Bradley Cooper, Rupert Everett, Ashton Kutcher, Camryn Manheim, Bill Nighy, Campbell Scott and More Featured in Hollywood Film Festival Selections

The finalists for the 14th Annual Hollywood Film Festival have been announced, with several of the films featuring stage veterans. The Festival will take place at ArcLight Cinemas, October 22-25.

This year’s lineup will include The 5th Quarter, starring Aidan Quinn, Andie MacDowell, and Ryan Merriman; Beneath the Blue, starring Paul Wesley; Mario Van Peebles’ film, Black, White and Blues, featuring Michael Clarke Duncan, Tom Skerritt, Kiele Sanchez, Taryn Manning, Luke Perry, and Morgan Simpson; Brother’s Justice, with Dax Shepard, Tom Arnold, Nate Tuck, Bradley Cooper, David Koechner, Ashton Kutcher, and Jon Favreau; Fort McCoy, starring Eric Stoltz, Kate Connor, Lyndsy Fonseca, Andy Hirsch, Camryn Manheim, and Seymour Cassel; and Wild Target, with Emily Blunt, Bill Nighy, Rupert Grint, and Rupert Everett.

The comedy component of the festival will include Hollywood and Wine, with an all-star cast of Saturday Night Live alums Chris Kattan, David Spade, Chris Parnell, Horatio Sanz, and Norm MacDonald as well as Nicky Whelan, Chazz Palminteri, Vivica A. Fox, and Pamela Anderson. Also featured will be Beware the Gonzo, with Ezra Miller, Zoe Kravitz, Jesse McCartney, Judah Friedlander, Amy Sedaris and Campbell Scott; and Buzzkill, starring Darrell Hammond. Both Brother’s Justice and Wild Target are also included in the comedy selections.

The festival will open with the documentary Reconciliation: Mandela’s Miracle, featuring FW De Klerk, Zindzi Mandela, Clint Eastwood, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Francois Pienaar and The Springboks.

The festival will close on Sunday, October 24, with the presentation of the “Hollywood Discovery Awards” to announce the festival’s winning films – Best Feature Film, Best Documentary, Best Comedy and Best Short Subject. In addition, the previously reported Hollywood Awards, held in conjunction with the festival and presented on October 25, will honor celebrities such as Annette Bening, Robert Duvall, Morgan Freeman, Sean Penn, Aaron Sorkin.

For more information, visit www.hollywoodfestival.com.