“Kill Your Darlings,” the little-known story of murder and literary giants Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and their friend Lucien Carr, premiered to a packed theater at the Sundance Film Festival on Friday -- and not just because Daniel Radcliffe (as Ginsberg) has a very explicit sex scene with Dane DeHaan (as Carr).

But that scene -- nude, passionate and extremely graphic -- is undoubtedly something that will be much talked about as a daring new frontier for the actor formerly known as Harry Potter. (Update on that very point: I've been informed that the sex scene is with someone who only looks like Carr but is in fact someone else...

CNN Films has acquired a documentary about film critic Roger Ebert that's executive-produced by Martin Scorsese and Steve Zaillian, along with two other documentaries, the company said on Friday.

The Ebert documentary, which is based on the film critic's memoir "Life Itself," will be directed by Steve James ("Hoop Dreams"), and will be produced by Kartemquin Films and Zaillian, along with Garrett Basch's Film Rites. The film will be released theatrically before it airs on CNN next year.

A second film, from the directors Michael Tucker and Petra Epperlein ("Gunner Palace"), will focus on the events at Ground Zero and the country as a whole in the...

It's time for the back-up singers to take center stage.

RADiUS-TWC said Friday that it has acquired North American rights to "Twenty Feet From Stardom," which premiered to an enthusiastic reception at the Sundance Film Festival this week.

The film examines half a dozen of the greatest back-up singers in rock history; artists who have provided the texture and dynamism to some of the biggest hits in music history. Yet, many of them have labored in obscurity, singing their hearts out behind the likes of The Rolling Stones, Bette Midler and Bruce Springsteen...at least until now. 

Produced by the late A&M Records executive Gil Friesen and directed by Grammy...

The first film to screen at this year's Sundance Film Festival was a documentary -- director Mark Silver's and producer Gael Garcia Bernal's "Who Is Dayani Cristal?"

Screening off the beaten track at the Marc Theatre in the late afternoon, it may not have had a glamorous opening night vibe of "Crystal Fairy," which was unveiled three hours later at the larger Eccles Theatre -- but it officially kicked off a frigid Sundance 2013, and nobody who knows Sundance could argue that a non-fiction film shouldn't have gotten the leadoff spot.

For all of its reputation as a dealmakers' mecca and a launching pad for indies like the current Best Picture...