Sundance Film Festival
New Trailer For Award-Winning, Independent Spirit-Nominated ‘Sleep Dealer’
Submitted by BrianTT on February 19, 2009 - 10:41pm.
CHICAGO – The winner of the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Prize and Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at the Sundance Film Festival, “Sleep Dealer,” finally has a preview and our contact at Maya Entertainment sent it over for your online pleasure.
Slideshow: 29-Image Gallery For ‘Sunshine Cleaning’ With Amy Adams, Emily Blunt
Submitted by BrianTT on February 19, 2009 - 2:41pm.
Emily Blunt, Alan Arkin, Jason Spevack and Amy Adams star in Sunshine Cleaning.CHICAGO – This 29-image slideshow contains the official press images from the Overture Films production of “Sunshine Cleaning,” starring Amy Adams, Emily Blunt, Steve Zahn, Clifton Collins Jr., Mary Lynn Rajskub, and Jason Spevack. Written by Megan Holley and directed by Christine Jeffs, the film opens in limited release on Friday, March 13th, 2009.
Big Winners at 2009 Sundance Film Festival Include ‘Push,’ ‘We Live in Public’
Submitted by BrianTT on January 25, 2009 - 6:22pm.
CHICAGO – The 2009 Sundance Film Festival Awards were announced on Saturday, January 24th, 2009 and Lee Daniels’ examination of parental abuse and self-redemption in Harlem in the 1980s, “Push: Based on a Novel by Sapphire,” won both the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award in the U.S. dramatic competition.
Interview: Melissa Leo Channels John Wayne in Sundance Hit ‘Frozen River’
Submitted by HollywoodChicago.com on August 14, 2008 - 11:51am.CHICAGO – Melissa Leo is a familiar face to admirers of the TV show “Homicide: Life on the Street”.
Hookup: 50 Admit-Two Passes to Two Screenings of Sundance Hit ‘American Teen’ in Chicago
Submitted by HollywoodChicago.com on July 7, 2008 - 3:37pm.CHICAGO – In our latest edition of HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 50 admit-two passes up for grabs to two separate Chicago screenings of the Sundance Film Festival hit film “American Teen” from writer, director and producer Nanette Burstein.
Director Jonathan Levine, Star Josh Peck to Appear in Chicago For Ben Kingsley’s ‘The Wackness’
Submitted by HollywoodChicago.com on June 17, 2008 - 8:25am.CHICAGO – We have learned that writer and director Jonathan Levine (“All the Boys Love Mandy Lane”) and lead actor Josh Peck (“Ice Age: The Meltdown”) will publicly appear this Thursday, June 19, 2008 at 7 p.m. at the downtown Chicago Apple store at 679 N. Michigan Ave. to offer an insider’s look at their new film “The Wackness”.
Sundance Winner ‘Teeth’ Bites Right to Point of Men’s Greatest Sexual Fear
Submitted by HollywoodChicago.com on March 26, 2008 - 1:41am.CHICAGO – In one of the great light bulb ideas that could only happen in association with making movies, along comes “Teeth” to bite us in the – well, to bite us hard. Writer and director Mitchell Lichtenstein has fashioned a one-of-a-kind horror epic (based, of course, on a Japanese film) that at the same time tangles with significant social and cultural issues.
Production Stills Surface For George A. Romero’s ‘Diary of the Dead’
Submitted by HollywoodChicago.com on January 13, 2008 - 8:01pm.CHICAGO – The Weinstein Company has released 11 new production stills for George A. Romero’s “Diary of the Dead,” which will show at the Sundance Film Festival later this month and hits limited U.S. theaters on Feb. 15.
