This year’s market has been the toughest one to handicap in a good long time. It might well be quiet, meaning that the sums could be modest with dealmaking for most films lingering beyond the festival. But that doesn’t mean that the mart won’t pop with a handful of big deals.
On Saturday at the Egyptian Theater in Park City, Carrie Mae Weems moderated a conversation between artists in the industry that have pushed the envelope when it comes to storytelling and representation. The panelists each had films at Sundance including Lin-Manuel Miranda (Siempre, Luis, We Are Freestyle Love…
EXCLUSIVE:Â During Sundance, Jeremy Blacklow, Director of Entertainment Media at GLAAD and The Black List's Kate Hagen revealed the second annual catalog for the GLAAD List which is a roster of the most promising unmade LGBTQ-inclusive film scripts
From stories about Tennessee Williams to the bohemian '80s arts scene…
Madonna has canceled the first stop in London of her Madame X tour, telling fans she’s “deeply sorry” but was forced to bow out because of an injury.
The music legend was scheduled to perform the first of 15 shows Monday at the London Palladium.
In an Instagram post Saturday, the Material Girl said she’s been “plagued”…
Witnessing the beginnings of the disability rights movement at Camp Jened almost 50 years ago, James Lebrecht is bringing his experience of a pivotal moment in U.S. history to Netflix with his directorial debut, Crip Camp.
Co-directed by Lebrecht's longtime colleague Nicole Newnham, the documentary delves deep into…
Radha Blank joins a long line of filmmakers making their feature film debut at Sundance with The 40-Year-Old Version, a black and white comedy she not only helmed, but wrote, produced and stars in as well. I can’t remember many who’ve waited as she has for the big moment that happens this afternoon. Here, the New…
Jamie Foxx picked up another award for his performance in Just Mercy as Walter McMillian, a black man in Alabama wrongly condemned to death row for a murder he did not commit.
On Wednesday night, Foxx was awarded the Best Supporting Actor honor at the African American Film Critics Association Awards in Los Angeles…
Margo Lion, the producer behind the Tony-winning musical adaption of Hairspray, died January 24 at age 75. She had a brain aneurysm, according to her son.
Lion was an independent producer with eclectic tastes, backing everything from revivals to new musicals, many of them award-winners.
“When Hairspray happened—it…
SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details about The Glorias. During Sundance’s “Power of Story: Just Art” The Glorias director Julie Taymor joined Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ai Weiwei, Kerry Washington and moderator Carrie Mae Weems on a panel to discuss how artists push boundaries. While talking about her film, which is…
The coming-of-age sub-genre is “thousands and thousands of hours of TV shows and films,” explained Alec Baldwin Friday night during a talk for his latest Sundance feature production Beast Beast.Â
So how do you make it fresh?
Baldwin who serves as EP on the Danny Madden directed and written teenage pic with his…
Several years ago, documentarian Brian Knappenberger became aware of a series of stories published in the Idaho Falls Post Register, which were generating significant controversy within the community.
Written by Peter Zuckerman, these stories uncovered a series of child abuse allegations involving Idaho's Boy Scouts…
The Rest of Us, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2019, has a distribution deal with Gravitas and a new trailer.
The dramedy centers on two mother-daughter duos who must contend with their grief and complicated relationships with each other when the man who ties them together dies.
The film…
EXCLUSIVE: While we wait for the Sundance acquisitions market to get going, I’ve learned that a coveted title not in the festival has sold in a substantial preemptive deal after a bidding battle. Tom Quinn’s NEON has landed Ammonite, a Francis Lee (God’s Own Country) scripted and directed drama that stars Kate Winslet…
Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, Margot Robbie and an all-star ensemble take a powerful deep-dive into the downfall of Roger Ailes, with director Jay Roach and screenwriter Charles Randolph.
