Scott Z. Burns News

The Public Theater announced today that single tickets are now on sale for the 2014 spring season, beginning on February 18 with ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, the exciting international collaboration with the Royal Shakespeare Company and GableStage in Miami. Edited and directed by MacArthur Fellow Tarell Alvin McCraney, ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA will run through Sunday, March 23, with an official press opening on Wednesday, March 5 in the Anspacher Theater.

The Public Theater announced today that THE LIBRARY, a world premiere drama written by award-winning writer Scott Z. Burns and directed by Academy Award winner Steven Soderbergh, has been added to The Public's 2014 spring season. THE LIBRARY, featuring Chloe Grace Moretz, will run in The Public's Newman Theater from Tuesday, March 25 through Sunday, April 27; with an official press opening on Tuesday, April 15. Additional casting will be announced shortly.

Global film and television studio Miramax today announced that veteran producer and industry executive Zanne Devine has been named Executive Vice President, Production and Development of Miramax, effective immediately.

The Hollywood Reporter writes that Hugh Grant has signed up for Guy Ritchie's THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. for Warner Bros. Grant will play a supporting role as head of British Naval Intelligence in the spy film, which stars Man of Steel's Henry Cavill.

The third annual Celebrate Sundance Institute Los Angeles Benefit, celebrating artistry and visionary leadership in independent film. This year, the benefit will honor the life and work of beloved journalist and film critic Roger Ebert with the Vanguard Leadership Award in Memoriam, in recognition of his advocacy of independent cinema. The award will be presented by Sundance Institute President and Founder Robert Redford and accepted by Ebert's wife, Chaz Ebert. Kerry Washington will present Ryan Coogler with the Vanguard Award, Presented by Tiffany & Co. Coogler is a director and alum of the Sundance Institute Feature Film Program. His first feature film, Fruitvale Station, was selected for Sundance Institute's Screenwriters Lab and went on to win both the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival.

According to Comingsoon.net, 'Man of Steel's Henry Cavill is currently in talks to star as Napoleon Solo in a reboot of the 1960's TV series THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E.

The third annual Celebrate Sundance Institute Los Angeles Benefit, celebrating artistry and visionary leadership in independent film. This year, the benefit will honor the life and work of beloved journalist and film critic Roger Ebert with the Vanguard Leadership Award in Memoriam, in recognition of his advocacy of independent cinema. The award will be presented by Sundance Institute President and Founder Robert Redford and accepted by Ebert's wife, Chaz Ebert. Kerry Washington will present Ryan Coogler with the Vanguard Award, Presented by Tiffany & Co. Coogler is a director and alum of the Sundance Institute Feature Film Program. His first feature film, Fruitvale Station, was selected for Sundance Institute's Screenwriters Lab and went on to win both the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival.

The Film Society of Lincoln Center and Film Comment Selects announced it will present a sneak preview screening of Steven Soderbergh's SIDE EFFECTS tonight, January 30 at 8:00PM. The screening will take place at the Walter Reade Theater (165 West 65th Street) and will be followed by a Q&A with Soderbergh, writer/producer Scott Z. Burns and stars Rooney Mara and Jude Law.

Sundance Institute last evening announced the Jury, Audience, NEXT <=> and other special awards of the 2013 Sundance Film Festival at the feature film Awards Ceremony, hosted by Joseph Gordon-Levitt in Park City, Utah.

The Film Society of Lincoln Center and Film Comment Selects announced today it will present a sneak preview screening of Steven Soderbergh's SIDE EFFECTS on Wednesday, January 30 at 8:00PM.

SIDE EFFECTS is coming to theaters on February 8th from Open Road films. The dramatic thriller is directed by Steven Soderbergh and written by Scott Z. Burns. The cast includes Jude Law, Rooney Mara, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Channing Tatum. Check out a just-released trailer below!

Sundance Institute has announced the 13 projects selected for its annual June Directors and Screenwriters Labs, taking place at the Sundance Resort in Utah from today, May 28 through June 28. Under the leadership of Michelle Satter, Founding Director of the Institute's Feature Film Program, and the artistic direction of Gyula Gazdag, the projects selected for this year's program include emerging filmmakers and projects from the United States, Italy, Romania, Australia, Algeria, France, Chile and the UK.

As first reported on Deadline.com, Tony-award winning actress Catherine Zeta-Jones is set to join the cast of Steven Soderbergh's upcoming film SIDE EFFECTS.

THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM, starring Academy Award winners Matt Damon ('Good Will Hunting'), Julia Stiles ('Mona Lisa Smile') and David Strathairn ('Good Night and Good Luck') and based on novelist Robert Ludlum's best-selling spy thriller, will be broadcast on Saturday, Dec. 31 (8:30-11:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.

THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM, starring Academy Award winners Matt Damon ('Good Will Hunting'), Julia Stiles ('Mona Lisa Smile') and David Strathairn ('Good Night and Good Luck') and based on novelist Robert Ludlum's best-selling spy thriller, will be broadcast on Saturday, Dec. 31 (8:30-11:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.

Weekend movie box office estimates: September 9-11, 2011.

Lynne Meadow (Artistic Director), Barry Grove (Executive Producer), and Mandy Greenfield (Artistic Producer) announced additional casting and creative team members for the upcoming Manhattan Theatre Club world premiere productions of WE LIVE HERE by Zoe Kazan and CLOSE UP SPACE by Molly Smith Metzler, at New York City Center - Stage I (131 West 55th Street).

The nominees for the Chicago Film Critics Awards are out, and include some theatrical favorites including Carey Mulligan for An Education), Meryl Streep for Julia & Julia, and Michael Stuhlbarg for A Serious Man. Jason Reitman's 'Up in the Air' and Spike Jonze' 'Where the Wild Things Are' each scored six nominations including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay.

The nominees for the Chicago Film Critics Awards are out, and include some theatrical favorites including Carey Mulligan for An Education), Meryl Streep for Julia & Julia, and Michael Stuhlbarg for A Serious Man. Jason Reitman's 'Up in the Air' and Spike Jonze' 'Where the Wild Things Are' each scored six nominations including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay.