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EXCLUSIVE: A+E Networks has promoted UK executive Dan Korn to oversee its free-to-air channel Blaze as the U.S. cable giant eyes international expansion for the brand. Korn joined A+E as Vice President of Programming in October 2016. He will now assume the role of head of Blaze in addition to this role and will…

Sundance doc Kusama – Infinity rolled out in two locations Friday, easily taking the top spot among the weekend's new Specialty films. The Magnolia Pictures feature about Japanese artist Yayoi Kusaa grossed $30,400, averaging $15,200. The total gave it the highest per theater average among all releases as of Sunday…

Sundance Selects has nabbed U.S. distribution rights to the Ethan Hawke-directed biopic, Blaze, which had its world premiere at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. The pic is inspired by the life of Blaze Foley, the unsung songwriting legend of the Texas outlaw music movement that spawned the likes of Merle Haggard and…

'There's something shamanistic about acting at its best," Ethan Hawke said this year at the Sundance Film Festival. “When you see a performance at a real high level, there's something like a shamanistic dance about it, to be honest," the four-time Oscar nominee, 12-time visitor to the Utah shindig and Blaze director…

"We live in a culture right now that thinks anything that's bigger is better, that more money is better," says Ethan Hawke of why he decided to return to directing a feature after almost a decade with Blaze, which debuted this afternoon at the Sundance Film Festival. "Blaze symbolizes a counter current to that, of…

Sam Rockwell, Steve Zahn, Wyatt Russell, Kris Kristofferson and Richard Linklater are in Ethan Hawke’s drama Blaze. Hawke, who also co-stars, produced and directed and even co-wrote the story based on Sybil Rosen's memoir Living In The Woods In A Tree, about Rosen’s real, life-long love Blaze Foley, the unsung…