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Toronto fest cancels 'Mausam' over rules

The Toronto film festival remains expected to cancel the Wednesday world preem and subsequent tests of "Mausam," balance anticipated directorial debut of thesp Pankaj Kapoor, due to controlling delays in India. Inside the Bollywood-style romance, featuring tunes by Pritam, a young Hindu guy (carried out by Shahid Kapoor, the helmer's boy) falls deeply deeply in love with a Muslim girl and joins the Indian Air Pressure. The pic's distributor and customers agent Eros Worldwide Media features a memorandum of understanding while using Indian Air Pressure, supplying all of them with final approval right before clearing the Indian censor board. These mortgage loan home loan approvals aren't forthcoming. "Toronto audiences are actually effective champions for your promotion and growth and development of Indian cinema abroad," mentioned festival co-director Cameron Bailey in the statement. "It's a shame our festival audiences will probably be left disappointed.""Mausam" producer Sheetal Talwar stated "We are very disappointed not to be capable of present the earth premiere in Toronto and accept full responsibility for that absence."The festival is refunding all clients holding tickets to "Mausam" tests. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com

Straw Dogs: Film Review

Taken on its own terms as a nasty tale of how a bunch of rough rednecks pester and brutalize a nice city couple until the latter summon up the grit to turn the tables on them, Straw Dogs amounts to a raw slab of red meat to tempt and probably satisfy the hoi polloi. But to anyone who's seen Sam Peckinpah's provocative and unsettling 1971 original, Rod Lurie's redo adds nothing and subtracts nuance and ambiguity from what was one of the more controversial films of an already tumultuous period. Screen Gems should be able to exploit the story's violence and inherent blood-boiling elements to good immediate returns in wide release. Moving the action from the West of England to America's Deep South instantly produces the sought-after hotbed of conflict for a good-looking Hollywood screenwriter and his sexy blond actress wife when they roll into the aptly named Blackwater, Miss., in their cherry silver '67 Jaguar XKE to take up extended residence while he writes a script about the siege of Stalingrad. The writer, David (James Marsden), does wonders for his status with the local good ol' boys by showing up at the local bar wearing a Harvard lacrosse t-shirt, while Amy (Kate Bosworth), who was born and bred in these parts, is instantly hit on by rangy former flame Charlie (Alexander Skarsgard), ringleader of the town yahoos, who doesn't consider her married status as an excuse not to pick up where they left off years ago. Aside from the changes in settings and professions (Dustin Hoffman played a mathematician in the original, while Susan George's wife was, well, a wife), Lurie has deviated little from the script by David Zelag Goodman and Peckinipah, itself based on a novel by Gordon Williams. Fundamentally, it's a study of how far passivism can be pushed, a collision between an aggressive force and a more pliant one that can be roused to a defense only when survival is genuinely threatened. Especially because the central motivating incident is the rape of the wife, this is a story designed to stoke fires and awaken basic instincts in both the characters and the audience. But whereas Peckinpah managed not only to raise hackles but to get under the skin, Lurie manages only the former, which reduces the material to the level of sensation-mongering. Settling into a lovely riverside farmhouse belonging to Amy's family, the affable David tries to get down to work while Amy takes a break from her TV career, which makes her the envy of her old local girlfriends. Providing a major distraction, however, is the daily presence of Charlie and his boys, hired to fix up the dilapidated barn on the property. Chummy on the surface and mock-respectfully addressing David as "sir," Charlie and his crew nonetheless play their little games to test the limits, blasting loud music, entering the house for beer whenever they feel like, knocking off early, hanging a pet cat in a closet and leering at Amy when she jogs around in scanties. When her husband warns her about the effect her appearance has on the horndogs, she reprovingly asks, "Are you saying I'm asking for this?" Peckinpah's film devoted a good deal more time to domestic scenes between the husband and wife, revealing ways in which they were not quite in synch and certain dissatisfactions on her part, nothing overtly spelled out but enough to quietly suggest she might have reason to recall her old boyfriend from time to time. This feeds into her reactions when her former beau rapes her, a sequence that set off a furor at the time for its intimations, not that she asked for it but that, once it was happening, she was not altogether unresponsive. There's little such ambiguity this time around when Charlie comes calling after the boys have deliberately lured David out on a hunting expedition to put his manhood to the test. "You're a coward," Amy accuses her husband in the aftermath. "No, I'm not," he replies, before having to prove it by defending their house against an armed nocturnal assault by the liquored-up mob, joined now by the hot-headed local football coach (James Woods), whose wayward teenage daughter has been assaulted by the village idiot the couple is protecting. Lurie has recycled the most memorably gruesome details of Peckinpah's staging of the domestic battle-to-the-death, including the shotgun blast to the foot and the fearsome bear trap. But while the visceral impact of the improvised combat remains and will have the intended effect on viewers, most of whom will not have seen the original, the way the action has been rushed and amplified makes it seem less realistic, goosed up in an artificial movie way. The coach's contribution to the melee, particularly as concerns his intervention with the local sheriff (practically the only black character on view), is especially unconvincing. All told, Lurie tries way too hard to outdo Peckinpah with his siege and, not surprisingly, falls way short. Marsden is entirely affable as a well-intentioned guy whose wife has perhaps not given him fair warning for what he may be in for on her home turf. For the film to have had any dimension other than as a home invasion shocker, however, Bosworth's Kate would have needed layers of subtext; until she questions his bravery, there's no indication she finds him anything less than a good guy and husband, and there are no questions raised about the state of their marriage, any lingering feelings she might have for Charlie and so forth. The central relationship has no depth and Bosworth comes off as rather hard, certainly compared to Susan George in the original, who was wonderfully changeable of mood and temperature; indeed, she was the heart of the film, notwithstanding Hoffman's admirable summoning of hitherto untested courage. Towering over his costars, TV hearththrob Skarsgard makes for a formidable antagonist, while Woods has no trouble conjuring up the small town's reigning whackjob. Louisiana locations are suitably atmospheric, although the mismatching of fog and clear skies during David's disorienting hunting expedition is sloppy in the extreme. Opens: Friday, Sept. 16 (Screen Gems) Production: Battleplan Prods. Cast: James Marsden, Kate Bosworth, Alexander Skarsgard, James Woods, Dominic Purcell, Rhys Coiro, Billy Lush, Laz Alonso, Willa Holland, Walton Goggins, Anson Mount, Drew Powell, Kristin Shaw Director: Rod Lurie Screenwriter: Rod Lurie, based on the screenplay by David Zelag Goodman and Sam Peckinpah, based on the novel "The Siege of Trencher's Farm" by Gordon Williams Producer: Marc Frydman Executive producers: Beau Marks, Gilbert Dumontet Director of photography: Alik Sakharov Production designer: Tony Fanning Costume designer: Lynn Falconer Editor: Sarah Boyd Music: Larry Groupe R rating, 110 minutes Alexander Skarsgard James Marsden Kate Bosworth Rod Lurie Straw Dogs

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Russell Crowe in talks for Tom Hooper's Les Misrables

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Russell Crowe and Helena Bonham Carter are set to join Hugh Jackman in Les Misérables.The two stars are said to be negotiations to join the project, which adapts Victor Hugo's novel via the famous musical by Claude-Muchel Schönberg.Crowe's up for the role of policeman Javert, who doggedly pursues Jackman's Jean '24601' Valjean throughout the French Revolution-set story.Russ is no stranger to banging out a tune with his band 30 Odd Foot Of Grunts.Bonham Carter is up for the role of Mme Thénardier, one half of the story's villainous coupling of scummy innkeepers. After her grottily melodic turn in Sweeney Todd, this sounds like welcome casting to us.She won a Bafta for her role as Queen Elizabeth in The King's Speech, so it isn't surprising that she and Hooper are keen to collaborate again.Tom Hooper seems to be cashing in on his post-King's Speech heat to score a heck of a cast for this Les Mis, and by the looks of it, he might be setting his sights on Oscar glory again.

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Film Factory rolls out 'Fin' at Toronto

Spanish sales house Film Factory Entertainment has nabbed worldwide sales rights to Jorge Torregrossa's debut "Fin" (The End). "End" will be introduced to buyers at Toronto. Three of Spain's foremost production players team on "End": Apaches Entertainment ("The Impossible"), Mod Producciones ("Agora") and Spanish commercial broadcaster Antena 3's film division Antena 3 Films ("You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger"). "End" turns on a reunion of old friends, now in their 30s or 40s, who spend the weekend in a mountain log cabin. A strange, sudden incident leaves them with no means of communication to the outside world. Seeking help, the group disintegrates, just as a new natural world is revealed to their astonished eyes. Cast is led by Maribel Verdu. Two of Spain's most sought-after scriptwriters have penned "End": Jorge Guerricaechevarria ("Cell 211") and Sergio G. Sanchez ("The Orphanage"). The script adapts David Monteagudo's same titled best-selling novel. Pic is in production, shooting in the Madrid and Valencia regions. " 'End' is a thriller with decisive fantasy elements. People need original plot twists in genre movies, as in 'End,' which is undoubtedly one of the great Spanish productions of the year," Film Factory CEO Vicente Canales told Variety. Film Factory's Toronto slate for Toronto includes: Gonzalo Lopez Gallego's car-chase action movie "Inertia"; "Puzzled Love," which has 13 directors; Juan Jose Campanella toon pic "Foosball"; and Eduardo Cortes' "Winning Streak." Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com

ABC buys Reba McEntire comedy

ABC has bought a put-pilot script with Reba McEntire attached to star. "Malibu Country" will be written by Kevin Abbott, who was executive producer on McEntire's previous TV effort, the WB sitcom "Reba," which ran for four seasons beginning in 2002. Abbott will executive produce with McEntire; her manager, Narvel Blackstock; Mindy Schultheis and Michael Hanel of Acme Prods., Pam Williams of Laura Ziskin Prods., and veteran musician Dave Stewart. "Malibu" is a multi-camera comedy in which McEntire's character divorces her "good ol boy" rock-star husband after he cheats on her and burns through most of their money. She moves her family from Nashville to the only asset she has left-- a little house in Malibu. There she'll try to reignite her own singing career and keep herself and her three kids from being corrupted by the materialistic and rarified Malibu world she now calls home. Contact Andrew Wallenstein at andrew.wallenstein@variety.com

TOLDJA! John Fogelman Starting Company With Client J.J. Abrams As Principal Investor

John Fogelmans Plans Post-WME EXCLUSIVE: I’ve learned that John Fogelman and J.J. Abrams are launching Factorymade Ventures with four global clients: Telefonica, Hasbro, RTL Group, and Intel. The entire WME skunkworks division, which had stayed on the 2nd floor of WME through June, is following Fogelman and joining the new hybrid entertainment and media business development and consulting firm company, including head Cristina Patwa. Abrams (Fogelman’s former WMA/WME client who left WME altogether recently), Michael Bay (another of Fogelman’s former WMA/WME clients), Robert Rodriguez, Thom Beers, and Whoopi Goldberg have already begun developing projects with the newly formed company. I told you all not to underestimate Fogelman. MORE UPDATE: Here is the news release: Santa Monica, CA (September 6, 2011) John Fogelman, former William Morris Endeavor (WME) board member, today announced the launch of FactoryMade Ventures, http://www.factorymade.com, a hybrid entertainment, media business development and consulting firm. Filmmaker J.J. Abrams, a long-time Fogelman client, will join FactoryMade as its principal investor. FactoryMade Ventures will partner with leading creative talent and inspired companies to develop and deliver content across multiple platforms worldwide. Initial plans for new ventures include creating various formats of original short-form programming, developing interactive viewing and gaming experiences, incubating projects for digital and mobile platforms as well as launching cable and network television both domestically and in emerging markets such as Brazil, Peru and Colombia. The new company will cultivate each venture for clients from original concept and strategy to execution. At launch, FactoryMade has already secured alliances with global clients Telefonica, Hasbro, RTL Group and Intel. FactoryMade will craft, incubate and launch new ventures utilizing technology and advanced distribution methods as a way to fully evolve creative content while at the same time harnessing relationships with the leading talent agencies, management and law firms. Prolific, established talent including Abrams, Michael Bay, Robert Rodriguez, Thom Beers and Whoopi Goldberg have already begun developing projects with the newly formed company. We recognize the characteristics of the constantly changing media landscape that continue to shift our view of entertainment, said Fogelman, CEO of FactoryMade Ventures. We welcome the industrys most imaginative and inventive minds to strategize new ventures with us and build them into fully fledged media businesses. J.J. Abrams, director of Star Trek and this summer’s Super 8, as well as creator/co-creator of television series such as Felicity, Alias, Lost and Fringe, shares Fogelmans vision for FactoryMade to partner with leading creative talent and mine venture building opportunities. Ive been lucky enough to work with the same representatives since I began in this business. John Fogelman joined our team in 2006, and I was immediately struck by his ability to identify creative opportunities and his determination and skill to actually realize them, said Abrams. I felt strongly about continuing to work with John, and this was a chance to support his latest ambitious enterprise, just as he has supported me over the years. Abrams producing partner, Bryan Burk, will play an active role in the new company, which is located adjacent to Bad Robots headquarters in Santa Monica, California. David Lonner of Oasis Media Group will continue as Abrams manager. Focusing on the promising growth in Latin America and the U.S. Hispanic market, FactoryMade will work with Spains Telefonica SA, the third largest telecommunications provider in the world. Together, they will develop content-driven businesses with Telefonicas subsidiaries Media Networks Latin America SAC and Terra Networks SA. It is an opportune time for Telefonica to join forces with the creative and savvy team at FactoryMade, said Manuel Echanove Pasquin, General Director of Business Development & Multimedia Services, Telefonica SA. We recognize the potential for reaching an even broader audience and look forward to delivering the highest quality, most original content imaginable. FactoryMade will continue its longstanding relationship with client Hasbro that began at WMA between Fogelman and President and CEO of Hasbro Brian Goldner. The relationship contributed to the production of a number of films including Transformers 1, 2 and 3, GI Joe 1 and 2 and Battleship, as well as the launch of The HUB television network as a joint-venture with Discovery Communications. Hasbro will also continue to be represented by WME. Hasbro is continuing to create immersive entertainment globally for our incredible portfolio of brands, said Brian Goldner, President and CEO of Hasbro, Inc. John Fogelman and his team have been a tremendous asset for us in the media and entertainment space and we look forward to many more opportunities with FactoryMade to build not only new experiences for our brands, but to work on creating new brands as well. The former Strategic Planning & Business Development unit at WME, known to many as the skunkworks unit where talent brainstormed ideas and corporate clients explored garage-style media ideas, will join FactoryMade Ventures. The team possesses highly developed skill sets across the media spectrum and will continue to be spearheaded by former WME department head Cristina Patwa as the President of FactoryMade. Patwa will be joined by former WME colleagues Aden Ikram (Comcast Business Development and Qualcomm Strategy) as the Head of Business Development, Dawn Holliday-Mack (Paramount Pictures and The Nielsen Company) and Douglas Gardner (Pricewaterhouse Coopers Entertainment, Media and Communications Advisory Services). Troy Zien (WME Talent) will separately aid Fogelman in personal producing efforts in film and television. Fogelman recently left WME where, for over 18 years, he was a veteran agent to top talent including Abrams, Michael Bay, Whoopi Goldberg, Kevin Spacey, Eric Bana and Courteney Cox. In addition to Hasbro on the corporate side, Fogelman focused on HSN, an effort which resulted in the creation of a digital gaming and commerce platform called HSN Arcade. He was the former worldwide head of the Motion Picture department at WMA and was one of the principal architects of the merger between WMA and Endeavor.