Sleep deprived Evening (Nuit blanche)

A BAC Films Intl. (in France) relieve a sublime Films production, in co-production with Paul Thiltges Distributions, Saga Film, Motion Investment Group. (Worldwide sales: BAC, Paris.) Produced by Marco Cherqui, Lauranne Bourrachot, David Grumbach, Jean-Jacques Neira, Hubert Toint. Directed by Frederic Jardin. Script, Jardin, Nicolas Saada, Olivier Douyere.With: Tomer Sisley, Joey Starr, Julien Boisselier, Serge Riaboukine, Laurent Stocker, Birol Unel, Dominique Bettenfeld, Samy Seghir. (French dialogue)A "Die Hard" setup drives the ultra-intense French pic "Sleep deprived Evening," which follows its bloodied, trapped cop protagonist using the corridors and crawl spaces of basically one location -- in this situation, a sprawling suburban nightclub outdoors Paris. The officer is not good for the bone -- a badge-flashing drug crook, anxiously trolling the club for just about any misplaced stash to have the ability to free his kid in the crime boss' clutches -- hardly prevents him from being encouraging, or perhaps the film from quickening an individual's pulse. Warner Bros. has naturally snared remake rights, though Gaul stands to relish an worldwide "Evening" that belongs to them. Film influence aside, director and co-film author Frederic Jardin might've taken his signal from an illegal stimulant, so quick might be the pic's pace within the get-go. Contrary, "Sleep deprived Evening" may use a few winks, becasue it is crazy manner evolves just a little tiring over feature length. Still, there's no mistaking Jardin's playful mastery in the Hollywood-style action aesthetic his movie starts in high gear and accelerates continuously next. Spanning 24 several hours, "Sleep deprived Evening" opens at beginning, with some masked males narrowly controlling to obtain 10 kilos of uncut cocaine in the carjacking heist that leaves one of the thieves, Vincent (a magnetic Tomer Sisley), nursing a terrible stab wound. Bleeding within the stomach, but which causes it to be home with time to acquire preteen Thomas (Samy Seghir) ready for school of course, Vincent is clearly (and comically) swamped by his conflicted duties as crook, cop and divorced father. Something or someone in Vincent's existence is for certain to suffer, plus it calculates being Thomas, snapped up from practice and held for ransom by Jose Marciano (Serge Riaboukine), who calls within the kid's cell to permit Vincent know he wants his drugs back. As evening falls, the knowledge changes virtually permanently for the Tarmac, Marciano's teeming dance club, where Vincent tucks the stash on the men's room toilet stall. Later, Vincent discovers the bag remains moved elsewhere, which he's being tailed by an eager-beaver cop friend (Dominique Bettenfeld) who's wanting to blow the lid off police department corruption. To convey the pic can get relentless from this level happens to be an understatement. Roughly another in the film's remainder follows the sweaty Vincent in shakycam as, giving or eluding chase, he sprints, stumbles, crawls or advances within the club's crowded party area, techno music thumping. The Tarmac's kitchen becomes the web site more fight-scene mayhem and broken dishware than the usual single could begin to evaluate. Inside a certain point, the film turns flat-out absurd, but rarely when for the hindrance of fun. Cinematographer Tom Stern, veteran shooter of several Clint Eastwood films, seems to own examined eighties and 1990's Hong Kong thrillers when planning to take crazy action that merely doesn't quit. Other tech credits are properly adrenalized too.Camera (color), Tom Stern editors, Marco Cave, Christophe Pinel music, Nicolas Errera production designer, Hubert Pouille set decorator, Florin Dima costume designer, Uli Simon appear (Dolby Digital), Angelo Dos Santos casting, Michael p Nijs, Francois Parascan, Katja Wolf. Examined at Toronto Film Festival (Evening time Madness), Sept. 15, 2011. Running time: 102 MIN. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com

ESPN Sells First Project As Scripted Series Producer: Fan Of Sports Comedy To ABC

EXCLUSIVE: ESPN may have put the scripted plans due to its very own primetime on hold carrying out a demise of short-were living dramas Tilt and Playmakers, nonetheless its production unit is searching being supplier of scripted series along with other systems. ESPN has offered its first scripted project, an untitled Boston fan of sports comedy from former Scrubs executive producer Bill Callahan, to ABC. The project is known to as phone relationship between four longtime guy pals, still dwelling within their hometown outdoors of Boston, who gather once every seven days to watch among their beloved teams play. Callahan is writing and executive creating, with ESPN Content Development’s executive producers Vinnie Malhotra, who's shepherding the business’s current scripted efforts, and Joan Lynch also prone to produce. UTA-repped Callahan, who labored with Bill Lawrence on 2 of his series, Scrubs and Spin City, most recently offered becoming an executive producer on USA’s Psych.

Duvall takes 'One Shot'

DuvallRobert Duvall is looking to team up with his "Days of Thunder" co-star as the thesp is in final negotiations to join the cast of Paramount and Skydance's "One Shot" starring Tom Cruise. The pic also starring Rosamund Pike and Richard Jenkins with Christopher McQuarrie on board to direct from a script he penned. The book series by Lee Child follows Jack Reacher, a former military policeman turned drifter. In "One Shot," Reacher investigates the case of a sniper accused of murdering five people before being captured. Details about Duvall's character weren't revealed and though it is a small role, insiders say it is significant to Reacher's story line. Par had no comment on the casting. Cruise and David Ellison will produce along with Don Granger, Paula Wagner, Dana Goldberg and Gary Levinsohn through Mutual Film Company and Cruise/Wagner Productions. Duvall just wrapped production on two projects, Billy Bob Thorton's "Jayne Mansfield's Car" and the indie "Mississippi Wild." He is repped by ICM. Contact Justin Kroll at justin.kroll@variety.com

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Majors, Catalonia pact on dubbing

BARCELONA -- The Hollywood majors and the government of Catalonia, one of Spain's wealthiest regions, have agreed the terms of a peace pact over the thorny issue of dubbing studio pics into the Catalan language. From November to July, the studios refused to release any films in Catalonia, after a new audiovisual law stipulated that, over a period of seven years, half of the print run of a major's releases had to be dubbed or subtitled into the local language. That law still lacks detailed regulation allowing it to come into force. The deal stipulates that, on an experimental basis over a two-year period, the studios will release 25 movies on an average 25 Catalan-dubbed print run across a network of 50 screens in Catalonia. Last year, the studios released five Catalan-dubbed movies on an average 15 prints in Catalonia. The region's Exhibitors Union has also agreed to the deal. The pact will take in Sony's "The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn," the Paramount-released "Puss in Boots" and Fox's "Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel." In general, movies dubbed into Catalan will be toonpics, family fare and blockbusters, Luis Hernandez de Carlos, prexy of Spanish distrib lobby Fedicine, which groups together all of Hollywood's Spanish sub-branches, told Variety. The Catalan-dubbed titles will play 50 screens at theaters with three or more screens, ensuring that they are not dumped in sparsely populated locations. At a joint Catalan government-Fedicine press conference, Felix Riera, director of the Catalan Institute of Cultural Industries, estimated the new deal could raise spectators for Catalan-dubbed studio fare from 117,471 in 2010 to 1.5 million in 2012. But nobody knows quite how the move will play out. All parties will review the results after two years, said Hernandez de Carlos, and then decide how to move on from there. John Hopewell contributed to this article. Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com

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Talkback: Which Movie Actress's New TV Show Will Fare Best?

Last week I asked you which Emmy nominee deserved a bigger movie career, and I decided that you answered Julie Bowen, because I want to like you. (P.S. Congrats to the madly talented Ms. Bowen on her win!) Now I’m asking a related, but opposite question: Which movie actress’s new TV show has the best shot of survival? We rank the five most promising nominees after the jump. Please tell me where I go wrong. 1. Zooey Deschanel, New Girl Can’t deny ratings: Zooey Deschanel’s new show about a quirky girl who moves in with three nondescript dudes launched big even after debuting its first episode as a free iTunes download. Nothing about the pilot is particularly novel: Zooey is likable, the guys are likable, and the show works - but it’s more a trifle than a triumph. Oh, and also? A beautiful girl with pristine hair, perfect vintage outfits, and a feigned coquettishness is better described as “cloying” than “adorkable,” Fox. 2. Kat Dennings, 2 Broke Girls Make no mistake, I love that female-led comedies are working in primetime. Dennings is just right as one half of 2 Broke Girls’s titular duo, and her role is a somewhat natural extension of her character in Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist. For now, she’s one of the brightest spots on CBS. 3. Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ringer You might not consider Gellar a formal movie star, but she seems to dominate our Bad Movies We Love canon, so let it go. Gellar’s new series Ringer has garnered an inordinate amount of buzz for its pilot and sci-fi premise — and Gellar herself transcends the Whedon wheelhouse and has great mainstream appeal. 4. Maria Bello, Prime Suspect Forgiving Prime Suspect’s rather staid premise (and the fact that Helen Mirren’s original series is unforgettably great), Bello is a marvel as Det. Jane Timoney - self-assured, unflinching, and compellingly overreactive. The show debuted soft in the ratings, but I suspect a second-wind is coming for this solid new show. 5. Christina Ricci, Pan Am Ricci wins my unconfident fifth-place vote, and it’s mostly because I adore her. Wednesday Addams forever, am I right? Pan Am may be a flashy period drama — a genre that seems more bankable than it is thanks to Mad Men and Boardwalk Empire — but I’m not sensing a real hook in the story of Pan Am. Flight attendants live glamorous lives in a misogynistic work setting? I believe it, but is there anything else we need to know? Because if we’re talking about the cosmopolitan world of international aviation in the ’60s, I’ll just watch The V.I.P.s again. Unranked: Taraji P. Henson in Person of Interest, Minka Kelly (of The Roommate!) in Charlie’s Angels, and Madeleine Stowe in Revenge So, let’s hear it. Who’s your pick for a cinematic success on the small screen?

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Greg Malins-Greg Berlanti Comedy Lands At CBS With Put Pilot Commitment

EXCLUSIVE: Using the network purchasing season winding lower, heavyweights Greg Malins and Greg Berlanti obtained a put pilot commitment at CBS for any half-hour project the 2 is going to be co-writing and executive creating together. The project originates from Warner Bros. TV where both Malins and Berlanti are based. It focuses on well known womanizer Nick who, after making it through any adverse health scare, realizes that “The One” he'd never found is really his closest friend of fifteen years, Wendy. Issue is Wendy is engaged to some guy Nick likes, she and Nick own a company together as well as their attempt for dating in college would be a disaster. For Malins and Berlanti this marks their second purchase at CBS this year. Former Buddies and just how I Met Your Mother executive producer Malins is co-writing/executive creating with Bill Lawrence a multi-camera place of work comedy, which lately arrived an airplane pilot production commitment in the eye network. And Everwood creator Berlanti is executive creating a Nick Wootton-composed cop drama, with a put pilot commitment at CBS. Malins has strong ties to CBS. Additionally to his stint being an executive producer around the CBS/20th TV Generate An Income Met Your Mother, younger crowd works as a talking to producer around the systems hot new comedy series Two Broke Women, from WBTV. This marks the very first half-hour comedy effort for Berlanti that has made his mark around the hourlong side as showrunner on Siblings & Siblings and Dawson’s Creek and co-creator of these series as Eli Stone with no regular Family. The purchase takes Berlanti’s 2011 batting average to 4-for-4. This really is his 4th put pilot commitment this development season, his first at WBTV, from 4 pitches removed. Another 3 take presctiption the drama side, all composed by close Berlanti collaborators: a higher-concept crime drama project at NBC with author Maggie Friedman, a legitimate drama at Fox composed by Marc Guggenheim and Wootton’s cop drama at CBS. Malins and Berlanti are with WME.

Sundance Funnel Orders Second Season of favor Rehab Show 'All about the Line'

our editor recommendsSundance Funnel acquires 11 films Sundance Funnel has introduced another season of favor rehab show All at risk. And this time around Nicole Burns is probably the designers who submit up-to-bottom audit from Elle creative director and series star Joe Zee. The 2nd season will also feature much more boldface names and buddies of Zee who help judge the designers' progress. They include American designer Rachel Roy, The American Idol Show finalist Adam Lambert, Mark Badgleyand James Mischka of Badgley Mishcka and model Veronica Webb. The show received reviews that are positive in season one, with Zee particularly generating accolades for his TV-ready persona. "The style crowd lapped it," states Sarah Barnett, executive vice president and gm of Sundance Funnel. "But what attracts people is basically the struggle, the industry human struggle." Sundance has purchased six one-hour instances of AOTL, that will bow November. 18. Audiences might find Zee's relation to Miller's spring 2012 collection, which a week ago was revealed at NY Fashion Week. Other designers who'll undergo Zee's discerning eye this year include: plus-size labelQristyl Fraizer Design Kathy and Eric Wilson's Kathy Wilson Atelier South African designer Angelo Lambrou Aysha Saeed and Cesar Galindo's Czar. Barnett also noted the A-list cast capped by Burns owes to Zee's stature in the market, but the exposure that the television program, even one on the small network, may bring. "We all do reside in a culture that loves to be on television,Inch she states. "All of them recognize this being an chance. It is a really raw procedure that people undergo and i believe [audiences] are intrigued with that. I believe the designers do comprehend the benefit and also the chance. We now have designers arranging to sign up within this show." Sundance Funnel will also bow another season of Women Who Choose Boys Who Choose Boys this fall and premiere ten half-hour instances of a real possibility show in line with the stage play Shocked. Related Subjects Sundance Funnel