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The Sundance Film Festival is regarded as one of the most prestigious independent film festivals, where filmmakers have been premiering their movies and documentaries since 1984. The festival was founded in 1978 by Sterling Van Wagenen, the head of Robert Redford’s company Wildwood, and John Earle of the Utah Film Commission under the name Utah/US […]

Art the Clown is back for one last terrifying ride, which will provide horror fans closure on the murderous jester’s arc. Writer-director Damien Leone announced on Wednesday that Terrifier 4 is “in the works” after the third installment was released in September, sharing the cover page for the latest script in the franchise on X. […]

Sony Pictures on Wednesday said that it is pushing back the release date of its latest Insidious movie a year to August 2026, and in its place dating the Darren Aronofsky-directed Caught Stealing starring Austin Butler. The Sony/Blumhouse Insidious pic, to be released by Screen Gems, is the sixth entry in the horror franchise and […]

The American Film Market is set to return to Los Angeles this year following a poorly received 2024 edition in Las Vegas. AFM 2025 will run November 11-16 at the Fairmont Century Plaza in Century City, next to Beverly Hills. “Our return to LA holds special significance in the aftermath of the recent devastating fires,” […]

Karla Sofía Gascón is clearing up recently made comments involving fellow Oscar nominee Fernanda Torres. The Emilia Pérez star is nominated in the Best Actress category at the Academy Awards along with the I’m Still Here star Torres. Gascón claimed in an interview that people around Torres were trying to diminish her work but made […]

It cannot be denied: The Super Bowl generally translates into big box office. However, there are only three motion picture studios — Disney, Paramount and Universal — willing to pony up $7.5 million-$8 million for a 30-second spot on Fox before an audience that last year reached 123.7 million viewers across live linear and streaming. […]

TITLE: The Stringer Section: Premieres Director: Bao Nguyen Logline: A two-year investigation uncovers a scandal behind the making of one of the most-recognized photographs of the 20th century. Five decades of secrets are unraveled in the search for justice for a man known only as “the stringer.” An iconic image defines its time not only through the […]

OPUSSection: MidnightScreenwriter-Director: Mark Anthony GreenLogline: A young writer (Ayo Edebiri) is invited to the remote compound of a legendary pop star (John Malkovich) who mysteriously disappeared thirty years ago. Surrounded by the star’s cult of sycophants and intoxicated journalists, she finds herself in the middle of his twisted plan.Panelists: Edebiri, Malkovich, Juliette Lewis, Murray Bartlett, […]

TITLE: SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius) Section: Premieres Director: Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson Logline: An examination of the life and legacy of Sly & The Family Stone — the groundbreaking band led by the charismatic and enigmatic Sly Stone — captures the band’s rise, reign, and subsequent fadeout while it sheds light on the unseen […]

Artists Equity, the studio launched in 2022 by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, is shuffling key roles in its executive suite. Dillon West has been elevated to Chief Operating Officer, with current COO Michael Joe transitioning to a strategic advisory role but staying on the company’s board of directors. Andrew Gumpert, an industry veteran known […]

UPDATED with statement: Karla Sofía Gascón made Oscar history as the first openly transgender person to be nominated in an acting category for her work in Emilia Pérez. As the Academy Awards ceremony approaches, there seems to be some behind-the-scenes drama among the actors nominated in the Best Actress category. Gascón recently alleged that people […]

THE WEDDING RECEPTIONSection: PremieresScreenwriter-Director: Andrew AhnLogline: A gay man makes a deal with his lesbian friend: a green-card marriage for him, in exchange for in vitro fertilization treatments for her. Plans evolve as Min’s grandmother surprises them with a Korean wedding banquet.Panelists: Bowen Yang, Lily Gladstone, Kelly Marie Tran, Han Gi-chan, Joan Chen, Youn Yuh-jung […]

Two years after Magazine Dreams premiered to huge buzz at the Sundance Film Festival, the first trailer for the film featuring Jonathan Majors’ breakout performance has finally been released. The trailer opens with Majors’ character saying in voiceover, “You have to do something big and important for people to remember you when you’re dead.” What […]

“I’m really sorry, I f*cked up,” Justin Baldoni admitted to his It Ends With Us co-star Blake Lively in a 2 a.m. April 2023 voice message after delivering a less than enthusiastic response to scene rewrite from the Gossip Girl vet. “I will admit and apologize when I fail, the Jane the Virgin alum added […]

Whatever you think about the Sundance Film Festival, there is a special kind of excitement when a movie from a first time filmmaker premieres and you just know you are discovering and witnessing the real deal. Welcome to the “real deal” Sundance circa 2025, as tonight comedian and actress Eva Victor’s writing and directing feature […]

Jan Shepard, who acted opposite Elvis Presley in 1958’s King Creole and 1966’s Paradise, Hawaiian Style, and appeared in more than 30 TV Westerns, died Jan. 17 at a hospital in Burbank, Calif. of pneumonia brought on by respiratory failure. She was 96. In King Creole, noted as Presley’s favorite of his films, she portrayed […]

With gay rights coming back into the crosshairs in almost every country across the globe, Carmen Emmi’s slow-burn drama is sobering reminder of just how far these things have progressed in the past 30 years. Taking place primarily in 1997 — unfolding in flashback from the framing device of a family New Year’s Eve party […]

TITLE: The Perfect Neighbor Section: U.S. Documentary Competition Director: Geeta Gandbhir Logline: A seemingly minor neighborhood dispute in Florida escalates into deadly violence. Police bodycam footage and investigative interviews expose the consequences of Florida’s “stand your ground” laws.In a normal American neighborhood, one woman was quick to see any conflict  as an attack that required police attention. […]

EXCLUSIVE: Thirty-three years after Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, the two-time Oscar winning filmmaker was back in Park City today. Rarely at a loss of words and a love of cinema, Tarantino — who workshopped the flick starring Tim Roth and Eddie Bunker in Sundance’s Directors Labs before it hit […]

EXCLUSIVE: Barry Cooper can safely be called a renegade. He served in law enforcement – as a police officer in Texas, but some might say he then switched sides. The documentary Never Get Busted, premiering at the Sundance Film Festival, gets deep into Cooper’s story, one that has seen him “relocate” from Texas to Brazil, […]

Lionsgate today filed an amended registration statement incorporating the latest comments fomr the Security and Exchange Commission, moving it a step closer to the planned separation of Lionsgate Studios and Starz. The joint proxy is expected to be declared effective by the SEC soon, at which point the company led by CEO Jon Feltheimer will […]

Title: PlainclothesSection: U.S. Dramatic CompetitionWriter-Director: Carmen Emmi Logline: Set in 1990s Syracuse, New York, Plainclothes is a romantic thriller following Lucas (Tom Blyth), an undercover police officer assigned to entrap and arrest gay men for public indecency. As Lucas carries out his duties, he becomes romantically involved with Andrew (Russell Tovey), a closeted man who is one […]

As the Sundance Film Festival nears its conclusion on Day 5, the buzz on Main Street in Park City continues with premieres ranging from Rachael Abigail Holder’s; Love, Brooklyn to Andrew Ahn’s The Wedding Banquet. The premiere of Rachael Abigail Holder’s directorial debut, featuring Roy Wood Jr., Nicole Beharie, Cassandra Freeman, DeWanda Wise, and Andre […]

EXCLUSIVE: The Sundance Institute and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation today awarded three artist grants intended to support projects in development, as part of their Science-in-Film initiative. Ella Gale was awarded the Sloan Episodic Fellowship for Greenwashers, with Katla Sólnes accepting the Sloan Development Fellowship for Eruption, and Brittany Wang taking the Sloan Commissioning Grant for […]