Movies News Desk - Page 62

As anticipation builds for the December release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the first new film in the Star Wars Saga in a decade, The Walt Disney Studios, Lucasfilm Ltd., and 20(th) Century Fox recently announced the upcoming release of The Star Wars Digital Movie Collection. For THE FIRST TIME ever, all six epic films in the Saga, from The Phantom Menace to Return of the Jedi, will be available on Digital HD throughout the galaxy - or at least here on Earth - globally beginning today, April 10.

Tsai Ming-liang, the defining artist of Taiwan's Second Wave of filmmakers, will be the subject of a major retrospective at Museum of the Moving Image, from today, April 10 through 26, 2015-the most comprehensive presentation of Tsai's work ever presented in New York.

Deadline writes that Broadway vet and GIRLS star Andrew Rannells will co-star in a comedy film written by JERSEY BOYS' Mike Doyle.

Deadline writes that New Line has secured the rights to an untitled Mariah Carey Christmas film from RatPac Entertainment.

According to Variety, Nicole Kidman's Grace Kelly biopic GRACE OF MONACO will not be heading to U.S. theaters and is hopping straight to Lifetime. The film will air on May 25, 2015.

The Hollywood Reporter writes that Rooney Mara has signed on for The Weinstein Company's LION, starring Nicole Kidman and Dev Patel.

According to Deadline, Warner Bros. will release Dana Nachman's documentary BATKID BEGINS: THE WISH HEARD AROUND THE WORLD on June 26, 2015.

Creator and Producer Stephan Durell Davis along with Actor and Producer Max Rhyser, Vocalist Kimberly Michelle Thomas, Music Director and Lead Arranger Matt Podd and Co-Arranger Ben Wexler have joined forces to create ALL LOVE IS DIVINE, a new musical film for LGBT youth.

As anticipation builds for the December release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the first new film in the Star Wars Saga in a decade, The Walt Disney Studios, Lucasfilm Ltd., and 20(th) Century Fox today announced the upcoming release of The Star Wars Digital Movie Collection.

Odeon Event Cinema by arrangement with Apollo Digital and Fox Home Entertainment proudly present a special concert event on the 1st May, where Oscar-nominated composer, and winner of four Grammy Awards, Antonio Sanchez, will lead a concert with music from the hugely successful and highly-acclaimed film BIRDMAN.

The 2015 CCBC Africana Studies Independent Film Festival will roll out the red carpet Friday and Saturday, April 17-18, 2015, for independent films focused on the Black experience. This two-day screening will be held in the Administration Building Lecture Hall (ADMN 120) at the Community College of Baltimore County, Essex (CCBC Essex), 7201 Rossville Boulevard.

Acclaimed author Janet Arlotta, a semi-finalist in Final Draft's Big Break Screenwriting Contest, will write and produce the romantic comedy Going Due South.

Coming off 2014's highest grossing film, “American Sniper,” Academy Award nominated producer Andrew Lazar has his sights set on a sci-fi adventure thriller titled “Rupture.”

Over its 77-year history, world-renowned vocal ensemble American BOYCHOIR has performed in many of the world's grandest venues and with legends from across the musical spectrum. Director François Girard's (of The Red Violin) BOYCHOIR marks the choir's first feature film appearance. After premiering to rave reviews at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2014, BOYCHOIR sees its initial U.S. arthouse release at New York City's Village East Cinema and Los Angeles' Laemmle Encino Town Center today, April 3, 2015. American BOYCHOIR administration, staff and members of the American BOYCHOIR and their parents will be on hand for the first New York showing.

CHEATIN' is an award-winning, surreal animated adult tale of love, jealousy, revenge, and murder. Inspired by the work of James M. Cain ('Double Indemnity', 'The Postman Always Rings Twice'), CHEATIN' marks Academy Award nominated Bill Plympton's seventh animated feature film. Click below to watch two clips from the film!

“EFFIE GRAY,” Written by Emma Thompson and Starring Dakota Fanning, Emma Thompson, Tom Sturridge, Sir Derek Jacobi, Julie Walters and Claudia Cardinale, to have U.S. Theatrical Premiere today, April 3.

Set to debut on July 31, 2015, THE GIFT is a chilling, contemporary psychological thriller that marks the writing and directorial debut of acclaimed actor Joel Edgerton (The Great Gatsby, Zero Dark Thirty, Warrior), and stars Jason Bateman, Rebecca Hall and Edgerton. Click below to watch a just-released trailer!

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Kristen Stewart is in negotiations to join BILLY LYNN'S LONG HALFTIME WALK, helmed by Ang Lee and adapted from Ben Fountain's 2012 novel.

A staggering 50% of American adults suffer from a chronic disease such as diabetes, heart disease, obesity, and arthritis and one in four has two or more chronic health conditions.

CHEATIN' is an award-winning, surreal animated adult tale of love, jealousy, revenge, and murder. Inspired by the work of James M. Cain ('Double Indemnity', 'The Postman Always Rings Twice'), CHEATIN' marks Academy Award nominated Bill Plympton's seventh animated feature film. Click below to watch two clips from the film!