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The Sundance Film Festival’s two top U.S. competition winners launched their theatrical runs this weekend, with documentary winner The Wolfpack boasting a robust per-theater-average among specialty newcomers, the second-highest for a non-fiction movie in 2015. Sundance’s U.S. dramatic grand jury prize and audience…

The big U.S. winners at this year’s Sundance Film Festival will go head-to-head with Universal’s Jurassic World this weekend in theaters. There is no doubt who will win, but both Fox Searchlight’s Me And Earl And The Dying Girl and Magnolia Pictures’ The Wolfpack appear to have a good amount of momentum to carve out a…

Quite often at the end of a screening, particularly at a local film fest premiere, there’s a Q&A with the filmmaker and cast. But when the curtain goes down at the Tribeca Film Festival, as was the case Wednesday night at the event’s opener Live From New York!, there’s Ludacris. And by Ludacris, we mean the Furious 7…

Tribeca Film Festival founders Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal and Tribeca Enterprises Exec VP Paula Weinstein held a press luncheon today to kick off the 14th annual event and addressed the changing indie filmmaking landscape, as well as how TFF has evolved. When the festival launched it was an effort to revitalize…

“They said it would be a cross between 60 Minutes and Monty Python.” It turned out to be much more than that, something completely different — at least at the time of its mid-1970s debut — that endures as as a kind of “living time capsule” of U.S. life, politics, and pop culture. A chronicle of the fabled NYC and…

Tribeca Film Festival opens with Live From New York!, a docu on the making of this weekend’s 40th anniversary of Saturday Night Live. Beyond the landmark show, the movie will include archival footage in an inherently New York long running show. The world premiere comes April…