Report: David Beckham Headed To French Team

First Launched: December 20, 2011 11:25 PM EST Credit: Getty Images La, Calif. -- Caption A shirtless David Beckham sometimes seems carrying out a match involving the Melbourne Victory and LA World at Etihad Stadium in Melbourne, Australia on December 6, 2011 The Beckhams may be on the purpose of say, Au revoir, to La and, Bonjour! to Paris. On Wednesday morning (Paris Time), French newspaper Le Parisien reported the World soccer star has approved a deal for just about any one-and-a-half year contract while using team Paris St. Germain. The paper reported he'll formally sign anything then the month of the month of january. In line with the paper, Beckham is predicted to earn 800,000 Pounds monthly, that has a lot more earnings coming initially from from endorsements. Beckhams repetition, however, told ESPN.com that the situation is still up in mid-air. There is no agreement showed up at with any club. Any talk from the deal is premature. David is yet to decide, the repetition told the sports site. Britains Daily Mail reported the British soccer stars contract while using LA World finishes on December 31, and reviews have made an appearance in recent days that David and Victoria are trying to find new schools for school-aged children Brooklyn, 12, Romeo, 9 and Cruz, 6, in France. Classy and Becks moved from Madrid to La in 2007 with great fanfare, plus a Thank you for going to America party attended by Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, and may Cruz and Jada Pinkett Cruz. Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Corporation. All rights reserved. These elements is probably not launched, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Musical Based on 'Because of Winn-Dixie' Planned

NY (AP) Plans they're arrived to make a musical based on Kate DiCamillo's book "Because of Winn-Dixie" with tunes by Duncan Sheik together with a genuine dog on stage.Producers mentioned Thursday they plan a workshop reading through through for your project this spring, then an out-of-town engagement and perhaps a perfect Broadway in the future. They've even found their star: Taran, an Irish Wolfhound, remains cast inside the title role.The musical, using the 2000 novel, notifies the story from the 10-year-old girl who gains confidence and rekindles her relationship along with her father, due to a stray dog she finds one visit to a Winn-Dixie supermarket. The novel was converted to a film in 2005 starring Rob Daniels, Cicely Tyson, Dork Matthews and Avoi Marie Saint.Furthermore to Sheik, who won a Tony Award for writing the music activity for "Spring Awakening," the producers have attracted on Nell Benjamin to create the lyrics and story. She acquired a Tony nomination of "Legally Blonde."John Tartaglia, who made his debut just like a puppeteer with "The Muppets" at 16 and acquired a Tony nomination for his puppetry in "Avenue Q," will direct the project. Your financial allowance estimate is between $6 000 0000 and $7 million.Your dog director will probably be Bill Berloni, which has trained dogs for more than twelve Broadway shows and discovered the first Sandy for "Annie." He found Taran, who was simply adopted in the breeder in Connecticut. The musical may also get about 15 human stars.The producers are Gerald Goehring, Michael F. Mitri and Dorothy Berloni.Copyright 2011 Connected Press. All rights reserved. These elements is probably not launched, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. By Mark Kennedy December 16, 2011 NY (AP) Plans they're arrived to make a musical based on Kate DiCamillo's book "Because of Winn-Dixie" with tunes by Duncan Sheik together with a genuine dog on stage.Producers mentioned Thursday they plan a workshop reading through through for your project this spring, then an out-of-town engagement and perhaps a perfect Broadway in the future. They've even found their star: Taran, an Irish Wolfhound, remains cast inside the title role.The musical, using the 2000 novel, notifies the story from the 10-year-old girl who gains confidence and rekindles her relationship along with her father, due to a stray dog she finds eventually inside a Winn-Dixie supermarket. The novel was converted to a film in 2005 starring Rob Daniels, Cicely Tyson, Dork Matthews and Avoi Marie Saint.Furthermore to Sheik, who won a Tony Award for writing the music activity for "Spring Awakening," the producers have attracted on Nell Benjamin to produce the lyrics and story. She acquired a Tony nomination of "Legally Blonde."John Tartaglia, who made his debut just like a puppeteer with "The Muppets" at 16 and acquired a Tony nomination for his puppetry in "Avenue Q," will direct the project. Your financial allowance estimate is between $6 000 0000 and $7 million.Your dog director will probably be Bill Berloni, which has trained dogs for more than twelve Broadway shows and discovered the first Sandy for "Annie." He found Taran, who was simply adopted in the breeder in Connecticut. The musical may also get about 15 human stars.The producers are Gerald Goehring, Michael F. Mitri and Dorothy Berloni.Copyright 2011 Connected Press. All rights reserved. These elements is probably not launched, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

REVIEW: Ethan Hunt Goes Emo in Patchy, Flashy Mission Impossible - Ghost Protocol

What does it take to revive a passion for one’s work, years on, whether said vocation is saving the world or churning out sequels in a blockbuster franchise? How does one reclaim human contact in today’s isolating, gadget-dependent world? These are questions IMF agent Ethan Hunt and his portrayer Tom Cruise face in Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol, Cruise’s fourth outing in the spy series, directed entertainingly enough by Pixar veteran Brad Bird. If the hoodied Cruise evokes a touch of Eminem-level moodiness in the posters, it’s with good reason: Stopping a maniacal supervillain may be on the docket yet again, but this time around Ethan Hunt has gone emo. Blame it on fatigue in a franchise that never consisted of much more than a series of set pieces and gadget porn held together with flimsy plot threads which all nevertheless managed to entertain, however superficially and evanescently, because of the charisma that Cruise exudes. The first Mission: Impossible film, based loosely on the 1966 television show, coasted to box office success in 1996, an engaging alternative to the flagging James Bond juggernaut; as for 2000’s unfortunate John Woo-helmed sequel — well, some missions are impossible, better left flailing in the distant past of cinematic memory. J.J. Abrams managed to reinvigorate the series with 2006’s Mission: Impossible III, but even then it seemed the creative juices had stopped flowing for both the franchise and its star. To Bird’s credit, his first foray into live-action feature filmmaking in Ghost Protocol opens on a cracking, near-wordless sequence that speaks to years spent perfecting visual storytelling in the Pixar fold: Descending upon a high security Russian facility, an impromptu prison riot erupts as a cover for the extraction of one Ethan Hunt, glimpsed only from behind, who lies coolly on his cot bouncing a makeshift rock-ball against the wall as chaos explodes around him. He mulls the idea of freedom. He hesitates. Then, finally, Hunt grudgingly exits his cell, placing the granite plaything back in the wall he carved it from with probably nothing more than his fingertips, presumably over the span of years of solitude — the same fingertips that used to cling to sheer cliff sides miles above the ground with no safety lines, just for kicks — and leaps into superman mode, shrugging his way through a comically breezy exit like it’s just another Tuesday at the office. He is still Ethan Hunt, of course, but something’s changed. He’s tired of the spy game. A bit jaded. He’s maybe, probably getting too old for this shit, and his failed relationship — did wife Julia leave him, or worse? — haunts him. When IMF tech-turned-field operative Benji Dunn (Simon Pegg) and a new lady agent (Paula Patton) excitedly bust Hunt out of his mysterious, maybe self-imposed seclusion for a new mission, he only reluctantly chooses to accept it. Said mission comes on the heels of a prologue operation gone wrong, in which Patton’s Agent Jane Carter loses her teammate/spy boyfriend Trevor (Josh Holloway) and a set of nuclear launch codes to a dastardly European assassin (La Seydoux). (French girls, they’ll do it to you every time.) Hunt and Co., tasked with breaking into the Kremlin on a related mission to track a shadowy terrorist named Cobalt, find themselves compromised and IMF scapegoated when the Kremlin is reduced to rubble in a brain-rattling explosion; disavowed by the American government and flying sans backup, with Jeremy Renner’s buttoned-up analyst-with-a-secret rounding out the team, the spy gang sets out on their real mission: Stop Cobalt, save the world from destruction, etc., yadda yadda yadda. As with every film in the franchise, the plot machinations are neither important nor realistic, let alone meaningful. Worse yet, they’re terribly cheesy. A Euro-centric baddie (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’s Michael Nyqvist, tragically reduced to cartoonish villainy) with designs on nuclear world war who wants to pave the way for a new world order? A well-heeled French assassin chick who murders in exchange for diamonds? So ’90s-era rejected Bond script, guys. Writers Josh Appelbaum and Andre Nemec even commit the facepalm-inducing sin of having poor Renner stand against a wall, stiff drink in hand, to recite key exposition to his teammates in order to explain secrets and backstory to the audience. (Renner gamely powers through, while Patton struggles to feign even the slightest bit of awkwardness as the film’s only heroine, a lethal spy crippled… by her inability to flirt.) In a way, the totally ’90s elements work within a larger sense of nostalgic self-awareness that flickers in and out of the film’s consciousness, with varying results. A broken Soviet payphone housing Hunt’s next IMF mission pays homage to the Cold War origins and dated gimmickry of the original series, though the nod inadvertently muddles Ghost Protocol’s tone. At least Pegg’s Benji offers a dose of sweet comic relief, leavening Cruise’s sulkiness with a clever charm that serves to show that the filmmakers are well aware of what got played to death in previous installments. (In a word: Masks.) Still, you get the feeling Bird longed for the days of workshopping those excellent Pixar tales at a studio full of experienced storytellers for months, maybe years even, as he dutifully leapfrogged over character development and tonal balance to nail the franchise’s real attractions: those admittedly eye-popping set pieces. Which brings us to the real reason you’ll want to see Ghost Protocol (and in IMAX, if your eyeballs can take it). Sure, the hand to hand combat scenes are choreographed with slick precision. A skin-scraping sandstorm chase will have you reaching for the eyedrops. And a bone crunching battle inside an automated parking garage is far more brutal than it sounds (if over-long and semi-boring). But marvel as Movie Star Tom Cruise grips the windows of Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world, doing his own insane stunts while clinging to the outside windows thousands of feet above the ground, and you get your money’s worth. (Cruise insisted on pulling off the Burj Khalifa stunt himself, which offers a hypothetical window into his mindset; if he wasn’t quite challenged by the material, maybe the adrenaline rush was worth signing on for? Well, that and the cash.) Unfortunately for Bird, while he delivers stunning and often inventive visuals, not to mention some ultra cool new gadgets worth drooling over, it’s producer J. J. Abrams who leaves the more indelible creative thumbprint. The slick exotic settings, the high-tech trappings, the capable spy wrestling with the crippling notion that loved ones risk becoming collateral damage — Sydney Bristow did all of this years ago, and on TV. Granted, she didn’t do any of it in glorious, dazzling IMAX. But she did it in heels! Abrams and Bad Robot partner Bryan Burk even imported former Alias writers Nemec and Applebaum and tapped Josh Holloway, continuing the bizarre convergence of the worlds of M:I and LOST, but that’s a discussion of worlds colliding for another day (see: Cruise cousin William Mapother in M:I2 for a taste of the mind-reeling madness). Then again, it could be just that kind of creative mix that gives the Mission: Impossible franchise the spark of life it desperately needed — and still needs, if it is to go on. Between Abrams’s genre instincts, Cruise-esque fearlessness, and the idea of Renner (and a slightly more engaging director, not to mention a better script) taking over in future sequels, Ghost Protocol the film illustrates exactly what Ethan Hunt learns at the end of his adventure even if it doesn’t quite achieve it: People — even top notch spies, or world class filmmakers — need people. Beneath the usual spy games and geekery lies a barely tapped vein that, sadly, remains largely untouched: The loneliness of the spy/human experience in an isolating, gadget-filled world. Note the deliberate proliferation of telephones, cell phones, comm units, and satellite feeds throughout, connecting our heroes to one another. Ponder the imagery of Cruise’s Hunt clinging to the side of a skyscraper hand outstretched, searching for a lifeline — and finding it in the strong, capable hands of his teammates. A lone wolf is a sad wolf! But with the right team, you can make any difficult job work. At least long enough to make it to the next payday. Follow Jen Yamato on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.

About This Time Diane Keaton Blew Off Jobs

Are you aware Diane Keaton and Jobs were neighbors once? That may go better: “And he begins speaking and all sorts of he’s speaking about may be the computer factor. The way the computer would take around the globe. And That I’m a slave to like, ‘OK, right.’ And that he keeps speaking about how exactly everybody will have some type of computer within their existence, within their world, within their home. And That I’m going, ‘Right, Right.’ And That I never saw him again ever, because clearly I simply wasn’t prepared for your. I figured, ‘Is he nuts?’ […] Are you able to imagine? How much of an idiot I had been.” [Ellen DeGeneres Show via THR]

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Joseph Farrell, a pioneering executive in the field of box-office forecasting and one of the most influential behind-the-scenes Hollywood players in his heyday, died Wednesday of natural causes in Los Angeles. He was 76.Related Topics•Obituaries As chairman and CEO of the National Research Group -- the market planning and research firm that serviced all of the film studios and major producers in Hollywood for 25 years until 2003 -- Farrell introduced such services now taken for granted by the film industry as tracking, test screenings, trailers and TV-spot testing as well as norms by "quadrants" and other socio-demographics analyses. All led to early warning forecasting of a movie's box-office potential. PHOTOS: Hollywood's Notable Deaths In 2003, he and partner Catherine Paura sold NRG to Nielsen and started Farrell Paura Productions with a first-look deal at Disney.Farrell also continued as a marketing consultant to top executives at several studios and investment banking groups. In 2009, FP Productions went independent and has just completed with Alcon Entertainment the feature Joyful Noise, a comedy starring Queen Latifah and Dolly Parton that will be released in January by Warner Bros.The company also has The Leonardo Job, to be directed by David Twohy, in development with Alcon. Farrell also served as an executive and consultant to the Carnegie Corporation of NY, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. He developed the U.S. Arts and Cultural Trend Data System for Congress and authored Americans and the Arts, Museums: USA and the Cultural Consumer. Farrell is survived by his wife, Italian actress Jo Champa, and son Sean. Plans for a memorial service are pending. Related Topics Obituaries

UBS: Chase Carey talks Nfl, Hulu, BSkyB

News Corp.'s Chase Carey, seasoned vet though he's, states he required to gulp within the latest cost installed on football rights. In the fragmented media world, the NFL's "value in the marketplace is extremely unique," Carey told the UBS Global Media and Communications confab Wednesday. "Clearly, you will discover costs connected from it possess a inclination to lead you to swallow hard. Sports can be a double-edged sword, as well as the Nfl might be the best double- edge sword." The fee for sports rights is really a theme in the conference as cable systems need to push the higher prices through to operators and ultimately to clients. Fox, NBC and CBS are apparently close to an eight-year extension from the handles the Nfl at fee increases more than 60%. Fox pays an thought $720 million yearly under its current Nfl pact. Asked for in regards to the advertising climate, what is the news Corp. prexy mentioned the fourth quarter marketplace is a touch much much softer in comparison to 3rd and, excluding political, flat year-on-year. But he referred to as it "an excellent market" with Fox getting rates in scatter over upfront. And things seems being trying to find. The business "is starting to find out a little beyond the twelve several weeks, and extremely sees signs and signs and symptoms of fresh money beyond the month of the month of january 1." "Idol will probably be priority one for your partner of the year,In . he mentioned. Round the hot subject of Web streaming, Carey spoken a little more about News Corp.'s partly possessed service Hulu then he did about Netflix, which has centered conference chatter. News Corp.'s "# 1 problem" is building the very best strategy as well as the right enterprize model inside the digital space, he mentioned. Hulu, which was up readily available for several days after which it attracted in the block, will be the focus. Disney, Comcast's NBCUniversal and Providence Equity are Hulu's entrepreneurs alongside News Corp. "Partners are a bit of the bear to deal with. But however, everyone else, the organization and get Hulu has is a factor people imagine,Inch he mentioned. "We've good associations with this particular partners. It's just, clearly, partners can be somewhat cumbersome," he mentioned. He mentioned he thinks the service's prominence inside the digital space which is proper options "dwarfed" what prospective customers were ready to pay. Netflix founder and Boss Reed Hastings on Tuesday mentioned he sees Time Warner's Cinemax Go as his finest rival because other services don't invest just as much in acquiring programming. Hulu, and News Corp. will uncover their unique model, Carey mentioned. Carey wasn't asked for about nor did he address the phone-hacking scandal that rocked News Corp.'s News around the world subsid this summer season and is constantly make mind lines inside the U.K. and obscure not able to one-time heir apparent James Murdoch. But he did mention BSkyB, and News Corp.'s averted expects to purchase within the chunk from this the conglom doesn't already own. A $12 billion deal for your U.K. satcaster was scrapped within the height in the scandal. Including BSkyB, Carey mentioned, News Corp's got $15 billion in off- balance sheet assets, a thing that "is actually a problem for people.In . News Corp. controls BSkyB but doesn't bought it outright. "We are not receiving anything, (not) part of a credit, for the $15 billion. It is probably the things we must still figure outYou desire to mind to places you may either own, or monetize assets. We arenot an resource holding company," he mentioned. That indicates that ultimately News Corp. could sell BSkyB or make another run at buying up, additionally to tidy up its house elsewhere. Carey mentioned particularly he doesn't desire to put a period period on anything. "But directionally we is going to do this and have to be better at interacting that," he mentioned. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com

Sundance uncovers Next, Night time lineups

'The Pact''Grabbers''I Am Not really a Hipster''Kid-Thing''Sleepwalk With Me'Sundance's edgy Next and Park City at Night time lineups took on the greater profile recently, with purchasers finding offbeat game titles for example "Bellflower" one of the choices. The Sundance Film Festival also revealed lineups today because of its Spotlight best-of-fests section and also the experimental New Frontier selection.Director of programming Trevor Groth stated the following sidebar, inaugurated this year to call focus on innovative no-budget work, is constantly on the grow in importance.Other films from last year's Next section that found distribution include "The Lie" and "Seem of My Voice." To that particular finish, Groth and fest topper John Cooper have added yet another title towards the section, getting it to some total of nine world premieres.That leaves one less title within the fest's Park City at Night time showcase, featuring its seven horror-thrillers and dark comedies. Selection includes "Black Rock," from Sundance alum Katie Aselton ("The Free gift") "Tim and Eric's Big Movie," directed, compiled by and starring the out-there comedy duo of Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim and "V/H/S," a unique collaboration among six company directors including Joe Swanberg, Ti West and Adam Wingard.The very best-of-fests Spotlight slate, devoted to "cinema we likeInch from around the globe, includes foreign-language Oscar distribution "Promise of War" and "Monsieur Lazhar," Toronto audience-award champion "Where Will We Go Ahead Now?Inch and Cannes' Not Certain Regard prizewinner "Elena."The fest's experimental New Frontier section includes five features matching formerly introduced installations and performances.Premieres and Documentary Premieres game titles for that Jan. 19-29 fest in Park City, Utah is going to be introduced Monday. SPOTLIGHTThe nine films within this section have opened at previous festivals."Corpo Celeste" (Italia) - Directed and compiled by Alice Rohrwacher. A Dardennes-esque study of the teenage girl's spiritual journey within and past the obstacles of the strict Catholic community in southern Italia. Stars Yle Vianello, Salvatore Cantalupo, Anita Caprioli and Renato Carpentiere."Promise of War" (Belgium) - Directed by Valerie Donzelli, compiled by Jeremie Elkaim and Donzelli. A youthful couple uncover their newborn child is extremely ill. With Donzelli, Elkaim, Cesar Desseix."Elena" (Russia) - Directed by Andrei Zvyagintsev, compiled by Oleg Negin. A mature lady faces a moral dilemma when her wealthy husband falls ill. Features Andrey Smirnov, Nadezhda Markina, Elena Lyadova and Alexey Rozin."Monsieur Lazhar" (Canada) - Directed, compiled by Philippe Falardeau. By which an Algerian immigrant teacher gets control a Montreal middle-school class shaken by his predecessor's suicide. With Fellag, Sophie Nelisse, Emilien Neron, Danielle Proulx and Brigitte Poupart."The Orator" (Nz) - Directed, compiled by Tusi Tamasese. A Samoan villager must defend his land and family from effective adversaries. Stars Fa'afiaula Sagote, Tausili Pushparaj, Salamasina Mataia, Ioata Tanielu."The Raid" (Indonesia) - Directed, compiled by Gareth Evans. A top-notch SWAT team seeking Jakarta's most well known crime boss must fight its way through successive amounts of a run-lower apartment building. Features Iko Uwais, Yayan Ruhian, Joe Taslim, Doni Alamsyah."Where Will We Go Ahead Now?Inch (France-Lebanon-Italia-Egypt) - Directed by Nadine Labaki, compiled by Labaki, Jihad Hojeily and Rodney Al Haddad, using the collaboration of Thomas Bidegain. Lebanese women attempt to ease religious tensions between Christian believers and Muslims within their village. With Claude Baz Moussawbaa, Layla Hakim, Nadine Labaki, Yvonne Maalouf, Antoinette Noufaily."Wuthering Levels" (U.K.) - Directed by Andrea Arnold, compiled by Arnold and Olivia Hetreed. A raw, revisionist update of Emily Bronte's wind-taken classic. Stars Kaya Scodelario, James Howson, Solomon Glave, Shannon Beer and Steve Evets."Your Sister's Sister" - Directed and compiled by Lynn Shelton. Mourning his brother's recent dying, a guy will get a lot more than he bargained when ever he retreats to some friend's family cabin. Stars Emily Blunt, Rosemarie DeWitt and Mark Duplass. PARK CITY AT MIDNIGHTThe seven films within this section are world premieres and, unless of course otherwise specified, in the U.S."Black Rock" - Directed by Katie Aselton, compiled by Mark Duplass. Three childhood buddies reunite for any girls' weekend on the remote island from the coast of Maine, only to discover themselves fighting for survival. With Katie Aselton, Lake Bell and Kate Bosworth."Excision" - Directed and compiled by Richard Bates Junior. A disturbed high-school student with medical aspirations seeks the approval of her controlling mother. Features AnnaLynne McCord, Traci Lords, Ariel Winter, Roger Bart and John Waters."Grabbers" (Ireland-U.K.) - Directed by Jon Wright, compiled by Kevin Lehane. Getting a higher bloodstream-alcohol content turns into a survival tactic for citizens of the Irish fishing village beset by mysterious bloodstream-suckers. Stars Richard Coyle, Ruth Bradley, Russell Tovey and Bronagh Gallagher."The Pact" - Directed and compiled by Nicholas McCarthy. A lady struggles arrive at grips together with her past within the wake of her mother's dying. Stars Caity Lotz and Casper Van Dien."Tim and Eric's Big Movie" - Directed and compiled by Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim, who star as two men attempting to regain a billion dollars by rehabilitating a rundown retail center.InchSixth is vOrThey wouldOrUtesInch - Directed by Adam Wingard, David Bruckner, Ti West, Glenn McQuaid, Joe Swanberg and Radio Silence, compiled by Simon Barrett, Bruckner, West, McQuaid and Radio Silence. Several misfits is hired by a mystery 3rd party to burglarize a home and discover an uncommon VHS tape. With Swanberg, Calvin Reeder, Wingard, Sophia Takal, Kate Lyn Sheil."Shut Up and Take part in the Hits" (U.K.) - Directed by Dylan Southern and can Lovelace. A documentary that originates over 48 crucial hrs within the existence of LCD Soundsystem frontman James Murphy. NEXTThe nine films within this section are world premieres and in the U.S."Compliance" - Directed and compiled by Craig Zobel. A prank caller convinces a quick-food restaurant manager to interrogate among his employees. Stars Ann Dowd, Pat Healy, Dreama Master, Bill Camping and Philip Ettinger."I'm Not a Hipster" - Directed and compiled by Destin Daniel Cretton. An search for love, loss and creativeness when confronted with tragedy set from the indie music and art scene. With Dominic Bogart, Alvaro Orlando, Kaira William Henke, Tammy Minoff, Kandis Erickson and Lauren Coleman."Kid-Factor" - Directed and compiled by David Zellner. A edgy girl's crooked routine is interrupted eventually when she listens to a lady with the aid of an opening in the earth. With Sydney Aguirre, Susan Tyrrell, Nathan Zellner and David Zellner."Mosquita y Mari" - Directed and compiled by Aurora Guerrero. Two 15-year-old Latinas uncover a sexual undercurrent within their friendship. Stars Fenessa Pineda, Venecia Troncoso, Joaqun Garrido, Laura Patalano and Dulce Maria Solis."My Best Day" - Directed and compiled by Erin Greenwell. A little-town receptionist's existence is switched upside lower once the father she never understood requires a refrigerator repair. With Rachel Style, Ashlie Atkinson, Raul Castillo, Jo Armeniox, Robert Salerno and Harris Doran."Quest for Loneliness" - Directed and compiled by Laurence Thrush. When an anonymous, seniors patient dies inside a county hospital without any known next of kin, four people try to look for a relative to make contact with. Features Pleasure Hille, Sandra Escalante, Sharon Munfus, Kirsi Toivanen and Natalie Fouron."Sleepwalk Beside MeInch - Directed by Mike Birbiglia and Seth Barrish, compiled by Birbiglia, Ira Glass, Joe Birbiglia and Barrish. A budding standup comedian comes with an intense have a problem with sleepwalking. Stars Birbiglia, Lauren Ambrose, Carol Kane, James Rebhorn and Cristin Milioti."That Is What She Stated" - Directed by Barbara Preston, compiled by Kellie Overbey. Two close friends along with a mysterious youthful interloper have a number of misadventures while seeking love in NY. Stars Anne Heche, Marcia DeBonis and Alia Shawkat."Twenty-Eight Rooms In HotelsInch - Directed and compiled by Matt Ross. A couple's lengthy-term affair is fragmented into a number of rooms in hotels. With Chris Messina and Marin Ireland. NEW FRONTIERThe five films within this section come from the U.S. unless of course otherwise specified."Bestiaire" (Canada-France) - Directed by Denis Cote. Explores the limitations we place around creatures. World premiere."An Oversimplification of Her Beauty" - Directed and compiled by Terence Nance. Following a mystery girl stands him up, a quixotic youthful guy journeys various live-action and animated landscapes. With Terence Nance, Namik Minter and Chanelle Pearson. World premiere."The Thought of Moving Targets" - Directed and compiled by Weston Currie. An outing in to the hopes for four neighbors. With Brighid Thomas, Cherie Blackfeather, Gerald Casey, Tom Wood and Jin Camou."Room 237" - Directed by Rodney Ascher. A docu exploration of many ideas concerning the real concept of Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining." World premiere."whiteonwhite:algorithmicnoir" (U.S.-Kazakhstan) - Directed by Eve Sussman, compiled by Sussman, Kevin Messman and Shaun Wood. An active algorithmic performance having a film noir put together with a software program from raw visual and audio elements. With Shaun Wood and Marina Fedorenko. Contact Justin Chang at justin.chang@variety.com