Movies News Desk - Page 178

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!

A living document of a lost world, Isaac Hertz's film Life Is Strange will receive its NYC premiere in a limited engagement, today, January 24 - 30, at the Quad Cinema, 34 West 13th Street, NYC.

"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 Jan. 31, 2014.

AMBI Pictures, the Italy-based film development, finance and production company run by Andrea Iervolino and Monika Bacardi, today announced that Danny Glover (“Lethal Weapon” series, “Saw” “The Color Purple”), Daryl Hannah (“Kill Bill” “Blade Runner” “Splash”), Rutger Hauer (“Blade Runner” “Sin City” “Batman Begins”), Stephen Baldwin (“The Usual Suspects” “Born on the 4th of July”) and Michael Madsen (“Reservoir Dogs” “Kill Bill” “Donnie Brasco”) have signed on to star in the action thriller “Sights of Death” / “S.O.D,” which will be directed by Alessandro Capone (“L'amore nascosto” “Superstition 2”).

'Grind', the independent musical short film starring Anthony Rapp (RENT), Claire Coffee (NBC's Grimm) and Pasha Pellosie (The Carrie Diaries, Law and Order: SVU), just released its first trailer. Check it out below!

Sundance Institute and Mahindra today announced the winners of the 2014 Sundance Institute | Mahindra Global Filmmaking Award, in recognition and support of emerging independent filmmakers from around the world. The winning directors and projects are Hong Khaou, MONSOON from Vietnam/UK; Tobias Lindholm, A WAR from Denmark; Ashlee Page, ARCHIVE from Australia; and Neeraj Ghaywan, FLY AWAY SOLO from India.

Emory Cinematheque, a free weekly series of 35mm film screenings, returns tonight, Jan. 22 at 7:30 p.m. with the 1937 war film 'Le Grande Illusion' (1937), directed by Jean Renoir.

Featuring exclusive interviews with over 100 key cast and crew from every Nightmare, including creator Wes Craven and Robert Englund ('Freddy Krueger'), Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy is available as a 2-Disc Collector's Edition Blu-ray, as of today, January 21, 2014 for an SRP of $29.98.

Get ready for the knife-wielding hero to return in Machete Kills, the sequel to the hugely successful Machete film from acclaimed director Robert Rodriguez. Machete Kills arrives on Blu-ray Combo Pack including Blu-ray, DVD,& Digital HD with UltraViolet and On Demand today, January 21, 2014, from Universal Studios Home Entertainment.

Tristar Pictures has just revealed the first trailer for director Paul W.S. Anderson's upcoming POMPEII. The film hits theaters on February 28, 2014. Get a first look below!

Below, check out an adorable video of a boyfriend suprising his girlfriend with a Christmas Eve proposal while they were singing karaoke to 'Love Is an Open Door' from Disney's FROZEN!