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EXCLUSIVE: "I hope the folks at Sundance have the clarity of perspective to recognize that it would be in their best interest to bring the festival to Georgia," Sen. Raphael Warnock says of the Peach State's unique triple bids for the Robert Redford-founded film festival to move to Hollywood South…

EXCLUSIVE: A terrifying near real-life look at America's possible political future is coming to the big screen this summer – – and I don’t mean the GOP convention in Milwaukee next month. Depicting another January 6 attack on democracy and the certification of a presidential election in near real…

EXCLUSIVE: The Sundance Film Festival is looking South for a potential new home, as well as in its backyard. Along with Park City, UT, Atlanta and fellow Georgia cities Athens and Savannah are among the 15 cities that have made the cut to put in serious bids for the Robert Redford-founded indie…

EXCLUSIVE: Like an applause filled debut at Park City's Eccles Theatre, the Sundance Film Festival's potential move in 2027 to a new location is attracting a lot of big bidders, as well as a significant swing from the hometown crowd. San Francisco, Minneapolis, Santa Fe, and Atlanta, the home of…

After nearly 40 years in Park City, the Sundance Film Festival may be pulling up stakes. With its current contract expiring after the 2026 festival, organizers of the iconic Robert Redford-founded indie film shindig in the Utah mountain town said Wednesday that they have opened a bid process for a…

EXCLUSIVE: Leonor Will Never Die producer Monster Jimenez will next work on Mario Cornejo's My Neighbor the Gangster, a film loosely based on Cornejo's childhood. Principal photography for My Neighbor the Gangster is set for October this year in the Philippines, with a release targeted for next year…

Hello, and welcome to the Scene 2 Seen Podcast! I am your host Valerie Complex, an associate editor and film writer at Deadline. Today, I'm chatting with director Alex Stapleton, an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker known for her thought-provoking projects that have redefined authentic American…

The Sundance Film Festival's next edition will run from Jan. 23 to Feb. 2 in Park City and Salt Lake City, Utah, the nonprofit Sundance Institute announced today. "While the next Sundance Film Festival is still 10 months away, we're already laying the foundation for the 2025 edition, looking ahead to…

EXCLUSIVE: Following its world premiere at Sundance, the horror rom-com Your Monster, starring Melissa Barrera (In the Heights) and Tommy Dewey (The Mindy Project), has landed at Vertical for North American distribution. Marking the feature directorial debut of Caroline Lindy, who adapted the script…

EXCLUSIVE: Sugarcane has become the latest big documentary deal out of the Sundance Film Festival. Nat Geo has snapped up the doc, an investigation into abuse and missing children at an Indian residential school which ignites a reckoning on the nearby Sugarcane Reserve. Deadline understands that…

Sony Pictures Classics has acquired all rights worldwide to Nathan Silver's Between The Temples starring Jason Schwartzman and Carol Kane, following its buzzy world premiere at Sundance and ahead of its upcoming international debut at the Berlinale. Billed by SPC as a comedy "exploring the…

Less than a week after we reported on Warner Bros. Discovery’s circling of buzzy Sundance documentary Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story, the studio has closed the deal valued at $15M, Deadline has learned, acquiring worldwide rights to the pic, which was one of the most buzzed-about titles of this…