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18 May 2013 9:43 AM, PDT | EW - Inside Movies | See recent EW.com - Inside Movies news »

How much do you really get to know a college from an official tour? The pervading opinion is not a lot. But in new film Middleton, a campus visit leads two starkly different parents to get to know themselves – and each other – as they wander off from the tour group.

Shot in eastern Washington at Gonzaga University and Washington State University, Middleton had its world premiere at the Seattle International Film Festival on Friday night. The film, which takes place all in one day at the titular fictional school, stars Vera Farmiga and Andy Garcia as the parents who meet on the college tour. »

- Emily Rome

30 April 2013 11:19 AM, PDT | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »

The Seattle International Film Festival has selected Sofia Coppola’s “The Bling Ring” as its closing night film on June 9 — five days before its domestic release.

The festival, now in its 39th year, had previously announced that Joss Whedon’s “Much Ado About Nothing” would open the fest on May 16.

The festival plans to screen 272 features and 175 shorts, including 48 North American premieres. The lineup includes Jim Rash’s “The Way, Way Back”; Steven Bernstein’s “Decoding Annie Parker”; David Gordon Green’s “Prince Avalanche”;  David Lowery’s “Ain’t Them Bodies Saints”; Noah Baumbach’s “Frances Ha”; James Ponsoldt’s “The Spectacular Now”; the world premiere of Adam Rodgers’ “Middleton” and Joe Swanberg’s “Drinking Buddies.”

Newly-minted distributor A24 has set a June 14 limited domestic release for real-life theft drama “The Bling Ring,” starring Emma Watson. Movie centers of group of teens from an affluent Los Angeles neighborhood that robbed »

- Dave McNary

30 April 2013 3:40 AM, PDT | Upcoming-Movies.com | See recent Upcoming-Movies.com news »

Andy Garcia and Ray Romano are joining Raymond De Felitta’s Rob The Mob crime drama which is based on a true story. Sources say that the story has Pitt and Arianda as a New York couple who steal from social clubs run by the mob until they happen to land a list of of every Mafioso in town and wind up being the target of the mob and feds alike. Production has started with Bill Teitler (What Maisie Knew) producing the film. Garcia was last seen in Damian Lee's A Dark Truth alongside Forest Whitaker and Kim Coates. He's completed work for Adam Rogers' Middleton romance with Taissa Farmiga, Vera Farmiga, Tom Skerritt and Nicholas Braun. Additionally, he's in post-production phase on What About Love with Iain Glen and Sharon Stone, and currently filming Fox's Rio 2 alongside Anne Hathaway, Jesse Eisenberg, Jamie Foxx, Leslie Mann, Rodrigio Santoro, »

12 February 2013 3:27 PM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »

Farmiga on Higher Ground: Religious dogma and the search for spiritual enlightenment Academy Award-nominated actress Vera Farmiga discussed issues such as religious dogma, the striving for spiritual enlightenment, and the making of Higher Ground, her first tryout as a director, while chatting with entertainment journalist Tim Cogshell. (Although Higher Ground was released in 2011, Cogshell's interview was just recently published on YouTube.) Please scroll down to check out the six-minute interview. For the most part set in Iowa from the '60s to the '80s, Higher Ground follows a young couple (Farmiga and Boyd Holbrook), who become enmeshed with a radical Christian denomination. Real life interferes, however, something that eventually makes Farmiga's character begin to question her beliefs in god. Loosely based on Carolyn Briggs' memoir This Dark World: A Story of Faith Found, the film as co-written by Briggs and Tim Metcalfe. It had its world premiere »

- Andre Soares

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