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Editors note: This review was originally published after its world premiere at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. It hits theaters Friday via Sony Pictures Classics. The Persian Version, directed and written by Maryam Keshavarz, stars Layla Mohammadi and…

UPDATED with more details: Almost six months after Jonathan Majors was arrested in New York City on domestic violence charges, the start of the Creed III actor's trial has been pushed yet again.   A short hearing Wednesday determined that another hearing will be held September 15 in theory to set a…

UPDATE: CNN has scheduled the premiere of Lisa Cortés' Little Richard: I Am Everything for September 4. The network will premiere the documentary at 9 p.m. ET/PT. Cortés said in a statement, “I made this film because the story of Little Richard is the story of rock ‘n’ roll — and rock ‘n roll is…

In his first communiqué as Sundance’s Festival Director, Eugene Hernandez has doled out new information as far as the slate and venues for 2024’s hybrid edition, also addressing the timing of programming and a “challenging moment” for artists, as the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes…

Editors note: This review was originally published January 22 after the the movie’s world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. It opens in theaters Friday. Children shouldn't play with dead things: not just the title of a low-budget American horror…

EXCLUSIVE: Amid all the strike news and Emmy noms on the horizon, here’s something wild we heard recently and that’s that the Sundance Film Festival has been fielding bids from a handful of cities to relocate the festival from its Park City, UT home base. Sources tell us that Sundance is looking for…

Augusto Góngora, the journalist, author and television host documented in the Sundance winning film The Eternal Memory, is being mourned in his native Chile after his death at 71. The film’s Oscar-nominated director, Maite Alberdi, confirmed to Deadline that Góngora succumbed to complications of…

EXCLUSIVE: Dekanalog has picked up North American rights to the Sundance competition title Mami Wata, the third feature film from Nigerian filmmaker C.J. "Fiery" Obasi. Based on West African mermaid folklore and mythology, Mami Wata is set in the remote West African village of Iyi, where Mama Efe…

The Sundance Institute has revealed that the 40th edition of the Sundance Film Festival will take place in person in Utah from January 18-28, 2024, with a large selection of films also to be made available online, as they have been for a number of years. Related…

Shock rocker Marilyn Manson just got a legal shock as a California judge tossed out most of the fading musician's defamation case against Evan Rachel Wood over the Westworld actress' claims of abuse during the former couple's relationship. “The Court grants Wood's special motion to strike in part,&#8221…

Editors note: This review original published January 20 after its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. It opens Friday. Written and directed by Nida Manzoor, Polite Society stars Priya Kansara (Bridgerton), Ritu Arya (Umbrella Academy) and…

Neon has taken the North American rights to the Anne Hathaway-starring Sundance Film Festival premiere Eileen, from director William Oldroyd (Lady Macbeth). The distributor is eyeing a fall theatrical release. Oldroyd's connection to Sundance began in 2013 when his short film Best won the Short Film…