LOS ANGELES - The Sundance Film Festival will take to the road with films featuring Ben Affleck, Kristen Stewart, Kevin Kline and other stars screening around the country.
Robert Redford's independent-cinema showcase will show eight films in eight different cities on Jan. 28, the movies chosen from the lineup playing during the Utah festival that runs Jan. 21-31.
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LOS ANGELES - Ben Affleck, Katie Holmes, rapper 50 Cent and "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" co-stars Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning are taking their acts to the Sundance Film Festival.
They are among the stars of big-name premieres announced Thursday for Robert Redford's independent-film showcase that runs Jan. 21-31 in Park City, Utah.
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LOS ANGELES - Dramas featuring "Twilight" star Kristen Stewart, Natalie Portman and "The Sopranos" co-stars James Gandolfini and Edie Falco are in the hunt for awards at the Sundance Film Festival.
Robert Redford's independent-film showcase next month includes director Jake Scott's New Orleans drama "Welcome to the Rileys," which co-stars Gandolfini and Stewart. Falco is among the cast of Eric Mendelsohn's suburban drama "3 Backyards," while Portman stars alongside Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Rainn Wilson in Spencer Susser's family tale "Hesher."
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Sundance Film Festival on Wednesday listed the 64 films that will compete for awards at the upcoming premiere event for independent films, which for 2010 has a new director and three opening night offerings.
The festival, backed by Robert Redford's Sundance Institute in Utah, has long been a launch pad for first-time filmmakers and some of the best low-budget movies shown in art houses, including current Oscar hopeful "Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire."
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Sundance Institute announced today the lineup of films selected to screen in the U.S. and World Cinema Dramatic and Documentary Competitions for the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. In addition to the four Competition Categories, the Festival presents films in five out-of-competition sections to be announced on December 3. The 2010 Sundance Film Festival runs January 21-31 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance, Utah. The complete list of films is available at www.sundance.org/festival.
As previously announced, the 2010 Sundance Film Festival features several changes including a new section devoted to low- and no-budget filmmaking and Sundance Film Festival U.S.A.- a one-night only event when eight filmmakers from the Festival will visit eight cities nationwide. In addition, the Festival will break tradition by foregoing the conventions of one opening night film and instead focus on launching the total program: one narrative film, one documentary and one shorts program will play the first Thursday (January 21), beginning the roll out of the competitions.
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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Stephen Root, currently in theaters with "The Men Who Stare at Goats," has lined up roles in the ensemble comedy "Cedar Rapids" and the Robert Redford historical drama "The Conspirator."
In "Rapids," Root joins Ed Helms, Anne Heche and John C. Reilly. He will play the proud owner of an insurance company and Helms' boss. Miguel Arteta will direct for Fox Searchlight.
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Stephen Root has joined the casts of Fox Searchlight's "Cedar Rapids" and Robert Redford's latest drama, "The Conspirator."
In "Rapids," Root joins Ed Helms, Anne Heche and John C. Reilly, playing the proud owner of an insurance company and Helms boss' in the ensemble comedy being directed by Miguel Arteta.
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In the last of The Hollywood Reporter's annual Awards Roundtable series, THR's Elizabeth Guider and Matthew Belloni gathered six A-list directors -- Kathryn Bigelow ("The Hurt Locker"); James Cameron ("Avatar"); Lee Daniels ("Precious"); Peter Jackson ("The Lovely Bones"); Jason Reitman ("Up in the Air"); and Quentin Tarantino ("Inglourious Basterds") -- for a candid discussion of filmmaking at the highest level. .. More »
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