Joaquin Martinez dies at 81

Actor Joaquin Martinez, best appreciated for that role of Offers His Shirt Red-colored in Sydney Pollack's Robert Redford starrer "Jeremiah Manley" but for the title role in Robert Aldrich's "Ulzana's Raid" (1972), starring Burt Lancaster, died on Jan. 3 at his home in Everdingen, Holland, following a brief have a problem with pancreatic cancer. He was 81. Born in Cozumel, Mexico, Martinez analyzed Method acting with Seki Sano and found prominence in Carlos Velo's Mexican film "Pedro Paramo," which opened at Cannes in 1967. Shortly after that he gone to live in La and labored being an actor in film, on tv and onstage in excess of 30 years. Offered stereotypical roles, like many Latino stars, throughout his career in Hollywood, Martinez works to redefine the various components, sometimes getting him into conflict with producers and company directors. His TV work including guest roles in a lot of Western series, including "Our Prime Chapparal," "Bonanza" and "Gunsmoke" guest gigs on "Marcus Welby, M.D.," "Ironside," "Quincy," "L.A. Law," "Empire" and "Northern Exposure" and roles in telepics and miniseries incliuding "Ishi: All of the His Tribe," "Centennial," "The way the West Was Won" and "Gemstones for Ibarra." Film credits Bille August's 1993 "Home of the Spirits," and "Revenge" (1990), starring Kevin Costner and Anthony Quinn. In 2001, Lee Tamahori cast Martinez within the Mission Impossible thriller "Die A Later DateInch according to his longtime popularity of Martinez's performance in "Ulzana's Raid." Onstage Joaquin made an appearance with Christopher Reeve and Christine Lahti in Tennessee Williams' "Summer time and Smoke" in the Ahmanson in 1988. He seemed to be an authentic cast person in the musical drama "Zoot Suit." Martinez is made it by his wife, Marja Valkestijn boy Christopher, a publicist a daughter, Jennifer stepson Sjoerd and former wife Mary Preston. Donations might be produced in his memory towards the SAG Children's Fund for Children's Literacy. Contact Variety Staff at news@variety.com

Selena Gomez States Heaven Is Everywhere

She would like to star within the book adaptationDisney Funnel celebrity Selena Gomez is searching to obtain a a bit more positive than a few of her contemporaries if this involves her career. She already includes a production company in position and it has just optioned the privileges to Jandy Nelson's novel Heaven Is Everywhere.It's beginning for that film, which does not yet possess a author or director attached or any studio backing by yet, but when it comes down together, Gomez really wants to play Lennie Master, an introverted 17-year-old band geek and bookworm who lives within the shadow of her a lot more popular and adventurous older sister, Bailey. But Bailey dies all of a sudden and Lennie is skyrocketed into another existence, and becomes torn between two boys, one her sister's grieving boyfriend (blimey, he does not hang about, does he?) and also the other a sensitive French music performer studying in Paris. And (whodathunkit?) she arrives of her spend and understands that she's really quite attractive, even while her usually purchased world falls apart when she attempts to juggle two associations.Gomez was last observed in the strictly tweencentric Monte Carlo, a poor film by which she was fairly decent, and in the looks of Sky it will not exactly stretch her into very new territory. It will, however, seem like she's striving to consider more risks, as she's also signed on for Harmony Korine's women-take advantage of-a-restaurant-to-fund-their-holiday crime pic Spring Breakers, that is arranging to shoot in, er, spring.

Universal counts to 'Thirteen'

Universal has pre-emptively bought "13," a spec by Benjamin Magid, and push the button with Uni-based Strike Entetrainment and Brooklyn Weaver at Energy Entertainment.Veteran production professional Kristel Laiblin introduced the project into Strike's Eric Newman and may oversee."13" concentrates on possession which is understood to train on a mixture of found-footage reason behind sights. The story is comparable to 1990's "Flatliners," which starred Jennifer Aniston and Kiefer Sutherland as med school students experimentation while using line between existence and dying. Purchase closed Friday evening. Magid composed "Pan," a supernatural undertake J.M. Barrie's "Peter Pan," that's scheduled to go in production later this year with Chris Tuffin, Renee Tab and Weaver creating and Ben Hibon pointing. Magid's repped by WME and handled by Energy Entertainment. WME and teamed on last week's spec acquisition of Kaira Ingelsby actioner "Tell You The Evening" to Warner Bros. in the preemptive deal. Contact Dork McNary at dork.mcnary@variety.com

Netflix offers WB lower DVD prices

Since Netflix has decided to wait 56 days to provide rental fees of Warner Bros' more recent game titles, Variety has found that in return for the more window (up from 4 weeks), Netflix will get some cost credits on buying Dvd disks in the studio. WB's sister company, Cinemax went within the other direction by itself cope with Netflix a week ago. Still Netflix's new cope with WB is not as lucrative because it was previously: the prior 28-day window gave the organization cost breaks on streaming content they will not get this type of discount now, sources near to the companies stated. Contact Andrew Wallenstein at andrew.wallenstein@variety.com

Patricia Arquette to experience Shaun Buckley's mother

ArquetteBuckleyNearly two decades after starring in Tony Scott's "True Romance," Patricia Arquette is placed to utilize the helmer's boy, as she's decided to play Shaun Buckley's mother, Mary Guibert, in Mike Scott's untitled biopic from the late music performer.Reeve Carney ("Spider-Guy: Switch Off the Dark") is placed to experience the significantly acclaimed singer-songwriter, who tragically drowned at 30 in 1997. His father, music performer Tim Buckley, died at 28 of the drug overdose.With what comes down to a cameo, Arquette is going to be observed in both flashback and offer day as Guibert, who convinces her boy to go to his father's 1991 tribute concert "Greetings From Tim Buckley," that is broadly acknowledged as Shaun Buckley's first real public appearance in NY.An adversary project starring Penn Badgley ("Margin Call") got its title from that concert, and concentrates on the times prior to Shaun Buckley's famous performance in recognition of his father's memory.Scott ("Thanks for visiting the Rileys") will direct from the script by Ryan Jaffe, and also the Guibert-fortunate project boasts privileges towards the singer's music and private archives, along with the utilization of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah."Orian Williams and Michelle Sy are creating, while Guibert will professional produce. Production is anticipated to begin within this spring in Gotham and Memphis.Arquette continues to be ramping up her feature career after investing many years devoted to her NBC series "Medium." She lately wrapped Roman Coppola's "A Glimpse Within the Mind of Charles Swan III" with Charlie Sheen and Bill Murray, and it is still focusing on Richard Linklater's ambitious 12-year project with Ethan Hawke.Arquette is repped by Gersh and three Arts Entertainment. Contact Shaun Sneider at shaun.sneider@variety.com