Lost's Sonya Walger Joins USA's Common Law

Sonya Walger Sonya Walger has grew to become an associate of USA's approaching buddy cop drama Common Law, Entertainment Weekly reviews. The Lost alum may have Dr. Emma Ryan, a wise and attractive Beverly Slopes mental health expert who splits her time writing pill medicines on her behalf wealthy clients and offering low-cost group therapy within the neighborhood center. It's here that Dr. Ryan meets two homicide detectives, carried out by Michael Ealy and Warren Kole, that are sent into couples counseling by their captain. USA can get betrothed to Common Law The role marks a reunion for Walger and Ealy, who labored together round the short-were living FlashForward. Walger has furthermore starred inside the Cinemax dramas In Treatment and Tell Me You Prefer Me. Common Law starts production the next month and may premiere on USA in 2012.

ABC Buys Steven Bochco Drama and a Conspiracy Series

Steven Bochco Steven Bochno is at it again. ABC has bought Legal Affairs, a legal drama from the man behind L.A. Law, NYPD Blue and Raising the Bar. In the drama written by Bochco and Jonathan Abrahams, partners and associates at a prestigious L.A. law firm balance their personal lives and high-profile cases. Gary Fleder will also executive-produce. Check out our fall preview for galleries, scoop, premiere calendars and more! ABC has also bought a one-hour adventure drama from Lorenzo DiBonaventura and Paul Schering. In Zero Hou,r a skeptical everyman gets swept up in one of history's greatest conspiracies that surrounds the Twelve Apostles. Dan McDermott will also executive-produce. Which projects sound interesting to you?

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NBC Buys Family Comedy Project Created By John Legend

EXCLUSIVE: After extended discussions, NBC has closed an offer for Mixed Benefits, just one-camera comedy project executive created by singer-songwriter John Legend and former NBC executive Teri Weinberg. Take advantage of Pearlstein (Medium) will write and co-executive produce the comedy, which received interest from multiple systems before entering exclusive discussions with NBC, getting back Weinberg using the network where she offered as EVP under Ben Silverman. John Legend and Mike Jackson are executive creating though their Get Lifted Film Co. and Weinberg’s through her Yellow Brick Road banner. Universal Television will produce. Inspired by Jacksons childhood becoming an adult in suburban Philadelphia, Mixed Benefits focuses on a prominent, black, street-bred stylish-hop artist taking pleasure in his single existence who finds out he includes a teenage boy and decides for connecting with him and his whitened suburban family. The show explores the culture clash and also the complicated journey of the father and boy beginning their relationship because the father soon finds out that fame, talent, and wealth enable you to get nowhere if this involves raising a child. Pearlstein is writing feature comedy True North for Warner Bros with Imagine creating and Erectile dysfunction Helms mounted on star. He'll direct his original comedy script Someone Marry Craig in 2012. Before her stint NBC, Weinberg labored at then-upstart Reveille and created numerous series, including Ugly Betty and also the Tudors. She is constantly on the function as a co-executive producer around the Office. This marks the very first major foray into TV for Legend and Jackson’s Get Lifted Film and also the second high-profile comedy project at NBC this year which has a b-level singer attached like a producer. The network also offers a karaoke comedy within the works, that is executive created by Adam Levine. Mike Kasdan is mounted on direct the possibility pilot from the script by Gene Hong for 20th TV and Chernin Entertainment. Mixed Benefits was packed by CAA.

Gerhard Richter Painting

A Zero One production in co-production with Terz Film, WDR, MDR, in cooperation with Arte, with the support of Media, Filmstiftung NRW, BKM, DFF. (International sales: the Match Factory, Cologne, Germany.) Produced by Thomas Kufus. Directed, written by Corinna Belz.With: Gerhard Richter, Norbert Arns, Hubert Becker, Sabine Moritz-Richter, Konstanze Ell, Marian Goodman, Benjamin Buchloh, Kasper Konig, Ulrich Wilmes, Sandy Nairne, Paul Moorhouse. (German, English dialogue)An art film in the literal sense, German helmer Corinna Belz's intelligently assembled observational docu "Gerhard Richter Painting" offers fascinating insight into the working process of the famed contemporary artist as he prepares a series of abstract canvases. Shooting over three years, Belz eschews voiceover narration, supplementing her perceptive lensing of Richter's studios with new and old footage of the media-shy painter discussing his career with art historians, curators and the press; conversations with his assistants; and a mesmerizing survey of his complete oeuvre. Cerebral pic is a natural for the museum, cinematheque and educational circuit as well as specialized broadcast. Although Richter, born in the former East Germany, has been one of the world's most significant artists for nearly five decades, it has been nearly 15 years since he agreed to participate in a documentary. When it comes to expressing himself in words, Richter prefers written ones; thus, Belz focuses on his process of applying paint to canvas, observing keenly but without question or comment unless he speaks to her first, giving a whole new meaning to the old saw "watching paint dry." Alone except for his two assistants (Norbert Arns and Hubert Becker), who mix paint when he works on large canvases, Richter paints in a vast, high-ceilinged, white-walled studio that has the hushed feeling of a high-end gallery. Like Belz's handheld camera, which shoots the canvases in closeup and long shot, the viewer becomes a silent observer as the artist paints, contemplates and sometimes destroys what he has done previously. Apart from a sparely used modernist score, the main sounds are birdsongs from the garden; Richter's echoing footsteps as he treads to and fro, considering the work from various angles; and the slap of a brush or the scrape of a giant squeegee across the canvas, the paint below forming unexpected colors and patterns. "Painting is another form of thinking," Richter tells the offscreen Belz. Even though he may have something else planned, he claims that his abstract canvases "do what they want." Arns and Becker spend considerable time documenting Richter's finished works in photos at a scale of 1:50 and making models of how they will be displayed. As the camera pans across these thumbnail shots against a white background in extreme closeup, it mimics the feeling of a viewer at an endless exhibition. We also see actual exhibitions of Richter's work in Cologne, Munich, London and NY. A stickler for detail when it comes to the display of his work, he is involved in almost every aspect, and pays particular attention to the exhibition lighting. With Belz's film itself a gorgeously rendered work of art, Richter should have no reason for complaint.Camera (color, DV), Johann Feindt, Frank Kranstedt, Dieter Sturmer; editor, Stephan Krumbiegel; sound (Dolby Digital), Gerrit Lucas, Sven Phil Lengzen, Andreas Hildebrandt; sound designer, Dominik Schleier. Reviewed at Toronto Film Festival (Real to Reel), Sept. 11, 2011. Running time: 97 MIN. Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com

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Toronto 2011: Magnolia Pictures Acquires 'The Hunter' With Willem Dafoe

Because the Toronto Worldwide Film Festival winds to some close, Magnolia Pictures has acquired U.S. privileges The Hunter, a mental drama from Australian that bowed in the fest.our editor recommendsWillem Dafoe, Mike Neill, Frances O'Connor Starring in 'The Hunter'The Hunter: Toronto Review Directed by Daniel Nettheim and compiled by Alice Addison, modified in the novel by Julia Leigh, the film stars Willem Dafoe like a mercenary hired with a bio-tech firm to find an uncommon animal within the Tasmanian backwoods. Mike Neilland Frances O'Connor also star.Porchlight Films' Vincent Sheehan created. Magnolia, that is planning for a 2012 theatrical through its Ultra VOD program for that Hunter, also acquired Michael Dowse's Goon and Bob Goldthwait's God Bless America only at that year's festival. The offer was discussed for Magnolia's SVP of purchases Dori Begley, director of purchases Peter Van Steemburg and mind of legal and business matters Chris Matson. UTA Independent Film Group and eOne, that is handling sales outdoors of Australia, discussed with respect to the filmmakers. Related Subjects Toronto Film Festival

Report: Cyber-terrorist Leak 'Seductive' Photos of Justin Timberlake From Mila Kunis' Phone

Note to celebs: Buddies (even individuals with benefits) don't allow buddies take "sexy" photos of on their own their mobile phone. Moviefone's Most sexy Lady from the Summer time Mila Kunis is allegedly the most recent superstar victim to possess her phone compromised, and today photos of her and 'Friends With Benefits' co-star Justin Timberlake have leaked. Based on TMZ, four pictures from Kunis' phone, including a couple of Timberlake, are allegedly in play. In a single, he's apparently lounging shirtless inside a mattress in another Timberlake has a set of pink panties on his mind. Additionally, there are, allegedly, an "explicit" photo of the mystery guy and more discreet among Mila inside a bath tub that shows only her mind. What is the news comes only one next day of Scarlett Johnansson had her phone compromised, which boosts the apparent question: Isn't any sexy celebrity safe? Plus there is that whole British phone hacking scandal, which appears less about nude photos and much more about titillating head lines. Like that one. (Cough.) [via TMZ] photo: OHPIX/bauergriffinonline.com

IFC Night time buys 'The Incident' for U.S.

"The Incident"IFC Night time is obtaining United States privileges to Alexandre Courtes' thriller "The Incident" and intends to release it the coming year.Offer was introduced Wednesday in the Toronto Intl. Film Festival. ''The Incident'' opened Monday within the Night time Madness selection.The film, having a script by Jereme Fansten, stars Rupert Evans, Kenny Doughty, Frederick Kennedy, Dork Legeno, Marcus Garvey, and Richard Brake.Producers are Wassim Beji, Yannick Bollor and Emilie Chatel. Roy Lee and Doug Davison professional created.Story concentrates on three band people battling to record their first album and carrying out small gigs between changes cooking for that inmates from the high-security asylum where all of them work -- using the average workday needing little interaction using the disturbed males, who veer between violent reactions and near catatonia. This banal routine is interrupted right before dinner one evening, whenever a storm knocks the energy within the hospital, trapping the 3 teenagers with the cooking and crippling the safety systems that have them protected from the precarious lunatics.The offer was discussed by Shaun Deutchman, Manager of Purchases and Productions for Sundance Chooses/IFC Films with Paradigm and Charlotte now Boucon, Sales Director at SND M6, with respect to the filmmakers.IFC Night time is really a sister division to IFC Films and Sundance Chooses, and it is possessed and operated by AMC Systems. Contact Dork McNary at dork.mcnary@variety.com