Neon Buys Hot Sundance Doc ‘Spaceship Earth’ (EXCLUSIVE)

If real change is to be made in Hollywood for people of color, it has to start from the top. So say some of the most powerful black women in entertainment when Variety asked about the biggest challenges they face in the industry.

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Michelle McManus revealed that she and her husband Jeff Nimmo have welcomed their first child, a son who they have named Harry.The 39 year old Pop Idol star shared a gorgeous picture of her little boy on Twitter and Instagram and told fans that she gave birth to her bundle of joy in January. New mum Michelle wrote: “Last month we welcomed our beautiful son Harry John Nimmo into the world.

Amazon Studios has picked up Sundance love story Sylvie's Love, starring Tessa Thompson andNnamdi Asomugha,sources familiar with the deal tell The Hollywood Reporter.Eugene Ashe wrote and directed the movie, which follows a saxophone player (Asomugha) and aspiring TV producer (Thompson) as they fall in love and continually cross paths in late 50s/early 60s New York.Eva Longoria, Aja Naomi King, Wendi Mclendon-Covey and Jemima Kirke also star.The movie premiered in the U.S.

Andy Samberg reflected on the sale of his comedy Palm Springs at the Sundance Film Festival while visiting The Tonight Show on Monday.Following the film's premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, Neon and Hulu landed the worldwide rights, for$17,500,000.69. That figure breaks the record for the biggest sale ever at Sundance by 69 cents.

Andy Samberg time-loop comedy “Palm Springs” broke sales records (by the cheeky sum of 69¢), and “Taylor Swift: Miss Americana” inspired a mini mob scene at an otherwise star-starved Sundance. But in the end, the film that defined the 2020 edition of America’s most important indie-movie showcase was a #MeToo revenge thriller called “Promising Young Woman.”

The experiment known as Biosphere 2 may be best remembered now — when remembered at all — as something that spawned “Bio-Dome,” the godawful 1996 comedy that is nonetheless many people’s favorite movie involving Pauly Shore or Stephen Baldwin.

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Magnolia Pictures has bought the documentary “Assassins,” which explores the 2017 assassination of Kim Jong-nam, half brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un.

Magnolia Pictures is wrapping up a low-seven-figure deal for distribution rights to the moving documentary “The Fight,” insiders told Variety.

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At the risk of overselling Edson Oda’s ultra-original, meaning-of-life directorial debut, there’s a big difference between “Nine Days” and pretty much every other film ever made. You see, most movies are about characters, real or imagined, and the stuff that happens to them, whereas “Nine Days” is about character itself — as in, the moral dimension that constitutes who a person is, how he or she treats others, and the choices that define us as humans.

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Andy Samberg’s “Palm Springs” has just broken the record for the biggest sale in the history of the Sundance film festival — by $0.69.

Sony Pictures Classics has acquired worldwide rights to “The Truffle Hunters” out of the Sundance Film Festival. The pact is for $1.5 million, according to an insider.

Neon and Hulu are in negotiations for the worldwide rights to Andy Samberg-fronted comedy Palm Springs, individuals familiar with the deal tell The Hollywood Reporter.The Saturday Night Live alum plays wedding guest Nyles, who befriends reluctant maid of honor Sarah (Cristin Milioti).