Era dates for 'Mirror,' 'Expecting'

Relativity Media and Lionsgate made slight date changes Thursday to specific female-specific game game titles "Mirror Mirror" and "What you should expect When you're Expecting.""Mirror Mirror," initially slotted for just about any March 16 release, moved back 2 days to March 30, while early summer season title "Things to anticipateInch knocked back each week to May 18.Within the new date, "Mirror Mirror," Relativity's undertake the Snow White-colored story, will bow alongside Warner Bros.' "Wrath in the Leaders." Meanwhile, "What you should expect,In . based on author Heidi Murkoff's pregnancy tome, now faces Universal's large-budget male-driven pic "Battleship."Date changes should position each pic as hopeful female counterprogramming. Contact Andrew Stewart at andrew.stewart@variety.com

'Peter as well as the Starcatcher' To Fly Onto Broadway, EPAs Start Feb. 2

"Peter as well as the Starcatcher," Ron Elice's play in regards to the Peter Pan legend based on Dork Craig and Ridley Pearson's novel, will fly onto Broadway. The show is scheduled to start preview performances on March 28 within the Brooks Atkinson Theatre just before an April 15 opening. The current occupant in the Atkinson, "Relatively Speaking," shuts Jan. 29. "Peter," directed by Tony champion Roger Rees and Drama Desk champion Alex Timbers ("Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson"), carried out Off-Broadway within the NY Theatre Workshop last season and received rave reviews, additionally to 5 Drama Desk nominations (winning for outstanding music in the play), two Lucille Lortel Honours (for outstanding lead actor and outstanding choreography) together with a Henry Hewes Design Award to find the best lighting.Back Stage critic David Sheward referred to as it "imaginative and very entertaining." Casting details are not introduced. Christian Borle, presently filming NBC's "Smash," won a Lortel Award and was nominated for just about any Drama Desk Award for his role since the villainous Black Stache, who later becomes Captain Hook. Sheward named Borle within the report on ten memorable NY theater performances of 2011. Equity principal auditions will probably be held by casting director Jim Carnahan for your Broadway work on Feb. 2, 3, and 5. The casting notice states rehearsals will begin on Feb. 20 and many types of roles are available. See the casting notice on BackStage.com.

Mark Pavia Pointing New King Anthology

Evening Flier director returns to MaineIt's two-and-a-half decades since Creepshow 2 came a line within brief run of Stephen King portmanteau movies (which incorporated Creepshow and Cat's Eye there's a Creepshow 3 in 2006, but King wasn't involved). A completely new anthology of movie-ised King short tales is becoming along the way though, because of author/director Mark Pavia.Pavia has King previous, getting directed The Evening Flier, starring Miguel Ferrer, in 1995. Ever since then he's been fighting through development hell on a number of projects: for a while he was attached to the remakes each one of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Beginning In The Dead, which he written an early on control over Clive Barker's The Evening time Meat Train.More youthful crowd labored with with King around the Evening Flier follow-up in 2005, but because the film never happened, the understanding was clearly a cheerful one, leading to this new project, which has King's participation."Steve made the decision towards the film immediately," Pavia told Symbols Of Fright. "He chose two tales which i selected two, as well as the selection is a perfect mixture of classic and contemporary King: some something for his earliest and latest fans alike. It'll be an authentic representation of his different personas, within the horror showman at his pulpiest, to his most introverted and introspective character pieces. Within the start I'd just one criteria: all the tales selected must be incredibly frightening where you can supernatural bent, which he agreed with me at night. This is often a go-for-the-stomach horror show, make no mistake relating to this. I'm prone to give all Stephen King fans the film they require and deserve." Reviews he ever told King he was his # 1 fan after which it broke his ankles getting a hammer are unverified.You'll find no official studio or distribution deals setup yet, without any title for your film. Nor hold the four tales yet been revealed, but Pavia did update his Facepage over Year to convey he was "covering churning storm clouds, Derry, Maine as well as the Harsh Reaper." That could indicate a version in the 1969 haunted-mirror story The Reaper's Image, that's in King's Skeleton Crew collection."My New Year's resolution: to scare the living garbage of the many single among you," Pavia states. "You've been informed..."

Realistic, exotic look for 'Lady'

Luc Besson already had a tough task in presenting an accurate, well-rounded story of courageous Burmese democratic leader Aung San Suu Kyi, played by Michelle Yeoh in "The Lady."Just as challenging for the helmer: creating a realistic and consistently accurate look for the film, which is set in the repressive nation of Myanmar, formerly known as Burma.Finding suitable shooting locations required the French director, his producers and key members of the production, including scenic and costume designers, to travel extensively throughout Southeast Asia."Luc and I made our first visit to Rangoon six months prior to the shoot," says producer Virginie Besson-Silla, who's also the director's wife. "We engaged the services of a production liaison office in Rangoon (to facilitate government-issued visas and filming permits). The restrictive nature of the military regime necessitated hiring guides and drivers to take us through the areas of Rangoon, including the lakeside house of Aung San Suu Kyi and the surroundings, where we were permitted to travel.""The look and the feel of Burma were always vital to Luc, but just as important was capturing the energy," Besson-Silla adds.The energy and what Besson-Silla terms "the spirit" of the Burmese people were present in the more than 50 actors, advisors, translators and extras Besson's company, Europa Films, hired on the shoot, which was based in Bangkok, capital of neighboring Thailand."For security purposes the project was originally titled 'In the light,'" noted set designer Hugues Tissandier in an email. "In 2010 we made scouting trips through Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. An exploratory trip to Burma shed light on our choice of Thailand as the right location. The country, which shares borders with Myanmar, is very similar in its colors and architecture. Due to its proximity to Burma there was the possibility of obtaining materials for Burmese fabrics and accessories," Tissandier added.Parts of the film are set in the U.K., where striving for accuracy was equally vital. Says U.K. producer Andy Harries, "Luc was dead-set on shooting on the same street in Oxford where Suu and her husband Michael Aris (a British academic and tireless campaigner for his wife's Nobel Peace Prize) had lived with their two sons, prior to Suu's 'relocating' to Myanmar in 1988."Harries oversaw the Oxford segments of the shoot and remained involved through the entire production. "We obtained permits to shoot in front of the actual house they'd lived in, though the house's interior was re-created on Paris soundstages," he notes.Harries' commitment to the project came via his wife, Rebecca Frayn, the film's scribe, who spent three years reconstructing the events of Aung San Suu Kyi's emergence as a political force and her long years of house arrest under Myanmar's military regime."Rebecca and I had our first look at the repressive military when we traveled through Burma over 20 years ago," he recalls. "Even then, right after Aung San Suu Kyi's first landslide election for her Democratic party, the people were not allowed to talk about her (and if they did, feared) brutal reprisals. This was how she received the name 'The Lady.' The Burmese people's need for discretion brought about this (shorthand) that became her appellation."Rebecca and I felt that telling her story might assist in her release from house arrest," adds Harries. "Later, when Aung San Suu Kyi received her unexpected November 2010 release, we were only six weeks into the shoot, and, of course, Luc and Rebecca were very pleased. Due to her release, it was necessary to make some changes to the film."In addition to Thai cast members, several Burmese exiles and refugees were hired for the shoot, lending authenticity to the production. "The faces of the Burmese people were crucial to the film's realism," says Besson-Silla. "Due to shared borders with India, the Burmese have features that reflect both their Southeast Asian and Indian heritage."After a base in Bangkok was established, key production members organized trips to Burma, traveling in pairs posing as tourists to do research. They took thousands of photographs, and shot hours of film in HD, used as further documentation to ensure accuracy.Costume designer Olivier Beriot paid close attention to the "evolving style" of Aung San Suu Kyi through her first years in Burma -- alterations that presented challenges for his team."The wardrobe and hairstyles of Aung San Suu Kyi underwent changes after she began living in Burma," notes Bertiot. "Upon arriving in Rangoon in 1988, Suu gets off the plane wearing the traditional Burmese outfit: a 'longhi' (traditional skirt for men and women), a shirt with that specific asymmetrical Asian cut and black velvet slippers sans hosiery Over the next five years the necklines of her traditional shirt became higher and she also gradually stopped wearing short-sleeved blouses."During public appearances (campaigning and speaking at visits to the outlying provinces) she's wearing strong colors to be seen far away by the demonstrating crowd," adds the costume designer. "The different longhi's (she wears) throughout the movie were bought in Rangoon fleas markets a few months before the start of shooting on one of my visits (to the city)."Bertiot adds that most of the military wardrobe -- from uniforms of simple soldiers to generals -- was made in Bangkok in the workshop of a talented Thai costuming team of 25 cutters and seamstresses. "An ex-Burmese soldier refugee in Bangkok was our curator for these specific military uniforms.""In Bangkok the trees were the same as Rangoon, the birds sounded the same. It felt right," says Besson-Silla. "The climate is identical and the excessive heat and high humidity enhance the orange glow to the sun, which you also see in Burma. The color palette that was so important to Luc the saffron, oranges and yellow were all there."Eye on the Oscars: Art Direction, Costumes & Makeup Matter over minds | Makeup for beauty more than skin deep | Helmers, designers take the edge out of war | Realistic, exotic look for 'Lady' Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com