Emma W reups with Fox through 2015

20th Century Fox production prexy Emma W has reupped her contract while using studio through 2015. Watt was upped for the prexy publish last season. She's overseen numerous high-profile photos including "Rise in the Planet in the Apes," "We Bought a Zoo" and "Date Evening" from helmer Shawn Levy. W is credited with aiding to create the prolific Levy to the Fox fold, getting overseen the initial installment of his "Evening within the Museum" series. Ever since then, Levy makes greater than $1 billion dollars for your studio. Levy's 21 Laps banner is becoming based at Fox. W first grew to become part of Fox in 1998 just like a creative professional. She began her career at Def Pictures prior to being a director of development for Oliver Stone. Contact Rachel Abrams at Rachel.Abrams@variety.com

'Awakening' stirs up Friday B.O.

'Underworld Awakening'Sony's occult actioner "Underworld Awakening" needed the domestic B.O. yesterday about $9.4 million.The franchise fourth is keeping pace with studio estimations that have it producing inside the mid-$20 million range to win the weekend. Pic is the first ones to feature 3d and the first ones to star Kate Beckinsale since 2006's "Underworld: Evolution," that the new the new sony is wanting can provide the film better business in holdover frames than its forerunners."Awakening" is outpacing all previous "Underworld" obligations except "Evolution," which made $10.2 million on opening evening.Fox's "Red-colored-colored Tails" made $6 000 0000 Friday to place second. Beginning the weekend, Fox shipped a conservative estimate inside the high single amounts for your frame, while other B.O. experts expect "Red-colored-colored Tails" to land inside the mid-teens and yesterday's gross seems to assist that.Universal holdover "Contraband" acquired $3.7 yesterday, putting it really before Warner Bros.' "Very Noisy and very Close," which opened up up wide within the fifth frame to earn $3.2 million yesterday. Photos have cumed $37.6 000 0000 and $3.9 million, correspondingly.Finally, Relativity opener "Haywire" bowed to $2.9 million yesterday. The Steven Soderbergh pic is predicted to fall inside the high single amounts this frame. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com

Pair nab rights to V.C. Andrews library

'Family Storms'Dan Angel ("Door-to-doorInch) in the Hatchery has bought rights for the V.C. Andrews library and teamed with Jane Startz ("Ella Enchanted") to develop and convey movies, TV series and telepics based on Andrews' works.Angel and Startz introduced the partnership Friday. You'll find presently 70 Andrews books, launched in 1979 with "Flowers inside the Attic," with worldwide sales more than 106 million copies in 95 nations in 26 languages in tales mixing facets of Medieval horror and family secrets. Andrew Neiderman, who's composed 44 books under their very own title, remains the freelance worker of Andrews' books since her dying in 1986.The newest addition is "Family Storms" which is follow-up "Cloudburst," released inside the fall. Paranormal love story "To The Darkness" will probably be launched in March and "The Forbidden Sister will probably be launched inside the fall 2012, then it's follow-up "Roxy's Story.""V.C. Andrews can be a significant cultural icon and contains been throughout the final 3 decades,In . Startz mentioned. "Her collected works certainly are a banking center of genres -- romance, medieval, paranormal -- with highly original and sometimes outr tales that have enormous multigenerational and multicultural appeal." Angel's credits include "The Haunting Hour," "Serta Versus." and "Gifted Hands." Startz produced "The Indian inside the Cupboard," "The Mighty" and "Tuck Everlasting."Simon & Schuster Uk, extended-term entrepreneurs of V.C. Andrews, mentioned in the statement, "We are delighted that Virginia Andrews will uncover a brand new audience through this exciting collaboration while using Hatchery and Jane Startz Prods., by using this global brand to elevated levels."In 2007, the Hatchery and Jaffe/Braunstein introduced expects to produce a miniseries for Lifetime using the Andrews' "The Landry" nevertheless the project didn't meet up. Contact Dork McNary at dork.mcnary@variety.com

CBS wants more 'Men'

Nina Tassler at TCACBS Entertainment prexy Nina Tassler mentioned Wednesday the network is at "early conversations" with Ashton Kutcher revisit "two and a half Males" next season.Tassler wouldn't enter into much detail but she told scribes throughout CBS' part of the TCA press tour in Pasadena that "everybody likes what they're doing" round the relaunched "Males." Due to the show's success inside the fall, it's not surprise that CBS and Warner Bros. TV are starting to own talks about refreshing the show for just about any tenth season. Kutcher signed single-season pact because he was employed last spring inside the wake of Charlie Sheen's spectacular meltdown that introduced to his firing. Furthermore to another deal with Kutcher, CBS and WBTV have to work through a completely new deal for your series, which means sorting new distribution deals for your show with broadcast Tv producers, where the initial "Males" deals were designated at nine seasons. (The show's cable syndie deal with Foreign exchange covers 10 seasons.)In their remarks for the scribe tribe, Tassler spoken up CBS' strong fall performance having its new and returning shows. But she was quick to like the creatives behind the shows. She made special mention of the Michael Patrick King, co-creator and showrunner of frosh comedy hit "2 Broke Women" ("He's merely a jewel") and J.J. Abrams and Jonah Nolan, the duo behind frosh drama "Person of great interestInch ("We hit the lottery").More later on . . . Contact Cynthia Littleton at cynthia.littleton@variety.com

It's a Girl For The Mentalist's Eric Winter and Roselyn Sanchez

Eric Winter and Roselyn Sanchez The Mentalist's Eric Winter and wife Roselyn Sanchez welcomed a baby girl Wednesday, People reports. Check out photos of Eric Winter Sebella Rose Winter was born at 4 a.m. on Jan. 4, weighing 6 pounds, 14 ounces. "Welcome to the world beautiful Sebella Rose Winter! Mami and Daddy adore you! This joy is overwhelming," the new parents tweeted early Wednesday. "Thanks for all of the well wishes!" Winter, 35, and Sanchez, 38, have been married since 2008. Sanchez, also an actor, last guest-starred in an episode of Rizzoli & Isles.