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Sundance: Crossing Oeuvres

On Shootout this week, Peter Guber and Peter Bart discussed film actresses breaking into television, and thus potentially damaging the indie-film industry. Interestingly enough, if you look at the crop of films at Sundance this year, the opposite could be taking place as well. Consider the case of Mischa Barton, who left a lucrative gig as the troublesome teen on FOX's The O.C. to pursue a film career, and has since been pretty much invisible. But now she's starring in one of the most talked-about films of the festival, Assassination of a High School President co-starring Bruce Willis of all people.

Adrian Grenier is in the same boat. Known as Entourage's leading man, Grenier is starring in Adventures of Power, a new film written and directed--and I swear I'm not making this up--by a man named Ari Gold.

What do you think? Are film artists flocking to television or is it the opposite? Who would you most like to see jump into another medium?

Filed under: Film Festivals
Tags: adrian grenier, mischa barton, sundance

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