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.
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…
When it comes to deals, every Sundance Festival follows a different rhythm. This year has gotten off to a slower start than last, when an all-night auction for Late Night started an avalanche of 8-figure acquisitions. But we are hearing that bids should start mobilizing shortly on a number of films. I’ve heard that…
Alan Ball is in Sundance today to premiere Uncle Frank, a drama set in 1973. An 18-year old and her NYU professor uncle take a road trip to their South Carolina home to bury the prof's father, who rejected his son when he learned he was gay. The trip will rear up past trauma that Frank has done his best to suppress…
Joker director Todd Phillips grew up on Long Island and attended New York University, so he had plenty of real-life observation to channel into his vision of the film’s Gotham City.
Phillips described his work on Joker, which leads all films with 11 Oscar nominations, during a Q&A following an Awardsline screening at…
It's finally time for the 62nd annual Grammy Awards, but what a time it's been over the past few weeks, with the drama ramping up even more just before the show.
Music's biggest night has turned into an embarrassment for the organization running it. This week saw more accusations from suspended CEO Deborah Dugan and…
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.
