Movies News Desk - Page 56

According to Deadline, Natalie Portman will play Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in the upcoming film ON THE BASIS OF SEX. DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL's Marielle Heller is in talks to direct.

Maria May makes the leap from Broadway to the silver screen! 

Deadline writes that Kate Hudson, her father Kurt Russell, and John Malkovich have signed on for the upcoming BP oil spill film DEEPWATER HORIZON.

Deadline reports that Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's BY THE SEA will hit theaters on November 13, 2015 by Universal Pictures. The drama, which Jolie wrote and will direct, marks THE FIRST TIME the pair have starred together since 2005's MR. AND MRS. SMITH.

According to Variety, CINDERELLA's Lily James is in final talks to star in Edgar Wright's upcoming film BABY DRIVER.

Award-winning screenwriter Justin Owensby delivers his feature film directorial debut, Chapman, an atmospheric and visually stunning character study enlivened with a strong dose of crude humor following a young man's journey back home while haunted by images of his past.

After last fall's successful debut of O Brazil, a series of contemporary Brazilian films that represent the nation's thriving film scene, Museum of the Moving Image announces the series' second installment with a selection of three new films centered around music.

RICKI AND THE FLASH, starring Meryl Streep, Rick Springsteen, Kevin Kline, Broadway's Ben Platt and Sebastian Stan, just unveiled its first official trailer. Click below to watch Streep and company rock out!

According to Deadline, Glenn Close, who last starred on Broadway opposite John Lithgow in A DELICATE BALANCE, has signed on for two upcoming films -- WHAT HAPPENED TO MONDAY? and SHE WHO BRINGS GIFTS.

SoHo International Film Festival will be screening the New York premiere of Demos Bizar and GiMe Productions short film, Policy of Truth, on May 19 at 8pm.

Celebrate Mother's Day against the grain with a triple-feature of maternal-themed horror movies on the big screen at Museum of the Moving Image. On Sunday, May 10, as part of Horror Mother's Day, the Museum will show Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, starring Anthony Perkins as the ultimate momma's boy; Roman Polanski's Rosemary's Baby, with Mia Farrow as an Upper West Side mother-to-be caught up in a sinister cult; and David Cronenberg's The Brood (in a new 35mm print), a terrifying psychological thriller driven by a mother's rage.

This month to commemorate Asian-American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month and Memorial Day, over 600 public television stations throughout the country will begin broadcasting War for Guam, the latest production by Columbia University faculty member, award-winning filmmaker, writer, and scholar, Frances Negrón-Muntaner. 

Variety writes that Timothy Hutton has boarded James Franco's upcoming film THE LONG HOME, starring Josh Hutcherson and based on William Gay's novel.

The LA Turkish Film Festival has announced that WINTER SLEEP, the 2014 Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or Awardee, will screen Tuesday, May 5th, 2015 at the Bing Theater of LACMA. The festival's opening film, presented in collaboration with Film Independent at LACMA, will feature a Q&A before the screening with director Nuri Bilge Ceylan, to be moderated by American film critic Elvis Mitchell.

Breaking Glass Pictures will be releasing their latest documentary Ron Jeremy: Life After the Buffet on DVD and VOD today, May 5, 2015.

Fans of the fabulous Bellas of Barden University won't be able to stop belting out their favorite songs when Pitch Perfect Sing-Along Aca-Awesome Edition comes to Blu-ray and DVD for the first time ever today, May 5, 2015, from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment.

Breaking Glass Pictures will be releasing their latest documentary Ron Jeremy: Life After the Buffet on DVD and VOD (iTunes, Amazon Instant, Vudu, Google Play, Xbox, Vubiquity) today, May 5, 2015.

Hailed as “extraordinary” (David Denby, The New Yorker), “deeply moving” (Claudia Puig, USA Today) and “a triumph” (A.O. Scott, New York Times), director Ava DuVernay's powerful drama SELMA debuts on Blu-ray Combo Pack, DVD and On Demand today, May 5, 2015

Celebrate 40 years of the classic story of one young woman's passion to achieve her dreams with MAHOGANY The Couture Edition arriving on DVD today, May 5, 2015 from Paramount Home Media Distribution.

Today, May 5, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment (WBHE) will release GoodFellas on 2-Disc Blu-ray featuring a new documentary with interviews from Robert De Niro, Leonardo DiCaprio, Harvey Keitel, Ray Liotta and more