Movies News Desk - Page 177

'Frozen' audiences are invited to join the act-literally-as more than 1000 theaters nationwide introduce an all-new sing-along version of Disney's Oscar-nominated, Golden Globe-winning big-screen adventure beginning today, Jan. 31, 2014.

Deadline writes that writer/director Andrew Niccol's upcoming project, now titled GOOD KILL, has found its cast. The film will star January Jones (Mad Men) and Ethan Hawke, who just starred on Broadway in Macbeth.

Written and directed by Spike Jonze, HER stars Oscar nominees Joaquin Phoenix ('The Master,' 'Walk the Line'), Amy Adams ('The Master,' 'Doubt'), Rooney Mara ('The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo'), Olivia Wilde (upcoming 'Rush') and Scarlett Johansson ('Lost in Translation'). Click below to watch a new, extended featurette going behind the scenes of the Oscar-nominated film!

Variety writes that Topher Grace will be moving in to a haunted house for Jason Blum, Leonardo DiCaprio and Graham King's upcoming thriller HOME. Patricia Clarkson is also in talks to star. Dennis Iliadis will direct from a script by Adam Alleca.

On Tuesday night, the Academy's Board of Governors voted to rescind the Original Song nomination for 'Alone Yet Not Alone,' music by Bruce Broughton and lyric by Dennis Spiegel. The decision was prompted by the discovery that Broughton, a former Governor and current Music Branch executive committee member, had emailed members of the branch to make them aware of his submission during the nominations voting period.

PRETTY OLD, Walter Matteson's crowd-pleasing senior citizen pageant documentary executive produced by Sarah Jessica Parker, has been acquired by GoDigital for domestic release. Produced by Group Effort Films, Boss Films Productions and Parker's own Pretty Matches Productions, PRETTY OLD will see a simultaneous New York theatrical and nationwide VOD release via GoDigital this March. A theatrical on-demand release courtesy of Gathr Films is also slated for spring.

Yesterday, a federal court judge dismissed the remainder of a lawsuit against SAG-AFTRA filed by Ed Asner. In his order, United States District Court Judge Manuel L. Real found the court had no jurisdiction over the case because Asner has provided no evidence of the union withholding records that he or any other member of the union have access to review.

Deadline reports that Richard Gere is set to produce and star in TIME OUT OF MIND, a drama from director Oren Moverman (The Messenger). The movie will begin production in March 2014.

The third ReelAbilities: Boston Disabilities Film Festival will explore the theme of journeys in a record-setting 17 films being screened from today, Jan. 30-Feb. 6 at seven venues in Massachusetts.

Matrix Theatre Company hosts the DDFF, which showcases films about the city and people of Detroit, giving filmmakers the opportunity to be the voice for our city's stories. The festival will run today, January 30 to February 2, 2014.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Chris Pine (Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit) will star in THE LINE, a thriller directed by David Gordon Green from a script by Sang Kyu Kim (The Walking Dead).

Phase 4 Films, a leading full service independent studio, today announced that it has acquired ESI Distribution, one of the leading home entertainment distributors in the U.S. market, and has signed a distribution agreement with The Criterion Collection, consisting of some of the greatest films from around the world published in the highest technical quality.

Breaking Glass Pictures, Monster Pictures and Vicious Circle Films are excited to announce today's January 28th DVD release of Antisocial.

London, UK -- When Flora, an online prostitute, meets Sam in a chat room, he tells her about a film competition he is entering and the £10,000 prize money. Desperate to get custody of her daughter back, she decides to get involved. With the help of their very different friends, they begin to make their own version of Romeo & Juliet. However, when each of their personal issues start to interfere with the film, what follows is an eruption of power, parties, fights, sex and love.

Universal and Focus Features' FIFTY SHADES OF GREY film adaptation, FIFTY SHADES, will star Jamie Dornan as Christian Grey alongside Dakota Johnson as Anastasia Steele. Entertainment Weekly recently ran one of the first teaser posters for the film, set for release on Valentine's Day 2015. Check it out below!

An extremely rare Academy Award medal for still photography, presented in 1947 to Earnest Bachrach sold for $45,049 on Wednesday, according to Amherst, NH-based auction house RR Auction.

Today, January 26, Bonhams will hold an auction of Entertainment Memorabilia in its Los Angeles saleroom featuring many alluring items once belonging to Hollywood's award-winning elite.

Variety reports that HOTEL RWANDA screenwriter Keir Pearson has been tapped to write the script for a possible Mother Teresa biopic. Indie producers Tony Krantz and Jamey Volk are working with The Mother Teresa Center on the project, titled I THIRST.

Sundance Selects presents RUN & JUMP, the feature debut of Academy Award-nominated director Steph Green, starring Maxine Peake, Edward MacLiam and Will Forte. IFC Films will release 'Run & Jump' in select cities today, January 24th.

The Museum of the Moving Image's popular series See It Big! will turn its focus to the movie musical with a fourteen-film celebration of the genre, from today, January 24 through February 28, 2014. Musicals are, by their very nature, filled with spectacle. They are heightened forms of storytelling, in which the narrative is amplified by song and dance, where characters express their innermost feelings in the most extravagant ways imaginable. It is a genre that celebrates excess and stylization, and the best examples of the form can only be truly enjoyed... big!