Millenium will release Linklater's 'Bernie'

Millennium Entertainment will release Richard Linklater's dark comedy "Bernie," starring Jack Black, in March. Millennium confirmed in July that it was acquiring the distribution rights and announced Thursday that it had closed the deal. "Bernie" opened the Los Angeles Film Festival in June. Pic stars Jack Black as a mortician and community leader who strikes up an unlikely friendship with a wealthy widow, portrayed by Shirly MacLaine. Matthew McConaughey adn Shirley MacLaine also star. "Bernie" is produced by Mandalay Vision and Wind Dancer. Mar Gill, tapped this summer as president of Millenium Films, handled the releases of a pair of Linklater titles -- "Before Sunset" and "A Scanner Darkly" -- while heading Warner Independent. Director of Acquisitions Vincent Scordino negotiated the "Bernie" deal on behalf of Millennium Entertainment. Millennium Entertainment recently released "Puncture" and will release "Trespass," which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on Oct. 14. Contact Dave McNary at dave.mcnary@variety.com

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Weekend Receipts: The Lion King Reclaims Crown in 3-D

The Disney vault opened up up its hefty entrance doors, unleashed a 3-D fury of Jeremy Irons’s draggiest performance, and stormed el born area office a couple of days ago while using Lion King 3d’s completely impressive opening tally. I am hoping this means we’ll be hearing 3-D re-releases of (forgive me) better Disney movies soon. Produce Aladdin, 101 Dalmatians, as well as the Rescuers back, please. We should get children to listen to Bob Newhart’s classic drollness in some manner! I don’t think The Button-Lower Mind of Bob Newhart could be acquired on iTunes yet. 1. The Lion King 3d Gross: $29,300,000 (new) Screens: 2,330 (PSA $12,575) Days: 1 Apparently moviegoers did not share my fear the Lion King 3d would appear just like a typical episode in the Real Regular folks of Nj, since they showed up in this area in groups (prides?) to find out Simba, Nala, Mufasa which bitter full Scar romp around inside the grasslands. How come all Disney villains look the identical? I am in a position to’t tell Scar apart from Jafar or Kevin Jonas. 2. Contagion Gross: $14,480,000 ($44,192,000) Screens: 3,222 (PSA $6,953) Days: 2 Excepting Disney’s fancy re-release, Contagion is constantly petrify and entrance the Purell generation. I consider its September success a little vindication of 2009’s Jennifer’s Body, another (better, wittier, more provocative) thriller released at summer season’s finish that not successful to fill seats due to rather dubious conditions. Hope Contagion likes its high perch relating to this week’s tally, because I suspect inside a couple of days’s Moneyball will slap it right lower. 3. Drive Gross: $11,019,000 (new) Screens: 2,886 (PSA $3,818) Days: 1 The film making you have to draw your individual, lovingly detailed map of los angeles came on strong due to its $13 million budget. The very positive individual to individual and fabulous showings at Cannes as well as the LA Film Festival aided its receipts too, undoubtedly. Also, a hunk of Errol Flynn-y hots named Ryan Gosling stars. A swashbuckler of sweetness, that Gosling! He peers into my feelings and states, “En garde!” 4. The Help Gross: $6,438,000 ($147,365,000) Screens: $3,014 (PSA $2,136) Days: 6 Aw, shit cake. That timeless fall treat! Viola Davis’s Oscar-primed performance keeps wheeling inside the dough, well while watching other female-centric movie that debuts at No. 6 now. I don’t know how she eats it! (The shit cake, I'm speaking about.) 5. Hay Dogs Gross: $5,000,000 (new) Screens: 2,408 (PSA $2,076) Days: 1 Handling a remake of Mike Peckinpah’s harsh classic can be a noble pursuit (mainly within the very bland arena of remakes), but this retooling’s across-the-board reviews — plus a damning one out of your own Alison Willmore — indicate why it trails up to now behind Drive. Can someone let me gold gold coin a Peckinpah pun here? “More like the Mild Bunch in the event you request me!” etc? I’m approaching short. 6. I Don’t Know How She'll It Gross: $4,502,000 Screens: 2,476 (PSA $1,818) Days: 1 SJP, what did I only say for you about producing movies that avoid camping and choke on their own reliability? Have you ever heard about never coming back towards the Morgans, SJP? Because I desired you to definitely certainly find out about it. The tepid-to-terrible reviews of I Don’t Know How She'll It destroyed any shot from the triumphant opening weekend, but no less than this movie isn’t badly since the Family Stone. You won’t leave I Don’t Know How She'll It asking for numerous Diane Keaton’s deadly cancer. [Figures via Box Office Mojo]

Live Nation States Stage Is Positioned For Strong 2012 Despite New Competition

Don’t tell Live Nation professionals their concert functions have become old. “Every year there’s a Taylor Quick, or Attacking Youthful Boys or Rhianna” who involves exchange diminishing stars for instance Neil Gem, states Chairman Irving Azoff. “We’re controlling all the individuals who win in the X Factor,” he adds.”We predict the tour will probably be huge. It’s Idol along with the Voice plus Glee on steroid drugs.” That kind of shameless self promotion was a purchase throughout your day Thursday mid-day as Azoff and Boss Michael Rapino made a good investment situation for concert venue, talent management, and ticketing colossus staying with you of America Merrill Lynch Media Communications and Entertainment conference. Rapino states that “in an over-all tough economic time, we’re thrilled the came off a dreadful year and stable…. We'll finish the season flat to up asan industry as well as the early pipeline for 2012 looks good.” Azoff states thatLive Nationplans to take advantage from the crowds that will flock to Europe next season around the Summer season Olympics london. “The finest names available will probably be on the road,” according to him. “We’ll get yourself a non-economy blip.” Among his cornerstones, The Eagles, is constantly tour and plans a Broadway show referred to as (what else?) Hotel California. “No one knows when the Moving Gems are touring or else,” Azoff states. The professionals condition they’re also making deals that could pay back — plus a soon-to-be-introduced acquisition of an administration team. They don’t all work: Azoff chastised “one of my prima donna managers” who fired Kid Rock forbad behavior. The business had less problems organizing for Jennifer Hudson to promote Weight Audiences diets, andMariah Carey to hawk Jenny Craig. Meanwhile, the Live Nation chiefs condition they’re unfazed with the emergence from the ticketing operation utilizing their top competitor, AEG, that could challenge Ticketmaster. No. 2 concert customers are poised to promote tickets at its own venues in the partnership with Outbox Technology. “We don’t believe they’ll have nearly as good a ticketing solution,” Azoff states. “So far our renewal rates are actually phenomenal.”

Dream Affection

One day she faintly appears in Min-woos dream. Min-woo has no way to find out who the girl he had intercourse with in his dream is and he doesnt have the breadth of mind to. Min-woos life goes by dryly and his wife Yeon-joo becomes colder and conflicts with her get deeper. Trying to avoid these situations Min-woo tries hard to tune in with Yeon-joo and write down his resume. Da-eun is a close friend of the couple since university. She sees Yeon-joo heading for somewhere with another man thats not Min-woo accidentally. Da-eun stands by Min-woo and holds his hand because he looks so lonely standing in the middle of conflict with his wife and he tries to act like nothing's wrong. They end up having a dreamlike one night. The love they shared in his dream is now facing them.

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Capricci picks up 'Stoning'

France's Capricci Films has taken French and international rights to helmer Pere Vila's "The Stoning of Saint Stephen."Now in post, the French-language "Stoning" is produced by Eddie Saeta founder Luis Minarro whose "Hollywood Talkies," helmed by Spaniards Oscar Perez and Maria del Mar de Ribot, screens in the Venice Horizons section today.Barcelona-based Eddie Saeta also co-produced helmer Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Cannes Palme d'Or winner "Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives."A low-budget portrait of daily suffering, "Stoning" turns on the solitude of an old man, Etienne, who lives alone. Already feeling poorly, he is hounded by his landlady, who wants him out.Vila's debut, rites-of-passage tale "Rail Road Crossing," was well received on the fest circuit, playing San Sebastian, London and Gijon among 17 events."Stoning" is also produced by France's L'Age d'Or and Girona-based service company DDM Visual.Eddie Saeta is now in post on Javier Rebollo's "El muerto y ser feliz."An Argentina-shot road movie, it stars Spanish actor Jose Sacristan as a dying hitman who takes to the road for one last time.Minarro calls documentary feature "Hollywood Talkies" "a chronicle of failure."It follows Spanish filmmakers who went to Hollywood in the early 1930s to make Spanish-language export versions of Hollywood pics. It includes shots of the often now-deserted haunts in Hollywood they once frequented. Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com