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“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 […]

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, […]