Chernin Buys Foreign Exchange Pitch; Shawn Harwell Writing, Jeff Tomsic To Direct

EXCLUSIVE: Chernin Entertainment has acquired Untitled Foreign Exchange, a comedy pitch that Shawn Harwell will write and Jeff Tomsic will direct. Peter Chernin, Dylan Clark and Jenno Topping will produce for Chernin Entertainment, which won the pitch with a preemptive offer made from the company’s discretionary fund. Tomsic gets the directing job after helming a number of shorts, including I’m Having A Difficult Time Killing My Parents, which debuted at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. He’s also directed shows for MTV and VH1 and campaigns for Dr. Pepper, Hasbro and other brands. Harwell cowrote Dog Fight, the Warner Bros comedy that Jay Roach is directing with Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis. He also scripted Hench with Danny McBride for Warner Bros and Neal Moritz, and was a staff writer in McBride’s HBO Series Eastbound & Down. Both are repped by CAA and Tomsic is managed by Generate.

Daniel Radcliffe's 'The Lady in Black' New Photo: Foggy Terror and Damaged Fences [Moviefone Exclusive]

It is just Tuesday, however it was already quite a few days for Daniel Radcliffe. Additionally to reaching the finals from the 25 Under 25 Individuals Choice Award competition -- opposite his 'Harry Potter' co-stars Emma Watson, Rupert Grint and Tom Felton -- a brand new frightening still photo from Radcliffe's approaching thriller 'The Lady In Black' has additionally been launched. Toss in the DVD and Blu-ray debut of something known as 'Harry Potter and also the Deathly Hallows Part 2' on Friday, plus you've got a zeitgeist-y hat-trick couple of stars could accomplish. Browse the ominous 'Woman in Black' pic ahead. [Click for bigger] Out February. 3, 'The Lady in Black' concentrates on a youthful lawyer (Radcliffe) delivered to an online town to handle the matters of the deceased client -- that is fine, until he encounters a terrifying ghost. Watch a clip below and prepare to cover your vision. [Top Photo: Getty] Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook RELATED

Covert Affairs' Chris Gorham on Auggie's New Girlfriend: It's a Very Complicated Relationship

Christopher Gorham, Devin Kelley Spoiler alert! Auggie will pay out lots of time in bed on Covert Matters. OK, that is not really surprising, but what's surprising is the fact the resident ladies' guy is trading it with just one lady.Have a look at photos from Covert Matters"I believe that it is good we'll finally see him getting a girlfriend," Christopher Gorham notifies TVGuide.com. "We have not looked into that yet - we view him with females and [his ex], but this can most likely be interesting for him. It's something he wasn't expecting, that's certainly.InchAuggie's lady friend is not Annie (Piper Perabo), yet it's not some chick he meets inside a bar either. She's Parker (Devin Kelley), the greater youthful sister of Billy, who died inside the Iraq mission that blinded Auggie. They meet on Tuesday's episode (10/9c, USA) inside a memorial held by Billy's family that Annie encourages him to visit.InchPossibly, it's a very complicated relationship," Gorham states. "It starts progressively. She will get that spark that he's really drawn to. She's caring and she's also youthful than him. It doesn't mirror Auggie's relationship with Annie, but it's much like it, especially Auggie and Annie in Season 1 when Annie really needed him which he looked after her. There's a bit of this. Frankly, Auggie kind of stumbles into this relationship. I don't think that he switches into it planning this to become relationship."Though that appears just like a government-type connection, Gorham demands the bond is reciprocal and healthy since the two bond over Billy's dying. So what's Auggie like just like a boyfriend? Well, for starters, we'll see his much much softer side, or a little from it no less than.Concealed Affairs' Sendhil Ramamurthy on Jai 2., going shirtless with Chris Gorham"His feelings avoid him a little, not, like, yanking his heart out crying or anything such as this, but he'll get amazed at how deep his feelings are for Parker. In my opinion he thinks he loves her. I am unsure if he's doing or else, but he thinks he's doing,Inch Gorham states. "Honestly, In my opinion in the extended-term relationship, Auggie might be a difficult boyfriend! He's so excellent at keeping things near the vest rather than talking about personal data. It's such a part of him, that's something which might be very attractive around the short-term basis, in a boyfriend-girlfriend relationship, that could get really frustrating."His relationship with Parker arranged in to the "short-term" category, that ought to make Annie-Auggie 'shippers happy. Kelley will simply are available in three of Season 2's final six episodes as Parker leaves to start her service inside the Peace Corps. The happy couple comprises a choice about what direction to go, but it's definately not final. "Once the relationship continues, therefore it certainly may, you have to may explore really that in Season 3," Gorham states. "It's a very open question regarding what will happen."Consistent with character, Auggie keeps the bond round the lower-low, but Annie eventually finds out using what Gorham calls an "awesome scene." How that thought will affect Annie's (dormant?) feelings for Auggie may have by helping cover their the finale. "It requires proper care of inside a satisfying way of everyone else when you're getting in it,In . Gorham states. "All six of those episodes will definitely push Annie and Auggie's relationship in to a new arena."Covert Affairs' Sendhil Ramamurthy: Jai becomes a pressure being thought withWhile Auggie will get a lot of action in your house, he won't be seeing any in the office. You will discover no area missions for him throughout all six of these episodes - though Gorham did visit Venice, Berlin, Stockholm and London because the show shot on spot to shoot behind-the-moments footage as Auggie - but he'll take part in some friendly warfare while using lately promoted Jai (Sendhil Ramamurthy)."They don't trust each other. There's a collegial, adversarial relationship, as well as the adversarial a lot of it can get ratcheted up," according to him. "Jai eventually takes something from Auggie which get Auggie pretty hot. I'm just glad Sendhil's finally arrived at take his shirt off throughout all six of these episodes!"And therefore is Ramamurthy - he did challenge Gorham to have an ab-off in Season 3 and guaranteed it absolutely was happening."I'll just hands him the trophy at this time around and basically save myself the sit-ups," Gorham states. "You can't always believe what Sendhil states. In my opinion more youthful crowd mentioned a Heroes movie was happening eventually! Where am i with this particular? ... Listen, I'm only carrying it out if [Peter] Gallagher is at too. I told the males next season that individuals must rent a house in Toronto and hang up web cameras and possess our personal little webisodes!"

Britannia Awards Taps Presenters

Robin Williams, Anne Hathaway, Helen Mirren and Jason Isaacs will be among the presenters at BAFTA LA’s 2011 Britannia Awards, set for November 30 at the Beverly Hilton. Alan Cumming is hosting the ceremony, which will air December 4 on TV Guide Network. The already announced 2011 honorees are Warren Beatty (Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award for Excellence in Film), Helena Bonham Carter (Britannia Award for British Artist of the Year), John Lasseter (Cubby Broccoli Britannia Award for Worldwide Contribution to Filmed Entertainment), Ben Stiller (Charlie Chaplin Britannia Award for Excellence in Comedy), and David Yates (John Schlesinger Britannia Award for Excellence in Directing).

Charlotte Gainsbourg on Melancholia, Kirsten Dunst and Lars von Trier: 'He's Always Right'

This week finally brings Melancholia to limited theatrical release in the US, where prospective viewers have spent the five months since its Cannes premiere attempting to parse the great, fraught, near-instant mythology of director Lars von Trier’s latest masterpiece. Finally the work can speak for itself — or mostly speak for itself, anyway, with help from co-star and modern-era von Trier muse Charlotte Gainsbourg. Melancholia features Gainsbourg and Kirsten Dunst and Claire and Justine, sisters brought together at the former’s house for the latter’s wedding only to see its opulence and joy flushed away by Justine’s debilitating depression. Meanwhile, Claire’s short-tempered husband John (Kiefer Sutherland) studies the approach of a new planet named Melancholia, which may or may not be on a crash course with Earth. Justine’s convalescence dovetails with Claire’s apocalyptic panic, setting off the sisters’ epic exploration of the outer limits of love, family, faith and hope. Dunst’s performance earned her Best Actress honors at Cannes — the same prize Gainsbourg received in 2009 for her wrenching turn in von Trier’s Antichrist. Movieline recently spoke with Gainsbourg about that winning tradition, the maddening filmmaker and why America’s a nice place to visit yet she wouldn’t want to live here. What was your reaction when you saw Melancholia for the first time? It was the same as with Antichrist: I wasn’t sure… It was weird. And that’s what I told Lars: “I thought it was really weird.” I don’t get to see the film the way it is then. Seeing it in Cannes really helps because there’s a real audience. There’s something quite magical in Cannes when it happens — the nervousness you can have being in the middle of that kind of screening. But I can’t say I have the right perspective when I watch the film. I’m happy whenever I’m not on screen. I’m happy looking at the scenes where Justine is and I’m not. Then I was able to really watch. Otherwise I’m too much a part of it. Do you have siblings? Yeah. Did being a sister inform this role? Sure, but more than that… Having siblings, yes. Being a mother, too — even with Justine. There’s a relationship of protectiveness. Lars really pointed that out. He asked me to watch Persona, which had that relationship — nurse to patient. So that was interesting. And we did a few hours of rehearsals with Kirsten playing around that — taking care of her, and her being a patient, and I being a nurse. That’s the relationship we worked on. And then of course it’s completely the other way around. Well, not the other way around; I get to the place where she was in the beginning at the end of the film. Once she doesn’t need me anymore, that’s when I fall apart. That’s interesting. I mean, what kind of relationship did you want to cultivate with Kirsten herself before the film? How close do you want to be to her? It’s all instinctive. We don’t need to pretend that we’re sisters in real life. We had a glass together, and we joined up after the shoot, and we had dinner, and we were quite close. But we didn’t need to work on that. It’s written in the scenes, and it’s obvious. There was something very obvious in the way I could touch her. She’s a very loving person. There’s a sensuality with her figure that made me want to hold her in my arms. There’s something very natural in the scene where I try to give her a bath, and she let’s go completely. It was obvious that you wanted to protect her. I didn’t have to go far pretending. It was there. Is that type of sensuality something you’ve instinctively drawn from in general — with other actors and other situations? I think it’s very important. Also, how comfortable you are using your hands — touching someone. I kind of like that. Sometimes people make you feel very uncomfortable, and you’re very shy touching them. I remember shooting with a little girl, and it was so tough to get together. I was playing her mother, and we were so shy, one to another. We couldn’t touch each other. In the scene she had to brush my hair, and it was so hard. The physical aspect of touching someone’s skin is really hard. Is it? Yeah. To get the confidence, yeah. But you strike me as such a courageous, confident actor. I’m not confident. But when I know what I have to do, and if it’s a question of pushing yourself? I love pushing myself. But I need a little push. And Lars is pretty good at that. Yeah! He makes me feel very uncomfortable, but I think that’s what I like: to be very unbalanced, to be put in an awkward situation, very unsure of myself, to be in need of his acceptance or his indications and his validation, really. Really being in his hands. That’s personal to you, though — Charlotte Gainsbourg. You need that for yourself. I need that from him. I’m sure he’s aware of it, but it’s not something we’ve discussed. I trust him so much, that I need to let go with him. I don’t think I’d do this with someone else. Have you ever felt that element of your working relationship compromising the characters? Where he wants to push to one point, but you have another in mind? No, not at all, because he’s always spot-on. He has a judgment that I trust completely. He has a way of listening that is so accurate and so precise. He’s always right. That’s a lot of trust. It is, but it’s great to be able to work in those conditions. You need to trust a director. If not, you can’t let go. You can’t explore a scene. You’re going to be bad at one point; you need to trust that the director is not going to use it. You can explore a scene and go too far. Sometimes, when I’m not comfortable, it’s being too aware of yourself and fearing ridicule too much. You need to get there in order to go back to something maybe more accurate. You have to push yourself a little too far, I think.

Oscar Winner 'The King's Speech' Competes for European Film Academy's Top Award

LONDON -- The Oscar-winning film The King's Speechhas another chance to add to its burgeoning awards roster with a tilt at this year's European Film Academy's best European film award.our editor recommendsEuropean Film Academy Names European Discovery NomineesThe European Film Academy, Asia Pacific Screen Academy Form AllianceStephen Frears to Receive European Film Academys Lifetime Achievement AwardOscar-Winning 'The Kings Speech' Makes European Film Academy Long List The film's Oscar-winning star Colin Firth also finds himself in the running to pick up yet another top notch award for his turn as the stuttering King George VI in the European Academy's best actor category. Should The King's Speech reign on the evening of the awards it will have overcome a list of heavyweight arthouse contenders including The Artist, written and directed by Michel Nazanavicius, Susanne Bier's Haevnen (In a Better World) and Aki Kaurismaki's Le Havre. Also looking to upset the coronation of The King's Speech is Lars von Trier's Melancholia and Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne's The Kid With a Bike. Firth also finds himself with some stiff opposition in the European actor category with several turns from the best film nominations featuring. Jean Dujardinfor his role in The Artist, Mikael Persbrandt in Haevnen and Andre Wilms for his outing in Le Havre find themselves alongside Michel Piccoli in Habemus Papam challenging for Firth's crown. The European best actress shortlist includes Kirsten Dunst, an actress who also possesses a German passport alongside her U.S. creditentials, for her turn in Melancholia. Dunst finds herself up against fellow Melancholia star Charlotte Gainsbourg, Cecile de France for The Kid With a Bike and Nadezhda Markina for her outing in Elena. But the actress being tipped to beat is Tilda Swinton for her dominating screen presence in We Need To Talk About Kevin. All eyes and ears will be on the stage should von Trier triumph in the evening's best European director category for Melancholia. Challenges come from the Dardenne brothers (Bike), Bier (Haevnen), Kaurismaki (Le Havre) and Bela Tarr for A Torinoi Lo. Best European screenwriter of 2011 will also come from the Dardenne Brothers (Bike), Kaurismaki (Le Havre), Von Trier (Melancholia) or Anders Thomas Jensen (Haevnen). The nominations have been narrowed down from a long list made up by the 20 countries with the most EFA members, which have voted one national film directly onto the list, while further films were added by EFA board members and experts. Leading the way with seven nominations is Melancholia, followed by four nominations each forThe Artist, The Kid with a Bike, The King's Speech, Le Havre and Haevnen. Films from 32 European countries were repped on this year's long list. The more than 2,500 EFA Members will now vote for the winners. The 24th European Film Awards will be presented in Berlin on Dec. 3 this year. Related Topics International The King's Speech Melancholia The Kid With a Bike The Artist

'Parenthood's' Monica Potter: Kristina's Postpartum Depression is Real

"Parenthood's" Monica Potter is making sure the NBC series remains an authentic depiction of family drama.After her character, the loyal and almost saint-like Kristina Braverman, delivered baby Nora around the Jason Katims ("Friday Evening Lights") drama, she spoken with the showrunner about including postpartum depression moments. "I put that available since it is a genuine factor and lots of women contacted me about this,Inch mom of three informs "The Hollywood Reporter." "I met a lady who had been dealing with severe postpartum depression and that i introduced up to Jason and that he allow me to go towards the place I'd go without having to be a Darlene Downer."Following a dramatic -- and often comedy (Peter Krause's Adam Braverman attempting to be "stylish" was priceless) -- episode by which she gave birth, Kristina returns home and, much towards the chagrin of her oldest daughter, Haddie (Sarah Ramos), struggles to locate balance between being careful of herself, the home, a baby, along with a boy with special needs."[I am playing it] like I am unraveling and you will find things from my control, that is how women feel when they have just were built with a baby," she states. "I have felt it at some point during my existence and that i always prefer to incorporate the actual stuff into playing her."Potter adds that Kristina will have a problem with most of the things new moms face in determining who they really are beyond as being a wife and mother. "Lots of women have battled with this particular -- I have a problem with this -- where would you become yourself?" she states."You'll continually be a mother, however i think women lose themselves once we get into motherhood and as being a wife," she states. "It's like daily we awaken and that we perform the same things every single day and that we become robot.Between juggling her obligations fully house with Adam busy starting their recording studio, The Luncheonette, Potter notes that Kristina will not be lower for lengthy."I seem like Kristina will go another way," she states. "She has been so encouraging of Adam and also the family for such a long time and she or he just were built with a baby and today she's tugging herself up through the bootstraps and saying, 'I'm still an individual, I have a existence beyond as being a mother and wife.' ""Being a parent" airs Tuesdays at 10 p.m. on NBC. The Hollywood Reporter