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Rarely in recent decades has the festival circuit been as disrupted as it has in the past 12 months. A confluence of local and global issues — from war to inflation, political unrest to societal shifts — have created a perfect storm for many of these vital cultural platforms, leading to funding…

Film festivals in North America have launched some of the greatest movies ever – whether nonfiction or fiction. Telluride premiered Free Solo, Slumdog Millionaire, and Argo; Sundance debuted sex, lies and videotape, Napoleon Dynamite, An Inconvenient Truth, and this year's Oscar winning documentary 20 Da…

"Love is a gamble and I’m so glad that I’m winnin," sings Luther Vandross in his 1981 classic “Never Too Much” song with a sentiment that has some extra significance today. CNN Films and OWN have picked up Dawn Porter's Sundance Film Festival-debuting Luther: Never Too Much documentary, it was…

EXCLUSIVE: Like an applause filled debut at Park City's Eccles Theatre, the Sundance Film Festival's potential move in 2027 to a new location is attracting a lot of big bidders, as well as a significant swing from the hometown crowd. San Francisco, Minneapolis, Santa Fe, and Atlanta, the home of…

After nearly 40 years in Park City, the Sundance Film Festival may be pulling up stakes. With its current contract expiring after the 2026 festival, organizers of the iconic Robert Redford-founded indie film shindig in the Utah mountain town said Wednesday that they have opened a bid process for a…

DC Studios co-head Peter Safran told CinemaCon attendees Tuesday that Warner Bros’ Sundance acquisition Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story is getting a September theatrical release. No exact date was specified. Safran showed a moving trailer involving Reeve’s son’s distress after the horse…

The Sundance Film Festival's next edition will run from Jan. 23 to Feb. 2 in Park City and Salt Lake City, Utah, the nonprofit Sundance Institute announced today. "While the next Sundance Film Festival is still 10 months away, we're already laying the foundation for the 2025 edition, looking ahead to…

EXCLUSIVE: Following its world premiere at Sundance, the horror rom-com Your Monster, starring Melissa Barrera (In the Heights) and Tommy Dewey (The Mindy Project), has landed at Vertical for North American distribution. Marking the feature directorial debut of Caroline Lindy, who adapted the script…

EXCLUSIVE: Sugarcane has become the latest big documentary deal out of the Sundance Film Festival. Nat Geo has snapped up the doc, an investigation into abuse and missing children at an Indian residential school which ignites a reckoning on the nearby Sugarcane Reserve. Deadline understands that…

Less than a week after we reported on Warner Bros. Discovery’s circling of buzzy Sundance documentary Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story, the studio has closed the deal valued at $15M, Deadline has learned, acquiring worldwide rights to the pic, which was one of the most buzzed-about titles of this…

There's quite a lot going on beneath the shiny, fun surface of this animated comedy, though some of the questions it deals with — animal mortality, the world's fragile eco-system — might be too much for younger children to process. For older, smarter kids, it could be a gateway film, a way to turn young…

The last of the Sundance buzz titles has landed. Netflix closed a deal for Will & Harper, the documentary in which Will Ferrell takes a road trip with his lifelong pal Harper Steele after the latter transitioned. Sources said deal was for eight figures. Related…