Relativity Promotes Tucker Tooley, Robbie Brenner

As it prepares to release Immortals, its most ambitious movie to date, Relativity Media has promoted two of its top execs, Tucker Tooley and Robbie Brenner. Tooley, who had been in the president of production post, has been named co-president of Relativity. Brenner has been upped to production president from her previous post of executive vp, production. Tooley will now work alongside Relativity president and CFO Steve Bertram while also continuing to oversee the company's film slate. Tooley will report directly to Ryan Kavanaugh, Relativity¹s CEO while Brenner will continue to report to Tooley. Tooley, an independent producer who joined Relativity in 2007, working withKavanaugh on growing the film division and helping transform the companyfrom a financing entity that partnered with studios on movies to one thatproduced or acquired its own slate. He oversaw Immortals and worked on theupcoming untitled Snow White project, 21 and Overand Steven Soderbergh'snew action movie Haywire. Brenner, meanwhile, worked with Tooley on The Fighter, Dear John and wasintegral in helping to acquire Catfish. (She is a nine-year Miramax vet thatalso worked at Twentieth Century Fox and Davis Entertainment.) "Tucker has been the backbone of Relativity since he joined us, and will bevital to our growth moving forward. As Tucker¹s role evolves, there is nobetter person to guide our production team than Robbie Brenner," saidKavanaugh in a statement. Related Topics

Oscars 2012: 'There's Nobody Better' Than Eddie Murphy, Says Brett Ratner

FROM MTV MOVIES: The American public may no longer be convinced about Eddie Murphy's enduring comedic gifts, based on the number of folks who purchased tickets to "Imagine That" and "Meet Dave." Even Eddie Murphy may no longer be convinced about Eddie Murphy's enduring comedic gifts. But one man with no such doubt is Brett Ratner, who is producing the 2012 Academy Awards and who has tapped Murphy to host. "I think there's no question about it. He's the greatest," Ratner told us Sunday night at the Emmy Awards about Eddie taking on the gig and slaying the crowd. "My first idea was the show had to go in the direction of more comedy with a single host, and there's nobody better on that stage than Eddie Murphy." "I grew up watching 'Raw' and 'Delirious' and being a big fan of him," Ratner added. "He's a huge movie star. He has huge international appeal. There's nobody better. He's a pro. The guy is a pro." Read the full story at MTV Movies!

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A Pyramide production in colaboration with France 3 Cinema, Solaire Prods. and VMP. (Worldwide sales: Pyramide, Paris.) Produced by Fabienne Vonier. Directed by Ismael Ferroukhi. Script, Ferroukhi, Alan-Michel Blanc.Younes - Tahar Rahim Si Kaddour Ben Ghabrit - Michael Lonsdale Salim - Mahmoud Shalaby Leila - Lubna Azabal Maj. Von Ratibor - Christopher Buchholz Ali - Farid Larbi Francis - Stephane RideauA satisfying war time espionage drama dedicated to little-noted crossing points between Arabic emigres as well as the French Resistance, "Free Males" stars "A Prophet's" Tahar Rahim just like a black marketeer taken up among dangerous intrigue in German-occupied Paris. Loosely inspired by actual occasions, this well-crafted sophomore feature from director-coscenarist Ismael Ferroukhi (concentrating on an even more ambitious scale in comparison to his 2004 debut "Le grand voyage") should garner sufficiently strong enough reviews and audience response further over the fest circuit to draw some offshore rollouts following its Sept. 28 Gallic launch. Among a wave of North African employees who turned up around the colonial keeper's shores before global conflict closed France's immigration-friendly edges, Younges (Rahim) has extended since lost his factory job. Now, in 1942, he subsists selling illegal goods hands-to-hands, wanting to enhance enough funds revisit his native Algeria. Involved with less cash-focused but equally furtive tasks are cousin Ali (Farid Larbi), a union agitator who offers the government physiques a lot more reason to look him lower just like a Resistance leader, his hope (a grimly ironic one, given subsequent occasions) being that efforts to liberate France might encourage that nation to free its own remaining colonies. When gendarmes come banging on Younges' door, Ali beats a hair's-breadth retreat, but Younges is caught red-colored-colored-handed within the own illicit trade. With prison his only alternative, he confirms to "watchInch around the local mosque suspected of hiding Jews and passing them off as Muslims to have the ability to hustle them somewhere safe. Cordialities between likely to rector Si Kaddour Ben Ghabrit (Michael Lonsdale) as well as the Gestapo major (Christopher Bucholz) situated here very carefully veils the kitty-and-mouse game that could turn lethal anytime. Younges' clumsy spying attempts don't escape clever Ghabrit's attention, as well as the youthful guy becomes a useful go-between working both sides until one misstep abruptly terminates his role as Axis mole. (Oddly, he isn't arrested as punishment.) Formerly cynically apolitical, he evolves more dedicated to Ali's cause, attracted further by feelings for Leila (Lubna Azabal), a apparently nondescript mosque worker who's really deeply mixed up in Algerian liberation struggles. Meanwhile, Younges is periodically attracted into the a lot more selfishly ambitious orbit of Salim (Mahmud Shalaby), a velvet-eyed hedonist who's getting steam just like a potentially great singer in the traditional Algerian style (the character's impressive vocals are named by Moroccan singer Pinhas Cohen). Script by Ferroukhi and Alain-Michel Blanc ("The Concert") deftly weaves these strands into a powerful if under pulse-pounding suspenser, its fairly low-key tenor showing helpful when some climactic business such as the final-minute save from the child risks corny contrivance. With full confidence handled pic is well-cast in the future, with Rahim easily holding center just like a careful protag of handful of words. Ever-reliable veteran Lonsdale and Arab-Israel newcomer Shalaby support standouts. Locations (which briefly stretch towards the other agents) limn a brand new Paris of peaceful religious compounds and yesteryear's ethnic slums. Setup is smartly handled on all levels.Camera (color, widescreen), Jerome Almeras editor, Annette Dutertre music, Armand Amar production designer, Thierry Francois set decorator, Catherine Jarrier-Prieur costume designer, Virginie Montel appear (Dolby Digital), Jean-Paul Mugel, Severin Favriau, Stephane Thiebaud assistant director, Stephane Gluck casting, Brigitte Moidon. Examined at Toronto Film Festival (Contemporary World Cinema), Sept. 9, 2011. Running time: 99 MIN.(French, Arabic dialogue) Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com

The Offices Rainn Wilson Would Love To Cameo On Game Of Thrones

By Jolie LashLOS ANGELES, Calif. -- He may play a paper pusher on NBCs The Office, but Rainn Wilson wouldnt mind grabbing a sword instead of a pencil, and heading over to Westeros if the opportunity came up for a cameo role on HBOs Game of Thrones. Oh, hells yeah. I would go and do anything, the actor told Access Hollywood on Sunday in the HP TouchSmart Gift Lounge at the Nokia Theatre before the Emmys. Just put me in blue paint and armor and yeah, a giant scar on my face. I would love it. Rainn, who plays Dwight Schrute on the NBC hit, admitted hes a big fan of the HBO series, is already on the fifth book from author George R. R. Martin A Dance with Dragons. Im part way into it, he said of his progress. Ive just started. While he admitted to having a huge crush on the character of Daenerys Targaryen, if the opportunity came up to head over to Belfast and sneak into a scene for Season 2, Rainn has some ideas on which family he could join. What are the ones in the Iron Islands the ships? he said, running through the house names in his head Stark, Baratheon, Lannister, Targaryen Id be a Greyjoy Rainn Greyjoy, he said. With several of Theon Greyjoys relatives apparently not cast yet, would he be up for playing an uncle of Ned Starks former ward? Theres my casting right there, he smiled. Meanwhile, The Office returns to NBC on Thursday, September 22 at 9/8 C, and despite the friction between Dwight and James Spaders character, Robert California, in the season finale back in May, the actor said Dwight is ready to go this time around. Dwight can take on all comers, so Im not so worried, Dwight will be able to hold his own, he noted. Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Inc. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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Ryan Murphy On Glee: Passion Has Returned

Ray Richmond is adding to Deadline’s TV coverage. Coming off a sophomore season of Glee that came gripes from fans along with a debate surrounding his comments about stars Jum Michele, Chris Colfer, and Cory Monteith departing the show, co-creator Ryan Murphy is able to make amends. “This year, the concept is simply to operate the show,” he stated this mid-day following a screening of Glee‘s third season premiere. “Last year would be a new factor for me personally. I’d run tv shows before, but I’d never operate a business before. It had been a strange factor. I many userful stuff here. And That I won't ever again say individuals are departing (the show). I've learned my lesson.” And also, since Michele, Colfer and Monteith’s figures will finish senior high school in the finish of the coming season, the way they be built-into the series’ high-school setting? “There are numerous things they might do,” Murphy told Deadline. “They could become instructors. They might become university students. You will find very organicways you can keep them on the program, and them large and the crowd invested all of them… However the show is definitely likely to be about this choir room.” For carrying out a spinoff, once the producers revisit the concept early in the year, “we would do discussions from it much in a different way than we handled it before,” Murphy stated. But for the time being, the main focus is “on making this the very best year we’ve ever done (on Glee),” he stated. “And actually, we believe that’s precisely what we’re likely to have. Area of the reason for your is we’ve determined the very best method to shoot the show, and a method to get it done more economically for Fox…I have my adoration for (Glee) back…And you can observe the thrill about the set. The stars Personally i think are really restored and excited and therefore are thrilled to become there. It’s fun again…You know, things required a little of the nasty turn, however i happy about this again.” The screening today confirmed that Glee exhibits a restored zest, energy and concentrate within the kickoff hour, replete with rousing amounts, an authentic surprise or two, as well as an indisputable miracle. The growing season opener, which airs Tuesday, also featured Lindsay Pearce –one from the four finalistson the Oxygen reality series The Glee Project– who's playing a significant role on the program throughout Season 3.Pearce turned up as (SPOILER ALERT!) the best choice of the rival singing group to New Directions, and she or he’ll still recur like a enemy to Rachel (Michele) in severalepisodes. Her large first music number is singing Anything That You Can Do from Annie Get A Gun. Murphy told reporters thatit happened to him following the part already have been written that Pearce could be perfect for this but needed to shoot her first episode prior to the Glee Project finale had broadcast. “We stored stalling doing the work therefore it wouldn’t leak,” Murphy stated. He noted the Glee Project‘s two those who win, Damian McGinty and Mike Larsen, will also come in significant story arcs on the program later this fall, with McGinty representing “a foreign currency student shacking track of Brittany (Heater Morris), and she or he obviously thinks him to become a leprechaun with magical forces.” McGinty “isn’t an actress,” Murphy acknowledged, “but he did great. On his first day he gotshoved right into a locker like 25 occasions” but came through rid of it. Larsen can look in “somewhere around Episode 10 or 11,” he added.

Jersey Shore's Vinny Heads West to enhance the Stakes on 90210

Vinny Guadagnino Jersey Shore's Vinny Guadagnino gets his fist-moving techniques to 90210, but he won't be stopping by America's most well-known local zip code, TVLine reviews. The reality star look in the Vegas-set episode in the CW drama where he'll play a famous actor who'll try a sizable poker game with Liam (Matt Lanter). Fall Preview: Get scoop inside your favorite returning shows The episode will air throughout November sweeps. 90210 airs on Tuesdays at 8/7c concerning the CW. Who you wager onto win: Vinny or Liam?

'Breaking Dawn' Trailer: Vampires of the underworld, Werewolves And Babies, My Dear!

"The Twilight Saga" is formally entering the finish game, and director Bill Condon certainly does not appear to become tugging his punches. A completely new trailer for part one of "Breaking Beginning," the 2-part "Twilight" finale, sunk its teeth in to the web late last evening, and also to say it is a doozy is a little of the understatement. Extended take a look at Bella Swan's wedding? Check! A level closer look at Bella and vampire husband Edward Cullen's hotly looked forward to honeymoon? Oh, you bet'cha. And on the top from the romance, there's enough action (werewolves away from home!) and potential horror (ain't nothing cute in regards to a quickly growing vampire fetus) to balance things out. Obviously, if you are a "Twilight" fan and also you skipped last night's "Breaking Beginning" trailer premiere, you are going to set the bar for getting a very awesome day. "Fantastic. Certainly my personal favorite [trailer] of the movies," Laura Byrne-Cristiano, who is the owner of TwilightLexicon.com, told MTV News about her "Breaking Beginning" trailer reaction. "I believe [director] Bill Condon absolutely nailed it. He got everything: action, romance as well as an amazing assortment of individual shots. There's reached bond with 100 individual shots for the reason that trailer, and it is just absolutely stunning." "My overall reaction is I loved it," added Kara Hassell of TwilightersAnonymous.com. "I do not think Bill might have done a more satisfactory job. He selected exactly what I believe everyone desired to see typically. It was perfect, and that i wasn't missing anything." Inform us that which you think about the "Breaking Beginning" trailer within the comments section as well as on Twitter!

Executives Talk Way Forward For three dimensional, Distribution And Technology In Entertainment

The Irish Technology Leadership Group released its Hollywood chapter tonight by having an eventat The new sony Pictures Galleries that incorporated a panel discussion among executives from companies for example Cinemax, Warner Bros and BBC Worldwide. Panelists at Innovation in Entertainment, because the evening was charged, talked about the brand new ways people consume entertainment, just how much they’re prepared to pay for this (progressively, that amount is certainly not, one stated), and whether or not they’ve even swept up to any or all the technology available. The near future is within understanding how to pitch making the best product in the proper time and put, stated Jay Roewe, Cinemax’s SVP West Coast production. “Computer developers that comprehend the film biz — that’s the type of people I wish to use because I understand I’m going to adjust to the near future in an exceedingly large way,” Roewe stated. An example of Cinemax adopting technology is social networking integration in the new comedy series Veep, starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus. “The producers stated, ‘If you've these ideas for you to do, arrived at us.’ The core is our programming, however it’s leading us in the future with other content,” Roewe stated. TheVeep team made the decision to operate Twitter in to the show so audiences can follow along in your own home. Roewe also detailed an expense-cutting measure on Cinemax’s epicGame of Thrones, which shot in Belfast utilizing a new camera rather than film, a risk that technology permitted they to consider. Robert Nashak, EVP digital entertainment at BBC Worldwide, recommended a Torchwood application along with Starz that has content compiled by the series’ scribes and voiced by its stars. The application produces alternate story mobile phone industry's and “reaches customers anywhere they are actually,” Nashak stated. Another extra for BBC Worldwide is really a massively multiplayer video game for sci-fi series Physician Who, which may bring gamer data towards the network, additionally to its “actionable statistics” — Facebook activity that discloses how audiences experience various areas of the show. “This data is going to be helpful and depended on increasingly more as time continues,” Nashak stated.The change in distribution platforms is yet another growing concern. Warner Bros’ SVP postproduction Bill Daly stated he sees the eventually supplying content straight to the customer. Due to this, companies are searching to escape from the concept that you “launch it and then leave it,” stated Nashak. “The community and fanbase need constant taking care of.” One remaining adhering reason for tech improvements is three dimensional. Daly credited three dimensional using the proliferation of digital cinema, but Wealthy Moran, a Plastic Valley venture capitalist about the panel, shot back, “I’m not too sure about three dimensional.” Then he made a good example of the evening’s earlier speaker George Bailey, The new sony’s chief transformation officer, who had donned a The new sony visor in the podium. The U-formed visor, which the organization revealed in the Electronic Devices Show this season, enables its individual to look at a film on something like a 750-inch TV screen. Moran stated there can be great technology within the visor, he just doesn’t know what it's, and stated that technology is moving far in front of what customers are prepared to accept. “Until you eliminate the glasses, it’s not going to take place,” he stated of three dimensional. Moran thinks what shapes the near future in the VC perspective is really a “glimmer of greatness, such as the The new sony visor. They are fully aware it’s all converging. Any organization that may prove there is a large idea, there’s money to get.” But Moran also made the reality that the expectation from customers is the fact that entertainment will probably be free. “If it isn’t free, they’ll try to have it free of charge,” he stated. So on the top of doubts about fans of three dimensional attempting to walk around their house putting on a visor, there’s the cost from the devices and also the content itself. Rovi leader and Boss Fred Amoroso sees three dimensional getting used in houses now, and that he stated because the trend develops, it will likely be on more products. “It’ll have its niches, as with every technology,” Amoroso stated. The main of Rovi, which concentrates on digital home theatre items, stated the greatest challenge in entertainment technology isn't the next large factor, however the adoption of the items’s here now. He stated galleries shouldn’t want to evolve, but “be prepared to take risks and go ahead and take chance to innovate.” The ITLG is really a four-year-old nonprofit with sections in Plastic Valley and NY. It aims to assist Ireland embrace new technology and also to promote Northern Ireland like a cause of the entertainment world. The evening’s panel was moderated by Bloomberg TV senior producer Nora Zimmett.