With awards season hitting its peak this weekend, a new crop of Specialty releases will do its best to vie for attention. Stanley Tucci, along with Addison Timlin and Kyra Sedgwick, stars in drama Submission, opening with an exclusive engagement in New York. The film is one of two from distribution label Paladin this…

Josh Hartnett can always be relied upon for his action, leading macho man chops, i.e. in pics like Pearl Harbor and Black Hawk Down, and even the period Showtime cult fave series Penny Dreadful as the dashing Ethan Chandler. But in Atsuko Hirayanagi’s Oh Lucy! the actor walks out of his box to play an affable, but…

EXCLUSIVE: After premiering her short Oh Lucy! three years ago at Cannes winning the Cinefoundation Selection, Japanese director Atsuko Hirayanagi is back on the Croisette with the feature-length version of the off-beat romantic comedy, premiering in Critics Week this morning. Oh Lucy! tells the story of shy…

Actor Amin Joseph has landed the supporting role of Kevin Gaines in the Brad Furman-directred drama LAbyrinth that stars Johnny Depp and Forest Whitaker. Based on the real life story of the LAPD corruption intertwined with murders of rap icons Notorious BIG and Tupac, the pic follows disgraced LAPD detective and…