11 posts tagged ‘sundance’
Every Film Sold at Post-Strike Sundance (and for How Much)
Vulture,
Netflix has scooped up Ibelin, a new documentary from The Painter and the Thief director Benjamin Ree.
Malia Obama Is Making Her Sundance Debut
The Cut,
She wrote and directed a short film called The Heart.
Malia Obama (sorry, Malia Ann) is premiering her first film at Sundance
AV Club,
Hollywood’s various and sundry nepo babies choose to approach their status in a variety of ways. Some embrace their Hollywood heritage, while others will distance themselves from their parents or try to obscure their famous relations. Malia Obama, for instance, is apparently dropping the “Obama” for her Sundance Film… Read more...
Euphoria will have to "Benjamin Button" Jacob Elordi unless there's a time jump
Despite the fact that some kids will have experienced almost all of high school since its second season, Euphoria is allegedly returning for a third round of bathtub hiding and hot tub puking some time in 2025. We’ll believe it when we see it, quite frankly, as will Jacob Elordi, who recently addressed the series’… Read more...
Melissa Barrera takes the high road on Scream
Melissa Barrera isn’t screaming at Scream—well, at least publicly. “I’m just so grateful on what I got to infuse in the franchise, and that’s something I’ll be proud of forever,” the Keep Breathing actress told Deadline during the Sundance festival’s opening night on Thursday. Read more...
The 20 most unforgettable Sundance films ever
What began in 1978 as the Utah/United States Film Festival to help promote American independent cinema and boost film production in the Beehive State didn’t officially become the Sundance Film Festival until Robert Redford’s Sundance Institute officially took it over in 1985. Since then, Sundance has become one of the… Read more...
A Thousand And One director joins Ava DuVernay in award season frustration: "We're not even given a shot"
Award season is in full swing, which means we tend to see some of the same titles—Oppenheimer, Killers Of The Flower Moon, Poor Things, etc.—over and over. Much ink has already been spilled over this cycle’s biggest sweeps and the shows they consequently shut out, but even when mourning those baffling snubs, it can be… Read more...
16 Awesome-Sounding Genre Films Coming to Sundance 2024
Gizmodo,
The 2024 movie season kicks into high gear this week with the start of the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. Each year, Sundance is where many of the biggest, most buzzworthy independent films start their journeys to either box office success or critical glory—and, with the festival now being both digital and in-person,… Read more...