Sony Pictures Classics says it has purchased the U.S. rights to Charlie Kaufman's directorial debut, Synecdoche, New York, from Sidney Kimmel Entertainment.

If we needed any more proof of the gender gap at the box office, it's that "The Memory Keeper's Daughter" is premiering this weekend on Lifetime.

Lifetime Television has adapted Kim Edwards' blockbuster novel The Memory Keeper's Daughter for the small screen, the U.S. cable TV network said Thursday. Starring Dermot Mulroney, Emily Watson and Gretchen Mol, the film is to air as a Lifetime Original Movie Event April 12.

By NATHAN OLIVAREZ-GILES south side More than 3,600 eighth-graders, most living on the South Side, are in the second year of six-year program that gives them millions of dollars worth of support that many children in the United States would be lucky to have.

By Antoinette Konz, Montgomery Advertiser, Ala. Jan. 8--Emily Watson wants her son in an advanced kindergarten program next year, while Jackie Owens wants her daughter to excel on the piano. The Montgomery school system's magnet programs can serve them both.