Movies News Desk - Page 48

EntertainmentOne presents JACKIE & RYAN, starring Katherine Heigl and Ben Barnes. The film by Ami Canaan Mann will hit theaters and on demand on July 3, 2015 (NYC Theater: Village East/ LA Theater: Laemmle Music Hall).

Helen Mirren, who attended last night's premiere of Julie Taymor's A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM movie, believes capturing Shakespeare on film goes beyond box office statistics.

In honor of Father's Day, Museum of the Moving Image will present a trio of horror movies featuring scary dads on the big screen in the Sumner M. Redstone Theater. On Sunday, June 21, Horror Father's Day will include Charles Laughton's The Night of the Hunter, starring Robert Mitchum as a murderous preacher; Georges Franju's Eyes Without a Face, about a mad doctor obsessed with fixing his disfigured daughter; and Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, featuring a terrifying Jack Nicholson in a Freudian drama set in a haunted mountain resort.

The Film Society of Lincoln Center has announced its new releases for Summer 2015. Scroll down for details!

From the twisted minds of Leigh Whannell (co-creator of Saw and Insidious) and Ian Brennan (co-creator of 'Glee'), COOTIES is a horror comedy with unexpected laughs and unapologetic thrills.

Two-time Academy Award winner Sean Penn (Milk, Mystic River) is the object of a deadly international manhunt in the pulse-pounding thriller The Gunman, coming to Digital HD today, June 16, 2015 and on Blu-ray Combo Pack and DVD as well as On Demand on June 30, 2015 from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment.

CINE is pleased to announce the winners and runners­up of the Marvin Hamlisch Film Scoring Contest for Emerging Composers. Jeremy Leidhecker of Williamsport, PA, was selected by CINE's distinguished jury as the contest winner and recipient of the Marvin Hamlisch Award. 

The Film Society of Lincoln Center presents its popular FREE Film Society Talks series, sponsored by HBO. The returning summer series kicks off today, June 15, with director, writer, and producer Julie Taymor, who will discuss the filmed version of her critically acclaimed stage production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. The upcoming events will include a combination of clips, trailers, and extended conversations, with questions also taken from the audience.

In 2003, the ambitious renovation of one of the world's greatest museums began. The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, home to a glorious collection including masterpieces by Rembrandt and Vermeer, was supposed to reopen its doors in 2008 after five years of construction. But from the start, the project was opposed by unyielding bureaucrats and public resistance. The museum directors battled politicians, designers, curators and even the Dutch Cyclists Union as they struggled to complete the renovation and put its massive collection back on public display. Five years late, with costs exceeding half a billion dollars, the museum finally reopened.

Fathom Events and UFC are proud to present the highly-anticipated match-up of Cain Velasquez and Fabricio Werdum in a champion-versus-champion fight, which will shake the UFC's biggest division to its foundations.

No shield? No hammer? No armor? No problem! Marvel's newest hero, ANT-MAN, hits theaters July 17! Three new posters have just been unveiled, plus a brand-new TV spot. Check out all four below!

Tonight, June 12th, Rooftop Films will present a screening of WELCOME TO LEITH with filmmakers Michael Beach Nichols and Christopher K. Walker in attendance. It all takes place at The Old American Can Factory. 232 Third Street, Brooklyn, NY 11215.

Inspired by timeless jazz ballads and black and white films, ALL LOVE IS DIVINE is planned for release today, June 12, 2015, which is 'Loving Day', the 48th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision that allowed interracial marriage in the United States. The short film tells the story of an interracial gay couple from their first embrace through their wedding day.

On Friday, June 12th, Rooftop Films will present a screening of WELCOME TO LEITH with filmmakers Michael Beach Nichols and Christopher K. Walker in attendance. It all takes place at The Old American Can Factory. 232 Third Street, Brooklyn, NY 11215.

The documentary RUBBLE KINGS will hit theaters on June 19th in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, with a wider release to follow. The film, narrated by John Leguizamo, follows the story of the gangs that roamed the streets in NYC in the 70's and their impact at that time. 

Today, Vimeo and Emerging Pictures announced the simultaneous North American on-demand and theatrical release of Benjamin Statler's docudrama, Soaked In Bleach, today, June 11.

It was a reunion 33 years in the making! At The Actors Fund's 19 Annual Tony Awards Viewing Party on Sunday night, Aileen Quinn reunited with her 1982 ANNIE co-star Tim Curry, who received The Actors Fund's Artistic Achievement Award. Also honored with Artistic Achievement Awards were Theodore Bikel, Alfred Molina and Joe Morton. Scroll down for photos!

The restored director's cut edition of the musical 1776 was just released on Blu-ray, and Tony-winning director Peter H. Hunt revealed to the Los Angeles Times the drama behind the original 1972 release of the film -- and just how much producer Jack L. Warner left out.

The Film Society of Lincoln Center announced today the initial June and July lineup for the popular FREE Film Society Talks series, sponsored by HBO. The returning summer series kicks off on Monday, June 15 with director, writer, and producer Julie Taymor, who will discuss the filmed version of her critically acclaimed stage production of A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Variety reports that the off-Broadway musical ZOMBIE PROM could be lurching toward the big screen soon.