Movies News Desk - Page 41

The sci-fi thriller AIR, starring Norman Reedus and Djimon Hounsou, will be opening day and date, in theaters and on VOD on August 14th via Vertical Entertainment and Stage 6 Films.

This week, Rooftop Films will present two form-challenging documentaries, proving that non-fiction cinema can be as, if not more, intellectually stimulating and politically engaging as its fictional counterparts.

Presented by David Gordon Green, THE MEND, a film by John Magary starring Josh Lucas, Stephen Plunkett, LUCY Owen, Mickey Sumner and Austin Pendleton, will hit theaters in New York on August 21st, followed by a release on August 28th in Los Angeles.

Deadline writes that former GLEE star Dianna Agron will take on the lead in Scooter Corkle's upcoming indie drama HOLLOW IN THE LAND.

Cinema Slate, a new distribution label specialized in foreign cinema (with an emphasis in Latin American films), is proud to announce the theatrical opening of the documentary I TOUCHED ALL YOUR STUFF (2015), following the film's US premiere at the Museum of the Moving Image (First Look series) earlier this year.

Vega Baby Releasing has announced that they have acquired North American DVD and VOD rights to the skateboarding documentary film SHReD: THE STORY OF ASHER BRADSHAW, which is directed by Katherine Herndl and produced by Wilmer Valderrama (“That 70's Show), and will release it to audiences via DVD and VOD today, July 14th, 2015. In addition to Valderrama, the film was produced by Herndl and Jeff Renfroe.

CloseUp Summer Film Festival will present three Short Documentary Films that will give you perspective on July 18th.

Fans at San Diego Comic-Con's Hall H were treated to a special look behind the scenes of Star Wars: The Force Awakens by director J.J. Abrams, producer and Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy and writer Lawrence Kasdan. Watch it below!

Director Paul Feig is at it again -- he Tweeted a first look at all four lady GHOSTBUSTERS suited up for battle, along with the caption, '#whoyougonnacall'. Scroll down for a closer look! Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones will star in the upcoming, all-female reboot of the 1980s comedy.

Beginning July 16 and continuing through August 8, Sierra Stages presents the over-the-top Mel Brooks musical comedy 'THE PRODUCERS' at the historic Nevada Theatre in Nevada City. Winner of an unprecedented 12 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, 'THE PRODUCERS' has music and lyrics by Mel Brooks and a book by Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan. The Sierra Stages production is directed by Susan Mason, with dance direction by George Jayne and musical direction by Ken Getz, who conducts the live theatre orchestra. BroadwayWorld has a sneak peek at the cast below!

Fathom Events and UFC have announced that UFC 189: ALDO vs. MCGREGOR - the highly anticipated championship event of UFC's 4th Annual International Fight Week celebration - will be broadcast live to select U.S. movie theaters tonight, July 11.

The third installment of the offbeat backwoods trilogy 'Route 30 Three!' will premiere at the Capitol Theater, 159 S. Main St in Chambersburg bringing John Putch's local film trilogy to a close.

Robin Williams, who passed away last year, will be seen in his final film performance in BOULEVARD, which opens in New York today, July 10, at the Sunshine Landmark theater.

Tomorrow, July 10th, Rooftop Films will present the charming independent drama Bloomin Mud Shuffle on the roof of The Old American Can Factory in Gowanus, Brooklyn. Screener available upon request.

Zak Lee Guarnaccia Actor/Stuntman, Executive Producer at LightRow Pictures (www.lightrow.com) and Paul Lupi, Producer of Lupi Pictures, enter production of the feature film in the martial-arts, action-thriller genre entitled 'KALM.' Principal photography partially funding being raised on Kickstarter. The project will debut at the SAN DIEGO COMIC-CON 2015 (SDCC).

?A new digital restoration of the famed Czech animator Karel Zeman's Invention for Destruction (1958) (which was released in the United States in 1961 as The Fabulous World of Jules Verne) will premiere simultaneously in three countries today, July 10.

Those that haven't been able to catch James Cullen Bressack's PERNICIOUS on the big screen will have another chance when the acclaimed horror film screens at San Diego Comic-Con!

The Museum of Arts and Design presents a full cinematic retrospective of Andrei Tarkovsky's work this summer with its latest cinema series, Andrei Tarkovsky, Sculpting in Time, from today, July 10 through August 28, 2015.

10.000 km, a film by Carlos Marques-Marcet, starring Natalia Tena and David Verdaguer, hits theaters and VOD today, July 10th.

Piers Handling, Director & CEO of TIFF, tonight announced special programming taking place during the 2015 summer and fall seasons in celebration of the organization's 40th anniversary. The announcements were made at a free community party held in David Pecaut Square in downtown Toronto, prior to this season's first TIFF in the Park event, a screening of the 1992 Toronto International Film Festival People's Choice Award-winner Strictly Ballroom.