Colony

The unexplainable phenomenon known as Colony Collapse Disorder has left landscapes of empty beehives all across America, threatening not only the beekeeping industry but our food supply. As scientists and beekeepers search for the cause, Colony captures the struggle within the beekeeping community to save the honeybee and themselves. Colony documents a time of unprecedented crisis in the world of the honeybee through the eyes of both veteran beekeeper, David Mendes, and Lance and Victor Seppi, two young brothers getting into beekeeping when most are getting out. As Mendes tries to save the nation's collapsing hives, the Seppi's try to keep their business alive amidst a collapsing economy.

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Five Hot Actresses Vie For Leads Opposite Tom Cruise in Horizons, and 5 Other Stories You'll Be Talking About Today

Also in this Friday edition of The Broadsheet: Olivia Wilde may find Better Living Through Chemistry… Natalie Portman and Katherine Heigl have something common… Paul Greengrass gets busy… and more ahead. · Time for another Tom Cruise-centric actress short list! Per Variety, Universal is testing five leading ladies to star opposite Cruise in Horizons (formerly Oblivion), the sci-fi blockbuster from Tron: Legacy director Joseph Kosinski that might remind you of WALL*E. The chosen five: Jessica Chastain, Olivia Wilde, Brit Marling, Noomi Rapace and Olga Kurylenko. Universal had no comment on the list (naturally), but the five will reportedly test with Kosinski over the weekend for the chance to star in one of two roles: the wife Cruise’s Jack had on Earth before aliens invaded and killed everyone, and the right-hand woman he teams with during missions back to Earth to repair safety drones that protect the planet from said aliens. [Variety] · Speaking of Olivia Wilde, the Cowboys & Aliens star will replace the pregnant Jennifer Garner in the indie comedy Better Living Through Chemistry. The film stars Sam Rockwell as a small-town pharmacist who has an affair with a trophy wife (Wilde) and winds up plotting to kill her husband. [Variety] · Holler at Paul Greengrass! The acclaimed director is attached to direct an adaptation of Robert Harris’s thriller Fear Index, “about a scientist who uses a revolutionary system of computer algorithms to trade on the volatility of the world’s financial markets. His hedge fund is wildly successful until he is targeted by an intruder who breaks into his home.” Tense! In other directorial news, Robert Zemeckis will officially handle Flight with Denzel Washington set to star. [Deadline] · EW reports that Natalie Portman has turned down an offer to star in Adaline, a film about a woman who stops aging after a mysterious accident. If that sounds familiar, it’s because you might remember when Katherine Heigl was attached to the lead role. [EW] · The headline from THR: “Blade Runner Actor Joins Ryan Reynolds in R.I.P.D.” What it actually means: James Hong — the famed character actor who you know from Big Trouble in Little China, Seinfeld, Wayne’s World and, yes, also Blade Runner — will co-star in R.I.P.D. as “Grandpa Chen,” the human avatar that people see when Ryan Reynolds’s deceased cop goes out in the field. He joins Marisa Miller who was just set as Jeff Bridges’s human avatar. Sorry if you were hoping that Harrison Ford, Sean Young or Rutger Hauer were cast. Also: Schwentke! [THR/Heat Vision] · First, the years-delayed Margaret gets a release date, and now Fireflies in the Garden does too. The Julia Roberts-led drama was shot in 2007, and will finally hit theaters on Oct. 14 in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. The filmmakers themselves are putting Garden one out, so don’t expect much pomp and circumstance. Ryan Reynolds, Emily Watson, Willem Dafoe and Carrie-Anne Moss co-star in this curio. [Deadline]

Anchor Bay Sues BF1 Over 8-Pic Output Deal

Anchor Bay, thehome entertainment division of Starz Media,filed suit today against Bill Yordy’s BF1 Films claiming the Glendale-based company owes it nearly $2M in advances. Anchor Bayclaims that BF1failed todelivera series of films set up in a 2008 eight-film output deal. The only BF1film released by Anchor Bay was the animated Velveteen Rabbit,direct to DVD in 2009. Among theBF1 films that Anchor Bay says it hasn’t seen are When Calls The Heart, Preacher’s Daughter, Only the River Runs Free and Warhammer. Anchor Bay also alleges that Yordy and BF1 claimed to have copyrights, insurance and financingon the films when it did not and misrepresented its deal with Anchor Bayin dealings with other companies. BF1′s actions also resulted in the termination of BF1′s licensing agreement with Codex, Anchor Bay claims, delaying the release of Warhammer. The suit, filed in L.A. Superior Court, seeks compensatory damages and legal fees as well.

New 'Sherlock Holmes' Photos Tease The 'Game Of Shadows'

After the massive success of the first Guy Ritchie Sherlock Holmes movie, Warner Bros. got right on setting up a sequel, which eventually became this Decembers Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows. The most recent issue of Empire magazine features the films star Robert Downey, Jr. on the cover, but also boasts several photos of the shoot, including a behind-the-scenes look at the cast with Ritchie himself. Returning from the first film are Downey, Jr. and Jude Law, who plays able sidekick Dr. John Watson. The movie is also bringing out characters from the original Arthur Conan Doyle stories, including Sherlocks brother Mycroft (played by Stephen Fry) and legendary villain Professor Moriarty, who is being portrayed by Mad Men actor Jared Harris. The production also features new characters, like Noomi Rapaces mysterious gypsy Sim. As seen at Empire Online, the first photo shows three of the principal castmembers, Downey, Jr, Law and Rapace, seated around a table together. While the image itself is somewhat mundane, it likely points toward the way in which new character Sim will freshen up the already compelling dynamic between Holmes and Watson. The second photo is probably our favorite, as its a true behind-the-scenes look at the production. Downey, Jr. and Law crowd around what we assume to be a monitor to observe footage with director Guy Ritchie. Finally, and most importantly, the last image gives us a peek at Jared Harris as Holmes arch nemesis Professor Moriarty. Judging from the scripts and pencils in peoples hands, this isnt a still from the movie, but our nerd-senses are already tingling at the idea of a chess game between Moriarty and Holmes. If were lucky, maybe this scene is even set in the Diogenes Club What do you think about the new images from Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows? Can you spot anything that we might have missed? Tell us in the comments below or on Twitter!

Ghost To Haunt Broadway In March 2012

FIRST Released: August 22, 2011 12:17 PM EDT NEW You are able to, N.Y. -- A musical located in the Patrick Swayze film Ghost is going to be haunting Broadway the coming year. Producers stated Monday the show, which first showed in June working in london, will start previews in New You are able to in March 2012. Casting for that Broadway run is not introduced yet. Ghost has new tunes by Grammy Award-champion Dork Stewart and Glen Ballard. Stewart is 1 / 2 of the pop duo the Eurythmics, while Ballard assisted come up with Alanis Morisettes Jagged Little Pill. Oscar champion Bruce Joel Rubin has modified his original script for that stage. Tony Award champion Matthew Warchus will direct. Within the 1990 movie, Swayze performed a ghost attempting to contact his girlfriend performed by Demi Moore via a fake psychic with the hope of saving her from his killer. Copyright 2011 by Connected Press. All privileges reserved.These components might not be released, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Dakota Fanning Fights a Loveless Marriage in Effie, and 5 Other Stories You'll Be Talking About Today

Also in this Wednesday edition of The Broadsheet: Adam Scott is an A.C.O.D.… Viola Davis heads to HBO… Elizabeth Olsen has some thoughts about female roles in Hollywood… and more ahead. · Not that you needed any more proof that little Dakota Fanning isn’t so little anymore, but the actress has signed on to play the titular role of a sexless wife in Effie. Written by Emma Thompson, Effie tells the true story of teen bride Euphemia Gray (Fanning) and her marriage to famed critic John Ruskin in 1850s London. Per Deadline, “Effie’s husband never consummated the marriage over five years because Ruskin was for some reason disgusted by her body.” Richard Laxton (An Englishman in New York) will direct, with Thompson, Tom Sturridge and Greg Wise co-starring. Before Fanning signed on, both Saoirse Ronan and Carey Mulligan were circling the project. [Deadline] · Adam Scott will lead the indie comedy A.C.O.D. (which stands for ‘Adult Children of Divorce’) for director Stuart Zicherman. Scott will play a thirtysomething male forced to bring his parents back together for his younger brother’s surprise wedding. Are we having fun yet? [Deadline] · Anna Paquin, Ryan Phillippe and Luke Wilson will star in Straight A’s, about a man recently out of rehab (Phillippe), the ghost of his dead mother, his brother (Wilson) and his brother’s wife (Paquin) — who still has a crush on him. [Variety] · The Help star Viola Davis is close to finalizing a deal with HBO to produce and possibly star in an untitled series from Pariah director Dee Rees. The show — which surprisingly is listed as a half-hour vehicle, despite seeming like a drama — would follow a prep school headmaster (the role Davis could play) as she handles city corruption and her own hopes and dreams. Sounds like The Wire by way of Gossip Girl. [Variety] · Remember reading about how the Sex and the City prequel was probably going to be a television show? Well, it’s probably going to be a television show. HBO is shopping The Carrie Diaries to The CW, and the teen-centric network is interested in putting Gossip Girl executive producers Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage in charge of production. Neither Sarah Jessica Parker or Michael Patrick King are attached. XOXO. [Deadline] · “A lot of times with female relationships and young women [in the movies], it’s either Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants or catty bitch. I just have a problem with that. They’re supposed to be either as perfect as how they’re portrayed on Disney or as mean as they’re portrayed in high school movies. And in real life it’s neither of those.” Future It-Girl Elizabeth Olsen sums up a major problem in Hollywood. [LAT/24 Frames]

The 10 Most Unsettling Images from the New Teaser for The Woman in Black

The logline for The Woman in Black, Daniel Radcliffe’s first post-Harry Potter film, is as follows: “While taking care of a deceased client’s estate, a young lawyer encounters a mysterious woman dressed in black and uncovers a tragic secret.” Sounds typical? What that neglects to tell you, however, is that The Woman in Black features enough creepy dolls, creepy photographs and creepy images to give you day terrors. (Are “day terrors” a thing? They should be.) Click through to watch the scariest trailer of the week/month and to check out its 10 most unsettling images. VERDICT: Daniel needs to unleash his Patronus up in this piece. The Woman in Black hits theaters on Feb. 3, 2012. Click here to launch a gallery of the trailer’s scariest images… if you dare. [via Yahoo!]

'Page Eight' to shut Toronto fest Gala

"Page Eight""Trespass""Hysteria""Winnie"TORONTO -- Author-helmer David Hare's modern spy thriller "Page Eight" (BBC/PBS), starring Bill Nighy, Rachel Weisz and Rob Fiennes, will close the Toronto Film Festival's Gala slate, it had been introduced Tuesday.The fest's final major announcement revealed eight Galas and 18 Special offers Presentations, along with the Contemporary World Cinema (51 game titles, 18 world preems), Visions, Wavelengths and Future Forecasts programs.The Gala screen will world preem Nick Murphy's mental thriller "The Awakening," starring Rebecca Hall and Dominic West, Joel Schumacher's home-invasion chiller "Trespass," with Nicolas Cage and Nicole Kidman, Tanya Wexler's comedy concerning the invention from the vibrator "Hysteria," with Maggie Gyllenhaal and Hugh Dancy, Gary McKendry's special-operations actioner "Killer Elite," with Jason Statham, and Darrell J. Roodt's "Winnie," starring Jennifer Hudson as Winnie Mandela. Christophe Honore's "Beloved," receiving its worldwide preem, and Marc Forster's formerly introduced (inside a different program) "Machine Gun Preacher" also join the Gala slate.Special Presentations adds eight world preems, including Anne Fontaine's "My Worst Nightmare," Ian Fitzgibbon's "Dying of the Super hero," Gianni Amelio's "The Very First Guy," Agnieszka Holland's "In Darkness," Juan Carlos Fresnadillo's "Burglars," Pankaj Kapur's "Seasons of affection,Inch Mathieu Kassovitz' "Rebellion" and Geoffrey Fletcher's "Purple and Daisy."U.S. game titles world preeming in Contemporary World Cinema include Lynn Shelton's "Your Sister's Sister," Nancy Savoca's "Union Square" and Bryan Wizemann's "Think about Me." The worldwide cinema program also world preems Ridha Behi's "Always Brando," Joao Canijo's "Bloodstream of my Bloodstream," Maggie Peren's "Colour of the Sea," Faouzi Bensaidi's "Dying available," Nacho Vigalondo's "Extraterrestrial," Ozcan Alper's "Future Lasts Forever," Jose Henrique Fonseca's "Heleno," Stefano Chiantini's "Islands," Alejandro Brugues' "Juan from the Dead," Christophe Van Rompaey's "Lena," Avie Luthra's "Lucky," "Akin Omotoso's "Guy on the floor," Ribhu Dasgupta's "Michael," Mohamed Asli's "Rough Hands" and Xiaolu Guo's "UFO in her own Eyes."Visions' 18 boundary-pushing game titles range from the world preems of Matias Meyer's "The Final Christeros," Toshiako Toyoda's "Monsters Club" and Joaquim Sapinho's "This Side of Resurrection." The fest's Wavelengths present five programs of experimental film and video work, for example Tacita Dean's portrait from the late Cy Twombly, "Edwin Parker," Apichatpong Weerasethakul's "Empire," Ben Rivers' Balouis Art Prize-champion "Sack Barrow," James Benning's "Twenty Cigarettes" and Mark Lewis' "Black Mirror in the National Gallery."Future Forecasts, the fest's city-wide program of moving-image art, will release the planet preems of James Franco and Gus Van Sant's collaborative "Reminiscences of Idaho (1991, 2010 and 2011)," multiple projects by Mr. Brainwash (a.k.a. Thierry Guetta), Peter Lynch's "Zoysia Days," Nicholas and Sheila Pye's "Light like a Feather, Stiff like a Board," David Rokeby's "Plot Against Time," and Elle Flanders and Tamira Sawatsky's "Road Movie."The Toronto Film Festival run Sept. 8-18. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com

Drama producers cite surprising influences

'The Ray Sanders Show' inspired a 'Dexter' Air. If finding success on tv is much like taking lightning inside a bottle, then developing a reveal that turns into a cultural touchstone is much more elusive. While all six of the year's Emmy drama nominees have previously set their very own benchmarks of quality, the producers behind each series say additionally they draw inspiration in the implies that came before them."Dexter" executive producer Scott Buck states he was affected like a author by implies that immediately declared themselves as different."It could feel odd to express that my focus on 'Dexter' continues to be affected by shows like 'The Ray Sanders Show' or 'Twin Peaks,' " Buck states, "but individuals were implies that really stopped me dead during my tracks making me give consideration, because I understood I had been watching something which had not been done before.""Boardwalk Empire" co-executive producer Gene Kelly states the classic storytelling of shows like "The Newly-weds on their honeymoon," "Our Gang," "The Small Rascals" as well as "The 3 Stooges" inform his work."It had been the humanity in individuals shows and exactly how they touched people globally," Kelly states. "If somebody's attempting to think about a method to tell a tale, you usually kind of question the way they made it happen on 'The Little Rascals.' " "Friday Nights Lights" professional producer Jason Katims confesses he does not spend lots of his spare time watching television, but credits "The Sopranos" for raising the bar generally during the last decade. He states his first job in TV is constantly on the influence him daily." 'My So-Known as Existence,' which Erectile dysfunction Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz created was type of my graduate school," Katims states. "I seem like things i do is really a direct descendent of the work.""The Great Wife" executive producers Robert and Michelle King, who say they like "Breaking Bad," cite "Free Airline Wing" like a TV milestone."Not attempting to explain everything towards the audience may be the finest legacy from that demonstrate,Inch Robert King states. "(And) for that fluidity of language and family-like take a look at a place of work."Adds Michelle King, "We bow in the altar of 'The Sopranos.' " "Bet on Thrones" executive producers D.B. Weiss and David Benioff also credit a lot of HBO's legendary series for supplying inspiration."It's not only coming smoke -- the truly amazing Cinemax dramas were greatly inspiring good examples of uncompromising, large-canvas storytelling that transformed the way in which we (and everybody) considered television. 'The Sopranos,' 'Deadwood' -- maybe 'The Wire' first and foremost," states Weiss.Benioff adds, "To not be crude, but you will find some Television shows you let play as you use the bathroom. And you will find some you pause because you won't want to miss another. That is what we desired to make -- a pause-worthy show.""Mad Males" executive producer Matthew Weiner points to a lot of implies that motivate his work, but he states he's always searching for a combination of humor and weight."I had been forbidden to look at TV the majority of my childhood and swept up being an adult," Weiner states. "Everything I see and saw has end up part of the material of 'Mad Males.' Obviously, 'The Sopranos' trained everybody in television it was possible to possess a muscular plot but still be psychologically complex."Otherwise, it had been a somewhat pretentious and strange curiosity about French cinema like a youthful boy that helped me wish to liven up stars and find out them reject males."Route To THE EMMYS: DRAMAThink outdoors the dollars Drama producers cite surprising influencesThe nominees Contact Christy Grosz at

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Viacom, Cablevision settle iPad suit

Viacom and Cablevision have settled a dispute within the cable operator's Optimum application, which streams channels towards the iPad. Both companies released an argument stating that Viacom's lawsuit against Cablevision have been resolved. Viacom and Cablevision have decided to resolve their pending lawsuit, and also the Viacom programming continues to look on Cablevision's Optimum Applications for iPad along with other IP products," they stated inside a statement. "In reaching the settlement agreement, Cablevision and Viacom could resolve the iPad matter as well as an unrelated business matter for their mutual satisfaction. Neither side is conceding its original legal position or may have further comment." In the suit, Viacom stated that it is carriage agreement with Cablevision did not grant privileges to stream channels like MTV and Nickelodeon towards the wireless products. Viacom also prosecuted Time Warner Cable on the similar application, however the situation is on hold because they attempt to achieve funds. Cablevision introduced Tuesday it was stretching its application towards the apple iphone and also the ipod device Touch. Contact Ted Manley at ted.manley@variety.com

Joe Cornish to direct Die Hard 5?

Die Hard 5's rudderless ship might be going to acquire some new directions, with Joe Cornish, Nicolas Winding Refn, Justin Lin and John Moore all within the running to helm.In the of these, Cornish may be the surprise given his first feature Attack The Block only opened up a few days ago in america (notching up $138K from just eight screens). His rivals have what is viewed as more reliable qualifications: Lin (Fast Five) Refn (Valhalla Rising) and Moore (Max Payne).However, Lin is anticipated to helm another Fast And Also The Furious movie, Refn shoots Only God Forgives this summer time in Thailand, while Moore was the first favourite to do the job but apparently has yet to satisfy with twentieth century Fox.The 5th film within the franchise sees cop John McClane in Russia, with Bruce Willis apparently prepared to shoot later this season.The initial Die Hard 5 director Noam Murro leaped ship after being handed the reigns on Warner Bros' 300: Fight Of Artemisia.