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An indisputable icon of the celluloid, revered for his bravura performances and infectious charisma, Al Pacino’s identity has become an inextricable element in the canon of American cinema. In a career spanning more than half a century, Pacino has cultivated an enviable track record, working with greats like Francis Ford Coppola, Sidney Lumet, Martin Scorsese, and William Friedkin, to name a few of cinema’s wizards, and producing some of the most excellent performances ever put on screen.

Born Alfredo James Pacino, the South Bronx native started honing his acting chops in theatre before taking the leap into cinema with a small role in “Me, Natalie” (1969). He next surveyed the life of a person with a heroin addiction in “The Panic in Needle Park.” He would then go on to play one of the most popular characters in cinema in “The Godfather,” shooting him to superstardom – all at thirty-two,...

A24 has gotten on the board at the Sundance Film Festival. The indie distributor is closing an acquisition deal for Sorry, Baby. Scripted and directed by Eva Victor, the drama premiered Monday night at Eccles. It become the third film in sight of a deal, with more coming. Film was fought over by several suitors, and sold for around $8 million, Deadline hears.

The logline: Something bad happened to Agnes. But life goes on … for everyone around her, at least. The film stars Eva Victor, Naomi Ackie, Lucas Hedges, John Carroll Lynch, Louis Cancelmi, and Kelly McCormack. Producers are Adele Romanski, Mark Ceryak, and Barry Jenkins.

UTA Independent Film Group structured the financing and is brokering the deal on behalf of the filmmakers.

That marks the third deal of the festival. Each one has been a struggle, but that was not unexpected given the tenuous state of the indie business, and...

While the Sundance Film Festival mulls a big move for 2027, the 2025 program, its 41st edition, kicked off January 23 in Utah, and you can look below for all of Deadline’s reviews from the fest.

Sundance founder Robert Redford promised that audiences “can expect a 2025 program that showcases varied and vibrant filmmaking globally.” Running through February 2, the lineup includes more than 85 features and six episodic projects set to screen in Park City, Salt Lake City and online.

Below is a compilation of our reviews from the fest. Click on the movie’s title to read our full take.

Atropia ‘Atropia’

Section: U.S. Dramatic Competition

Director-screenwriter: Hailey Gates

Cast: Alia Shawkat, Callum Turner, Chloë Sevigny, Tim Heidecker, Jane Levy

Deadline’s takeaway: Ripe with aughts nostalgia around the Og iPod, frosted lip gloss and Guy Fieri’s favorite flame-printed shirts, Atropia is ultimately a clever meditation on the atmosphere of war...

The Sundance Film Festival is regarded as one of the most prestigious independent film festivals, where filmmakers have been premiering their movies and documentaries since 1984.

The festival was founded in 1978 by Sterling Van Wagenen, the head of Robert Redford’s company Wildwood, and John Earle of the Utah Film Commission under the name Utah/US Film Festival to attract more filmmakers to Utah.

Redford founded the Sundance Institute in 1981 to foster independence, risk-taking, and new voices in American film. That year, 10 emerging filmmakers were invited to the Sundance Resort in the mountains of Utah, where they worked with leading writers, directors, and actors to develop their original independent projects.

By 1984, the festival had established itself and was officially renamed the Sundance Film Festival after Redford’s character in his 1969 film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. That year, the Grand Jury Prize in Dramatics was awarded to Old Enough, an...

The snow from this year’s Sundance Film Festival has mostly melted off of Hollywood’s Dior boots, and as the Utah event draws to a close the time has come to crown a new class of indie filmmaking stars.

Multiple pedigreed juries will hand out prizes to movies in competition on Friday at Park City’s The Ray Theater — where buzzy titles will duke it out for honors including directing, acting, screenwriting and the most coveted honors, the audience award and the grand jury prize.

“Storytelling is important, part of human continuity,” Sundance interim CEO Amanda Kelso said at the top of the ceremony, quoting its founder Robert Redford.

This year’s U.S. dramatic jury consists Reinaldo Marcus Green, Arian Moayed (“Succession”) and Celine Song. Steven Bognar, Vinnie Malhotra, and Marcia Smith are presiding over the domestic documentary section. Actor Elijah Wood is the sole juror for the Next section,...

The supernatural thriller TV series, “Dark Winds”, Season 3, created by Graham Roland for producers George Rr Martin and Robert Redford, based on author Tony Hillerman’s “Leaphorn & Chee” book series, stars Zahn McClarnon as ‘Lt Joe Leaphorn’, airing March 9, 2025 on AMC and streaming on AMC+:

“…Joe Leaphorn’s next major case, involves a disappearance, forcing Joe to confront his dark past in order to confront a monster…”

Cast also includes Kiowa Gordon, Jessica Matten and Deanna Allison, with guest stars Jenna Elfman, Bruce Greenwood, Alex Meraz, Terry Serpico, Derek Hinkey, Phil Burke, Christopher Heyerdahl, Vince Gerardis and Tina Elmo.

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Exclusive: Philadelphia plays Kansas City in the Super Bowl on February 9, but there is another event of substance for film fans taking place that day now as well right down the coast in Santa Barbara.

As part of a just-announced career retrospective for newly minted Golden Globe winner Demi Moore, the Santa Barbara Film Festival will be hosting a free 2 p.m. screening at the Arlington Theatre of her Oscar-nominated performance and film The Substance, followed by an in-person conversation with the star.

The retrospective actually begins on Friday, February 7 at 5:40 p.m. Pt at Sbiff’s Film Center with a screening of Adrian Lyne’s Indecent Proposal, in which Moore co-starred with Robert Redford and Woody Harrelson. It will continue February 10 when the festival will host a free screening of Jerry Zucker’s Oscar-winning Ghost at 11 a.m., also at the Arlington.

Coralie Fargeat’s critically acclaimed body horror feature The Substance,...

AMC Networks has revealed the official trailer and key art for Dark Winds Season 3, which will premiere on AMC and AMC+ on Sunday, March 9 at 9 p.m. Et/Pt. The first two seasons of the critically lauded series have perfect 100-point scores on Rotten Tomatoes.

The expanded third season, featuring eight episodes, picks up six months after the events of Season 2 and follows Lt. Joe Leaphorn (Zahn McClarnon) and Jim Chee (Kiowa Gordon) as they investigate the disappearance of two boys, with only an abandoned bicycle and blood-stained patch of ground left in their wake.

Meanwhile, Bernadette Manuelito (Jessica Matten) attempts to settle into her new life 500 miles from home with the Border Patrol but stumbles across a conspiracy involving human and drug smuggling with far-reaching implications.

Dark Winds stars Zahn McClarnon, Kiowa Gordon, Jessica Matten and Deanna Allison.

Joining the series this season as guest stars are Jenna Elfman...

The Sundance Film Festival is one of the most prestigious and important festivals of the year. It is the largest independent film festival in the United States. The festival itself has had its drama as to where it will take place after next year's fest, its contract with Utah will expire and there are rumblings that it will relocate elsewhere. Since its debut 46 years ago, it has become synonymous with Hollywood legend Robert Redford, the state of Utah, and the ever-changing landscape of independent film. Redford is not getting younger, indie films will keep changing but the state of Utah should do everything in its power to retain this cultural landmark.

The highly acclaimed 1990s American police drama Homicide: Life On The Street will finally be available to stream in the UK thanks to Sky.

While late and much missed Andre Braugher may have won legions of fans in recent years for his pitch-perfect comic performance as Sgt Raymond Holt in sitcom Brooklyn Nine-Nine, it is his towering performance as Detective Frank Pendleton in Homicide: Life On The Street that he made his name.

The show was created by Paul Attanasio, who went on to become Oscar nominated for writing the screenplays for Robert Redford’s Quiz Show and Mike Newell’s Donnie Brasco. Attanasio based the show on the book Homicide: A Year On The Killing Streets by journalist David Simon, who himself went on to have huge success in television after creating The Wire.

According to Deadline, fans in the UK will now be able to watch the show,...

“The Birdcage” could have starred Billy Crystal or Robert Redford, Nathan Lane revealed on Tuesday’s episode of Jesse Tyler Ferguson’s “Dinner’s On Me” podcast.

Lane, who played Albert Goldman in the 1996 comedy with Robin Williams as his husband, Armand Goldman, shared the story about director Mike Nichols.

“I would run into Mike, and he would say, ‘Oh, maybe Robin was not gonna do it. ‘What do you think of Billy Crystal?'” Lane recalled.

On another occasion Nichols simply dropped Redford’s name at a benefit event. “I said, ‘What about him? Is he here?,” Lane told Ferguson. “As your husband,” Nichols explained. “I said, well, if you can work that, all my dreams will be coming true — joking. You know, all very interesting ideas, but fortunately Robin agreed to do it.”

Lane fondly reminisced about the late comedian, who died in 2014. While Lane was first signed onto the project,...

It’s been over a decade since the tragic death of Robin Williams, but he continues to be remembered by those who loved him, including Nathan Lane. The pair starred together in The Birdcage, and Lane credits Williams for helping him get cast in the movie, although he was largely unknown at the time.

In The Birdcage, Lane and Williams played a gay couple whose son is set to marry the daughter of a conservative senator, and they reluctantly agree to masquerade as straight to avoid a scandal. While speaking on Jesse Tyler Ferguson’s podcast Dinner’s On Me, Lane said that director Mike Nichols was considering bigger names for Lane’s role, including Billy Crystal or Robert Redford, but Williams fought for him.

“He was a movie star. You know, he could have said, ‘I want Billy Crystal,’ or another big movie name to do the film,” Lane said.

It’s the sort of twist no screenwriter would dare invent: “Free Leonard Peltier,” a persuasively well-researched and often infuriating documentary about the American Indian Movement activist convicted nearly a half-century ago of killing two FBI agents, had its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on Jan. 27, 2025 — precisely one week after Joe Biden, as one of his very last official acts as U.S. president, issued a commutation of Peltier’s life sentences.

The relatively brief final sequence in the film is obviously a last-minute addition to a completed feature, but never mind: Dramatically and emotionally satisfying, the scene is a welcome and fitting capper for a story that inarguably earns its happy ending.

It’s a story that has been brought to the screen twice before: Once as the factual inspiration for the fictions of “Thunderheart,” the 1992 drama directed by Michael Apted, starring Val Kilmer and Graham Greene; and again as “Incident at Oglala,...

Famously, actor Paul Newman once joked that the epitaph on his tombstone would read: “Here lies Paul Newman, who died a failure because his eyes turned brown.” That wasn’t something that actually happened — Newman’s iconic blue eyes stayed the same vibrant color for his entire life — but you could see why that possibility was something the Hollywood star thought much about. Newman didn’t entirely owe his success to his eyes — many of his most acclaimed projects were in black-and-white, from the harsh gambling drama “The Hustler” to the modern Western “Hud.”

But a lot of his movies were in color, and it’s fair to say that those piercing baby blues were an essential component of his star image. In his breakout role in lurid melodrama “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” they conveyed youthful arrogance and vulnerability; in his mid-career turns in films like “Cool Hand Luke...

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 the screen — showed up Monday evening in a surprise sit-down at the Elvis Suite Presented by Darling Co. on upper Main Street as the 2025 iteration of the Robert Redford-founded gathering went into its final days.

“I’m in no hurry to jump into production right now, I’ve been doing that for 30 years,” Tarantino told the audience on his emphasis on writing of late. “I kinda want to not end up doing whatever movie I end up doing until my son is 6,” the semi-Israel-based filmmaker and father of two said of his absence...

by Cláudio Alves

From 1969 to 1977, Paul Newman and George Roy Hill collaborated on three projects. The first two are, of course, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and The Sting, a pair of immortal classics that are near impossible to divorce from one's understanding of Newman as a movie star, his cultural impact, his legacy. With Robert Redford along for the ride, Hill put his stamp on both the Western genre and the heist film, appealing to convention revisited and sometimes vivisected, re-imagined for a New Hollywood. And yet, no matter how impactful those flicks are, I find myself more drawn to the third Newman-Hill joint. This time, they set their sights on the sports movie, devising a hockey comedy as funny as it is surprising – Slap Shot…...

James Mangold, fresh from seeing his Bob Dylan offering A Complete Unknown snag eight Oscar nominations, received a hero’s welcome this weekend upon returning to the Sundance Film Festival where he got his start as an auteur.

Following in the footsteps of inaugural honoree Christopher Nolan, Mangold received a Trailblazer Award during the Celebrating Sundance Institute gala fundraiser presented by Google TV and held at Park City’s Grand Hyatt Deer Valley on Friday night. The filmmaker, who has amassed an impressively diverse resume that spans genres, budgets and blockbusters, made the most of his time in the spotlight by retracing his festival roots and delivering a call to action to all of the storytellers in the room.

He was joined on the fundraiser program by fellow honorees Michelle Satter of the Sundance Institute, Cynthia Erivo (Visionary Award), Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie (Vanguard Award for Fiction) and...

James Mangold misses the era when movies weren’t embarrassed to make audiences feel something. The director of the Bob Dylan musical biopic “A Complete Unknown” and comic book adaptation “Logan” believes there’s a growing hostility to films that wear “their hearts on their sleeve.”

“Most of my generation, my peers, have been generally fascinated by irony or detachment. I never felt completely at home in that idiom because I felt those [films] were cool and clever, but not necessarily moving,” the newly minted Oscar nominee said at Sundance’s annual gala on Friday night, where he was feted with the second-ever Trailblazer Award (the first was bestowed to Christoper Nolan in 2024). “Movies that put their feelings on the line, the way we talk about them and use words like melodramatic or chewing the scenery or too much, we kill some of the fearlessness [of directors].”

Mangold expressed his excitement in returning to Sundance,...

Like so many great stories, Michelle Satter’s Sundance backstory started with a phone call and ended with the boldest of propositions.

More than 40 years ago, Satter, a recent college graduate who had just co-founded a performing arts organization in Boston, answered a call and a question from a close friend that would forever change her life. “Would I consider coming to the Sundance Institute in Utah for the first monthlong filmmakers lab that Robert Redford was starting up? How can you say no to that?” Satter recalled from a ballroom stage inside the Grand Hyatt Deer Valley during the Celebrating Sundance Institute gala on Friday. “There was an immediate yes.”

Satter arrived that following summer during which time Redford laid out his vision for the Sundance Institute, blueprints that called for “well-established screenwriters, directors and actors to share their decades of experience with filmmakers early in their careers with...

by Lynn Lee

No doubt about it, Paul Newman was at peak stardom when he signed on to The Sting. But he needed a hit: he hadn’t had one since Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and his intervening films had all underperformed. Fortuitously, he was about to enjoy the biggest blockbuster of his career in the form of a Butch Cassidy reunion with co-star Robert Redford and director George Roy Hill...

The star of Sundance’s annual gala in 2025 was not newly-minted Oscar nominee Cynthia Erivo, or Oscar winner Olivia Colman, or even Sara Bareilles, who earned a standing ovation for a brief performance to close out the evening. Instead it was Michelle Satter, whose name the general public may not know but was beloved in the room at the Grand Hyatt Deer Valley in Park City.

Satter is the Founding Senior Director of Artist Programs for the Sundance Institute. She has been with the non-profit since quite literally the very beginning. In her speech at the honorees dinner, Satter recalled getting five minutes of Robert Redford’s time and working up the courage to tell him that he needed her to open a Los Angeles office for the Sundance Institute.

His response? “Sure. Call me when you get there.” The rest is history.

Satter launched the Filmmakers Lab for the...

The Sundance Film Festival chose well in selecting the honorees for tonight’s Gala fundraiser at the newly opened Grand Hyatt Deer Valley.

Beyond freshly minted Oscar nominees Cynthia Erivo and James Mangold in the house to receive the Visionary Award and Trailblazer Award respectively, it was Michelle Satter — the Founding Senior Director of Artists Program for the Sundance Institute — whose stirring speech unified the high-profile packed ballroom.

Satter was recognized for her decades-long commitment to nurturing artists and cultivating independent film through the Sundance Labs. As many in the room knew and as Satter mentioned, she and her husband David Latt were among the thousands who lost their homes in the wildfires that scorched LA. Horribly, this tragedy came after Satter and Latt’s youngest son Michael, an advocate in the industry for social justice, was fatally shot in November 2023 at his Miracle Mile home in a senseless murder.

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 haven’t see in ages, not feeling so congested,” one filmmaker told Deadline on Friday of the newly car-free main drag. “It’s a way better vibe,” added an executive walking in the middle of the road near Main Street Pizza & Noodle.

Usually, a nightmare obstacle course of cars, delivery vans, loading trucks and Sundance-sponsored vehicles trying to get high-profile cast and directors to events, Main Street by the second day of the festival makes Los Angeles’ 405 Freeway at rush hour look like a Formula 1 track. This year, as families with baby strollers and...

“Does it get more Sundance than this?” Eugene Hernandez, the festival’s director, said at the opening night premiere of “Twinless,” which was being unveiled Thursday at the Eccles, Park City’s biggest venue. But the evening didn’t go off without a hitch. Shortly after Hernandez left the stage, a sizzle reel promoting the festival’s nonprofit arm had suffered sound problems. The moment was particularly unfortunate as the audio malfunctioned as the clip was introducing festival founder Robert Redford.

The house lights came up while sound was tested for five minutes. The film was quickly restarted, but the problem persisted throughout the screening to groans of “Nooooo!” from stressed audience members. Luckily, it didn’t derail the otherwise enthusiastically received film or the dual performance from Dylan O’Brien as twin brothers. Add to that extremely chatty Sundance tech and ground staff, and it made for a disruptive kickoff.

Finally, the American public learns how it would have gone down on 9/11 had Mark Wahlberg boarded American Airlines Flight 11. Turns out that he wasn’t wrong about the amount of blood he’d have spilled in the cabin. It’s just that half of it would’ve been his, and...

We’re just moments away from the 41st edition of the Sundance Film Festival. This marks our 18th time attending the iconic American indie supply chain event nestled in Park City, which has evolved from its wild, pioneering days during the condo wars to the less swag-city bruised but out-priced for the indie filmmakers it once embraced dwelling. While the move from the state of Utah is imminent, Robert Redford’s creation is still the hub for fresh voices in American indie cinema and still the ultimate place to premiere your documentary feature – just look at the year-end best lists and take an inventory.…...

Cole Webley, a Salt Lake City-based director, spent decades dreaming of premiering one of his films in Park City. The Utah native has attended the Sundance Film Festival for nearly 20 years, waiting in long lines as the snow fell around him, shivering in the cold in hopes of catching a hot new movie. He’d also tried and failed to get five of his short films into competition.

“To say that I had an affinity towards the festival would be an understatement,” Webley says. “It’s been the pinnacle of what I had hoped to achieve.”

This year, Webley finally gets his wish. “Omaha,” a drama about a struggling father embarking on a cross-country trip with his two daughters, will debut on the first day of Sundance. The inclusion of “Omaha” is meaningful to him in other ways. The film was largely shot around Utah with a local crew, so...

[This story contains spoilers from Netflix’s American Primeval.]

“We do believe that people, if they want to understand where we’re at today, should look at where we were then,” director Peter Berg told a small room of reporters last October, as he, executive producer Eric Newman and Indigenous Consultant Julie O’Keefe, gathered at Netflix’s L.A. office as part of an early look at their project American Primeval.

The Western drama, which debuted Jan. 9 on Netflix, is less interested in Hollywood’s historically rose-colored, inspirational, adventurous — and sometimes even melodramatic — telling of America’s founding. Instead, the six-episode miniseries is more focused on how people and their explicable and inexplicable violence shaped a moment in U.S. history that ultimately led to the forging of a nation.

Set within one of the more brutal and uncompromising periods of American history — the 19th Century Westward expansion — the show depicts the run-up to...

[This story contains mild spoilers from Netflix’s American Primeval.]

In a television landscape where Taylor Sheridan has largely cornered the market on stories about western expansion with Yellowstone and its spinoffs 1883 and 1923, American Primeval has stood out for its exploration of the Utah Territory and the role settlers from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Lds) played in halting migration to the area. The efforts of which culminated in the gruesome 1857 Mountain Meadows Massacre, depicted in the Netflix miniseries, that left some 120 travelers dead.

The six-episode Western drama written and created by Mark L. Smith and directed by Peter Berg, follows the journey of Sara (Betty Gilpin), a woman on the run, who seeks out a guide at Fort Bridger in Wyoming to assist her in transporting her young son Devin (Preston Mota) to his father in Missouri. It’s at the fort founded by Jim Bridger (Shea Whigham) that she encounters Isaac Reed...

Director Sierra Falconer, whose debut feature will premiere next week at the Sundance Film Festival, has signed for representation at WME.

The UCLA grad’s “Sunfish (& Other Stories on Green Lake)” was selected for the U.S. dramatic competition at the 41st edition of the Utah cinema confab founded by Robert Redford. The film weaves together four interconnected tales unfolding over one summer around an idyllic lake in Northern Michigan.

“I grew up spending summers on Green Lake in rural, northern Michigan, and from the start, I knew my first film had to be a portrait of this special place,” Falconer tells Variety, adding that her film “captures small but significant moments of connection, framed by a shared sense of belonging.”

Narrative threads in “Sunfish” include a young girl bonding with her grandparents through sailing and two sisters savoring their last days running a bed-and-breakfast together. The festival bills the...

Whether the Sundance Film Festival remains in Utah or moves to Boulder or Cincinnati in 2027, this year’s gathering will see some big changes. And we don’t mean on the screen.

Just more than a week before Sundance 2025 kicks off, the resort town has made the long-desired decision to make Park City’s often-congested Main Street car-free for the duration of the festival, which runs January 23-Feburary 2.

“We understand closing Main Street to vehicles improves public safety, but also may temporarily inconvenience locals and small businesses,” Park City Police Chief Wade Carpenter said Wednesday of the move.

“After careful consideration and consultation with several important federal, state, and local public safety agencies and event partners, it became clear that this was the necessary and correct decision,” he added. “Public safety is the Park City Police Department’s top priority, and this proactive approach ensures that we can all enjoy...

The Sting, starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford, made groundbreaking history with one of its Academy Award wins. Considered one of the best heist movies of all time, The Sting sees Henry Gondorff (Newman) and Johnny Hooker (Redford) teaming up to con the crime boss Doyle Lonnegan (Robert Shaw). The 1973 film is among Robert Redford and Paul Newman's best movies, with its heist being among one of the most iconic in cinematic history.

The Sting's critical and commercial success led to ten nominations and seven wins at the 46th Academy Awards in 1974. It won for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Art Direction, Best Costume Design, Best Film Editing, and Best Scoring. Redford also received a Best Actor nomination, with Jack Lemmon going on to win the honor for Save the Tiger. However, only one of The Sting's Academy Award wins would change the future of movie awards.

The debate about what constitutes The Great American Novel is never-ending, yet F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" always finds its way into this conversation. It might be tempting to simply reduce the author's work to an enduring portrayal of the Roaring Twenties, but Fitzgerald's book also cuts through the illusions while sustaining the enthralling mystery surrounding its titular figure. Once the mist dissipates, and both Jay Gatsby and his (only) friend Nick Carraway are laid bare for who they are, what remains is a profound sense of emptiness. Don't get me wrong: "The Great Gatsby" is a story about the inherent hollowness of spectacle, obscene wealth, and relationships of convenience that have the illusion of depth. However, once we confront the rare flashes of moving sincerity in a tale so luridly tragic, the empty lure of the green light at the heart of the novel takes on a terribly haunting sheen.

With less than two weeks to go before the Sundance Film Festival, organizers Monday let the industry know they know it may be much different than anticipated.

As Los Angeles continues to battle numerous wildfires, increased winds are expected to hit the region again over the next few days, further crippling the industry and the potential gathering in Park City.

“Over the past few days, we’ve had many conversations with artists, volunteers, industry/press, trustees, donors, partners, and staff. The losses we’re witnessing and so many are experiencing are hard to fathom and deeply emotional. Yet, as we continue planning for the 2025 Sundance Film Festival — just 10 days away — we’re moved by the resilience amidst the devastating loss,” said Amanda Kelso, Acting Sundance CEO, and Eugene Hernandez, Director, Sundance Film Festival & Public Programming, in a note to the industry.

Today’s missive from the Robert Redford-founded festival...

Marvel Studios has made many characters in the Marvel Cinematic Universe significantly more important than they were in Marvel Comics. Over the last 17 years, Marvel Studios has adapted dozens of complex and interesting characters from Marvel Comics into the live-action MCU, but has also made some major alterations when translating from page to screen. This has changed the roles of some low-level Marvel Comics characters, and has made them some of the most important characters in the MCU.

Many characters in the MCU are very faithful to their Marvel Comics counterparts, and some important figures from the comics have had smaller roles or are yet to appear at all. However, the MCU has also seen many characters grow in importance. Captain America: The Winter Soldier's Alexander Pierce, Black Panther's Nakia, Guardians of the Galaxy's Yondu and Doctor Strange's Wong, among others, have reaped the benefits of these changes.

The catastrophic Pacific Palisades fire has destroyed the family home of Sundance Institute’s beloved founding senior director of artist programs Michelle Satter and her husband David Latt, a veteran Hollywood writer and producer.

Satter shared the tragic news on Instagram Thursday by reposting details first shared by the couple’s son, Franklin Latt, a high-profile CAA agent who serves as co-head of the powerhouse agency’s motion picture talent department.

“Our family home was lost to the fire and hometown completely devastated,” revealed Franklin Latt, himself a beloved figure in the business and rep to countless stars including Meryl Streep, Michelle Pfeiffer, Zendaya, Pedro Pascal, Charlize Theron, Viola Davis and Elizabeth Olsen. “Thankfully we’re safe. So many have lost everything and need support. Let’s all lead with love.”

Added Satter in her follow-up post: “Our heart goes out to everyone who’s experiencing loss during this devastating time in our city.

Director Peter Berg‘s new Netflix series “American Primeval” is an ambitious Western epic about the bloody battles that erupted in 1850s Utah between Mormons, immigrant settlers, indigenous tribes and faithless opportunists out to make a buck. It’s enormous in its scale and imposing in its ambition, yet for Berg, the origins of the massive show were surprisingly simple.

“The origin was me obsessing on ‘Jeremiah Johnson’ and wanting to do something that required us to really go out into the elements,” Berg told IndieWire’s Filmmaker Toolkit podcast. “I felt the calling for that kind of challenge.” In addition to Sydney Pollack’s 1972 Western with Robert Redford, there was another starting point that Berg referenced when meeting with writer Mark L. Smith. “I have a weird collection of knives and axes and all kinds of things that people give me. I had this big ice axe, and I...

Irish actor Colm Meaney (Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, In the Land of Saints & Sinners) will receive the Irish Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement for his “outstanding contribution to the Irish and international screen industry,” the Irish Film & Television Academy (IFTA) said Friday.

“To say I was surprised when I got the news that IFTA wanted to give me this award would be an understatement. I was truly shocked,” Meaney said. “To be asked to join this long list of very illustrious previous recipients is a huge honor, and I’m thrilled and looking forward to a good night in Dublin.”

IFTA lauded his career, spanning five decades, noting that it has seen him “work with renowned filmmakers, including John Huston, Robert Redford, Michael Mann, Jim Sheridan, Neil Jordan, Alan Parker, Warren Beatty and Ron Howard, and alongside actors such as Al Pacino,...

When Demi Moore took to the stage to accept her rightful Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy for "The Substance," the 62-year-old announced that it was the first time she'd ever received an industry honor of this caliber despite having been working for over 45 years. "30 years ago, I had a producer tell me that I was a popcorn actress," she said, "and at that time, I made that mean that this wasn't something that I was allowed to have." She continued, "I bought in, and I believed that, and that corroded me over time, to the point where I thought a few years ago that maybe this was it."

She added, "Maybe I was complete, maybe I've done what I was supposed to do and as I was at kind of a low point, I had this magical, bold, courageous, out-of-the-box, absolutely bonkers script...

Navajo police lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, played by Zahn McClarnon, is haunted by a bogeyman from his childhood in the third season teaser trailer for AMC’s Dark Winds, which dropped on Friday.

Leaphorn appears badgered by his demons after leaving B.J. Vines (John Diehl) in the desert to freeze to death during the second season of the noir thriller. “When I was a boy, when I went to school, we were taught that the monsters walked the Earth. When you kill a man, he’s bound to you. I’ve accepted it. And I am prepared to go on living with it, every day,” Leaphorn reveals in the third season trailer.

That’s followed by Tribal Police officer Jimmy Chee (Kiowa Gordon) appearing to try, without success, to get a severely wounded Leaphorn on the phone as his partner confronts a monster trying to stalk and kill him.

The third season,...

AMC’s second teaser for Dark Winds season three finds Leaphorn explaining that as a child he was taught that monsters walk the earth. The 45-second teaser also shows that Leaphorn’s in serious trouble.

Zahn McClarnon stars as Lt. Joe Leaphorn, Sgt. Kiowa Gordon is Jim Chee, Jessica Matten plays Bernadette Manuelito, and Deanna Allison stars as Emma Leaphorn. Guest star A. Martinez reprises his role as Scarborough Police Department Acting Chief Gordo Sena.

Additional guest stars include Jenna Elfman (Fear the Walking Dead) as FBI Special Agent Sylvia Washington, Bruce Greenwood (The Fall of the House of Usher) as Tom Spenser, Raoul Max Trujillo (Mayans M.C.) as Budge, Tonantzin Carmelo (La Brea) as Border Patrol Agent Eleanda Garza, Alex Meraz (The Walking Dead) as Border Patrol Agent Ivan Muños, Terry Serpico (Law & Order Svu) as Border Patrol Senior Chief Ed Henry, Derek Hinkey (American Primeval) as Shorty Bowlegs,...

Dark Winds showrunner John Wirth discusses the crime drama's new characters. Returning to AMC and AMC+ on March 9, Dark Winds season 3 picks up the story six months after the season 2 finale. Leaphorn (Zahn McClarnon) and Chee (Kiowa Gordon) investigate the disappearance of two boys, but they have only an abandoned bicycle and some blood stains to rely on. The upcoming installment will also delve into life at the border and a potentially far-reaching drug conspiracy, with some familiar additions to the ensemble.

In an interview with TV Insider, Wirth revealed new details about the characters played by Dharma & Greg star Jenna Elfman and The Resident alum Bruce Greenwood. The showrunner shared that Elfman will play FBI Special Agent Sylvia Washington, with the Fear the Walking Dead alum stepping into the shoes of someone who's sent out to the reservation to close cases. As for Greenwood, who recently starred in The Fall of the House of Usher...

AMC Networks has dropped a new teaser trailer for Season 3 of its noir drama Dark Winds.

“When I was a boy, when I went to school, we were taught that the monsters walked the earth,” says Zahn McClarnon’s Joe at the beginning of the trailer. “When you kill a man he’s bound to you. I’ve accepted it, and I am prepared to go on living with it, everyday” he tells Chee (Kiowa Gordon).

Set to premiere on March 9 with an expanded eight-episode season, Dark Winds Season 3 picks up six months after the events of Season 2. It follows Joe Leaphorn (McClarnon) and Jim Chee (Gordon) as they investigate the disappearance of two boys, with only an abandoned bicycle and blood-stained patch of ground left in their wake.

Meanwhile, Bernadette Manuelito (Jessica Matten) attempts to settle into her new life 500 miles from home with the Border Patrol, but stumbles...

AMC Networks has released a new trailer for Dark Winds Season 3, which will premiere on AMC and AMC+ on Sunday, March 9 at 9 p.m. Et/Pt. The first two seasons of the critically lauded series have perfect 100-point scores on Rotten Tomatoes.

The expanded third season, featuring eight episodes, picks up six months after the events of Season 2 and follows Lt. Joe Leaphorn (Zahn McClarnon) and Jim Chee (Kiowa Gordon) as they investigate the disappearance of two boys, with only an abandoned bicycle and blood-stained patch of ground left in their wake.

Meanwhile, Bernadette Manuelito (Jessica Matten) attempts to settle into her new life 500 miles from home with the Border Patrol but stumbles across a conspiracy involving human and drug smuggling with far-reaching implications.

Dark Winds stars Zahn McClarnon, Kiowa Gordon, Jessica Matten and Deanna Allison.

Joining the series this season as guest stars are Jenna Elfman as FBI Special Agent Sylvia Washington,...

It seems that even 21-time Oscar-nominated stars can also get starstruck sometimes! Well, that was the case for the legendary actress Meryl Streep while filming a movie in 1985.

Meryl Streep in Only Murders in the Building / Credits: Hulu

Known for some iconic Hollywood projects and movies throughout her fabulous career, Meryl Streep is one of the most revered actresses out there. However, her status and work didn’t stop her from getting nervous while acting in front of another legendary actor who is also a part of the MCU!

When Meryl Streep was starstruck!

Death Becomes Her, The Devil Wears Prada, and Mamma Mia! are some of the highlights of Streep’s career. The actress has won 3 Oscars out of 21 nominations for her acting skills and is considered by many to be one of the greatest actresses to exist.

Redford in a still from Captain America: The Winter Soldier | Credits: Marvel Studios

However,...

Lockerbie: A Search for Truth tells the shocking true story of a couple’s quest for justice after their daughter is killed in a deadly terrorist attack, and it has a great cast to bring its real-life characters to the screen. The five-part miniseries, airing on Peacock in the U.S. and Sky Atlantic in the UK, is adapted from the 2021 book The Lockerbie Bombing: A Father’s Search for Justice by Jim Swire and Peter Biddulph. It chronicles Swire’s attempts to bring the perpetrators to justice after his daughter Flora is killed on Pan Am Flight 103.

With a total of 270 fatalities, this 1988 bombing was the deadliest terrorist attack in British history. All 243 passengers and 16 crew members on the plane were killed in the bombing, and an additional 11 people died when parts of the aircraft fell into a residential area in the Scottish town of Lockerbie. Mourning the loss of their daughter,...

Political thriller movies have captivated audiences for decades with their brilliant mix of suspense, intrigue, and real-world threats. Dealing with corruption at the highest levels, assassination plots, and salacious scandals, political thrillers have a lot to offer. While the genre was perhaps at its height during the 1970s, there were some excellent examples of the genre before that and there are still some great political thrillers being made today. In fact, the genre has helped to establish some of the best movies of all time.

There are a lot of different approaches the political thrillers can make, from basing the stories on real-world events that audiences are familiar with to telling grander stories that stretch the realism of the genre. Over the years, some of the greatest filmmakers of all time have taken on the genre, from Steven Spielberg to Oliver Stone, as well as some of Hollywood’s biggest stars,...

When most actors win an Academy Award, it's because they've crafted a fully-realized, nuanced portrayal of a character. They've created a person out of whole cloth, bringing them to life on screen in a way that no one else could've done in quite the same way. Understandably, a lot of Oscar-winning performances take the whole movie to do that. However, things get trickier when we move into the Best Supporting categories. Actors at this level are often working with a limited amount of scenes, trying to get a portrayal across in very small chunks that may not add up to anything close to the amount of time that audiences see their co-stars.

In "Conclave," for example, Isabella Rossellini plays Sister Agnes. She's one of the most senior nuns in Vatican City, and as such, she's given a position of power that winds up influencing the course of the Church's history.

As we continue to explore the best in 2024, today we’re taking a look at the articles that you, our dear readers, enjoyed the most throughout the past twelve months. Spanning reviews, interviews, features, podcasts, news, and trailers, check out the highlights below and return for more year-end coverage.

Most-Read Reviews

1. The Goldfinger

2. From Darkness to Light

3. The Devil’s Bath

4. Only the River Flows

5. Longlegs

6. The Nature of Love

7. The 2024 Oscar-Nominated Animated Short Films, Reviewed

8. Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 2

9. Trap

10. Dune: Part Two

Most-Read Interviews

1. Richard Linklater on Sex, Murder, Hit Man, and the Infantilization of Culture

2. Will Menaker on the Year in Cinema: Oppenheimer, Scorsese, Friedkin & Beyond

3. Lee Daniels on The Deliverance, Shifting Culture, Douglas Sirk, and That Glenn Close Performance

4. “All Great DPs Become Alcoholics”: Rob Tregenza on Shooting Béla Tarr’s Werckmeister Harmonies

5. In a Violent Nature Director Chris Nash on Creating a New Kind of Slasher,...

Bruce Willis’ John McClane in Die Hard was a role that proved to be crucial to the industry. Before his role as one of the best action heroes in Hollywood, Willis had only starred in the fan-favorite TV series Moonlighting. However, his salary at the time for 1988’s Die Hard was revolutionary for a first-time movie star in the industry.

Bruce Willis in a still from Die Hard 2 | Credits: 20th Century Studios

Willis shared that he did not get the deserved appreciation. He was probably referring to the media questioning his exorbitantly high salary at the time. However, The Sixth Sense actor was only scratching the surface of his career achievements in the industry when he received his first Die Hard salary.

Bruce Willis did not get the deserved appreciation for changing the Hollywood pay structure Bruce Willis as John McClane in Die Hard | Credits: 20th Century Studios

Bruce Willis was a TV star,...