Pilots Only Fools & Horses, Carrie Diaries & Zero Hour Add To Casts

Dustin Ybarra has landed the other lead opposite John Leguizamo in ABC’s multicamera comedy pilot Only Fools And Horses. Based on the British format, the multicamera comedy chronicles the misadventures of two streetwise brothers, Del (Leguizamo) and Rodney (Ybarra), and their aging grandfather as they concoct outrageous, morally questionable get-rich-quick schemes in their quest to become millionaires. Ybarra is with CAA and Andrew Tetenbaum Management. The Killing‘s Katie Findlay and Ellen Wong have joined just-cast AnnaSophia Robb in the CW pilot Carrie Diaries.The project, based on Candace Bushnells novel, chronicles Carrie Bradshaws (Robb) coming of age in the 1980s when she asks her first questions about love, sex, friendship and family while exploring the worlds of high school and Manhattan. Wong will play Jill The Mouse Thompson, Carries best friend in high school who is pragmatic, bright and super loyal. Findlay, repped byThruline and agent Russ Mortensen, will play Maggie Landers, Carries oldest friend, a townie and the daughter of the police chief who has little ambition to leave her town, mostly because she has no idea what she would be leaving for. Addison Timlin has been cast in ABCs drama pilot Zero Hour. The ABC Studios project centers on a man who, after spending 20 years as the editor of a skeptics magazine, becomes involved in one the most compelling conspiracies in human history. Timlin, repped by Gersh and Management 360, will play a member of the Modern Skeptic magazine staff.

Weinstein Co. To Take On MPAA Rating For Bully

The Weinstein Company will take on the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) once again after the organization slapped the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival documentary Bully with an R rating. Harvey Weinstein and one of the film’s featured subjects Alex Libby will personally appeal the rating to the MPAA. The R-rating was made due to “language,” restricting minors under 17 from seeing the film unless accompanied by a parent or guardian. The rating would also in effect ban the film from screening in U.S. middle and high schools. Originally titled The Bully Project, the emotional feature captures the stories of several American middle and high school students who faced relentless bullying at school. Filmed over the course of the 2009/2010 school year, Bully exposes pained and often endangered lives of bullied kids. The film’s director Lee Hirsch became a regular on shows such as CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 following the film’s premiere at Tribeca last year, which happened to coincide with a number of teen suicides allegedly as a result of school bullying. In announcing the appeal via TWC, Hirsch said he made the film for bullies and the bullied to see. “We have to change hearts and minds in order to stop this epidemic, which has scarred countless lives and driven many children to suicide,” he said. The hearing will be held at the MPAA’s Sherman Oaks screening room on February 23rd with Motion Picture Consulting LLC’s Ethan Noble assisting The Weinstein Company. Bully is slated for a March 30th release. TWC is no stranger to MPAA rating hearings. It successfully overturned an initial NC-17 rating in 2010 for Derek Cianfrance’s Blue Valentine starring Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams.

'Hugo,' 'Boardwalk' top Cinema Audio awards

"Hugo" and "Boardwalk Empire" took top honors at Saturday's 48th annual Cinema Audio Society Awards, held at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles."Hugo," Martin Scorsese's cinematic love letter to film history, was honored for outstanding achievement in sound mixing for a motion picture, while "Boardwalk Empire," which Scorsese exec produces, won sound mixing for television.But Scorsese wasn't the only marquee name the evening's two big winners shared. Re-recording mixer Tom Fleischman worked on both projects' teams, giving him the evening's only double win in film and TV. Fleischman has a previous film win for "The Aviator" and also won for "Boardwalk" last year.Fleischman shared the win with production mixer John Midgley and scoring mixer Simon Rhodes for "Hugo" and with production sound mixer Franklin D. Stettner for "Boardwalk."The miniseries "Too Big to Fail" and reality series "Deadliest Catch: New Blood" earned TV honors, as well.Penelope Cruz presented the honorary CAS Filmmaker Award to director Rob Marshall. Walter Murch and Thomas Newman gave the CAS Career Achievement Award to Scott Millan. Contact Christy Grosz at christy.grosz@variety.com

Imboden preps 'Am Hang'

Markus Imboden, director of Swiss box office hit "The Foster Boy," is prepping "Am Hang," based on Markus Werner's bestseller.Produced by Zurich-based Maximage, the drama revolves around two men who coincidentally meet in a restaurant but who have more in common than it seems.Imboden is currently enjoying huge success in his native Switzerland with "The Foster Boy." The C-Films production has so far garnered $3.6 million, making it the most successful local film in the past five years.Max Hubacher, one of European Film Promostion's Shooting Stars this year at Berlin, toplines in the 1950s-set pic, about a boy who is taken from his parents and sent to work on a farm as a "Verdingbub," or contract child. Film is based on the many true stories of this practice.Imboden is also set for "The Face," a postwar thriller penned by U.S. scribe J. Frank James and produced by Rene Asch, and "Bones of the Wise Men," also set in postwar Germany, from a script by James. Contact Ed Meza at ed.meza@mannaa.de

Sun staff turn on Murdoch

LONDON -- Fresh evidence of a "civil war" at News Corp. has emerged following what commentators have interpreted as an extraordinary attack by the Murdoch-owned U.K. tabloid The Sun on its parent company. In a signed article, published Monday, one of Murdoch's most loyal British journalists, Trevor Kavanagh, an assistant editor at the Sun, accuses the British police and politicians of conducting a "witch hunt" against Sun journalists. He said that Sun journalists and their families have been treated like "members of an organized crime gang." "Wives and children have been humiliated as up to 20 officers at a time rip up floorboards and sift through intimate possessions, love letters and entirely private documents," he wrote. Kavanagh added: "It is absolutely right the company co-operates with police on inquiries ranging from phone and computer hacking to illegal payments. We are right to hand over any evidence -- emails, expense claims, memos -- that might aid those inquiries. "It is right that those inquiries are carried out separately from the journalists under investigation. Nobody on the Sun was aware in advance that 10 colleagues were about to be nabbed. "It is also important our parent company, News Corp., protects its reputation in the United States and the interests of its shareholders. "But some of the greatest legends in Fleet Street have been held, at least on the basis of evidence so far revealed, for simply doing their jobs as journalists on behalf of the company." Kavanagh's opening line that the Sun "is not a 'swamp' that needs draining" is a reference to reports that a member of News Corp.'s Management and Standards Committee, set up last summer to investigate phone hacking at News International, had described its work as "draining the swamp". Former Sun assistant editor turned professor of journalism at London's City University, Roy Greenslade, interviewed by the BBC, said that Kavanagh's outburst amounted to the clearest evidence yet of what he described as a "civil war" at News Corp. Five Sun journalists, including deputy editor Geoff Webster, were arrested February 11 over allegations of bribing public officials. News Corp.'s U.K. subsidiary News International, which owns the Sun, gave assurances following the arrests that Murdoch remained committed to publishing the paper, which is believed to be the world's 10th best-selling newspaper. The media mogul is expected to personally reassure Sun journalists later this week during a scheduled trip to London that there are no plans to shutter the Sun. Murdoch closed his U.K. Sunday tabloid, the News of the World, following revelations about phone hacking last July. But if more arrests follow, events may once again spiral out of control. Andrew Neil, the former editor of Murdoch's the Sunday Times, tweeted: "In many ways the crisis at the Sun is bigger than the one Murdoch faced at the News of the World. "And his most loyal newspaper has turned against him." As Kavanagh implies, News Corp.'s strategy is to appease the authorities, and so protect the vastly more valuable U.S. arm of his empire by being seen to be doing everything to clean up practices at his British newspapers. But according to Murdoch biographer Michael Wolff even dawn raids on Sun journalists may not be enough to save Murdoch. Writing in the Guardian on Monday, Wolff said: "Murdoch's companies are poisoned, by his own aggressiveness, as well as by the culture of British tabloids themselves "The air itself is poisoned by a public animus the like of which has not been seen since Richard Nixon was run out of Washington." Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com

Gloria Lloyd, daughter of Harold Lloyd, dies

Gloria Lloyd, daughter of silent film star Harold Lloyd, died Feb. 10 in Santa Monica. She was 87. An actress and a model, she appeared in 1946's "Temptation" with Merle Oberon, and as herself in "American Masters"' "Harold Lloyd: The Third Genius," and "This Is Your Life: Harold Lloyd." Cari Beauchamp, who interviewed her for a book on Greenacres, Harold Lloyd's estate, said, "At her wedding in Greenacres, Hedda Hopper and Louella Parsons both came. And for that one day they called a truce." Survivors include a daughter, Susan, chairman of Harold Lloyd Entertainment. Services will be private, although a public memorial is being planned, Beauchamp said. Contact Shalini Dore at shali.dore@variety.com