Steven Spielberg News

Violinist Itzhak Perlman returns to Houston for a recital concert on Thursday, Feb. 7, at 8 p.m. in Jones Hall, presented by Society for the Performing Arts.

The SAG Awards Ceremony Auction benefiting the Screen Actors Guild Foundation's Children's Literacy and Emergency Assistance programs begins online today at 6 p.m. (PT) atsagawards.org/auction.

The Paramount Theatre continues to celebrate its origins as a spectacular, 1920s art deco movie palace with its ongoing Classic Movie Mondays film series.

The MENSCH International Foundation and Steven Geiger, the Foundation's Founder, will present The 2013 International Holocaust Remembrance Day Program honoring two-time Academy Award-winning producer, BRANKO LUSTIG ("Schindler's List," "Gladiator") with The 2013 MENSCH For All Seasons Award to be held at the Writer's Guild Theater, 135 South Doheny Drive (south of Wilshire Boulevard), Beverly Hills, CA 90211 on Tuesday, January 29, 2013 at 7:00 p.m. The event will also feature eight distinguished guest speakers, along with film clips.

HBO has finally announced its follow-up to the previous miniseries BAND OF BROTHERS and THE PACIFIC. The latest entry comes as an adaptation of Donald Miller's nonfiction piece, MASTERS OF THE AIR - with Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks set as executive producers. The Hollywood Reporter first broke the news.

BBC AMERICA will premiere in the U.S., Top Gear, the world's biggest car show, just days after its UK debut.

The MENSCH International Foundation and Steven Geiger, the Foundation's Founder, will present The 2013 International Holocaust Remembrance Day Program honoring two-time Academy Awarda-winning producer, BRANKO LUSTIG ("Schindler's List," "Gladiator") with The 2013 MENSCH For All Seasons Award to be held at the Writer's Guild Theater, 135 South Doheny Drive (south of Wilshire Boulevard), Beverly Hills, CA 90211 on Tuesday, January 29, 2013 at 7:00 p.m. The event will also feature eight distinguished guest speakers, along with film clips.

NBC has just released a new promo for the highly anticipated second season of the musical drama SMASH. The video teases, 'Follow your dreams, Follow your passion, Follow your heart... but watch your back!' SMASH Season 2 kicks off Tuesday, February 5th at 9/8c on NBC. Check out the promo below!

DreamWorks Studios has acquired the manuscript to Matthew Quick's latest work entitled "The Good Luck of Right Now," it was announced today by Holly Bario, President of Production of the studio. Quick authored the book "The Silver Linings Playbook," as well as the young adult novels "Boy 21," "Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock," and "Sorta Like a Rock Star."

After five successful seasons on the groundbreaking series iCarly, Jerry Trainor steps into his first starring and producing role on Nick at Nite's brand-new live-action family comedy,WENDELL & VINNIE, premiering Sunday, Feb. 17, at 8p.m. (ET/PT).

Vulture.com reports that Warner Bros. Pictures is currently in talks with Amblin Entertainment over a possible remake of the1984 horror comedy GREMLINS.

The Museum of Modern Art and the Film Society of Lincoln Center today announced seven official selections for the 2013 New Directors/New Films Festival (ND/NF) (March 20-31). Dedicated to the discovery of new works by emerging and dynamic filmmaking talent, the 2013 edition marks the film festival's 42nd year.

While Steven Spielberg and Daniel Day Lewis have presented Abraham Lincoln in the film Lincoln, and Quentin Tarrantino and Jamie Foxx brings us Djamgo Unchained, actor/author James McEachin (who once wrote a screenplay with Spielberg) offers a uniquely different story of emancipation in his powerful novel Tell Me a Tale; a novel of the Old South.

DreamWorks Pictures announced today that a behind-the-scenes special, "Lincoln: An American Journey," an exploration of the making of their highly commended film "Lincoln," debuts online today, Wednesday, January 16, on Apple iTunes at 12:00 p.m. (PST). The special will also be aired on television on Sunday, January 20, on KCBS at 9:00 a.m. (PST).

The Museum of Modern Art and the Film Society of Lincoln Center today announced seven official selections for the 2013 New Directors/New Films Festival (ND/NF) (March 20-31). Dedicated to the discovery of new works by emerging and dynamic filmmaking talent, the 2013 edition marks the film festival's 42nd year.

Museum of the Moving Image has announced two special programs in Changing the Picture, an ongoing series of screenings and discussions sponsored by Time Warner, Inc. The series celebrates and explores the work of film and television artists of color who are bringing diverse voices to the screen. On Monday, January 21, at 4:00 p.m., for the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day holiday, the Museum will present "Tongues Untied, True Tales Told" featuring the legendary Ruby Dee, S. Epatha Merkerson (currently featured in Steven Spielberg's Lincoln), and Barbara Montgomery (who will screen excerpts from her new film Mitote), in a "town hall" discussion about the past, present, and future of African-American women in film and television.