Labor Movie Night presented by Screen Actors Guild presents the Oscar-winning film Norma Rae. This marks the 30th anniversary of Norma Rae, and SAG will screen the film in support of the Employee Free Choice legislation, currently before the U.S. Congress, which is seen as the single most important bill to the American worker in the last 30 years.

April 17. 2009–Writer-director Sofia Coppola, who shot “Lost in Translation” at the Park Hyatt in Tokyo, will set her next film at the iconic Chateau Marmont in Hollywood. Stephen Dorff and Elle Fanning will star in the Focus Features serio comedy “Somewhere,” which Coppola wrote.

April 17, 2009–Fox Searchlight has acquired screen rights to Jen Sacks' “Nice,” to be developed as a star vehicle for Reese Witherspoon.  Ben Queen will adapt the darkly humorous novel.

April 1, 2009–Marion Cotillard, Cillian Murphy and Ellen Page will join the cast of “Inception,” which Christopher Nolan wrote and will direct. Leonardo DiCaprio has already been set to star.

Warner bought the spec script before other studios read it, wishing to be in business with the filmmaker after smash hit “The Dark Knight.” Production begins this summer for 2010 release.

March 28, 2009–Paramount's DreamWorks Animation release “Monsters vs. Aliens” grossed $16.7 million at 4,104 sites.  It's the second best opening day for a DreamWorks Animation release behind the $17.6 million posted by last November's “Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa.”