Paul W.S. Anderson talks Resident Evil 5

Director Paul W.S. Anderson begins shooting Resident Evil: Retribution inside a week's time so he'd plenty to say of the project throughout a job interview with Collider. "We are getting within the Las Plagas parasite, that we love since it enables the undead to essentially play, ride motorbikes and shoot machine guns, which no a person's done before," he stated.Anderson also described how one action sequence could be lifted from the overall game, although having a change of vehicle."There is a great action sequence which we have been inspired by in the fifth game, that is in which the figures are driving inside a Hummer with the desert and they are being chased by zombies shooting machine guns on motorbikes. We have taken might we have type of gone with it. We are not gonna make use of a Hummer this time around we are gonna make use of a Comes Royce Phantom, cause no a person's ever done a vehicle chase having a Comes Royce Phantom before. And I have discovered why, since it is really, really costly."Younger crowd described the thinking behind the development of new figures in the games in to the film."[The brand new figures] is one thing that's type of emerge from Milla [Jovovich] and that i speaking to fans, feeling the figures that individuals desired to are available in. [We chose] three of individuals that appear to become the fan-favourites that we'd never discussed: Leon Kennedy, Ada Wong, and Craig Burton," Anderson stated."We actually went in our method of getting individuals who looked just as much similar to their figures as you possibly can from the overall game. This actor Johann Urb, who I am very excited to become dealing with, not just is he an excellent actor but he appears like Leon Kennedy. I am talking about you place photographs of these side-by-side, it's similar to he was manufactured by Capcom."Browse the full interview below...

Halle Berry To Enter The Hive?

Playing a heroic call-centre operatorOut doing the rounds for home-invasion thriler Trespass, directorJoel Schumacher has revealed that his next project may well be The Hive, and that he wants Halle Berry for his queen bee.Not to be confused with the 2008 TV-movie about killer ants (although Schumacher says he might change the title anyway, because it makes him feel "itchy"), this one's about an emergency phone line operator who runs across "a killer from her own past" during a call with an imperilled young girl.No documents have been signed yet, but Schumacher says that Berry is keen to man his phone lines, and that the film's producers are all in favour. The screenplay is by Richard D'Ovidio, who wrote Thirteen Ghosts and Steven Seagal's Exit Wounds, and the plan is to start shooting The HIve in February.In the meantime however, Schumacher says he may squeeze in an indie. "There are two very small movies that are tempting me," he says. "That's where the really interesting material is right now: you can do things that you can't do in a much larger budget movie, much more risky material..."Trespass, starring Nicolas Cage and Nicole Kidman, doesn't have a UK release date yet, but is out in the US next week.

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Touscoprod grows scope

Film crowdfunding website Touscoprod is broadening its scope having a completely new format open to all content, different from TV series to musicvids, figures and shorts. Paris-based Touscoprod was launched this past year by Nicolas Bailly and Barbara Tonelli just like a full-service co-production and distribution Web platform. It can help to invest in two projects monthly. The site will welcome all type of programs from cybernauts seeking financing. "The idea is always to give filmmakers the opportunity to obtain their very own web site situated on Touscoprod and it under control themselves," mentioned Tonelli, who required part inside a panel on crowdfunding at Mipcom. "By doing this, they'll make the most of our traffic an online-based community to create a buzz around their films and lift funds." The concept will stay: Web clients can check Touscoprod's online catalog and invest $10 or maybe more being co-producers. Touscoprod keeps 10% in the project's profits for that organization and offers adding factors coming back of investment or possibly reimbursement in case your project isn't made. Touscoprod may also be beginning a free of charge VOD platform. Tonelli mentioned the business has signed handles Univercine and KMBO, among other catalog rights-holders.Filmmakers who placed their projects on Touscoprod will have a way to purchase game game titles round the company's VOD site and supply these to cybernauts who lead for his or her projects' financing, referred to Tonelli. Touscoprod has co-funded 19 projects and elevated greater than 600,000 ($800,000).Among its current films is "Confessions d'un enfant du siecle," toplining Pete Doherty and Charlotte now now Gainsbourg, good autobiography of 1800s French author, poet and dramatist Alfred p Musset. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com

Demons Never Die Music Video

Chloe Moretz & some film clipsWe don't usually do this sort of thing, but hey!It's Friday, it's freakishly hot and it's the last chance we have to enjoy anything approaching summer, so here is a music video from Dionne Bromfield for her song Ouch, which features in - and features footage from - Demons Never Die. You may remember that Idris Elba, who's a producer on the film, came along to ourBig Screen event to present the film in August. He pitched it as a sort of "UKslasher", so it's a twist on the usual American flavour. Especially since, here, the victims had already made a suicide pact with one another - but find life worth living when a slasher killer appears to hurry them along.This video features ChloeMoretz, who isn't in the film but who is a big fan of Bromfield. The film stars Robert Sheehan, AshleyWalters, Emma Rigby and Tulisa Contostavlos (yes, her fromThe X-Factor. And N-Dubz) and is directed by Arjun Rose.Demons Never Die is out on October 28. Ouch is released onOctober 17.

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Lifetime Will Update Its Amanda Knox Movie, Which Airs Tuesday

Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy Now that Amanda Knox's Italian murder conviction has been overturned, Lifetime is racing to update its TV movie, Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy. As a stroke of luck for Lifetime, the cable network had already scheduled a re-airing of the film on Tuesday, October 4. Now Lifetime is planning to quickly add a new brief opening to the movie, an "epilogue" of sorts detailing Monday's news, as well as a new coda on how the new trial ends. Amanda Knox Freed, Murder Conviction Overturned Lifetime originally premiered the controversial movie, which stars Hayden Panettiere as Knox (an American who was originally convicted of killing her roommate in Italy), on February 21. The channel and the movie's producers were criticized by both Knox's lawyers and the family of victim Meredith Kercher after promos included scenes of Kercher being assaulted. Amanda Knox did not air in Italy due to legal reasons, as Knox's case was ongoing at the time. Presumably, now that the case is closed, the movie might finally be shown there. (Insiders say there's no plans to screen the movie in Italy just yet, however, as some legal loose ends remain.) Last winter Amanda Knox executive producer Craig Piligian told TV Guide Magazine that the producers made sure not to take sides in the debate over Knox's guilt or innocence. "Everyone's divided, and the viewing public will likely be divided as well," Piligian said at the time. "That's what makes this such a great story." Viewers will have several chances to catch Amanda Knox: Murder On Trial in Italy over the next few days. Besides Tuesday's airing on Lifetime, sister channel Lifetime Movie Network will screen it on Thursday. Next up, speculation has already begun on which news organization might land the exclusive first interview with Knox. ABC and NBC are considered the early frontrunners, as both news divisions have been on top of the Knox story for some time. Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!

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National Theater tallies record aud

London's National Theater generated a total income of 70.6 million ($110 million) and produced fare seen by a record-breaking 1.6 million people in 2010-11, according to the theater's annual report. With an average 90% attendance across the three venues at the NT's South Bank address and 97% for "War Horse," playing the on the West End, the total also includes tours to 11 U.K. cities and cinema screenings of productions worldwide in the theater's NTLive program. The screenings of eight productions reached audiences of 145,000 in the U.K. and 215,000 overseas Of the overall revenue, 48% came from box office at the National, on tour and from the West End version of "War Horse." Subsidy from the U.K. government's Arts Council represented 28% of income, with the rest accounted for by donations, corporate giving, sponsorship, catering and sales other than tickets (books, DVDs, etc). The National's top tickets prices are kept low to increase accessibility, with the highest pricetag currently set at 45 ($70). Half of tickets for productions in the sponsored Travelex season cost 12 ($18.50) with a 30 ($46) top. The figures do not include receipts from the Gotham incarnation of "War Horse," because the strong-selling Lincoln Center Theater production opened after the end of the U.K. financial year. Annum ended with a surplus of 387,000 ($600,000) after designating the surplus from the West End "War Horse" to NT Future, the building redevelopment project, and increasing regular contributions to essential capital and maintenance works. The NT staged 25 productions, nine of which were world preems of new plays, and gave 1,503 performances in London. Danny Boyle's production of "Frankenstein" and the U.K. transfer of Bill T. Jones's "Fela!" attracted first-time bookers of 36% and 49% respectively. The NT's 14-week, free outdoor "Watch This Space" festival, which features 14 exhibitions and 336 concerts, was attended by 53,000 people. Over 5000 young people participated in NT Learning's Connections, the nationwide youth festival of ten specially commissioned new plays. Contact Variety Staff at news@variety.com

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BERLIN -- Germany's Pirate Party is flying its flag high. A week and a half after winning an eye-opening 9% in Berlin's state elections, the party is making waves across the land, and a new poll indicates the Pirates would easily be seated in German parliament if federal elections were held today.Founded in 2006 and inspired by the Swedish Pirate Party, Germany's Pirates advocate shortening the duration of copyright protection, allowing noncommercial file sharing of digital works, strengthening privacy protection, drastically limiting the patent system, abolishing data retention laws and rolling back government surveillance legislation as well as legalizing marijuana and making city metros and buses free.While the party's platform is vague on what exactly constitutes a digital work, such language is enough to set alarms off in the entertainment industry.Granted, a minority party in a state legislature can't do much to affect federal laws, but Berlin is seen as a trendsetter in Germany, and according to a recent poll by RTL and news magazine Stern, 7% of people surveyed would vote for the Pirates if federal elections were held today, putting them on par with the socialist Left party.While modeled on the Swedish party -- which has inspired a global movement -- Germany's Pirates appear far less antagonistic toward the entertainment industry than their Scandinavian brethren, who last year went so far as to host Pirate Bay on its own server after the notorious file-sharing site was forced offline by its previous Internet service provider.That's not something the German Pirates would do, says Pirate Party spokesman Ben de Biel. "The dumbest thing you could do is make a legally questionable decision that could lead to a very negative result." A Berlin club owner and photographer, de Biel says the party is more concerned with what it perceives as monopolistic tendencies in the entertainment industry, whether it's Hollywood squeezing out small independent films from local theaters or music labels signing acts and controlling music rights for decades. He stresses that the German party is not focusing on entertainment or advocating the illegal downloading of films and music.De Biel explains that the party's stance on issues of copying, file sharing and noncommercial use of digital works is related to its goal of free transfer of information from scientific research and technology that has been funded by taxpayers, adding that government funding in science and medicine often ends up benefiting private companies more than society at large. That's something the party hopes to change.The entertainment industry has nothing to fear, de Biel says. "We are not a leftist party. We think pragmatically. We have companies of our own and, like filmmakers, we create content that we also want to sell and make a living from."Reactions from local industry reps in Germany have so far been sanguine."I have not really heard any representative of the Pirate Party condone illegal piracy of copyrighted material," says Martin Moszkowicz, head of film and TV at Constantin Film. "Part of the party's program is to change copyright and intellectual property laws into a so-called 'modern knowledge society.' I am personally curious how that (would) actually work and what business models the party has in mind -- but so far I have not heard anything constructive."Likewise, Senator Entertainment CEO Helge Sasse says it's not explicit in the party's platform whether its position on intellectual property really refers to film. "I'm not of the opinion that the Pirate Party people really want films to be illegally copied under the current law," Sasse says. "If that were the case, our view would be that that is simply not possible, and we would take action against it."Nevertheless, de Biel does take the entertainment industry to task for its refusal or inability to evolve with changing markets and embrace new technologies, which he argues has only encouraged the spread of piracy."It's a situation that has developed because the music and film industries were not quick enough to understand where the market was going. We don't want people not earning money for their work. We want to make things more transparent. We may end up destroying some business models when people realize that there are other ways of doing business. Ultimately the customer will decide." Contact Ed Meza at staff@variety.com

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