Back To Back Terrence Malick Movies Means No Noah For Christian Bale

Christian Bale isn’t going to play the title character in the Darren Aronofsky-directed Biblical epic Noah. Bale had never been set, but it was understood he was the actor Aronofsky wanted. I’m told that it won’t happen because the dates don’t work because Bale is committed to doing the Terrence Malick-directed Lawless and Knight Of Cups, which are being made back to back. Bale’s coming off The Dark Knight Rises. Noah’s being funded by Paramount and New Regency. Noah will begin production in the spring.

NO TWILIGHT SLUMP! Breaking Dawn Breaking Records: $73.5M Friday For Franchise Best & 2nd Biggest Opener; $139M Weekend; Happy Feet 2 Slow

FRIDAY 10 PM, 5TH UPDATE: Oh sure, you’re too cool (or too male) for the Twilight Saga global phenom. ButSummit Entertainment’s Breaking Dawn Part 1 is shatteringthe four-month-old North Americanbox office slump today and shooting the overall moviegoing weekend up +11% from last year’s total. Hollywood shouldbe grateful tofemales young and old for keeping the business buoyed this weekend. (Seriously, give thanks early.) Sources are giving me this Top 10 rundown. Full analysis later: 1. Breaking Dawn Part 1 (Summit) NEW [4,061 Theaters] Friday $73.5M (including $30.2M midnights), Estimated Weekend $139M Yowza! Summit Entertainment is cautiously optimistic now that this fourth Twilight Saga installmentBreaking Dawn Part 1 will match or beat the biggest one-day and Friday opening in the franchise’s history. It’s also looking like the #2 best-ever Single day opening, behind only Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part 2‘s $91M. Despite director Bill Condon receiving the worst reviews of the franchise, this pic todayearned a ‘B+’ CinemaScore and isbesting the Twilight sequelNew Moon’s $72.7M– but maybe not the weekend. Also, the penultimate pic based on Stephenie Meyer’s vampire romance novelsis off to a great start internationally as it started its roll out in 54 markets around the globe with Wednesday screenings from select territories totalling $8.9 million. 2.Happy Feet Two (Warner Bros) NEW [3,606 Theaters] Friday $6M, Estimated Weekend $22.5M Given how well family fare is doing at the North American box office these days, the real test for this 3D sequel to George Miller’s beloved 2D toon will be over Thanksgiving weekend. But for now Happy Feet Two is grossingonly half of the 2006 original, which opened to a $12M Friday and $41.5 weekend. “One word: disaster. Despite being in 3D,” a rival studio exec snarked to me tonight.But another noted, “No doubt all the families are waiting until next week to go to the movies.” Pic released on the anniversary of the original and received a ‘B+’ CinemaScore from adiences.Hollywood expected a weekend opening in the high $30sM. Nope. And next week The Muppets movie debuts so more competition for the tots and their parents. On the other hand, singing and dancing CGI penguins are hard to resist. 3. Immortals (Relativity) Week 2 [3,120 Theaters] Friday $4M (-72%), Estimated Weekend $13M, Estimated Cume $53.5M That’s a big drop for a 300-clone that underperformed last Friday.Immortals is not the Hail Mary that Relativity hoped it would be. 4. Jack And Jill (Sony) Week 2 [3,438 Theaters] Friday $3.7M (-62%), Estimated Weekend $12.5M, Estimated Cume $41M This Jack And Jill won’t have the usual gazillion multiple of most of Adam Sandler/Happy Madison comedies. 5. Puss In Boots (DreamWorks Animation/Par) Week 4 [3,415 Theaters] Friday $3M, Estimated Weekend $12.5M This toon cat Puss In Boots still has a lot more than nine lives left. 6. Tower Heist (Universal) Week 3 [2,942 Theaters] Friday $2.3M, Estimated Weekend $7.5M, EstimatedCume $53.7M 7. J. Edgar (Warner Bros) Week 2 [1,947 Theaters] Friday $1.9M (-55%), Estimated Weekend $6.5M, Estimated Cume 8.Harold & Kumar 3D Xmas (NL/Warner Bros) Week3 [1,808 Theaters] Friday $1.2M, Estimated Weekend $3.3M, EstimatedCume $28.8M 9. In Time (Fox) Week3 [2,591 Theaters] Friday $650K, Estimated Weekend $2M, EstimatedCume $33.7M 10. The Descendants (Fox Searchlight) NEW (opened Wed) [29 Theaters] Friday $300K, Estimated Weekend $1M Alexander Payne’s dramedy starring George Clooney had good momentum heading into its opening weekend expansion today into 11 additional markets (including Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, Washington DC, Dallas, Houston, Philadelphia, San Diego, Denver, Minneapolis, and Toronto). Fox Searchlight’s The Descendants had made $79K from Wednesday and Thursday grosses at 5 theaters (2 in NY and 3 in LA). The production budget was $20 million with tax rebates and the Academy Awards talk should help the film perform through March. “This comedy/drama is attracting the over-30 upscale audience who is aware of the terrific reviews we have received,” a Fox Searchlight exec tells me. “And exhibition is very excited about the film after seeing it at the Show East Convention in late October.” On Wednesday before Thanksgiving, The Descendants increases to over 60 markets and about 425 theaters. “We feel the Thanksgiving Holiday is an excellent time to be playing wider as it is counter programming to the 3 wide kids films opening on this date. At Searchlight, we fell it really is a marathon and not a race with our releases.” The initial marketing campaign was launched virally in early May with a web teaser called Who is he? which consisted only of a scene from the film with George Clooney goofily running to his neighbors house to ask – you guessed it – Who is he? Then, at the end of May, Searchlight launched The Descendants trailer on The Tree Of Life linking auteur filmmakers Alexander Payne and Terrence Malick and continued through the summer and into the fall. The film was an audience and critical favorite when it premiered at the 2011 Telluride Film Festival, and the buzz carried over into The Toronto Film Festival. The film went on to play over 15 more festivals including NY and London. Searchlight is now working with various museums and film societies across the county to set Alexander Payne retrospectives and to target urban art house cinefiles initially and eventually upscale suburbanites over Thanksgiving and through December. The project was developed with Ad Hominem, which is Payne’s and writer/producer Jim Taylor’s and producer Jim Burkes production company. (OSCARS: Jim Burke & Jim Taylor Give Birth To Alexander Paynes The Descendants)Stephen Frears was initially attached to direct. When Frears departed, Payne went back to the original book written by Kaui Hart Hemmings and began writing his own adaptation of the screenplay after original drafts were penned by Jim Rash and Nat Faxon. Payne flew to 2009′s Toronto Film Festival to meet with Clooney who was therefor Up In The Air. The Oscar buzz began with the sellouts of the special screenings and tribute to George Clooney atTelluride. FRIDAY 5 PM, 4TH UPDATE: Summit Entertainmentsources tell me that Breaking Dawn Part 1 is softening slightly tonight for a $70 million opening day. So now this fourth Twilight Saga featureis targeting $135M for its debut weekend. That will be the 2nd biggest weekend debut since the studio began making Stephenie Meyer’s vampire romance novels into films — behind only the Twilight sequel New Moon‘s $142.8M. That’s about halfway between what Summit lowballed and what rival studios highballed Breaking Dawn‘sgrosseswould be. Stay tuned for more updates… FRIDAY 2:30 PM, 3RD UPDATE: Summit Entertainment’s Breaking Dawn Part 1 is shattering Hollywood’s box office slump today. My sources say this fourth film version of Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Saga vampire novels is looking at opening to $72+ million in North American grosses, consisting of $42+M for matinee and evening screenings in 4,061 theaters, plus $30.25M for 12:01 PMpost-midnight showings in 3,521 locations. Right now Breaking Dawn may wind up with the franchise best one-day and Friday opening, surging pastTwilight‘s $36M, New Moon‘s $72.7M, and Eclipse‘s $68.5M. Stay tuned for more updates. FRIDAY 9:30 AM, 2ND UPDATE: Critics may be ravaging Summit Entertainment’s Breaking Dawn Part 1 but the fans are loving it. Overnight, thefilm version of the Stephenie Meyer novelmade$30.25M from 12:01 AM post-midnight showingsin a whopping 3,521 theaters. That’s a best for the Twilight Saga franchise (Twilight made 7.5M whichset a record at that time, New Moon $26.3M, and Eclipse $30.1M.) But it alsosets the #2 all-time midnights record behind Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part 2. FRIDAY 7 AM UPDATE: Here we go again. Not only is Summit Entertainment’sBreaking Dawn Part 1 helping surge the North American box office today after a months-lasting slump. But it’s also a big shot in the arm to international ticket sales. The Twilight Saga film franchise’s fourth installmentrolled out after 12:01 AM into a whopping 3,251 domestic theaters and then expanded into 4,061 theaters by midday. And the film is off to a great start internationally as it started its roll outin 54 markets around the globe with Wednesday screenings from select territories totalling $8.9 million with many more countries, data and their grosses to come over the coming days. I’velearned that an internal Summit Entertainment estimate puts this weekend’s domestic opening of Breaking Dawn Part 1 at $110 million to $125 million. That will be the 2nd biggest weekend debut since the studio began making Stephenie Meyer’s vampire romance novels into films — behind only the Twilight sequel New Moon. However,rival studios think Summit is lowballing and expect Breaking Dawn to debut to $142+M. And remember this is a female-driven 2D movie. It’s the 3D fanboy-driven movies that have been so hurt by slumping box office of late. Since the franchise began, Twilight opened domestically to $69.6M in 2008, New Moon to $142.8M in 2009, Eclipse to $64.8M in 2010. Summitprojected in an investor prospectus obtained by every showbiz media outlet that it would make $228 profit from Breaking Dawn,and that the final back to back films in the franchise would generate more than $1.2 billion in revenues and $447 million in profits for the studio and its investors. Yowza! Also rolling out this weekend into 3,606 theaters, with 2,800 3D screens,is Warner Bros family fare Happy Feet Two. The sequel also from director George Miller is releasing on the anniversary of the original, which grossed$41.5M in 2D on November 17 of 2006. “This Happy Feet Two feels like it will have to work to get to that figure despite being in 3D,” a rival studio exec tells me. Hollywood expects a weekend opening in the high $30sM which is good enough in these slumping times. “The strong schedule offamily films this past summer gave us an ideal launch for the campaign, startingwith a teaser trailer on Kung Fu Panda on Memorial Day weekend, and playingthrough on films ranging from Harry Potter to Smurfs, with the main trailerdebuting in the fall, culminating with a placement on Puss In Boots,” a Warner Bros exec tells me. Already, domestic pre-sales show thatBreaking Dawn Part 1 hasjumped onto MovieTickets.com’s highest advance seller list, ranking 5th among the Top 5 — ahead of The Twilight Saga’s last installment Eclipse but behind Harry PotterAnd The Deathly Hallows Part 1. In anticipation of the increased sales for Breaking Dawn‘s release,MovieTickets.com said it grew its theatre chain group count to 244 this week, and now sells tickets for over 17,400 movie screens.) Joel Cohen, CEO of MovieTickets.com, stated, The success of The Twilight Saga and the trends we saw from advance ticket sales of the most recent film is phenomenal. The fans who have supported this franchise from the beginning show no signs of walking away from what we know will continue to be a record-breaking movie going event.The net production budget for Breaking Dawn Part 1, after tax rebates and such,is $110 million. Costs were held down because parts 1 and 2 were made back-to-back by Summit. But the director of both pictures,Bill Condon,is not receiving anywhere near the generally good reviews of the previous Twilight Saga movies. Overseas, the Twilight Saga films have grossed over $1 billion coming into this latest release. Twilight grossed $200M, New Moon more than doubled its predecessor with $416M, and Eclipse is just shy of crossing the $400M mark. The breakdown of territories releasing this weekend is as follows: Belgium, France, Italy, Netherlands, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Australia, Argentina, Bahrain, Bolivia, Chile, CIS, Croatia, Czech, Denmark, Egypt, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Lebanon, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Oman, Peru, Portugal, Qatar, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, UAE, Ukraine, Aruba, Brazil, Bulgaria, Colombia, Ecuador, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Indonesia, Latvia, Lithuania, Philippines, Poland, Romania, Taiwan, Turkey, Uruguay, Venezuela, West Indies, UK. Germany releases on November 24th, South Korea on December 1st, and Japan on February 25th. Chronologically,the international rollout started Wednesday withBelgium, France, Italy, Netherlands, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland. Thursday withAustralia, Argentina, Bahrain, Bolivia, Chile, CIS, Croatia, Czech, Denmark, Egypt, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Lebanon, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Oman, Peru, Portugal, Qatar, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, UAE, Ukraine. Friday withAruba, Brazil, Bulgaria, Colombia, Ecuador, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Indonesia, Latvia, Lithuania, Philippines, Poland, Romania, Taiwan, Turkey, Uruguay, Venezuela, West Indies, UK as well as Canada and the U.S. (Previous: YIKES! Twilight Fans Already Lining Up For Breaking Dawn Premiere) On Wednesday,Breaking Dawn Part 1 opened #1 in France grossing $3.83M for its opening day.The film dethroned the highly popular French comedy Intouchables ahead also of the hugely popular Tintin 3D. It is the third highest opening result for this year in France.Summit said the film is performing very well across the country in all provinces, and first screenings at the Le Grand Rex theater in Paris was sold out. In Australia,midnight screenings werehugewith$1.27M. In Italy,it opened #1withbox office of $2.3M. In Belgium,it made$786K which was63.7% of all the Wednesday film business in that country.Breaking Dawn Part 1 dethroned hometown boy Tintin 3D. This is especially notable considering the fact that, unlike Eclipses opening, it was not during a summer or holiday period. In Sweden, the film reported box office of$757K.

Hot Short: Scrats Continental Crack-Up Part 2

Here’s a follow-up to another short featuring Scrat the saber-toothed squirrel that Fox posted at the beginning of the year. Fox and Blue Sky Studios certainly aren’t the first to get impressive mileage out of a funny-looking rodent. This one’s called Scrat’s Continental Crack-Up Part 2. The movie it’s promoting, Ice Age: Continental Drift, opens July 13, 2012. For the fourth outing Jeremy Renner, Wanda Sykes, Aziz Ansari, Keke Palmer, Drake and Jennifer Lopez have joined returnees Ray Romano, Queen Latifah, Dennis Leary, John Leguizamo, Seann William Scott and Josh Peck.

CBS Weird Title Punctuation Obsession

It seems like CBS brass approach creating the titles of their shows the way they select their bank account passwords — by trying hard to assemble an unduplicatable sequence of letters and numbers. Consistently over the past years, the network has employed unusual (and rather annoying for writers) punctuation in their show titles. First it was Numb3rs, then $#*t My Dad Says and Hawaii Five-0, which the network insisted we spell with a zero instead of the letter “O”. And today came the announcement of CBS’ latest stump-the-keyboard series title, Rob! That is the name of the network’s midseason comedy series starring Rob Schneider. The choice of punctuation is related to the series’ plot about a lifelong bachelor (Schneider) who marries into a tight-knit Mexican-American family. Still, can we keep the quirkiness and whimsy in the shows and off their titles, por favor?

The Twilight Saga: Breaking DawnPart 1: Film Review

Big things happen in this penultimate Twilight entry: Bella and Edward get married, she gets pregnant on their Brazilian honeymoon and almost perishes before giving birth, and finally, after four films and about 490 minutes of screen time depicting simmering desire and superhuman restraint, she wakes up with the red eyes of a vampire. (Spoiler? Hardly.) But so little else occurs between these momentous events in Twilight: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 that you can practically hear every second ticking by while awaiting the payoff. Not that this will matter to the faithful who have devoured all 754 pages of Stephenie Meyer's series-climaxing tome and want to see as many as possible re-created on the screen, nor to those who have paid more than $1.8 billion worldwide to see the previous three installments in theaters, nearly all of whom will rush to see this one as soon as possible. Part 2 won't follow until Nov. 16, 2012.our editor recommendsTwilight's 'Breaking Dawn - Part One' Premiere Buildup Hits New Heights'Twilight': Behind the Scenes of the Saga's First Film'The Twilight Saga: New Moon': A Behind-the-Scenes Look'Breaking Dawn' Stars Feted By Stephenie Meyer at Chinese Theatre Ceremony (Video)'Twilight' Star Kristen Stewart Reveals How She Lost Weight for 'Breaking Dawn''Breaking Dawn' Was Initially Rated R, Says Kristen Stewart PHOTOS: New Images of 'Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn' When the decision was made to split Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows into two films to bring that blockbuster series to a close, there was cynical talk regarding mercenary motives to milk as many dollars as possible out of the franchise. Once the films came out, however, that talk stopped, so emphatically did the massive narrative incident justify the extended length. On the basis of Breaking Dawn - Part 1, though, the same cannot be said of this series ender, which feels as bloated and anemic as Bella becomes during her pregnancy. The film is like a crab cake with three or four bits of crab surrounded by loads of bland stuffing, but many can't tell the difference or don't care, which will largely be true for its captive audience. Taking place in a lovely woodsy setting that could easily be the next estate over from the wedding-reception site in Lars von Trier's Melancholia, the nuptials of Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) and Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) can plausibly be termed the "wedding of the century" only in the sense Edward means it when he tells his 18-year-old bride, "I've been waiting a century to marry you." Drawn out to last nearly a half-hour onscreen, the gaiety of the preliminaries and ensuing event is encumbered by a strong sense of foreboding, not only because the world is coming to an end, as in Melancholia, but also because it means Bella will soon pass over from human life to the vampire side. PHOTOS: The Evolution of Film Vampires Upon receiving the wedding invitation, the first reaction of Bella's friend Jacob Black (Taylor Lautner) is to go wolf and race into the forest in a snit, but he finally turns up to wish her well before the happy couple jets off to Rio, which is so little seen it scarcely seems worth the trip. At their lush honeymoon villa, Edward is every inch the gentleman - too much so, perhaps, for Bella. They skinny dip at night to some incredibly insipid songs, they're very tender and understanding with each other, and then in the morning the bedroom is in total disarray; we never see anything of what came between, no moment of surrender, which is what the series has been building to all along. Where one legitimately hopes to register what Bella feels upon finally giving herself over to what she has so long desired but resisted, all we get are languid and lax interludes of what still seems like puppy love. Very lame, and very disappointing. At about the film's halfway point, Bella finds she's unexpectedly pregnant, prompting a quick return home. When Jacob comes by and observes her already-obvious condition, he gets to bellow an immortal accusation to Edward: "You did this!" As Edward searches for a proper rejoinder, Jacob again scampers off, whereupon the local werewolf tribe reacts with a lot of teeth-baring and internal bickering over what to do. Meanwhile, Bella turns pale and gaunt and seems in danger of wasting away; it appears the fetus is taking all of the nutrients for itself and leaving nothing for Mom, who can no longer eat normal food. There's only one solution to this state of affairs, the administering of which brings Bella back to life as Part 1 pushes toward its end. PHOTOS: 10 Biggest Book-to-Big Screen Adaptations of the Last 25 Years During the very slow scenes depicting Bella's deterioration, as Stewart appears progressively skeletal, so little else is going on that one is obliged to muse over whether the pounds came off digitally or the old-fashioned way. After the energy and alertness evident in his previous work as helmer of Gods and Monsters, Kinsey and Dreamgirls, it looks as though director Bill Condon fell into a trance while making this film - so dirgelike is the pacing, so banal is Melissa Rosenberg's dutiful script on a scene-by-scene, moment-to-moment basis. It truly feels that 40 minutes or so, not two hours, would have been plenty to convey all that's necessary in the material covered. Even the normally first-rate film composer Carter Burwell is dragged down by the occasion, though his score is marginally less watery than the songs that dominate the soundtrack. The actors have long since been set in their performances, and there are no surprises here. In the end, given how little goes on in Breaking Dawn - Part 1 despite the major plot points, what you're left with is to gaze at the three leads, all of whom have their constituencies and reasons for being eminently watchable. The only hope is they'll have more to do next time around. OPENS: Nov. 18 (Summit) PRODUCTION: Temple Hill CAST: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Billy Burke, Peter Facinelli, Elizabeth Reaser, Kellan Lutz, Nikki Reed, Jackson Rathbone, Ashley Greene, Michael Sheen, Anna Kendrick, Sarah Clarke, Christian Camargo, Gil Birmingham, Julia Jones, Booboo Stewart, Mia Maestro, Casey LaBow, MyAnna Buring DIRECTOR: Bill Condon SCREENWRITER: Melissa Rosenberg, based on the novel Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer PRODUCERS: Wyck Godfrey, Karen Rosenfelt, Stephenie Meyer EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Marty Bowen, Greg Mooradian, Mark Morgan, Guy Oseary DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Guillermo Navarro PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Richard Sherman COSTUME DESIGNER: Michael Wilkinson VISUAL EFFECTS SUPERVISOR: John Bruno EDITOR: Virginia Katz MUSIC: Carter Burwell Rated PG-13, 117 minutes Robert Pattinson Taylor Lautner Kristen Stewart Bill Condon

Jeffrey Wright Assessments Straight into House

Jeffrey Wright Tony and Emmy champion Jeffrey Wright will guest-star on House, a show repetition certifies.Wright may have an acclaimed neurosurgeon and Foreman's mentor who'll easily be the arbitrator of House's fate, according to TVLine, which first reported what is the news. The episode, which will air next season, was put together by longtime authors Garrett Lerner, Russel Friend and David Promote, and directed by executive producer Greg Yaitanes.House preps for your finish"It becomes an instance of great writing getting in great talent," Yaitanes states. "We are thrilled to own Jeffrey arrive. He brings the heft and magnitude you would imagine when pitting a personality similar to this against House. Just like a fan, I am dying to find out each of them interact.InchWright, who won a Tony and Emmy for his be employed in Angels in the united states, can next be viewed in Very Noisy and very Close.

AFM: Myriad Acquires Mike Figgis-Directed Seconds Of Enjoyment

Myriad Pictures has acquired worldwide privileges outdoors the U.K. for that Neil LaBute-scripted Seconds of enjoyment. Mike Figgis will direct a movie which will star Matt Dillon, Julia Stiles, Brendan Fraser, Kristin Scott Thomas and Christina Hendricks. Seconds of enjoyment explores a number of intimate and psychologically billed occasions that occur among a little group traveling together on the trans-Atlantic flight from Chicago to London. LaBute modified it from his novel, which weaves together the connected, yet separate tales, from the six couples trying to find individuals moments which make existence worth living. Seconds of enjoyment is really a manufacture of Scotlands broadcasting giant, STV. Margaret Enefer, STV Productions Mind of Drama, Bill Shapter and Neil LaBute would be the producers. Were delighted to become dealing with Myriad about this fantastic film,” Enefer stated. “Neil has written a remarkably candid, blazingly witty script. We all know Mike Figgis can make it shine within the most sensitive and imaginative possible way. Its a thrill to possess them working with this unique cast. Stated Myriad Pictures Boss Kirk DAmico: We immediately taken care of immediately Neil’s script, that is razor-sharp, so informative and honest, concerning the real challenges and lure people face every single day. Mike Figgis is the best director to create this script to existence, particularly with this remarkable cast.”

AFM: Image Acquires Blair Witch Helmers Toronto Thriller Lovely Molly

EXCLUSIVE: Image Entertainment has acquired U.S. distribution rights to Lovely Molly, the thriller directed by Blair Witch Project co-director Eduardo Sanchez. The sale is high six figures as well as the plan's to produce theatrically next spring. Lovely Molly made its debut inside the Evening time Madness area of the 2011 Toronto Film Festival. Newcomer Gretchen Lodge plays the title character, a newlywed who returns to her extended abandoned home which is his with frightening pointers of her nightmarish childhood that quickly color her new existence. She descends into an evil that's part psychosis and also the other area obsession. Haxan Films’ Robin Cowie and Gregg Hale produced with Amber Entertainment’s Jane Fleming and Mark Ordesky. The sale has come about as Content Film sells worldwide areas at AFM. Image purchases v . p . Mark Ward referred to as film “a return and evolution for the genre that [Eduardo] created” with Blair Witch. “We anticipate joining track of Haxan and Amber to improve the truly robust transmedia marketing campaign they’ve develop to produce the film a uniform.” It’s the second significant AFM-timed deal for Image, which on Friday launched a distribution relationship with Alamo Drafthouse. “Image’s business thinking and robust infrastructure give to us a perfect platform to produce our film for the biggest audience possible,” mentioned the producers. The sale was brokered by WME Global’s Graham Taylor and BHDRL’s Stuart Rosenthal. This really is really a clip:

'The X Factor' Renewed for Second Season

"Glee" Fox returned to its regularly scheduled programming after a few weeks off for baseball and its entire lineup was down. Glee (7.4 million total viewers, 2.9 rating in adults 18-49 demographic), featuring the first appearance of The Glee Project co-winner Damian McGinty, posted a 19 percent decline from its last original four weeks ago, with the hourlong topped by CBS' NCIS in its time slot. The episode was also the lowest-rated for the series. New Girl (7.5 million, 3.5) saw a 19-percent dip and Raising Hope (5.5 million, 2.5) sank 14 percent. Even so, the former won its 9 p.m. half-hour among adults 18-49 and the younger 18-34 demos. Fox notes that its programming almost always posts declines after baseball and expects its lineup to return to "normal" in a few weeks. PHOTOS: Fall TV Death Pool: Which New Shows Will Be Canceled? CBS' dramas also saw a dip across the board, though the network still came out on top in viewership (15.4 million) and the 18-49 demo (3.2) for primetime. NCIS (19.4 million, 3.9) and NCIS: LA (15.6 million, 3.4) were both down 5 and 8 percent, respectively, while rookie procedural Unforgettable (11.3 million, 2.3) dipped 8 percent to hit its lowest-rated telecast so far. Notably, NCIS topped Glee at 8 p.m. to win the hour in coveted 18-49 demo, while NCIS: LA and Unforgettable also won their respective time periods. ABC's man comedies Last Man Standing (9.3 million, 2.6) and Man Up! (6.4 million, 1.8) both posted their lowest-rated telecasts so far in their young seasons, down 10 percent. Dancing With the Stars (15.2 million, 2.8), meanwhile, rose 8 percent for its latest elimination episode, which saw David Arquette getting the boot. That boosted Body of Proof (10.1 million, 2.0) 11 percent at 10 p.m. NBC saw double-digit growth for The Biggest Loser (6.4 million, 2.2), which hit a season high in viewership, and Parenthood (5.3 million, 2.2), which has vastly improved on its ratings performance compared to last season. The CW's 90210 (1.5 million, 0.7) grew 6 percent in total viewers compared to its last original episode on Oct. 18. Ringer (1.8 million, 0.8) held steady in total viewers and 18-49, but improved 14 percent in the younger 18-34 category to post a 0.8. CBS -- 3.2 · NCIS: 19.4 million, 3.9 · NCIS: LA: 15.6 million, 3.4 · Unforgettable: 11.3 million, 2.3 Fox -- 3.0 · Glee: 7.4 million, 2.9 · New Girl: 7.5 million, 3.5 · Raising Hope: 5.5 million, 2.5 ABC -- 2.3 · Last Man Standing: 9.3 million, 2.6 · Man Up!: 6.4 million, 1.8 · Dancing With the Stars results: 15.2 million, 2.8 · Body of Proof: 10.1 million, 2.0 NBC -- 2.3 · The Biggest Loser: 6.4 million, 2.2 · Parenthood: 5.3 million, 2.2 The CW -- 0.7 · 90210: 1.5 million, 0.7 · Ringer: 1.8 million, 0.8 TV Ratings