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If Sundance was looking to raise the temperature in this year’s festival they found it Sunday night with Jennifer Lopez and the feature take of the Broadway musical Kiss of the Spider Woman which played a packed and explosive Eccles house with plenty of turnaways and buyers in attendance such as Searchlight and Mubi in […]

The Deadline photo studio hosted talent on Day 3 at the Sundance Film Festival, as cast members of Sundance-premiering films stopped by including Simon Rex, Camila del Campo, Amalia Ulman, Alex Wolff, Chloe Sevigny, Joe Apollonio for Magic Farm; Alison Brie and Dave Franco from Together; Bill Condon, Jennifer Lopez, Tonatiuh for Actor for Kiss […]

EXCLUSIVE: After scoring a Best Actress Oscar nomination after winning the Golden Globe for Best Performance By An Actress in a Film Drama for her portrayal of a mother searching for her disappeared politician husband in I’m Still Here, Fernanda Torres tonight is making an apology for a decades-old skit on the Brazilian TV show […]

Talk about timely. In a movie that looks tailor-made to debut at the Sundance Film Festival, British actor Josh O’Connor tries on an American Southwest accent to take on the role of Colorado rancher, Dusty, whose life (along with those of his few neighbors in the very rural Rocky Mountain community in which his family […]

With his feature directorial debut Ricky, which is coming off of its world premiere at Sundance, writer-director Rashad Frett looked to shed light on the many challenges ex-offenders face in “reintegrating back into society” following an experience with the U.S. criminal justice system. He came to the project — an expansion of his 2023 NYU […]

TITLE: East of Wall Section: Next Director: Kate Beecroft Screenwriter: Kate Beecroft Logline: After the death of her husband, Tabatha — a young, tattooed, rebellious horse trainer — wrestles with financial insecurity and unresolved grief while providing refuge for a group of wayward teenagers on her broken-down ranch in the Badlands. A chance encounter brought together writer-director […]

I have become so accustomed to defining children’s or family films in this era as animated that when you come upon one that doesn’t fall into that easy definition it is a welcome shock to the system. The Legend of Ochi, premiering today in the Family Matinee section of the Sundance Film Festival, is a […]

On day four of the Festival, Bill Condon’s highly anticipated Kiss of the Spider Woman, and Max Walker-Silverman’s sophomore feature, Rebuilding, will premiere at Eccles Theatre. Additionally, Hal & Harper; Selena y Los Dinos; Mad Bills to Pay (or Destiny, dile que no soy malo); Oh, Hi!; Train Dreams, and Move Ya Body: The Birth […]

TITLE: Train Dreams Section: Premieres Director: Clint Bentley Screenwriters: Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar Logline: Robert Grainier is a day laborer building America’s railroads at the start of the 20th century and experiences profound love, shocking defeat, and a world irrevocably transforming before his very eyes. Adapted from Denis Johnson’s novella, Train Dreams finds its center in the […]

Rarely does a political leader come through a documentary with such a sense of empathy and an appreciation of accomplishment as Jacinda Ardern does in Prime Minister. The Sundance documentary starts as a homespun tale, where at 37 she steps up to run New Zealand, and soon learns that she and her mate Clark Gayford […]

In writer-director Hailey Gates’ directorial debut, she dives into the Bush-era culture of toxic masculinity, nationalism and Islamophobia with an amusing and profoundly absurdist sense of satire. Set in 2006, Atropia takes place at the titular U.S. military training ground in the California desert, where actors role-play as villagers in countries where the government plans […]

Timothée Chalamet-starring Oscar contented A Complete Unknown from Searchlight Pictures is holding at no. 8 at 2,010 locations with a $3.1 million weekend. James Mangold’s Bob Dylan biopic is rolling with a $62.9 million cume in week five coming off eight Oscar nominations including for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Leading Actor. That would be […]

America under Trump’s second presidency is fearful for its borders and the potential terrorists that might be coming in through them. Britain, under the comparatively liberal Keir Starmer, has a rather more niche anxiety: that its citizens will leave and then return as insurgents. This seemingly unlikely scenario played out in real life in 2015, […]

EXCLUSIVE: Nadia Fall, a noted artistic theatre director — she’s just moved from the Theatre Royal, Stratford East to run the mighty Young Vic — has directed her first feature film. It’s called Brides and is about two Muslim schoolgirls who leave their disruptive homes to travel via Turkey to Syria, where they join the Islamic state and […]

Thursday’s unveiling of nominations for the 97th Oscars by Bowen Yang and Rachel Sennott was about as seamless an affair as we’ve seen in a long time. Until, that is, they got to naming the 10 Best Picture nominees. That’s the moment where producers who actually made the movie see their names broadcast globally. Only, […]

TITLE: It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley Section: Premieres Director: Amy Berg Logline: Rising musician Jeff Buckley had only released one album when he died suddenly in 1997. Now, never-before-seen footage, exclusive voice messages, and accounts from those closest to him offer a portrait of the captivating singer. Amy Berg returns to Sundance with her fifth film as […]

Writer-director Mary Bronstein’s latest feature takes audiences on a tense journey of motherhood that almost never lets up. If I Had Legs I’d Kick You stars Rose Byrne as Linda, a mom attempting to find a treatment for her daughter’s mysterious illness while dealing with an absentee husband, a missing therapy patient and a giant […]

Just miles from Hollywood, nestled in the San Gabriel Valley, lies the town of Altadena, which was decimated by the Eaton Fire. Among the thousands of structures burnt down were a number of historic buildings used in movies and TV series. As the area reopened two weeks after the disaster hit, Deadline was able to […]

EXCLUSIVE: No final decision has been made on whether the Sundance Film Festival will stay in Utah or move to either Boulder, CO or Cincinnati in 2027, but for attendees gathering this year a big change on Park City’s Main Street has received a full thumbs-up so far. “I love it, bumping into people I […]

Day 2 of the Sundance Film Festival is in full swing with buzzy premiering films today from director Mary Bronstein’s feature, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You; Rashad Frett’s film Ricky, Evan Twohy’s debut feature, Bubble & Squeak, and Rabbit Trap from director Bryn Chainey. The cast and crew of A24’s latest film, If […]

Despite the fast-tracking of Shawn Levy’s standalone Star Wars movie with Ryan Gosling in talks to star, the Daisy Ridley Rise of Skywalker sequel is getting another pass, this time by writer George Nolfi. Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy still is attached to direct the story about Rey Skywalker, set 15 years after the events of 2019’s The Rise of […]

Documentaries about Liza Minnelli and Supercross, fan favorites with different fans, a Steven Soderbergh horror, a spy thriller with Phoebe Dynevor and Angel Studios’ latest starring Jared Harris are new on screens. It’s a quieter moment for new releases as Oscar contenders flood theaters and the fresh crop of 2025 independent films are just starting […]

EXCLUSIVE: In the first major sale of the year, Lionsgate has pre-emptively purchased the big concept earthquake short story After Shock for a sum in the mid-six-figure purchase-price range. At the center of all this is Brandon Sklenar, poised to headline movies after a breakout turn in It Ends With Us and the imminent second […]