Birth Rite

On her behalf 18th birthday, Rebecca meets a mysterious guy with magical forces. Roman, the warlock, shows her how her parents were killed and bestows upon her the Sacred Amulet that's her birth rite. As she goes in to the black arts of witchcraft, her adopted sister, Erin, fights in order to save her soul in the evil which has possessed her. Everything finishes inside a showdown of excellent and evil as Erin and Roman fight for Rebecca.

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The planet pandora Stock Jumps After Quarterly Results

NEW You are able to - The planet pandora Media, the internet radio provider that went public in June, saw its stock increase in early Friday buying and selling after quarterly financials late Thursday came an optimistic review. By 10:15am ET, The planet pandora's stock was up 7.6 percent at $13.42, giving the organization a market price of $2.1 billion after earlier being up 8 percent. The shares have exchanged between $11 earlier this year after market decline and $26 at the time of the organization's stock exchange debut in mid-June. In the first earnings report like a public company, The planet pandora late Thursday stated its fiscal second-quarter loss came to $1.8 million on revenue that increased 117 percent to $67 million. Email: Georg.Szalai@thr.com Twitter: @georgszalai Related Subjects

Morelia fest sets competition

MEXICO CITY -- The ninth Morelia Film Festival unveiled its key Mexican competition lineup Monday. Counting works from five femme filmmakers among the eight pics in the running, the fest is quickly gaining industry pull as a hothouse revue for up-and-coming local directors presenting their first or second works. Lucia Carreras, co-scribe for 2010 Cannes Camera d'Or winner "Leap Year," will see the world preem of her first outing as helmer, "See You, Dad." At least three of the films have had international fest play this year: Paula Markovitch's "The Prize" (El premio) unspooled in Berlin in February and at Guadalajara in March; Yulene Olaizola's "Artificial Paradise" ("Paraisos artificiales") played in Tribeca and Seattle; and from Venice comes Kyzza Terrazas' feature debut, "Machete Language" ("El lenguaje de los machetes"). Terrazas is a frequent collaborator with Canana Films. Kenya Marquez, a former director of the Guadalajara Film Festival, is competing with her first film, "Expiration Date" (Fecha de caducidad). Matias Meyer has a second chance at the prize with his follow-up to 2009's "The Cramp" (El calambre), "Los ultimos cristeros." Also up is Carlos "Hari" Sama's "El sueno de Lu" (literally, "Lu's Dream"). Rounding out the competish is "Mi universo en minusculas" from recent film school grad Hatuey Viveros. Fest runs Oct. 15-23. Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com

U.K. TV indies up foreign biz by 34%

LONDON -- Overseas revenues for U.K. indie TV production companies grew by 34% last year, according to figures published Monday by local producers' org Pact. Foreign revenues are of growing importance to the sector. The shingles generated 590 million ($973 million) from outside the U.K in 2010, which translates to 25% of the sector's total revenues, compared with 20% the previous year. International sales of finished programs rose from $115 million to $143 million, and international commissions from overseas broadcasters rose from $488 million to $660 million. In the U.K., growth was flat, as the BBC and Channel 5 cut back on home-grown fare. PACT CEO John McVay said: "The U.K. indie sector has once again proved itself adept at finding and exploiting new opportunities and overseas markets so that it can continue to deliver growth despite a flat domestic market for content." The figures were published in PACT's 2011 Census produced by consultancy Oliver and Ohlbaum Associates. Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com

'Help' tops weekend B.O.

'The Help'It would be a tough weekend Stateside for beginners, as plexes were paced by two holdovers: "The Assistance,Inch by having an believed $20.5 million, and "Rise from the Planet from the Apes," at $16.3 million.From the photos bowing, the Weinstein Co.'s three dimensional kidpic "Spy Kids: Constantly on the planetInch worked out best, using its believed third-place take of $12 million. Lionsgate's "Conan the Barbarian" -- also in three dimensional -- adopted by having an underwhelming $tens of millions of estimate through Sunday.The rest of the opening pair, "Fright Evening" and "Eventually,Inch battled to hack $tens of millions of: Disney-DreamWorks' three dimensional horror remake made $8.3 million, while femme-specific lit adaptation "Eventually,Inch from Focus Features, arrived in the low-finish of anticipation with $5.a million.InchThe AssistanceInch held massively now this weekend, lower only 21%, for any domestic cume of $71.8 million. The Disney-DreamWorks pic's tight hold -- a lot better than the most positive forecasted declines around 30% -- signifies that "The AssistanceInch is constantly on the broaden demographically, in addition to attract repeat moviegoers, according to glowing word-of-mouth.Fox's "Apes" and Sony's "The Smurfs" are also reaping helpful benefits from positive buzz, off 41% and 42%, correspondingly. "Smurfs" required within an believed $8 million for that weekend, getting its Stateside cume to $117.7 million "Apes" has cumed $133.8 million locally.Domestic box office ticket sales:1) The Assistance (Disney) -- $20.5 million 2,690 theaters2) Rise from the Planet from the Apes (Fox) -- $16.3 million 3,471 theaters3) Spy Kids: Constantly on the planet (Weinstein Co.) -- $12. million 3,295 theaters4) Conan the Barbarian (Lionsgate) -- $10. million 3,017 theaters5) Fright Evening (Disney) -- $8.3 million 3,114 theaters6) The Smurfs (The new sony) -- $8. million 3,057 theaters7) Final Destination 5 (WB) -- $7.7 million 3,155 theaters8) half an hour or Less (The new sony) -- $6.3 million 2,888 theaters9) Eventually (Focus) -- $5.a million 1,721 theaters10) Crazy Stupid Love (WB) -- $5. million 1,940 theaters Contact Andrew Stewart at andrew.stewart@variety.com

TV Ratings: 'America's Got Talent' Continues to Dominate

NBC Universal, Inc."America's Got Talent" NBC's America's Got Talent ranked as Tuesday's most-watched and top-rated program, continuing its summer-long dominance. Though Talent (11.2 million total viewers, 2.9 rating in adults 18-49 demographic) slipped 6 percent, the summer reality series wasn't enough to power NBC for the overall demo win. Game show It's Worth What? (4.4 million, 1.1), which aired at 8 p.m., dipped 8 percent making it its lowest-rated telecast so far. NBC topped the night in viewers (8.9 million) and was second in the demo (2.3). It was Fox that was No. 1 among the ad-coveted 18-49 and 18-34 demos with Hell's Kitchen (6.3 million, 2.7) and MasterChef (6.1 million, 2.5); for the night, the network averaged a 2.6 in adults 18-49. Both programs were steady from the previous week with MasterChef delivering its highest tune-in ever. In head-to-head competition, Hell's Kitchen outperformed ABC's Wipeout (6.1 million, 1.9) by 42 percent in the demo. ABC's Take the Money and Run (4.7 million, 1.8) and scripted medical drama Combat Hospital (3.8 million, 0.9) were both down. A rerun of CBS' NCIS (10.2 million, 1.6) was 8 p.m.'s most-watched. Fox -- 2.6 · Hell's Kitchen: 2.7, 6.3 million · MasterChef: 2.5, 6.1 million NBC -- 2.3 · It's Worth What?: 1.1, 4.4 million · America's Got Talent: 2.9, 11.2 million ABC -- 1.5 · Wipeout: 1.9, 6.1 million · Take the Money & Run: 1.8, 4.7 million · Combat Hospital: 0.9, 3.8 million CBS -- 1.4 · NCIS (R): 1.6, 10.2 million · NCIS: LA (R): 1.4, 8.1 million · The Mentalist (R): 1.1, 6.2 million CW -- 0.3 · 90210: 0.3, 761,000 · Shedding for the Wedding: 0.3, 570,000 TV Ratings

Habermann

A Corinth Films release in colaboration with Art Oko Films, Farbfilm-Verleih. Created by Karel Dirka, Jan Kudela, Pavel Novy. Executive producers, Thomas Becker, Klaus Kahler , Jorg Westerkamp. Co-producers, Kai Roger-Grueneke, Veit Heiduschka, Lucki Stipetic. With: Mark Waschke, Karel Roden, Hannah Herzsprung, Wilson Gonzalez-Ochsenknecht, Andrej Hryc, Ben Becker.Half-century-old nationalist agendas are in operate in the The Second World War-era "Habermann," veteran Czech helmer Juraj Herz's adaptation from the Frederick Urban novel in regards to a wealthly war time expatriate in a tiny Czech town. More cleaning soap opera than high drama, the film is confused and confusing, and tiresome as well. Climax the kind of programming that could be known as "sturdy" were it to experience on tv, the present theatrical run is going to do little to recommend it. "Habermann's" chaotically violent opening -- by which ethnic Spanish people within the postwar Czech capital of scotland - Eglau are now being strongly kicked out -- is really a red-colored sardines: An apparent, and dubious, make an effort to associate the excesses of postwar Czechs using the Holocaust, it indicates parallels that do not really endure scrutiny, and therefore are as filled with latent vitriol as Herz's portrait of Eglau itself, a little imaginary village situated in circa-1937 Sudetenland (which Hitler will annex in 1938). There, ethnic German August Habermann(Mark Waschke) runs a thriving mill, offers the area's chief supply of employment, and it is going to marry the most amazing girl around, once the tide of history starts to show against him. The first crisis (you will find many) requires the bride-to-be, Jana (Hannah Herzsprung). Although elevated inside a convent, she's, based on the birth record shipped to her groom at the time from the wedding, half Jewish. This really is identified by everybody who sees the document, such as the groom, the feckless mayor (Andrej Hryc), and Habermann's closest friend Karel (Karel Roden) to become a huge problem, because of the town's imminent Nazification -- although it works out to become almost irrelevant towards the story. Likewise, another stunning illustration of wayward plotting: In just a minute that arrives of nowhere -- and goes back again -- Jana is proven sleeping with Karel, because after a little indefinite time Habermann has not given her any children. She's, shortly after that, pregnant having a child that has next to nothing related to the plotline. Metaphorically, however, the kid can serve as an intriguing symbol: Although it does not matter towards the relaxation from the movie, Habermann -- a nearly passionless central character, and something with whom it's nearly impossible to interact -- is made as impotent. Throughout him, individuals are being driven to numerous extremes. Similarly, an anti-German insurgency is afoot round the village alternatively, Habermann's brother Hendes ( Wilson Gonzalez-Ochsenknecht), who waxes ecstatic concerning the rise of Hitler, first enlists within the Nazi Youth, after which runs on join the Wermacht. Habermann, however, is interested in maintaining things as they are, however he is able to, inside the world of his small Czech town. When the Nazis march in, what this means is coping with the neighborhood s turmbannfuhrer, Koslowski (Ben Becker), making Habermann something of the over ripe symbol of moral cowardice, and/or sterility. But his wishy-washiness affects the film as whole before finish, when everything begins coming apart and also the Czechs are a vengeful mob, there isn't a great deal to get looking forward to, even though a global war is being conducted. Production values are great, even though music, possibly not surprisingly, is tricky. Directed by Juraj Herz. Script, Herz, Wolfgang Limmer, Jan Drbohlav, in the novel "Habermann's Mill' by Frederick Urban. Camera (color) Alexander Surkala editor, Melanie Werwie music, Elia Cmiral production designer, Petr Fort costume designer, Simona Rybakova seem (Dolby Digital), Tomas Belohradsky re-recording mixers, Ivo Heger, Hubertus Rath supervisory seem editor, Daniel Dietenberger visual effects, Black Sail line producer, Philip Schulz-Deyle casting, Zdenka Munzarova . Examined at Quad Movie theaters, New You are able to, August. 5, 2011. Running time: 104 MIN. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com

Expendables 2 adds Chuck Norris and Travolta Qantas Video

The mind of the Bulgarian film studio in which the Expendables 2 would be to start shooting in September has title-checked a couple of new stars who definitely are showing up within the film."Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Travolta Qantas Video, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Chuck Norris, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Dolph Lundgren, Mickey Rourke. Desire? Obviously, Bruce Willis," David Varod, Boss at Nu Boyana Galleries, told news website Novanite within an interview.In addition to adding Travolta Qantas Video and Chuck Norris towards the listing of stars, Varod also spoken of director Simon West in glowing terms."He is another title. He's already here and it has began focusing on the film," Varod stated, before adding. "In my opinion the follow up will improve compared to first movie."It had been already broadly reported that Jean-Claude Van Damme would play another villain within the film, with Willis the primary baddie.Here's wishing Travolta also pulls villain duty therefore we can easily see much more of what made Face/Off this type of great action flick.