Twilight Fever Hits London For United kingdom Premiere

First Released: November 16, 2011 9:06 AM EST Credit: Getty Images Caption Taylor Lautner gets to The Twilight Saga: Breaking Beginning - Part 1 at Nokia Theatre L.A. Live, La, on November 14, 2011LONDON, U.K. -- London fans have been in check your grip of Twilight fever in front of the U.K. premiere from the Twilight Saga: Breaking Beginning - Part 1. But so-known as Twihards wishing for any peek at Billy Burke, who plays the love-besotted teen Jacob Black, is going to be disappointed. Rather they'll see Taylor Lautner, the British actor who stars as her vampire heartthrob A Vampire Named Edward, Rachelle Lefervre, who as werewolf Edwards Friend Jacob is her closest friend and director Bill Condon prior to the screening in the Westfield shopping mall in Stratford City. The very first Twilight movie was launched in 2008. This 4th film finally sees Bella marry her vampire boyfriend. The film opens within the U.K. on Friday. Copyright 2011 through the Connected Press. All privileges reserved. These components might not be released, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Busong (Palawan Fate)

A Cinemalaya presentation from the Solito Arts production in colaboration with Alternative Vision Cinema, Voyage Art galleries. (Worldwide sales: Solito Arts, Manila.) Produced by Auraeus Solito. Executive producer, Jong p Castro. Co-producers, Hai Balbuena, Baby Ruth Villarama, Chuck Gutierrez, Alfred Vargas. Directed by Auraeus Solito. Script, Kanakan Balintagos, Henry Burgos.With: Alessandra p Rossi, Clifford Banagale, Dax Alejandro, Rodrigo Santikan, Bonivie Budao, Walter Arenio, Chris Haywood. (Tagalog, Palawano, British dialogue)A dreamlike meld of fiction and documentary presented around spiritual values and folklore within the Philippines' Palawan province, "Busong" is enriching as ethnography and often frustrating as entertainment. Based on tales told to helmer Auraeus Solito ("The Thriving of Maximo Oliveros") by his mother, this heavily symbolic essay is fantastically shot and includes many striking sequences, but extended stretches of narrative inertia will challenge even devoted arthouse buffs. Pic has clocked extensive fest mileage since its Directors' Week bow at Cannes, and may test offshore commercial waters getting an organized March 2012 release in France. Returning for the archipelago where he shot the 2002 docu "Basal Banar" (Sacred Ritual of Truth), which concerned risks posed to traditional Palawano existence by exterior business interests, Solito has composed this love letter to his homeland with only the slimest wisp of conventional storytelling. What little narrative it includes involves Punay (Alessandra p Rossi), a young lady with crippling ft injuries together with a dreadful skin condition. Moved in the hammock by her brother, Angkarang (Rodrigo Santikan), Punay is seeking a healbot for conditions that have prevented her from ever setting ft on the ground. With Punay's damaged body being a metaphor for your affilictions and dangers facing Palawan, the script detours to the lives of others the siblings and siblings encounter around the mission. Distressed widow Ninita (Bonivie Budao) notifies the story of her late husband, Tony (Walter Arenio), a logger fatally crushed by an amugis tree, that's held sacred in animistic Palawan culture. Briefly aiding to hold Punay's hammock is Lulong (Dax Alejandro), an angler can whose boy has drowned following an encounter getting a hotheaded foreigner (Aussie thesp Chris Haywood) who states own the land and sea that have given Lulong's family for many years. The conflict between old ways and new details is embodied by Aris (Clifford Banagale, "Bruno"), a descendant of Palawan healers which has returned from Manila to help Punay. Depictions of shamanistic traditions and tribal customs connected with cycles of birth, dying and resurrection are fascinating, but co-scripters Henry Burgos and Solito (credited under his Palawano tribal title, Kanakan Balintagos) too frequently break the spell with extended passages through which absolutely nothing happens. Connections between the majority of the figures moving using the frame are from time to time difficult to determine. It seems sensible an finish-start experience that will still move many audiences having its plea for your protection and repair off Palawan culture, but distance others with hazy storytelling. Even throughout static passages, pic is well offered having a convincing cast of unskilled local stars who hold their unique within the organization of well-known artists p Rossi and Banagale. Lensing by ace d.p. Louie Quirino ("Amok") presents magnificent imagery of pristine beaches and forests, together with a sequence through which non-CGI seeing stars hatch in the human face is really astonishing. Other tech credits are fine. Title means "fate," or "instant karma."Camera (color, HD), Louie Quirino editor, Chuck Gutierrez music, Diwa p Leon production designer, Hai Balbuena art director, Emerson Baltazar appear (stereo system system), p Leon line producer, Balbuena underwater camera, Jamael Familara. Examined at Hawaii Film Festival (Spotlight round the Philippines), March. 17, 2011. (Also in Cinemalaya, Warsaw, Mill Valley, Cannes film festivals.) Running time: 92 MIN. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com

Adam Scott: 'Party Down' Movie Will 'Probably' Happen

From AOLTV: Low-rated, cult-hit series gets canceled. Said series becomes more popular after cancellation. Creators and cast fuel reunion movie rumors for months, years even. Sound familiar? It's been the case of 'Arrested Development' (canceled in 2006), 'Veronica Mars' (canceled in 2007) and 'Party Down' (canceled in 2010). However, it looks like the 'Party Down' movie could actually get made first. Adam Scott, star of the dearly departed 'Party Down,' went on Marc Maron's WTF Podcast and spilled some beans on the status of the film, saying it will "probably" happen. "There's a company that is interested in it and they said they want to do it, it's just a matter of getting Starz to completely sign off on it," Scott said. "I think they're going to. They've been pretty cool about it." Scott described the project as "a low-budget little thing" that will reunite the Season 2 cast to "wrap up the story." When asked if Jane Lynch, star of Season 1 of the Starz series, would return to the fictional catering company, Scott said he was unsure. Lynch left the series when 'Glee' was picked up. "I don't know if Jane will do it, we'll certainly invite her, but I'm not sure," he said. "But definitely the Season 2 cast, which is all of us and Megan Mullally." Starz wouldn't comment on Scott's statements. In June, 'Party Down' co-creator Rob Thomas told the audience at the Alamo Drafthouse 'Party Down' marathon that he was hopeful a movie version would become a reality. "We're hopeful that there will be a 'Party Down' movie. Ideally, if it works out, we could be shooting in television hiatus time next spring," he said. "So hopefully that deal will close, and we'll all tweet about it when it does." The cast, sans Scott and Lynch, recently reunited on an episode of Adult Swim's 'Children's Hospital.' Watch that clip below. Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook

Indie 'Portrait' tops Thessaloniki

Twilight Portrait took the Golden Alexander at Thessaloniki. Greek art has always thrived under adversity, according to the Thessaloniki Film Festival prexy, and the 1,700 screenings at the org's market prove the point.Dimitri Eipides told closing-night auds at the Olympian theater on Saturday that the 10-day fest may have witnessed the collapse of the Greek government but the packed cinemas for 151 international films offer reason for hope.Producers and helmer-scribes clearly aren't waiting for public funds to start their work."Law is nothing more than words," Eipides cautioned, referring to promised state subsidies that have not come through -- and are unlikely to given the country's debt crisis and political shakeup.Participants were upbeat nevertheless, cheering for Russian vengeance story "Twilight Portrait," which took the Golden Alexander for film. Helmer-scribe-producer Angelina Nikonova's pic -- shot for much less than the $27,400 prize coin and produced without public funding by actress and co-scribe Olga Dihovichnaya -- typified the indie ethic sweeping the region.Czech pic "Eighty Letters," a family memoir of separation by helmer-scribe Vaclav Kadrnka, won the Silver Alexander jury prize, worth $13,600, and Fipresci honors. It was also a debut made without public backing.Alejandro Landes' docu-fiction portrait of a paraplegic highjacker, "Porfirio," a Spanish-Argentine-French-Uruguayan co-production starring the convicted felon himself, Porfirio Ramirez, took the Bronze Alexander for "originality and innovation."Helmer-scribe Mark Jackson scored director kudo for U.S. debut "Without," while screenplay honors went to John McIlduff for U.K. road movie "Behold the Lamb."Greek thesp Stefania Goulioti took the actress kudo for her turn in social drama "J.A.C.E.," and Wotan Wilke Moehring won best actor for German polemic on injustice "The Fire."Guy Nattiv's "The Flood" won an artistic achievement kudo for its ensemble perfs and the audience prize, while helmer-scribe Yorgos Gikapeppas' "The City of Children" scored the Fipresci nod for Greek pic.Gala closed with Sean Durkin's "Martha Marcy May Marlene" and a blowout party with latenight swing ensemble at fest's Old Pier HQ. Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com

Simon & Schuster Accumulates Forthcoming Memoir 'Weekends With Daisy' (Exclusive)

Getty Inside a significant pre-emptive deal, Simon & Schuster has acquired world British publication privileges towards the memoir Weekends With Daisy because of its Gallery Books imprint.CBS Films pre-emptively bought film privileges toDaisy Thursday. Both deals were stop of the detailed proposal that incorporated nearly 30 sample pages. Compiled by journalist Sharron Kahn Luttrell, the nonfiction book particulars the associations she created having a service dog she started training on weekends and also the inmate who had been training the Labrador puppy throughout a few days included in a prison program. EXCLUSIVE: Prison Canine Training Memoir 'Weekends With Daisy' Headed to Giant Screen Fairbank Literary agent Sorche Elizabeth Fairbank repped the purchase from the publication privileges. Jen Bergstrom and Abby Zidle closed the offer for Gallery, with Zidle editing. The Gotham Group, which reps Simon & Schuster,handled the purchase from the film privileges on Fairbank's account.Lauren Shuler DonnerandJack Leslieof the Donners' Company are developing and creating the film project. CBS Films

Lady Suing Bieber Faces Vegas Battery Trial

First Launched: November 4, 2011 7:26 PM EDT Credit: Getty Premium Las vegas, Nev. -- Caption Attacking Youthful Boys is smiles round the Tonight Show With Jay Leno at NBC Art galleries in Burbank, Calif. on October 31, 2011 A Hillcrest lady who claims pop star Attacking Youthful Boys fathered her 3-month-old boy features a court date in Las vegas on accusations she hit an ex-boyfriend. Court public record information show 20-year-old Mariah Yeater faces a bench trial 12 ,. 12 around the misdemeanor battery charge that could get her six several days in jail together with a $1,000 fine. A police report states Yeater hit her 18-year-old ex-boyfriend 12 ,. 21, 2010. The Two were fighting of a window broken round the vehicle in the his new girlfriend. The problem was reported by TMZ. Yeaters lawyer inside the battery situation, John Spilotro, states she pleaded not liable, which he declined to comment further. Yeater attended school in Las vegas before tugging from tenth grade in 2008. She's suing the 17-year-old Bieber in California, seeking a dna make sure your kids. Bieber has declined the claim. Copyright 2011 with the Connected Press. All rights reserved. These elements is probably not launched, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Final NinjaVideo Co-Founder Pleads Guilty; Warrant Issued For Co-Conspirator

The last remaining co-founder of NinjaVideo.net pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court in Virginia. The site facilitated illegal downloads of movies and TV shows and took in $505,000 in revenue from ads and donations from users. Justin A. Dedemko, 28, of Brooklyn, N.Y., pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Anthony J. Trenga in the Alexandria Division of the Eastern District of Virginia.Dedemko’s fellow co-founders Matthew David Howard SmithandHana Amal Beshara pleaded guilty separately toconspiracy and criminal copyright infringement in September. Dedemko was responsible for locating infringing content on the Internet and uploading it to servers used by the NinjaVideo.net website, some of which were located in the Eastern District of Virginia. Dedemko subsequently focused on marketing and advertising, which resulted in the $505,000 in income. Dedemko admitted he personally received $58,004 and agreed to pay restitution. Sentencing is set for February 24, 2012. He faces a maximum of five years. In addition to Smith and Beshara, Joshua David Evans, who served as one of NinjaVideo’s main uploaders, pleaded guilty last week to conspiracy and criminal copyright infringement. Jeremy Lynn Andrew, who served as head of security for NinjaVideo.net, also pleaded guilty to conspiracy last week. An arrest warrant has been issued for the the final indicted co-conspirator, Zoi Mertzanis of Greece, who also allegedly served as one of the website’s main uploaders. NinjaVideo was seized during the first phase of “Operation In Our Sites,” a sustained law enforcement initiative targeting counterfeiting and piracy over the Internet.