United Artists News

Four noted Buffalo playwrights will each present the world premiere of a new ten-minute play during the 2013 Buffalo Infringement Festival. The four plays - each taking place inside and around a stationary automobile - will comprise an evening titled Car Plays 2013, opening tonight, July 25th and running through Saturday, August 3rd (Thursday/Friday/Saturday only).

Flying carpets, flying horses, and Douglas Fairbanks performing his own gymnastic stunts to save the princess! It's all part of 'The Thief of Bagdad.'

Four noted Buffalo playwrights will each present the world premiere of a new ten-minute play during the 2013 Buffalo Infringement Festival. The four plays - each taking place inside and around a stationary automobile - will comprise an evening titled Car Plays 2013, opening Thursday, July 25th and running through Saturday, August 3rd (Thursday/Friday/Saturday only).

Christel Schmidt, an OSU alum now a film historian for the Library of Congress, will give a brief introduction to this year's CAPA Summer Movie Series silent film selection, The Little American (1917), starring 'America's Sweetheart,' Mary Pickford. Schmidt's specialty is the history of silent film with a focus on the life and career of Mary Pickford, and she will provide some insight on the actress, the pre-screening 14-minute fund-raising short for the US' Fourth Liberty Loan Drive in WWI titled One Hundred Percent American (1918) starring Pickford, and the series premiere of this feature film restoration print from the UCLA Film & Television Archive.

The original 'James Bond' Walther gun used in Octopussy will be going up for auction later this month at Profiles in History's Hollywood Auction on July 29th, 2013.

Little Angel Theatre presents one of Shakespeare's most bloodthirsty tragedies. Following their previous collaborations with The RSC on Venus and Adonis and The Tempest, experience the clawing ambition and sweeping hysteria of Macbeth in this gripping new puppetry production, staged at the intimate Little Angel Theatre, Islington.

Atlantic Screen Productions presents the world premiere of A VICTORIAN EYE by Rory Fellowes. Directed by Maureen Payne-Hahner, the show features designer Tim Dann, lighting designer David W. Kidd, costume designer Lyn Avery. Starring Nigel Dunbar as Sir William Blake Richmond R.A. Produced by Tim Hollier, the show runs 30 July to 17 August Jermyn Street Theatre. Press Night 31 July 7.30pm.

Regal Entertainment Group (NYSE: RGC), a leading motion picture exhibitor owning and operating the largest theatre circuit in the United States, announces that the Twentieth Century Fox epic Cleopatra will return to the big screen to commemorate its 50th anniversary. Tickets are on sale now online and at 75 participating Regal Cinemas, United Artists and Edwards Theatres for the May 22 triumphant return of this cinematic treasure.

The Society for the Preservation of Music Hall (SPMH) presents its first silent film - Buster Keaton in Steamboat Bill, Jr., featuring the Mighty Wurlitzer and acclaimed theatre organist Clark Wilson - at Cincinnati's Music Hall Ballroom today, May 9 at 10:30 AM and 7:00 PM. The event is being presented in cooperation with the Ohio Valley Chapter of the American Organ Society.

The company of the Keen Company production of Marry Me A Little, Lauren Molina and Jason Tam, will enter the studio today, April 26th, to preserve the Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording for Ghostlight Records. A summer release is planned. Joel Moss will produce the album, with Kurt Deutsch serving as Executive Producer. Musical Director is John Bell.

Cebu City, the 'Queen City of the South,' has seven theater groups, collectively known as the United Artists of Cebu; and they are staging a benefit concert 'Of Butterflies and Daisies' for Cebu Cancer Fight Inc. and playwright/director Daisy Baad, also a cancer patient, at Cebu Cultural Center, Lahug, Cebu City (across UP-Cebu) on Saturday, April 27 and Sunday, April 28 at 7 p.m.

The Society for the Preservation of Music Hall (SPMH) presents its first silent film - Buster Keaton in Steamboat Bill, Jr., featuring the Mighty Wurlitzer and acclaimed theatre organist Clark Wilson - at Cincinnati's Music Hall Ballroom on Thursday, May 9 at 10:30 AM and 7:00 PM. The event is being presented in cooperation with the Ohio Valley Chapter of the American Organ Society.

In the golden age of Hollywood cinema, actors may have all the glory, but studio execs have all the power. The Hoff-Federated studio has had its most successful star, Charlie Castle (Bobby Cannavale) , over a barrel ever since it helped cover up a mistake that could have ended his career. When a woman with insider knowledge threatens to come forward, the studio heads will stop at nothing to protect Charlie's secret... but how far is he willing to go before he quits the movie business for good?

MUSE/IQUE, an innovative cross-genre music organization curated by noted artistic director/conductor Rachael Worby, continues its popular Uncorked Series with 'Powerhouse from the Firehouse: The Legendary Tena Clark Backstage,' including special guests Patti Austin and Mary Wilson, tonight, March 11, 2013, 7 pm, in an intimate setting on the Pasadena Civic Auditorium stage.

MUSE/IQUE, an innovative cross-genre music organization curated by noted artistic director/conductor Rachael Worby, continues its popular Uncorked Series with 'Powerhouse from the Firehouse: The Legendary Tena Clark Backstage,' including special guests Patti Austin and Mary Wilson, on Monday, March 11, 2013, 7 pm, in an intimate setting on the Pasadena Civic Auditorium stage.

Regal Entertainment Group (NYSE: RGC), a leading motion picture exhibitor owning and operating the largest theatre circuit in the United States, today announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Hollywood Theaters.

The Theatre Alliance of Buffalo (TAB) announced a collaborative fundraising event called APPLAUSE FOR HOPE in support of Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI). On Saturdays in February 2013, fourteen participating TAB theaters will be donating 30%* of their ticket sales to fund RPCI's extraordinary work on a cancer vaccine and its promise to save lives. For more information visit www.theatreallianceofbuffalo.com.

Julia Stiles has officially signed on for the upcoming Mary Pickford biopic, THE FIRST, according to Variety.

Regal Entertainment Group, a leading motion picture exhibitor owning and operating the largest theatre circuit in the United States, announced Regal Oscar Movie Week featuring all nine Best Picture nominated films back on the big screen Friday, February 15, through Thursday, February 21. Tickets go on sale Friday, February 1 at participating Regal Cinemas, United Artists and Edwards Theatres.

The Assoicated Press reports that British filmmaker and 'Death Wish' director Michael Winner has died at the age of 77. The news was shared by his wife Geraldine this morning. Winner passed away at his home in London following an illness.