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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.

Variety writes that Kathy Bates and Danny Glover are the latest to join the cast of Joshua Marston's first English-language film.

Deadline writes that Denis Villenueve's drama SICARIO will hit theaters in a limited release on September 18, 2015, starring Emily Blunt, Benicio Del Toro and Josh Brolin. Lionsgate will go wide with the film on September 25.

Image Entertainment, an RLJ Entertainment (NASDAQ: RLJE) brand, in association with DreadCentral announce the DVD and digital download release of Zombieworld.

The compelling and critically acclaimed drama WHIPLASH arrives on Blu-ray, DVD and Digital HD today, Feb. 24 from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.

Common and his friends such as Oprah, Kelly Rowland, director Ava DuVernay, Jay-Z, Beyonce, Shonda Rhimes, Carmen Ejogo and Andre Holland toasted with CÎROC to their Best Picture nomination for SELMA at Ysabel in West Hollywood on Friday, February 20th. Scroll down for photos!

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Tom Cruise's MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 5 has stopped production to retool the film's ending. Director Christopher McQuarrie is developing a new closing with a mystery writer friend.

Nominees for the 35th Annual Razzie Awards, satirizing the Worst Achievements in Film for 2014, included new names and several Repeat Offenders, returning for more pie-in-the-face/light-hearted joshing by the one Tinsel Town trophy derby no one sets out to win. 'Winners' in all categories were announced on the now traditional date of 'Oscar Eve', at 8pm yesterday, February 21 at the Montalban Theatre in Hollywood. Scroll down for the full list of winners!

Entertainment Weekly writes that Kristen Stewart is the first American actress to win France's Cesar Award. The ceremony was held tonight, February 20.

Deadline writes that Steven Spielberg hopes to direct Disney's INDIANA JONES reboot, with Chris Pratt in the title role. The legendary helmer directed Harrison Ford in the first four movies.

According to Entertainment Weekly, Open Road Films has set Christmas Day, December 25, 2015 as the release date for Oliver Stone's Edward Snowden biopic. Joseph Gordon-Levitt stars as the infamous whistleblower.