Fox ready to enter 'Rehab'
Fox has picked up "Rehab," a comedy spec from Sam Laybourne to be produced by Peter Chernin with Will Gluck, who is eyeing the project as a directing vehicle. The story centers on a man who fakes going to Rehab to reconnect with a former high school sweetheart, now a rock star and in Rehab for her excesses. Debbie Liebling is overseeing. Laybourne is a TV writer-producer working on ABC's "Cougar Town." His previous credits include "Arrested Development" and "Aliens in America," though it was...

20th Century Fox to tell the story of Moses, 300 style: PHOTO
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Fox to make biblical epic 'Moses'
20th Century Fox and Peter Chernin have teamed up to make a biblical epic about Moses. According to Variety , producer Chernin and Dylan Clark will oversee development of the script with writers Adam Cooper and Bill Collage (the upcoming Moby Dick ). The movie, taking inspiration from 300 , will tell of Moses's Adoption into the Egyptian royal family and how he led the Hebrew people out of Egypt and across the Red Sea. The most famous big screen intepretation of Moses came in Cecil B. DeMille's...

Fox ready to enter 'Rehab'
Fox has picked up "Rehab," a comedy spec from Sam Laybourne to be produced by Peter Chernin with Will Gluck, who is eyeing the project as a directing vehicle. The story centers on a man who fakes going to Rehab to reconnect with a former high school sweetheart, now a rock star and in Rehab for her excesses. Debbie Liebling is overseeing. Laybourne is a TV writer-producer working on ABC's "Cougar Town." His previous credits include "Arrested Development" and "Aliens in America," though it was...

Fox Takes on the Epic 300-Like Retelling of the Life of Moses
It looks like Hollywood is all out of books to adapt, because now they're looking to adapt stories from the book.

Josh Heald sets up projects at NBC, Fox
Hot feature comedy writer Josh Heald, who has two films opening next year, is dabbling in television, teaming with Gail Berman and Lloyd Braun and Peter Chernin and Katherine Pope for half-hour projects at NBC and Fox, respectively. NBC's "Sausagefest" is a multicamera comedy starring "Saturday Night Live" alum Norm MacDonald. Produced by Universal Media Studios and BermanBraun, it revolves around two very different twentysomething best friends whose lives are complicated by their clingy dads,...

Fox ready to enter 'Rehab'
Fox has picked up "Rehab," a comedy spec from Sam Laybourne to be produced by Peter Chernin with Will Gluck, who is eyeing the project as a directing vehicle. The story centers on a man who fakes going to Rehab to reconnect with a former high school sweetheart, now a rock star and in Rehab for her excesses. Debbie Liebling is overseeing. Laybourne is a TV writer-producer working on ABC's "Cougar Town." His previous credits include "Arrested Development" and "Aliens in America," though it was...

Josh Heald sets up projects at NBC, Fox
Hot feature comedy writer Josh Heald, who has two films opening next year, is dabbling in television, teaming with Gail Berman and Lloyd Braun and Peter Chernin and Katherine Pope for half-hour projects at NBC and Fox, respectively. NBC's "Sausagefest" is a multicamera comedy starring "Saturday Night Live" alum Norm MacDonald. Produced by Universal Media Studios and BermanBraun, it revolves around two very different twentysomething best friends whose lives are complicated by their clingy dads,...

CIA spies guilty in Italy kidnap
MILAN, Italy -- A judge yesterday convicted 23 Americans of the 2003 Kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric on a street here, in a landmark case involving the CIA's extraordinary-rendition program in the

Russian Trailer for Jolie's Action Thriller 'Salt': VIDEO
The arrival of this Russian trailer for Angelina Jolie's Salt directed by Phillip Noyce tells me we should expect a high definition domestic version very shortly as Trailer Addict is the first with the video. In the film, that was once set to star Tom Cruise until they pulled a gender bender, Jolie stars as Evelyn Salt, a CIA officer who swore an oath to duty, honor, and country. When she is accused by a defector of being a Russian sleeper spy, Salt goes on the run to clear her name and...

CIA agents guilty of Italy kidnap
An Italian judge has convicted 23 American CIA agents and two Italian secret agents over the kidnap of a Muslim cleric in 2003.

Italian Court Convicts 23 Americans of Kidnapping in CIA Rendition of Muslim Cleric
MILAN  —  An Italian judge says he has convicted 23 Americans of the 2003 Kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric from a Milan street in a CIA extraordinary rendition. Citing diplomatic immunity, Judge Oscar Magi told the Milan courtroom Wednesday that he was acquitting three other Americans. Twenty-two of the convicted Americans were immediately sentenced to five years in jail at the end of the nearly three-year trial. The other convicted American, Milan CIA station chief Robert Seldon...

Italian judge convicts 23 Americans in CIA case - Austin American
MILAN — In a landmark ruling, an Italian judge Wednesday convicted a CIA station chief and 22 other Americans, almost all Central Intelligence Agency operatives, of Kidnapping a Muslim cleric from the streets of Milan in 2003. The case was a symbolic victory for Italian prosecutors, who won the first convictions anywhere in the world involving the U.S. practice of rendition, in which Terrorism suspects are captured in one country and taken for questioning in another, often one more open...

EXCLUSIVE: Convicted CIA Spy Says "We Broke the Law": PHOTO
One of the 23 Americans convicted today by an Italian court says the United States "broke the law" in the CIA Kidnapping of a Muslim cleric Abu Omar in Milan in 2003.

Italian court convicts 23 Americans of kidnapping in CIA rendition of Muslim cleric....
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Twenty-three Americans convicted in CIA kidnapping
ROME – A judge in Milan convicted 23 Americans on Wednesday of the Kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric in 2003, culminating a landmark trial that gave a look into the secret world of CIA renditions of terror suspects. Judge Oscar Magi acquitted three Americans, including the former CIA station chief in Italy, because they had diplomatic immunity when a secret team abducted militant cleric Abu Omar in Milan and flew him to Egypt, where he underwent months of Torture and abuse. The Americans were...

Italy convicts former CIA agents over -extraordinary rendition'
MILAN, Nov 5

Judge in Italy Convicts 23 Americans In CIA Rendition Case
Judge Oscar Magi told the Milan courtroom Wednesday that he was acquitting three other Americans. He cited diplomatic immunity in their cases. This is the first such trial by any government over the CIA's extraordinary rendition program. In that program, since 9/11, suspects were essentially "kidnapped" and sent overseas for Interrogation, much of the time to countries where Torture is permitted. Nasr's lawyer, Carmelo Scambia, has said that Nasr (pictured) suffered "unimaginable Torture"...

Fox Released New James Cameron -Avatar' 4 Minute Featurette Clip
20th Century Fox released a new James Cameron “Avatar” 4 minute featurette clip (below). The movie stars : Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Michelle Rodriguez, Giovanni Ribisi, Joel David Moore, CCH Pounder, Peter Mensah, Laz Alonso, Wes Studi, Stephen Lang, and Matt Gerald. This featurette features commentary from producers,directors,and actors of the “Avatar” movie. They talk more indepth about the premise of the film,and where the idea of it originated...

Italian Court Holds Mock Trial For CIA [Torture]
An Italian court has convicted 22 CIA operatives and one Air Force colonel of Kidnapping. The CIA grabbed Egyptian imam Abu Omar in Milan and flew him to Egypt to be tortured. This is "illegal" under Italian "law." That Kidnapping was part of a CIA program called "extraordinary rendition," wherein an unknown number of people were flown to secret Prisons to be tortured. Obama signed an executive order promising to not fly prisoners to places where they will be tortured, anymore, so his CIA's...

Italian judge convicts 23 in CIA kidnap case - Yahoo! News
MILAN – An Italian judge found 23 Americans and two Italians guilty Wednesday in the Kidnapping of an Egyptian terror suspect, delivering the first legal convictions anywhere in the world against people involved in the CIA's extraordinary renditions program. Human Rights groups hailed the decision and pressed President Barack Obama to repudiate the Bush Administration 's practice of abducting terror suspects and transferring them to third countries where Torture was permitted. The Obama...

Italy Convicts 23 in CIA Kidnapping Case: PHOTO
An Italian judge on Wednesday convicted 23 Americans in absentia of the 2003 Kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric from a Milan street, in a landmark case involving the CIA's extraordinary rendition program in the war on Terrorism. Citing diplomatic immunity, Judge Oscar Magi told the Milan courtroom Wednesday that he was acquitting three other Americans. Skip over this content Luca Bruno, AP Italian Judge Oscar Magi announces his verdict Wednesday in a case involving the CIA's capture of an Egyptian...

Italy Convicts 23 Americans In CIA Terrorist Kidnapping Case
MILAN — An Italian judge found 23 Americans and two Italians guilty Wednesday in the Kidnapping of an Egyptian terror suspect, delivering the first legal convictions anywhere in the world against people involved in the CIA's extraordinary renditions program. Human Rights groups hailed the decision and pressed President Barack Obama to repudiate the Bush Administration's practice of abducting terror suspects and transferring them to third countries where Torture was permitted. The American...

23 CIA Agents Convicted in Rendition Case
In 2003, CIA agents snatched an Egyptian cleric in Milan, Italy, and flew him to Cairo, where he was, predictably, interrogated and tortured by Egyptian security forces. The case of Abu Omar would have been like many of the extrajudicial "extraordinary renditions" secretly carried out by the Bush Administration except that an Italian prosecutor stepped in and indicted 26 Americans involved in the daylight abduction. Today, an Italian judge ruled against 23 of the defendants, sentencing...