Sundance Film Festival 2024: New Films From Steven Soderbergh, Debra Granik, Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck

Since it first landed on our screens way back in 2003, Elf has become a Christmas classic.The film follows Buddy, who as an orphan baby crawled into Santa's sack on Christmas Eve and ended up back in the North Pole.There, Santa's elves decide to take him in and raise him as one of their own. Then, when he finds out that his real father, Walter Hobbs is on the naughty list, Buddy travels to New York to meet his real family and spread some Christmas spirit across the city.

Swifties got another look at Taylor Swift’s star-studded birthday party, all thanks to her bestie Keleigh Sperry!

Selena Gomez is taking her relationship with Benny Blanco to another level!

We don’t see Ryan Seacrest with his girlfriend that often, but we have some new photos of them together in public!

Madonna had the best time at her latest concert in New York City. The iconic singer continues her ‘Celebration’ tour in the United States, with many surprises for her fans apart from her incredible performance and stunning costume changes.MADONNA GETS EMOTIONAL ON STAGE TALKING ABOUT HER HEALTH SCARE: ‘I WAS UNCONSCIOUS’MADONNA BRINGS DAUGHTERS LOURDES, MERCY, AND ESTERE TO THE STAGE ON CELEBRATION TOURMADONNA SPOTTED LOOKING STRONG AND RIDING BIKES AHEAD OF HER BARCELONA CONCERTThe 65-year-old musician has previously surprised the audience by taking her children Lourdes Leon, Mercy, Estere, and Rocco Ritchie to the stage, apart from some of her celebrity friends, including Donatella Versace, Julia Fox, FKA Twigs, Diplo, Arca, among others.This time Madonna decided to change things up by including her romantic partner in the performance, during a ballroom-inspired segment of her show.

IF, the new fantasy film written, directed by and starring John Krasinski and Ryan Reynolds, might be a dream come true for fans of that TV series that brought Krasinski to fame: The film’s large cast includes the director’s old Office-mate ‘s Steve Carell.

Kristen Stewart will be lauded with the Visionary Award at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival’s opening-night gala January 18 at the DeJoria Center in Utah.

Sundance is celebrating its 40th Anniversary next month and the festival has revealed more programming to highlight its cinematic legacy. Topping the list of events are new 4K restorations of “Napoleon Dynamite,” “Go Fish,” “Three Seasons,” and an extended version of “DIG!,” with over 30 minutes of new footage, retitled “DIG!XX.” Additionally, there will be screenings of “The Babadook,” and “Pariah” as well as restorations of “Mississippi Masala” and “The Times of Harvey Milk.” READ MORE: Sundance 2024: New works from Steven Sodergh, Debra Granik, Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck and more Alumni always have a home to return to in Park City and 2024 will be no exception.

EXCLUSIVE: Teton Ridge Entertainment has hired Jen Gorton as EVP Production and Development.

John Bleasdale Guest Contributor “The Pianist” and “King Kong” star Adrien Brody spoke at the Red Sea Film Festival Friday about a wide variety of creative pursuits, including making music from popcorn in the 1990s. “I liked the sound of the kernels of popcorn hitting the aluminium lid of the pan and so I set my microphone up and recorded it and then I sampled it and put on some reverb,” he told the audience in Saudi Arabia. “It went pok-a-pok-a-pok.” Something of a prodigy, he was cast as a lead in a TV movie “Home at Last” when he was only 15 and later became the youngest actor to win the best male lead Oscar.

The list of the 10 films chosen for the prestigious AFI Awards is out, and it is good news for Barbenheimer.

Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor The “Barbenheimer” craze continues with Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” and Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” being named among AFI Awards 2023 top 10 best films of the year. Netflix led studios with two movies making the list — Bradley Cooper’s Leonard Bernstein biopic “Maestro” and Todd Haynes’ black comedy “May December.” With an eclectic mix of critically acclaimed and consumer friendly titles, the list of top movies also includes films by newcomers (Cord Jefferson’s “American Fiction” and Celine Song’s “Past Lives”), veterans (Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon” and Alexander Payne’s “The Holdovers”) and stylish visionaries (Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Poor Things” and Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers and Justin K.

Sundance Film Festival is right around the corner. Hosted in snowy and gorgeous Utah, the festival is a favorite for filmmakers and critics of all sorts, premiering independent projects that have launched careers and achieved great acclaim.

Adam B. Vary Senior Entertainment Writer Jennifer Lopez is attached to star in a feature adaptation of the 1993 Broadway musical “Kiss of the Spider Woman,” written and directed by “Dreamgirls” filmmaker Bill Condon, Variety has confirmed with a source close to the production. The music is by legends John Kander and Fred Ebb, based on the novel by Manuel Puig and the book of the musical by Terrence McNally.

Surprise! Filmmaker Steven Soderbergh has another new secret project in the can, his second in half a year. His latest, never publicly announced, is a mystery thriller called “Presence,” which will make its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2024.

Earlier today, the lineup was finally announced for the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. Once again, Sundance has cemented itself as the premier festival in the U.S.

“I loved the songs when they were written and in some ways they feel as fresh and perhaps more relevant all these years later,” said Lee in a press release about the new tracks, which were given fresh mixes by Rush’s longtime producer and engineer, David Bottrill.Lee recorded ‘My Favourite Headache’ during Rush’s hiatus between 1997 and 2002 with Pearl Jam drummer Matt Cameron and multi-instrumentalist Ben Mink, eventually releasing it in November 2000.In November, Lee released his memoir, My Effin’ Life, which chronicles his formative experiences as a child, his experiences with bandmates and friends Neil Peart and Alex Lifeson, and his solo career beyond Rush. He is currently on tour promoting the book.While in New York City, Lee opened up about his final interactions with Peart, who passed away in 2020 following a three year-long battle with aggressive brain cancer.

The full list of nominations for the 2024 Film Independent Spirit Awards has been announced!

The Gotham Awards, the New York wing of the indie film world, has already handed out its year-end honors and now it’s time for the West Coast to have their say. Bright and early this morning, Film Independent revealed the 2024 Independent Spirit Awards nominees, and, no surprise, Celine Song’s “Past Lives” was at the top of the list with five nominations.

In what is an annual tradition, A24 led all nominations at this morning’s 39th Film Independent Spirit Awards Nominations with 11 nods while their movie Past Lives, along with Netflix’s May December and Amazon MGM’s American Fiction all tied for the most nominations with five apiece.