Lucy Punch joins 'Wedding Video'

LONDON -- Lucy Punch, Robert Webb and Rufus Hound are going to topline romantic comedy "The Marriage Video," a brand new pic from helmer Nigel Cole. Pic, which reunites Cole with "Calendar Women" scribe Tim Firth, is referred to like a "Spine Tap"-style expose on British society wedding ceremonies, which sees a best guy turn war reporter because he films his brother's wedding because it crashes and burns before his eyes. Punch lately starred alongside Cameron Diaz in "Bad Instructors." James Gay-Rees, whose recent docu "Senna" clicked in the audience award at Sundance, is aboard to create. Entertainment Film Distributors' Nigel Eco-friendly and Timeless Films' Rob Kamp are professional producers. Entertainment will distribute the pic in Blighty, while Timeless is handling worldwide sales. Pic has started lensing working in london. Contact Diana Lodderhose at diana.lodderhose@variety.com

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A tale about women, occur the current as well as in nineteen fifties Warsaw. The primary character is Sabina, a basic, shy lady that has just switched thirty. Clearly, she lacks a guy in her own existence. Her mother knows about it and tries no matter what to locate her daughter a great candidate for any husband. The entire situation is controlled through the grandmother, an eccentric lady having a sharp tongue from whom not a secret could be hidden. Successive lovers get through to the pre-war tenement in which the women live, but Sabina has an interest in not one of them. Eventually, showing up from nowhere, comes the charming, intelligent, and terribly good-searching Bronislaw. His presence will spark off a number of unpredicted occasions revealing the more dark side from the women's character.

U.K. riots hit box office

A shopkeeper sweeps in front of her boarded-up property in London, where rioters torched cars and looted stores.LONDON -- The U.K. riots have kicked a hole in the country's box office.Theatrical revenue fell 16% to 2.67 million ($4.3 million) on Monday and 27% to $3.9 million on Tuesday, compared with the same days last week, according to Rentrak. Dozens of movie theaters closed Tuesday evening on the advice of the police. Odeon-UCI, the country's leading chain with 117 sites, closed 24 sites, including its flagship theater in London's Leicester Square and two other sites in Central London. In total 19 Odeon-UCI sites closed in London and surrounding suburbs, as well as other sites in provincial cities, such as Manchester, Birmingham and Bristol. Other chains also closed sites, including Cineworld, which shuttered two sites in South London, and arthouse chain Picturehouse, which shut four theaters in London.Lucy Jones, director of client services, theatrical, U.K. and Ireland, at Rentrak, said that the drop would have also been affected by the improved weather this week, and the differences in films on offer. "Super 8," which opened last Friday, has proved less of an attraction -- taking $3.6 million over the weekend -- than "Captain America: The First Avenger," which opened the previous Friday and took $4.8 million over its first weekend. The pulling power of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2" is also diminished in its fourth week in the U.K., compared with the previous week.The streets of London were relatively quiet on Tuesday, after three consecutive nights of rioting, thanks to the presence of an extra 10,000 police officers, but violence broke out in other British cities, including Manchester, Birmingham, Liverpool, Nottingham and Bristol, with stores looted and set fire to, vehicles overturned and burned, and three men murdered in Birmingham as they defended their property. More than 1,100 people have been arrested.Prime Minister David Cameron promised that the police would restore order: "This continued violence is simply not acceptable, and it will be stopped. We will not put up with this in our country. We will not allow a culture of fear to exist on our streets." Contact Leo Barraclough at leo.barraclough@variety.com

Contagion Character Posters Online

Don't touch anyone!It's impressive when character posters for a film can conjure almost the same amount of dread and style as the trailer, but these six new images for Steven Soderbergh's viral drama Contagion have managed just that with a little sickly colour scheming and some great grabs from the movie. Check them out in the gallery below, courtesy of Yahoo. Contagion, as the name implies, tracks what happens when a lethal airborne virus spreads across the world, killing those who contract it in a matter of hours. Soon, the global pandemic is also causing chaos and the medical community is racing to try to find a cure even as society starts to crumble. Soderbergh has the likes of Matt Damon, Marion Cotillard, Laurence Fishburne, Jude Law, Kate Winslet and Gwyneth Paltrow in the cast, with Damon and Winslet as the focus as a man whose wife (Paltrow) gets sick and infects him, and a doctor looking to find some way to stop the spread - until she herself shows signs. {Contagion Character Posters}. Contagion spreads to our cinemas on October 21.

Warrior: Film Review

Having a fractured nuclear family that Eugene O'Neill would embrace and electrifying fight moments within the not-quite-mainstream sport of mma, Gavin O'Connor's Warrior creates a sturdy, visceral entertainment. It is a lengthy movie that feels short: It grabs you at the begining of moments, intense though low-key before all hell breaks loose, then keeps you riveted to its mostly male figures - a parent, two sons, a trainer and, yes, a wife who will get excluded from key choices - as people of the blue-collar family mind for any champion-takes-all tournament in Atlantic City. Each role is really a meaty one for that movie's highly watchable stars while O'Connor's crew, especially cinematographer Masanobu Takayanagi and believe it or not than four editors, has carefully built an environment where the implausible might flourish. Better than this past year lionized The Fighter, Warrior might have to go several models beginning at the begining of September. Lionsgate must put some muscle into its advertising campaign though, and person to person will need to energize your dream film's male demographic. O'Connor, who formerly helmed the sports movie Miracle, concerning the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team, and Pride and Glory, a multi-generational police family saga, pretty much combines these styles within two teams of highly compared mobile phone industry's. There's the darkly shot, working-class communities of Pittsburgh in which a despised pater familias, Paddy Conlon (Nick Nolte), sober for pretty much 1,000 days carrying out a duration of drunken abuse, dangles out, and also the sunny and surrounding suburbs where his senior high school teacher-boy, Brendan (Joel Edgerton), lives together with his wife Tess (Jennifer Morrison) and 2 youngsters. An additional contrast originates from that city's sweaty, dirty gyms along with a temporary tent inside a strip joint parking area where local punks beat one another into raw meat versus a "World Series" of mma staged inside the neon glamour of Atlantic City. The film starts in Pittsburgh in which a wary ceasefire between Paddy and the son's family, with everybody declining to acknowledge the other peoples existence, will get disrupted through the abrupt re-appearance of Brendan's brother, Tommy (Tom Sturdy). He's a ghost in the dead as nobody has seen him in 14 years. A back story progressively materializes: Neither brother could stand their father but Tommy made a decision to mind west using their mother, where she died an unpleasant dying from cancer, while Brendan elected to remain in Pittsburgh to become near his sweetheart, whom he eventually married. Tommy resents his brother's "unfaithfulness" almost around he is doing his father's abuse but, oddly, it's his father he selects to find information about: When a gifted amateur wrestler trained by his father, Tommy wants that old guy to coach him once more so he is able to go into the mixed martial-arts event. Inside a coincidence, which the film develops, Brendan also really wants to enter that contest as his home is headed for foreclosures and that he sees not one other option. Therefore the siblings take presctiption an accident course, and also the film blithely assumes it's possible to willy-nilly enter this contest despite getting no recent experience. A relevant video showing Tommy taking apart a champion while sparing will get published on the web, which partly describes why Tommy has the capacity to go into the tournament. This is actually the same video leading towards the thought of Tommy's heroic save of fellow Marine corps while positioned in Iraq, making this dark-equine combatant a well known favorite. O'Connor and fellow authors Anthony Tambakis and High cliff Dorfman focus on their figures, providing you with enough information but departing lots of space of these most capable stars to complete the idiosyncratic derails. Surly and brooding about wrongs, real and imagined, Hardy's heavily muscled, highly inked ex-soldier is really a ticking explosive device. Psychologically, he's inside a permanent fighter's crouch, in constant vigilance for the following punch fate will throw his way while searching to complete harm to every enemies. Edgerton is really a more nuanced character. Backed right into a corner financially, he's no choice, or at best thinks he does not, but to battle. His childhood has trained him the necessity of a powerful family so he pores his affection and devotion into their own. Yet, shades of his father, his decision to re-go into the ring is really a selfish one which he explains to his wife only after he's managed to get. Like many ex-alkies, Nolte's Paddy systems themself in blandness like a type of disguise. He's avoiding his former self, even to the stage that Tommy states, more often than once, he favors the drunk for this dull and weak person. The "normal" figures within the script assistance to balance the 3 Old Testament types. This could include Frank Grillo, who plays Brendan's trainer, dubious about his client but an excessive amount of a buddy to express no, and Morrison because the wife whom the script shortchanges. The voice of reason is simply too moderate here. For that footage of extended fights on the two-day tournament, whether shooting in the rafters or up near the coast the feral ring itself, Takayanagi's cameras dart and weave much like martial artists. Sometimes they might even miss a punch and rather arrived at relaxation with an anxious corner guy or perhaps a screaming face within the crowd. The thrill of those matches is superbly taken, almost horrifyingly so. Did a chiropractic specialist invent this sport? Being condemned lying on your back or neck frequently is really a tough method to earn money - as well as 5 million. To have an "entertainment," Warrior achieves a great deal. The household drama resonates strongly having a resolution that, looking back, appears like the only method the siblings might have discovered bloodstream ties. Meanwhile their fights are completely compelling. Rather than stifling the drama, the storyline continues within the ring because the two martial artists drag an eternity of emotional torment along with them. They are fighting their devils around their competitors. Warrioris among the couple of fight films by which winning or losing is notthe main factor. Opens: Friday, Sept. 9 (Lionsgate) Production companies: Lionsgate and Mimran Schur Pictures present a Lionsgate / Mimran Schur Pictures, Solaris Entertainment and Filmtribe production. Cast: Joel Edgerton, Tom Sturdy, Jennifer Morrison, Frank Grillo, Nick Nolte, Denzel Whitaker, Bryan Callen, Kevin Dunn Director: Gavin O'Connor Screenwriters: Gavin O'Connor, Anthony Tambakis, High cliff Dorfman Story by: Gavin O'Connor, High cliff Dorfman Producer: Gavin O'Connor, Greg O'Connor Executive producer: Michael Paseornek, Lisa Ellzey, David Mimran, Jordan Schur, John J. Kelly Director of photography: Masanobu Takayanagi Production designer: Don Leigh Music: Mark Isham Costume designer: Abigail Murray Editor: John Gilroy, Sean Albertson, Matt Cheesé, Aaron Marshall PG-13 rating, 139 minutes Joel Edgerton Tom Sturdy Nick Nolte Jennifer Morrison

Bravos Andy Cohen Gets Huge Advance For Memoir

LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Being The Real Housewives guru appears to have its perks! Andy Cohen, Bravo Executive Vice President and host of Watch What Happens Live along with hosting every Housewives reunion special has landed a seven-figure advance for his upcoming memoir, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Itll be a memoir, of sorts, about my intersections with pop culture over the years, from growing up in front of the TV as a kid in St. Louis to my years at CBS News, all the way up to today, Andy wrote on his blog about the upcoming book. The stories Ive been saving up are funny and improbable and really define who I am today. A THR source close to the negotiations said publisher Henry Holt believes the book will connect with housewives who think Andy is their gay best friend. The book, which is due next summer, does not have a title yet, but Andy did offer up a few names that will not be used. Titles you wont see on the cover of his book include, A Million Little Mazels, Curlytop! and Stories Sarah Jessica Told Me. Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Inc. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Headhunters (Hodejegerne)

A Magnolia Pictures (in U.S.)/Nordisk Filmdistribusjon (in Norwegian) discharge of Friland Film, Yellowbird Norge presentation and production, in colaboration with ARD Degeto, Nordisk Film, using the participation of SVT, 2. (Worldwide sales: Trustnordisk, Hvidovre, Denmark.) Created by Asle Vatn, Marianne Grey. Directed by Morten Tyldum. Script, Ulf Ryberg, Lars Gudmestad, depending on Jo Nesbo's novel.With: Aksel Hennie, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Synnove Macody Lund, Julie Olgaard, Eivind Sander, Daniel Bratterud. (Norwegian, British, Russian dialogue)An even, intriguing opening along with a foreseeable but psychologically satisfying home stretch bookend helmer Morten Tyldum's otherwise by-the-amounts Norwegian thriller "Headhunters." Depending on Jo Nesbo's eponymous bestseller, the slickly put together project stars local title thesp Aksel Hennie because the story's guy away from home, an insecure but effective recruitment specialist who moonlights being an art crook -- until a large score goes awry. Though unlikely to complement worldwide B.O. amounts of co-producer Yellowbird's "Millennium" films, "Predators" should hit targets like a home-entertainment item. Pic already offered to many Euro areas and Magnolia within the U.S., that is thinking of getting an autumn release. Marketing a movie full of sometimes blackly comic violence might prove tricky in Norwegian, where it is out August. 26, within the wake of latest tragic occasions. Elsewhere this ought to be straight-up Scandi genre fare, with sufficient graphic bloodshed, nudity and sex to make sure a tough "R" rating. Within the sleekly shot and edited opening sequence, a balaclava-putting on Roger Brown (Hennie) sometimes appears sliding into an affluent the place to find steal a canvas while, in v.o., he describes the guidelines that guide worthwhile art crook. The film will really are a feature-length illustration showing rule # 5: "Eventually, you'll either steal an artwork so costly you won't ever have to work again, or you will get caught." Before it transmits Brown running, pic's nimble, half-hour intro well creates the protag's meek, overcompensating character and also the neat means by which Brown's headhunter job dovetails together with his second, more harmful occupation. Although the modified script, credited to Ulf Ryberg ("The Lady Who Started the Hornet's Nest") and Lars Gudmestad ("Liverpool Goalkeeper"), uses pure pop psychology 101, Hennie's Someone In Particular-like characteristics and entertaining narration allow it to be hard to not root with this slightly dorky Everyman having a plan. Brown's large score involves a Rubens painting within the Oslo apartment of Dane Clas Grave (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau), who also is actually an ideal candidate to have an executive publish Brown must fill. Almost disturbingly good-searching and suave, Grave may be the polar complete opposite of Brown, therefore it is no real surprise the objective is frequently a measure in front of the crook. Midsection is essentially one lengthy, well-performed but hardly original chase with the wet and dirty Norwegian countryside. Tight concentrate on Brown and Grave highlights the narrative's cat-and-mouse character but additionally barely leaves room for dead finishes or red-colored herrings -- that could help to keep auds speculating about where all of this is headed it's obvious from in early stages that every supporting character onscreen will either quickly finish up dead or live just lengthy enough to supply crucial information afterwards. Nevertheless, Hennie creates enough curiosity about his character's plight to maintain auds hooked. The thesp even handles to inject some utter loneliness and melancholy following a remarkable vehicle-crash sequence along with a painful make an effort to shave his mind. As his opponent, Coster-Waldau is efficient but more one-note, while Eivind Sander, like a sex-crazed accomplice of Brown, may be the otherwise solid ensemble's standout. According to the closing credits, the film's helicopter shots are really from Yellowbird's "The Lady Using the Dragon Tattoo." The relaxation from the tech package is smooth.Camera (color, widescreen), John Andreas Andersen editor, Vidar Flataukan music, Trond Bjerknes, Jeppe Kaas production designer, Nina Bjerch-Andresen costume designer, Karen Fabritius Gram seem (Dolby SRD), Tormod Ringnes effects supervisor, Koo Hummer Hojmark. Examined at Locarno Film Festival (Piazza Grande), August. 3, 2011. Running time: 100 MIN. Contact Boyd van Hoeij at news@variety.com

Before They Were Teen Choice Awards Nominees, They Were Just Teens

Katy Perry The blast from Katy Perry's past on the left comes courtesy of snakkle.com, which is dedicated to vintage celebrity pictures, especially of the before-they-were-stars variety. Perry is but one in the site's gallery of Teen Choice Awards nominees. Check them out in advance of the actual Teen Choice Awards ceremony, which airs live Sunday at 8/7c on Fox. Beware, though: Even in their awkward stages, many celebrities were above-average-looking. Try not to let life's unfairness get you down.

Early Edition: 'The Vault' Will Open on Big Screen; Mark Ruffalo, Amanda Seyfried Appear in 'Now You See Me'; 'Thor 2'

GK Films -- the production company behind 'The Town,' 'The Tourist' and 'Rango,' as well as the upcoming 'Dark Shadows' and Martin Scorsese's 'Hugo' -- is tackling a graphic novel adaptation by picking up the film rights to 'The Vault,' an Image comic book written by Sam Sarkar, an executive at Johnny Depp's Infinitum Nihil production company (which has a deal with GK). According to The Hollywood Reporter, the underwater sci-fi story centers on a group of divers who, off the coast of Nova Scotia, uncover a sarcophagus with unusual remains and inadvertently unleash an ancient evil. Vault is a three-issue mini-series with the first issue hitting stores this week. Mark Ruffalo and Amanda Seyfried are in negotiations to join the cast of Louis Leterrier's 'Now You See Me,' a heist film starring Jesse Eisenberg and Melanie Laurent. According to Variety, the story pits a team of FBI agents in a game of cat and mouse against a squad of the world's greatest illusionists, who pull off a series of daring bank heists during their performances, showering the profits on their audiences while staying one step ahead of the law. Ruffalo would play the main FBI agent and Seyfried would play a technician who helps the illusionists with their props. Summit Entertainment is releasing the film. Irish director Brian Kirk is in talks to direct 'Thor 2,' with Chris Hemsworth reprising his role as the hammer-wielding superhero. Kirk is coming off a successful directing stint on HBO's 'Game of Thrones,' where he handled kings, queens, knights and renegades in the complicated plots based on the novels by George R.R. Martin. According to Variety, that work will serve him well with the 'Thor' sequel, which is expected to feature a large cast of Aasgardians and creatures in the Norse mythology-set world. The Marvel-Disney film is scheduled for release on July 26, 2013. Short Takes: Benjamin Walker is cast as the Archangel Michael in Alex Proyas' 'Paradise Lost' [full story] Despite a flurry of rumors, Michael Patrick King is not doing a 'Sex and the City' prequel. [full story] 'The Three Musketeers' to open Tokyo International Film Festival on Oct. 22. [full story] Check out the new international poster for 'Rise of the Planet of the Apes'. [full story] First images from Bobcat Goldthwait's new dark comedy, 'God Bless America.' [full story] There's a new clip from 'What's Your Number?' with Anna Faris and Chris Evans. [Check it out]

Sea Paradise (Haiyang tiantang)

A Highly Go, USA Entertainment discharge of a BDI Films, Beijing H&H Communication Medium, Nice Choose presentation of the BDI Films, Elko Films production. Created by Bill Kong, Hao Lee, Thomas Chow. Executive producers, Bill Kong, Hao Lee, Ma Hefeng. Co-producers, Matthew Tang, Shino Zou, Alice Yeung, Jason Lin. Directed, compiled by Xue Xiaolu.With: Jet Li, Wen Zhang, Kwai Lunmei, Zhu Yuanyuan, Gao Yuanyuan. (Mandarin dialogue)Starring Jet Li within an uncharacteristic non-action role, "Sea Paradise," in regards to a dying man's make an effort to assure the near future for his autistic boy, reps a modest success for Chinese femme scripter Xue Xiaolu in her own helming debut. Deftly staying away from sentimental overkill, this understated meller, largely unfolding inside a marine park, invites different amounts of identification, with Li functioning because the film's emotional fulcrum, Wen Zhang taking up its problematic center because the autistic 21-year-old, and water becoming its center. Curiosity value alone may wangle "Paradise" niche theatrical play, with cable certain to have a go swimming. The storyline opens with Old Wang (Li) and boy Dafu (Wen) comfortably relaxing in a rowboat taking pleasure in a sunny day using their legs associated with a concrete block, your camera then following them in to the ocean's depths. This unsuccessful suicide/filicide attempt, apparently un-tied by Dafu's unraveling from the ropes, signifies the dying Wang's first means to fix the dilemma of the items related to his disabled boy. Wangs' successive efforts send the happy couple going to institutions throughout Qidong, none outfitted to defend myself against an autistic adult except a "Shock Corridor"-like insane asylum which naturally terrifies Dafu. (Scribe/helmer Xue, a longtime supporter of the NGO that helps autistic children, here guardedly tweaks China's limited health-care options.) Between searches, Wang heads the electrical maintenance crew in the marine park aquarium, hiding his fatal illness from his supportive boss and co-employees, while Dafu, who swims just like a seafood and conveys with whales, happily stays his days within the tanks. Xue produces wistful but unrealized romances for both father and boy: Dafu falls to have an itinerant juggling clown (Kwai Lunmei), who whimsically responds to his guileless simplicity, while Old Wang, who lightly resists the apparent devotion of the useful widowed neighbor (Zhu Yuanyuan), finally confesses his mutual attraction inside a poignant scene by which he describes his causes of getting been quiet. Li's restrained emotional perf meshes perfectly with Wen's physical, highly abstracted interpretation of autism. Dafu, patently recalcitrant but striving to impress his father, must constantly be drawn back no matter where his mind has brought him. Moments of endless repetition where Wang makes a game title training Dafu how you can navigate getting off and on a bus by themself, Wang's frustration layered with affection, stimulate an eternity of bittersweet raising a child. This intense father-boy relationship taps right into a theme introduced in Xue's first script, for Chen Kaige's "Together." Respected lenser Christopher Doyle's lensing of Dafu's marine atmosphere (a milieu that assumes mystical significance through Wang's oddball identification having a ocean turtle) offers the film another reality that offsets production designer Yee Chung Man's everyday, sparely decorated configurations.Camera (color), Christopher Doyle editors, William Chang, Yang Hongyu music, Joe Hisaishi production designer, Yee Chung Guy costume designer, Stanley Cheung seem (Dolby Digital), Rocky Zhang, Ma Jie supervisory seem editors, He Wei, Rocky Zhang. Examined in the N.Y. Asian Film Festival, This summer 8, 2011. Running time: 97 MIN. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com