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EXCLUSIVE: The 26th Annual Austin Film Festival & Writers Conference is putting some shine on the often unsung and overlooked heroes of film: the writer. This year, the fest revealed that they will be honoring Oscar-winning screenwriters James Ivory with the "Extraordinary Contribution to Film" Award and Ron Bass with…

Opening non-fictioners had a tough start this weekend, though the top title had some impressive results. Honeyland won Sundance's best world documentary prize along with other nods including cinematography. The Neon release directed by Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov is a challenge. Its subjects…

UPDATED with more numbers and analysis. Specialty newcomers are mostly wilting in the heat this weekend. Meanwhile, though, second-week holdover The Farewell from A24 packed a wallop with an expansion and Bleecker Street's The Art of Self-Defense jumped to well-over five hundred runs for a seven-figure, three-day…

Never mind the blackout, Sundance's The Farewell glowed with the year's best opening weekend per- theater average in its debut, despite cancelled shows at AMC Lincoln Square, though most tickets were likely purchased ahead of time. In any event, distributor A24 gets bragging rights to a great opening, The F…

4th Update Sunday AM Writethru Sunday AM: Counterprogramming continues to be a casualty in a tentpole-dominant summer, making many in the industry wonder: Should we have just designated these films to streaming? Like we said last weekend in our mid-summer report, when smaller films like Paramount’s Crawl (now…

Awkwafina traverses two cultures in Lulu Wang's Sundance '19 hit The Farewell, which A24 opens in New York and Los Angeles this weekend. While the Specialty circuit was mostly on pause over the holiday weekend last week, the second weekend of July is seeing a notable group of indie/limited releases making its way to…

Writer and director Lulu Wang’s forthcoming film The Farewell has been buzzy since it premiered at Sundance. It sold to A24 after its positive ovation at the fest and since has made its rounds, gaining more and more momentum as it ramps up for its July 12 release. The film’s star Awkwafina is getting shine for her…

The Farewell writer-director Lulu Wang has set up her next project, a science-fiction movie titled Children of the New World. It will mark a reteam with her Farewell producer Big Beach after that film’s success premiering in competition at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, where it landed a splashy distribution deal…

Lulu Wang’s Park City comedy-drama The Farewell has picked up the top prize at UK spin-off festival Sundance London. Wang’s feature, starring Awkwafina, Tzi Ma, Diana Lin, Zhao Shuzhen, Lu Hong and Jiang Yongbo, scored the Audience Favourite Award after getting its European premiere at the festival. The film was…

Anita Gou found out she had two films going to Sundance this year via WeChat, while she was out on a road trip in Taiwan. It was a fitting way to find out for someone with such strong international connections. One was Lulu Wang's Mandarin-language comedy The Farewell, which was snapped up by A24 in a splashy $6…

Sundance London 2019 will include Park City hits including Late Night and The Farewell, both of which will get their European premieres at the mini-festival which runs May 30 – June 02 at Picturehouse Central. The London event will present 12 features from this year’s Sundance Film Festival, selected for London by the…

EXCLUSIVE: A24 is near to closing what sources said is a $6 milion deal for worldwide rights excluding China on The Farewell, the Lulu Wang-directed comedy that stars Awkwafina, Tzi Ma, and Diana Lin. A Chinese family discovers that their beloved grandmother has a short time to live. They don't tell her, but instead…