Cloud Atlas Behind The Curtain Picture

Epic David Mitchell adaptation wrapsIf you'd requested us a few years ago which works of literature were basically unadaptable, Cloud Atlas, together with possibly Paradise Lost, could have been pretty high in list. Go forward 24 several weeks and something just wrapped, as the other is near shooting with Alex Proyas in the helm. What conclusion are we able to tap into this? That people have no idea ve... look, a unicorn!What individuals two movies share, apart from labyrinthine plotting and epic scope, is company directors with skills in seriously ambitious science-fiction. Lana and Andy Wachowski, pictured here alongside co-director Tom Tykwer, aren't any other people towards the type of advanced dystopias present in David Mitchell's novel. Tykwer, meanwhile, cut his teeth in thrillers and period pieces, genres that handily complete Mitchell's matryoshka toy of the book. If anybody can pull this off, we are saying it's this trio. momentsThe photo is definitely an unusual, but fun switch to the typical Variety trade advertisements that greet wrap-day on the large Hollywood picture. Using the cast - Tom Hanks, Jim Sturgess, Halle Berry, Hugo Weaver, Susan Sarandon and Hugh Grant included in this - most probably lower the pub, the company directors were became a member of by novelist Mitchell (sitting) and also the movie's producers to farewell the Babelsberg set. Knowing it, you will also recognise props in the six interlinking tales. We have spotted the Volkswagen Beetle of crusading journo Luisa Rey (Berry), the '70s thriller which should inject serious current in to the film's middle act (should you fully realize it, you'll place it's drab eco-friendly not rust orange). Also displayed are a set of Chatham Island totems, a piano of the composer from the 'Letters from Zedelghem' sections, some dystopian gadgetry from near-future Korea, along with a trolley that we are speculating will get accustomed to carry publish-apocalyptic vegetables around Hawaii.If none of the helps make the smallest sense for you, acquire it as rapidly as you possibly can. It's awesome. Consider more about the film once we have it. It's out in america on October 26, having a United kingdom release still TBC.Picture credit: Jay Maidment (SMPSP), Copyright © Cloud Atlas Production GmbH)

Daniel Craig For Five More Bonds?

Producer Michael G Wilson hopes soThat sound you hear is the craignotbond loons flagellating themselves with their Corgi Lotus Esprits. Long-term Bond producer Michael G Wilson has just said that he hopes Daniel Craig will break Roger Moore's record for the longest incumbent in the role of 007."I'd love Daniel to surpass Roger's record and do eight pictures," Wilson told The People. "Daniel's been an absolute pleasure to be around because he takes the role so seriously. There's really no one more passionate about making these films work than him. He's a filmmaker's dream. A lot of people have said Daniel's been their favourite Bond since Sean Connery and I can't argue with them. He's doing a great job." That other sound you can hear is Roger Moore raising his eyebrow.If you don't think it's much in the way of news to be told that a producer is keeping his star sweet, Wilson does provide some slight new intel on the tonal direction that Skyfall will be taking. "The director Sam Mendes and Daniel are taking it back to a '60s feel. It's more 'Sean'," says Wilson. "I think that's what the fans wanted. There's a magical Goldfinger feel ­surrounding it all. It's all very exciting. I can't wait for people to see the movie. Filming's going very well so far."Wilson says the long Craig future is something he'll be discussing with the actor when Skyfall wraps. So what do you think? Can you imagine Craig still playing Bond in 2022? Give us your thoughts in the comments below...Skyfall is out on October 26, 2012.

Exclusive 'Warrior' Blu-Ray Clip: Behind The Ideal

This writer's passion for "Warrior" knows no bounds. (See exhibits A and B.) I firmly believe that if increasing numbers of people notice, they'll get on the bandwagon and agree that Nick Nolte warrants a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination. Beginning today (12 ,. 20), "Warrior" could be acquired on DVD/Blu-Ray combo and also on Video if needed and Digital Download. To celebrate the wonderful release we offer you this exclusive commentary clip within the Blu-Ray featuring Maxmiliano Hernandez, who carried out trainer Colt Boyd inside the film, and director/co-author/producer Gavin O'Connor. Do her a large favor and discover this film! "Tommy was greater sell because you want exactly the same emotional arc for all of them,In . Hernandez states of those two brother mma fighters inside the film carried out by Tom Sturdy and Joel Edgerton. "In my opinion Brendan now is easier to access, the truth is his family the truth is where he's. The truth is his troubles, the truth is everything. Tommy might be misunderstood as this brooding, angry-at-the-world guy the surfacey way the level of smoothness may have been written." Hernandez is constantly on the praise O'Connor and also the writing team for drawing the reveal of Tommy's character's complex arc, it entirely allures everyone else. "It starts clicking, 'Wow this individual was a lot more psychologically damaged, whatever happened happened a good deal worse to him laptop or computer did to Brendan," he mentioned. "In my opinion everyone else starts calculating it which is great you obtain that reaction, it may be 'I have no clue who to root for.'" What can you consider "Warrior?" Reveal inside the comments or on Twitter!

Angelina Jolie Reacts to Golden Globe Nomination for 'Blood and Honey': 'I Never Expected This'

For many in Holly­wood, the most interesting aspect of Relativity Media is whether founder and CEO Ryan Kavanaugh can continue what appears to be a high-wire act to keep releasing big-budget movies.our editor recommendsRelativity Enters Distribution Partnership With Germany's Senator EntertainmentBrian Edwards Is the Latest Executive to Exit Relativity MediaAlan Menken to Compose Score for Relativity's Snow White Film 'Mirror Mirror'Relativity's Snow White Movie to Be Called 'Mirror Mirror' PHOTOS: Julia Roberts, Lily Collins and the 'Mirror Mirror' Cast The company insists a recent $200 million loan from Colbeck Capital Management is part of raising money as any growing company does. But banking sources continue to question its finances and ponder whether its major investor, Elliott Management, can or will be bought out. Relativity, which most recently distributed Immortals (pulling in a strong but not blockbuster $187 million worldwide to date), is preparing to release several films in 2012, most important among them Mirror Mirror, a $100 million reworking of the Snow White story starring Julia Roberts, which opens March 16. An insider says Relativity is well under way in terms of planning and -- crucially -- paying for that film's marketing campaign. PHOTOS: 'Immortals' Premiere Red Carpet But a number of bankers say they are not working with Relativity because they remain unconvinced about its strength in light of financial maneuvering and relentless management changes. In October, Brian Edwards resigned as the company's COO after just five months. The previous month, Joe Matukewicz, its senior vp acquisitions, left to join Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions. The company also has lost Bill Sutman, its CFO; Peter Adee, president of marketing and distribution; and Michael Joe, who had been president. VIDEO: 'Mirror Mirror' Trailer Now there is uncertainty about Joe's replacement, Steve Bertam, whose contract is up in January. A company insider says Relativity wants him to remain in the job but says no announcement will be made until early January. Another insider says work is proceeding despite a sense of uncertainty. "All we can do is put our heads down and stick to our knitting," this person says. "When you're an independent like this, you get your lifeline in increments. ... Ryan keeps pulling rabbits out of his hat." -- Alex Ben Block contributed to this report. PHOTO GALLERY: View Gallery The Two Snow Whites: Anatomy of a Smackdown Related Topics Relativity Media Ryan Kavanaugh Immortals Mirror Mirror

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo: Film Review

In the end, there's not much extra even David Fincher can bring to The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. This fastidious, technically stellar Hollywood telling of one of the great literary sensations of recent times is highlighted by a bewitching performance from Rooney Mara as the punked-out computer research whiz Lisbeth Salander and remains an absorbing story, as it was on the page and in the 2009 Swedish screen version.our editor recommends'Girl With the Dragon Tattoo' Soundtrack Music Video Debuts (Video)'Girl With the Dragon Tattoo': 'Vintage' 'Hard Copy' Report Reveals Mystery of Missing Teen (Video)'Dragon Tattoo' Feud: THR Critic Todd McCarthy on Why Review Embargoes Make Sense'Dragon Tattoo' Director David Fincher on NYer Embargo Fight: Ban All Critics From Early ScreeningsDesigner Trish Summerville Reveals H&M's Secret 'Girl With The Dragon Tattoo' Connection (Video)Trent Reznor Releases 'Girl With the Dragon Tattoo' Full Soundtrack List FEINBERG FORECAST: 'Dragon Tattoo' and 'Extremely Loud' Last Contenders to ScreenNoomi Rapace vs. Rooney Mara: Will the Real Girl With the Dragon Tattoo Please Stand Up?David Fincher: Scarlett Johansson Too Sexy for 'Girl With Dragon Tattoo' But for all the skill brought to bear on it, the film offers no surprises in the way it's told (aside from a neatly altered ending) and little new juice to what, for some, will be the third go-round with this investigation of the many skeletons in the closet of a powerful Swedish corporate family. Dedicated Fincher fans are likely to find this redo rather more conventional and less disturbing than Seven, Fight Club and Zodiac, all of which end far less reassuringly. Box office returns for this dark Christmas offering will certainly be big, although it will be interesting to gauge if Tattoo is still as major a part of the zeitgeist as it was a year or two ago. PHOTOS: 10 Biggest Book-to-Big Screen Adaptations of the Last 25 Years Although Niels Arden Oplev's Swedish adaptation, which ran 152 minutes (180 in an extended version), was perfectly solid, if not particularly stylish, and boasted a fine cast, there was cause to suspect that one of the best American directors now working would bring something extra to this exactingly lurid tale of a disgraced journalist and his kinky accomplice who chart the untold depths of depravity, old Nazi sympathies and serial murder in the vaunted Vanger clan. From the outset, it's unmistakably a Fincher film; the superlatively sharp visuals, the immaculate design, the innate knack for melding sound and music, the chill and menace evoked from both modern cities and open spaces, the beautiful people marked by deep scars and flaws -- all feel part of his habitual landscape. The director and his crafty scenarist Steven Zaillian skate through the exposition so fast that, if one weren't already familiar with it, it might be difficult to absorb it all. Very quickly, we learn (or are reminded) that seasoned journo Mikael Blomkvist (Daniel Craig) has his reputation and bank account wiped out by losing a libel case brought by scammy big bucks investor Wennerstrom; that Mikael has a long-term casual thing going with Erika (Robin Wright), his editor at the now-imperiled maverick journal Millennium and that, with the inducement of a hefty payday and a promise of helping him nail Wennerstrom down the road, he accepts a job from the Vanger family patriarch, Henrik (Christopher Plummer), to privately investigate the disappearance, and presumed murder, of his beloved 16-year-old niece Harriet way back in 1966. VIDEOS: Christopher Plummer in THR's Awards Season Actors Roundtable With the feeble cover of writing a biography of the courtly Henrik, Mikael hunkers down in a chilly cottage on Henrik's vast estate in the north of Sweden just after Christmas, surrounded by piles of documents and a quickly filling wall of Post-Its, notes and photos. He also meets assorted family members, most of them suspicious of Mikael and some of them not on speaking terms with one another. The most affable of them seems to be Martin (Stellan Skarsgard), the missing Harriet's brother, who now runs the vast company, which "built modern Sweden" with its industrial initiatives but is now in a downward slide. Back in Stockholm, Vanger attorney Dirch Frode (Steven Berkoff, now resembling a cross between Anthony Hopkins and Otto Preminger) has used wild girl rogue researcher Lisbeth to check out Mikael, whose computer skills are as impressive as her manners are atrocious. Festooned with multiple piercings, tattoos, a haircut that might pass muster in Borneo and an anti-social attitude that could clear a wide path for her through any crowd, the slightly built Lisbeth remains a ward of the state whose new piggish guardian coerces her into sexual favors, then rough rape, in exchange for the money she's due. Her astonishing revenge, clearly depicted here but not lingered over, is already one for the annals. The film pushes through all these preliminaries, not with haste, exactly, but in such a compressed way that there is little sense of lullingly enveloping the viewer into the narrative web; it just rushes you into it, like the fast train that shuttles the characters between Stockholm and snowy Hedestad. Lisbeth doesn't arrive there until after the halfway point, 85 minutes in, enlisted by Mikael to make sense of some Biblical references and the unsolved murders of several women many years earlier while he continues to piece together the mystery of Harriet's disappearance. VIDEO:'Girl With the Dragon Tattoo' Extended Trailer As readers will know, things get very hairy in the basement of one of the Vanger homes, although Fincher stops short of making this as horrific as it might have been. On the other hand, there is the fresh pleasure of a key interlude from the book that the Swedish film omitted, that of Lisbeth's eventful trip to Switzerland in disguise, and the new resolution of the Harriet story is clever and plausible enough. Often unkempt and largely stripped of the political core with which Larsson equipped him, Mikael is a fractionally less interesting character here than in the previous film, and Craig, while entirely watchable, doesn't reveal much that's going on inside him beyond what's already called for on the surface. His mild Swedish inflections in early scenes soon give way to a straight English accent, even as the speech of others remains consistent in a mid-North Sea sort of way. Craig and Wright play well together, sparking the wish they shared more scenes. So it's Mara's movie for the taking, and she snatches it up in dramatic fashion. Unforgettable in the opening scene of The Social Network last year, she remained untested in a demanding role, but Fincher's belief in her is borne out in a dominating performance of submerged rage, confidence and defiance. Baring all in the several sex scenes, both coerced and consensual, she goes all the way in a performance that compares favorably to that of Noomi Rapace in the Swedish version and its two sequels. She comes across here as the real deal. STORY: 'Girl With the Dragon Tattoo' Producer Bans NYer Critic From Future Screenings for Breaking Review Embargo In the astutely selected cast of largely British and Scandinavian actors, Skarsgard crucially gives Martin a sociable surface, Plummer exudes the required charm as the cultivated gent in charge, Yorick van Wageningen has just the right piggish bulk for the loathsome rapist, Joely Richardson shines as a daughter long estranged from her unsavory relatives and Berkoff handles legal and expository details with aplomb. It almost goes without saying that all the craft contributions, visual and aural, are exemplary. There was never any question that Fincher was the perfect director for this job; the material is right down the middle of the plate for him. But in his best and most unnerving films, there's the sense of him pushing deeper, darker and beyond where most filmmakers go, into the unknown, areas you enter at your own risk. As the only intrigue and unanswered questions here involve Lisbeth herself, Dragon Tattoo is too neatly wrapped up, too fastidious to get under your skin and stay there. Release date: Dec. 21 (Sony) Production: Columbia, MGM, Scott Rudin, Yellow Bird Cast: Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara, Christopher Plummer, Stellan Skarsgard, Steven Berkoff, Robin Wright, Yorick van Wageningen, Joely Richardson, Geraldine James, Goran Visnjic, Donald Sumpter, Ulf Friberg Director: David Fincher Screenwriter: Steven Zaillian, based on the novel by Stieg Larsson Producers: Scott Rudin, Ole Sondberg, Soren Staermose, Cean Chaffin Executive producers: Steven Zaillian, Mikael Wallen, Anni Faurbye Fernandez Director of photography: Jeff Cronenweth Production designer: Donald Graham Burt Costume designer: Trish Summerville Editors: Kirk Baxter, Angus Wall Music: Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross R rating, 158 minutes PHOTO GALLERY: View Gallery 10 Biggest Book-to-Big Screen Adaptations of the Last 25 Years Christopher Plummer Joely Richardson Rooney Mara Daniel Craig David Fincher The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

Kathy Griffin, 51 and Proud, Tells Women in Hollywood to 'Cut the S---' and Admit Their Ages

our editor recommends'Little People, Big World' Sneak Peek: Big Changes, 20 Questions (Exclusive Video)TLC's 'DUI' Premiere: Jimmy Is Under the Influence and Then Some (Exclusive Video)'Little People, Big World' Returns to TLC With 4 New Specials (Exclusive) The Roloffs are back for the holidays and the farm is buzzing with the season on TLC's new special, Little People, Big World: Holiday Surprise airing Sunday at 9 p.m. VIDEOS: THR's Reality Emmy Roundtable If you found it a bit sad to watch the family say goodbye to Jeremy as he went off to college in Calif. on the last special, then shake it off. It's the holidays and Jeremy's homecoming couldn't be better timed. It's pumpkin season at Roloff Farm and I have a sense that the college boy is going to be knee deep in the festive squash in no time as its one of the most profitable times for the farm. Cha-ching! Plus, Jeremy is also home just in time to celebrate Matt's 50th birthday. EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: TLC's 'Candy Queen' First Look: The Sweetest Lion You'll Ever Meet But, will Matt drive the family nuts with his new obsession? He not only wants to finally finish the Noah's Ark project, but he's hoping to make it one of the biggest spectacles on the farm. Watch THR's preview above. Email: Jethro.Nededog@thr.com; Twitter:@TheRealJethro TLC

Forbes: Billy Burke Offers Greatest Bang for that Buck

Billy Burke Billy Burke and Taylor Lautner may be the a couple of the most popular names in Hollywood, but they are not commanding Julia Roberts-like or Leonardo DiCaprio-like salaries. Still, mix their pay with the prosperity of their Twilight films, plus you've got two star who provide the greatest bang for his or her buck. Forbes added up each star's earnings for most recent films, added the operating earnings on each films, and divided the entire operating earnings in what the stars made. This created a "roiInch number - just how much the studio makes for each dollar its smart a star. Who're Hollywood's greatest compensated stars? Here's a good example: for each $1 she's compensated, 22-year-old Billy Burke nets the studio and production company behind Twlight $55.83 - making her No. 1 about this list. Next is Hathaway As Catwoman, who brings $45.67 for each $1 she takes home. Third: Pattinson, whose films generate about $39.43 for each dollar he's compensated. Browse the relaxation from the list here.

'Nada,' 'Perfidia' shine at Argentina's Ven TV

BUENOS AIRES -- Antarctic-set "La Nada blanca" and fraud thriller "Perfidia" proved standouts at Ven TV, a landmark two-day showcase for the first fruits of a revolution in Argentine public service TV. Other TV series highlights were "El Pacto," with Cecilia Roth ("All About My Mother") exposing big business practices, slum 'burb redemption tale "La Purga" and medical drama "El Paraiso." Full marks for freshness go to "Destiny Puppet," a laugh-out-loud marionette telenovela spoof set in the textile biz of Argentina's far north. The state funded 100% of the series and will underwrite more to fill public DTT channels on air and 220 digital nets to bow next year. This is enough to cover costs, leaving producers to make a profit in international sales. These might just come as viewers tire of "seeing the same American story formats," said Max Oliveras, head of sales and acquisitions at Montreal's Delphis Films. Indeed, Luca Macciocca, acquisitions exec at Italy's RAI Cinema, was upbeat about Ven TV. "You can have first-hand contact with many companies who maybe can't afford Mip TV or Mipcom," he said. Shows' primary market is Argentina itself: Some series were languorously paced by U.S. or Western European standards, one buyer said. But the export biz has kicked in. Buenos Aires' Primer Plano has taken international rights to social issues actioner "Under the Bridge," and broken dreams drama "Gigantes." Start-up KAFilms is circling "Eden," an ambitious period luxury hotel drama. Aura Films has multiple skeins, including docu-series "Prematuros," co-helmed by Lucia Puenzo ("XXY"). Aura's Patricia Primon has initiated sales talks with Latin American culture channels outside Argentina, Eastern European operators and U.S. VOD services. While not all is exportable, Michelle Wasserman, an international sales manager at Buenos Aires' Telefe Intl., said all this could prove a launching pad "for smaller producers to get into bigger projects." Ven TV ran Dec. 6-7. Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com

Cinemax To See Timesman David Rohdes Kidnap Tale A Rope Together With A Prayer

EXCLUSIVE: Cinemax Films has hired former war correspondent-switched- documentary filmmaker Greg Barker to helm A Rope Together With A Prayer, a film in regards to the kidnapping with the Taliban of two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning NY Occasions foreign correspondent David Rohde. Rohde written it along with his wife Kristen Mulvihill, an image editor at Cosmopolitan Magazine. They'd only been married two several days when Rohde was taken into captivity with the Taliban in 2008 in order to the interview getting a Taliban leader, in Afghanistan. She knocked on every door of journalists, people in politics along with the Taliban to free him. Cinemax also acquired Rohde’s 5-part series written for your newspaper right after he plus an Afghan friend used an automobile pull to lower in the wall and escape. Michelle Ashford, whose credits include Cinemax’s The Off-shoreline, is writing the script. Michael London and Janice Williams will produce for Groundswell Productions. Barker, who directed the docus Quran Off Off By Heart and Sergio for Cinemax, is repped by Gersh and Parallax Talent Management.

'Saturday Evening Live': Steve Buscemi Skewers Miley Cyrus, 'Dateline,' and College Sex Abuse Scams (Video)

BERLIN -- Lars von Trier's apocalyptic drama Melancholia blew them in the 24th European Film Honours, Europe's version from the Academy awards, taking home three trophies, including best film.our editor recommends'Melancholia': Second Trailer Shows Stunning Cinematography (Video)'The Artist': The way a Black-and-Whitened Quiet Movie Defied the chances and Grew to become an Oscar ContenderWhy The Ecu Film Honours Will Matter This Season "I don't possess a message from Lars for you personally while he has stopped making public claims. I'm able to't imagine why," stated among Melancholia's producers as she recognized the recognition on von Trier's account, making mention of the the director's infamous professional-Hitler quips in Cannes this season. Melancholia's cameraman Manuel Alberto Claro got the very best cinematography jerk for his hypnotic lensing of earth's final days and production designer Jette Lehmann won the EFA on her opulent sets. Melancholia was the chances-on favorite to accept top prize only at that year's EFA's. The host from the 24th European Film Honours, German comedienne Anke Engelke, acknowledged the film's leader status when she began the show, making her entrance on stage inside a wedding gown walking in slow-mo, aping Dunst's character within the von Trier drama. But Von Trier was outperform within the best director race by fellow Dane Susanne Bier on her Language Oscar champion Inside a Better World. And also the European Film Academy preferred Tilda Swinton's gripping performance because the mother of the killer in We have to Discuss Kevin to Kirsten Dunst's depressed bride in Melancholia, giving Swinton the very best actress jerk. Colin Firth added an EFA best actor trophy to his Oscar using what will probably be his last recognition for that King's Speech. Neither Firth nor Swinton managed to get towards the EFA ceremony, that was somewhat low-wattage when it comes to star energy. The King's Speech's award haul also incorporated the very best editing recognition for Tariq Anwar and also the People's Choice Award chosen on by European cinema goers. Oscar favorite The Artist won one EFA for the best composer jerk for Ludovic Bource's classic score. Bource designated the film's canine star for "inspiring all of the music" in Michel Hazanavicius' film. Another strong Oscar contender, the three dimensional dance film Pina from Wim Wenders won best European documentary. Belgium siblings Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne required the very best script recognition for his or her script towards the Kid having a Bike. Belgium's other large win from the evening was for Oxygen, from first-timer Hendes Van Nuffel, won the ecu Discovery prize for the best debut feature. Within the greatest surprises from the evening, French acting legend Michel Piccoli, who had been nominated within the category for taking part in the Pope in Habemus Papam, was hauled on stage to recieve an eternity achievement award from actor Bruno Ganz and director Volker Schlondorff. However the greatest laughs from the evening came because of Stellan Skarsgard and the tribute to Mads Mikkelsen, champion from the award for fulfillment in European cinema. Skarsgard switched it about his old friend right into a small-roast. "I don't admire you for the looks, since you're not attractive," Skarsgard riffed. "You possess an 'interesting' face. I understand you've been chosen most sexy guy in Denmark like 6 occasions but individuals are by individuals who don't know you. And we must remember, Denmark is an extremely small place." But Skarsgard ended on the sweet note. "Mads, all you do includes a clearness into it. There's nothing fuzzy by what you need to do. You're acting is clean, elegant and incredibly poetic." The greatest applause from the evening was for veteran British director Stephen Frears, who received an eternity achivement recognition. "Really, I'm all you don't," Frears stated towards the audience of European film professionals. "I'm no auteur and that i make cheerful films because I'm able to't stand the misery any longer. I'm only a bloke who makes films and hopes the crowd likes them. And That I'll attempt to fare better the next time.Inch Full listing of European Film Award those who win: EUROPEAN FILM 2011 Melancholia Dir. Lars von Trier EUROPEAN DIRECTOR 2011 Susanne Bier for Inside a Better World EUROPEAN ACTRESS 2011 Tilda Swinton in We Have To Discuss Kevin EUROPEAN ACTOR 2011 Colin Firth within the King's Speech EUROPEAN Film writer 2011 Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne for that Kid having a Bike CARLO DI PALMA EUROPEAN CINEMATOGRAPHER AWARD 2011 Manuel Alberto Claro for Melancholia EUROPEAN DOCUMENTARY 2011 Pina Dir. Wim Wenders EUROPEAN ACHIEVEMENT IN WORLD CINEMA 2011 Mads Mikkelson EFA LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD Stephen Frears EUROPEAN CO-PRODUCTION AWARD - PRIX EURIMAGES Mariela Besuievsky EUROPEAN ANIMATED FEATURE FILM 2011 Chico & Rita Dir. Tono Errando, Javier Mariscal & Fernando Trueba EUROPEAN EDITOR 2011 Tariq Anwar for that King's Speech EUROPEAN PRODUCTION DESIGN Jette Lehmann for Melancholia EUROPEAN COMPOSER Ludovic Bource for that Artist EUROPEAN DISCOVERY - PRIX FIPRESCI Oxygen (Belgium/Netherlands) Dir. Hendes Van Nuffel PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD The King's Speech EFA Video Clip AWARD The Wholly Family PHOTO GALLERY: View Gallery The building of 'The Artist' Related Subjects The King's Speech Melancholia The Artist Colin Firth Kirsten Dunst Tilda Swinton Tom Hooper Susanne Bier Lars von Trier Aki Kaurismaki Michel Hazanavicius Worldwide

Spaihts: 'Prometheus' fires up career trajectory

Jon SpaihtsIn the first 2000s, Jon Spaihts was on another profession entirely being an executive for that NY-based educational technology company Teachscape."It had been harmful, since it was challenging, satisfying and intellectually demanding and I saw a great existence there that I'd never go back to writing," he states.So Spaihts required annually removed from try to write his first script, and, prior to the there was a time up, he'd completed "Shadow 19" and offered it to Warner Bros.That project languished in development with Keanu Reeves mounted on star. Then Reeves requested Spaihts if he'd another project that may suit him. Spaihts pitched him a concept he'd for any sci-fi film noir that conspicuously featured the look of the guy stranded alone in space.After hashing within the idea for six days, Reeves made the decision it had been too bleak for him, but he loved the thought of the stranded spaceman. So Reeves' production partner Stephen Hamel known as Spaihts and requested him if there is a more happy story to become told concerning the lone figure."It had been among individuals magical fertilizing questions that you simply haven't considered to request yourself, which in turn causes an response to spring fully created out of your skull," recalls the Paradigm client, a Princeton grad who planned to become novelist before turning his focus on screenwriting. "I riffed at him in reaction, as well as in half an hour had drew on the telephone the spine of the items grew to become my script 'Passengers,' " presently in development at Universal."People" eventually come to individuals at Scott Free Prods., who asked him set for an over-all meeting, throughout recognise the business leader Michael Costigan pointed out that they are considering developing an "Alien" prequel for Ridley Scott to direct."Again, I riffed," Spaihts states, "as well as in around an hour had spat out what continues to be spine from the story of 'Prometheus,' " which Fox is scheduled release a next June.More lately, he's scripted New Regency-Summit's approaching "The Pitch-dark Hour" and "World War Robot" for producer Jerry Bruckheimer, to whom he's also penning an untitled space adventure.TEN SCREENWRITERS To Look At 2011:Josh Applebaum & Andrew Nemec Jay Baruchel & Jesse Chabot Justin Britt-Gibson Neil Mix Andrew Haigh Kurt Johnstad Lauryn Kahn Paula Pell Jon Spaihts John Yorkey Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com

Disney Boss buys Apple shares

Mouse House Boss Robert Iger ponied in regards to a million dollars for shares of Apple now inside a gesture of excellent belief after being named towards the company's board of company directors recently. He acquired 2,670 shares around the open market at roughly $375 each just for over $a million, based on a filing using the Investments and Exchange Commission Thursday. Iger's expenditure on Apple shares is just a fraction of his newest annual pay package around $$ 30 million for running Disney. Iger had also received 142 restricted stock models that vest in Feb when he was hired towards the board after Genentech topper Art Levinson grew to become Apple's new chairman following a dying of co-founder Jobs. Iger and Jobs grew to become close once the Disney chief headed the offer to get Pixar. Jobs grew to become a Disney board member and enormous individual investor. The filing also noted that Iger's wife, Willow Bay, possessed 75 shares of Apple stock just before his joining the business's board. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com