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Actress Abbie Cornish has landed roles in two highly anticipated films, reports Variety. Cornish will play the female lead in 'Dark Fields', opposite Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro, and she will also star in 'W.E.', a period piece based on King Edward VIII's romance with Wallis Simpson, co-written by Madonna and Alex Keshinian. Madonna is also slated to direct 'W.E'.

Academy Award and Golden Globe nominee Eric Roberts will star in the highly anticipated new Syfy Saturday Original Movie Sharktopus, produced by cult movie legend Roger Corman, scheduled to premiere later in 2010.

FRIGID NEW YORK presents a performance tube creation PRODUCTION OF CRACK'd www.crackdshow.com. Written and Performed by Catherine Montgomery, directed by Samantha Madely

IMDB News is reporting that film director Baz Lurhmann will collaborate with Australian artist Vincent Fantauzzo to paint a mural on the wall of Le Sutra Hotel in Mumbai, India.

The French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF), New York's premiere French cultural center, will be starting off the New Year with CinémaTuesdays film programming in January and February dedicated to the fashionable French film icon and personality, Charlotte Gainsbourg.

The French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF), New York's premiere French cultural center, will be starting off the New Year with CinémaTuesdays film programming in January and February dedicated to the fashionable French film icon and personality, Charlotte Gainsbourg.

Applause Theatre & Cinema Books is excited to release the most current volumes of two of its most beloved annuals: Screen World and Theatre World. These beautiful books make great casual reads as well as the ultimate go-to source for every film and play of the year.

Jessica Hecht, Michael Cristofer, Santino Fontana and Corey Stoll are set to join the cast of Arthur Miller's A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE directed by Gregory Mosher on Broadway at the Cort Theatre (138 West 48th Street).

Ang Lee and James Schamus received The National Arts Club's Medal of Honor for Film at a dinner held in their honor on Wednesday, November 18th at The National Arts Club 15 Gramercy Park South (at 20th Street).

Phantom Audio will transform their large Chelsea loft into an art gallery - Phantom Gallery - for four days in September, and will present an exhibit of artist Don Florence's celebrity portraits entitled ACTORS, AUTHORS, OTHERS. Phantom Gallery is located at 48 West 25th Street, which is between 5th and 6th Avenues on the 10th Floor, and the exhibit ACTORS, AUTHORS, OTHERS will be held from September 24th through September 27th and will benefit the Playwrights Realm Theater Company.

Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director), in association with Sonia Friedman Productions and Ostar Productions presents Sienna Miller as 'Miss Julie', Jonny Lee Miller as 'John' and Marin Ireland as 'Christine' in the American premiere of playwright Patrick Marber's drama After Miss Julie, a version of Strindberg's Miss Julie, directed by Mark Brokaw.

The Primary Stages School of Theater (PSST) has announced a newly created Master Class Series that was created to provide students the chance to gain rare insight and experience from some of the finest working professionals in the theater.

Phantom Audio (www.PhantomAudio.com) - a full service audio production facility, offering radio production, film mixing, sound design and casting - will transform their large Chelsea loft into an art gallery - Phantom Gallery - for four days in September, and will present an exhibit of artist Don Florence's celebrity portraits entitled ACTORS, AUTHORS, OTHERS.

The Primary Stages School of Theater (PSST) has announced a newly created Master Class Series that was created to provide students the chance to gain rare insight and experience from some of the finest working professionals in the theater.

Phantom Audio (www.PhantomAudio.com) - a full service audio production facility, offering radio production, film mixing, sound design and casting - will transform their large Chelsea loft into an art gallery - Phantom Gallery - for four days in September, and will present an exhibit of artist Don Florence's celebrity portraits entitled ACTORS, AUTHORS, OTHERS.

Phantom Audio will transform their large Chelsea loft into an art gallery - Phantom Gallery - for four days in September, and will present an exhibit of artist Don Florence's celebrity portraits entitled ACTORS, AUTHORS, OTHERS. Phantom Gallery is located at 48 West 25th Street, which is between 5th and 6th Avenues on the 10th Floor, and the exhibit ACTORS, AUTHORS, OTHERS will be held from September 24th through September 27th and will benefit the Playwrights Realm Theater Company.

Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director), in association with Sonia Friedman Productions and Ostar Productions presents Sienna Miller as 'Miss Julie', Jonny Lee Miller as 'John' and Marin Ireland as 'Christine' in the American premiere of playwright Patrick Marber's drama After Miss Julie, a version of Strindberg's Miss Julie, directed by Mark Brokaw.

Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director), in association with Sonia Friedman Productions and Ostar Productions presents Sienna Miller as 'Miss Julie' and Jonny Lee Miller as 'John', both of whom will be making their Broadway debuts, in the American premiere of playwright Patrick Marber's drama After Miss Julie, a version of Strindberg's Miss Julie, directed by Mark Brokaw.

The 2009 MTV Movie Awards were held Los Angeles last night, Sunday May 31st, 2009. 'Twilight,' the popular vampire drama starring Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart, scored the golden MTV popcorn trophies for best movie, best fight, best kiss, breakthrough male performance and female performance during the wild ceremony at the Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City, California