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Sony Pictures Classics are presenting the Los Angeles Premiere of Woody Allen’s Midnight In Paris on 18 May.

The screening takes place at 7:30pm at The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Samuel Goldwyn Theater, 8949 Wilshire Boulevard followed by a reception. Tickets are $100 per person and the proceeds go to The American Film Institute.

For purchasing information please see AFI’s website HERE.

Film Independent are to do a members-only screening of Midnight In Paris on 12 May -  a day after its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival.

The screening will be held at The Landmark, 10850 W. Pico Blvd Los Angeles and is free for members. For booking info, please visit their site HERE.

A limited US release will follow on 20 May.

Tribeca Film Festival have released their full film schedule. The viewing times for Jesus Henry Christ, which is making its US premiere there as part of their World Narrative competition, are as follows:

Saturday 23 April 9:30pm  BMCC Tribeca PAC
Monday 25 April 6:30pm Clearview Cinemas Chelsea 6
Wednesday 27 April 9:30pm SVA Theater 1 Silas
Saturday 30 April 8:30pm AMC Loews Village 7 – 3

Please visit Tribeca Film Festival site for ticket information.

As mentioned in a recent BBC Radio Wales interview, Michael Sheen will not be attending the premiere.

The Dallas International Film Festival announced its set of Centerpiece screenings and the slate for its Narrative and Documentary competitions.

Amongst the 3 centrepiece screenings will be the Shawn Ku directed film Beautiful Boy.

Beautiful Boy features Michael Sheen and Maria Bello as a married couple on the verge of separation, as they struggle to deal with their own personal loss whilst trying to find refuge from the public and the media after their son commits a mass shooting and kills himself. The film had its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival last year.

The festival runs from March 31 to April 10 and will be held at the Winspear Opera House in the Dallas Arts District.

The romantic comedy Jesus Henry Christ will premiere at this years Tribeca Film Festival in the .

Tribeca Film Festival was founded in 2002 in an effort to enable the international film community and the general public to experience the power of film by redefining the film festival experience. It was created to celebrate New York City as a major film making center and to contribute to the long-term recovery of lower Manhattan following 9/11.

Jesus Henry Christ is about Henry James, a 10 yr old petri-dish kid of a left-wing feminist mother, who is on the hunt for his biological father. The film will get its world premiere at the 1oth festival being held April 20 – May 1, 2011, in New York.

Written by Dennis Lee, and produced by Julia Robert’s production company Red Om, Jesus Henry Christ features Michael Sheen as Dr Slavkin O’Hara, and Toni Collette as Henry’s mother, Patricia Hermin.

The 64th annual Festival de Cannes will kick off after Midnight in Paris with Woody Allen’s romcom set to open the festival on May 11, organizers said on Wednesday.

The film will premiere at the Lumiere theater in Cannes on the same day of its release in France.

The romantic comedy, shot last summer in Paris, stars a Franco-American mix of talent including Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Marion Cotillard, Kathy Bates, Lea Seydoux, Adrien Brody, Gad Elmaleh and France’s first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy.

Midnight was produced by Spain’s Mediapro and New York-based Gravier Productions. Mars Films will simultaneously release the title in Gaul in 400 theaters as it screens for the Cannes crowd.

In the first public-professional festival opening night in history, the festival and its media partner Canal Plus are offering Gallic theater owners the chance to screen the entire opening night program live in their cinemas for filmgoers.

“Midnight in Paris is a wonderful love letter to Paris,” festival director Thierry Fremaux said of the selection. He added: “It’s a film in which Woody Allen takes a deeper look at the issues raised in his last films: our relationship with history, art, pleasure and life. His 41st feature reveals once again his inspiration.”

Robert De Niro will preside over the jury for the fest’s 64th edition as part of a Franco-American, bi-continental celebration of the Tribeca Film Festival’s 10th anniversary.

The 64th annual Festival de Cannes will kick off on the Riviera on May 11 and run through May 22.

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