With New Digs, NY Film Festival Carefully Develops

NEW You'll be able to (AP) A sense of expansion presides within the 2010 NY Film Festival, the 49th and first since Lincoln subsequently subsequently Center's new $41 million film center was opened up up.But quite clearly NYFF, any growth is measured and restrained.The annual movie event, which begins Friday and runs through March. 16, might be the nation's most exclusive film festival. Presented with the Film Society of Lincoln subsequently subsequently Center, it's extended defined itself by its boutique options of worldwide cinema: just a little slate of 26 films no honours no rabid industry marketplace auctioning no fluff. There's a chastity of movie-going to the festival, while using goal of gathering the most effective pictures yearly must offer.Taken, Lincoln subsequently subsequently Center extended its cinema footprint by opening the 17,000-sq foot . Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center, including two more theaters, an auditorium, caf and book store. That's furthermore for the Walter Reade Theater and Alice Tully Hall, the grand, 1,100-chair concert hall through which all primary slate festival options play.Meaning more films, more tests together with a larger audience. Among an progressively cacophonous festival world, the NY Film Festival, since it will get near its 50th anniversary, is carefully broadening."Once we examined it, your final decision wound up being not to affect the festival," states Rose Kuo, the Film Society's executive director. "We recognized that individuals weren't prone to change around boost the festival."This is actually the initial NYFF Kuo has overseen. Formerly the artistic director in the AFI Fest in La, Kuo came aboard within this summer time 2010, altering former studio executive Mara Manus, whose relatively brief stewardship of under couple of years was marked by staff turnover.On modifying to Lincoln subsequently subsequently Center which is passionate patrons, Kuo states, "It's as being a marriage: The truly amazing the situation is better as well as the bad the situation is worse than you thought.""I'm very alert to not kidding the status as well as the heritage in the festival, and so the tweaks have to be modest and very considered,Inch she states.This Years festival includes more free tests and occasions, plus much more family programming and panel discussions presented by film industry groups such as the Authors Guild. The completely new theaters permit more tests of festival options, as well as the flexibility of investing a theater to such presentations just like a complete retrospective in the Nikkatsu Corporation, the famous Japanese studio. More anniversary tests, for instance people scheduled for Oliver Stone's "Salvador" and Wes Anderson's "Royal Tenenbaums," may also be now better to mount."Our public remains growing a great deal lately, progressively more since the festival is ongoing to develop, possibly, more worldwide in profile," states Richard Pena, selection committee chair and program director in the Film Society. "We're getting into many new people."The festival opens Friday with Roman Polanski's "Carnage," an adaptation of Yasmina Reza's Tony Award-winning play "God of Carnage," starring Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz, Jodie Promote and John C. Reilly. It's the first film by Polanski (who will not be attendance Friday) to screen within the festival since his directorial debut, "Knife in water,In . in 1963.The focus is Simon Curtis' "My Week With Marilyn," which stars Michelle Williams as Lana Turner throughout creating Laurence Olivier's "The Prince as well as the Showgirl." Playing as gala tests are David Cronenberg's "A Dangerous Method," in regards to the relationship between Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen) and Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender) and "The Skin Home Is,Inch the newest from Pedro Almodovar, a festival mainstay. The closing evening film is Alexander Payne's "The Descendants," an early on Oscar favorite starring George Clooney just like a father of two youthful kids whose wife is considerably hurt.Other highlights include Lars von Trier's "Melancholia," Martin Scorsese's soon-to-be-public documentary "George Harrison: Dwelling within the fabric World," Steve McQueen's "Shame," Michel Hazanavicius' "The Artist," Bela Tarr and Agnes Hranitzky's "The Turin Equine" as well as the Dardenne brothers' latest, "The Child Getting a bicycle.InchThe NYFF can also be considered less relevant because lots of its options play first at other film festivals, for instance Cannes in May and Toronto in September. Kuo states, "We ought to have films that are selected outdoors of Cannes and Toronto," but Pena doesn't consider world premieres a product in the festival."I don't even contemplate it,Inch according to him. Recalling a conversation with Joanne Koch, former Film Society executive director, he adds: "She attracted me aside and mentioned, 'You need to realize that this is often a festival for anybody of NY City. As well as the people of NY City, they all are world premieres."The festival may even add a lately restored and rarely seen film by Nicholas Ray, "We're Not Able To Return Home Again" (supported having a documentary on Ray, "Don't Over ExpectInch). An up-to-date cut in the new documentary "Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory" may even screen. The film, the next from the trilogy, is among the "West Memphis Three," three males who've been recently released from prison after being billed in the 1993 murder of three 8-year-old boys.Copyright 2011 Connected Press. All rights reserved. These elements is probably not launched, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

'Hell on Wheels' rolls to 19 territories

LONDON -- "Hell on Wheels," the new Oater that will bow in the U.S. on AMC this November, has been sold to 19 territories across Europe. Endemol Worldwide Distribution announced deals with France (AB Droits), Spain (Antenna 3), Norway (TV Norge) and Turkey (CNBC-e). The drama has also been picked up by Sundance Channel, which means "Hell on Wheels" will air in Spain, Portugal, and across Central and Eastern Europe. Show is produced by eOne in association with Endemol USA and Nomadic Pictures. Cast members Anson Mount, Common, Dominique McElligott and Colm Meaney will be at Mipcom, which bows Oct. 3 in Cannes. In other pre-Mipcom announcements, Zodiak Rights, the international division of Zodiak Media Group, has acquired rights to ITV docu "Susan Boyle: An Unlikely Superstar," made by Firecracker Films. DRG and MTV will unveil the U.S version of "The Inbetweeners" at the sales mart following the hit feature film and U.K. Channel 4 series. Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com

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Why Was Army Wives Star Kim Delaney Invited In The First Place To Honor U.S. Defense Secretary?

Which nitwit thought it would be a swell idea to invite Army Wives actress Kim Delaney to aceremony this week honoring former U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates at Philadelphia’s National Constitution Center? She was kicked offstage after stumbling through this highly inappropriate speech during which she confused playing an Army wife with actually being an Army wife:

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David Kohan And Max Mutchnick Sell 2 Comedies With Put Pilot Obligations

EXCLUSIVE: Following a year-lengthy stint as showrunners on CBS’ comedy $#*! My Father States, Will & Sophistication designers/executive producers David Kohan and Max Mutchnick have returned creating their very own shows. They've stored busy this year, selling two multicamera comedy projects — one at CBS and something at ABC — with put pilot obligations. Both projects hail from Warner Bros TV and Kohan and Mutchnick’s studio-based KoMut Entertainment, using the duo writing and executive creating. The untitled CBS project is all about 2 male close friends — one gay, one straight — who both of them are in serious associations. Referred to like a show about 𔄜 people in 3 associations”, the comedy reflects the actual-existence longtime friendship between Kohan, who's straight, and Mutchnick, who's gay. Due to that connection, the concept continues to be near and dear for their hearts. The 2 handled it before at ABC, in which the project visited pilot starring Alan Tudyk, Josh Cooke and Ty Burrell, but Kohan and Mutchnick had accepted they believed there have been script, casting along with other issues. The 2 had managed to move on if this year CBS contacted them about returning to the concept in regards to a show according to their relationship but setting it up right this time around. ABC’s Assistance is an Upstairs, Downstairs-style comedy in regards to a wealthy family and those who work with them. It focuses on a youthful guy — trained in the country’s leading culinary school — who lands employment because the personal chef for that dysfunctional proprietors of the family-run fashion empire. Kohan and Mutchnick, who won a best comedy series Emmy for Will & Sophistication, are repped by Scott Schwartz.

Finalists Announced For The Hollywood Reporter's Key Art Awards

For the 40th anniversary of The Hollywood Reporter KEY Art Awards, which will honor the most creative entertainment marketing of 2011, during an Oct. 19 ceremony at Hollywood's ArcLight Cinerama Dome & Boulevard 3, the entire contest was reimagined. The jury pool has shrunk from 1,000 to 40 -- and no clients judging this time, just creative experts. There are five juries: print, audio/ visual, interactive, display and public relations. They winnowed 196 finalists from 2,558 entries. And new forms of work will be recognized including gaming, bus sides, taxi talk and direct mail. It has been a good year for movies but a great one for the art of marketing. Get event and ticket information and view the finalists at keyartaward.com, or call (212) 683-4300. A PDF of the finalists is also available for download here. Related Topics Key Art Awards

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Football, tech toys fill Velocity slate

Discovery Communications' new guy-centric lifestyle cabler Velocity has designed its fall slate, and also the words during the day are "football" and "Wednesday."The network is joining up using the National football league on "National football league Single Coverage" and "Finest National football league Rivalries," set to air Wednesday at 8 p.m. and 8:30 p.m., correspondingly, with previews on Sept. 20th. The 2 shows are created by National football league Films in colaboration with Intersport and also the network -- "Single Coverage" will explore key National football league games thorough "Rivalries" follows teams and atheletes with the warmth of competition.Also a new comer to the internet is "tech Toys," which concentrates on the most recent devices, varying from high-finish watches to helis. Series will air after Velocity's football block on Weds. at 9 p.m.The internet, formerly HD Theater, will formally launch at 7 p.m. on March. fourth and can target an trendy male viewership in exactly the same Bravo courts high-generating female audiences.A lot of the net's auto category is held over from HD Theater -- custom-vehicle skein "Inside West Coast Customs" will continue from HD Theater, as will "Mecum Auto Auctions," "Chasing after Classic Cars," "What's My Vehicle Worth," and "Motorweek." Contact Mike Thielman at mike.thielman@variety.com

Panahi's 'Not a Film' sells U.S., U.K. rights

"This Is Not a Film"Palisades Tartan has snapped up U.S. and U.K. rights to "This Is Not a Film,'' the clandestine picture about Iranian director Jafar Panahi, from Wide Management.Deal was announced Wednesday, a week after Iranian authorities banned documentary filmmaker Mojtaba Mirtahmasb -- who co-helmed "This Is Not a Film" with Jafar Panahi -- from traveling outside the country. The purpose of the trip was to promote the French theatrical release of "This Is Not a Film" before flying on to the Toronto Film Festival to attend the Canadian premiere."This film is of undeniable importance today, especially amid the current Middle Eastern unrest," said Palisades president-CEO Soumya Sriraman on Wednesday. Mirtahmasb was allowed to attend the Cannes Film Festival in May for the world preem of "Not a Film," which was shot almost entirely in Panahi's apartment on digital video and an iPhone for just $4,500. Dedicated to all Iranian filmmakers, it was smuggled to France on a USB thumb drive hidden inside a cake. Panahi openly supported the opposition party in Iran's 2009 election, resulting in a six-year prison sentence and a 20-year ban from filmmaking and conducting interviews with foreign press. Panahi, whose work includes "Offside" and "The Circle," is currently under house arrest. "This Is Not a Film'' is written by and stars Panahi. It screened in Toronto on Thursday and Friday, the first two days of the fest. Contact Dave McNary at dave.mcnary@variety.com

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Final Charlie Sheen Roasters Introduced

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