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Jason Merritt/Getty ImagesMarti Noxon Ouija may not have a studio home, but the supernatural project is still very much alive and kicking.our editor recommendsHasbro in Talks for Fourth 'Transformers' Movie, Cuts 'Ouija' Budget Hasbro, which is financing development, and Platinum Dunes, the shingle producing the project, have hired well-regarded scribe Marti Noxon to work on the script. Noxon cut her teeth and gained geek cred with her work on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and most recently wrote the remake of Fright Night. Ouija was set up at Universal but was untethered in late August due to budgetary concerns. The move followed Universal's letting go of another Hasbro property, Monopoly. But Noxon's hiring shows Hasbro is still very keen on the Ouija project, and is unafraid to spearhead its own development, mirroring moves already made on the Monopoly project. In September, Hasbro and Ridley Scott, who is producing Monopoly, set Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski to pen a script. Ouija is still envisioned as a family adventure in the tone of The Mummy centering on a family who has to deal with otherwordly chaos that is unleashed. Noxon, who also did a pass on Lionsgate's Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, is repped by WME and Hansen Jacobson. PHOTO GALLERY: View Gallery 10 Biggest Book-to-Big Screen Adaptations of the Last 25 Years Hasbro Studios

'Prometheus' Photo Unveils Michael Fassbender, Noomi Rapace And... An Enormous Mind?

"Prometheus" fans, current day your lucky day: finally, here's your start searching at actual figures from Ridley Scott's glorious return to the sci-fi scene! The newest problem of Entertainment Weekly features several new photos from "Prometheus," including one that's made its way online. The appearance, which you'll want to see above, concentrates on three in the primary figures from Scott's loosely connected "Alien" movie, carried out by stars Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender and Logan Marshall-Eco-friendly. Rapace and Fassbender are progressively known amounts nowadays, with "An Online Detective 2" round the cusp of release and Fassbender making mind lines along with his NC-17 drama "Shame." Marshall-Eco-friendly, however, can be a less popular figure: he's presently most well-noted for M. Evening Shyamalan's "Demon" too for getting shot to bits by Mischa Barton on "The O.C." Something notifies me that "Prometheus" will up his pedigree substantially. Beyond seeing these stars to use it the first time, the completely new "Prometheus" image includes one hell from the mind-scratcher more particularly, just what the what's with this particular gigantic mind without anyone's understanding? Can there be something associated with the fabled Space Jockey? Can it be a totally new take into account the "Alien" world? Can we really want to understand answer before "Prometheus" hits? Other photos from EW's "Prometheus" feature are floating in regards to the web, although in poorly scanned form. You'll be able to search them lower by yourself, or obtain the completely new problem of EW to dive into that world a lot more. Reveal everything you consider the completely new "Prometheus" photo inside the comments section and also on Twitter!

Shooting Stars fills jury box

LONDON -- European Film Promotion has revealed the jury because of its Shooting Stars talent event in the Berlin Film Festival. Jury people are Danish thesp Thure Lindhardt ("Flame & Citron"), Nederlander helmer Marleen Gorris ("Inside the Whirlwind"), Romanian producer Ada Solomon ("Restoration"), German casting director Simone Bar ("Inglorious Basterds") and Brit film journo Matt Mueller. They'll choose Europe's ten best youthful thesps at the outset of December from candidates nominated by EFP's member orgs. EFP brings the youthful stars along with industryites and press in the Berlinale, to encourage discussion concerning the diversity and creativeness of Euro photos and also the talent in it. Event culminates using the presentation from the Shooting Stars Honours throughout the fest, which runs February. 9-19. Contact Diana Lodderhose at diana.lodderhose@variety.com

Academy Bus Rolls Over Brett Ratner

I wrote as much on Monday, but take it from AMPAS president Tom Sherak: “Someone the Academy hired to perform a very important function messed up, messed up badly. He’s done everything he can, but this is him. The Academy did what it needed to do by accepting his resignation when he offered it. Does it tarnish it? I hope not. If someone feels it does, then we will work really hard getting the tarnish off. It wasn’t us, it was someone who worked for us. It’s like anything else. I hope not. We are going to continue to do what we do, which is support the arts and the technology of arts, and we want to be as above the fray as we can be.” [LAT]

Relativity's Snow White-colored Movie being Referred to as 'Mirror Mirror'

Relativity Media introduced on Friday the title due to its approaching reimagining in the classic Snow White-colored mythic will probably be Mirror Mirror. The film, starring Lily Collins, Armie Hammer, Jennifer Aniston and Nathan Lane, is slated for just about any March 16, 2012 release. Directed by Tarsem Singh, the feature concentrates on an exiled princess who enlists the assistance of seven ingenious rebels to restore her birthright. PHOTOS: Stills From Relativity's Snow White-colored Project Bernie Goldmann (300), Ryan Kavanaugh (The Fighter) and Brett Ratner (Hurry Hour) function as film's producers.The script was put together by Melisa Wallack (Meet Bill) and Jason Keller (Machine Gun Preacher). Relativity'sMirroris a couple of Snow White-colored movies that have been racing toward the screen. Universal Pictures is readyingSnow White-colored as well as the Huntsman, starringKristen Stewartas the titular heroine,Chris Hemsworthas the hunstman andCharlize Theronas the evil full.Rupert Sandersis pointing. Initially, Universal's movie was searching for release in December, 2012. But following a Relativity Snow White-colored movie then mentioned June 29 due to its bow, Universal hopped before it by shifting its movie to June 1. Relativity then countered by moving its movie much more ahead to March 16. Although Relativity'sMirrorwill hit theaters before Universal'sSnow White-colored, both companies are really maintaining the 2 films will be different enough that they are not targetting identical audiences. Relativity'sMirroris being billed since the more warm and friendly of those two, while Universal'sSnow Whitelooks a great deal a lot more like an outing tale with Snow becoming an armor-clad lady warrior. Related Subjects Jennifer Aniston Snow White-colored Lily Collins

DreamWorks' Jeffrey Katzenberg Views Bold Expansion (Exclusive)

Is Jeffrey Katzenberg going to grow his empire? If DreamWorks Animation goes it alone when its alliance with Vital finishes in 2012, Katzenberg is thinking about developing a co-op to distribute third-party films additionally to DWA's lucrative animated game titles.our editor recommends'Puss in Boots': The way it Won the Weekend Box Office, But Disappointed Wall StreetDreamWorks Animation Stretches Chief Marketing Officer Anne Globe's Contract This type of dramatic move would open start up business possibilities for DWA but require additional overhead, for example new marketing and distribution executives. The process might be a boost towards the public company, whose small slate of films is looked at by Wall Street. When Puss in Boots opened up March. 28 to $34.a million, hammered with a freakishly early nor'easter, Janney Montgomery Scott analyst Tony Wible complained it had been "a whole lot worse than our bearish [forecasts]," and also the stock dropped 8 percent to shut at $18.56 on March. 31. PHOTOS: 'Puss in Boots' and 9 Other Wrongly Sexy Cartoons To assist explore three key options -- including self-disbursing only DWA game titles or settling a brand new cope with Vital or any other studio -- Katzenberg has employed Chuck Viane, who walked lower as Disney's longtime leader of distribution this season. "One thing we've considered is developing a co-op by which we'd distribute films using their company independent producers, and you will find even some small-majors that may want to have that type of scale to service them and to lower their costs," Katzenberg informs The Hollywood Reporter. "They are large ideas and large possibilities which are about much not only marketing and disbursing 2 or 3 DreamWorks game titles annually.Inch Reteaming with Viane -- whom Katzenberg and former Disney studio chief Dick Prepare introduced to Disney 27 years back -- fortifies Katzenberg's negotiating position, since Viane has deep ties using the theater-owner community. "When I told Jeffrey, a part of my problem continues to be responding to the telephone all these folks who wish to have these conversations," Viane states. PHOTOS: Professionals in the Oscars Katzenberg underscores he doesn't favor anyone option at this time. He expects to begin talks with Vital and then any other studio by spring before determining his course by summer time 2012. Vital's Kaira Gray wants a greater distribution fee compared to 8 percent DWA now pays Katzenberg isn't prone to complement. "Clearly, being having a major studio, you will find the advantage of their infrastructure. And many of these companies have affiliated companies that will help you," he states, adding that Vital has been doing an incredible job together with his movies, that have produced $10 billion. "But determining your own enterprise provides extensive advantages. You're not depending on another person, you're never going for a back chair to anybody else's agenda, you're never incompatible with someone else's needs or problems or arranging." DWA wouldn't need to start on your own, either, because it already handles its very own consumer items. Still, additionally to making a theatrical operation, it would need to setup a house video division (which Vital now handles, together with television sales), but Katzenberg states that's hardly "brain surgery,Inch observing that DWA COO Ann Daly practical knowledge for the reason that arena. She headed worldwide home theatre at DreamWorks SKG -- the studio that Katzenberg produced with David Geffen and Steven Spielberg in 1994 and that DWA was spun off in 2004. If Katzenberg does enter into distribution, he wouldn't be remaking DWA right into a latest version from the original DreamWorks. However the move would raise an intriguing scenario: There'd be absolutely nothing to prevent current DreamWorks partners Spielberg and Stacey Snider from dealing with DWA when their multiyear cope with Disney finishes in 2015. Related Subjects Jeffrey Katzenberg

Mickey Rourke talks Vegas 2

Comic fans all over the world might have found their ears pricking in news reports that Robert Rodriguez and Frank Burns are planning to are the story Another Saturday Evening inside the extended-anticipated follow-up to Vegas.Including three in the key players within the first film as Hartigan (Bruce Willis), Nancy (Jessica Alba) and Marv (Mickey Rourke), it may be a common choice, provided the first talent may be convinced to return.Another Saturday Evening follows Marv's actions on one evening that Nancy and Hartigan are reunited, delivering a tale that runs together while using occasions in the first movie's final third. Mickey Rourke knows proceedings and recently spoke to Comingsoon.internet about the probability of returning for big Marv."It's dependent," jeered the Wrestler star. "It's dependent how bad they require me, you're feeling me? I did so [like the character], however i am claustrophobic, and so the several hours of makeup... you have to maintain it on for approximately 13 or 14 several hours every day. It's latex and glue which stuff can get my eyes all red-colored-colored."Furthermore, it got if this involves the star's social existence before around. "From the I obtained some chick inside a bar in Texas one evening and requested her for the set to own lunch within the lunchtime,In . states Rourke. "I possibly could not proceed and take shit off. Fuck it, I never saw her again."Nonetheless, the level of smoothness is one or more that Rourke may wish to consider coming back to, that's greater than might be mentioned for Whiplash, the villain he carried out in Iron Guy 2."I attempt to search for the moments where [the villain is] much less cliched, evil theif," he describes. "I'd it on Iron Guy and so they won. It might use Marvel and them breaking [Jon] Favreau's balls and wanting merely a one-dimensional villain. The performance and everything that we tried to create in it ended up round the fucking floor."Word of warning then Mr. Rodriguez. If you undertake persuade Mickey Rourke to don the latex for again, ensure he'll get lots of nice, juicy characterisation to see with. As well as the odd lunch get free from character might help too...