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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.

Disney just unveiled a new still from its upcoming mystery adventure film TOMORROWLAND, directed by Brad Bird and starring George Clooney, Britt Robertson, Raffey Cassidy and Hugh Laurie. Check it out below!

Legend states that events come in threes -- a phenomenon in its truest form for The Philip K. Dick Science Fiction Film Festival as it embarks on a third year honoring the literary world's most nuanced and visionary author, Philip K. Dick. The highly anticipated four-day experience from January 15-18, 2015 will screen at three distinguished locations including The Cervantes Institute, Tribeca Cinemas and The Producer's Club and features a slate of innovative features and shorts which capture the distinctive boldness of the the genre and brings forth the most riveting moments of science fiction cinema ever to grace the big screen.

This Christmas Brain Damage Films presents The Bible Belt Slasher: The Holy Terror, a love letter to the 1980's and its low budget slashers from the mind of Bradley Creanzo.

Freestyle Digital Media (FDM) has announced today, December 30, 2014 as the DVD release date for DANCE OFF, which will be available for purchase at Walmart and other retailers nationwide. The film was released on VOD in October 2014.

Turner Classic Movies just posted its annual remembrance of film industry contributors who passed away in 2014, including stage vets Mike Nichols, Lauren Bacall and more. Watch and pay your respects in the video below...

New York's Treehouse Theater previously announced that it would present a live reading of the script for Sony's controversial comedy film THE INTERVIEW. The free event will be held tonight, December 27th at 7 p.m., at 154 West 29th Street in Manhattan.

USA Today writes that Amy Adams has spoken out about having her live interview for THE TODAY SHOW pulled just minutes before airtime on Monday, December 22, after she refused to comment on Sony's hacking controversy.

GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY director James Gunn sat down for 'The Q&A with Jeff Goldsmith' podcast and revealed a juicy tidbit about his original plans for Stan Lee's cameo.

Following today's news that THE INTERVIEW would hit selected theaters on Christmas Day after all, Entertainment Weekly culled together a list of all the venues screening the movie. Check it out below!

To celebrate the release of the new ANNIE movie, Brooklyn cello/drums duo Live Footage just dropped their new version of the song, 'Hard Knock Life.' Watch and listen below!