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Mira Sorvino Mira Sorvino has showed up the important thing role in CBS' drama pilot, Trooper. Produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, the project follows K.J. Flaxton (Sorvino), a wise mother who becomes a NY condition trooper. As formerly introduced, Jay Hernandez may even star. Heroes scribe Aron Eli Coleite will write and executive-produce. Pilot Season: Have the scoop! Should Trooper get acquired, it may be Sorvino's first TV series. She won the Oscar to find the best supporting actress in 1996 for Mighty Aphrodite which is recognized for her role in Romy and Michele's Secondary School Reunion. She last came out round the small screen on House's publish-Super Bowl episode in 2008.

John Lee Hancock In Talks To Make Of Mary Poppins Pic Saving Mr. Banks

EXCLUSIVE: The Blind Side helmer John Lee Hancock is within early talks with Disney to direct Saving Mr. Banks, the Kelly Marcel-scripted saga of methods Wally Disney fought a 14-year courtship to influence Australian author P.L. Travers to market him privileges to create a film from Mary Poppins. Disney is near an offer to get the Black List script, which is to establish with producer Alison Owen of Ruby Films. Disney appears an all natural spot for the script, thinking about the studio is the owner of many privileges from making the 1964 classic film that starred Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke and David Tomlinson, the second who performed Mr. Banks within the film. This can be a hot project — names like Tom Hanks to experience Disney and Meryl Streep to experience Travers will be in the wind — and Disney’s intention would be to place it into production this season. One's heart of the script originates from how close Travers felt to her story of the nanny with magical forces. Mary Poppins was highly personal, and reflected struggles in their existence and her relationship together with her father, who died when she was 7. Disney finally convinced her to allow him result in the film, but she was prickly completely towards the finish. While Mary Poppins was famous immediately, she hated the animated sequences within the film a lot that they declined to market any one of various other activly works to Disney. Hancock lately attached themself to create and direct The Partner at New Regency, in line with the John Grisham best-selling novel. He's repped by CAA.

Audi Anybody to look at Award: Mark Jackson

Ozeki Arthur'Without'Mark Jackson When studying cinematography at Rome's Cinecitta Art galleries, Mark Jackson made a decision to shirk his classes and abandon the Eternal City. "I kind of learned a few things i preferred to understand,Inch states the Dallas native, who eventually found his approach to Washington's remote Whidbey Island, where he helmed his debut feature "Without."Riffing on horror and suspense conventions, Jackson tracks a young woman's mental unraveling while being careful of the senior citizens guy restricted to some cabin inside the forest. The self-funded film is constantly travel the fest circuit, landing a distinctive jury prize at Slamdance and director honors at Thessaloniki.Jackson will return to Italia inside the fall to start production around the script co-written with novelist Mary Gaitskill of a war digital digital photographer who befriends a Tunisian lady detained on immigration charges. "The initial film dedicated to gender which you do too. It talks about utilization of reproductive help and services in rural Sicily," according to him.Athletes-UP Nicholas Ozeki "Mamitas" Initially produced just like a short, Ozeki's debut feature "Mamitas" was shot in Echo Park and opened up within the La Film Festival. Pic can be a romantic coming-of-ager of a suave East L.A. teen who finds his way carrying out a chance winding up within an unlikely female pursuit.Simon Arthur "Silver Tongues" Deceptiveness and cruelty will be the marks of Arthur's "Silver Tongues," an episodic character study of a sadistic couple who travel from town to town, wrecking lives on no account aside from their unique selfish satisfaction. Pic needed the aud award at Slamdance. FILM INDEPENDENT SPIRIT Honours 2012FIND finds fresh Spirit guidesHonoreesPiaget Producer's Award Audi Anybody to look at Award Nokia Truer Than Fiction Award Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com

'Captive,' 'War Witch' start sales

MADRID -- Offered by Films Distribution, Brillante Mendoza's "Captive" and Kim Nguyen's "War Witch" folded off Berlin Competition berths to tie lower spirited initial sales. Underscoring the impact of Academy Award nominations, Films Distribution also saw sterling extra sales on Oscar challengers "Monsieur Lazhar" and "The Cat in Paris." A truth-based Filipino hostage crisis starring Isabelle Huppert inside a buzzed-about perf as you abductee, "Captive" closed Italia with Nomad Film inside a "excellent, six-figure deal," stated Films Distribution partner Nicolas Brigaud-Robert. Among Eastern European and Latin American deals, "Captive" clinched Belgium (AP Manana) and South america (Providence Filmes), plus A holiday in greece and Europe (Trigon-Film). Scandinavia has been signed, stated Brigaud-Robert. "Captive" is made by Didier Costet's Quick Prods., Mendoza's longtime producer, in a considerably greater budget than Mendoza's norm. "We handled to obtain Mendoza to more mainstream marketers: Intentions met reality," stated Brigaud-Robert. Winning Rachel Mwanza an actress Silver Bear on her perf like a girl-soldier inside a harrowing African civil war, "War Witch" closed Berlin's Competition. It offered France (Happiness Distribution), Imagine (Benelux), Europe (Agora Films) and Belgium (Against Gravity). A U.S. deal is pending, stated Brigaud-Robert. "With 'War Witch' screening so late at Berlin, any sales whatsoever in Berlin is an extremely good sign," he added. Following multiple earlier major-territory deals, "Lazhar" offered a hefty 14 more areas in Berlin, including U.K. (Soda Pictures), Mexico (Canana), Norwegian (Europa Film), Denmark (Ost For Paradise) and Korea (Aud). Introduced at 2011's Berlin, "Cat" has step-by-step tallied up 30-plus territory deals. Berlin dealings incorporated an Cinemax South America pact, Brigaud Robert stated. Films Distribution's Berlin buying and selling was "brisk and certainly above-average," he added, echoing other more powerful sales representatives rich in-profile British-language photos. Adopt Films required U.S. privileges to Jean-Marc Vallee's "Coffee shop p Flore" the 2009 week, within an already-introduced deal. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com

Peil in Off Broadway 'Strad'

PeilLaurence Mary Jesse Peil and Michael Laurence will topline Primary Stages' Off Broadway output of "The Morini Strad."Peil ("The Truly Amazing Wife") plays a ageing violinist who want to restore and then sell her Stradivarius violin, while Laurence, the scribe-artist most broadly known for your effective Beckett redux "Krapp, 39," appears since the violin maker she utilizes. With various true story, follow Willy Holzman concentrates on the pair's route to an unlikely friendship.Violinist Hanah Stuart, a present Juilliard grad, will probably be open to supply live music for your two-hander. Primary Stages is coming initially from off strong reviews due to its current offering, Kate Fodor's comedy "Rx," which finishes up its run March 3. "Morini Strad" begins previews March 20 right before an April 28 opening. Contact Gordon Cox at gordon.cox@variety.com

Goldblum to teach Broadway 'Seminar'

GoldblumJeff Goldblum will take over the lead role in Broadway play "Seminar" in April, when current topliner Alan Rickman exits the production. Goldblum, last on the Rialto in "The Pillowman" in 2005, has skedded an eight-week run in the show, which opened in November to generally strong reviews and solid, if not stellar, box office. It's not yet clear who, if any, of Rickman's four current co-stars -- Lily Rabe, Hamish Linklater, Jerry O'Connell and Hettienne Park -- will stay on with the production when Rickman departs. Play by Theresa Rebeck ("Smash") centers on a cocky literary giant teaching a private class to aspiring young writers. Production, a world preem that opened cold on the Main Stem, is produced by Jeffrey Finn, Jill Furman, John N. Hart Jr., Patrick Milling Smith, Roy Furman, David Ian, David Mirvish, Amy Nauiokas and James Spry. Rickman ends his run in "Seminar" April 1, with Goldblum stepping into the part starting April 3. Contact Gordon Cox at gordon.cox@variety.com