Shia La Beouf, the 26-year-old actor who starred in a big-budget Hollywood flicks like Transformers and Indiana Jones franchise films,is downsizing his career and taking on new,dramatic challenges in movies such as Lawless.The film is based on author Matt Bondurants The Wettest County in the World,a fictional account of his family in Prohibition-era Virginia,and LaBeouf said the tale touched him due to his own upbringing.In terms of the characters emotions,the things he goes through,where he winds up,what hes dealing with,the family elements,the alpha male fight,it was all things that resonate with me heavily, LaBeouf told Reuters. The Godfather author Mario Puzos family wants a federal judge to stop Paramount Pictures Corp from making movies based on sequels to the best-selling,Oscar-winning story of the Mafia. A lawyer for Puzos heirs,Bertram Fields,said in Manhattan federal court that Viacom Incs Paramount breached a decades-old contract with Puzo by trying to stop publication last May of a new book,The Family Corleone. In February,Paramount sued Anthony Puzo,Marios son and executor,accusing the heirs of approving sequels to the 1969 best-seller without the studios permission and in violation of earlier agreements. Sam Raimi, the film director and producer who's had a long career of spooking audiences with his horror films,has turned to real-life events for supernatural thriller The Possession. Raimi,whose credits range from directing 2002s Spider-Man to producing horror flicks such as The Grudge and The Grudge 2,produces The Possession. The movie,directed by Ole Bornedal,is inspired by a newspaper account of a family that fights a demon known as a Dibbuk in ancient Yiddish folklore. The spirit,which resides in a Dibbuk box,is said to possess the bodies of people with the intention of devouring them. In The Possession,the Dibbuk enters the body of a young woman and her parents must figure out how to stop it.
