New Line to reboot 'Mortal Kombat'

New Lines are restarting "Mortal Kombat," according to Kevin Tancharoen's video clip and web series "Mortal Kombat: Rebirth."New Line stated Thursday that Tancharoen's been mounted on direct from the script that he'll write with Oren Uziel. The duo worked with around the film and 10-episode series, which first showed this spring through Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment like a promotion for any latest version from the "Mortal Kombat" vidgame. No producers or stars happen to be connected to the new feature version of "Mortal Kombat." Privileges towards the property were area of the Half way Games assets that New Line parent Warner Bros. acquired in personal bankruptcy court last year for that fire-purchase cost of $33 million together with "Spy Hunter," "Joust" and many other game franchises.Half way first showed the recording game in 1992 having a story concentrating on the monk Liu Kang in order to save Earth from an evil wizard. New Line's "Mortal Kombat" movie made over $120 million worldwide in 1995 and it is follow up "Mortal Kombat: Annihiilation" cumed $50 million 2 yrs later.Warner Bros. was prosecuted this past year by Threshold Entertainment for alleged breach of contract over growth and development of another "Mortal Kombat" movie.Tancharoen directed MGM's reboot of "Fame" last year and also the "Glee" concert movie. Uziel's composed "DrainInch and "Shimmer Lake."Dork Neustadter and Walter Hamada are managing for brand new Line.Tancharoen is repped by ICM, Anonymous Content and attorney David Fox. Uziel is repped by ICM, Circle of Confusion and David Fox. Contact Dork McNary at dork.mcnary@variety.com

Leonard Dillion dies at 68

Leonard Dillon, the leader of pioneering reggae group the Ethiopians, died in Jamaica on Wednesday of lung and prostate cancer. He was 68.Daughter Patrice Dillon says Dillon had been diagnosed with cancer in June and underwent surgery to remove a brain tumor earlier this year.Leonard Dillon began his career using the stage name Jack Sparrow in the early 1960s. He recorded a series of ska songs, including "Bull Whip," which featured a young Bob Marley on backing vocals.Dillon later formed the Ethiopians, a trio whose best known hits were "Train to Skaville" and "Everything Crash."He is survived by seven children. Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com

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REVIEW: Take Shelter Raises the Question, How Much Michael Shannon Is Too Much?

Casting Michael Shannon as a potential psychotic is a bit like crowing over the discovery that water is wet. And sure enough, in Jeff Nichols’s Take Shelter, Shannon gets his chance to go all bug-eyed and thin-lipped, to sweat through his clothes, to go ballistic on the neighbors, warning them that a big storm is coming and it’s going to wipe them out if they don’t get ready. Shannon has certainly cornered the cuckoo-bird market, and how you feel about Take Shelter will depend largely on how you respond to his patented nutcase technique. But in terms of overall filmmaking, writer-director Nichols — who previously made the 2007 Shotgun Stories — knows what he’s doing. He’s so adept at layering eerie semi-naturalistic details — skies that seem to be glowering at the whole human race, rain beating down with the fury of millions of tiny, punishing fists — that I wanted to stick with him to see where he was going with it all. His idea — that nature is both inside and outside of us, and in neither case is it something to trifle with — is unsettling at its core. Shannon is precisely the actor you’d first think to cast in this material — which may be the problem. Shannon’s character, a hardworking Midwestern family man named Curtis, has been having apocalyptic dreams and visions: Birds arrange themselves strange formations in the sky; yellow rain falls from above, as if God were expressing his dissatisfaction with mankind by taking one giant whiz all over the heartland. Is all of this really happening? Or is Curtis suffering the early stages of paranoid schizophrenia? His wife, Samantha (Jessica Chastain), is baffled by his behavior: First he turns the gentle, loyal family dog outside after dreaming that the dog attacks him; then he takes out a massive loan to spiff up the family’s tornado shelter in preparation for the big biblical showdown he knows is coming. Samantha is none too happy about either of those things, particularly the latter, considering the couple’s young daughter (Tova Stewart), who is deaf, has some upcoming heavy-duty medical expenses. The first third of Take Shelter is suitably unnerving. Nichols knows how to use the landscape (and CGI-enhanced weather) to build a sense of dread: The family’s modest house, somewhere out in rural Ohio, ought to be cozy and safe, but it seems isolated and exposed, a sitting target in an expanse of brownish grass and grayish sky. Even the more peaceful sequences — like the one in which Samantha and her young daughter gaze out the window while a rainstorm rages outside — are draped with ominous portent. But I can’t help wondering how Take Shelter would play with a different star, one who hasn’t already done the pop-eyed nutter routine to death. With Shannon, I feel I’ve seen it too many times before, and once — even just his turn in William Friedkin’s Bug — would have been more than enough. The economics of star casting aside, what would Take Shelter have been like with James McAvoy or Mark Wahlberg or Jake Gyllenhaal at its center? Even though the picture ends with a question mark, Shannon still manages to give the whole game away in the first frame — his very presence shows you where the movie is headed. On the other hand, Jessica Chastain, in one of her 1,001 movie roles this year, is far more restrained and more moving. She plays a character whose common sense is commingled with fear — and that, as it turns out, is probably the combination she needs to survive. Chastain is this year’s “it” girl for sure, but one of her gifts is her ability to portray regular people without playing down to them: In Take Shelter you never get the sense that she’s uglied herself up to play real folk, to get down with the people. She’s always effortlessly believable, whether her character is hustling in the kitchen to get breakfast together for her daughter or gazing into her husband’s eyes, trying to fathom the weird secrets he has locked in his cranium. Chastain’s face, whether she’s expressing wonder or anxiety, is the movie’s most reliable weather report and its most sensitive lightning rod: Looking at that face, you’d have no reason to believe that either God or his good pal Mother Nature could be angry with her. The suggestion that not even she can escape their wrath is what makes Take Shelter so disquieting. [Portions of this review appeared earlier, in a different form, during Movieline’s coverage of the 2011 Toronto Film Festival.]

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Breakfast of Champions: Watch Theatrical Trailer for 'Human Centipede 2'

Believe to start your Tuesday compared to a clip for 'Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence)'? Not. Knowing from reviews from Fantastic Fest -- where 'Centipede 2' opened a week ago -- the Tom Six-directed film is really as disgusting, vile, foul, degrading and altogether disheartening as the imagination leads you to definitely believe. Authored Variety reporter Shaun Sneider on Twitter: "If you are an actress in 'Human Centipede 2,' how can you reveal that movie for your parents, or use it your reel?" Thinking about he later known as it "fecal porn," you most likely don't? With this, here's a clip. Enjoy! (Just don't watch if you have eaten within the last half an hour.) 'Human Centipede 2' has gone out on March. 7. [via Yahoo!]

Allocine unveils TV channel plans

PARIS -- Paris-based film and TV news website Allocine unveiled its game plan for its new TV channel Tuesday. The channel, also called Allocine, bowed on Sept. 5. on seven digital satellite, cable and DSL nets in Gaul. It has inked library deals with Gaumont, Warner Bros., Pathe, Wild Side and Bac to acquire classic films. Allocine's programming slate includes Stanley Donen's "Singin' in the Rain," Federico Fellini's "La Dolce Vita," Rene Clair's "Le Dernier Milliardaire" and William Keighley's "The Master of Ballantrae." In the vein of a film club, Allocine will program classic films four times a week in primetime, as well as talkshows centering on film news and analysis. Films will be presented by Allocine journos or a public figure, and each evening will begin with a Tex Avery short. Our idea is not to compete with other channels by acquiring recent films; what we want is to showcase the French and international film heritage," explained Allocine's head of video services Alain Le Diberder, who said half of the films will be shown in their original version. Allocine's prexy Gregoire Lassalle added: "Only 10% of library films circulate in France. What's the point of spending so much money to digitize films if no one ever gets a chance to see them?" With an annual budget of up to Euros 8 million ($11 million), Allocine's TV channel can reach up to 35 million viewers, and should become financially viable within the next three years thanks to ad revenues, said Lassalle. As Allocine's TV channel is labeled as a generalist TV network by the CSA, France's media authority, it must invest a small percentage of its annual revenue in the acquisition and co-production of films as well as TV shows focusing on films. Lassalle said he would consider launching Allocine on DTT as well, although there was no immediate plan to do so. The exec said the company was also studying opportunities to set up TV operations in Russia, Turkey and China. Created by Lassalle in 1993, Allocine operates local versions of the website in Canada, Brazil, the U.K., Germany, Turkey, China, Spain and Russia, and will expand into Mexico, Argentina, Portugal, Italy, Australia and the Middle East by December 2012. Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com

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John Viscardi can be a reporter who exposes police brutality against immigrant Vladimir Versailles. Melanie Charles might be the sufferers wife. A Rattlestick Playwrights Theater presentation from the play by 50 percent operates by Serta Klores. Directed by David Bar Katz. Justin Volpe - Michael Carlsen Micheline Louima - Melanie Charles Tommy - David Deblinger Alice McAlary - Kim Director Abner Louima - Vladimir Versailles Mike McAlary - John ViscardiDocumentary filmmaker Serta Klores brings a film eye to "The Wood," his reverential bio-dram about Mike McAlary, the muckraking New you are able to city newspaper author who won a Pulitzer in 1998 for his sensational expose of police brutality against Haitian immigrant Abner Louima. Episodic and unfocused within the overlong first act, show pulls itself together in act two for a lot of tough moments between Louima and McAlary, who die of cancer at 41, twelve months later on he won his Pulitzer. The material has energy, nevertheless the whole structure in the piece needs overhauling to produce a real impact. Two solid perfs from John Viscardi (as McAlary) and Vladimir Versailles (as Louima) and nice backup from Kim Director and Melanie Charles (their particular partners) give ballast for the jumpy production helmed by David Bar Katz. Viscardi nails both newspaper hunger that made McAlary this kind of tenacious news hound which attitude of empathy and knowing that made people trust him utilizing their finest secrets. He's also winning when McAlary addresses everyone else right to reveal a real love for cutthroat journalism, a sense of justice that made him a "superhero for your working class," plus an ego how large a house. Versailles is most encouraging inside the hospital moments in which a badly beaten Louima bares his humiliation and discomfort for the reporter who splash his story round the most visited page in the Daily News. More youthful crowd determines great rapport with Charles, so touching as Louima's troubled wife. Nevertheless it takes an unendurable time period before Louima arrives in the shadows to target McAlary's attention and point the play in the dramatic direction. For the time being, Klores uses quantity of sketchy moments -- developed in no consistent style and completed much the same way -- to accomplish McAlary's backstory and flesh the smoothness from the driven guy, so competitive he'd skip chemotherapy to chase lower a news tip. There can be an excellent play in here somewhere, but at this time around it's a jumble of bits and pieces waiting for the rewrite desk.Sets, John McDermott costumes, Kalere A. Payton lighting, Joel Moritz appear, Janie Bullard predictions, Steve Channon production stage manager, Jamie Wolfe. Opened up up Sept. 15, 2011. Examined Sept. 14. Running time: 2 Several hours, 10 MIN.With: Thomas Kopache and Sidney Williams Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com

Netflix's Plans For Brand New Headquarters Prompts Suit

Already coping with backlash from the cost increase, Netflix now may need to focus on placating some angry neighbors.our editor suggests CBS, Netflix Sign Two-Year Content Agreement The famous host oprah, Media Moguls and Netflix Talk on Tap for Cable Show STORY: Netflix Shares Tumble on Modified Customer Growth Some citizens of Los Gatos, where Netflix is creating a brand new headquarters, have prosecuted to avoid or decelerate the development since the structures could be excessive, trees will have to be removed and traffic might get worse. STORY: Netfilx Stock Drops 8% After Starz Renewal Talks Finish The group suing calls itself Los Gatos People for Responsible Development, based on the San Jose Mercury News, also it filed its suit from the town. STORY: Netflix Responds: Starz Submissions Are 'Down to around 8% of Domestic Netfilx Customers' Viewing' This news outlet stated the city council approved the making of five- and four-story structures seven days ago, despite the fact that the town's height limit is three tales. "The problem continues to be known to a lawyer for review," town manager Greg Larson told the Mercury News. "We'll then evaluate the lawsuit's merits and impacts, if any, prior to making a recommendation towards the town council." The move might be a boon to Los Gatos, reviews CBSSanFrancisco.com, getting in around $a million in tax revenue. "The citizens' group doesn't desire to stop the project. We are just seeking environment review," attorney Rachel-Mansfield-Howlett told the Mercury News. Related Subjects Property Netflix

It's On: Movieline's Parent Company Sues THR Owner For Copyright Infringement

Big news today on the Hollywood jurisprudence front, as Penske Media Corporation — which publishes Movieline, Deadline, TVline and number of other premium Web properties — has filed suit against Hollywood Reporter owner Prometheus Global Media LLC alleging copyright infringement. “The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California and requesting a jury trial, is very juicy and makes for great reading,” notes Nikki Finke, who posted the news — along with the actual complaint and evidence of source-code theft in particular — this afternoon on Deadline. Have a look over there (the exhibits are pretty eye-popping), and stay tuned for more here as the case develops. · BREAKING! Deadline’s Parent Company Sues The Hollywood Reporter’s Parent Company For Copyright Infringement [Deadline]