Quentin Tarantino News

The most irreverent celebration of the movies, actors and music that audiences love, the 2013 MTV MOVIE AWARDS will officially kick off the Summer Blockbuster season on LIVE on Sunday, April 14 at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT.

MTV today announced that Academy Award-winning actor and Grammy winning artist Jamie Foxx will receive the coveted "Generation Award" at the "2013 MTV Movie Awards," LIVE on Sunday, April 14 at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT from the Sony Pictures Studios Lot in Culver City, CA.

The hit "For The Record" series will leave its resident home in Los Feliz for one night only and head to Hollywood to perform "Tarantino In Concert" at famed House of Blues Sunset Strip. This version of the World Theatrical Presentation, performed only once before at the 2012 SXSW festival, will be staged on Tuesday, April 16 @ 8pm. The live concert experience "For The Record: Tarantino In Concert" brings the movies of Quentin Tarantino to life through the soundtracks he meticulously integrated into each of his films. The evening will be bigger, badder and include something no one has seen in any edition of the "Tarantino In Concert" show, the inclusion of his latest hit film, Django Unchained! Tickets are $47.50 for Premier Floor Seating and $22.50 for Standing Room General Admission. To purchase tickets please call (323) 848-5100 or go to http://concerts.livenation.com/event/09004A7D35B4A814.

Crowded Fire Theater (CFT) presents the West Coast Premiere of Thomas Bradshaw's THE BEREAVED a wickedly funny take on Sex, Drugs, and the American Dream which opens with a press night on Monday April 8 at 8 PM at Thick House in San Francisco, (previews April 4-7) and runs through April 27.

For a 17th consecutive year, the Hollywood Film Awards continues its mandate of celebrating Hollywood cinema and recognizing excellence in Hollywood, both in-front and behind the camera. This year the Hollywood Film Awards Gala ceremony takes place on October 21, 2013, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, in Beverly Hills.

The Whitney Museum in New York has commissioned a new work by playwright Thomas Bradshaw for the Blues For Smoke Exhibition Live Performances to premiere April 26-28, at the Whitney. Blues for Smoke is an interdisciplinary exhibition that explores a wide range of contemporary art through the lens of the blues and blues aesthetics. Turning to the blues not simply as a musical category but as a field of artistic sensibilities and cultural idioms. Iconoclastic playwright Thomas Bradshaw has emerged as one of the most provocative and original voices in contemporary theater. His most recent play, Job, was produced by the Flea Theater in Fall 2012 and remounted this past January.

Amber Tamblyn is teaming up with UGLY BETTY. According to Deadline, Tamblyn has officially signed on to co-star with America Ferrera in her husband's, Ryan Piers Williams, upcoming independent film X/Y.

From JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR to DJANGO, Ted Neeley is set to perform his concert, featuring Broadway hits and insider stories, tonight, March 23 at PlayhouseSquare.

The Film Society of Lincoln Center presents the film series Foxy, The Complete Pam Grier (today, March 15-17). Screening at the Walter Reade Theater (165 West 65th Street) and the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center (144 West 65th Street), and highlighted by the attendance of Grier at several screenings, the film series includes such fan favorites and notable classics as THE BIG BIRD CAGE (1972), COFFY (1973), ESCAPE FROM LA (1996), FOXY BROWN (1974), and GREASED LIGHTNING (1977), as well as JACKIE BROWN (1997) featuring her Golden Globe and SAG Award nominated performance in the title role.

DC Entertainment (DCE), the largest English-language comic book publisher in the world announced today that JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #1, written by the acclaimed Geoff Johns and drawn by superstar artist David Finch, was the best-selling comic book to specialty retailers in February 2013, according to information provided by Diamond Comic Distributors. This caps off a hugely successful month for DCE - with robust sales coming via comic retail, book trade and digital channels.

Crowded Fire Theater (CFT) presents the West Coast Premiere of Thomas Bradshaw's THE BEREAVED a wickedly funny take on Sex, Drugs, and the American Dream which opens with a press night on Monday April 8 at 8 PM at Thick House in San Francisco, (previews April 4-7) and runs through April 27.

MTV announced the categories and nominees for the '2013 MTV Movie Awards', honoring the actors and films that enthralled and electrified audiences this year. Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain were among the Broadway stars who received nods for their big screen performances.

Have you ever watched a movie so vile, putrid, and tasteless you couldn't help but love it? Maybe you've caught a film on late night TV that was so bad, you weren't able to stop watching it? Or perhaps your cinephile friend brought a movie to the party that made everyone squeal with glee, cringe with disgust, and laugh out loud at the sheer audacity of it. Well, you very well might have seen a Troma film. And the man behind this madness was Lloyd Kaufman, and he is coming to Seacoast Repertory Theatre to discuss his films Today March 20th, 2013 as part of The Rep's Red Light Series Troma- Fest 2013. All for the sake of keeping Portsmouth weird...

From JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR to DJANGO, Ted Neeley is set to perform his concert, featuring Broadway hits and insider stories, March 23 at PlayhouseSquare.

Park Chan-wook, the South Korean director best known for his provocative and thrilling Vengeance Trilogy, will be the subject of a retrospective at Museum of the Moving Image from today, February 28 through March 3, 2013. The series, which is presented in cooperation with The Korea Society, includes four feature films and three rarely screened short films. It opens with a personal appearance by the director at a preview screening of his latest film, Stoker-his first English language picture-which stars Mia Wasikowska and Nicole Kidman, and is being released by Fox Searchlight Pictures in theaters nationwide on March 1.

RENT alum Tracie Thoms has officially booked her latest gig - and she's going gothic. According to Deadline, the stage and screen actress has signed on to join ABC's upcoming drama pilot GOTHICA.