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Supernatural Creator Developing Series Adaptation Of Comic Deadman For CW

EXCLUSIVE: With Smallville ending its 10-season run this past May, the CW has made launching a new superhero franchise based on a DC property a priority. The network’s first effort this development season is Deadman, a drama based on the DC Comics books by Arnold Drake and Carmine Infantino, which will be written and executive produced by Supernatural creator Eric Kripke. The project is about the spirit of a murdered man, Boston Brand, who lives on as he inhabits other peoples bodies and helps them solve crises in their own lives. It is produced by Warner Bros. TV, which handles the mining of the DC catalog for TV series. Were looking next year to do a superhero show if the right superhero comes to be, CW president Mark Pedowitz said at TCA last month, noting the advantage of having Time Warner-owned DC Comics in the family. (CW is a joint venture of Warner Bros. Entertainment and CBS). Getting Kripke to develop Deadman seems like a no-brainer as he is the man behind CW’s longest running scripted series on the air. Sci-fi drama Supernatural enters its seventh season this fall and Pedowitz recently indicated that it is not intended to be the show’s last. While no longer a hands-on showrunner (Supernatural is co-run by Sera Gamble and Robert Singer), Kripke continues to serve as an executive producer.

Christian Bale Has His Pick of Publish-'Dark Dark night Rises' Roles: Is He Going To Choose Eastwood, Aronofsky or Spike Lee?

Christian Bale is busy kicking Bane's ass (we assume) but what'll he do once 'The Dark Dark night Rises' systems? This is a question that a few of the greatest names in Hollywood are holding their breath over. Bale's potential dance list includes Clint Eastwood, Michael Mann, Spike Lee and Darren Aronofsky, all whom he's keeping waiting until Christopher Nolan is performed with him about the third and final Batman film. Eastwood wants Bale for his remake of 'A Star Comes Into The World,A starring Beyoncé Knowles, although it isn't obvious if he'd be changing Leonardo DiCaprio (Eastwood's leading guy in 'J. Edgar') because the male lead. Bale could go for Mann's 'Gold,' a modern day 'Treasure from the Sierra Madre'-esque tale about prospectors and investors. He could take part in the villain in Lee's remake of Korean thriller 'Oldboy.' We are able to totally see Bale within the gritty 'Out from the Furnace,' a good ex-disadvantage who's to avenge his brother's dying. 'Crazy Heart' helmer Scott Cooper will direct. And finally, are you able to picture Bale as Noah for Aronofsky's scriptural epic? The actor was sporting quite a epic beard before the Academy awards. Many of these films are going to begin filming in the finish of the season and 'Dark Dark night Rises' shoots through this fall. Bale's already wrapped 'The 13 Women of Nanjing,' that is going to be out in 2012. What project do you want to see Bale do next? [via Variety] Image thanks to Jacqueline Larma/AP Photo

Nets' road to digital crosses cable turf

All of a sudden, there's real money at stake for Hollywood in digital licensing deals. That was evident in the latest round of earnings reports, when most of the majors touted a growing boost to the bottom line from library rights pacts with Netflix and Amazon's fledgling Amazon Prime service, among other players in the U.S. and abroad. Viacom's Philippe Dauman declared it to be a business with profit margins "in excess of 75%." So how come most of Hollywood is still treading cautiously when it comes to selling TV's hottest wares -- current series -- to Netflix et al? Fear of dampening the long-term syndication value of a program remains the single-biggest concern. But another reason is that the timing of this particular gold rush is terrible for the majors. Netflix's rise to a company with a $12.5 billion market cap coincided with the Great Retrans Wars of 2009-10. The major studio-network congloms have just come through a period of bludgeoning cable, satellite and telco operators to pay significant retransmission consent fees to their O&O stations in order to keep Big Four network programming. (The nets are also siphoning retrans coin from affils.) In exchange for hundreds of millions of dollars in retrans fees, operators have demanded expanded online and VOD distribution rights to programming -- exactly the kind of cutting-edge services they need to offer to compete with lower-priced competitors like Netflix. This means the digital rights to the majors' most saleable material is encumbered in larger deals with the old-guard cable operators and satcasters that provide so much of Hollywood's earnings these days. The fact that the majors are unsure of how to proceed with the opportunities on the horizon is demonstrated by the fact that they are hedging their bets by opting for short one- and two-year deals for older shows. Are they leaving money on the table? The initial Hulu charter of offering free, advertising-supported online access to a broad menu of shows has proven to be only modestly profitable for its Hollywood parent companies, News Corp., NBCUniversal and Disney. Hence the focus on building up the $8 a month Hulu Plus subscription service. As the Web streaming winds shift to the subscription model, the question of how much a Netflix, Amazon Prime or Hulu Plus service would pay for day-and-date rights to, say, "Glee" or "The Good Wife" or "Jersey Shore" remains academic, because nobody's offering those deals. It would disrupt too much of TV's entrenched eco-system. One showbiz giant that has recently articulated a strong vision for balancing the demands of new and old customers is News Corp., under the direction of chief operating officer Chase Carey. He's known to have been critical of Hulu's initial free approach. "We're going to be focused on having built the right business models and long-term asset value and not how to squeeze a quick buck out of this for a quarter or two," Carey told investors earlier this month. In keeping with Carey's philosophy, the Fox network has taken the bold step of limiting the immediate availability of its programming via free Web streaming through Hulu and its own Fox.com website. As of Aug. 15, Fox Broadcasting established an eight-day window of exclusivity for Web streaming via password-protected TV Everywhere services linked to cable, satellite and telco providers. Viewers will be able to watch episodes of new shows like "Terra Nova" and "New Girl" online hours after each episode's premiere, but only if they already pay a monthly bill for cable, satellite or telco TV service, or Hulu Plus. In the short term, the move will severely restrict online access to Fox shows because many operators have been slow to launch the technically complex TV Everywhere authentication services. Fox execs say it's a trade-off they're willing to make as part of the larger goal of supporting their vital business partners. There's talk that ABC may make a similar move. "We have a lot of businesses invested in the pay TV universe," says Mike Hopkins, prexy of affiliate sales and marketing for Fox Networks. "We're taking a leadership position on a way to create more value for the pay TV customer." Contact Cynthia Littleton at cynthia.littleton@variety.com

New Trailer for the Star Wars Blu-Ray Collection Is All About the Bonus Footage (VIDEO)

As you may have already heard, like it or not, George Lucas will be releasing all six Star Wars movies on Blu-ray come Sept. 16. Even after buying the series on VHS and then buying it on DVD years later, when you consider the extent to which this franchise has gotten pimped out since 'Episode IV' first hit theaters in 1977, you secretly knew this day would come. If you're still on the fence about whether you should support the sick and twisted reign of George Lucas after seeing the first promotional trailer, we now have our hands on a new trailer for the Blu-rays to give you a better glimpse into the 40 hours of bonus features you can expect to see in the collection, titled 'Star Wars: The Complete Saga': Hard to imagine that better visuals and a disgusting amount of extras will make the new trilogy any less excruciating to sit through, but while we probably won't be shelling out the $89.99 they're asking for over at Amazon, we wouldn't be sad to see this baby sitting under the Christmas tree come December. Will you be buying the Star Wars Blu-rays? [via Deadline]

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New Abduction trailer lands

A new trailer has arrived online for Abduction, Taylor Lautner's explosive post-Twilight vehicle. And from the looks of it, Lionsgate are going all out to push the shirtless wonder as their next big action hero.The film sees Lautner as your average happy-go-lucky teen whose world is turned upside down when he finds a baby picture of himself on a missing persons website. In no time at all, the people he thought were his parents are killed, the government are after him and the only option is to go on the run.Coming off like a teenage Bourne Identity, the trailer whips up a brief synopsis of the film's identity-crisis storyline before hurtling through a series of bruising set-pieces. Check it out here... While we're not entirely convinced by some of Lautner's delivery (that "Not if I find you first" is pretty clunky) director John Singleton appears to have conjured up some meaty action scenes. And when he's running, punching, or simply not talking, Lautner certainly looks the part.On top of that, there's a rather fearsome supporting cast on display, including Sigourney Weaver, Alfred Molina, Danny Glover, Jason Isaacs and Maria Bello. The film arrives in cinemas on 30 September 2011.Source: AppleDo you buy Lautner as an action hero? Let us know!

Report: Track Palin and Wife Welcome an infant Girl

Track Palin and Britta Palin Sarah Palin is really a grandmother again.The first kind Alaska governor's boy, Track, and the wife, Britta Hanson, welcomed a daughter named Kyla Sophistication Palin on Sunday, People reviews. The infant may be the first child for that couple and also the second grandchild for Sarah Palin, whose grand son, Tripp, by daughter Bristol, turns 3 in December.Track Palin and wife expecting babyThe Palins never confirmed her pregnancy, but photos of the pregnant Hanson encircled by baby gifts were published on Facebook recently.Monitor Palin, 22, and Hanson were senior high school sweethearts and get married in May. She's a student nurse in the College of Alaska, where her husband intends to enroll following the commercial fishing season.

Foreign Box Office: 'Harry Potter and also the Deathly Hallows Part 2' Tops Foreign Box Office For 4th Straight Weekend

RATINGS RAT RACE: So-So Premiere For ABC's 'Take The Money And Run'

Three networks -- NBC, Fox and ABC -- offered all-original lineups last night, including the OK though not spectacular debut of ABC's new reality series Take the Money and Run (1.9/5 in 18-49, 5.1 million viewers),from producers Jerry Bruckheimer and Bertram van Munster,at 9 PM. It held onto 95% of its Wipeout (2.0/6) demo lead-in and boosted its lead-out Combat Hospital (1.0/3), up a tenth from last week. Still, even with the reinforcements, ABC finished third for the night in both 18-49 and total viewers. Fox (2.5/8, 6 million viewers) edged NBC (2.4/7, 9.3 million) for the top spot in adults 18-49 with its Gordon Ramsay block of Hell's Kitchen (2.6/9, 6.2 million) and MasterChef (2.4/7, 5.8 million), while America's Got Talent (2.9/8, 11.6 million) from 9-11 PM was once again the top-rated and most-watched program of the night, helping NBC to win the nightly race in 18-49. Hell's Kitchen was even with last week in 18-49 and up 3% in total viewers to log its largest audience this summer. Talent was down 6%. Its lead-in, NBC's new game show It's Worth What? (1.2/4), was down 14%. CBS aired reruns and 48 Hours Mystery.

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious win for 'Poppins'

SYDNEY -- "Mary Poppins" -- a Disney, Cameron Mackintosh co-production playing at Sydney's Capitol Theater -- took home a record eight kudos at the Helpmann Awards, Australia's equivalent to the Tonys, in Sydney on Monday night. "Mary Poppins" won best musical, its leads Verity Hunt-Ballard and Matt Lee nabbed male and female actors in a musical and Philip Quast won for best supporting actor. Lee beat vet and favorite Anthony Warlow who was nommed for the new tuner, "Doctor Zhivago." "Mary Poppins" also snagged best direction for Richard Eyre and Matthew Bourne; choreography of a musical for Bourne and Stephen Mear; best sound design for Peter Grubb and best music direction for Stephen Brooker and Michael Tyack. Geoffrey Rush and Neil Armfield took home best actor and best director of a play for their revival of "Diary of a Madman" at Belvoir, while Cate Blanchett won for female actor in a play for her turn in "Uncle Vanya" for the Sydney Theater Company, which is currently touring Washington. Blanchett will begin a performance at the Kennedy Center this week so could not attend the kudocast. Best new Aussie work went to comic Tim Minchin for his musical show "Tim Minchin vs Sydney Symphony" and Oz rockers Powderfinger took best contemporary concert for the "Sunsets" farewell tour. The 11th Helpmanns, staged by Live Performance Australia, honor all forms of live entertainment across 41 categories. Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com