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iW BOT | "God Grew Tired of Us" at Top; "Pan's Labyrinth" Expands for Awards Season

Led by "God Grew Tired of Us," the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award-winning documentary at last year's Sundance Film Festival, the top independent/specialty films on this week's indieWIRE Box Office Tracking Report (iWBOT) did strong business during the four-day Martin Luther King Day weekend. Ev...

Sundance 2007: The Prelude

PARK CITY '07 INTERVIEW | John Carney: "We would steal the camera, heading off around Dublin at nigh

[EDITORS NOTE: indieWIRE is publishing two interviews daily with Sundance '07 competition filmmakers through the end of the festival later this month. Directors with films screening in the four competition section were given the opportunity to participate in an email interview, and each was sent the...

Film Movement Announces the Promotion of Adley Gartenstein to President

Film Movement announced the reorganization of its executive staff today, with the promotion of Adley Gartenstein to president. This role was previously held by Stuart Litman in addition to CEO, but the company has decided to split these roles as they plan to "expand their partner theatres, subscribe...

INDUSTRY MOVES: Dinerstein Joins Lakeshore

Former Paramount Classics co-founder and co-president David Dinerstein has joined Lakeshore Entertainment as the new President of Worldwide Marketing and Distribution. In the words of an announcement, he will be, "responsible for overseeing the worldwide marketing and distribution of Lakeshore’s fil...

8 Films to See and 10 Directors to Watch

IMDB Censors "Shortbus" Listing

The Internet Movie Database (IMDB) has apparently blocked a listing for John Cameron Mitchell's "Shortbus" from searches on its popular website. As journalist and blogger Mark Rabinowitz noted in The Rabbi Report, the site is, "preventing certain films from coming up in the regular results of a sear...

Doug Aitken: sleepwalkers at MOMA

Sarah Polley, Mos Def, Darren Aronofsky To Serve as Jury Members for 2007 Sundance Film Festival

Today the 2007 Sundance Film Festival announced the members of the six juries awarding prizes for the competition sections of the festival. For U.S. Dramatic Competiton jury members are Mos Def, Catherine Hardwicke, Dawn Hudson, Pamela Martin, and Sarah Polley; For U.S. Documentary Competition: Alan Berliner, Lewis Erskine, Lauren Greenfield, Julia Reichert, and Carlos Sandoval; For World Documentary: Raoul Peck, Juan Carlos Rulfo, and Elizabeth Weatherford; For American and International Shorts: Jared Hess, Daniela Michel, and Mark Rosenberg; and for the Alfred P. Sloan Prize: Darren Aronofsky, Ann Druyan, Dr. Brian Greene, Howard Suber, and...