Justin Timberlake plays ball with Clint Eastwood

TimberlakeEastwood"The Social Networking" star Justin Timberlake is placed to become listed on Clint Eastwood and Can Be in Warner Bros.' "Challenge With the bend,Inch that will mark the directorial debut of Eastwood's longtime creating partner Robert Lorenz. Randy Brown authored the script, which finds Eastwood playing a maturing baseball scout with vision problems who requires a journey to Atlanta together with his daughter to have a look in a hot prospect. Timberlake will have Eastwood's friend Johnny Flanagan, an old pitcher who now functions as a baseball scout for that NY Yankees. His character is really a potential love interest for Adams, who plays Eastwood's daughter. Eastwood and Lorenz will produce through their Malpaso banner, while Michele Weissler may also be involved with a producer capacity, getting who introduced the project to Malpaso. Sarah Schechter will oversee the work for WB. "Curve" will mark the very first film Eastwood has starred in but didn't direct since Wolfgang Petersen's 1993 thriller "Within the Type of Fire." Timberlake, who lately starred in "Bad Teacher," "Over TimeInch and "Buddies With Benefits," will quickly begin filming the Coen Bros.' folk music pic "Inside Llewyn Davis" with love interest Carey Mulligan and star Oscar Isaac. Timberlake is repped by WME, attorney P.J. Shapiro and managers Jennifer Killoran and Ron Yorn. Contact Shaun Sneider at shaun.sneider@variety.com

Scorsese talks tech at DGA

Martin Scorsese thinks "Hugo," a three dimensional film concerning the 20's, is really a precursor -Body that shows his fellow company directors need to sit in the twenty-first century technologies as quickly as possible.'3D isn't a gimmick," Scorsese asserted as Saturday's Company directors Guild of America panel for DGA nominees for that guild's feature award. "It's the way you see existence. Utilize it.''Scorsese told the capability crowd in excess of 400 in the DGA headquarters that his enthusiasm for three dimensional returned to his youth -- before such films as Alfred Hitchcock's "Dial M for Murder." 'I'm a three dimensional fanatic," he added. "It dates back towards the Viewmaster."Requested by moderator Jeremy Kagan what advice he'd share with youthful company directors, Scorsese first switched to humor and stated when a director requires a dog to hug an actor's face, sardine oil does the secret. The director, who's won DGA honours for "The Departed" and "Boardwalk Empire," then switched serious and stressed that company directors to remain up-to-date with how films could be shot and showed. "Keep a balanced view about new technology because this is where this really is going," he advised.The panel also featured Michel Hazanavicius of "The Artist," Alexandere Payne of "The Descendants" and David Fincher of "The Lady using the Dragon Tattoo." Woodsy Allen, nommed for "Night time in Paris" would be a no-show and DGA prez Taylor Hackford evoked a large laugh when introduced the panel at the beginning of the big event. "Woodsy Allen can not be around while he can't venture out in public places,Inch Hackford stated.The quartet dissected the particulars of the films, addressing such issues as coping with stars, story structure and also the agonies of editing. Hazanavicius stressed the difficulties of having the storyline right to be able to create a quiet film -- like a key scene by which actor Jean Dujardin admires Berenice Bejo."Whether it had seem, the scene wouldn't be as effective," he added. "The less I actually do like a director, the greater people become involved -- that's how quiet films labored. I must tell the storyline in the best possible way.Inch Hazanivicius asserted the story itself needed he create a quiet film. "'There weren't any criminals," he noted. "The antagonist within the story is seem." Payne searched for to prefer his longtime editor Kevin Tent, who had been nommed to have an editing Oscar on "The Descendants." "He's helpless without me and I am helpless without him," he added.Payne stressed the significance of getting Hawaiian handscapes play a significant role in the film. "I needed to obtain sense of existence within the islands since the overwhelming feeling of character enables you to feel puny -- in a great way,Inch he added.Younger crowd accepted the key beach sunrise scene, by which George Clooney's character finds Matthew Lillard running, would be a happy accident. "The gods smiled on me on that day,Inch he added.Fincher credited star Rooney Mara with meeting the task of the demanding role, observing that they learned how you can skateboard, motorcycle and smoke for that Lisbeth Salander part -- to express nothing of acting in a set of rape moments. "Sometimes to locate a way that they'll release themselves," he added. Scorsese remembered that his key breakthrough with longtime editor Thelma Schoonmaker came following the 4th test screening on "Hugo."''We eliminate the majority of the exposition because we recognized we did not require it,Inch Scorsese stated. "We locked ourselves away for four days because we understood what we should required to do."Hazanavicius underlined Scorsese's point the editing process is demanding. "The very first cut is horrible," he added. "In France, it is called the monster." Contact Dork McNary at dork.mcnary@variety.com

Pilot Season: CBS Picks Up Comedies From Raising Hope, Brothers & Sisters Producers

CBS logo CBS has picked up comedy pilots for Friend Me, Partners and an untitled project from Greg Malins and Greg Berlanti. Friend Me, from Raising Hope's Alan Kirschenbaum and Ajay Sahgal, follows 20-something best friends who move to Los Angeles to begin their exciting new lives working at Groupon. Eric Tannenbaum and Kim Tannenbaum will also executive-produce. Partners, from Emmy winners David Kohan and Max Mutchnick, is the personal story of two lifelong friends and business partners whose friendship has lasted longer than any of their romantic relationships. When one decides to propose to his girlfriend, the other's neurotic attempts to be supportive nearly result in a breakup. Get the latest news on all the pilot pickups here The Malins and Berlanti project centers on a man who has a health scare, which leads him to realize that his best friend and business partner of 15 years is "the one." CBS previously ordered a pilot for Berlanti's drama Golden Boy. CBS previously picked up the pilots Elementary, a modern take on Sherlock Holmes, a project from Jerry Bruckheimer, the legal drama Baby Big Shot, a half-hour comedy from Bridesmaids' Rebel Wilson, Widow Detective from CSI's Carol Mendelsohn, and an untitled Nick Stoller comedy.On Thursday, the network picked up drama pilots from The L Word's Ilene Chaiken, a Ralph Lamb bio and a project based on Ayelet Waldman's Mommy Track Mysteries book series.

Reid delays election on antipiracy bill

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) stated that he's putting off a election on the Senate version of antipiracy legislation, following a storm of protest along with a defection of numerous supporters managed to get doubtful he had the votes to find the bill towards the floor. Reid had was firm on intends to hold a procedural election around the Safeguard IP Act on Tuesday, but introduced today more there was a time needed to sort out an agreement. Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) continues to be ending up in reps from various industries to create changes towards the legislation, but Republicans like Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) told Reid more there was a time needed. Reid stated inside a statement, "I admire the job that Chairman Leahy has put in this bill. I encourage him to carry on engaging with all of stakeholders to forge an account balance between safeguarding Americans' intellectual property, and looking after openness and innovation on the web. We made good progress with the discussions we have locked in recent days, and i'm positive that people can achieve an agreement within the coming days." Contact Ted Manley at ted.manley@variety.com

Ti West Feels The Side Effects

House Of The Devil director gets spacedDirector Ti West has had a patchy time of it since his breakout critical hit The House Of The Devil in 2009. He butted heads with Lionsgate over Cabin Fever 2, and pulled out of The Haunting In Georgia when he foresaw similar problems. His The Innkeepers premiered at the South By Southwest festival last spring, but has only just limped to VOD. But thankfully West has still managed to claw together the funding for his next film, The Side Effects: a sci-fi tale about "pharmaceutical testing and paranoia.""I've cast the lead and I've got most of it together," West tells The Playlist, "but it's a science fiction movie, so we need to build spaceships, so it's one of those things I can't really rush into and I can't do it for less than we need for it, because we have to build things."Used to working independently and on the cheap, West says that the budget for The Side Effects is more than he generally needs, but less than his profligate studio funds for Cabin Fever 2. "The smallest amount of money to do what I do is what I want," he enthuses. "I don't want a dime more, but I don't want a dime less either. Like I don't want to go, 'We've run out of money to put that extra thing on the spaceship,' but I don't want to have money for no reason. So I think it's going to happen. It's a great producer, I think it's a good script, and it's a great cast."In the meantime, West also has a hand in two anthology movies. He's directing one of the 26 segments of The ABCs Of Horror, and he's got a "couple-on-a-road-trip" chapter in V/H/S: his concession to the found-footage genre. "That's all anyone wants to do anymore," he laments. "When I say, 'We need three and a half, four million dollars to make this movie,' people are like, 'How about you just make a found-footage movie for fifty grand? We can give you that.' It's a weird time for indie movies."V/H/S premieres at Sundance next week, and West hopes to start preparing forThe Side Effects in February.

VIDEO: Bella Thorne and Zendaya Go From Shake It Up Besties to Frenemies

Frenemies What's so enjoyable for Bella Thorne and Zendaya playing friends turned enemies in the Disney Channel movie Frenemies? Being real-life besties. "It makes [filming] 10 times more fun," Zendaya tells TVGuide.com. "I get to do it with my best friend and someone who I love dearly." VIDEO: Shake It Up stars share how show emulates their real life In the movie, the girls play two friends who come to fight over a fashion editor job. Zendaya describes her character Halley as a "chic nerd" while Thorne says her Avalon is much more of a "girly" fashionista. Watch the video interview to find out more about their upcoming film and to see what's in store on their Disney Channel series Shake It Up. Frenemies premieres Friday at 8/7c on Disney Channel.

Service companies leverage 4G for content deals

Verizon, headed by Ivan Seidenberg, makes high-profile wireless content deals such as the Nfl Super Bowl streaming sponsorship. With faster 4G systems running mobile items, wireless service companies are searching for new techniques to leverage amazing capability to provide video with new content deals. "Verizon Wireless Carrier Company remains most likely probably the most active dealmaker," mentioned Aapo Markkanen, senior analyst, consumer mobility, for ABI Research, mentioning recent handles videogame author Electronic Arts for "Rock-band,Inch user-created content site Ustream, and music sites Rhapsody and MOG. "That has been an all-natural piece for his or her strategy thinking about that they're before others in leaving 4G infrastructure," first introduced at CES this season. What telcos seek, continues Markkanen, is "selling points for completely new, more costly 4G cell phone models plus much more extensive data bundles." "Generally, delivering clients with popular content bundles might be a handy approach to increase customer retention," he mentioned. "They become incentives for clients to remain with the identical company whilst their contract expires." Incorporated in the four-year sponsorship agreement while using Nfl, worth $720 million, Verizon could make history by streaming Super Bowl XLVI live to mobile items fitted with Verizon's exclusive Nfl Mobile application on Feb. 5. Not to be surpassed, Sprint recently signed a multi-year deal with the Basketball being its official wireless service partner, like the Sprint Basketball Mobile Android application for in-game and postgame video highlights, news, scores, together with additional features. The parties did not disclose the the offer. Besides the vibrant host to sports, however, telcos are losing ground. For content entrepreneurs, creating a unique deal with only one mobile company forget about is smart every time they could make handles mobile video retailers and streamers, or simply increase the risk for event available themselves. "A few years back, we familiar with discuss the mobile content ecosystem as on-deck, meaning content preloaded through the organization, and off-deck, which was mostly ringtones and wallpaper," mentioned Fierce Mobile Content executive editor Jay Ankeny. "Since seems prehistoric. I don't go to a return to a period of time where the service companies control what people see." What went lower to fully change that dynamic? "Apple transformed the mobile market space," mentioned Juniper Research research director Windsor Holden. "It needed someone like Apple to produce the help of being able to view content intriguing, notable and simple to use. Service companies are excellent at delivering voice and data, but they're not the most effective source to promote content." Can the service companies even compete in this new atmosphere? "The telcos wish to 't be dumb pipes however i am unsure those are the best people to promote content," Holden mentioned. "Their key assets will be the network as well as the billing relationship. My suspicion is always that they'd generate a lot more revenue by doing this than selling the information themselves." Content deals may also be complicated because Verizon at&T both offer Internet and tv services like FiOS and U-Verse. MetroPCS also introduced a deal with Mobile Content Venture, the mobile TV effort by tv producers including Cox Media Group, Fox, and NBC, to preload their mobile TV service on its approaching Samsung Android items. "They're still quite beginning to determine which techniques the service companies may ultimately adopt," Markkanen mentioned. "But, ideally, clients desire to access their content regardless of time, place and device." Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com

Jim Carrey in 'Bruce Almighty' Follow up? Authors In Talks For Follow-As much as 2003 Hit

It appears like Jim Carrey wasn't kidding about this "Bruce Almighty" follow up. Universal has started discussions with Jarrad Paul and Andrew Mogel ("Spa Time Machine," "Yes Males") to create a script for any follow-in the 2003 comedy. Very little else is famous concerning the project at this time around, however the script is going to be fashioned for Carrey to star. The initial film made $484 million worldwide, enough to warrant a follow up -Body that did not really feature Carrey's titular character. That film, "Evan Almighty," centered on Steve Carell's supporting character and moved things more toward family fare. Not remarkably -- despite Carell within the lead -- it cleaned in theaters, generating $310 million less worldwide than its predecessor. For his part, Carrey continues to be talking about a "Bruce Almighty" follow up since last summer time. "We are speaking about maybe coming back with a old figures that everybody continues to be asking about," Carrey told Not Far Off in June of 2011. "There's 'Bruce Almighty' and we are speaking about maybe another 'Dumb and Dumber.'" Whether "Dumb and Dumber" follows around the Carrey nostalgia tour remains to appear. Fingers entered he squeezes in another go at Fire Marshall Bill too. [via Variety] [Photo: Getty] Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook

Anchor Bay nabs 'The Victim'

Anchor Bay Films has snagged North American rights to the suspense thriller ''The Victim,'' starring Michael Biehn, Jennifer Blanc, Ryan Honey, Denny Kirkwood, Tanya Newbould and Danielle Harris. The deal was announced Friday by Anchor Bay Entertainment president Bill Clark. Pic was written by Biehn and is his directorial debut. Story centers on a woman who witnesses a violent act at the hands of two Sheriff's Deputies, flees from attackers and stumbles across a recluse living in the middle of the woods -- which throws his solitary life into chaos. "The Victim" was produced by Jennifer Blanc-Biehn, Lorna Paul and Travis Romero of Blanc/Biehn Prods. in association with Pegasus Prods. Exec producers are Brock Morse, Morgan Johnson and Ryan Honey of The Mud Show. Stevan Mena and Vincent Butta of Crimson Films will be handling the theatrical release. "The Victim" is the third project between Crimson Films and Anchor Bay Films. Hogan Entertainment and Pegasus will be handling the college tour of the film. Deal was brokered by Kevin Kasha on behalf of Anchor Bay Films with Preferred Content working on behalf of the filmmakers. Contact Dave McNary at dave.mcnary@variety.com