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Ginnifer Goodwin has made a huge effort to hone her acting craft. Not only does she have a Bachelors Degree in Fine Arts in Acting with honors from Boston University, but she also studied with the Shakespeare Institute and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. Shes done everything from work on stage to the silver screen and voiced animated characters. Goodwin has even sung for a few roles.

She is best known for her role as Snow White in Once Upon A Time, but Goodwin has a pretty varied acting resume behind her. Shes appeared in family-friendly roles (and is set to reprise one of them in Zootopia 2 for Disney), thrillers, dramas, and more soapy TV series. Many of her best roles are actually on television, perhaps because these are projects that allow her to spend a little bit more time with the characters she plays.

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Matthew Perry was born with a love for comedy. Many of his co-stars and people close to him often talked about how Perry was always able to make them laugh no matter the situation.

Matthew Perry and Maggie Wheeler in Friends | Credits: Warner Bros. Television

Well, Friends star Maggie Wheeler, who portrayed the role of Janice Hosenstein in the show, owes her iconic catchphrase to Perry’s antics. If it weren’t for Matthew Perry, the world may never have heard the catchphrase ‘Oh My God’.

How Matthew Perry Helped Maggie Wheeler With Her Catchphrase

Believe it or not, the catchphrase ‘Oh My God’ said by Janice throughout the entirety of Friends wasn’t scripted. It was the result of improvisation, trying not to laugh, and, Matthew Perry’s comedy.

Maggie Wheeler in Friends | Credits: Warner Bros. Television

Maggie Wheeler, who portrayed the role of Janice, found worldwide fame and...

Friends ran for a complete decade, bringing new stories every year from 1994 to 2004. And while some shows lose their spark when stretched so long, Friends remained as charming as ever. After its end, the main actors went their separate ways, but things didn’t work out too well for Matthew Perry, who was facing a bit of bad luck in the industry.

Matthew Perry in Friends (1994-2004) | Credits: Warner Bros. Television

One failed movie after the other caused studios to stop offering him roles and while his time on Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip and other television shows was “fun,” there was a time when he wished that Friends had never come to an end.

Matthew Perry on his Career After Friends

A still from Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (2006-2007) | Credits: Warner Bros. Television

Buzzfeed sat down with the late actor back in 2015 where he expressed how he...

‘Friends’ star was found dead in his pool on October 28.

Friends star Matthew Perry died accidentally from “acute effects of ketamine” the County of Los Angeles Department of Medical Examiner announced on Friday.

The report went on to say contributory factors in the demise of the 54-year old, who was found dead on October 28 in a pool at his Los Angeles home, included drowning, coronary artery disease and the effects of buprenorphine, which is used to treat opioid use disorder.

The report continued, “The manner of death is accident. On October 28, at approximately 1600 hours, Mr. Perry was found unresponsive in the pool at his residence.

The Gilmore Girls star Lauren Graham was a close friend of Matthew Perry, and said he was really happy and satisfied before his untimely death.

“This last year, he was so proud of the book he wrote, and of how many people it touched,” Graham, 56, said on a CBS Mornings appearance Thursday. “It was a success that gave him a level of happiness that I hadn’t seen in him for a really long time, so that’s a nice memory.”

Perry died unexpectedly on Oct. 28 at age 54 at his Pacific Palisades home.

“I am still in shock,” Graham said. “I mean, it’s a really tragic loss, and he leaves his beautiful work behind. That’s something to be thankful for, and again, the book really meant something to him, so it was a really happy year for him.”

She fondly recalled her relationship with Perry.

“No one made me laugh as hard.

Lauren Graham is opening up about the close bond she shared with Matthew Perry, who died unexpectedly last month at age 54.

“I am still in shock,” the Gilmore Girls alum said during an appearance on CBS Mornings Thursday. “I mean, it’s just a really tragic loss, and he leaves his beautiful work behind. And that’s something to be thankful for, and again, the book [Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing] really meant something to him, so it was a really happy year for him.”

Graham added, “No one made me laugh as hard. I mean, just tears, streaming. There was just such joy in being around him and being his friend.”

The Los Angeles Police Department found the Friends star unresponsive in the hot tub at his L.A. home on Oct. 28. His cause of death is still under investigation as the L.A. County Medical Examiner’s Office awaits toxicology results. The coroner...

With the tragic news that Friends star Matthew Perry passed away last week, we wanted to honor the sitcom legend by asking what movie of his was your favorite?

Favorite Matthew Perry MovieA Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon (1988)She's Out of Control (1989)Fat Man and Little Boy (1989)Getting In (1994)Fools Rush In (1997)Almost Heroes (1998)Three To Tango (1999)The Whole Nine Yards (2000)Serving Sara (2002)The Whole Ten Yards (2004)Numb (2007)Birds of America (2008)17 Again (2009)Submit Vote HereView Results Here

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Matthew Perry, who became hugely famous thanks to his role on iconic TV sitcom Friends, has died at the age of 54. He was reportedly found in a jacuzzi at this home, but the investigation is ongoing. He'll be remembered primarily for his work on the comedy series, but enjoyed a long career on screens big and small. Matthew Langford Perry was born in Williamstown, Massachusetts, on August 19th, 1969. He was raised Ottawa, Canada, where he attended elementary school alongside Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. His mother, Suzanne Morrison, was a journalist and press secretary to Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, Justin's father, while his father, John Bennett Perry, was an actor and model.

Perry made his television debut in 1979 on an episode of 240-Robert (which starred his father). After moving to Los Angeles to pursue acting, he would go on to book roles in shows like Not Necessarily The News, Charles In Charge,...

‘Friends’ star was found dead at his Los Angeles home.

US actor Matthew Perry, best known for starring in hit sitcom Friends, has died aged 54.

He was found dead on Saturday (October 28) in a hot tub at his Los Angeles home, according to reports in the US media. Police are investigating the death.

Warner Bros Television Group, which produced Friends, said in a statement: “We are devastated by the passing of our dear friend Matthew Perry. [He] was an incredibly gifted actor and an indelible part of the Warner Bros Television Group family. The impact of his comedic genius was felt around the world,...

Matthew Perry, best known for his role as Chandler Bing on Friends, has died. He was 54.

The actor was found unconscious late this afternoon at his L.A. home by first responders who were unable to revive him, law enforcement sources told Deadline.

Perry’s death is considered an ongoing investigation, we hear.

Throughout his career, Perry struggled with addiction, which he detailed in his memoir “Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing,” published last year.

“I really lived life to its fullest and that got me in trouble from time to time,” he said in a US Weekly interview several years ago.

Perry made his television debut in 1979 on an episode of 240-Robert. He would go on to book roles in shows like Not Necessarily the News (1983), Charles in Charge (1985), Silver Spoons (1986), Just the Ten of Us (1988) and Highway to Heaven (1988). Perry would be a series regular on Boys Will be Boys...

Actor Matthew Perry, best known for his role on the hit comedy series Friends, has passed away.

Per THR, Perry was found dead on Saturday at a Los Angeles home where he "appears to have drowned," according to law enforcement. The report noted that first-responders had originally responded to a call for cardiac arrest before Perry was found deceased in a jacuzzi at the home. Reportedly, no drugs were found at the scene, and cops do not suspect foul play was involved. Perry was just 54 years old.

Perry rose to fame with his unforgettable role as Chandler Bing on the popular sitcom Friends. He played the role from 1994 to 2004 across ten seasons, garnering an Emmy nomination for the part. In 2021, Perry joined his co-stars from the series for the Max (then HBO Max) special Friends: The Reunion, reflecting on his time spent on the show. Given his association with the show,...

In the offices of Dunder Mifflin (Scranton branch), salesmen, accountants and even Hr got together to decide once and for all: Is Hilary Swank hot or not? They’re referring to her looks, but one could just as easily be talking about her career. At what point was Hilary Swank hot in her career? In 2008, when the episode aired: Yeah. In the years between her Oscars? Not exactly. Now? No. So, let’s take a look and find out…Wtf Happened to…Hilary Swank?

But to truly understand what the fuck happened to Hilary Swank, we go back to the beginning. And the beginning began when she was born on July 30th, 1974, in Lincoln, Nebraska. As a youth, Swank bounced around a bit, going from Nebraska to Washington to California, developing a love for both gymnastics (Junior Olympian; state finalist) and acting (appearing in The Jungle Book at 9 as Mowgli...

Colcoa, the Los Angeles-based French film festival, will be launching a competitive documentary section at its upcoming 25th edition.

The documentary lineup will tackle contemporary and historical topics such as climate change, immigration, transgender inclusion, holocaust revelations and centenary celebration. Seven documentaries will vie for the 2021 Colcoa Best Documentary Award.

“Documentary films have grown in prominence in France in the past few years, with more than 150 released in theaters in 2019 and strong sales worldwide,” said Colcoa’s deputy director Anouchka van Riel. “We are showing seven of the most innovative documentaries coming out of France today that cover the gamut of style, approach, and artistic vision.”

The roster include the North American premieres of actor-turned-filmmaker Aissa Maiga’s “Above Water” which opened at Cannes in the climate section; Jacques Loeuille’s “Birds of America” about Jean-Jacques Audubon, the American ornithologist, naturalist, and painter; Christophe Cognet’s “From Where They Stood...

The closing part of this year’s International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) kicks off Wednesday with a vast program of films and events that includes an all-new section and a showcase of works from up-and-coming filmmakers.

The first part of IFFR’s 50th edition, which ran Feb. 1-7, focused on the main Tiger, Big Screen and Ammodo Tiger Short competitions as well as the Limelight sidebar, a preview of upcoming arthouse releases. From February to June, the fest continued to stream films from its rich history as part of the IFFR Unleashed: 50/50 program.

A total 139 features, short and mid-length films are screening in the Harbour, Bright Future, Cinema Regained, Classics and Short and Mid-Length Film sections. Harbour is the festival’s newest and largest program.

“The port is the backbone of the city of Rotterdam and in the same way Harbour is the backbone of the festival itself,” says festival director Vanja Kaludjercic.

Exclusive: Mk2 Films, the sales wing of French major Mk2, is creating a private online market that will launch initially with its latest slate of documentaries.

Titled ‘Reality Beyond Fiction’, the five-day event will be available to registered buyers and will focus on completed films including Helmut Newton: The Bad And The Beautiful, which would have been Tribeca-bound before the fest was cancelled, and new title Colette, Mon Amour.

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The market opens for business on Wednesday, April 29, and will run until May 3. Buyers will be able to register via an online form on the company’s website (mk2films.com) and will be sent a secured private link to access the screening room.

The project is filming and set for a 2020 delivery.

Paris-based mk2 films will kick off sales this Afm on Emmanuel Courcol’s French comedy The Big Hit starring Kad Merad as a struggling actor, running theatre workshops in a local prison, who takes a rag-tag troupe of convicts on tour with a performance of Samuel Beckett’s famous play Waiting for Godot.

Agat Films is lead producing with actor-director Dany Boon on board as a co-producer through his company Les Productions du Ch’timi. Memento Films has taken French rights.

Merad, who is best known internationally for his role in...

Paris-based mk2 films, which is in Venice with three films including Robert Guédiguian’s competition entry “Gloria Mundi,” is bowing sales on a raft of prestige documentaries, notably Jia Zhang-ke’s “So Close to My Land” and Jacques Loeuille’s “Birds of America.”

“So Close to My Land” marks the sixth collaboration between mk2 and the Chinese auteur, whose latest film, “Ash Is Purest White,” competed at Cannes in 2018. Jia also competed at Cannes with “Mountains May Depart” in 2015 and “A Touch of Sin,” which won the best screenplay award in 2013.

“So Close to My Land” is the third and final installment in a trilogy focusing on different artistic disciplines in China, after “Dong” (2006), about an acclaimed painter, and “Useless” (2007), about the fashion and clothing industry. Jia’s 2010 film “I Wish I Knew” played at Cannes’ Un Certain Regard, while “Useless” and “Dong” opened at Venice and won prizes.

An...

‘Venom’ (Photo credit: Ctmg)

The critics hated Venom, blasted by Rolling Stone’s Pete Travers as a “puddle of simplistic, sanitized PG-13 drivel” and the worst Marvel film of the year, and by The Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw as clumsy, monolithic and fantastically boring.

Audiences must be watching a different movie as the Sony Pictures/Marvel Studios’ Spider-Man spin-off starring Tom Hardy, Michelle Williams and Riz Ahmed smashed October opening weekend records worldwide last weekend.

Bruce Beresford’s Ladies in Black clearly is benefiting from repeat business in its third weekend while Benjamin Gilmour’s Jirga advanced to $128,000 including festival screenings after taking $16,000 in its second weekend on 10 screens.

Paramount released Paw Patrol: Mighty Pups direct to home entertainment in the Us but gave it a theatrical run here as an alternate content release.

Transmission’s The Seagull didn’t fly while of the limited releases Madman Entertainment’s American Animals...

(l-r) Jared Abrahamson as Eric, Evans Peters as Warren, Blake Jenner as Chas and Barry Keoghan as Spencer in disguise, in Bart Layton’s American Animals. Photo courtesy of The Orchard.

American Animals opens with a screen showing the familiar words “this is based on a true story” but the text quickly changes to “this is a true story,” a hook sure to get your attention,

American Animals tells a strange but true story, of a daring daylight art heist, by four college students who attempt to steal a rare and valuable Audubon book from a Kentucky university, but it is the way it tells it – with the actual people involved periodically commenting on the story as the actors recrete the events like any crime film.

The combination of narrative film and documentary film techniques makes writer/director Bart Layman’s film unique. Sometimes a narrative film closely recreates real...

American Animals is a fascinating true crime story; made even more engaging by its brilliant format. The film intercuts the portrayal of an infamous heist with interviews from the actual people involved. We learn the motivations of the characters from two key perspectives, real time and hindsight. It is a meticulous and highly creative exploration into the vagaries of human nature. Acclaimed documentarian Bart Layton reaches greatness with his first narrative feature.

American Animals opens in 2003 Kentucky. Barry Keoghan stars as Spencer Reinhard, a disenchanted art student at Transylvania University. His middle-class, suburban life has left him hollow. He yearns for the passion and adventure that inspired the great artists. A chance tour of the school's library leads to a presentation of its rare book collection. The showcase piece, John Audubon's "Birds of America", is the most valuable book in the world.

Evan Peters co-stars as Warren Lipka, Spencer's best friend from high school.

With “Oceans 8” and “American Animals” now in theaters, heist movies are having a moment. It’s not hard to see why: During this chaotic chapter in the cultural history of the country, there’s nothing more fun than watching an elaborate cast of characters planning a near-impossible crime, one successfully pulled off with smooth moves, sleight of hand, and winks at the camera.

“American Animals” has become a surprise summer hit at the specialty box office, grossing nearly half a million dollars in its first two weeks. But it’s a different kind of heist movie than anything in the “Ocean’s” franchise. The crime draws from a real-life incident — when four college-aged Kentucky men attempted to steal some rare books from Transylvania University in 2004 — and director Bart Layton flips the script on the audience, by bringing in the real people involved to tell their story alongside the actors midway through.

Surely the 21st century equivalent to the old Hollywood trope “Let’s put on a show!” is, judging by the movies that get made, “Let’s pull off a heist!” What that says about the evolution of our wish-fulfillment fantasies is a tad worrisome, so it’s refreshing that “American Animals,” which recreates and dissects a real 2004 robbery committed by a quartet of thrill-seeking college kids, grasps that there’s something singularly regrettable in how our popular art glorifies criminality.

And yet, for a good deal of its running time, writer-director Bart Layton’s slick, music-fueled assemblage of recreated narrative and documentary manages to be as deftly comic and suspenseful as the bank job movies from which Layton, and the incident’s perpetrators, took inspiration. Until, that is, the reality of bad decisions and corrosive entitlement act as an all-too-necessary dampener.

The crime was known as the “Transy Book Heist.

You'd call this heist film un-fucking-believable, except that American Animals really is rooted in fact – that is, whenever the British documentarian Bart Layton, in a mightily impressive narrative feature debut, doesn't mess around too much. "This is not based on a true story," reads a title card at the start ... before the words "not based on" slowly vanish from the screen.

It's 2004 in Lexington, Kentucky, when homeboys Spencer Reinhard (Barry Keoghan) and Warren Lipka (Evan Peters), students at local Transylvania University, decide to pull off a robbery. They don't need the money,...

13 years ago, four privileged teenagers with bright futures and everything to lose went through with a half-baked scheme to steal millions of dollars worth of rare books from a local college. The story behind the brazen and bizarre heist, which has gone down as one of the most famous in history, is now coming to theaters in American Animals, out Friday.

“Lots of people make bad decisions when they’re young and nothing comes of those mistakes,” Spencer Reinhard, one of the group’s two original organizers, tells People. “In our instance, we picked something a little more extreme and...

A group of college students mount a heist to steal $12 million worth of rare books from their school’s library in the pulsing trailer for American Animals.

The second feature from Bart Layton, whose con artist documentary The Imposter made a splash upon its 2012 release, dramatizes the true story of four students from Transylvania University in Kentucky who, drawing inspiration from Guy Ritchie’s film Snatch, staged the amateur robbery in 2004. Their aim: to steal the library’s original copies of John James Audubon’s Birds of America and Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, each of which has a...

With “The Imposter” director Barry Layton making his narrative feature debut and rising indie stars like Barry Keoghan, Evan Peters, and Blake Jenner front and center, “American Animals” definitely needs to be on the radar of all indie movie fans this summer. The crime thriller earned solid reviews at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, where The Orchard and MoviePass teamed up to acquire the title in a reported $3 million deal.

“American Animals” is based on the true story of four teenagers in Lexington, Kentucky who tried to strike it rich by pulling of a $10 million heist. Keoghan and “American Horror Story” favorite Peters play the two friends at the center of the heist. The plan was to break into a local collage’s special collections library and steal valuable books, including Audubon’s prized “Birds of America,” but the mission didn’t go according to plan.

Layton is...

Around every corner is a new and revealing story. In the case of True/False, you never know if it will come in the form of a film, music performance, art installation, or discussion with a filmmaker or attendee about the truths and untruths around us.

The four-day festival in Columbia, Mo is one of the premier documentary film festivals in the United States. The festival has attracted new and returning talent over the years – even high-profile names like Spike Lee, who attended simply to see a short film made by three Missouri School of Journalism students in 2016. You can watch the short film here. One of the most intriguing elements of the festival is that the festival encourages films that walk the line between nonfiction and fiction (hence, the title of the festival). Previous lineups included fictional films like Richard Linklater’s Boyhood and the 2012 horror smash V/H...

Lorrie Moore orders the fried cheese curds, unable to resist the joke. “I’m having a Proustian journey back to Wisconsin,” she says, as she pushes a forkful of the curds into her mouth. Moore, 57, is the much-revered author of three novels and now a fourth short-story collection, Bark, out this week. After teaching at the ­University of Wisconsin–Madison for the past 30 years, she has just relocated to Nashville for a job at Vanderbilt University. She’s been there all of four weeks when we meet at Pinewood Social, a restaurant–bar–coffee shop–bowling alley set in a converted trolley barn along the Cumberland River.Before Vanderbilt began its courtship of Moore, finally enticing her to join its creative-writing faculty in ­January, she had visited Nashville only once. The book tour for Birds of America, which established Moore as a master of the short-story form, brought her there...

Lorrie Moore is best known as a lauded writer of fiction, of razor-edged, beautifully wrought short stories published in collections like "Birds of America" and "Like Life" and novels like "Anagrams" and "Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?" But she's also become an unexpected and interesting chronicler and analyzer of television, in essays that can span both the personal and the critical. Here she is in the New York Review of Books dwelling on "Homeland" and how "shared torment is not enough for love between spies." In another piece at the same outlet, now locked away behind a paywall, she described discussing "Friday Night Lights" at a party, and how it was "the brooding, beautiful, and slightly doomed Tim Riggins, handsome as a statue and bleakly craving goodness, about whom no one could stop talking." Here, on "The Wire." As overused as the term "golden age of television" has become,...

The Tribeca Film Festival has announced its jurors who will be choosing the winning films, filmmakers and actors from the six competitive Festival categories. The thirty-eight jurors consist of award-winning filmmakers, screenwriters and notorious actors such as Whoopi Goldberg and Michael Cera. Winners will be announced at the Tff Awards Night ceremony on April 28, which will be hosted by Gideon Yago and streamed live on TribecaFilm.com. Below is the press release from Tribeca.

Please visit www.tribecafilm.com for more details. The 2011 Festival runs from April 20 – May 1.

2011 Tribeca Film Festival Jury Announced

David O. Russell, David Gordon Green, Dianne Wiest, Souleymane Cissé, Whoopi Goldberg, Paul Dano, Zoe Kazan, Rainn Wilson, Anna Kendrick, Michael Cera, Denis Leary,Atom Egoyan and Fran Lebowitz are Among the 38 Festival Jurors

New York, NY – April 18, 2010 – The Tribeca Film Festival (Tff), presented by American Express, the Founding Sponsor of the Festival, today announced its jurors...

Sometimes it’s good to be called for jury duty.

The Tribeca Film Festival (Tff), presented by American Express, today announced its jurors – 38 lucky individuals, including award-winning filmmakers and screenwriters, celebrated actors, respected journalists and media pioneers divided among six competitive Festival categories.

Together, the six Tff juries will award $175,000 in cash and prizes. Festival winners will also receive a piece of original art as part of the Tribeca Film Festival Artists Awards program.

The Tff Awards Night ceremony on April 28 will be hosted by Gideon Yago, and streamed live on TribecaFilm.com.

Following is a list of all 2011 Festival jurors and their respective categories.

World Competition Categories:

The jurors for the 2011 World Narrative Competition are:

Souleymane Cissé: Noted Malian director; films include the 1995 Cannes Palme d’Or nomineeWaati, 1987 Cannes Jury Prize Winner Brightness and Tell Me Who You Are. Scott Glenn: Actor; films include The Right Stuff,...

Sometimes it’s good to be called for jury duty.

The Tribeca Film Festival (Tff), presented by American Express, today announced its jurors – 38 lucky individuals, including award-winning filmmakers and screenwriters, celebrated actors, respected journalists and media pioneers divided among six competitive Festival categories.

Together, the six Tff juries will award $175,000 in cash and prizes. Festival winners will also receive a piece of original art as part of the Tribeca Film Festival Artists Awards program.

The Tff Awards Night ceremony on April 28 will be hosted by Gideon Yago, and streamed live on TribecaFilm.com.

Following is a list of all 2011 Festival jurors and their respective categories.

World Competition Categories:

The jurors for the 2011 World Narrative Competition are:

Souleymane Cissé: Noted Malian director; films include the 1995 Cannes Palme d’Or nomineeWaati, 1987 Cannes Jury Prize Winner Brightness and Tell Me Who You Are. Scott Glenn: Actor; films include The Right Stuff,...

By Sean O’Connell

Hollywoodnews.com: David O. Russell, Nora Ephron, Rainn Wilson, Paul Dano, Anna Kendrick, Michael Cera, Whoopi Goldberg and Dianne Wiest are some of the celebrity names added to the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival Jury, announced today.

The jurors have been divided among the six competitive Festival categories and will announce the winning films, filmmakers and actors in those categories at the Tff Awards Night ceremony on April 28.

The 2011 Festival runs from April 20 – May 1.

“This year’s jury is made up of a range of accomplished individuals in their respective fields, bringing a fresh and well-rounded perspective,” said Jane Rosenthal, Co-Founder of the Tribeca Film Festival. “It’s an honor to have a jury of such caliber watching and discussing the films in competition this year.”

Following is a list of all 2011 Festival jurors and their respective categories.

World Competition Categories:

The jurors for the 2011 World Narrative Competition...

David O. Russell, Nora Ephron, Dianne Wiest, Jason Sudeikis, Whoopi Goldberg, Paul Dano, Zoe Kazan, Rainn Wilson, Anna Kendrick, Michael Cera, Denis Leary, Atom Egoyan and Fran Lebowitz are among the 38 jurors for this year’s Tribeca Film Festival, which runs from April 20 to May 1. “This year’s jury is made up of a range of accomplished individuals in their respective fields, bringing a fresh and well-rounded perspective,” said Jane Rosenthal, Co-Founder of the Tribeca Film Festival, in a statement. “It’s an honor to have a jury of such caliber watching and discussing the films in competition this year.

"The Resident" (2011)

Directed by Antti Jokinen

Released by Image Entertainment

This actually isn't the first time Hilary Swank has seen one of her films go direct to DVD after the films "Red Dust" and "Birds of America" suffered the same fate, but surely there was more riding on this horror film from the resurgent Hammer Films about a recently separated doctor who learns her Brooklyn loft isn't quite as wonderful as she thought it would be. "Secretary" screenwriter Erin Cressida Wilson co-wrote this film, which co-stars Christopher Lee, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, and Lee Pace.

"The Mikado" (1939)

Directed by Victor Schertzinger

Released by Criterion Collection

"Topsy-Turvy" (1999)

Directed by Mike Leigh

Released by Criterion Collection

Sold separately, Criterion is making no secret of trying to appeal to Gilbert and Sullivan fanatics with special editions of "The Mikado," a straight-up adaptation of the musical duo's most famous opera, and Mike Leigh's "Topsy-Turvy,...

After a decade in which more black actors won Academy Awards than in the past seventy years combined, 2011 represents a setback: the Oscars failed to nominate a single black artist, and Vanity Fair's influential “Young Hollywood” cover featured a single black performer.

So here at NextMovie, we're gonna celebrate Black History Month by highlighting the hottest, up-and-coming young black actors. These nine-under-30 might not all be household names yet, but we think they represent the next generation of Anthony Mackies, Zoe Saldanas, and Will Smiths (literally).

Gabourey Sidibe

Sidibe's Academy-Award nomination for her debut performance in "Precious" sends her to the top our list. She may be 27, but Sidibe's making a name for herself playing teens on the big screen (she co-stars opposite Zoe Kravitz in the upcoming indie drama "Yelling to the Sky," which premieres at the Berlin Film Fest this month) and on premium cable with the always-amazing...

It's been a hard fall for two-time Oscar winner Hilary Swank. Ever since she took her second statue for Clint Eastwood's "Million Dollar Baby" way back in 2004, she's had a string of bad films, bad luck or both. Brian DePalma's "The Black Dahlia" had all the pieces of a great movie but was done in by the director pushing every facet of the production into hysterics. "Freedom Writers" was an ill-advised attempt to go into "Dangerous Minds" territory and while she scored a hit with the manipulative romantic dramedy "P.S. I Love You," the indie flick "Birds Of America"…...

Busy schedule of promoting her new movie "Conviction" apparently has made Hilary Swank forget to clean her hairy armpits before she stepped out for a recent red carpet event. The 36-year-old beauty flashed her tufty underarms as she donned a gold sleeveless Calvin Klein dress.

Swank was unaware that her hairy armpits drew cameras' attention when she struck a pose at the red carpet of Elle Magazine's Women in Hollywood Tribute party at the Four Seasons Hotel in Los Angeles on Monday night, October 18. Though so, the "Birds of America" actress wasn't the first beauty caught in the hairy-armpits faux pas.

Julia Roberts unwittingly revealed her hairy armpits during the 1999 London premiere of "Notting Hill" while Drew Barrymore showed hers at a Marc Jacobs fashion show in 2005. Moreover, Beyonce Knowles joined the list of hairy-armpits faux pas following the premiere of her movie "Cadillac Records" in 2008.

Her hairy-armpits faux pas aside,...

Paramount Famous Productions has released the first movie trailer for The Romantics. Director and screenwriter Galt Niederhoffer has adapted her own novel, The Romantics, a "zeitgeist love story and generational comedy, takes place over the course of one night at a deluxe seaside wedding." The cast includes Katie Holmes, Josh Duhamel, Anna Paquin, Adam Brody, Malin Ackerman, Elijah Wood, Candice Bergen, Jeremy Strong, and Dianna Agron. Niederhoffer received the 2007 Sundance Audience Award for producing Grace is Gone. She also produced the Sundance Film Festival films Lonesome Jim, Dedication, Diminished Capacity, Birds of America, and Hurricane. Watch the trailer now embedded after the jump. Please leave your thoughts in the comments below. Click below to watch the trailer in High Definition on Apple: Official Plot Synopsis: Over the course of one raucous night at a seaside wedding seven close friends, all members of a tight, eclectic college clique, reconvene to watch...

Her father can say that he has been in an Oscar-winning film called Precious, but I'd say Zoë Kravitz definitely has a leg up on her musician father when it comes to acting. Slowly building her career with bit, supporting parts in No Reservations, The Brave One and indie films Assassination of a High School President, Birds of America and The Greatest, this indiegrrl actress is looking towards a very bright future. I remember her mother Lisa Bonet being notoriously slammed for her part in an Alan Parker film - I hope she's vicariously claiming victory with her daughter's ascension up the ranks. 2010 sees Kravitz beef up in the role departments. She began the year in Sundance preeming Twelve, showed up at Tribeca with Beware the Gonzo, got a sweet part in Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden's It's Kind of a Funny Story which is poised to appear at some major festival this fall,...

There has been renewed interest in John Carpenter over the past few years - a new Fog, a pretty intense Assault on Precinct 13 remake, the Rob Zombie Halloween flicks, and upcoming fresh starts for Escape from New York and The Thing. But Carpenter himself has not been very active lately, until now.

Cinema Blend says he'll direct Hilary Swank in an adaptation of the John Marks novel Fangland. As you might have guessed, it's a vampire flick. Swank has won a couple Oscars, but since Million Dollar Baby, there hasn't been, well, anything to take note of.

The Black Dahlia might be the worst major film of Brin De Palma's career (and that's saying something), Freedom Writers is no great shakes, The Reaping is embarrassing, Birds of America never made it to theaters, P.S. I Love You sucked, and Amelia was a bad, bad biopic. So maybe she's overdue?...

The Sundance Institute announced Monday three late additions to the 2010 Sundance film festival program, running Jan. 21-31.

The new films are "It's a Wonderful Afterlife," a comedy directed by Gurinder Chadha and written by Paul Mayeda Berges and Chadha; "The Romantics," a comedy directed by Galt Niederhoffer, who adapted the script from her own novel; and "The Kids Are Alright," directed by Lisa Cholodenko, who wrote the screenplay with Stuart Blumberg.

All three films are world premieres that will screen out of competition, and all three filmmakers have had their work screened at Sundance in the past.

"When the opportunity to screen the latest films from three extremely innovative storytellers presented itself, we knew we could not deny our audiences," said festival director John Cooper. "As an added bonus, all three are alumni of the festival, so we are thrilled to be able to support them returning to Sundance with their newest work.

Movies 9 Elijah Wood, Jennifer Connelly, and Christopher Plummer lend their voices to this animated parable about a group of creatures fighting for survival in a post-apocalyptic world. TV The Jay Leno Show series premiere (NBC, 10 p.m. Edt) NBC's big gamble -- forsaking 10 p.m. dramas to bring Jay Leno to primetime every night -- launches tonight. Will it pay off? We'll see, but landing Jay-z and Rihanna, who'll sing "Run This Town" for the opening act, is definitely a good way to start. Music 11:11, Rodrigo y Gabriela Rodrigo y Gabriela are, without question, the world's premiere Mexican acoustic metal duo. Dig their unique instrumental stylings once again on their first album since their 2006 breakout. Read an EW profile of R&G Books A Gate at the Stairs, Lorrie Moore Moore's first novel in a decade chronicles a Midwestern girl's coming-of-age, as she takes a part-time job as a nanny.

The following feature-length motion pictures have been reviewed and rated by the Classification and Rating Administration pursuant to the Motion Picture Classification and Rating program. Each of the designated ratings is defined as follows under the Motion Picture Classification and Rating program.

G -- General Audiences. All ages admitted.

PG -- Parental Guidance Suggested. Some material may not be suitable for children.

PG -13 --Parents Strongly Cautioned. Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13.

R -- Restricted. Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian.

Nc-17 -- No One 17 And Under Admitted

Film Distributor ReasonRating 1. Birds Of America

First Look Studios Rated for language, some sexuality and brief drug use.  R 2. Blue Elephant, The

Genius Products Rated for thematic elements and some battle action.

PG

3. Cthulhu Regent Releasing L.L.C. Rated for language, some sexuality, nudity and violence.

R 4 Cyborg Soldier

First Look Studios Rated for violence.

R

5. Extreme Movie

Genius Products Rated for strong pervasive sexual content, nudity and language - all involving teens.

R 6. Fireflies In The Garden Senator Entertainment - [Production Co.] Rated for language and some sexual content. R 7. Food, Inc. Food Project, The - [Production Co.] Rated for some thematic material and disturbing images.

PG 8. Goal 3

Peace Arch Entertainment Group Rated for sexual content, brief strong language and some drug use.

PG-13 9. Hank And Mike

Magnolia Pictures Rated for strong sexual content and nudity, pervasive language, and some drug use.

R 10. Harder They Fall

Grindstone Entertainment Group Rated for brief language.

R 11. Humboldt County Magnolia Pictures Rated for drug content and language throughout.

R 12. Humboldt Park

Overture Films

Rated for thematic elements including some sexual dialogue, and brief drug references.

PG-13

13. Informers, The

Informers, Inc. - [Production Co.] Rated for strong sexual content, nudity, drug use, pervasive language and some disturbing images.

R 14. Jake's Corner

Jake's Corner Llc - [Production Co.] Rated for thematic elements and language.

PG 15. Kemper

Lightning Entertainment Group Rated for violent content and language.

R 16. Major Movie Star

Major Productions, Inc. - [Production Co.] Rated for sexual content including references, and some drug material.

PG-13 17. Marc Pease Experience, The

Paramount Vantage, A Division Of Paramount Pictures Corporation Rated for brief sexual material.

PG-13 18. My Best Friend's Girl

Lionsgate Rated for strong language and sexual content throughout, including graphic dialogue and some nudity.

R 19. The NeighborFirst Look Studios Rated for brief strong language.

PG-13 20. Nemesis Conspiracy

Grindstone Entertainment Group Rated for language and some sexual references. R 21. PaybackMaverick Entertainment Group, Inc. Rated for language, violence and some sexuality/nudity. R Updated Wednesday, July 30, 2008.

Ginnifer Goodwin has joined the cast of the indie comedy Laws of Motion.

Matthew Perry, Hilary Swank and Ben Foster already have boarded the Craig Lucas-helmed project, which is being produced by Plum Pictures, Ideal Partners Film Fund and Hilary Swank Prods.

Penned by Elyse Friedman, the story centers on a husband (Perry) struggling with life in a repressive career and community and enduring headaches caused by his free-spirited brother (Foster) and sister (Goodwin). Swank will play a supporting role as the all-too-perfect neighbor of Perry's harried character.

Plum Pictures partners Daniela Taplin Lundberg, Celine Rattray and Galt Niederhoffer are producing alongside Ideal's Jana Edelbaum and Swank.

The film is shooting in Connecticut.

Goodwin, whose credits include Walk the Line and Mona Lisa Smile, stars on the HBO series Big Love.

She is repped by WMA, John Carrabino Management and attorney Michael Gendler.