Movies News Desk - Page 161

Wally Pfister's directorial debut, TRANSCENDENCE, featuring Johnny Depp and Morgan Freeman, will hit theaters on April 18, 2014. Paul Bettany and Kate Mara also co-star in the Warner Bros. pic. Check out 40 new stills from the film below!

Click below to watch the second trailer for filmmakers Lana and Andy Wachowski's upcoming science fiction epic JUPITER ASCENDING, starring Channing Tatum and Mila Kunis!

StandOut Productions and the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center's Lily Tomlin/Jane Wagner Cultural Arts Center present a one-night-only salute to director Andrea Meyerson's first fim, Lauging Matters, on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of its release. The award-winning movie features the hilarious on-stage comedy acts of Kate Clinton, Marga Gomez, Suzanne Westenhoefer, and Karen Williams, as well as revealing one-on-one interviews. Laughing Matters has been broadcast on Here TV, Viacom's Logo Network, and Canada's Astral Network.

Twentieth Century Fox's RIO 2, featuring Broadway diva Kristin Chenoweth and a flock of top actors and musical talents, will hit theaters on April 11. Click below for a first listen to Chenoweth's character -- the poison dart frog 'Gabi' -- singing her love song called 'Poisonous Love' to criminal mastermind 'Nigel'!

According to The Hollywood Reporter, HOMELAND's Damian Lewis has boarded the thriller OUR KIND OF TRAITOR, joining Ewan McGregor, Stellan Skarsgard and Naomie Harris in the cast. Susanna White directs.

ComingSoon.net says HOUSE OF CARDS' Corey Stoll is being courted for a role in Marvel's upcoming live-action adaptation of ANT-MAN. No word yet on who he would play.

The Hollywood Reporter writes that Mamie Gummer will star opposite Jennifer Aniston in the upcoming film CAKE, directed by Daniel Barnz from a script by Patrick Tobin.

Image Entertainment, an RLJ Entertainment (NASDAQ: RLJE) brand, announces the DVD and Blu-ray/DVD combo release of Odd Thomas.

Breaking Glass Pictures is excited to announce today's March 25th DVD release of Junk, from director Kevin Hamedani of Zombies of Mass Destruction.

Breaking Glass Pictures is excited to announce today's March 25th DVD and cable and Internet VOD release of Alien Boy: The Life and Death of James Chasse.

XLrator Media will release The Conspiracy on DVD today, March 25, 2014. Directed and written by Christopher MacBride, the film stars Aaron Poole and Jim Gilbert

ComingSoon.net reports that James Mangold's sequel to 2013's THE WOLVERINE will officially be hitting theaters on March 3, 2017, with Hugh Jackman returning as the lead. 20th Century Fox has also tapped David James Kelly to pen the screenplay. No details yet on the plot.

Drafthouse Films presents THE FINAL MEMBER, directed by Jonah Bekhor and Zach Math.

Griffin Dunne stars in THE DISCOVERERS, which has won quite the collection of awards, including an Achievement in Acting Award for Dunne at the Sarasota International Film Festival, Emerging Actor Awards for Devon Graye and Madeleine Martin at the Genart Film Festival, and Best Film at the Kansas City Film and Oxford Film Festivals, as well as an Outstanding Actor Award for Dunne at the Sedona Film Festival, a Spark Breakthrough Award for Martin at the Riverrun International Film Festival, and Best Score at the Genart Film Festival.

The National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts - the only accredited acting studio in the Greater Washington Area - announced today that the award-winning TV and film director (and Pennsylvania native) John Putch was returning to DC to offer a special seminar for East Coast filmmakers, screenwriters, producers and actors that reveals his unique strategies for making and marketing micro-budget movies the anti-hollywood way. The half-day seminar - called 'Making the Anti-Hollywood Movie' - will be held today, March 22, from 11 a.m. till 3 p.m., at the Hyatt Arlington, VA.

Hollywood's legendary El Capitan Theatre presents a special engagement of 'Muppets Most Wanted,' the latest Muppets adventure from Disney in Dolby Atmos from today, March 21-April 17, 2014. Guests have the opportunity to see Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy sing live on stage before every showing of the movie.

Museum of the Moving Image presents the first solo museum exhibition in New York of the work of Jim Campbell (b. 1956), the San Francisco-based artist best known for his evocative low resolution works. The exhibition opens in New York City today, March 21, 2014 and will be on view through June 15.

Following last year's acclaimed first edition, FIRST TIME FEST is back, and it shows that the secondtime is even better. The Second Time Around for FIRST TIME FEST is set for April 3 - 7, 2014, and it will be based at their new home. NeueHouse (110 East 25th St.). NeueHouse will be the location for panels, workshops, selected film presentations, parties and the filmmaker lounge. Most screenings, including all the competition films, will take place at the AMC Loews Village 7 (11th St. & Third Ave.)

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Warner Bros. is eyeing Ryan Gosling to play Busby Berkeley in its upcoming biopic. Gosling would produce the feature and is also being considered as director.

newportFILM & Newport Art Museum present a screening of FINDING VIVIAN MAIER tonight, March 20 at The Newport Art Museum Ilgenfritz Gallery (76 Bellevue Avenue, Newport). Cocktails and hors d'ouevres will be served at 6:00pm, the film will be screened at 7:00pm, and a post-film Skype conversation with director Charlie Siskel will take place at 8:30pm.