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Aarp The Magazine announced today that Helen Mirren will receive the 2017 Movies for Grownups Career Achievement Award.

The Aarp Movies for Grownups multimedia franchise was established in 2002 to celebrate and encourage filmmaking with unique appeal to movie lovers with a grownup state of mind—and recognize the inspiring artists who make them.

Mirren, an Academy, Golden Globe, Emmy, Tony, BAFTA & Olivier Award-winning actress will receive Movies for Grownups’ highest honor on Monday, Feb. 5, 2018, at the Beverly Wilshire, Beverly Hills. Aarp The Magazine will host the 17th annual Movies for Grownups Awards, where many other awards, including best actor, best actress and best director, will be presented. Event proceeds benefit Aarp Foundation, which works to end senior poverty by building economic opportunity and social connections for vulnerable older adults in L.A. and across the country.

“I am greatly honoured by this award. I consider film to be a high art form,...

Kevin Kline won his third Tony Award two weeks ago for his over-the-top turn as a self-indulgent actor in the acclaimed revival of Noel Coward‘s 1946 comedy of manners “Present Laughter.” While the production is shuttering on July 2, the June 23 performance was filmed by BroadwayHD and Thirteen/Wnet under the direction of David Horn. […]...

Theater Close-Up -- the unique collaboration between Thirteen and the large community of New York City area Off-Broadway and regional theaters - continues with John Strand's The Originalist, captured live on-stage at Arena Stage in Washington, D.C., Monday, March 13 at 9 p.m. on Thirteen, with an encore presentation on Sunday, March 19 at 340 a.m. The play will also air Sunday, March 26 at 10 p.m. on WLIW21. The play, directed on the stage by Molly Smith, will be available for streaming for two weeks after the broadcast.L to R Edward Gero as Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and Kerry Warren as Cat in The Originalist at Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater. Credit C. Stanley Photography. Four-time Helen Hayes Award winner Edward Gero Red returned to Arena Stage as one of America's most brilliant and polarizing figures Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. When bright, liberal, Harvard...

Gayle King, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Alex Horwitz and Ron Chernow Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

The RadicalMedia and PBS Great Performances documentary, Hamilton's America, had its world première in the 54th New York Film Festival as a Special Events selection along with Ang Lee's Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, Lonny Price's The Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened on a Stephen Sondheim - Harold Prince Broadway production, and Jim Jarmusch's Iggy Pop and The Stooges doc Gimme Danger.

Lin-Manuel Miranda on President Barack Obama attending Hamilton: "He didn't see me in it. He saw Javier Muñoz …" Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

The premiere of Hamilton's America on Monday at the 3400-seat auditorium of the United Palace in Washington Heights, was introduced by PBS CEO and President Paula Kreger and President and CEO of Wnet New York Public Media, Neal Shapiro.

David Horn, executive producer of Great Performances introduced the post-screening panel,...

After a video from Hamilton creator-star Lin-Manuel Miranda who apologized for not being able to attend, the Broadway smash’s Tony-winning Daveed Diggs and executive producer David Horn took the stage at today's TCA to discuss the upcoming PBS documentary series Hamilton's America and how it draws parallels to current presidential politics that will be on view. The docu-series, which follows the production of the megahit hip-hop musical during the two years leading up to…...

Update 3 Pm: The filming and broadcast will be directed by David Horn, executive producer of public television’s Great Performances. Earlier: The Roundabout Theatre Company’s lauded Broadway revival of the musical She Loves Me will be telecast live June 30, bringing Broadway a step closer in line with popular pay-per-view ventures as NTLive, produced by the UK’s National Theatre, and Live From the Met, produced by the Metropolitan Opera. The cost to stream the show…...

Principal photography has begun on The Hollow Crown: The War of the Roses, a Neal Street co-production with Carnival/NBCUniversal and Thirteen for BBC Two, filming in locations around the UK.

In the Us, the series will be transmitted on PBS by Great Performances, produced by Thirteen Productions LLC for Wnet.

Following an outstanding critical and audience reaction to the BAFTA Award-winning The Hollow Crown series in 2012, Neal Street Productions and Carnival Films/NBCUniversal bring the concluding part of this ambitious cycle of Shakespeare's History plays to the screen in three further filmed adaptations, Henry VI (in 2 parts) and Richard III.

Assembling some of the UK's finest acting talent and, in addition to the stellar cast recently confirmed - Benedict Cumberbatch, Judi Dench, Sophie Okonedo, Hugh Bonneville, Sally Hawkins, Keeley Hawes and Tom Sturridge - new names revealed today are - Michael Gambon as Mortimer, Philip Glenister as Talbot,...

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Side By Side (15)

(Christopher Kenneally, 2012, Us) 99 mins

Celluloid versus digital film-making – hardly a blockbuster proposition, but this surprisingly fascinating documentary makes you think twice about how movies are made, and seen. It also gives you a rare audience with the top technicians and film-makers out there (Scorsese, Cameron, Lucas, Nolan, Von Trier, Lynch, etc), while host Keanu Reeves keeps things informal and accessible.

A Good Day To Die Hard (12A)

(John Moore, 2013, Us) Bruce Willis, Jai Courtney. 98 mins.

Old dog Willis does no new tricks in this tiresomely cacophonous action movie, which brings in new pup Courtney for a father-son ass-kicking.

Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence In The House Of God...