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Primary Stages (Casey Childs, Founder & Executive Producer; Andrew Leynse, Artistic Director; Elliot Fox, Managing Director) continues its 25th anniversary season of new works celebrating the female playwright with the new york premiere of The Night Watcher, written and performed by Charlayne Woodard. An inspiring solo play, The Night Watcher is directed by Tony Award-winner Daniel Sullivan. Performances begin Tuesday, September 22, 2009 for a limited run through Saturday, October 31, 2009 at Primary Stages at 59E59 Theaters (59 East 59th Street, between Park and Madison Avenues). opening night is set for Tuesday, October 6, 2009 at 7:00 p.m.

Hold-up could affect Oscar chances for latest Scorsese/DiCaprio collaborationShutter Island, an early frontrunner in next year's Oscar race, may have fallen at the first hurdle with the announcement that its release has been pushed back from the start of October to the middle of February. Paramount Pictures, the studio behind the film, blames the current recession for the hasty changes to its autumn schedule.The decision spells bad news for director Martin Scorsese and star Leonardo DiCaprio. The pair's last collaboration, The Departed, won four Oscars at the 2007 Academy Awards, including best picture and best director. DiCaprio was Oscar-nominated for his role in another Scorsese picture, The Aviator.Oscar contenders are traditionally released in the autumn, to allow them to build momentum ahead of awards season. Industry insiders speculate that the studio may now have decided to relegate Shutter Island in favour of throwing its marketing budget behind both Peter Jackson's The Lovely

Penelope Cruz and director Pedro Almodovar are 'like lovers'. The actress and the gay movie maker have collaborated on several films - most recently 'Broken Embraces' - and know each other so well they are practically in a relationship.

Film News: Guild to main out ballots on Dec. 1 -- The Directors Guild of America has selected Jan. 30 as its date for its 62nd Annual DGA Awards.

Police in northeast Tennessee say Scott Gibson isn't the deputy director of the CIA _ and he'd have to pay his $75 speeding fine even if he were. On June 29, a Mount Carmel speed camera clocked the 56-year-old Rogersville resident going 66 mph in a 55 mph...

Gary Jennings' best-seller 'Aztec' might be headed to the small screen. Producer Grant Turck has optioned the historical novel and has partnered with Mexican-born director Alfonso Arau to develop it into a miniseries.

American Stage Theatre Company performs its first play of the 2009-10 season with its next chapter in preeminent African-American playwright August Wilson's 'Century Cycle', FENCES, running September 25 thru October 11, with previews September 19, 20, 23 and 24.

Elizabeth Banks is in final negotiations to star in 'The Next Three Days' for writer-director Paul Haggis at Lionsgate.

After the underwater proposal made by Akshay Kumar to Kareena Kapoor in 'Kambakkht Ishq', Ajay Devgan is all set to propose Bipasha Basu from mid-air in director Rohit Shetty's upcoming comedy 'All The Best'. The scene has Ajay seated in a sports car dangling 8 feet above the ground and giving out a rose to [...]

It took more than six years for the director Rebecca Cammisa to capture the reality of child migrants in her documentary "Which Way Home."