Gravitas Picks Up Sundance Drama ‘Blush’ Starring Wendi McLendon-Covey

(photo above: Director Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese of This is Not A Burial, It’s A Resurrection (3rd left) at Sundance. Photo: Getty Images North America. 

John Stamos dressed up as fairy tale character Rapunzel while treating his friend Darren Criss to a Disneyland visit.

Paramount’s spy thriller “The Rhythm Section,” starring Blake Lively, opened quietly with $235,000 at 2,256 North American locations on Thursday night.

By Anthony D'Alessandro

PARK CITY, Utah — What do “Reservoir Dogs,” “Napoleon Dynamite,” “Clerks” and “Wet Hot American Summer” all have in common? The Sundance Film Festival.

A key moment in Residue, Merawi Gerima’s debut feature, sees a white couple allow their dog to defecate on somebody else’s front lawn. When confronted by the African-American owner, the couple state how they were going to clean it up straight after, but the owner responds with “It still leaves a residue.” This is Gerima’s central theme he explores in a tale of identity and frustration that echoes with subtlety and purposeful obviousness.

By Dino-Ray Ramos

In her feature-length debut Farewell Amor, Ekwa Msangi explores the meaning of home for an Angolan immigrant family newly reunited in New York City after almost two decades apart.According to the United Nations, the United States currently hosts 51 million international migrants (about 19 percent of the world’s population), the largest number of any country in the world.

Sony Pictures Classics has teamed with Sony’s Stage 6 Films to oversee the global release of Heidi Ewing’s feature narrative debut “I Carry You With Me (Te Llevo Conmigo),” a gay love story about two men who immigrate to the United States. The deal follows the movie’s enthusiastic reception at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. The romantic drama debuted to multiple standing ovations in Park City, where it was shown in the NEXT section. It will be released later this year.

Amid the snow-covered mountains of Park City, Utah – South African filmmakers, producers, and directors have made a strong representation this year at Sundance – the largest independent film festival in the US.

By Anthony D'Alessandro

By Anthony D'Alessandro

The best political documentary at Sundance this year does not star Hillary Clinton or AOC, but a bunch of 17-year-old dudes.

By Anthony D'Alessandro

By Mike Fleming Jr

North American rights to Benedict Cumberbatch’s civilian spy thriller “Ironbark” have been acquired by Roadside Attractions and Lionsgate out of the Sundance Film Festival, insiders close to the deal told Variety.

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.

Amazon Studios has picked up the North American rights to the Phyllida Lloyd-directed Irish drama Herself.The movie follows single-mother Sandra (newcomer Clare Dunne) as she escapes her abusive partner with her two young children, only to find herself trapped in temporary accommodations. After months of struggling with the welfare and housing systems, she comes upon the idea of self-building an affordable home.

Elyse Steinberg, one of the co-directors of the new documentary “The Fight,” was inspired to learn more about the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) shortly after Donald Trump moved into in the White House.