‘CODA’ Sparking Sundance Bidding War Following Rapturous Premiere — How High Can It Go?

Gallery: Celeb proposals that were surprisingly low-key – just like Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's (Hello!)Following their split, Millie admitted in an interview at the time that she would always love Hugo, explaining: 'I loved him - those feelings don't disappear – but I just always have to remind myself why we're not together.  'I do think that, for the rest of my life, every time I see him, I'll get that feeling in my stomach.

Last week, a onetime flight attendantlanded a seven-figure book deal -- this week, she nabbed a seven-figure film one. Screen rights to T.J.

On Tuesday evening, Britney Spears posted a new message on Instagram with comments that appeared to allude to Framing Britney Spears, a documentary on the pop singer's conservatorship released last week. The post itself is a video of a performance of Spears' song "Toxic," performed in 2018.

Newman signed a seven figure two book deal with Simon & Schuster’s Avid Reader Press last week. Newman “used everything from an iPad to the backs of napkins while writing ‘Falling.'”Also Read: Blumhouse Wins Bidding War for NY Times Miriam Rodriguez Kidnapping Revenge Article“Falling” centers on a crowded flight from New York to L.A., with 140-plus passengers who don’t know that their pilot’s family was kidnapped a half-hour before takeoff.

A familiar face will be returning to Port Charles, with actor Chad Brannon being brought back to “General Hospital” nearly 20 years after his character kicked the bucket.

A sun-flared and bong-addled tumble into a teenage Texan summer rife with bombshells and boyfriend problems, “Cusp,” from debut directors Parker Hill and Isabel Bethencourt is one of those fractal-style documentaries, in which any given sliver contains all the colors and contours of the whole.

Fran Kranz’s “Mass” is likely one of the most emotionally pulverizing films ever made about America’s gun-violence epidemic – but across its 110-minute runtime, not a single shot is fired.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterCate Blanchett has signed on to produce “Queen Bitch and the High Horse,” a film inspired by the largest municipal fraud in American history.Blanchett, through her company Dirty Films, is producing alongside Coco Francini and Andrew Upton, as well as Brian Oliver and Bradley Fischer of New Republic Pictures.Bert and Bertie, the duo behind “Troop Zero,” will direct the film from a screenplay by Eric Matthew.“Queen Bitch and the High Horse” is described as a

It’s remarkably rare that anyone makes a hand-drawn animated feature for adults, let alone one as strikingly surreal and seriously minded as Dash Shaw’s “Cryptozoo.” READ MORE: 25 Most Anticipated 2021 Sundance Film Festival Premieres This Sundance premiere – honored with the fest’s Innovator Award in its NEXT section for “pure, bold works distinguished by an innovative, forward-thinking approach to storytelling” – takes place in an alt-history 1960s secretly populated by “cryptids,” including

For the first time in recent memory, the Sundance Film Festival recruited just three members each for its competition juries. Even in the context of a virtual festival, that might have been a mistake after one film dominated the Dramatic category winning four awards.

13-year-old Sammy Ko (Miya Cech) is a problem child. Prone to skipping class, smoking cigarettes, and mouthing off to her teachers, she’s the opposite of the meek model student Hollywood typically imagines when writing young Asian-American characters.

Literally opening, as the title implies, with “The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be Quiet,” Argentinian director Ana Katz’s melancholic rumination on the life of Sebastian (Daniel Katz, the filmmaker’s brother), a languishing writer turned migrant worker, is a visually stunning, but oftentimes opaque experiment. Filmed in lush black and white, with animated interludes used to portray the more devastating aspects of Sebastian’s life, Katz’s film unfurls as a series of vignettes.

Abuse leaves scars unseen but permanent in director Lyle Mitchell Corbine Jr.’s debut “Wild Indian,” a character study wrapped in larger observations on the generational effects of violence and religious guilt. In it, two men marked by a single crime lead distinctively dysfunctional lives.

With her frayed blonde hair and moody coal-black eye makeup, rock band singer Marian (Alessandra Messa) doesn’t immediately appear to resemble her identical twin sister. Practically a Stepford wife with her demure manner and neat brown bob, Vivian (Ani Messa) lives with her loser husband (Jake Hoffman) in the same house the sisters grew up in.

To call a portrait documentary an “affectionate tribute” to its lesser-known subject, is usually redundant. That’s the whole point of adoring acknowledgment docs of this ilk— “shining a brighter spotlight” on [insert criminally undervalued subject here].

Also Read: 'CODA' Filmmaker, Actors on Representation of Deaf Culture: 'Hollywood Needs To See This as an Example' (Video)Based on the 2014 French film “La Famille Belier,” “CODA” gets its title from the acronym for Children of Deaf Adults. That’s what Ruby Rossi (Emilia Jones) is, the only hearing person in her family.

Also Read: Neon Acquires Jonas Poher Rasmussen's 'Flee' in 7-Figure Deal“CODA” is produced by Philippe Rousselet, Fabrice Gianfermi, Patrick Wachsberger and Jerome Seydoux.