“Columbus Circle” is expected to be released on DVD and Blu-ray on March 6th.

Universal’s Blu-ray presents the film in its original aspect ratio of 2.39:1 with a 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio track. Further supplementary details have not yet been confirmed.

“When…[the death] prompts NYPD Homicide Detective Frank Giardello (Giovanni Ribisi, Saving Private Ryan) to launch an investigation…[she] is distressed to find him outside her door, questioning her. Having tried to acquire the now vacant apartment to ensure her privacy, [the heiress] is further upset when new tenants Lillian (Amy Smart, Varsity Blues) and Charlie (Jason Lee, Chasing Amy) move in. [Blair's character] anxiously monitors her new neighbors from the safety of her front door’s peephole, but her well-ordered world begins to unravel when she finally encounters Lillian and Charlie face-to-face and her sheltered existence becomes threatened in unexpected and terrifying ways.”

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Great news! Lightning Entertainment has acquired a few new films, including “Columbus Circle”, so hopefully that means we get to see it soon!

Lightning Entertainment, the Santa Monica-based sales, production and distribution company, announced today that it has acquired international sales rights in all media to seven new completed theatrical feature films and will debut the new slate at the upcoming American Film Market. All seven titles will have their first market screenings at AFM, with three key titles making their World Premiere debut: BRAKE, COLUMBUS CIRCLE, and WRATH.

The announcement of the new lineup is part of the company’s ongoing drive to acquire and develop high profile titles that will satisfy demand across all distribution platforms both internationally and in the United States, where the company is expanding its presence as a domestic all rights distributor. For three of the films, BLOODWORK, THE REVENANT and BOY WONDER, Lightning has acquired worldwide distribution rights and will be releasing them in the US through their domestic distribution label, Lightning Media. In the US, Lightning is continuing to expand its extensive reach via its direct VOD and digital release platforms, which it combines with traditional theatrical and home entertainment channels.

The new films span a number of genres from horror to comedy and feature top international stars including Stephen Dorff, Michael C. Hall, Lucy Liu, Selma Blair, Amy Smart, and Giovanni Ribisi.
“We’re incredibly excited to bring this slate of films to AFM for our buyers,” said Robert Beaumont, President of Lightning Entertainment. “The reinvigorated marketplace is looking for compelling stories and cast driven theatrical feature films that will appeal to global audiences and we aim to satisfy that buoyant demand.”

COLUMBUS CIRCLE (World Premiere) – Directed by George Gallo (MIDDLE MEN), and starring Selma Blair (HELLBOY), Amy Smart (CRANK), Giovanni Ribisi (AVATAR), Jason Lee (NBC’s “My Name is Earl”), and Kevin Pollak (MIDDLE MEN) who also co-wrote the film, COLUMBUS CIRCLE is a stylish and riveting thriller about a reclusive young heiress, Abigail, (Blair) who lives a guarded and sheltered life in a luxurious New York penthouse. But when she is befriended by Lillian and Charlie (Smart and Lee), the glamorous new owners of the apartment next door, Abigail’s safe and secure existence is suddenly threatened.

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The red band trailer for “The Family Tree” has recently been released. The movie is set to open in limited release this Friday, August 26th.

Josh Close, James D’Arcy, Selma Blair and Rachel Miner have been cast in the home invasion thriller The Replicas. Music video helmer Jeremy Regimbal is directing the project, which just began production.

Close also wrote the screenplay, which follows a couple that heads with their family to a vacation cottage to grieve after the death of their youngest child. Not long after, they are visited by the Sakowskis, a couple with an unhelpful agenda.

Kim Roberts and Tina Pehme of Sepia Films are producing along with Justin Close of The Studio Movement.

Josh Close, who is repped by Buchwald & Associates and Untitled Entertainment, was a regular on the ABC series The Unusuals. On the feature side, he has appeared in The Exorcism of Emily Rose and Diary of the Dead.

Repped by CAA and Management 360, D’Arcy has appeared in Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World and An American Haunting. He will next appear as Ian Fleming in Age of Heroes and in Madonna’s W.E.

Blair, repped by Gersh and Global Creative, most recently appeared in Hellboy II: The Golden Army and Feast of Love. She is filming Todd Solondz’s Dark Horse.

Repped by the Kohner Agency and Untitled, Miner appeared on the Showtime series Californication and in the films Bully and The Black Dahlia.

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Lorena Rincon, Rhona Mitra, Selma Blair and Melanie Lynskey are toplining World War I drama “Four Saints,” produced by White Wing Enterprises and Andrew Ferns (“Pursued”).

Cary Elwes and Arnold Vosloo are also starring. “Saints,” written and directed by Jean-Pierre Isbouts, tells the story of four young women who defied the British Army — as well as German bombs and bullets — to operate an illegal medical dressing station on the Allied front lines during World War I. It’s based on Isbouts’ novel “Angels in Flanders.”

Principal photography is scheduled to start in November for a six-week shoot around Calgary, Alberta.

White Wing is producing with the support of the Alberta Production Plan, sales company Hollywood Wizard and Structured Capital Group.

With Rincon’s casting, Tayrona Entertainment Group has agreed to exec produce and distribute the film throughout Latin America on more than 1,000 screens next fall.

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According to EW.com, Selma Blair has signed on to a new movie called “Dark Horse”!

Christopher Walken, Mia Farrow, and Selma Blair will all appear in Dark Horse, an indie about a 30-something man who lives with his parents (who are played by Walken and Farrow).

I have just added 20 photos of Selma Blair modeling for the clothing line “Downtown” in the Fall 2010 campaign. The photos are really amazing, so its a must-see for all Selma fans!

Also, Selma has signed on to be in a new film called “Four Saints”. The movie is in pre-production and she’ll be playing a character named Dorothy Fielding. The film is set to premiere on September 25, 2011 at the Calgary Film Festival.

The film opens when the British Army finds itself overwhelmed by massive casualties. Major Munro, a physician attached to the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC), decides to organize a volunteer Flying Ambulance Corps. He recruits four women: Elsie Knocker (British), Mairi Chisholm (Scottish), Dorothy Fielding (Canadian) and Helen Gleason (American). The women are sent to a field hospital in Furnes, Flanders. But before long, Elsie discovers that many wounded soldiers die of shock during the transport from the trenches to the hospital. She implores Dr. Munro to move the field hospital closer to the front. When he declines, the four women steal an ambulance, packed with supplies, and begin to operate their own dressing station — in an abandoned village called Pervyse, a stone’s throw away from the trenches. Pervyse is just north of the Ypres ‘Salient,’ a dangerous bulge in the German lines which actually exposes the Allied soldiers to German artillery from three sides…

Thanks to Jen for the heads up!