It may have been nine years since Miranda July's last film, The Future, premiered at Sundance, but if there's any doubt at all about her prolific nature as a filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist, the year ahead should put paid to it.
Saturday night in Park City, July will premiere Kajillionaire, her third feature…
Actress Rosie Perez testified for nearly an hour Friday afternoon in the Harvey Weinstein rape trial in New York, corroborating friend Annabella Sciorra’s previous testimony that Sciorra had told her of the rape back in 1993.
Prosecutors and defense attorneys raised repeated objections and continued to clash about the…
It’s official. Oscar-winning filmmaker Robert Zemeckis is fully aboard Disney’s live-action remake of its animated classic Pinocchio. He’ll direct, and co-write the next draft with Chris Weitz for a possible year-end production start.
Casting is still being determined.
Zemeckis and Weitz will write off the previous…
EXCLUSIVE: The 2017 murder of North Korean royal family member Kim Jong-nam, the oldest son of former leader Kim Jong-il and half-brother of current ruler Kim Jong-un, is rigorously explored from all sides — including the accused killers’ — in Assassins.
The documentary returns Ryan White (Ask Dr. Ruth) to the…
EXCLUSIVE: One of the hottest and most anticipated films of Sundance 2020 is attracting some very big names.
Hillary Clinton is likely to be among the luminaries at today's SFF world premiere of The Dissident, I hear.
Whether the former Secretary of State speaks at the screening, Clinton’s presence alone is sure to…
When the Oscar nominations were announced earlier this month, two documentaries about Syria made it through: Feras Fayyad's The Cave, about a courageous woman doctor running a subterranean hospital outside Damascus, and For Sama, directed by Waad Al-Kateab and Edward Watts, the story of Al-Kateab's effort to raise her…
"I just won an Oscar, but will that help me earn a living?" So asked F. Murray Abraham in a note sent to me in 1984 – one that I have faithfully saved. Unlike some Oscar winners, Abraham was both modest and bewildered by his Amadeus triumph. He also correctly predicted the uncertainties of his future.
I thought of him…
UPDATED, 11:30 AM: Judge James Burke said that he will allow actress Rosie Perez to take the stand as a way for the prosecution to bolster Annabella Sciorra’s claim that Harvey Weinstein raped her some time in the winter of 1993-94.
Prosecutor Joan Illuzzi said that they wanted to call Perez as the next witness. She…
"There's not enough praise or admiration we can give Cooper," proclaimed Robert Redford of exiting festival director John Cooper on the opening night of Sundance 2020 last night.
In fact, followed by a standing ovation from the well-heeled and talent packed crowd at the annual Artist at the Table dinner, the SFF…
EXCLUSIVE: Jessica Elbaum and Will Ferrell's Gloria Sanchez Productions has made a multi-year nonexclusive first look TV deal with Netflix. The company separately made a multi-year Paramount feature deal. The company has also named Brittney Segal to be Head of TV and David Koplan to be Head of Film. The Netflix deal…
EXCLUSIVE: Glen Basner’s FilmNation has made waves at recent Sundance Film Festivals with mega sales for The Big Sick and Late Night. This year the indie stalwart is in Park City with its biggest ever production presence at a festival.
The lineup comprises Benedict Cumberbatch Cold War drama Ironbark, Sean Durkin's Mar…
The WGA's demand for more streaming residuals from the studios could set the stage for the first industrywide strike in more than a decade. And it's not just that writers are in a fighting mood after feuding with the agencies for more than nine months: there's big money at stake – and not just from the ever-growing…
