Relativity, Hasbro partner on 'Stretch'

Relativity Media is joining up with Hasbro to create Stretch Remedy towards the bigscreen. Announcement came Monday from Relativity co-leader Tucker Tooley and Hasbro prexy-Boss John Goldner. Relativity would be the domestic distributor and can release the film worldwide through its network of foreign output partners. "Stretch" will open April 11, 2014. The film is going to be created by Relativity topper Ryan Kavanaugh, Hasbro's Goldner and Bennett Schneir, senior Vice president and controlling director. Tooley will professional produce. No cast or director continues to be attached yet. Hasbro's joined with Vital around the "Transformers" and "G.I. Joe" photos with Universal on its high-listed "Battleship," opening in April. "We're absolutely thrilled to partner with Hasbro, a business whose global achieve and talent to innovate makes them hugely effective in the world of brand reimagination -- as evidenced by their legacy of making such franchises as 'Transformers' and 'G.I. Joe,'" stated Tooley inside a statement. Stretch Remedy was released by Hasbro in 1976 and relaunched within the 1990's like a toy that may be extended frequently and try to came back to his original size. Hasbro had "Stretch Remedy" in development at U, with Rachelle Lefervre introduced this year to star within the action-figure adaptation which was to become launched in March 2012, but that project never joined together. Contact Dork McNary at dork.mcnary@variety.com

Watercooler: Not a Dry CSI in The House for Catherine's Farewell!

Marg Helgenberger "There comes a point in one life in which one feels compelled to make a change. I have been offered another job... with the FBI. And I have decided to take it." And with that - as well as copious tears and hugs from her CSI family - our beloved stripper-turned-criminalist Catherine Willows left the building last night. No cliffhanger, no blaze of glory, no surprise appearance by William Petersen (seriously, it would have been nice). Sure there was the whole two-part case involving her old friend, Jake from Melrose Place and a bunch of flesh-eating beetles, but as far as grand farewells go, this one was sweet, swift and to the point. Catherine's post-pole career had gotten in the way of the one she wanted to have long enough and it was time to see what else was out there. Good for her. Beats being pushed out of a gig. Plus, it doesn't hurt that the offer came from Friday Night Lights' Matt Lauria, either. We know a lot of folks who would follow the ex-Luke Cafferty wherever he led them. Anyway, we've lost Catherine and on February 15th, we gain Elisabeth Shue. The old lab leadership ain't looking the same these days and maybe that's a good thing. We'll know soon enough. The real mystery is, where will Marg Helgenberger wind up after this? And that is where you detectives come in. Tell us down in the comments what you thought of Catherine's swan song and what kind of show Marg should headline next! Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!

Peter Bart to host 'Movie Talk' skein

Bart"Movie Talk," a film-centric interview program situated by Variety's Peter Bart, bows now inside the U.S. and 80 foreign areas. "Talk" is produced by Bart and Lyndy Saville for London-based distrib 3DD, with 3DD chief professional Dominic Saville becoming professional producer. The half-hour skein airs on KNBC following "Saturday Evening Live," and also on cabler Encore. Initial site visitors include thesps George Clooney, Charlize Theron, Kenneth Branagh, Gary Oldman and helmer Stephen Daldry. Bart, editorial director of Variety, formerly co-situated with Peter Guber the KNBC/Encore series "Within the homeInch since 2009. The duo also stood a six-year run as hosts of AMC's "Sunday Morning Shootout." Worldwide shops for "Movie Talk" include Sundance channels in Canada and Europe. Contact Cynthia Littleton at cynthia.littleton@variety.com

Lookout! Records shutters

Lookout! Records, the Berkeley, Calif.-based indie label that released early efforts from such key third-wave punk bands as Green Day, Operation Ivy, the Mr. T Experience and the Donnas, has shuttered. News of the closing was first revealed by singer-songwriter Ted Leo, whose band Ted Leo and the Pharmacists was signed to the label from 2001-2006. The label had been in dire straits in recent years, ceasing to release new music in 2006, and will now cease to reprint its back catalog material as well, with most Lookout!-distributed music having already disappeared from digital retailers and streaming services. Founded in 1987 by David Hayes and Larry Livermore, the label was a key hub for bands in the pop-punk genre that exploded on the back of Green Day's major-label jump to Reprise in the mid-'90s. The label was later handicapped by a spate of complaints over unpaid royalties in the middle of the past decade, with bands such as Screeching Weasel, Avail, and eventually Green Day all reclaiming rights to their masters. Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com

'Guild' nabs Web TV kudos

Felicia Day acquired two IAWTV honours on her behalf writing and acting for web series The Guild. IAWTV Chairman Paul Kotonis is asked round the red-colored-colored carpetRachael Stylish-Flores, champion, Best Female Performance in the Drama, "Anybody But Me" arriving the IAWTV Honours.The Intl. Academy of Web Television introduced the individuals who win of the inaugural IAWTV Honours on Thursday evening within the Venetian Resort Hotel and Casino throughout CES in Las vegas. "The Guild" and "RCVR" received kudos to find the best comedy and drama Web series, correspondingly. With 32 different groups, individuals who win were selected by IAWTV's voting membership. "The Guild," turning around serious online gamers, also acquired kudos to find the best site design, Sean Becker's comedy direction and Felicia Day's writing and satisfaction since the character Codex. The sci-fi series "RCVR," pronounced "receiver," also needed home honours for Joost van Starrenburg's lensing and Daniel Bonjour's performance. "What's Trending with Shira Lazar" needed home four kudos to find the best situated live Web series, Brett Register's non-fiction pointing, interactive experience and Lazar to find the best live host. The series "Dragon Age: Redemption" and "The Mercury Males" each received three honors, and "The Internet.DocumentsInch and "Anybody But Me" walked away with two. "Red-colored-colored versus. Blue," "White-colored Collar Brawler," "Kids React," "Tech News Today," "DadLabs," "A Comicbook Orange," "The Rob Lewis 5-Minute Comedy Hour, "BlackBoxTV: The Series," "Evening in the Zombie King" as well as the distribution platform Blip.tv each received recognition in one category. Founded this past year, the IAWTV is certainly an NPO composed of leaders in Web TV, video and digital entertainment. People include thesps, helmers, producers, content developments together with other industry professionals. For more information, see iawtv.org/honours. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com

The Biz: CBS' Morning Glory?

CBS Logo design design The uncovered brick walls inside the new Manhattan studio for CBS Today are lined with items that reflect the legacy in the network's news division. A worldwide map from Walter Cronkite's years round the evening news that was saved in the Nj warehouse dangles on a single for yellows. Within the way are shelves with books by CBS journalists, vintage Televisions and video cameras. Standing up for one of the paraphernalia can be a eco-friendly-and-gold Concord A's cap, made to help help remind the program's staff in the film Moneyball, through which Kaira Pitt plays the renegade baseball executive Billy Beane. CBS Today executive producer Chris Licht examined the film inside a private launch party for your cast and crew locked in the Erection dysfunction Sullivan Theater lately. This content for the troops: by helping cover their the old rules and traditions of morning television. No forced banter, comedy weather forecasters and entertaining fans by having an outdoors plaza. "We're the Moneyball of TV," Licht states. "We will try to have it completed in various ways and everyone will scoff advertising online.In . Exactly how different will probably be apparent to audiences who stay updated at 7am on Monday, The month of the month of january 9, and discover Charlie Rose, whose sonorous, soft drawl is a lot more familiar to late-evening audiences of his PBS talk show. He'll be grew to become part of by Gayle King, a sizable personality who known and well loved but has not been part of popular show outdoors from the field of famous nearest friend The famous host the famous host oprah Winfrey. One aspect in her favor is the morning hrs several hours don't daunt her. "I have not stood a good night's sleep since i have have hit menopause," she states. They'll be grew to become part of by Erica Hill, a holdover from CBS' The Very First Show and alone in the three with experience making the morning trains work on time. The anchor trio, along with correspondents Rob Glor (the very first Show's news anchor), John Burns (an ABC News veteran who is experienced in national security and police issues) and Rebecca Jarvis (the very first Show's Saturday news anchor), remains practicing around a apparent Lucite table while using famous CBS eye logo design design inside the center. While everyone states they're pleased with the means by which it's gone up to now, the particular test of when the program is capable of doing its pointed out goal of giving audiences smart conversation every morning begins when the show goes live. "You don't know the best way to explain or plan chemistry," states King. "You may either have it otherwise you don't. You can't manufacture it." Licht thinks that taking two seasoned tv producers and putting these questions setting they've never labored in could make CBS Today a completely new alternative. "Charlie is certainly an amazing interviewer," according to him. "Which he is doing this extended enough to know the primary distinction between getting time to speak to somebody for 25 minutes or six or seven minutes round the set here. Gayle jumps in the screen - she knows all that you should find out about what's happening in the world, from Real Regular folks to politics. It is really an interesting proposition." Licht posseses an archive of creating morning-TV alchemy, while he formerly went MSNBC's Morning Joe while using unlikely-on-paper pairing of former congressman Joe Scarborough and veteran network correspondent Mika Brzezinski. As time passes it increased to become buzzed-about place to choose political enthusiasts. Licht states it is not a formula that might be simply copied. "You can't re-create Morning Joe without Joe and Mika," according to him. But Rose's presence is yet another statement that CBS Today will embrace what is the news division's concentrate on serious journalism and original verifying. Making sense since breeziness has not been a strength of CBS News, which partly describes why it's rarely mounted a effective effort against NBC's Today and ABC's Hello America. "They desired to behave various and Charlie Rose known,In . a TV-news agent describes. "Being that they are not in the sport they can't do worse maybe they'll get lucky those will decide to have a look.In . That are people people? Request Rose and he'll echo the philosophy lately Apple founder Jobs, who never focus-arranged products before putting these to market. Audiences may not know they require it, Rose states, "however when they realize it's there, they'll showed up in internet marketing.Inch Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!