AMC News correspondent Jacob Soboroff breaks down the ten best stories of this year's Sundance Film Festival. Among the guests are Mark Ruffalo (director of Sympathy for Delicious); Kevin Kline, who applauds "the money people"; and actor Dax Shepard (The Freebie), who coins a new term for low-budget movies. You can watch the full show online through Saturday, February 27.
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The South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Conference and Festival announced their feature-film slate for this year's fest, running March 12-20, in Austin, Texas. Over the course of nine days, 199 features will screen -- including 55 world premieres -- from a record 1,572 feature-length submissions. (The shorts program will be announced soon.) Below are some highlights, with descriptions courtesy of SXSW.com.
The AMC News team left Sundance a few days ago, but the festival made it easy to find out who the winners of this year's Sundance awards were. Over 1,300 people (including yours truly) tuned into the live-stream of the awards ceremony, hosted by David Hyde Pierce. The photo above is a twitpic of the stream. I live-tweeted the awards for a while, as you probably saw if you were following along with AMC News on Twitter.
Here are all of the results, courtesy of our friends at IndieWire:
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AMC News correspondent Jacob Soboroff tackles issues like the economy (with Ben Affleck), Haiti (with Jared Leto), and acting out of your comfort zone (with Marisa Tomei). To hear what these influential actors had to say, check out the AMC News Special: 10 Stories of Sundance which airs tonight, Fri., Jan. 29 at 11PM | 10C. For a full schedule of airings, click here.
Oliver Platt plays Catherine Keener's husband in Please Give, Sundance veteran Nicole Holofcener's latest, about a family entangled in a New York City real estate drama. You might not think of Sundance as a place where comedies are front and center, but Platt disagrees.
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AMC News correspondent Jacob Soboroff has interviewed some of the biggest stars at Sundance 2010 for the AMC News Special: 10 Stories of Sundance. Among the celebs who graced the studio couch were Ben Affleck (The Company Men), Kristen Stewart (The Runaways) and John Legend (Waiting for Superman). Check out the photo gallery to see who else Jacob snagged...
Afterwards, check out the AMC News Special which airs tonight, Fri., Jan. 29 at 11PM | 10C.
Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning took time out of their hectic Sundance 2010 schedule to meet up with me to talk about their new film The Runaways. The pair told me about life on the set, what it's like to tell the story of Joan Jett and Cherie Currie's band, and how this role is different than any that Dakota has played before.
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When Jonah Hill and Marissa Tomei came into our AMC News Sundance 2010 studio to discuss their new movie Cyrus, Jonah told me this is unlike any role he's ever played before. The two stars agreed that their characters in this family drama get uncomfortably close.
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Sundance has had its fair share of controversial movies over the years, but this year's 8: The Mormon Proposition must rank near the top. The film explores the role of the Mormon Church (headquartered here in Utah) in the passage of Proposition 8 in California. The legislature, for now, has ended same-sex marraiges in the state. I sat down with the filmmakers behind the project to talk about the movie and their personal connection to the issue.
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Yesterday in our AMC News Sundance studio, we discussed some breaking news with John Horn, the LA Times' reporter here covering acquisitions. He said that The Kids Are All Right was on the verge of a sale, and this morning he writes with Steven Zeitchik that it happened:
Focus Features appears to have closed a deal to acquire rights to Lisa Cholodenko's family dramedy "The Kids Are All Right," according to a person familiar with the negotiations. Focus paid about $5 million for the film's domestic rights, and also acquired some foreign territories, according to the person.
We also had our fair share of actors (see Elijah Wood, Rebecca Lawrence and Adam Brody, above) and filmmakers in the studio yesterday, so here's the "short and tweet" recap, as tweeted by myself and AMC News producer Mark Marraccini.
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Photos of the most nominated movies for this year's Oscars. (There's so much more to it than Avatar and The Hurt Locker.)
Tim Burton's 3-D version of Alice in Wonderland boasts a soundtrack of eclectic musical acts with songs based on characters in the film.
Bill Mechanic, also nominated for producing Coraline, reveals his relief at not having to get up on stage.
