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Film Reviews: Perhaps the very first made-for-vid prequel to a spinoff from a sequel to a remake, "The Scorpion King 2: Rise of a Warrior" suggests a CW television network version of a swords-and-sorcery saga.

Film Festivals: Boden, Fleck to speak at fest -- The Vancouver Intl. Film Festival's 23rd Film and Television Forum has unveiled four days of seminars, workshops and master classes, kicking off Sept. 24 -- the day before the fest opens.

Toronto News: Robert Kenner doc to premiere at Toronto -- Hong Kong and Amsterdam-based Fortissimo Films has acquired worldwide rights excluding North America to documentary feature 'Food, Inc.,' which will world preem at the Toronto Film Festival next month.

Film News: South Africa's capital deemed 'film unfriendly' -- A provincial film commission has warned that Johannesburg City authorities are making South Africa's capital "film unfriendly" with exorbitant location fees.

Film News: Simon Callow stars in Aleister Crowley biopic -- Cinema Management Group has closed key deals in major territories on Iron Maiden singer-turned-film scribe Bruce Dickinson's "Chemical Wedding."

Exec Shuffle: Former exec VP at Baldwin to guide strategy -- Asgaard Entertainment has brought veteran film exec Todd Slater aboard to help guide overall strategy, studio affairs and production at the company.

TV News: Jen Duddy hired as VP of digital ad sales -- Buoyed by a digital sales upfront that saw its broadband revenues double, Lifetime has made a significant expansion to its digital media operations with the acquisition of social networking and online media technology company ParentsClick Network and the hiring of Jen Duddy to the newly created position of VP, digital ad sales.

Film Reviews: There's little nourishment or piquancy in "The Invention of Curried Sausage," a flavorless adaptation of Uwe Timm's 1993 tome about a lonely Hamburg woman who shelters an AWOL navy man in the waning days of World War II.

Weinstein Company: Weinsteins plan December release for 'Reader' -- The last film produced by the late Anthony Minghella and Sydney Pollack is looking for a December date. After a successful screening in New York of "The Reader," the Weinstein Co. has decided to release the film for Oscar contention this year. The film stars Kate Winslet and Ralph Fiennes and was directed by Stephen Daldry.

TV News: Service bowed in time for Beijing Olympics -- Gallic paybox Canal Plus began high definition broadcasts on Gaul's digital terrestrial network on Aug. 8

Web Exclusive: '6.5 Minutes in Tel Aviv' earns top prize -- Israeli short "6.5 Minutes in Tel Aviv" was awarded top prize at the 2008 Palm Springs Intl. ShortFest on Tuesday.

TV News: Takashima announces election to JIB board -- Commercial broadcaster Nippon Television Network will invest in Japan Intl. Broadcasting, a subid of pubcaster NHK engaged in overseas broadcasts.  

Film Reviews: Sophomore helmer Josue Mendez chooses a dual-pronged approach: Whatever stereotypical trait escapes its teenage antiheroes falls squarely in the lap of their father's social-climbing young fiancee.

Film Reviews: After 30 years, two brothers raised in different countries and cultures, come together for their mother's funeral and immediately become embroiled in each other's shoot-'em-up dramas.

H'w'd and D.C.: 26 million total tune in for Clinton's speech -- The Democratic National Convention picked up some ratings steam on Tuesday night thanks to a highly anticipated speech by Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Film Reviews: The second vidpic follow-up to Disney’s classic 1989 animated tuner is an unremarkable but inoffensive prequel that should delight easily amused moppets without unduly annoying their parents.

Los Angeles: Family sitcom takes documentary approach -- ABC has given a put pilot order to a family laffer from comedy scribes Steven Levitan and Chris Lloyd.

DVD Reviews:  The Queens-to-Hollywood kings of "Entourage" are readying their return to HBO for season five. In anticipation of the Sept. 7 premiere, the fourth season DVD release offers fans a satisfying inside look at the year that was the "Medellin" debacle.

International News: 'Summerhood' tops Nova Scotia fest -- The Atlantic Film Festival, held in Halifax, Nova Scotia, announced its slate of 254 features and shorts on Wednesday as well as its closing gala -- the Canuck preem of hometown helmer Jacob Medjuck's "Summerhood."

Business News: French, Warner named co-heads of production -- ABC Studios continues to keep things within the family, promoting Gary French and Paula Warner to take over as co-heads of production.

Front Page: Business as usual for celebs at Convention -- On the third day of the Democratic National Convention, it is no longer a novelty to spot a celebrity walking the streets, chatting up a politico or superstar media figure.

Front Page: Actor in talks to star in Reitman adaptation -- George Clooney is in talks to star in "Up in the Air," an adaptation of the Walter Kirn novel that Jason Reitman adapted and will direct for DreamWorks.

TV News: Network picks up back nine episodes -- NBC is giving an early vote of confidence to "Chuck," picking up the back nine episodes of the sophomore skein.

TV News: NBC prevails with convention coverage -- The Democratic National Convention picked up some ratings steam Tuesday night thanks to a highly anticipated speech by Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Film Reviews: There's no shortage of South Korean high school frightfests, but "Death Bell" has a neat concept that almost goes the distance.

Film Reviews: When a celebrated violinist dies suddenly, his grieving widow discovers some secrets he never shared, in this smoothly directed dramatic ensembler from Slovenian writer-director Metod Pevec.

Exec Shuffle: Exec to handle development, studio relations -- Toni Molle has been tapped VP of content development and studio relations at ReelzChannel.

Film Reviews: When Beethoven's Ninth Symphony preemed in 1824, a critic wrote that a whole new world had been revealed. Alas, the same can't be said for "Lecture 21," novelist Alessandro Baricco's derivative helming debut.

Film Festivals: Guest director defines cinema as 'ultimate pervert art' -- This year the folks at Telluride went for broke with their selection of guest director, Slavoj Zizek, and his theory on pervert art. The Slovenian-born philosopher, cultural theorist, self-proclaimed Marxist and author of more than fifty books defines cinema as "the ultimate pervert art."

Film Reviews: Singaporean film-critic-turned-director Kelvin Tong gets the genre elements just about right in "Rule #1," a very dark buddy-cop movie cum ghost story shot and set in Hong Kong.

Film Reviews: Computer-generated dialogue and monsters that look like rejects from "Pirates of the Caribbean" dilute the shock factor of Nordic hospital chiller "Dark Floors."

Film Reviews: Heavy on the spice and cheap on the meat, "Bangkok Dangerous" adds plenty of Thai seasoning to the Hollywood lone-assassin recipe, but the result is only mildly pungent.

TV Reviews: Uneasy alliances have always been at the heart of "The Shield," and season seven begins with a slew of promises and deals ready to be broken. As usual, rogue cop Det. Vic Mackey is up to his bald head in trying to escape simultaneous jams, while unintentionally starting others.

Film Reviews: After their triumphant dramatic success with "No Country for Old Men," the Coen brothers revert to sophomoric snarky mode in "Burn After Reading."

Film Reviews: Finely wrought drama "The Necessities of Life" was inspired by a tuberculosis epidemic that broke out in the Inuit population of Canada's Far North in the 1940s and '50s.

Film Reviews: Five days in the life of an average Parisian family are put under the microscope in "The First Day of the Rest of Your Life."

DVD Reviews: It "kills" me to say this, but the "Dexter: Season 2" DVD is DOA. Just as Showtime starts to give HBO a run for its money, the network shortchanges fans of its best series with a no-extras disc package that illustrates the divide still separating the pay cablers' homevid units.

Legit Reviews: Part concert, part lecture/demo and part -- a small part -- dramatized play, Hershey Felder's "Beethoven, As I Knew Him" makes up in passion what it may lack in warmth.

DVD Reviews: "Wasted" has sat in limbo since making waves at the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival (previously titled "Farewell Bender"), but while the Weinstein Company has allowed its buzz to cool, this poignant indie still packs an impressive punch on DVD.

DVD Reviews: The Criterion seal alone implies a standard of artistic merit, allowing the film to take many audiences by surprise when discovering the true nature of Pier Paolo Pasolini's last, and most astonishing, achievement, for "Salo" is arguably the most disgusting, degrading and controversial film ever made.