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Today the Los Angeles Film Festival, in conjunction with Presenting Media Sponsor the Los Angeles Times and Host Partner L.A. LIVE, announced Academy Award-winning director William Friedkin as Guest Director for the 2012 Festival. (more...)

The Museum of Modern Art has announced its ongoing and upcoming screenings and discussions through the end of May. See details below. (more...)

Joining the ensemble cast of BOSS as series regulars this season is Jonathan Groff (Spring Awakening, "Glee") as Ian Todd, a smart and ambitious young advisor to Kane. (more...)

For the first edition of the Champs-Elysées Film Festival, the American film producer and movie studio chairman The Weinstein Company’s Harvey Weinstein will be honored. He was the co-founder of Miramax Films with his brother Bob and subsequently they founded The Weinstein Company together in 2005. (more...)

Kenny Mellman (Our Kit Parade, The Julie Ruin, Kiki & Herb) joins the cast of Michael Cyril Creighton’s critically acclaimed web sitcom “JACK IN A BOX” for the series’ 28th episode, along returning cast members Lusia Strus and Desiree Burch. “Jack in a Box” was a nominee for the 2012 Writers Guild of America Award for Outstanding Achievement in Writing Original New Media and was the winner of Best Web Series at the 2010 New York Television Festival. The series is in its fourth and final season. (more...)

The Film Society of Lincoln Center’s year-long countdown to the New York Film Festival’s historic 50th edition continues this spring, offering the rare opportunity to view several undisputed classics of the big screen, many of which were introduced to the world at NYFF. These include breakthrough films from the 1990s by Zhang Yimou, Gus Van Sant, Jane Campion and more. A special appearance will be made by director/editor Steve James at the Hoop Dreams screening on Tuesday, June 5. (more...)

Paul Gross, one of Canada’s acclaimed actors, will lead the cast of Are You There, McPhee? a world premiere by John Guare at McCarter Theatre Center. Directed by Sam Buntrock, the production will run from May 4 through June 3, 2012. (Opening Night: Friday, May 11.) (more...)

The STARZ Original Series BOSS is set to premiere its second season on Friday, August 17th at 10pm ET/PT. Joining the ensemble cast as series regulars this season are Jonathan Groff (Spring Awakening, "Glee") as Ian Todd, a smart and ambitious young advisor to Kane. (more...)

As first reported in The Hollywood Reporter, Taylor Lautner is set to star in Adam Sandler's upcoming sequel to the 2010 feature film GROWN UPS from Columbia Pictures. (more...)

National Geographic Channels announced today that Academy Award-Nominated actor Josh Brolin will narrate Untamed Americas — the four-hour high-definition miniseries event that reveals the grit and glory in the wilds of North America, Central America and South America. (more...)

Felicity Huffman and William H. Macy yesterday became the second married couple to receive a Hollywood Walk of Fame star on the same day (following producers Richard and Lauren Shuler Donner in 2008). The actors - who both appeared on Broadway in two separate productions of David Mamet's Speed-the-Plow - welcomed the playwright and other high-profile stars to celebrate their new place on the Walk of Fame. Check out photos below! (more...)

CHICO & RITA, set in the jazz worlds of Havana, New York, and Europe, opens its US theatrical run on February 10 at NYC’s Angelika Film Center (18 W. Houston St., 212-995-2570) before expanding nationally. The film by Academy Award® winning director Fernando Trueba (Belle Epoque) won Best Animated Feature at the 2011 European Film Awards as well as Spain’s Goya Awards, has been nominated for an Annie Award, and is vying for an Academy Award® in the Best Animated Feature category. CHICO & RITA has been released internationally to wide critical acclaim and is currently 95% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, the highest rated film in the current Animated Oscar® race. (more...)

Award-winning Seattle producer, musician and composer Wayne Horvitz has partnered with ACT – A Contemporary Theatre’s Central Heating Lab to present Smokestack Arias. (more...)

CHICO & RITA, set in the jazz worlds of Havana, New York, and Europe, opens its US theatrical run on February 10 at NYC’s Angelika Film Center (18 W. Houston St., 212-995-2570) before expanding nationally. The film by Academy Award® winning director Fernando Trueba (Belle Epoque) won Best Animated Feature at the 2011 European Film Awards as well as Spain’s Goya Awards, has been nominated for an Annie Award, and is vying for an Academy Award® in the Best Animated Feature category. CHICO & RITA has been released internationally to wide critical acclaim and is currently 95% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, the highest rated film in the current Animated Oscar® race. (more...)

With the musical audacity of early Elton John, the acerbic humour of Chelsea Handler and the narrative grit of Gus Van Sant, American recording artist Ezra Axelrod will launch his debut album, Songs from the American Motel, with a month-long West End residency at Leicester Square Theatre. (more...)

IFC is releasing ten limited edition prints this season, one for each episode of Portlandia. To find out how to win an artist signed, limited silk-screen of each print, visit: facebook.com/portlandia. (more...)

Award-winning Seattle producer, musician and composer Wayne Horvitz has partnered with ACT – A Contemporary Theatre’s Central Heating Lab to present Smokestack Arias. (more...)

Cornish College of the Arts has announced its spring 2012 events calendar. The spring schedule of events features a diverse schedule of exhibitions, music, theater and dance performances. (more...)

STARZ was acknowledged by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association this morning with two nominations at the 69th Annual Golden Globe(R) nominations ceremony. Veteran actor Kelsey Grammer and the revered new STARZ Original series in which he stars, BOSS were both recognized. (more...)

The power to unlock Portlandia is at your fingertips! Starting today, new and existing fans who take a trip to Portlandia on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/portlandia) and "Like" the page will unlock the exclusive Facebook Only sketch "Everyone's a DJ" from the new season on IFC. (more...)