Pilot Season: Scottish Actor Darius Campbell Cast in ABC's Beauty and the Beast

Darius Campbell Scottish actor Darius Campbell has been cast in ABC's reimagining of Beauty and the Beast, TVLine.com reports. Campbell, primarily known for his theater work, will play Shiro, a bodyguard who forms an unexpected bond with Grace, a princess. Grace has not yet been cast, but Christopher Egan (Kings) is set to play her fiancé, Gorrick. Pilot Season: ABC plans reimagining of Beauty and the Beast The one-hour drama is set in a mythical, dangerous world where a beautiful and tough princess discovers an unlikely connection with a mysterious beast. Jonathan E. Steinberg will write and executive-produce the series alongside Gary Fleder and Mary Beth Basile. Get the latest news on all the pilot pickups here The CW also recently ordered a Beauty and the Beast-inspired pilot planned as a loosely based modern adaptation of the 1987 CBS series starring Linda Hamilton.

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Community The pitch-dark timeline has ended: Community will return on Thursday, March 15, NBC introduced Tuesday.Additionally, the network introduced premiere dates for midseason shows Bent, Close Friends Forever and Betty White's Business Rockers.From the schedule since December, Community will re-inherit its 8/7c slot from 30 Rock, that will change to eight:30/7:30c, then Work or more Through The Night. Parks and Entertainment will return on Thursday, April 19 at 9:30/8:30c after Up Through The Night systems its newcomer season.Exclusive: Giancarlo Esposito discusses his Community guest spotBent, starring Amanda Peet like a high-put up single mom who employs a laid-back womanizing construction worker (David Walton), will premiere Wednesday, March 21 at 9/8c with back-to-back episodes. It'll air back-to-back episodes for an additional two days too.Gloria White's Business Rockers and Close Friends Forever will premiere Wednesday, April 4 at 8/7c and 8:30/7:30c, correspondingly, after Whitney and therefore are You There, Chelsea? complete their first seasons. Starring Lennon Parham and Jessica St. Clair, Close Friends Forever is all about a lady and her live-in boyfriend taking in her own closest friend following a divorce.To create room for Bent, Rock Center with John Williams will move back 1 hour to 10/9c beginning Wednesday, March 7 for five days after which go back to 9/8c on April 11.Law & Order: Special Sufferers Unit will return with new episodes on Wednesday, April 11 at 10/9c, resulting in its season finale on May 23.

China's film quota cracked

Dodd China's agreement to release its limitations on foreign films can give Hollywood how it is wanted for a long time -- a larger bit of China's overflowing media marketplace. The choice to permit the importation of 14 more three dimensional or large-format films each year along with a profit-discussing increase from 13% to 25% for foreign film companies is really a major victory for U.S. arbitrators, who excited their efforts to close the agreement dads and moms prior to last week's visit of Chinese V . P . Xi Jinping. While the earth has spent years attempting to release China's edges to Hollywood, Friday's decision ultimately depended on eleventh-hour dealmaking. "It type of came lower towards the last couple of days," Antony Blinken, national security agent for V . P . Joe Biden, told Variety. Blinken has spent the final week associated Biden on his visit to La, in which the Vice president performed an instrumental role to get leader-in-waiting Xi to assist achieve a contract. Chinese box office surpassed $2.1 billion this year and may grow to $5 billion by 2015. Experts have stated that even permitting 10 more films can often mean half a billion dollars each year for major galleries, so 14 premium-listed game titles could return much more revenue than that to Hollywood. The film business will probably aim to open Chinese edges even more. "I believe, overall, people seem like you need to get movement here after which return to enter boards and push for additional openers," MPAA chairman Chris Dodd told Variety. Tentpoles for example "Avatar" and "Beginning" will still be preferred, however the agreement will even boost three dimensional conversions of 2D game titles like "The Lion King" and "Titanic." "Since we are now going to possess a new ceiling here, It incentivizes the to check out that format both when it comes to new production and changed product," Dodd stated. The suggested rise in the net income-discussing percentage for foreign film companies was debated all day long Friday. Blinken noted that each morning, the amount hovered just north of 20%. However the Whitened House had wanted 27%, and Biden consulted with cake toppers including Bob Iger and Jeffrey Katzenberg to determine what number could actually work for that industry. "The only method we're able to move ahead was if he could convince (Xi) to maneuver to 25%," he stated. Xi and Biden sitting alongside one another in a lunch on Friday, hrs prior to the announcement, where both leaders required part in certain last-minute dealmaking. "Biden leaned to Xi and stated, 'Look, we are very close for this film deal. It is a good deal for our most significant industries and, I believe, a great deal for China. When we might get to 25% we'll possess a deal, and when you could do this it while you are in La, that will be also very symbolic.'" Through the mid-day, authorities from each administration started receiving word that preliminary obligations may be signed, using the agreement formally looking for inking the next week. With the opportunity of 100s of millions more in annual box office revenue from China, executives expressed satisfaction using the accord. Wally Disney Co. Boss Iger stated the agreement "signifies a substantial chance to supply Chinese audiences elevated use of our films." "We applaud this breakthrough agreement and thank Presidents Obama, Hu, Vice Presidents Biden and Xi, the MPAA and Ron Kirk and the team at USTR for his or her tireless efforts to advertise market access within the shot entertainment industry," stated Warner Bros. chairman Craig Meyer. Shaun Small, leader and COO of DreamWorks Galleries, stated, "Chinese customers are showing a higher interest in quality American product, which decision will permit them to see our films within their theaters with less effort. We are searching toward a lot more business within this fast-growing market." Individually created films may also take advantage of loose quotas. "The very first time, through this agreement, there's a commitment of developing a commercial foundation that will permit independent producers to sign up more fully within the Chinese marketplace," stated Jean Prewitt, Boss from the Independent Film & Television Alliance. On Friday, the Whitened House stated the agreement "allows considerably more job-supporting U.S. film exports to China and supply more proper compensation to U.S. film producers for that movies being proven there." Agreement is going to be examined after 5 years, and also the U.S. can go back to the WTO to find relief. In '09, the WTO ruled against Chinese limitations on posting and disbursing films, Dvd disks, music, books and journals, but used, the quota of 20 foreign films each year continued to be in position in China. Chinese leaders were concerned that opening obstacles would result in a ton of foreign films to eliminate the neighborhood movie industry. However, many experts state that restricting the brand new increase to three dimensional and Imax movies addresses individuals concerns. "The majority of the Chinese moviemakers, they aren't making Imax, they aren't making three dimensional movies anyway," Qiang Bai, Boss of three dimensional China Ltd., told Variety. Serta Mintz, Boss of L.A.- and Beijing-based DMG, informed the new agreement looks great in writing, but it doesn't mean the marketplace will end up a totally free-for-all. "In the finish during the day, every movie looking to get in will still need to undergo censorship. When the government does not would like your movie in, it will not. And must be movie is within, it does not mean that it'll be proven in most from the screens in China," stated Mintz, who's managing DMG's $300 million fund to create co-production tentpoles to China. He noted that China Film Group is the owner of 50% of screens in China, which is also marketing domestic films. "So, in the finish during the day, anybody attempting to enter Hollywood still needs to have relevance in addition to strong access on the market,Inch Mintz stated. (Clifford Coonan in Beijing led for this report.) Contact Rachel Abrams at Rachel.Abrams@variety.com