Movies News Desk - Page 69

Each year, the Garden State Film Festival has a soft start with a Thursday night screening and benefit for a fellow non-profit, preceding the official opening festivities on Friday. This year, on March 19, 2015, GSFF will host a benefit for the Boys & Girls Club of Atlantic City and present the film, Greetings from the Shore, at 7:00p.m. at the Claridge Hotel Showroom on the third floor.

Walden Media, producer of such hit films as 'The Chronicles of Narnia” series, “Bridge to Terabithia,” “Charlotte's Web,” and the 'Journey to the Center of the Earth” series, will co-finance and co-produce DreamWorks Studios' “The BFG.”

Freestyle Releasing and Freestyle Digital Media (FDM) announced today that they have acquired theatrical and VOD rights to the horror thriller HAYRIDE 2

Yahoo! Movies just unveiled four new character posters for THE PEANUTS MOVIE - check them out below!

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Dan Stevens has nabbed the male lead in Disney's upcoming live-action, musical interpretation of BEAUTY AND THE BEAST.

Two of the most distinct and idiosyncratic voices in American independent cinema, the Austin-based filmmakers David and Nathan Zellner, will be the subjects of a retrospective at Museum of the Moving Image, Kumiko and the Zellner Bros., from February 28 through tonight, March 5, 2015. The brothers will appear in person tonight, March 5, at 7:00 p.m., with a preview screening of their latest film, the Sundance favorite, Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter. The retrospective will also include their early features Frontier, Goliath, and Kid-Thing, and a compilation of their short films in the program Zellernoids! Short Film Cavalcade.

Deadline writes that BRIGHT STAR book writer and legendary comedic actor Steve Martin has signed on for Ang Lee's upcoming film BILLY LYNN'S LONG HALFTIME WALK.

According to Deadline, Warner Bros. is in final negotiations for a film based on Lynsey Addario's memoir IT'S WHAT I DO: A PHOTOGRAPHER'S LIFE OF LOVE AND WAR. Jennifer Lawrence will star, with Steven Spielberg in the director's chair.

Garden Thieves Pictures has announced that Victori: The Truth Just Can't Be One Thing will be available nationwide on cable and internet VOD and DVD today, March 3rd.

The Last of Robin Hood is available on Blu-ray , DVD & DIGITAL HD on March 3, 2015 from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment.

Switzerland's official entry for Foreign Language Film for the 72nd Golden Globe and the 87th Academy Awards, Director Stefan Haupt's (Sagrada - The Mystery of Creation) critically-acclaimed, award-winning gay drama THE CIRCLE (DER KREIS) debuts across all digital platforms including iTunes and WolfeOnDemand beginning today, March 3, before making its debut on DVD March 31 from Wolfe Video.

Garden Thieves Pictures has announced that Victori: The Truth Just Can't Be One Thing will be available nationwide on cable and internet VOD and DVD today, March 3rd.

Variety writes that Harrison Ford is officially returning as 'Rick Deckard' for the upcoming BLADE RUNNER sequel, with director Denis Villeneuve in negotiations to helm the project.

FACTORY 25 releases BLUEBIRD today, February 27, 2015. Directed and written by Lance Emands, the film stars John Slattery, Amy Morton, Louisa Krause, Emily Meade, Margo Martindale, and Adam Driver.

THE HUNTING GROUND, which recently world premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, is the latest project from Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering.

Arriving from all over the Eastern Bloc, the men who loiter around the Gare du Nord train station in Paris are scraping by however they can, forming gangs for support and protection, ever fearful of being caught by the police and deported. When the middle-aged, bourgeois Daniel played by Olivier Rabourdi approaches a boyishly handsome Ukrainian who calls himself Marek for a date, he learns the young man is willing to do anything for some cash. What Daniel intends only as sex-for-hire begets a home invasion and then an unexpectedly profound relationship. The drastically different circumstances of the two men's lives reveal hidden facets of the city they share.

INTO THE WOODS arrived in movie theaters nationwide on Christmas Day and both the Blu-ray and DVD editions are now available for pre-order, as well as a HD digital download, set to be released on March 24, with new information on the bonus features now available. Disney just unveiled a new trailer for the Blu-ray edition, featuring Meryl Steep performing Stephen Sondheim's new song 'She'll Be Back', not featured in the theatrical version. Watch below!

Below, check out the U.S. trailer for SERENA, based on the novel by American author Ron Rash, and starring Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper as newlyweds running a timber business in 1930s North Carolina. Click to watch!

Two of the most distinct and idiosyncratic voices in American independent cinema, the Austin-based filmmakers David and Nathan Zellner, will be the subjects of a retrospective at Museum of the Moving Image, Kumiko and the Zellner Bros., from February 28 through March 5, 2015. The brothers will appear in person on Thursday, March 5, at 7:00 p.m., with a preview screening of their latest film, the Sundance favorite, Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter. The retrospective will also include their early features Frontier, Goliath, and Kid-Thing, and a compilation of their short films in the program Zellernoids! Short Film Cavalcade.

Indian super-star musician and composer A. R. Rahman, best known in the United States for his Academy Award-, Golden Globe-, and Grammy-winning score for Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire, will appear in person for the world premiere of Jai Ho, a new documentary about his career, at Museum of the Moving Image tonight, February 25, at 7:00 p.m.