Movies News Desk - Page 87

According to the Daily Mail, 'Greatest Showman on Earth' Hugh Jackman will portray ski expert 'Chuck Berghorn' in EDDIE THE EAGLE, an upcoming biopic on the UK's first ski jumper to enter the Winter Olympics in 1988. Dexter Fletcher directs.

From director Clint Eastwood comes AMERICAN SNIPER, starring Bradley Cooper as Chris Kyle, the most lethal sniper in U.S. military history. The film hit theaters on Christmas Day and, according to ComingSoon.net, will be expanding to Imax on January 16, 2015.

Museum of the Moving Image has announced the lineup for its First Look Festival, an expanded and reconceived version of its annual showcase for inventive new international cinema. Now in its fourth year, First Look,with a lineup that has expanded both in size and scope, is now officially a festival, the first major moving image event of the year. First Look will take place at the Museum from today, January 9 through 18, 2015.

The new film PRESERVATION, written & directed by Christopher Denham and starring Pablo Schreiber (Orange Is The New Black), Aaron Staton (Mad Men), and Wrenn Schmidt (Boardwalk Empire), hits theaters today, January 9th, 2015.

Vertical Entertainment presents The Spierig Brothers' PREDESTINATION, starring Ethan Hawke, Sarah Snook and Noah Taylor. The film opens in theaters and on demand today, January 9, 2015.

Broadway veteran and Tony Award-winner Nikki M. James is using her star power to help raise funds for Creative Alternatives of New York (CANY), which empowers trauma survivors through drama therapy.

Michael Keaton is close to lining up his next big screen project. According to Deadline, the BIRDMAN star is in talks to join Legendary Pictures' KONG: SKULL ISLAND.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Reese Witherspoon will star opposite Matt Damon in Alexander Payne's upcoming film DOWNSIZING.

Deadline reports that Ansel Elgort has signed on for NOVEMBER CRIMINALS, opposite Chloe Grace Moretz.

Marvel just unveiled its first full, official look at ANT-MAN during tonight's AGENT CARTER. The movie, starring Paul Rudd, hits theaters July 17. Watch the all-new trailer below!

Miss Hill: Making Dance Matter tells the inspiring and largely unknown story of Martha Hill, a visionary whose life was defined by her love for dance, and who successfully fought against great odds to establish modern dance as a legitimate art form in America.

Tonight, January 7th from 7 to 8 p.m., Strand welcomes Farran Smith Nehme and a special panel of film experts to celebrate the release of her novel, Missing Reels. Joining Farran in conversation will be Vanity Fair's James Wolcott, film critic Matt Zoller Seitz, and Anne Helen Petersen, author of Scandals of Classic Hollywood.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Perla Haney-Jardine will portray Steve Jobs's daughter Lisa in Universal's upcoming biopic based on Walter Isaacson's biography about the Apple co-founder. Danny Boyle directs.

Variety reports that Channing Tatum's X-Men spinoff GAMBIT will hit theaters October 7, 2016, just three months after X-MEN: APOCALYPSE graces the big screen.

WILD CARD, directed by Simon West and starring Jason Statham, will hit theaters and On Demand the U.S. on January 30, 2015.

The Writers Guild of America, East today announced that Norman Lear will receive the Evelyn F. Burkey Award at the 67th annual Writers Guild Awards in New York City on February 14, 2014. Bill Moyers will present Lear with the Burkey Award, which recognizes a person or organization whose contributions have brought honor and dignity to writers.

Gravitas Ventures will release 'Appropriate Behavior' theatrically and on VOD January 16th.

Freestyle Digital Media (FDM) announced today that their Brazilian-set action thriller “Falcon Rising” will be available on Netflix starting today, January 4th, 2015.

In the bright spotlight of New Year's Day college football bowl games, The Lincoln Motor Company will launch its newest ad campaign promoting the 2015 Lincoln MKZ and Lincoln MKZ Hybrid and featuring Matthew McConaughey.

According to an article on Yahoo! Parenting, mother L'Sean Rinique Shelton started a petition to retract ads for Target's recent ANNIE-inspired clothing line after her 8-year-old biracial daughter asked why 'the new black Annie isn't good enough' after seeing a white model dressed in the musical orphan's red frock.