Value Of Hulu/NEON ‘Palm Springs’ Deal Is Actually $22 Million; How Streamers Ruled 2020 Sundance

The fall-winter 2020 season continues with Milan Fashion Week and honestly, these front row styles may be the best we’ve seen yet.

Congratulations are in order for Sinead O’Carroll who has tied the knot with her other half Lorcan Nyhan.

By Denise Petski, Nellie Andreeva

Yes, the shortened Oscars season has left film folks exhausted, but now that it's over, industry execs and talent alike can finally enjoy February's three-day President's Day weekend (four days if you're throwing in Friday's Valentine's Day). And what better place to rest and relax than Palm Springs as it showcases the best of its modernist art, design and architecture during Modernism Week (Feb.

A huge haul of shisha pipes has been seized during a late-night raid on a café in Bolton.

Donald Trump once criticized NFL players for not “standing proudly” during the national anthem, but the president clearly doesn’t practice what he preaches. President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump, 49, hosted a private Super Bowl watch party at the Trump International Golf Club in Palm Beach, Florida, where a guest caught them on camera arriving at the event as the game began.

The Sundance Film Festival is fighting a battle that’s been building for several years, and what it’s fighting for can be summed up in one word: relevance. What makes a Sundance movie relevant? In a sense, the old criteria still hold. It’s some combination of box-office performance, awards cachet, and that buzzy, you-know-it-when-you-see-it thing of penetrating to the heart of what we used to call the conversation.

If you care about cinema, you take the Sundance Film Festival for granted at your peril. Yet despite some early-in-the-festival grousing (“Oh no! The first day has gone by without a masterpiece!”), this was the sort of year that didn’t allow one to take the festival for granted.

“I saw it at Sundance.” Every fan of thought-provoking prestige movies — read: movies that don’t feature comic-book superheroes or a blooper reel over the closing credits — knows there’s a cache associated with that phrase.

Anyone else in a wardrobe slump? 

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 Mike Fleming Jr

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.

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).

How does the thought of dieting make you feel? Anybody else just let out a lengthy groan? Yes, we want to lose weight, but why does the process have to be so irritating, boring, difficult or even seemingly impossible? Is it so bad that we want to be healthy and also enjoy a slice of cake from time to time?

Tom Quinn’s Neon and streamer Hulu are looking to partner on a multimillion dollar, worldwide rights deal for Andy Samberg’s Sundance comedy “Palm Springs,” sources told Variety.

By Mike Fleming Jr

In the words of the brilliant adventurer-physicist Buckaroo Banzai, "Wherever you go, there you are." This holds true even if where you're going is, as a somewhat less brilliant voyager puts it, "one of those infinite-time-loop situations you mighta heard about." That lesser intellect is Andy Samberg's Nyles, stuck in a rut in Max Barbakow's thoroughly enjoyable rom-com Palm Springs.