
Sundance
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‘Birth of a Nation’ Filmmaker Nate Parker on Movie’s Subject Nat Turner: ‘This Guy Is a Hero’ (Video)
By Beatrice Verhoeven | January 26, 2016 @ 9:14 AMThe slave revolt drama was just sold to Fox Searchlight for a whopping $17.5 million
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Slave Revolt Drama ‘Birth of a Nation’ Sells to Fox Searchlight for $17.5 Million in Record Deal
By Jeff Sneider | January 26, 2016 @ 8:24 AMSundance 2016: It’s a new record for the festival, where the film drew multiple standing ovations at the Eccles
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Fox Searchlight Offers $16 Million for Nate Parker’s Sundance Sensation ‘Birth of a Nation’ (Exclusive)
By Jeff Sneider | January 25, 2016 @ 10:28 PMThe writer-director-producer also stars as Nat Turner, who led a slave rebellion in 1831
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Nate Parker’s ‘Birth of a Nation’ Represents Birth of a Major New Talent
By Jeff Sneider | January 25, 2016 @ 6:14 PMSundance 2016: The slavery drama drew multiple standing ovations during its world premiere at the Eccles
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Sony Classics Acquires ‘Equity,’ Female-Driven Wall Street Saga
By Todd Cunningham | January 25, 2016 @ 1:18 PMSundance 2016: The film stars Anna Gunn, James Purefoy, Sarah Megan Thomas and Alysia Reiner
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‘Certain Women’ Sundance Review: Kristen Stewart, Michelle Williams Endure the Montana Chill
By Alonso Duralde | January 25, 2016 @ 12:51 PMPowerful drama from writer-director Kelly Reichardt (”Wendy and Lucy“) further establishes her as an auteur who finds poignancy in the stillness
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‘Project Greenlight’s Effie Brown on Matt Damon Diversity Flap: ‘We Shut That Bullsh-t Down’
By Matt Donnelly | January 25, 2016 @ 12:18 PMSundance 2016: Producer says silence was key during conflict with movie star
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James Schamus’ Directorial Debut ‘Indignation’ Bought by Summit for $2.5 Million
By Jeff Sneider | January 25, 2016 @ 9:50 AMSundance 2016: Logan Lerman, Sarah Gadon and Tracy Letts star in the adaptation of Philip Roth’s novel
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Kevin Smith’s ‘Yoga Hosers’ Takes Aim at Critics as Johnny Depp Hunts Canadian Nazis
By Jeff Sneider | January 25, 2016 @ 3:55 AMSundance 2016: Lily-Rose Depp and Harley Quinn Smith reprise their ”Tusk“ roles as heroic convenience store clerks both named Colleen
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State of Sundance: Streaming Giants Rattle Indie Veterans
By Matt Donnelly and Sharon Waxman | January 24, 2016 @ 10:15 PMDigital players shake up Sundance with aggressive bids for little movies
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James Schamus Directing Debut ‘Indignation’ Wins Over Sundance Audience
By Sharon Waxman | January 24, 2016 @ 8:54 PMSundance 2016: The premiere audience cheered for the quiet film about a precocious college student in Ohio in the 1950s
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Lena Dunham Calls Her Gender-Neutral Sister ‘Coolest Person’ She Knows (Video)
By Wrap Staff | January 24, 2016 @ 6:04 PMSundance 2016: Actress and producer sits down with TheWrap to discuss the documentary ”Suited“
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Spike Lee on Oscars Whitewash: ‘I’d Like to Hear From Studio Heads’ (Video)
By Sharon Waxman | January 24, 2016 @ 2:57 PMSundance 2016: ”Name me one studio head who’s gone on the record and said anything,“ said the filmmaker in an emotional interview
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Chad Hartigan’s ‘Morris From America’ Sells to A24
By Jeff Sneider | January 24, 2016 @ 2:24 PMSundance 2016: Craig Robinson and newcomer Markees Christmas star in the film
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Sundance Scene and Heard: Matt Damon, Kate Beckinsale, Gabrielle Union and Snow (Photos)
By Mikey Glazer | January 24, 2016 @ 12:35 PMA continually updating report on the scene from Park City