Tom Sturdy joins WB's growing first-look roster

HardyTom Sturdy has signed a preliminary-look deal at Warner Bros., somewhat a minimum of annually after he came aboard to portray the villain Bane inside the studio's "The Dark Dark evening Increases." The British actor's recent roles include "This Means War," "Mess Tailor Soldier Spy" and "Warrior." Furthermore to "The Dark Dark evening Increases" within this summer time, he'll be noticed in August in "The Wettest County."Hardy's deal was signed round the heels of Warner inking a couple-year, first-look deal with Bradley Cooper for his 22 & Indiana Pictures production company (Variety, March 2).Warner Bros. has three dozen first-look production and distribution deals, greater than almost every other studio. Its roster of producer-stars includes Leonardo DiCaprio, Russell Brand, Zac Efron, Robert Downey Junior., Morgan Freeman, Steve Carell, Film Clip and Matt Damon. Contact Dork McNary at dork.mcnary@variety.com

Amber Tamblyn is 86% Sorry For Tugging the very best E-mail Prank Ever on Tyrese

Amber Tamblyn (Sisterhood from the Traveling Pants, The Progressively Poor Choices of Todd Margaret) always appeared just like a girl with moxie, and I'd guess you do not fall along with a man like David Mix with out them wicked spontaneity, but nevertheless the depths of awesome that they visited in pranking Tyrese Gibson deserve applause. And boy, exactly what a prank: After receiving an e-mail in the Transformers/Fast five star suggesting the next collaboration after he mistook her for model Amber Rose on the mutual friend's email message, Tamblyn apparently had a chuckle using the music performer-actor with a number of original "Awareness Raps." An excerpt from the exchange, as detailed in the blog Street Boners and television Carnage: On February 26, 2012, at 10:16 AM, Amber Rose T authored: lol u are extremely sweet boo Ive been looking to get this album goin for such a long time u understand how it is. Attached may be the single demo Ive been workin on not finished yet but soon! Because of u boo lol. I'll give back more demos soon. You'll have demos comin out ur demos!! lol A On Sun, February 26, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Tyrese Gibson authored: We makes it real . Im looking at lots of miracle Tell me when ur in LA .. We are able to play until we personalize AR Professionally, Tyrese Gibson Mind to Street Boners and television Carnage for that full - and progressively amusing thread (sorry, Tyrese!) - with yet much more of Tamblyn's original R&B jamz. Eventually, Tamblyn states, Tyrese caught onto the sham and stop the exchange Tamblyn gave the next update on her behalf official blog inside a publish titled The Tyrese Periods: I e-mailed Tyrese one further time yesterday (as myself obviously) after he authored me saying "you required this shit public?! Not awesome... not really remotely..." I reiterated that yes I required benefit of a guy that required adntage of some other man's cc list... but it is great- we ought to perform a song together and laugh in the whole factor. He stated my music was "corny as fuck" with no. Now i'm 86% sorry, Tyrese. Lift up your Maker's Mark in mid-air for Amber (Rose) Tamblyn, everybody. Get we obtain a sluggish clap going through everybody on the web? [Street Boners and television Carnage via @QuestLove, @JohnAugust] Follow Jen Yamato on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.

CBS Pilot Quean Not Going Forward After Sony Threatens Legal Action Over Alleged Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Similarities

EXCLUSIVE: CBS’ drama pilot Quean has become the victim of a legal standoff between two media congloms. I have learned that Warner Bros TV, which produces the project with Joel Silver’s Silver Pictures, yesterday decided to pull the plug upon the advice of an outside legal firm. When it was announced, Quean, written by The L Word creatorIlene Chaiken, sounded like a typical CBS procedural: It centers on an edgy and independent Millennial hacker girl who teams up with an Oakland police detective to solve crimes. The pilot secured Jaume Collet-Serra as director and was moving to the casting stage when Warner Bros. TV received a letter from Sony Pictures threatening a lawsuit over alleged similarities to The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, which Sony has the rights to and is adapting as a movie trilogy. (The first movie, directed by David Fincher, was released last year; the other two have been greenlighted). Chaiken proceeded with an extensive p.1 rewrite of the pilot, changing most key plot elements, including the lead’s employer from a PI to a law firm, her boss from a white male private investigator to a black female lawyer, and the protagonist herself from a loner to a girl with a boyfriend. I hear CBS brass got the rewrite on Saturday and liked it. But it was also sent by Warner Bros TV to an outside law firm retained for the case. With Sony still threatening legal action, the firm recommended that the project doesn’t go forward over one major similarity: the lead character being a hacker. And yesterday, Warner Bros pulled the plug. This is a rare legal battle in a business where most new ideas are well forgotten old ones. For instance, the CW pilot The Selection draws parallels to The Hunger Games, the network’s First Cut to Grey’s Anatomy. Sony TV’s CBS drama Baby Big Shot sounds on paper like a male Suits;NBC’s ensemble firefighter drama Chicago Fire is being compared to Rescue Me;and CBS has the modern Sherlock Holmes pilot from CBS TV Studios while Warner Bros has been doing Holmes movies and the BBC has a 21st century Holmes series on the air. The list goes on and on. There have been attempts at legal action in the past, but but I can’t think of of an outcome similar to this one in television, where the premise is important but key for each project is execution. For example, ABC’s comedy Less Then Perfect was an unofficial U.S. version of Betty La Fea, which didn’t prevent ABC from doing a successful adaptation of the Colombian telenovela several years later inUgly Betty as the two shows took the original premise of an unattractive female assistant in different directions. Similarly, TNT’s The Closerhad been referred to as an unofficial U.S. take on Prime Suspect, but it was very different from NBC’s official remake earlier this season. Maybe Sony is considering doing a Girl With The Dragon Tattoo TV series down the road and wouldn’t want a similar concept in the marketplace.