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Emma Watson to star in Sofia Coppola's The Jewellery Ring

Sofia Coppola's new film The Jewellery Ring has acquired Emma Watson one of the leads within the ensemble. The film will focus on the true story of countless fame-crazed teens who begin burgling the homes of stars in La. What starts out as youthful fun spins uncontrollable and unveils a sobering take a look at modern culture.Too pointing, Coppola has furthermore written the script. Coppola established fact for delivering women solid leading roles: think Scarlett Johansson in Lost In Translation or Kirsten Dunst inside the Virgin Suicides. She's also proven skilful at bursting the celebrity bubble in Somewhere.Coppola mentioned in the casting process, "I'm searching toward the youthful cast we're assembling and i'm searching toward shooting on location within La.InchThere isn't sure around the release date by yet, so more expensive anything till next season.

Mann in talks for 'Beautiful Creatures'

Hot off his starring submit Warner Bros.' hit comedy "Project X," Thomas Mann is within discussions to become listed on the studio's adaptation of "Beautiful Animals," the very first novel in Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl's popular series that's being created by Alcon Entertainment. Richard LaGravenese is writing and pointing the supernatural love story, which stars Jack O'Connell and Alice Englert as two star-entered teens who uncover dark secrets regarding their families, their background and their town. Viola Davis, Emma Thompson and Emmy Rossum co-star, using the latter thesp playing a witch who's Englert's cousin and enemy. Mann is within foretells play Link, O'Connell's closest friend who's keen on both music and miracle, which Rossum's character uses to obtain Connect to obey her instructions. Alcon cake toppers Broderick Manley and Andrew Kosove are creating with Erwin Stoff, and production around the Southern pic begins the following month in New Orleans. Created by Todd Phillips and Joel Silver, "Project X" stars Mann being an average teen whose epic house party will get unmanageable. R-ranked laffer made $20.8 million its opening weekend. Mann will quickly be observed in a set of Vital photos -- Josh Schwartz's "Fun Size" and also the Jeremy Renner vehicle "Hansel and Gretel: Witch Predators." Thesp also co-stars alongside Claire Danes and James Marsden in Max Mayer's approaching indie "As Awesome like me.Inch Mann is repped by Innovative Artists, KLWG Entertainment and attorney Adam Kaller. Contact Shaun Sneider at shaun.sneider@variety.com

Cinedigm, New Video pact for 'Invisible War'

Cinedigm and New Video have jointly acquired North American distribution rights to docu "The Invisible War," with plans to release the film theatrically this summer, followed by a digital and homevid rollout. "Invisible War," from helmer Kirby Dick ("This Film Is Not Yet Rated"), centers on the ramifications of the large number of rapes in the U.S. military. Pic won the U.S. Documentary Audience Award at this year's Sundance Film Festival. "We are honored that our first New Video/Cinedigm acquisition is 'The Invisible War,'" said Chris McGurk, chairman-CEO of Cinedigm. "The film is incredibly powerful and deserves -- in fact, demands -- to be seen by as many people as possible." New Video co-prexy Susan Margolin added: "Kirby is a fearless and intrepid filmmaker, and 'The Invisible War' is sure to ignite a national firestorm." Cinedigm and New Video joined forces earlier this year as joint partnership aimed at acquiring and distributing product. Cinedigm handles theatrical efforts; New Video focuses on homevid and digital platforms, including VOD. Deal was negotiated by Orly Ravid of the Film Collaborative and distribution adviser Jonathan Dana on behalf of the filmmakers. Contact Andrew Stewart at andrew.stewart@variety.com

'Lorax' draws $70.7 million opening

'The Lorax''Project X'Backed by an aggressive marketing and promotional campaign, Universal's "The Lorax" scored a boffo $70.7 million domestic opening and set a slew of Stateside records, including the best-ever debut for a nonsequel toon.Stalwart family holdover "Journey 2: The Mysterious Island," meanwhile, reclaimed the overseas weekend title, tallying an estimated $14.7 million for an international cume of $184.5 million.Only a few markets in the Middle East saw "The Lorax" open this weekend; U has timed a major overseas push for the toon to coincide with Easter and school holidays over the next few months.Playing second fiddle to "Lorax," Warner Bros.' R-rated counterprogrammer "Project X" managed a hearty $20.8 million domestic bow. "X," which cost $12 million to produce, was projected by most pre-weekend tracking services to land somewhere in the mid-to-high teens.The combined B.O. might of "Lorax" and "Project X" lifted domestic box office up more than 23% over this time last year, making for the ninth week in a row in which box office was higher than in the same frame last year; year-to-date B.O. is outpacing 2011 by approximately 19%, with admissions up even further by 21%.The specialty biz saw mixed results from new and expanding titles, however.Focus Features' "Being Flynn" opened to a disappointing per-screen average of $11,386 from four locations in NY and L.A.Meanwhile, the Weinstein Co.'s "The Artist," with a cume of $37 million, did well in its first post-Oscars frame with an additional 790 playdates, improving by 34% for an estimated weekend gross of $3.9 million."The Academy recognition is opening doors for the film in smaller markets," said Weinstein distribution chief Erik Lomis.TWC's other Oscar-winning title, "The Iron Lady," at $27 million domestically, was up 29% with 11 fewer locations vs. last weekend.Partnering on 'Lorax'In the run-up to its nationwide release, U signed more than 70 global partnerships on the $70 million enviro-themed "Lorax," totaling upwards of $60 million in media value. Promotional partners included the EPA, Hewlett Packard, Whole Foods Market, Seventh Generation and Mazda."Audiences were aware of this movie ever since the marketing campaign first popped up last year," said U prexy of domestic distribution Nikki Rocco. "Still, I never thought it would open to $70 million-plus."The pic's boffo perf should be attributed to the studio's distribution strategy as well.Instead of a summer bow (like with "Despicable Me"), U opted for a first-quarter release, given such past family successes as "Ice Age: The Meltdown," which debuted to $68 million during this month in 2006, and 2010's "Alice in Wonderland," the all-time March leader with a bow of $116 million."We took a hard look at every weekend in the calendar year," Rocco said, "and there have been some huge successes around this time."In addition to its toon benchmark, "Lorax" now stands as the highest Stateside debut for a Dr. Seuss adaptation, besting 2000's "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" at $55.1 million, as well as the biggest opening for Chris Meledandri's Illumination Entertainment. The company's previous two titles, "Despicable Me" and "Hop," debuted at $56.4 million and $37.5 million, respectively."Lorax" scored 52% of its opening from 3D, including 8% in Imax. That's at the high end of recent 3D animated fare: "Happy Feet Two" earned 48% from 3D, "Puss in Boots" 50%.B.O.'s X-factorWhile "The Lorax" skewed heavily toward families, parents and females, there was also a substantial contingent of non-parents or parents with older kids. "Lorax" received an A CinemaScore rating. "Project X," meanwhile, averaged a B, but men under 25 gave the pic an A.Despite its predominately male turnout, "Project X," from producer Todd Phillips and first-time director Nima Nourizadeh, earned a strong 42% female contingency. Pic's age breakdown, however, was weighted more heavily toward under-25 moviegoers at 67%.Warner distribution exec Jeff Goldstein praised the filmmakers, saying, "Todd mentored this young director, and they both did a great job. This is the movie to party by."The weekend's top holdover, Relativity Media's "Act of Valor," dropped 44% in its second frame for an estimated weekend take of $13.7 million. Similarly male-targeted "Safe House" followed in ranking with a projected $7.2 million, down just 34%. "Valor" has cumed $45.2 million domestically, while "Safe House" crossed the $100 million mark in four weeks.Lionsgate's "Good Deeds" saw the steepest drop among the weekend's top 10 players, down 55%. Tyler Perry's latest estimated $7 million through Sunday, bringing its Stateside cume to a tepid $25.7 million."Journey 2," meanwhile, held remarkably well, down 48%, given "Lorax's" entrance into the family market. The Warner-New Line sequel took an estimated $6.9 million, pushing cume to $85.6 million domestically. "Journey 2" has become one of the more notable box office successes of 2012, with a global cume just north of $270 million -- already more than 10% higher than its predecessor's lifetime cume worldwide. Contact Andrew Stewart at andrew.stewart@variety.com

Benedict Cumberbatch On 'Star Trek 2': It's 'Great Fun'

You can realise why the cast of "The Exorcist 2" is thrilled to own Benedict Cumberbatch join their movies. The "Sherlock" star constitutes a splash towards the Hollywood scene this year in movies like "Mess Tailor Soldier Spy" and "War Equine," and also the presence certainly aided improve both films. "Star WarsInch star Chris Pine recently told MTV News he loves the "intensity" Cumberbatch provides the "The Exorcist 2" set, something he felt the Brit learned at acting school. When MTV News taken track of Cumberbatch at Elton John's publish-Oscars party, it made an appearance only fair to request him about his classic training. "Well, it's very sweet to condition,Inch Cumberbatch responded. "I truly did yearly at drama school, so I'm not too trained I'm not too classical, however i am flattered." And people aren't really the only compliments his costars had about him. Not remarkably, Cumberbatch had only kind products to state back about his cast. "In my opinion they are brilliant on that relate, which is an authentic privilege being on that set," he mentioned. "There's a patter together with a kind of knowledge of who they really are playing as well as the other primary figures, that we am learning a great deal from. It's just good fun. It's good to make use of Chris. He's very professional. Same goes with Zach [Quinto], who I've been your lot with I like him, he's a great, brilliant guy." Exactly why all people juicy set photos are actually leaked recently is really because Cumberbatch's villainous role -- whatever that could be -- is finally kicking into high gear. Despite the fact that the man also called An Online Detective wouldn't give any knowledge of why he was fighting with Quinto and Saldana, he'd discuss simply how much fun he's making set. "My part of the film is really sorta kicking in now. It's good fun, great, thrilling,In . he mentioned. "But things i am saying is it's a great factor later on into a thing that everybody's familiar with and knows each other perfectly. It is therefore [in] an unusual way a simple step to obtain current with, because everybody is actually welcoming and can meet up with one another." Are you currently presently excited to find out Cumberbatch in "The Exorcist 2"? Reveal inside the comments section below or on Twitter!

Edgar Wright to direct The Actor-kaira Pitt inside the Evening Stalker

Disney has employed Take advantage of In The Dead director Edgar Wright to helm a remake in the Evening Stalker, a 1972 television horror, and Johnny Depp's in position to star. It appears Depp and also the creating partner Christi Dembrowski have observed their hearts set on acquiring the remake created for some time. The 1972 show, composed by I am Legend novelist Richard Matheson, saw a Las vegas reporter investigate a string of killings he suspected were committed having a vampire.After cult hits Take advantage of In The Dead and Scott Pilgrim Versus. The Earth, Wright has converted into a looked for-after talent, along with his title already installed on Marvel's Ant-Guy, additionally final entry inside the Cornetto trilogy...With no script written so far, and Depp presently filming The Lone Ranger, we expect The Evening Stalker to start shooting early next season.