All3Media sells drama package to Netflix

LONDON -- The distribution arm of U.K. "super-indie" All3Media has offered Netflix 175 hrs of drama. All3Media International's package incorporates "Apparitions," produced by Lime Pictures, and "Accused," produced by RSJ Pictures. Both shows were commissioned through the BBC in Blighty. Paul Corney, v . p . of digital distribution for All3Media Worldwide, stated there is "significant appetite" for British shows within the U.S. He added: "Netflix supplies a fantastic chance for audiences to locate these acclaimed shows." In the recent Mipcom sales market Netflix agreed an offer with Zodiak Privileges for supernatural saga "Being Human," both original U.K. show and also the U.S. remake. Marketers are progressively striking handles on-demand platforms for example Netflix. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com

Oscar rejects Puerto Rico's foreign-lingo film entry

Despite getting sent 11 photos for foreign-language film Oscar consideration since 1986, Puerto Rico continues to be shut from the race this season due to its status like a U.S. protectorate. However, the Dominican Republican won an attract get its pic into account. "We desired to obvious up an inconsistency that permitted a U.S. territory to compete inside a category intended for nations outdoors the U.S.," stated AMPAS chief operating officer Ric Robertson. "We said excitedly within our letter this past year that 2010 will be the last time they might submit an entry." Based on Puerto Rico's film commissioner Mariella Perez, the Academy informed her in August 2010 from the rule. "After asking it to reconsider, the Academy responded that it is decision was final, but that Puerto Rico could make an application for the other groups," Perez stated. "I informed the filmmakers of the new rule however they sent their film anyway." Naturally, the Academy declined helmer Sonia Fritz's The spanish language-language "America," starring Edward James Olmos, Tony Plana and Lymari Nadal. Puerto Rican commentators allege the Academy bowed to pressure from Hispanic filmmakers in other states who felt that Puerto Rico had been given a preferred status. They question why Puerto Rico is known as a completely independent country in sporting occasions. "Different organizations have different rules," stated Robertson. Puerto Rico continues to be posting records since Marcos Zurinaga's 1986 pic "La gran fiesta" (The Large Party) was the hopeful within the 59th Oscars later. In 1989, Jacobo Morales' "What Went Down to Santiago" grew to become the very first local pic to clinch a nom. This Year, Rafi Mercado's "Miente" (Lie) vied for any foreign-lingo film Oscar nom. Fritz will still are able in a foreign-lingo Oscar slot through tobago pic she co created, "La Hija Natural" (Love Child) by Leticia Tonos. It was initially declined through the Academy on the technicality but was recognized after tobago become a huge hit. The nation had unsuccessful to submit what they are called of their selection committee people towards the org prior to the March. 3 deadline. The 84th Oscars is going to be held February. 26 in the Kodak Theater in Hollywood. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com

2011 U.S. Album Sales Still Strong After 75 %

Because the year heads into its home stretch, situations are searching for for that U.S. music business -- sales take presctiption track to improve over the year before, something which hasn't happened since 2004. PHOTOS: MTV VMAs 2011: Red-colored Carpet Arrivals With nine several weeks of 2011 lower, album sales stand at 228.5 million, based on Nielsen SoundScan -Up 3.3% in the 221.a million albums offered within the corresponding duration of 2010. Overall U.S. unit sales, meanwhile, are up 7.2% to at least one.18 billion, from 1.1 billion this past year. So when albums including track counterparts are taken into consideration -- whereby 10 song downloads count as you album unit - albums have leaped 5.4%, to 323.7 million from 307.a million. The positive showing for album sales can mainly be credited towards the gifs, in which the configuration's scans are up 19.7% to 74.a million models, in comparison to 61.9 million models this year's first nine several weeks. PHOTOS: The Background Music Industry's Finest Givers However it's not just digital amounts which are encouraging. Though physical sales are lower from this past year, the dip isn't as drastic as music professionals had lengthy grown accustomed to. Compact disc sales have decreased only 3.6% this season, after going through declines varying between 18%-20% in each one of the five previous years. A banner year from Adele has assisted overall. Her album 21 has moved nearly 3.8 million models, as the best-selling title in the corresponding time this past year -- Eminem's Recovery -- had received 2.7 million models through the finish from the third quarter. PHOTOS: Top Ten Greatest Compensated Artists With 1.3 million models offered electronically, 21 is the greatest-selling album within the gifs since SoundScan started monitoring such sales in 2003. Adele's song "Moving Within The Deep," with 5.two million compensated downloads, is the very best-selling title within the gifs. Where share of the market can be involved, Universal Group has finally drawn from The new sony Music Entertainment, which in fact had been getting upset close at its heels for that first six several weeks of 2011. In the finish from the nine-month period, UMG's share of the market totalled 30.3%, while The new sony's was at 28.9%. Meanwhile, the Warner Group's share of the market totaled 18.7% and EMI's arrived at 9%. Independent labels' share of the market, as based on distribution possession, totaled 12.6%. Billboard will show a far more comprehensive article on third-quarter stats, including share of the market by label possession, within the future. Related Subjects Eminem Adele

R.I.P. Joseph R. Aceti

The Directors Guild announced today thatretired TV broadcast network sports director and DGA Lifetime Achievement recipient Joseph R. Aceti has died. Here is the statement by DGA President Taylor Hackford: We are saddened to hear of the passing of Joseph R. Aceti, beloved DGA member and the ninth recipient of the DGA Lifetime Achievement Award in Sports Direction. Joe received the Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006, capping a career that by all measures placed him in the pantheon of sports direction. Present at most of the seminal sporting events since the late 1960s, Joe worked for all four major networks on every type of major sporting event including: the 1968, 1972, 1976, 1980 and 1992 Olympic games; the 1990, 1991 and 1992 World Series and numerous Playoff Series; World Figure Skating Championship from 1983-1990; the U.S Open Tennis Tournament from 1984-87; NBA and NCAA basketball; NFL and collegiate football; Major League and Collegiate baseball; and 10 years of directing ABC’s Wide World of Sports with some 300 shows as the coordinating director. With 80 major boxing matches to his credit, Joe was also the guiding hand on broadcasts of some of the all-time greatest bouts, including: Ali vs. Frazier aka The Thrilla in Manila; Ali vs. Spinks II; Cooney vs. Holmes; and Hearns vs. Duran. By all accounts, Joe was a kind and dedicated teacher and mentor to many he met along the way. After Joe was announced as recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award in Sports Direction in 2006, he told us, I think I did a good job, but the thing Im most proud of is that I was able to help so many young people during my career. Ive never been afraid to pass on what I know and I tried to be fair and kind to people. My wife has a saying, You cant be a teacher and not be kind. I think shes right.

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Special Report: TV's Hosts With the Most

Ryan Seacrest No one has come close to replicating the power and fortune amassed by legendary TV hosts Dick Clark, Merv Griffin and Oprah Winfrey - yet. But American Idol's Ryan Seacrest is on his way, and others are right behind. Today's TV hosts aren't satisfied with just their day jobs. If you don't have multiple shows, a line of licensed merchandise and a production company, you're not trying hard enough. It's all about creating empires, and hosts, from Anderson Cooper and Kelly Ripa to Dr. Drew Pinsky and Carson Daly, are running their careers like booming businesses. Octagon Entertainment managing director John Ferriter, whose clients include Piers Morgan and Pinsky, says the success of reality shows over the last decade, starting with Survivor and American Idol, triggered this generation of mogul hosts. "If they have the talent, aspiration and willpower, and put together a smart team, they can parlay it into the perfect business," he says. In using TV-hosting jobs as a launch pad, these emcees are all looking to reconstruct the success of the original titans in the field, Clark and Griffin, both of whom went on to oversee major production companies and dabble in all sorts of businesses. "They were able to combine their personal celebrity with their business acumen," Ferriter says. But by the 1990s, TV hosts were pretty much satisfied with being, well, TV hosts. The idea of nurturing a new generation of hosting moguls came when Daly moved the pop-culture needle in the late-'90s heyday of MTV's TRL. His agents, who included Ferriter, came up with a plan to push the host in a number of directions - including a production company, new TV and radio projects and sponsorship possibilities. But Daly says he wasn't comfortable "trying to be all things to all people and omnipresent," and he eventually took on new representation. So Daly's old team took their plan and instead turned their attention to Seacrest. "It was clear the kind of career he wanted," says Ferriter, who once represented the American Idol host. "He wanted a cross of what Dick and Merv had done." At the time, Seacrest was mainly known as a Los Angeles-based radio DJ. His agents hatched a plan to get him on American Idol and use that as a springboard for something much bigger. It worked: Seacrest reinvented the role of a TV host. He now emcees American Idol while simultaneously being the managing editor and lead anchor of E! News, hosting two syndicated radio shows and executive producing reality shows like Keeping Up With the Kardashians, pulling down at least $55 million annually. He's also partnering with AEG to launch a cable network and is rumored to be on the short list for a variety of additional jobs, including hosting Today. "It's brilliant what they've done with Ryan," says veteran hosting agent Babette Perry. "It will certainly be copied." Among those starting to make the grade are Morgan, who jumps between America's Got Talent and his CNN talk show, Piers Morgan Tonight; Cooper, who just launched the daytime talk show Anderson in addition to anchoring CNN's Anderson Cooper 360; Pinsky, with VH1's Celebrity Rehab, HLN's Dr. Drew and The CW's Dr. Drew's Lifechangers; Tom Bergeron, host of ABC's Dancing With the Stars and America's Funniest Home Videos; and The View cohost Joy Behar, who also toplines HLN's The Joy Behar Show. Elisabeth Hasselbeck turned her gig on The View into a springboard for licensing products like exercise equipment and a clothing line; she also just began hosting CMT's Angels Among Us. Phil Keoghan has used his Amazing Race popularity to shoot a documentary and peddle both luggage and nutrition bars. "The last thing you want to be is a host that's defined by one show," says Keoghan, who has developed a brand that encompasses books, TV shows and speeches. Then there are icons from other businesses, like the modeling and food worlds, who have morphed into TV powerhouses. Gordon Ramsay launched a production company after fronting several food-related shows in the U.K. and the U.S.; Heidi Klum has turned her Project Runway success into an empire. Other hosts looking to expand their domain include Top Chef's Padma Lakshmi, ESPN's Erin Andrews and Top Chef Masters' Curtis Stone. Even actors like Ripa (who hosts Live! With Regis and Kelly and has a production company), Mario Lopez (Extra, America's Best Dance Crew, H8R), Alison Sweeney (The Biggest Loser, Days of Our Lives) and Nick Cannon (America's Got Talent, Up All Night) are deciding that hosting offers them a long-lasting and profitable career. And a new crop of fresh faces, including The X Factor's Steve Jones, are plotting their careers very carefully. "The money isn't bad in hosting," says Perry. "Then you add these licensing deals, and they get a percentage of the product." Another host following in Seacrest's footsteps is, ironically, Daly. With the success of NBC's The Voice, a thriving radio career and the long- running Last Call With Carson Daly, he says he feels "older and wiser" about where to take his career. "I'm back to the way my life felt 10 years ago," Daly says. "I'm grateful for the jobs I have." Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!

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Bryan Lourd Joins LACMA Board of Trustees

Bryan Lourd is joining the board of LACMA. The CAA partner, along with Lyn Davis Lear and Crescent Capital founder/Milwaukee Brewers owner Mark Attanasio, will be the newest members on 64-member board.our editor recommendsCAA's Bryan Lourd confirms talks of stake buyKim Kardashian part of LACMA makeover In a statement, LACMA's CEO Michael Govan, said the three new members have "unique and significant experience from the worlds of entertainment or sports, as well as a passion for the arts and the community." Lourd is also on the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. In the past few years there's been a shift to add more LACMA board members from the Westside -- and all that represents -- than from downtown. Terry Semel co-chairs the board. Willow Bay is one of the five vice chairs. Board members include Brian Grazer, Michael Lynton, Carole Bayer Sager, Barbra Streisand and Steve Tisch. "This is part of Michael bringing a whole new freshness to the museum," says board member Wendy Stark. "We should have Hollywood people who collect art on the board. And Bryan's got a great art collection and great taste." Related Topics CAA LACMA

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Kevin Kline on for dual support roles in Charlie Kaufman's next

Kevin Kline has signed onto come in dual roles in Charlie Kaufman's next directorial effort, Frank Or Francis, based on a study by Variety.Not even close to as being a modern undertake Erectile dysfunction Wood's Glen Or Glenda, the film centres on online film critique, however it seems like a typically inventive, inverted, twisty puzzle of the movie inside a vein you can legitimately dub 'Kaufman-esque.'Jack Black, Steve Carell and Nicolas Cage were formerly connected to the project if this was introduced a couple of several weeks back.Black is playing intelligent internet troll Francis, while Carell will have leftfield filmmaker Frank.In the event that casting does not seem place-on enough for you personally, Cage is arranged to experience a greatly effective actor referred to as Emcee, famous for top-concept large-players like Body fat Father. Indeed.And Kline's character? He'll play... well, we are just gonna have to give the entire description from Variety to determine that which you model of it:"[Kline will] play Richard Waller, the brother of Jonathan Waller, the director of the imaginary film entitled Hiroshima, the greatest-grossing movie of-time."Kline will even play Richard's Mind, an animatronic mind that, by using advanced screenwriting techniques, helps Jonathan create a completely inoffensive creation that may have the largest possible appeal and zero artistic integrity."So overall, the film sounds pretty incredible, does not it? And will also be nice to determine Kline in something must-see (it feels as though it's been some time).Before pointing Synecdoche, NY, Kaufman made his wittily intelligent mark with a few incredibly memorable scripts, including Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, and Eternal Sunshine From The Spotless Mind.