Before Today’s Sundance Premiere, ‘American Beauty’ Scribe Alan Ball Talks About His Film ‘Uncle Frank’

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In the first head-to-head NFL championship game between the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers, the Midwest team came out on top, winning Super Bowl 2020 by the score of 31-20 on Sunday.The win followed a mostly tight game, where the teams entered the halftime show tied 10-10. The 49ers were the first to score with a field goal after winning the coin toss, but the Chiefs responded with a touchdown at the end of the first quarter and a field goal at the top of the second.

To kick things off for Super Bowl LIV at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami on Sunday (Feb. 2), renowned gospel singer Yolanda Adams performed a riveting rendition of "America the Beautiful."Standing atop a giant white football, the Texas legend set the table nicely alongside the Children's Choir of Miami for the pregame exhibition.

When American Beauty bowed in September 1999 at the Toronto Film Festival, The Hollywood Reporter wasn't quite sure what the public would make of the pitch-black dramedy.While THR's review acknowledged the "charismatic power" of the performances by its actors — singling out not just stars Kevin Spacey and Annette Bening but also Thora Birch, Wes Bentley and Mena Suvari — it wondered whether audiences might not "tire of [director Sam] Mendes' arch and often condescending style.

If there's one thing that Jimmy Fallon has taught us over the years, it's that he's game for anything, even if that's trying to keep up with fitness icon John Cena in about five different sports. The 45-year-old Tonight Show host does just that in the 2020 Super Bowl commercial for Michelob Ultra.

The movie will star the likes of Benicio Del Toro, Tilda Swinton and Timothée Chalamet

PARK CITY, Utah — Twenty years after he blazed onto the film scene, Alan Ball is back with another American beauty.

In January 2014, Selena Gomez was in Park City, Utah, to promote her role in Rudderless at the Sundance Film Festival. At the time, she was looking for the next step in her career, after growing up as an actress on a series of Disney shows and releasing four albums on Hollywood Records.

Amazon Studios has picked up Alan Ball's family dramaUncle Frank.The Six Feet Under showrunnerwrote and directed the movie, which is set in 1973 and follows teenager Beth (Sophia Lillis), who leaves her rural hometown to study at New York University, where her estranged uncle Frank (Paul Bettany) is a revered literature professor.

By Mike Fleming Jr

By Mike Fleming Jr

Amazon Studios has bought “Uncle Frank,” an acclaimed drama about a closeted gay man forced to come out to his Southern family in the 1970s. The film debuted this weekend at the Sundance Film Festival.

Uncle Frankmarks the return to feature filmmaking after a long hiatus for Alan Ball, the innovative showrunner behind TV's Six Feet Under and True Blood.

One of the people who’s made long-form television drama arguably more interesting as a whole than its mainstream big-screen equivalent in recent years, Alan Ball has underlined his superior comfort with that format in the few theatrical features he’s made to date. His screenplay for “American Beauty,” which Sam Mendes directed, was brilliant but glib; as writer-director of 2007’s “Towelhead,” he couldn’t quite make the complicated agenda of Alicia Erian’s novel gel in two-hour form.