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This just in: The Holy Grail of biblical archaeology is the Holy Grail. Now get ready for a hoax of biblical proportions. Here’s the first trailer for Don Verdean, the latest romp from the team behind Napoleon Dynamite. The title character (Sam Rockwell) is an archaeologist renowned for discovering artifacts tied to…

Dig into this clip from Don Verdean, a comedy that premieres January 28 at the Sundance Film Festival and was picked up by Lionsgate last week. The film marks a return to Sundance by Jared Hess, a decade after he hit an unlikely critical and box office home run there with Napoleon Dynamite. Hess directed and co-wrote D…

The 2015 Sundance Film Festival gets underway tonight, and signs are prevalent that it might well be the biggest sellers’ market for marketing-challenged prestige fare that we've seen in a decade or longer. There is too much favoring the sellers here to think about it any other way, particularly after four deals were…

EXCLUSIVE: Out in front of its January 28 Sundance Film Festival premiere, Don Verdean has been acquired for North America by Lionsgate in the first significant deal of the festival, unless you count the sight-unseen prebuy that Fox Searchlight made of the Noah Baumbach film Mistress America. The film is directed by Ja…