd Holland,concentrates on Ryan (Matthew Perry), an irreverent yet charming sportscaster who, trying to maneuver ahead in the loss, finds surprising solace within the people of his mandatory support group. Burns, repped by ICM and Thruline, may have Ryan’s awesome assistant. Because of her contractual obligation to Terra Nova, which has her in first position, Burns, who received multiple pilot offers after Fox cancelled the pre-historic drama on Monday, continues to be billed just like a guest star inside the pilot for Continue. While Terra Nova co-star Christine Adams, who just reserved the ABC pilot Americana, happen to be released early as her character wasn't prone to continue in Season 2, Burns, along with the relaxation in the show’s core cast, weren't released as creating studio last century Fox TV is shopping Terra Nova along with other systems. (It's had discussions with Netflix) Lauren German has grew to become part of the cast in the NBC drama pilot Chicago Fire starring Jesse Spencer. On Wolf Films and Universal Televisions action-driven drama in regards to the complex and heroic males and girls in the Chicago Fire Department, German may have the all-business and humorless Kay with whom they reviews. German is coming initially from off a substantial arc on CBS’ Hawaii Five- this season.

'Common Law' looking for May 11 debut

USA Network has set May 11 because the launch date for newcomer dramedy series "Common Law." Skein, from CBS Television Galleries and Junction Entertainment, concentrates on two cops who're forced into couples therapy in order to save their professional partnership. "Common Law," looking for 12 episodes and presently shooting in New Orleans, will air at 10 p.m. Fridays, a evening the cabler effectively first showed "Monk," "Psych" and "Whitened Collar." USA Network is arranging the Sarah Shahi-starrer "Fairly Legal" at 9 p.m. Fridays and can use that like a lead-set for the "Common Law" premiere. As with the broadcast world, Fridays can be challenging for cablers to highlight their wares but USA Network bucked the popularity in '09 when hit series "Whitened Collar" broadcast its first season there. "Common Law" was initially scheduled to debut Jan. 26, however the show was gone to live in summer time -- a conventional strong season for USA Network -- after receiving high praise from focus groups. Michael Ealy, Warren Cole, Jack McGee and Sonya Walger star in "Common Law," that is professional created by pilot director Jon Turtletaub, co-designers Cormac Wibberley and Marianne Wibberley, and Craig Sweeny. In other casting news, Erectile dysfunction Begley Junior. will guest star in a set of approaching episodes. Contact Stuart Levine at stuart.levine@variety.com

Rankings: Idol Drops Slightly ABC Comedies Up

The Aquabats Super Show Pool party, baby! After many years of attempting, super hero rockers The Aquabats finally reach your TV screen this Saturday using the Hub's new cool comedy series The Aquabats Super Show!The show, which debuts Saturday, March 3, features a mixture of concert footage, animation and live action skits. The band's all there - MC Softball bat Commander, Crash McLarson, Jimmy the Robot, Ough Fitness and Bald eagle "Bones" Falconhawk.Christian Jacobs, who plays MC Softball bat Commander within the Aquabats, can also be the co-creator of stylish pre-school series Years old Gabba Gabba (that has frequently featured this guitar rock band) but continues to be looking to get an Aquabats Television show off the floor in excess of 10 years. "In lots of ways Years old Gabba Gabba is really a spinoff from the Aquabats show," Jacobs states. Consequently, the prosperity of Years old Gabba Gabba assisted resurrect The Aquabats Super Show. And merely as Jacobs' kids were small children once the idea for Years old Gabba Gabba came into being, they are now pre-teens and also the perfect audience for that Aquabats' more edgy sensibility.Jacobs describes the brand new show like a mix between your sixties Batman, "Strange Al" Yankovic, Land from the Lost and Years old Gabba Gabba. "The Aquabats show is stuffed with references and influences like fake advertisements, crazy public service bulletins, and it is frightening and action-packed," he states. "It is a popular culture pizza."Yankovic makes several looks in season one, playing the "Leader around the globeInch in a single episode along with a super hero in another. Other visitors include Jon Heder and Lou Gemstone Phillips. Jacobs can also be the creator and director for that Aquabats Super Show, together with executive producer Jon Berrett.Here is a sneak look of among the Aquabats Super Show's commercial parodies:

Feuerstein set for 'In Your Eyes'

Before he returns to shoot the fourth season of USA's hit series "Royal Pains," star Mark Feuerstein will join Michael Stahl-David and Zoe Kazan in Brin Hill's romantic sci-fi indie "In Your Eyes," which Joss Whedon ("The Avengers") wrote and will exec produce.Stahl-David and Kazan star as characters who live on opposite sides of the country and share a powerful connection, as they can see and hear each other despite having never met.Feuerstein will co-star as Kazan's cold, controlling husband.Night & Day Pictures' Michael Roiff and David Rothenberg will produce the metaphysical love story with Whedon's Bellwether Pictures partner Kai Cole. Production will begin soon in Los Angeles and New Hampshire.Feuerstein's feature credits include Ed Zwick's "Defiance" and Nancy Meyers' "What Women Want." Thesp is repped by UTA and Framework Entertainment. Contact Jeff Sneider at jeff.sneider@variety.com

HBO nabs rights to 'Primos'

HBO has acquired U.S. pay TV and VOD rights to Spaniard Daniel Sanchez Arevalo's social comedy "Primos" (Cousinhood).Sold by Barcelona-based sales outfit Film Factory Entertainment, pic premieres Stateside in July.A Warner Bros. release, "Cousinhood" was the fourth-highest grossing Spanish pic of 2011, cuming an upbeat E3.5 million ($4.7 million).Sanchez Arevalo's third feature was produced by two of Spain's most internationally-minded production companies, Mod Prods and Atipica Films.Vicente Canales' Film Factory has just extended its business relationship with Jose Antonio Felez's Atipica, inking international sales rights on Alberto Rodriguez's action thriller "Grupo 7" (Unit 7).At Berlin, Film Factory is presenting buyers with a first teaser promo of "Unit 7," which is now in post.Writer-director Alberto Rodriguez, who broke through in 2005 with coming-of-age pic "7 Virgins," drew on real-life events for "Unit 7."Film turns around a semi-official police unit battling drugs and prostitution in downtown Seville before the 1992 Intl. Expo.Pic toplines Spain's hottest local thesp, Mario Casas ("Three Meters Above the Sky," "Brain Drain"), alongside Antonio de la Torre ("The Last Circus") and Inma Cuesta ("The Sleeping Voice").Warner Bros. opens "Unit 7" in Spain April 4 on around 250 prints. Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com

Jaume Collet-Serra to helm CBS pilot 'Quean'

Jaume Collet-Serra has signed onto direct the CBS drama pilot "Quean," from scribe Ilene Chaiken and Joel Silver. Collet-Serra made his first foray into TV a year ago by pointing the pilot for ABC's thriller "The Stream,Inch which bows on Tuesday. The The the spanish language language helmer can be a rising star round the feature side, getting steered last year's Liam Neeson starrer "Unknown" and 2009's "Orphan." He's attached to the Warner Bros. tentpole "Akira." "Quean," from Warner Bros. TV, involves a femme hacker who teams with Concord police to help solve crimes. Contact Cynthia Littleton at cynthia.littleton@variety.com