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PARK CITY '07 DAILY DISPATCH | Doc Deals Dominate Sundance So Far

Among the first deals to emerge from this year's Sundance Film Festival, Magnolia Pictures will likely make a pact for Dan Klores' doc "Crazy Love," which had its world premiere in Park City on Friday evening. Though the film was rumored to have been screened for some buyers prior to the festival's ...

Sundance 2007: Leveled

sundance 14.4: 'angels' & 'science'

iW VIDEO: Sundance's John Cooper on "Focus on Film"

In today's issue of iW: VIDEO On The Scene at Park City, Sundance Film Festival Director of Programming John Cooper talks about "Focus on Film" and having a cool job, Filmmaker Cynthia Wade discusses her short documentary "Freeheld," indieWIRE writer Anthony Kaufman reviews "Chicago 10," and more.

LA Times: Roll Britannia: Inside an indie empire

In the London film world, there are no golf carts to jet around on, so Tim Bevan strode in and out of buildings, past fields of rabbit warren offices, through editing bays. This is the cobbled-together fiefdom of the once obscure, now powerful Working Title Films, which Bevan and his partner, Eric F...

NY Times: Furor Over 12-Year-Old Actress's Rape Scene

Dakota Fanning will turn 13 next month, and she has a short answer for anyone who questions her decision to play a 1950s girl who gyrates in her underwear, wakes up as her naked father climbs into her bed, demands that a prepubescent boy expose himself to her in exchange for a kiss and, finally, is ...

Variety: "United 93" director turns to post-Iraq War for his next pix

After his movie "United 93" about the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania on September 11, 2001, director Paul Greengrass is planning a film on the aftermath of the US-led 2003 invasion of Iraq. Greengrass is set to write and direct a Universal-distributed movie based on the book "Imperial Life in th...

SXSW Getting Greener

PARK CITY '07 DAILY DISPATCH | Sundance Courts Online Community of Film Lovers; Fest Hits Busy Openi

With the opening night festivities finished, Friday saw the first full day of screenings in Park City as large crowds descended upon the many theater venues in town. Reviews are beginning to seep out and discussions about the merits of individual films are underway, just as the party scene heats up ...