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The birth centenary of Indian cinema icon Dev Anand will be celebrated with restored versions of some of his classics receiving a theatrical release across the country.

Known as one of the triumvirate of superstars who ruled Hindi-language cinema in the 1950s and ’60s (along with the late Raj Kapoor and Dilip Kumar) Anand made such hits as “Guide,” “Hare Rama Hare Krishna” and “Prem Pujari.”

The birth centenary of Anand, who died in 2011, is on Sept. 26. On Sept. 24 and 25, the “Dev Anand@100 – Forever Young” festival will screen four of his classic films at 55 PVR Inox cinemas across 30 Indian cities including Mumbai, Pune, Goa, Ahmedabad, Hyderabad, Trivandrum, Chennai, Bangalore, Lucknow, Kolkata, Guwahati, Indore, Jaipur, Nagpur, Chandigarh, New Delhi, Gwalior, Rourkela, Raipur, Noida, Kochi, Aurangabad, Vadodara, Surat and Mohali.

The films are Raj Khosla’s “C. I. D.” (1956) and Vijay Anand’s “Guide” (1965), “Jewel Thief” (1967) and “Johny Mera Naam” (1970). They have...

"We are in the middle of a genuine mystery here!" The Orchard has released an official trailer for a strange holiday existential comedy titled Holly Star, the latest from filmmaker Michael A. Nickles. The film is about a broke puppeteer who returns home for the holidays and gets caught up in a treasure hunt with her paintball-obsessed best friend, her tango-dancing grandmother, and a childhood sweetheart. Yeah, that's the premise though the footage is a bit more odd than that. Holly Star stars Katlyn Carlson as Sloan, along with Brian Muller, Teya Patt, Gary Galone, Elaine Adam, and Erik Van Wyck. The comedy is so dry and awkward, and the plot is a mix of 10 ideas. Check it out below. Here's the first official trailer (+ poster) for Michael A. Nickles' Holly Star, direct from YouTube: Sloan (Katlyn Carlson) returns home for the holidays and gets caught up in a...

Academy Award-nominee Mark Wahlberg stars in the dramatic thriller The Gambler, which debuted on Blu-ray Combo Pack, DVD and VOD last week from Paramount Home Media Distribution.&#160Mark Wahlberg stars as Jim Bennett, a brilliant professor leading a secret double life as a high-stakes gambler.&#160 When Jim is forced to borrow money from a notorious gangster, he places the lives of those he loves in mortal danger.&#160With time running out, he must enter the criminal underworld and risk everything to keep from losing it all.&#160

To celebrate the release of The Gambler, we caught up with Mark Wahlberg's co-star and love interest Brie Larson. In the film, she plays a college student by day, cocktail waitress by night who falls for her professor. The actress offers new insight into this thriller, and what it was like watching Mark Wahlberg work. She also talks about her audition for...

With 2013 just around the corner, folks have been busy wrapping up their lists of both the best and worst of the year in film. But what about the movies no one cared about? Each week sees the release of more movies than anyone can care to catch up with, and inevitablysome fall through the cracks or are simply swept under the rug by their distributor. And in 2012, the dubious distinction of being the movie that audiences cared about the least falls on "Playback." Starring Christian Slater, the very low rent movie is basically a ripoff of "The Ring" about a videotape of some brutal murders that is causing some supernatural trouble years later. Perhaps it's the best we can expect from director Michael A. Nickles, whose previous claim to "fame," is "Just Peck," some family comedy starring Keir Gilchrist and Brie Larson that went straight to video earlier this year.

After a hiatus from the big screen, Christian Slater is set to star in upcoming horror Playback…

Poor old Christian Slater. After a promising early career as a young heartthrob in the 80s, starring in the excellent The Name Of The Rose (1986) and Heathers (1989), followed by 90s lead roles such as True Romance and John Woo's affably mad Broken Arrow, Slater's career began to stutter somewhat with the damp squib of a thriller Hard Rain and the aptly named Very Bad Things (it was even worse than the title suggested).

Having retreated into television in recent years, most notably in NBC's My Own Worst Enemy in 2008, Slater is set to return to the big screen in the independent horror thriller Playback, according to Variety, and will appear as "a sinister cop who is pivotal in exposing a small town's deepest, darkest secret."

The film is currently in its second week of shooting,...

Christian Slater has joined the cast of the independent horror film "Playback." According to Variety, the cast includes Johnny Pacar, Toby Hemingway, Jonathan Keltz, Alessandra Torresani, Ambyr Childers, and Daryl "Chill" Mitchell. Michael A. Nickles ("Just Peck") is directing from his own script.John M. Bennett and Lawrence Robbins are producing through their Bennett Robbins Productions.The story focuses on a group of high school students who dig into their town's past and unintentionally unleash an evil upon their classmates.Slater will star as a cop who plays a crucial role in exposing the town's secret. Shooting is underway in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Christian Slater will star in indie horror thriller "Playback" reports Bennett Robbins Productions says Variety.

The story follows a sinister cop who is pivotal in exposing a small town's deepest, darkest secret which is unleashed when high school students unwittingly unlocking an evil that preys upon their classmates.

Johnny Pacar, Toby Hemingway, Jonathan Keltz, Alessandra Torresani, Ambyr Childers, and Daryl "Chill" Mitchell also stars.

Michael A. Nickles ("Just Peck") directs from his own script while John M. Bennett and Lawrence Robbins are producing. Shooting is currently underway in Michigan.

Christian Slater is set to star in "Playback" which is an indie film produced by John M. Bennett and Lawrence Robbins of Bennett Robbins Productions. According to Variety, he'll star as a sinister cop who is pivotal in exposing a small town's deepest, darkest secret. The storry tells of high school students who, after they dig into their town's infamous past, unknowingly unlock an evil that preys on their classmates. Also starring are Johnny Pacar, Toby Hemingway, Jonathan Keltz, Alessandra Torresani, Ambyr Childers, and Daryl "Chill" Mitchell. Michael A. Nickles ("Just Peck") directs from his own screenplay.

Keir Gilchrist has nabbed the lead role in "It's Kind of a Funny Story," Focus' coming-of-age film from writer-directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck.

Gilchrist, who appears on Showtime's "United States of Tara," joins a cast that includes Zach Galifianakis, Emma Roberts and Viola Davis. Also coming aboard are Zoe Kravitz, Aasif Mandavi, Lauren Graham and Jim Gaffigan.

The comedy-drama adaptation of Ned Vizzini's 2006 novel centers on 16-year-old Craig (Gilchrist) who, stressed out from the demands of being a teenager, checks himself into a mental health clinic. He learns that the youth ward is closed and finds himself stuck in the adult ward.

Galifianakis plays a patient who becomes the boy's mentor and protege, Roberts is another patient, and Davis plays a psychiatrist. Kravitz is the boy's crush, Mandvi another psychiatrist; Graham and Gaffigan are the parents.

Shooting begins in New York in early December.

Focus holds worldwide rights to the project,...

The 1999 film 10 Things I Hate About You was one of a popular spate of teen films that hit theaters right before the new millennium and now, 10 years later, the film is getting new life on the small screen. ABC Family will be premiering the TV version of 10 Things I Hate About You on Tuesday, July 7 at 8 Pm Et and I was recently given the opportunity to visit the set and chat with the cast of this new series. Before the other reporters and I headed out to Santa Clarita Studios, we met at the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood to have breakfast with one of the cast members who wasn't filming that day, Ethan Peck, who plays the mysterious Patrick Verona, a character which the late Heath Ledger portrayed in what turned out to be his breakthrough role. Here's what Peck had to say during our chat.

Ethan Peck - Patrick...

ABC Family has assembled the main cast of its high school comedy pilot "10 Things I Hate About You," an adaptation of the 1999 feature that in turn was based on William Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew."

Ethan Peck (grandson of Gregory Peck), Lindsey Shaw, Meaghan Jette Martin, Kyle Kaplan and Nicholas Braun have been tapped to star in the pilot, which revolves around two sisters -- strong-willed feminist Kat (Shaw) and social butterfly Bianca (Martin) -- facing the challenges of starting at a new high school.

Braun will play schoolmate Cameron, who is smitten with Bianca. Kaplan, repped by Greene & Associates and manager Michael Abrams, will play his friend Michael. Peck will play the dark and mysterious Patrick, a student who intrigues and bothers Kat from a distance.

In the movie, Kat and Patrick were played by Julia Stiles and Heath Ledger in his breakthrough performance. Michael was played by David Krumholtz.

Brie Larson has landed a co-starring role on Showtime's new series "United States of Tara."

"Tara," written by Oscar-winning "Juno" scribe Diablo Cody, is a single-camera comedy starring Toni Collette as Tara, a wife and mother with dissociative identity disorder.

Larson will play Tara's smart, confident 17-year-old daughter Kate, who struggles with her mother's disorder while rebelling against the world with her own issues.

The role was played in the pilot by Portia Doubleday.

John Corbett co-stars as Tara's husband and Kate's father.

Showtime recently picked up "Tara," from DreamWorks TV and Steven Spielberg, to series with a 12-episode order.

Production is slated to begin during the summer in Los Angeles.

Larson ("Peck") is repped by Gersh and manager Anne Woodward.

Actress Marcia Cross, who’s been playing Bree Van De Kamp on TV’s “Desperate Housewives” for the past four years, will appear in Michael Nickles’ upcoming indie comedy “Peck,” according to Variety.

Although we don’t have that many details about the plot, the film centers on a high school kid who’s struggling with his parents’ incredible strictness and develops an unlikely friendship with the school’s most popular girl.

Keir Gilchrist, Adam Arkin and Brie Larson co-star. Cross jumps into the role of the high schooler’s mother.

Nickles is directing a script by Marc Arneson. Filming is already under way and should wrap this or next week.

Playing a strict mother is nothing new for Marcia Cross, and I’m she can pull this off without major difficulties. Let’s just hope she doesn’t have to play yet another desperate housewife.