All movies now in theaters... | A second look at Sean Penn in The Gunman Pierre Morel (Taken) directs Sean Penn, Javier Bardem, Idris Elba, Ray Winstone, and Mark Rylance in this adaptation of Jean-Patrick Manchette’s novel The Prone Gunman. Penn stars as Jim Terrier, an international operative who finds himself battling his former organization. Jasmine Trinca plays his girlfriend, who is, rather unsurprisingly, taken kidnapped. Will The Gunman do for Penn what Taken did for Liam Neeson? Find out when it arrives in theaters on March 20th. The Divergent Series: Insurgent comes to theaters on March 20th with Tris (Shailene Woodley) and Four (Theo James) on the run in the ruins of futuristic Chicago, hunted by Jeanine (Kate Winslet), the leader of the Erudite faction. Luckily, they discover new allies in the factionless, led by Naomi Watt’s Evelyn. The sequel finds Robert Schwentke (RED, R.I.P.D.) taking over directing duties from Neil Burger, and Octavia Spencer, Suki Waterhouse and Daniel Dae Kim joining the cast.

Jai Courtney, Miles Teller, Ansel Elgort, Zoe Kravitz, Maggie Q, and Ray Stevenson all return. Author Veronica Roth has already approved of the movie despite the departures it takes from the book. Director Bill Pohlad’s look at the life of the Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson stars Paul Dano and John Cusack as the younger and older Wilson in a bifurcated narrative (written by Oren Moverman and Michael Alan Lerner) that chronicles the reclusive songwriter’s life, from his successes with Pet Sounds to his nervous breakdown and subsequent encounter with controversial therapist Dr. Eugene Landy, played by Paul Giamatti. Elizabeth Banks also stars as Melinda Ledbetter, Wilson’s second wife. Following good reviews from its premiere at TIFF last year, Love & Mercy comes to theaters on June 5th. In Welcome to Me, Kristen Wiig plays Alice Klieg, a woman with borderline personality disorder who wins the lottery, stops taking her meds, and pays $15 million to star in her own talk show. With a strong supporting cast that includes James Marsden, Tim Robbins, Wes Bentley, Joan Cusack, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Linda Cardellini, Loretta Devine, and Thomas Mann, Shira Piven’s film, from a script by Eliot Lawrence, earned very good reviews when it premiered in Toronto last fall.

See it in select theaters beginning May 1st. In Noah Baumbach’s follow-up to Frances Ha, the lives of a documentary filmmaker (Ben Stiller) and his wife (Naomi Watts) take some unexpected turns after they befriend a hipster couple played by Adam Driver and Amanda Seyfried. jiro dreams of sushi tchaikovskyGood reviews from TIFF and a cast that also includes Dree Hemingway, Charles Grodin, Adam Horovitz, and Maria Dizza make While We’re Young one to look for when it hits theaters March 27th.youda sushi chef para mac Actor Chris Messina’s directorial debut stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Alex, a workaholic mom trying to keep her life together after her husband (Messina) asks for a break. jogo sushi cat the honeymoon

Don Johnson stars as Alex’s father, Katie Nehra (a co-writer on the film with Jessica Goldberg, Justin Shilton) plays Alex’s younger sister, and Derek Luke and Reg E. Cathey have supporting roles. Alex of Venice comes to select theaters and VOD on April 17th. Lone Scherfig (An Education) directs, and Laura Wade adapts her own play (Posh), to mixed results, according to early reviews of The Riot Club. The story follows two first-year students (Max Irons and Sam Claflin) at Oxford University who join the infamous Riot Club. Also starring Natalie Dormer, Jessica Brown Findlay, and Douglas Booth, the film hits theaters and VOD March 27th. In Maya Forbes’ autobiographical debut feature, Mark Ruffalo plays Cam Stuart, a bipolar father trying to care for his two children while his wife (Zoe Saldana) is away at school. When the film premiered at Sundance last year, reviews were mixed to positive, with praise going to Ruffalo’s performance. Look for Infinitely Polar Bear in theaters beginning June 19th.

Daniel Brühl (Rush) stars as a cybernetic engineer in Eva, a sci-fi thriller released in Spain in 2011 and finally coming to North American theaters March 13th. Director Sam Mendes talks about his return to the James Bond universe in the latest peek behind-the-scenes of SPECTRE. The Dead Lands looks at the violent life of a Maori chieftain’s son. Find it on iTunes, VOD and in select theaters April 17th.Adam Wachter is a composer, lyricist, music director, arranger, orchestrator, and pianist. The premiere concert of his original music and lyrics was presented in New York at 54 Below and in Los Angeles at Rockwell Table & Stage, and his original musical Tarrytown, a modern-day adaptation of Washington Irving’s “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” for which Adam wrote music, book, and lyrics, had its first public reading at the Diversionary Theater in San Diego. Most recently, Adam has been scoring for film and television. The 2016 short film “Sign,” for which he wrote both score and screenplay, made its world premiere in the summer of 2016 in the OutFest LGBT Film Festival in Los Angeles.

It went on to screen in film festivals all over the world, winning several prizes including the Youth Jury Award at the Iris Prize Festival, Best Narrative Short at NewFest, and the jury award for Best Short at Shout!, among others. Adam also produced the film along with director Andrew Keenan-Bolger. In 2013, he completed his first full-length film score on Jake Wilson’s comedy “Are You Joking.” The independent feature, which gained worldwide distribution in October 2015, was produced by Kevin Iwashina (“Jiro Dreams Of Sushi,” “The Truth About Emanuel”) and stars Hannibal Burress (“Broad City”), James Wolk (“Mad Men”), Vanessa Ray (“Blue Bloods”), Helene Yorke (“Masters Of Sex”) and Margaret Colin (“Gossip Girl”). In 2013, he orchestrated the score for the PBS Great Performances documentary “Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy” directed by Michael Kantor (“Make ‘Em Laugh,” “Broadway: The American Musical”). He also composed and orchestrated the theme song and score for the smash hit web series “Submissions Only” and several pieces of score for Sour Patch Kids’ “Breaking Out” YouTube campaign series.   

He is the music producer for The Battery Company’s series of online shorts, contributing music for the viral videos “Werq: The Labor Day Song,” “Serial: The TV Show,” and “Shit I Love,” and was responsible for supervising all music on both seasons of the cult favorite YouTube series “The Battery’s Down,” which featured original songs by Broadway’s top composers, including Tom Kitt (Next To Normal), Jeanine Tesori (Thoroughly Modern Millie, Shrek), and Lisa Lambert (The Drowsy Chaperone), in addition to composing new songs himself. He also recently composed a new song and original scoring for a special reunion episode of “The Battery’s Down,” which premiered on Hulu in November of 2015. For MTV’s pilot “Making It,” a musical reality series, he was hired to create and produce new arrangements of songs by Beyoncé, Demi Lovato, and Coldplay.    Adam was responsible for the arrangements and musical supervision for the long-running Off Broadway hit Old Jews Telling Jokes and subsequently supervised the popular production at the Royal George Theater in Chicago, for which he also provided orchestrations.

He conducted the critically-lauded Unlock’d at the Duke Theater on 42nd Street, and he previously provided music direction on several other Off- and Off-Off- Broadway productions, including Yank! (York Theater), In Transit (Primary Stages), Danny Visconti is Hill-bent, and Jason & Ben. His arrangements and orchestrations for Perfect Harmony, Perez Hilton Saves The Universe, and Spidermusical are currently licensed with production rights to those shows across the country, and each featured Adam as Music Director in its original New York production.    Regionally, Adam has worked at many of the nation’s top theaters, including the world premiere of Dog and Pony at the Old Globe, Girlstar at the Signature Theatre (for which he also wrote Vocal Arrangements), and musicals at Bay Street Theater, Shakespeare Theatre Company, The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Barrington Stage Company, North Shore Music Theater, Northern Stage, Weston Playhouse, and Theatre-by-the-Sea, among others.

He served as Music Director at the O’Neill Theater Center’s 2011 Cabaret Conference and also on TheatreworksUSA’s national tour of We The People, and recently acted as Music Supervisor on a new immersive production of Carrie in Los Angeles.    As a pianist, Adam performed in the pit orchestras of Broadway’s Finding Neverland, Allegiance, and The Addams Family, Radio City Music Hall’s Christmas Spectacular, Madison Square Garden’s Peter Pan, and MCC Theater’s Carrie, for which he is heard playing on the original cast recording on Ghostlight Records. In concert, he accompanied Grammy-winning country superstar Trisha Yearwood at Avery Fisher Hall, Tony Award winner Karen Olivo at Feinstein’s, 4-time Tony nominee Kelli O’Hara at Le Poisson Rouge, Tony nominee Celia Keenan-Bolger at Ars Nova, and countless others, including Lance Bass, Brent Barrett, Andrew Keenan-Bolger, Matt Cavenaugh, Stephanie Block, Adam Chanler-Berat, Caissie Levy, and “American Idol”’s Melinda Doolittle.   

For “Glee”’s Lea Michele and Jonathan Groff, Adam created arrangements, orchestrations, and provided musical direction for their “True Colors Cabaret” at Feinstein’s in late 2009. He has written arrangements and/or orchestrations for many other benefits, including an Easter Bonnet competition for BC/EFA at Broadway’s Minskoff Theater, a Miscast benefit for MCC Theater at the Hammerstein Ballroom, Broadway in South Africa’s annual gala (also at the Hammerstein), and multiple editions of Broadway Backwards at the Hirschfield Theater. In both 2014 and 2015, Adam helped create musical numbers for NYC’s Mayor Bill de Blasio appearances in the annual Inner Circle Show. He also orchestrated and produced the music for the opening numbers of the 2010 Streamy Awards and the 2011 Writers Guild Awards East, performed by Kristen Schaal (“30 Rock,” “The Daily Show”).    His original children’s audio musical “Denny the Dinosaur: Hear Me Roar,” written and composed with vocal arranger AnnMarie Milazzo, won the 2016 Parents’ Choice Award for Storytelling.