Spicy sales for Salt

London-based sales outfit Salt has secured a raft of pre-sales on Adam Brody and Jean-Claude Van Damme starrer "Welcome to the Jungle."Pic, which is currently lensing in Puerto Rico, has sold to eOne for Canada, Ascot Elite for German-speaking Europe, Transmission for Oz and New Zealand and Pasatiempo for Latin America.Other international sales include Scandinavia (Mis Label), Greece (Tanweer), Turkey (SPI), Eastern Europe (Freeman), CIS (Super Music), China (HGC), India (Pictureworks), Indonesia (PT Amero) and Middle East (Front Row).Pic, helmed by Rob Melzer, follows an ex-boy scout, Chris, who is regularly bullied in his workplace. When the whole office is sent on a wilderness retreat in a team building exercise headed up by an ex-Marine (Van Damme) who is soon attacked by a wild cougar, chaos ensues and Chris has to break out of his shell.Justin Kanew and Luillo Ruiz for Pimienta, Salt's Puerto Rico based sister production company, produce the pic while Jeff Kauffmann pens the script.The Salt Company secured financing and is handling international sales on the pic. Contact Diana Lodderhose at diana.lodderhose@variety.com

New Avengers image arrives

There is really not extended to go to now just before the Avengers swoops into our screens, while using 27 April release date pending continuously bigger coming. Possibly you've seen the completely new trailer yet? Possibly you've read our detailed breakdown? Clearly you've.Nicely there's another new Avengers bit to help keep you afloat today, with Marvel delivering a completely new picture of Hawkeye and Black Widow searching rather intent on something.Maybe they've just recognized that although other medication is fortunate with super-strength as well as the energy of flight, all they have to defend themselves with can be a bow and arrow together with a pistol?No less than Hawkeye can fall back upon a amazing number of guns. Jeremy Renner has clearly been putting the several hours in that the gym has, hasn't he?There also seems to become quantity of closeness involving the two that shows their shared past. Both Renner, Scarlett Johansson and Marvel bigwig Kevin Feige have recommended at the potential for a Hawkeye-Widow spin-off, and possibly the initial seed items of the story are increasingly being grown here.Regardless, it's just another little bit of promo material which has us champing within the bit for your primary event. Roll on April, when the Avengers assemble in serious...

Serta Shaner and Michael Testa Set to Cast Nick at Nite Project

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Cynthia Nixon Clarifies Comments: "Bisexuality Is Not a Choice"

Cynthia Nixon Cynthia Nixon has backtracked on her controversial sexuality remarks, saying that "bisexuality is not a choice."The Sex and the City star drew ire from gay rights activists last week when she was quoted in a NY Times piece as saying that, for her, being gay "is a choice."Sex and the City's Cynthia Nixon: I'm gay by choice"My recent comments in The NY Times were about me and my personal story of being gay," Nixon tells The Advocate in a statement. "I believe we all have different ways we came to the gay community and we can't and shouldn't be pigeon-holed into one cultural narrative which can be uninclusive and disempowering. However, to the extent that anyone wishes to interpret my words in a strictly legal context I would like to clarify:"While I don't often use the word, the technically precise term for my orientation is bisexual. I believe bisexuality is not a choice, it is a fact. What I have 'chosen' is to be in a gay relationship."As I said in the Times and will say again here, I do, however, believe that most members of our community - as well as the majority of heterosexuals - cannot and do not choose the gender of the persons with whom they seek to have intimate relationships because, unlike me, they are only attracted to one sex."Our community is not a monolith, thank goodness, any more than America itself is. I look forward to and will continue to work toward the day when America recognizes all of us as full and equal citizens."Check out the rest of today's newsNixon's clarification comes a week after several members of the gay and lesbian community, including celebrity chef Cat Cora, criticized the actress for her initial comments. "I'm gay, and I was born this way," Cora told the ladies of The Talk. "I really feel like it was dangerous and irresponsible of Cynthia, especially in this environment today when so many young people are taking their lives."Nixon, 45, is engaged to her partner of eight years, Christine Marinoni, who gave birth to their son Max last year. Prior to their relationship, Nixon, who is currently sporting a bald head for a Broadway role, was in a 15-year relationship with Danny Mozes, with whom she has two children.

ABC orders 'Scruples' pilot

ABC has bought the drama pilot "Scruples" from Flame Endeavors LLC in colaboration with Warner Bros. Television. Using the Judith Krantz novel, the drama concentrates on a wealthy and effective clothing designer in a whole lot of sex, revenge and scandal. Executive producers are Bob Brush, Mel Harris, Tony Krantz, Natalie Portman and Annette Savitch. Contact Andrew Wallenstein at andrew.wallenstein@variety.com

Adele Haenel: Cannes can-do girl

Adele HaenelYoung actresses dream of making their screen debut in a lead role: 22-year-old Adele Haenel achieved it, at the age of 13, toplining Christophe Ruggia's "The Devils" in 2002. Playing an autistic child on the run from the authorities in Marseilles, watched over by an older brother, she projected a combination of courage and vulnerability."It was intense. I was a total beginner when I first met Christophe; we worked for nine months, rehearsing and researching. I look at my picture taken on the set, now, and it's ridiculous: I was so little!"She went back to school, earned her degree and went on the study economics but resumed acting in 2007 ("If I'm honest, it was always my first passion"),and earned a Cesar nomination for her work in Celine Sciamma's fest fave, "Water Lilies."Of the four films she shot in 2010, three were selected for Cannes 2011: Valerie Mrjen and Bertrand Schefer's "Iris in Bloom," Jean Jacques Jauffret's "Apres le sud" (both in Directors' Fortnight), and Bertrand Bonello's competition entry "House of Tolerance." Up next is Sylvie Verheyde's "Confession of a Child of the Century," alongside Charlotte Gainsbourg and German August Deihl.She says, "For me, it's usually about wanting to work with a particular director.That's the most important thing -- even more than the script. They don't have to be established names, they could be new directors, because I admire their energy and their enthusiasm. And secondly, I want to do things that are intelligent. If it's something I've seen too many times before, I'm not interested."Return to the Berlin Preview >> Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com

Gossip Girl Mother to Romance the 'Stache Tom Selleck on Blue Bloods

Margaret Colin On Gossip Girl, it's all about the Chuck-Blair-Louis love triangular, nevertheless the soon-to-be mother in the bride will get entangled in the steamy romance of her on Blue Bloods, TVLine reviews. Margaret Colin, who plays Blair Waldorf's mother, look in the March episode in the CBS crime drama just like a love interest for Frank (Tom Selleck). Colin may have Melanie, a correctly-known investigative reporter with an worldwide cable news network that's been moving on top-secret, extended distance relationship with Frank for some time. However, their private and professional lives intersect in the dangerous way when Frank must track the theif who's after Melanie. Watch full cases of Blue Bloods This isn't the first time Frank remains connected with someone in media. He formerly dated NY TV reporter Kelly Davidson (Andrea Roth). The March episode will reunite Colin and Selleck, who formerly co-starred in Three Males together with an infant plus an episode of Magnum P.I. Blue Bloods airs Fridays at 10/9c on CBS. Gossip Girl's 100th episode premieres Monday at 8/7c round the CW.