Rankings: Modern Family A Dominant Pressure X Factor Postponed by Baseball

Julie Bowen, Ty Burrell, David Mix Whether it's facing The X Factor, Modern Family keeps winning Wednesday evening. Family sustained its strong showing, entertaining 13.42 million people and posting a 5.7 rating among 18-to-49-year-olds - both levels for that evening. A 2-hour-plus rain delay pressed Game 4 from the American League Championship Series in the mid-day into prime time on Fox, putting off X Step to Thursday evening. The overall game averaged 9.44 million fans along with a 3. demo rating, preliminary Nielsen data shows. Fall Preview: Get scoop in your favorite coming back shows Following Family, Happy Being had 7.55 million people tuning in at 9:30/8:30c. Also in prime time's middle hour: the night's second most-viewed show Criminal Minds (12.68 million), NBC's Harry's Law (7.64 million) and America's Next Top Model around the CW (1.86 million). At 8/7, Survivor: South Off-shore put together 10.55 million audiences on CBS, while ABC's The Center snapped up 8.83 million and NBC's Up Through The Night 5.25 million. A repeat from the CW's Ringer got 1.17 million, that was hardly worse compared to time slot's previous tenant, H8R. CW gives Sarah Michelle Gellar's Ringer a complete season Within the next half-hour, Suburgatoryscored 8.79 million people while a rerun of Whitney handled 3.99 million - a lot more than the final first-run episode from the rapidly canceled Free Agents . Within the final prime-time hour, CBS' CSI: Crime Scene Analysis attracted 10.78 million fans ABC's Revenge 7.94 million (its first uptick after precipitously trending downward to 7.70 million from 8.55 million and 10.15 million because of its premiere) and NBC's Law & Order: Special Sufferers Unit 7.18 million. Particularly happy news for ABC: the brand new dramanotched a slot-winning 2.7 rating in the market-valued demo while CSI's 2.6 marked a set low for any fall episode.

A Monster in Paris (Un monstre a Paris)

A EuropaCorp, Bibo Films, France 3 Cinema, Walking the Dog co-production, in association with UFilm and UFund, with the participation of Canal Plus, France Televisions, Cinecinema. (International sales: EuropaCorp, Paris.) Executive producers, Eric Goossens, Toon Roebben. Directed by Bibo Bergeron. Screenplay, Stephane Kazandjian, Bergeron, based on an original story by Bergeron.Voices: Adam Goldberg, Jay Harrington, Danny Huston, Bob Balaban, Sean Lenon, Vanessa Paradis, Madeline Zima, Catherine O'Hara, Matthew Geczy. (English dialogue)A terrifyingly overgrown flea turns out to be harmless and likable in "A Monster in Paris," and so does French animator Bibo Bergeron's funny valentine to retro horror and musical conventions. Evincing a warmer, more personal touch than his splashy Stateside toons "Shark Tale" and "The Road to El Dorado," this homegrown production warbles its way through a bevy of good-natured Gallic cliches and a sweet if scarcely inspired story about unexpected friendship and the infectious power of song. Still, it's a modestly conceived kidpic unlikely to achieve monster-hit status outside Gaul, where it opens Oct. 12. Unfolding in a gray, mist-enshrouded Paris circa 1910, the film takes excellent advantage of its turn-of-the-century setting by tipping its beret to various technological innovations of the period. The opening reels pay brief, affectionate tribute to the era of silent cinema with a glimpse of the black-and-white reels shown by film projectionist Emile (voiced by Jay Harrington). Bergeron and Stephane Kazandjian's script goes through some leisurely exposition before introducing the eponymous monster, a flea magnified to gargantuan proportions thanks to a freak accident overseen by Emile's zany inventor friend, Raoul (Adam Goldberg). Fallout from this unfortunate incident involves Paris' mayor, Victor Maynott (Danny Huston), a rotten bully hoping to exterminate the beast and boost his political cachet; and Raoul's frenemy/love interest, Lucille (Vanessa Paradis), a nightclub chantoosie who befriends the misunderstood monster, names him Francoeur, and helps unlock his latent musical gifts. A spontaneous lounge act, in which angel-winged Lucille supplies the vocals while a white-masked Francoeur accompanies on guitar, provides one of the film's two hummable highlights, the other being a bewitching number titled "La Seine" (the songs and score were composed by M and Patrice Renson). These interludes prove more consistently diverting than the story, which tosses off a series of twists, deceptions and chase scenes as Lucille and her friends try to hide Francoeur from Maynott; it's all engaging enough, but never kicks things up a notch to produce the desired levels of narrative invention or excitement. Facial animation favors the sort of comic exaggeration that makes it easy to overlook the characters' clearly digitized features and artificial-looking hair; on the non-human side, clear care has been taken to make Francoeur look benign but not exactly cuddly. While no d.p. is credited, the painterly backgrounds and delicate modulation of lighting and color tonalities from scene to scene betray a cinematographer's sensitivity, shown to good effect in 3D. Images of the Eiffel Tower, the Sacre-Coeur and other Parisian landmarks blend with the film's rainy weather patterns to make this an unusually lovely, melancholy mash note to the City of Lights. Voicework on the English-language version reviewed was topnotch, with Paradis' musical perf the clear standout. (Color/B&W, 3D); editor, Pascal Cheve; music, M, Patrice Renson; music supervisor, Alexandre Mahout; production designer, Francois Moret; art director, Neil Ross; animation director, Fabrice Joubert; main characters designer, Carlos Leon; set design supervisor, Sebastien Piquet; main characters modeler, Michel Guillemain; sound (DTS/Dolby Digital), Samy Bardet, Thierry Lebon, Nicolas Stretta; sound designer, Bardet; special effects supervisor, Laurent Gillet; visual effects supervisor, Jo Plaete; stereographer, Rodolphe Chabrier; assistant director, Bertrand Schutz. Reviewed at Toronto Film Festival (TIFF Kids), Sept. 10, 2011. (Also in Busan Film Festival -- Open Cinema.) Running time: 90 MIN. Contact Justin Chang at justin.chang@variety.com

Small crowd for Ultra purple cloud

Horrible Bosses will be the first Ultra purple-supported pic. Pals With Benefits One Tree Hill UltraViolet is forgoing the big splash due to its rollout Tuesday. Despite an industrywide push to acquire Hollywood to back the launch in the digital locker, up to now, among the majors, only Warner Bros. and also the new the new sony are likely to supply films and tv shows for Ultra purple inside the coming several days.Other art galleries are needed to follow along with together with between early 2012, according to reps for your Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem, the consortium of 75 content entrepreneurs, retailers and technology companies that developed the cloud-based service within the last four years.Art galleries and retailers would like to reverse growing online rental costs and boost digital homevid sales to exchange using the lowering DVD biz. Digital sales were up 19% a year ago, in line with the Digital Entertainment Group, however when these were up another 4% throughout the initial half of 2011, amounting to $270 million, video-on-demand created $929 million throughout the identical period.Clients are actually frustrated with requiring to purchase multiple versions of the title to see on items that require different file formats.UV's backers hope digital lockers will eliminate many of the annoyance by creating a single extension and destination where purchases from numerous retailers might be saved and utilized using most items having a net connection -- laptops, cell phones, pills and videogame consoles. Items with Ultra purple incorporated inside them will hit store shelves next season, though Apple is up to now around the holdout on its hardware.LodgeNet is wanting this buy-once-play-anywhere approach will benefit their VOD biz in hotels, where it's searching to enhance sales at its 1.8 million rooms permitting site visitors store films they rent or buy inside their digital lockers.The very first report on Ultra purple-supported game game titles set to bow through December can be a short one, however.WB will start with "Horrible Bosses," Tuesday "Eco-friendly Lantern," Friday "Harry Potter as well as the Deathly Hallows: Part 2," November. 11 and "The Hangover Part II," 12 ,. 6. The brand new the new sony has "The Smurfs" and "Pals With Benefits," both on 12 ,. 2.Furthermore to films, WB will even increase the risk for DVD and Blu-ray collections of CW's "One Tree Hill: The Whole Eighth Season" designed for Ultra purple on 12 ,. 20, and Showtime's "Shameless: The Whole First Season" will bow on 12 ,. 27.Once they purchase Ultra purple-supported Digital video disks and Blu-sun sun rays, clients will probably be likely to open a free of charge internet account providing you with an opportunity to watch the title via streaming to be able to download copies onto numerous approved items. Online retailers may even provide purchases of movies and tv shows with Ultra purple rights.WB's game game titles will initially be around for streaming or download through Flixster, the film discovery service which works film review website Rotten Tomato vegetables. The studio acquired the business in May.Just 16 companies have registered for Ultra purple licenses since DECE built them into accessible within the U.S. within this summer time. The brand new the new sony and WB will be the only two art galleries among the businesses that have Comcast, Apple, Rovi and PacketVideo.The DECE hasn't lost the support in the other art galleries. However, many wouldn't like to supply their unique game game titles prior to the org introduces its common extension for downloads, which will enable all Ultra purple retailers to deploy it inside the first half of 2012.Ultra purple will be a hot subject at Mipcom in Cannes the other day, with Miramax Boss Mike Lang, alongside WB and also the new the new sony professionals, pushing Hollywood to relieve the process of building digital libraries to boost sales."Clearly, once we can create a digital locker experience that's as basic for your consumer and interoperable, then no less than (it may be) an chance," Lang mentioned. "Hopefully, and make a purchase-transaction market. It's very a difficulty around the customer to know that whenever they are purchasing a thing that it produces any device. It's either tied into an Apple ecosystem or best wishes trying to really make it work."When the Ultra purple extension reveals, clients will have a way to join up around 12 Ultra purple-supported items inside their accounts to see back files and tell six family people or pals.The timing coincides while using Electronic Products Show, which occur in The month of the month of january in Las vegas, where DECE's backers can provide Ultra purple a considerable marketing and PR push. Ultra purple was revealed there this year.The initial game game titles should get clients familiar with seeing the Ultra purple logo design design on packaging and determine what what this means is before it may be ubiquitous. Ultra purple-enabled movies and tv shows will bow inside the U.K. across the holidays, with Canada also soon to create. Other locations follows in 2012. Contact Marc Graser at marc.graser@variety.com

Mad as Hell: Peter Finch

A Lowlands Media, Screen Australia presentation of the Lowlands Media production in colaboration with Film Victoria. (Worldwide sales: Ovation Entertainment, Sydney.) Created, directed, compiled by Robert p Youthful.With: Anita Harrison, Tamara Tchinarova Finch, Samantha Finch, Diana Braley-Finch, Craig Norman, Trader Faulkner, Vincent Ball, Peter Thompson, Bill Hunter, Virginia McKenna, Glenda Jackson, Howard Gottfried, Peter Thompson.The only real thesp to posthumously win the actor Oscar is offered a lengthy-past due tribute in "Mad as Hell: Peter Finch." Taking its title in the famous speech Finch shipped in "Network," in the final film perf, Aussie helmer Robert p Young's docu provides a straightforward, satisfying take a look at its subject's colorful and sometimes troubled existence. World preemed at Busan, pic airs March. 25 on Aussie feevee outlet Ovation and appears to possess strong fest legs. Born in England and elevated around australia carrying out a bizarre stint in 20's India together with his eccentric grandmother, Finch found fame in Aussie radio and films before taking the interest of Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh throughout that old Vic's 1948 tour Here. With wealthy archival material and also the lighting testimony of Finch's three kids and first wife, Tamara Tchinarova Finch, p Youthful effectively checkerboards the actor's restless private existence together with his rising stature in photos for example "The Shiralee," "The Pumpkin Eater," "Not Even Close To the Madding Crowd" and groundbreaking gay-designed drama "Sunday Bloody Sunday." Tech package is okay.Digital camera (color, DigiBeta-to-HD), Jerry Pass editor, Leon Burgher production designer, Jesse Lim. Examined at Busan Film Festival (Wide Position, competing), March. 8, 2011. Running time: 77 MIN. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com

TALENT SIGNINGS: 'Man of Steel' Actress, Cesar Nominee Ink With New Agencies

Getty ImagesAntje Traue, left, and Louise Bourgoin German actressAntje Traue, the lead female villain in Warner Bros.' forthcomingMan of Steel, has signed with UTA. Traue's credits include films5 Days of WarandPandorum. She is also represented by the U.K.'s Troika and attorneyFred Toczek of Felker Toczek Gellman and Suddleson LLP. Jon Amiel, who directedCreation, which opened the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival, has signed with Gersh. Amiel recently directed two episodes of Showtime'sThe Borgias. His feature directing credits includeThe Man Who Knew Too Little(1997),Entrapment(1999) andThe Core(2003). Amiel is also represented by manager Dave Brownof Artist International Management. French actressLouise Bourgoin, who starred inA Happy Event, which debuted at Toronto, has signed with WME. She was nominated for the Cesar award for most promising actress for her performance inThe Girl From Monaco(2008).Bourgoinis represented by Isabelle de La Patelliere and Olivier Kahan of France's VMA. Bill Pruitt, a showrunner on Discovery'sDeadliest Catch, has signed with ICM. Pruitt has previously produced episodes ofThe ApprenticeandThe Amazing Race, for which he has won four Primetime Emmys. Email: Daniel.Miller@THR.com Twitter:@DanielNMiller Deadliest Catch Man of Steel

Guess What? J.J. Abrams Has A New Secret Project

Since the only thing J.J. Abrams loves more than lens flares are secrets, this should come as no big surprise: The Super 8/Star Trek director is planning a new Paramount joint with screenwriter Billy Ray (Flightplan, Shattered Glass, and the upcoming Channing Tatum Peter Pan reimagining), which the duo devised together. The details are under wraps, natch, but it’s described as a “mystery adventure.” Thanks for that clue, fellas! While we wait for more info to hit the wires, see what potential Abrams-Ray fantasy pitches you can come up with in the comments below. (Anyone still holding out for Slusho: The Movie?) [Deadline]

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Jason Lee Cast as Maya Rudolph's Love Interest on Up All Night

Jason Lee Jason Lee has been tapped to join the cast of NBC's new comedy Up All Night, Entertainment Weekly reports. The My Name Is Earl alum will play the possibly recurring role of Kevin, a clean-cut single dad who begins dating Maya Rudolph's outrageous talk show host Ava. Lee will first appear in November. Fall TV: Get the lowdown on this season's must-see new shows The 41-year-old actor is currently waiting to find out whether his TNT series Memphis Beat will be renewed for a third season. Up All Night, which also stars Christina Applegate and Will Arnett, airs Wednesdays at 8/7c on NBC.

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