Overspending Is Good: Despite Expensive Risks, Studios Should Keep Opening Their Wallets at Film Festivals
With “The Big Sick” soaring and Patti Cake$” struggling, the problem isn’t how much Hollywood spent, but its inability to develop talent.
With “The Big Sick” soaring and Patti Cake$” struggling, the problem isn’t how much Hollywood spent, but its inability to develop talent.
Plus, the festival has unveiled a slew of other programming picks that were supported by the San Francisco Film Society.
Sundance is famous for the hysteria generated by some of its premieres, but hyperbole is part of what makes the festival great.
From the expected breakouts to the discoveries, there was plenty to celebrate in this year’s Sundance lineup. Here are our favorites.
From working with non-professionals to hiring a Hollywood casting director, Sundance filmmakers tells us how they found their actors.
“There aren’t a lot of gentle giants with big tits and blue eyes up on the screen,” Everett told IndieWire. With any luck, that’s about to change.
The debut film from writer-director Geremy Jasper has earned the second-highest deal of Sundance so far, after Amazon’s purchase of “The Big Sick” for $12 million.
Danielle Macdonald is a sensation in director Geremy Jasper’s rousing debut.