
EXCLUSIVE: In what is shaping up as the first major deal made on the ground at the Cannes Film Festival, The Weinstein Company is in hot and heavy negotiations for U.S. rights to Code Name Geronimo, the John Stockwell-directed drama about the manhunt for 9/11 terror attack mastermind Osama Bin Laden. The deal is in the $2 million range, and is being negotiated on the basis of a trailer for a film that is in post production. That footage was unveiled today by Voltage Pictures’ Nicolas Chartier and WME Global’s Graham Taylor (who just landed in Cannes) and TWC moved quickly to hammer out a deal with attorney Craig Emanuel. What is most intriguing about this is that TWC can put the film into theaters in early fall, a move that would put it before the Kathryn Bigelow-directed Zero Dark Thirty. That film, which has an ensemble cast including Joel Edgerton and Jessica Chastain, won’t be released until December 19 after Sony Pictures decided not to put it in theaters during the presidential elections. Already it is clear that President Obama’s green light of the SEAL Team 6 mission will be a major issue in the upcoming presidential campaign, and Republicans have already railed against the notion that writer Mark Boal got inside information from the administration for his script. The other intriguing thing is that a ... Read More »

The Terry George-directed Whole Lotta Sole has sold in a near seven figure deal to ARC, which plans an aggressive day and date multiplatform release. Richard Guardian of Lightning is selling foreign and WME Global’s Graham Taylor and Deb McIntosh brokered the deal. Pic premiered at Tribeca Film Festival, and stars Brendan Fraser and Colm Meaney. It’s a fish story in which a hapless guy with gambling debts robs a fish market which is owned by the same mobster he owes money to. Cornered in a local curio shop, where he takes hostage an assortment of colorful characters, including a man who might be his illegitimate father. Surrounded by the Police, the SAS, and the Mobster’s crew, the young man must find a way out of his precarious predicament with the help of his oddball captives.

Blown Away #1 again as Adele moves back up to #2.By Gil Kaufman Carrie Underwood's Blown Away Album Cover Photo: Arista Just as the 11th season of "American Idol" is wheezing to a close , the top three contenders can take some heart in the fact that former champ Carrie Underwood is still at the top of her game. Underwood's latest, Blown Away, will spend a second week at the top of the Billboard 200 charts thanks to sales of 120,000, according to figures provided by Nielsen SoundScan. Though sales were down 55 percent, that was enough to edge out a resurgent Adele, who may have benefitted from the Mother's Day Bump for her unstoppable 21, which was up 31 percent and two spots to #2 on sales of 101,000. That holiday push helped lift Adele over the 9 million mark in the U.S., with diamond status now well within reach. The rest of the top 10 was fairly stable, with buzz band Silversun Pickups landing an impressive debut at #6 with their third full-length studio album, Neck of the Woods, while Tank rumbled in at #9 with This is How I Feel (33,000). The rest of the top 10: Lionel Richie continues his remarkable late-career role with Tuskegee, which moved up three spots to #3 (71,000) as sales passed the 750,000 mark. NOW 42 held in at #4 (65,000), followed by Norah Jones, Little Broken Hearts (60,000), One Direction, Up All Night (#7, 40,000), Jack White, Blunderbuss (#8, 34,000) and Luke Bryan, Tailgates & Tanlines (#10, 26,000). It was a swift trip in, and out, of the top 10 for B.o.B., whose Strange Clouds fell seven spots in week two to #12 as sales dipped by 67 percent to 25,000. Further down the line, British soft rockers Keane were in at #17 with Strangeland (19,000), while "SNL" musical guests and Internet sensations Karmin snuck into the top 20 at #18 with their debut EP, Hello (19,000). Underwood also topped the iTunes album chart, acing out Silversun Pickups, who were followed by Adele, B.o.B., One Direction, Karmin, Keane, Gotye's Making Mirrors, White and Jones. On the iTunes singles chart, Maroon 5 locked down #1 with "Payphone," beating out Gotye's "Somebody That I Used to Know," Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe," Justin Bieber's "Boyfriend" and fun.'s "We Are Young." Flo Rida was at #6 with "Wild Ones," Nicki Minaj just behind with "Starships," then One Direction's "What Makes You Beautiful," Jennifer Lopez's "Dance Again" and 2 Chainz's "No Lie." The top 10 will get shaken up next week with the arrival of Adam Lambert's second major-label album, as well as new discs from Beach House, Godsmack, the "Glee" Cast Graduation album and the newest slab of rockitude from Tenacious D. Related Artists Carrie Underwood Adele

THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Former Liberian President Charles Taylor said on Wednesday witnesses had been threatened and paid to testify against him in a trial that found him guilty of crimes against humanity, and described the international court system as a tool of the West.
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