Melissa Leo News

Paramount Home Media Distribution announced today that Robert Zemeckis' FLIGHT, starring Denzel Washington, will be available on Blu-ray, DVD, Digital Download and On Demand on February 5th.

Tickets for Broadway's Orphans, starring Alec Baldwin and Shia LaBeouf, will go on sale to the general public today, December 30. Lyle Kessler's play will be directed by Daniel Sullivan. This production will begin performances on March 19 and open on April 7 2013 at the Schoenfeld Theatre (236 West 45th Street); this will be the first Broadway staging of the play. Frederick Zollo and Robert Cole are the producers.

Tickets for Broadway's ORPHANS, starring Alec Baldwin and Shia LaBeouf, will go on sale to the general public on December 30. Lyle Kessler's play will be directed by Daniel Sullivan. This production will begin performances on March 19 and open on April 7 2013 at the Schoenfeld Theatre (236 West 45th Street); this will be the first Broadway staging of the play. Frederick Zollo and Robert Cole are the producers.

Dallas Theater Center will conclude its four-year Shakespeare cycle with one of the playwright's greatest tragedies King Lear, a co-production with Trinity Repertory Company and directed by DTC artistic director Kevin Moriarty. King Lear opens for previews on Friday, January 18 and runs through Sunday, February 18.

The multi-award-winning NoHo Arts Center Ensemble (NoHoAce) announces that the world premiere play, ONE NOVEMBER YANKEE, written and directed by Joshua Ravetch and starring two-time Emmy winner Loretta Swit and four-time Golden Globe nominee Harry Hamlin will be adapted into a feature film, written by Joshua Ravetch for Pam Williams Productions. The play, which is now extended thru Saturday, January 12, 2013 at the NoHo Arts Center, stars veteran actors Lorreta Swit and Harry Hamlin as siblings who discover the wreckage of a single engine plane crash years after the accident has occurred.

Shia LaBeouf, the BAFTA and Emmy Award winning star of Transformers, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps and Lawless will make his Broadway debut this spring in ORPHANS.

Lakeshore Records will release the ANY DAY NOW - Original Score digitally today, December 11, 2012. The album features original score by Joey Newman (TV's The Middle, TV's Little People, Big World).

The first official trailer for OBLIVION, starring Tom Cruise, has been released. The film will be coming to theaters exclusively on IMAX on April 12 and will go wide on April 19. Check it out below!

The first trailer for OBLIVION, starring Tom Cruise, has been released. The film will be coming to theaters exclusively on IMAX on April 12 and will go wide on April 19. Check out the trailer below!

Deadine reports that Mark Wahlberg is set to produce a reality pilot for the A&E cable network based on his feature film THE FIGHTER.

The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP), the nation's oldest and largest organization of independent filmmakers announced today the nominees for the Gotham Independent Film Awards™.

Warner Bros. announced the release dates of several high-profile films for 2013. Included in these are the Hugh Jackman and Melissa Leo drama PRISONERS, set for a release of Sept. 20, 2013, and the Steve Carrell-Jim Carrey magician comedy, THE INCREDIBLE BURT WONDERSTONE for March 15, 2013.

Deadline reports that Broadway vet Paul Dano has joined the cast of Warner Bros' upcoming thriller PRISNORS.

The Weinstein Company (TWC) announced today that they have acquired U.S. rights from Butler Films to distribute THE BUTLER, directed by Academy Award nominated Lee Daniels (PRECIOUS).

Created by David Simon (HBO's 'The Wire,' 'Generation Kill' and 'The Corner') and Eric Overmyer ('St. Elsewhere,' 'Homicide: Life on the Street' and HBO's 'The Wire'), the Peabody-winning drama series TREME kicks off its ten-episode third season TONIGHT, SEPT. 23 (10:00-11:00 p.m. ET/PT), exclusively on HBO.

Sidney Poitier's 'To Sir, With Love,' the story of an idealistic engineer who takes a teaching job and faces a group of rough and disorderly white high school students from London's East End will air as the culmination of American Graduate Day tonight, September 22 at 9 p.m. on Reel 13.

Taciturn ex-con Francine (Melissa Leo) has difficulty adjusting to life in a small lakeside town when she begins working with animals, and finds herself growing increasingly isolated from the community. Unable to form the human connections that will help her to re-assimilate into society, Francine falls into a tragic cycle of anti-social behavior.