New Line Readies 'Mortal Kombat' Reboot with Familiar Director

This spring, 'Mortal Kombat' fans were delighted by 'Mortal Kombat: Legacy,' a number of viral short films directed by Kevin Tancharoen ('Fame,' 'Glee: The three dimensional Concert Movie') which began as 'Mortal Kombat: Rebirth,' an unauthorized video clip Tancharoen forwarded to prove he could handle an active-action reboot of 'Mortal Kombat' for Warner Bros. Apparently, it labored! Deadline reviews that New Lines are moving forward with a brand new 'Kombat' with Tancharoen set as director. Oren Uziel will write the script. Watch a chapter of 'Mortal Kombat: Legacy,' with Michael Jai Whitened and Jeri Ryan ahead to obtain a taste of how much from Tancharoen's gaming reboot. [via Deadline]

NBCU Int'l taps Latam head

Bettsteller Ken Bettsteller is joining NBCUniversal Intl. as managing director of Latin America for Universal Networks Intl. as the company continues the integration of its four international TV operations into a single infrastructure.Based in Miami, Bettsteller will report to Belinda Menendez, prexy of international TV distribution and the Universal Networks wing. He previously worked in private equity, building commercial and digital strategies for entertainment and education companies. Before that he had stints at E! Entertainment Television, News Corp. and Twentieth Century Fox, where he managed worldwide pay TV distribution as executive VP.NBCUniversal also named its integrated territory leaders. They are: Maxim Mikhailov, managing director of international TV, Russia; Carolyn Stalins, m.d. of international TV, France; Maria Sanchez-Munoz, m.d. of international TV for Spain and Portugal; and Marwen Helayel, m.d. of international TV for the Middle East, Greece and Turkey.All four will add oversight of U Networks in addition to their TV distribution responsibilities. Contact Bobbie Whiteman at bobbie.whiteman@variety.com

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Technicolor, IMGlobal ink service deal

Technicolor and film financing-sales company IM Global have joined right into a partnership encompassing a multi-year service arrangement. Deal, introduced Monday, requires Technicolor to supply IM Global with front-end services, worldwide release and trailer printing and distribution services for worldwide theatrical and subsequent ancillary platforms. IM Global Boss Stuart Ford stated inside a statement, ''Technicolor supplies a top class service along with a renowned brand which perfectly complements our fast growing library of game titles and allows us to deal with business in fifty plus areas every day.'' Contact Dork McNary at dork.mcnary@variety.com

Lee Daniels To Adapt Valley of The Dolls Into Series For NBC, Chernin Entertainment

EXCLUSIVE: Jacqueline Susann’s classic 1966 novel Valley of the Dolls is getting a series treatment by Oscar-nominated Precious director Lee Daniels. NBC has bought the period project, from 20th Century Fox TV and studio-based Chernin Entertainment, with a script commitment plus penalty. Daniels is set to write and direct the adaptation as well as executive produce with Chernin and Katherine Pope. UPDATE: This is one of 3 recent drama sales for Chernin Entertainment, which also set up at Fox Gina Fattore’s Second Chances, about a female trauma surgeon who has to cope with the fact that she was the only survivor of a car crash that killed her best friend (the project received a script commitment plus penalty), and Jon Cowan’s legal thriller spec script Truth. Valley of the Dolls, which has sold more than 30 million copies, spans over two decades to chronicle the lives, career highs and ultimate self-destruction of three female best friends: Anne Welles, who works at a Broadway talent agency; Neely O’Hara, a vaudeville star; and Jennifer North, a showgirl. The title of the book refers to a slang for sleeping pills that the three women eventually become dependent on. The novel previously was adapted as a movie in 1967, as a mini-series in 1981 and as a late-night soap in 1994. This marks the broadcast debut of Daniels, who on the cable side was previously attached to an HBO multi-generational family written by Amy Bloom. On the feature side, Daniels’ follow-up to Precious, The Paper Boy — starring Nicole Kidman, Matthew McConaughey and Zac Efron — will be released next year. There are two period drama series that launched this fall, ABC’s Pan Am, which got off to a strong start last night, and The Playboy Club, which was soft in its opener last Monday.

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ATO Pictures nabs rights to 'Oasis'

ATO Pictures has acquired U.S. rights to Participant Media's docu ''Last Call at the Oasis,'' directed by Jessica Yu.The film recently premiered at the Toronto Intl. Film Festival.Pic's developed, financed and executive produced by Participant Media.''Oasis'' deals with the global water crisis becoming the central issue facing our world this century.The film was produced by Elise Pearlstein and features activist Erin Brockovich, Peter Gleick, Alex Prud'homme, Jay Famiglietti and Robert Glennon.The deal was negotiated by ATO's Head of Acquisitions Sarah Lash with Josh Braun of Submarine and Jeff Ivers, COO of Participant Media.ATO also picked up rights last week to another TIFF title, ensemble comedy ''The Oranges. Contact Dave McNary at dave.mcnary@variety.com

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'Dancing With the Stars' Season 13: First Contestant Eliminated

Adam Taylor/ABCRon Artest, left, with other Season 13 castmembers The first celebrity has been eliminated from Season 13 of Dancing With the Stars. SPOILER ALERT! L.A. Laker Ron Artest -- who just legally changed his name to Metta World Peace -- got the boot on Tuesday night's results show. PHOTOS: 'Dancing With the Stars' Season 13: Rehearsals He and his professional dancing partner, Peta Murgatroyd, finished Monday night's premiere episode with the lowest score from the judges, earning only 14 out of 30 points for their cha-cha. The contestants were saved in groups on Tuesday's show, with the final three coming down to Nancy Grace, Rob Kardashian and Peace. PHOTOS: 'Dancing With the Stars' Season 13 Cast Official Photos After hearing his fate, Peace said: "I want to say thank you, Dancing With the Stars, Peta and I had a great time." Incidentally, Dancing With the Stars alum Steve-O recently told The Hollywood Reporter that Peace was his favorite to win this season. Peace and Murgatroyd will appear live on ABC's Good Morning America on Wednesday. Tuesday's DWTS episode also featured performances by Harry Connick Jr. and LMFAO. PHOTOS: 'Dancing With the Stars' Season 13 Cast Eleven contestants remain in competition for the mirror-ball trophy: Grace; actress and former talk show host Ricki Lake; actor David Arquette; transgender activist Chaz Bono; reality stars Kardashian,Kristin Cavallariand Carson Kressley; Iraq war veteran and soap actor J.R. Martinez; singer Chynna Phillips; model-actress (and George Clooney's ex) Elisabetta Canalis; and women's soccer World Cup star Hope Solo. RELATED: 'Dancing With the Stars' Premiere: What the Viewers Are Saying 'Dancing With the Stars' Premiere: 5 Memorable Moments 'Dancing With the Stars' Season 13 Premiere: TV Review ABC Carson Kressley Chaz Bono David Arquette Kristin Cavallari Dancing with the Stars Dancing with the Stars the Results Show Nancy Grace

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Lionsgate cozies as much as 'Friends With Kids'

Lionsgate has acquired U.S. privileges to Jennifer Westfeldt's ensemble comedy ''Friends With Kids,'' per week after its premiere in the Toronto Film Festival. Deal closed Sunday around the final day's the festival. Deal was the very first TIFF purchase to Lionsgate, which in fact had no official comment regarding release plans. ''Friends with Kids,'' shot in NY early this season, stars Westfeldt, Jon Hamm, Adam Scott, Megan Fox, Kristen Wiig, Edward Burns, Maya Rudolph and Chris O'Dowd. Written and directed by Westfeldt (''Kissing Jessica Stein''), pic focuses on several buddies whose life is transformed because the couples within the group start having children. Westfeldt and Scott portray close friends who launch a romance while trying to prevent the anticipation of a relationship. Hamm, Wiig, Rudolph and O'Dowd are probably the pals with kids. ''Friends'' is created by Westfeldt and Hamm's Points West Pictures and Riza Aziz and Joey McFarland's Red-colored Granite Pictures. Pic may be the first for production companies. Producers are Westfeldt, Hamm, Joshua Astrachan, John Kasdan, Joey McFarland and Riza Aziz. Executive producers are Mike Nichols, John Sloss, Lucy Barzun Donnelly and Joe Gatta with Kathryn Dean co-creating. Cinetic Media handled U.S. privileges and Red-colored Granite is handling worldwide sales. Contact Dork McNary at dork.mcnary@variety.com

Purple & Daisy

A Miracle Purple presentation in colaboration with GreeneStreet Films. (Worldwide sales: CAA, La.) Created by Geoffrey Fletcher, Bonnie Timmermann. Executive producers, John Penotti, James Skotchdopole. Co-producer, Steve Kempf. Directed, compiled by Geoffrey Fletcher.Daisy Saoirse Ronan Purple Alexis Bledel Michael James Gandolfini Iris Marianne Jean-Baptiste Russ Danny Trejo April Tatiana MaslanyFollowing his Oscar-winning script for "Precious," Geoffrey Fletcher's directorial debut handles to become precious inside a entirely unique way, sadly far-taken off the approach he required adapting the novel "Push" by Azure. Last and least inside a run of photos that fancy teen women as cold-blooded murders, "Purple & Daisy" provides a questionably sentimental spin about the Hit Girl gimmick observed in "Kick-Ass," casting the armed-and-harmful stars of "Las VegasInch (Alexis Bledel) and "Hanna" (Saoirse Ronan) as a set of implausible assassins. This cutesy dark comedy appears destined for cult status, but tend to also interact with less Puritanical overseas auds. Written pre-"Precious" in ways that could've occurred for without any money, "Purple & Daisy" advantages of Fletcher's recent fame, which allows the NYU Tisch grad to shoot his skewed fable in NY having a title cast and decent budget. Frankly, you'd never guess the 2 photos originated from exactly the same pen, so different is uneasy mixture of the hitman and coming-of-age genres. Still relatively recent towards the whole contract killing factor, Daisy (Ronan) blazes her way with the opening scene as an old professional, honoring her 18th birthday by offing a condo filled with heavily armed Mafia types. Fletcher fully holds the absurdity, delivering Daisy and her callous closest friend Purple (Bledel, greater than a dozen years her co-star's senior) in to the firefight disguised as nuns, packing shotguns in pizza boxes. With realism the window, the guidelines of the imaginary world take a while to soak up, since a person's instinct would be to keep young women as far from heavy artillery as you possibly can. When they are not raging criminals, Purple and Daisy play patty-cake and become women half how old they are (their getaway vehicle is really a tricycle, which indicates possibly the roles were written for more youthful stars). Holding their guns like Hong Kong action stars, the happy couple kill without remorse or motive, apart from to purchase the most recent dresses using their teenybopper idol, Barbie dolls Sunday -- a minimum of, for this reason they accept a job that preoccupies them for that relaxation from the film. After "Hanna," which combined its very own surreality having a fairly complex portrait of the child groomed to kill, "Purple & Daisy" feels significantly disconnected from identifiable human behavior. Then James Gandolfini makes its way into the image, getting a soul to Fletcher's wink-wink style. Although the helmer provides just one previous job to evaluate by, it appears safe to visualize that many targets either beg for his or her lives or shoot back. Not this person. He practically really wants to be wiped out, going to date regarding bake the women oatmeal snacks for his or her trouble. The majority of "Purple & Daisy" happens within the mysterious man's apartment, in which the script must keep approaching with excuses to find the women alone so Gandolfini's character can provide them the type of one-on-one advice that simply might save their lives. First, they exhaust bullets, which provides an adversary gang chance to visit while Daisy is unarmed and Purple is off creating a supply run -Body that lands her in the center of an improbable Mexican standoff in the neighborhood home improvement store. Later, Daisy steps out, so Purple can rest. With this point, most auds may have selected sides within the film's inevitable love-it-or-hate-it divide, but Fletcher does not give either camping the satisfaction of pinning lower the pic's tone. The laughs, which achieve their crazy peak with something the women call "the interior bleeding dance," progressively taper off, making room for carefully manufactured emotion. There is a miracle-trick quality towards the film's construction, by which Fletcher throws with one hands while subtly modifying the atmosphere using the other when people become popular the cartoon has given method to some thing sincere, they might already worry about the figures. "Purple & Daisy" grows what might have been just one-set have fun with two strong-impression cameos -- Danny Trejo because the girl's boss and Marianne Jean-Baptiste like a sniper prepared to remove them when the women botch the task -- but lacks a personality menacing enough to produce suspense. For that story to blossom, Purple and Daisy must stall, but, the more they are doing, the greater ridiculous it appears that anybody would trust two hit-women to perform a hitman's job. Production values are strong, especially Vanja Cernjul's widescreen lensing, which translates a number of Fletcher's wilder first-time-filmmaker impulses into clean, classy arrangements.Camera (color, widescreen), Vanja Cernjul editor, Joe Klotz music, Paul Cantelon music supervisor, Susan Jacobs production designer, Patrizia Von Brandenstein art director, Fredda Slavin set decorator, Regina Graves costume designer, Jenny Gering seem (Dolby Digital), Richard W. Murphy supervisory seem editor, Robert Hein re-recording mixer, Roberto Fernandez effects, Philip Beck Junior., Robert Beck visual effects supervisor, J. John Corbett connect producers, Rachel Israel, I-fan Quirk assistant director, Robert C. Albertell casting, Bonnie Timmermann. Examined at Toronto Film Festival (Special Presentations), Sept. 15, 2011. Running time: 96 MIN. Contact Peter Debruge at peter.debruge@variety.com

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Toronto 2011: Ryan Gosling and Bradley Cooper's 'The Place Beyond the Pines' Sells Out the World (Exclusive)

TORONTO -- Ryan Gosling-Bradley Cooper thriller The Place Beyond the Pines was among the hottest projects shopped at the Toronto sales market, and has sold out the world, as well as drawing substantial interest from U.S. buyers.our editor recommendsToronto 2011: Buyers to See First Footage of Ryan Gosling and Bradley Cooper's 'The Place Beyond the Pines' Toronto 2011: 10 Hot Titles Buyers Dare Not Miss Derek Cianfrance is currently shooting the high-profile indie title, which also stars Rose Byrne and Eva Mendes. The project reteams Cianfrance and Gosling, who worked together on the critically acclaimed Blue Valentine, a dark drama about a failing marriage. Nick Meyer and Marc Schaberg's Sierra/Affinity is selling Place Beyond the Pines internationally, while WME and CAA are co-representing domestic rights. Produced by Sidney Kimmel Entertainment, Place Beyond the Pines did brisk presales business when first introduced at the Cannes Film Market in May by Sierra/Affinity. A handful of key territory deals were signed, including for the U.K., France and Spain. At Toronto, Sierra finished up deals for virtually every remaining territory, insiders say. (Both U.S. and international buyers attending Toronto were invited to see the first footage from the film.) Domestic distributors also are pursuing U.S. rights. In the movie, Gosling plays a professional motorcycle stunt rider who turns to bank robberies to support his newborn son, but when he crosses paths with a rookie police officer, played by Cooper, their violent confrontation spirals into a tense generational feud tracing the intersecting lives of fathers and sons, cops and robbers, heroes and villains. The producers of Place Beyond the Pines are Sidney Kimmel, Lynette Howell, Alex Orlovsky and Jamie Patricof. Sierra/Affinity also handled foreign sales on the critically acclaimed Drive, which stars Gosling opposite Carey Mulligan and opens in theaters Sept. 16. FilmDistrict is releasing Drive domestically. Related Topics Toronto International Film Festival Ryan Gosling Bradley Cooper

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Vampire Diaries' Wesley: Damon Is a Puppy In Comparison to What Stefan Is Morphing Into

Paul Wesley The Vampire Diaries' Stefan Salvatore is headed back down the ripper road, but this time will he be able to return from it? "There will be a surprising thing that happens a few episodes in that will cause Stefan to turn the corner fully and really absorb himself in this darkness with absolutely no sense of conscience and no predisposed history of his prior empathy and his prior life as a 'good' so to speak," Paul Wesley tells TVGuide.com. "Damon, in comparison to what Stefan is morphing into, is a puppy." Vampire Diaries Season 3 promo: Elena turns 18 and takes a stab at adulthood When viewers last saw Stefan, he had agreed to team up with the most powerful and dangerous creature to grace Mystic Falls, Klaus, in order to get the cure for Damon's fatal wolf bite. Stefan and Klaus (Joseph Morgan) are on the road in the Season 3 premiere, and time will pass before Stefan is reunited with girlfriend Elena (Nina Dobrev). "Stefan is doing everything he can to not come face-to-face with Elena because what she represents is a part of him he's had to let go of," executive producer Julie Plec says. "[He's] reverting to some old behaviors and old problems that he has worked very hard to combat and it's a side of himself he never wanted Elena to see again." Fall Preview: Get scoop on your favorite returning shows Wesley likens Stefan's taste of blood to a recovering drug addict using again, and says that, although viewers may not like the blood-thirsty version of Stefan, he's OK with that. "Not every character has to be likeable, [but] every character should have empathy. I think viewers should watch Stefan and feel [for him], whether they agree or disagree with what he's doing." As Stefan travels further towards destruction we'll continue to see different sides of him. At first, Stefan reluctantly follows through with Klaus' demands while secretly plotting against him so that he can protect his loved ones. Then, Plec says, "There's the Stefan who just can't stop once he gets started ... and then ultimately there's going to be the Stefan that doesn't care anymore and that's the most dangerous Stefan. When that happens that will take the most to recover from." Vampire Diaries exclusive first look: Vicki haunts Jeremy With Stefan away, there will be plenty of alone time left for Damon and Elena. The two shared a kiss while Damon was on his deathbed, but more importantly, he finally sought redemption and Elena forgave him. What does their future hold now that they've come to a place of understanding - and possible more? Guilt, Plec says. "That's going to loom heavily over them. Damon is not one who likes to feel guilt or obligation ... so does he go back to his crazy, wild ways as a way of making a point that he feels no guilt for no man? Or is he being driven by his need to bring his brother back? Or does he say, 'Screw it, I'm going after the girl I love'?" Plec adds that Damon starts to think, "Well hang on, I thought maybe I never had a chance with his girl because how could she love a monster like me? But hey if you stack a monster and a monster, I ain't so bad." Elena, meanwhile, will also have conflicting emotions over the situation (just look at the latest promo!). Katherine was onto something when she told her in the finale, "It's OK to love them both." As she turns 18, she'll start to soul-search and Plec says, "Although it's not very conventional ... she'll soon have to ask herself that question of, 'How do I feel about each of them and is what I feel OK? What it is about me that loves the way I love and who I love and what does that say about me?'" Still, hope is not lost between Stefan and Elena. "That eternal love story between Elena and Stefan is something that I hope everyone always roots for, but they might not like him in the process," Wesley says. Adds Plec: "The one thing Elena understands fundamentally about Stefan is that there's the Stefan who's a monster being lead by his own demons - the basic nature of vampirism - and then there's the Stefan that fought like hell to hold onto whatever part of his humanity he could hold onto - and that Stefan is worth saving." The Vampire Diaries airs Thursdays at 8/7c on CW. Follow @RobynRossTVG for more scoop on The Vampire Diaries.

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Fox's Fall Launch Eco-Casino Party: Red Carpet Interviews

The stars of Fox's fall TV lineup hit the carpet on Monday, Sept. 13 prior to the network's eco-casino party. The Hollywood Reporter spoke with the stars of some of the season's most highly anticipated programs, including Zooey Deschanel of "New Girl," Paula Abdul of "The X Factor" and Chris Colfer of "Glee."

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