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Tom Ortenberg, CEO of Open Road Films, today announced the acquisition of all U.S. distribution rights to the animated feature film PLAYMOBIL

Netflix has acquired worldwide rights to the high-concept action thriller WHEELMAN starring Frank Grillo.

Gerard Butler, Morgan Freeman, Aaron Eckhart, and Angela Bassett could be seen this week on the red, white and blue carpet to celebrate the premiere of LONDON HAS FALLEN - the sequel to 2013's hit “Olympus Has Fallen.'

While it's fun to see a non-American city get destroyed every once in awhile, LONDON HAS FALLEN is no more than terrorsploitation, xenophobic destruction porn that tugs on all the right strings. Unfortunately, those strings are attached to the lowest common (American) denominator.

Spotlight Pictures has acquired international sales rights for the sports drama, COURAGE, based on an inspirational true story and the novel “Courage Beyond the Game: The Freddie Steinmark Story” by Jim Dent.

Hampstead Theatre presents the UK premiere of David Lindsay-Abaire's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama RABBIT HOLE, directed by Edward Hall. Claire Skinner (as Becca) and Alison Steadman (as Nat, Becca's mother) star in the production, which begins previews tonight, January 29, 2016. Edward Hall directs.

Rabbit Hole, the Pulitzer Prize winning play written by David Lindsay-Abaire, will be performed by Millersville University Theatre, February 19 - 28, 2016, at Dutcher Hall on Millersville University's campus.

Clint Eastwood's SULLY biopic, starring stage and screen vet Tom Hanks as pilot hero Captain Chesley 'Sully' Sullenberger, will hit theaters and IMAX on September 9, 2016.

As previously reported, Hampstead Theatre will present the UK premiere of David Lindsay-Abaire's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama RABBIT HOLE, directed by Edward Hall. Now, The Daily Mail writes that a restrained Claire Skinner (as Becca) and Alison Steadman (as Nat, Becca's mother) will star in the production, which begins on January 29, 2016.

Hampstead Theatre presents the UK premiere of acclaimed playwright David Lindsay-Abaire's Pulitzer Prize winning drama Rabbit Hole directed by Edward Hall.

New York Madness will Launch their Season on Sept 22nd at 8pm with Featured Guest Playwright Neil LaBute (The Way We Get By, Bash: Latter-Day Plays, Outer Critics Circle Award for Fat Pig, Independent Spirit Award for In the Company of Men, Reasons to be Pretty, Reason to be Happy, American Academy Arts and Letters.) 

Today, Amazon announced a multi-year content licensing agreement with U.S. film distribution company Open Road Films that will make Prime the exclusive non-cable premium subscription home for Open Road Films' theatrical releases, beginning with their 2016 theatrical slate.

Based upon the book “Courage Beyond the Game: The Freddie Steinmark Story” by Jim Dent comes the movie MY ALL AMERICAN, who premiered their new film poster on June 24.

'Bleed For This' is the true-life story of World Champion Boxer Vinny Pazienza who, after a near fatal car crash, made one of the most incredible comebacks in sports and boxing history.

Good morning, BroadwayWorld! Because we know all our readers eat, sleep and breathe Broadway, what could be better than waking up to it? Today's big news: DOCTOR ZHIVAGO brings the Russian revolution to Broadway tonight, and this year's Drama League nominees will be announced today!

Last night, the Independent Spirit Awards ceremony took place in LA, and Kristen Bell and Fred Armisen had a little surprise for viewers: a parody on the award-winning film BIRDMAN. Check out the clip below!

Film Independent, the nonprofit arts organization that produces the Spirit Awards, Los Angeles Film Festival and Film Independent at LACMA, handed out top honors to Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), Boyhood, Whiplash and Nightcrawler at this afternoon's 30th Film Independent Spirit Awards.

Mary Chase's Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy HARVEY directed by Lindsay Posner, will open at Birmingham Repertory Theatre on 6 February, running until 21 February. First produced on Broadway in 1944 where it ran for four years, this new production stars James Dreyfus as Elwood P. Dowd and Maureen Lipman as his sister, Veta.

Comedy giant Larry the Cable Guy brings his award-winning comedy to WWE's Monday Night Raw when he guest stars on Monday, November 24 at 8/7C on the USA Network.

Theatre Royal Bath Productions welcomes Richard Schiff, Nigel Lindsay and Lindsay Lohan in David Mamet's SPEED-THE-PLOW at London's Playhouse Theatre, opening officially tonight, October 2, for a strictly limited run. A high-octane modern classic, SPEED-THE-PLOW is a brilliantly satirical portrayal of Hollywood filled with Mamet's trademark wit and mesmerizing dialogue.