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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…

DC Studios co-head Peter Safran told CinemaCon attendees Tuesday that Warner Bros’ Sundance acquisition Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story is getting a September theatrical release. No exact date was specified. Safran showed a moving trailer involving Reeve’s son’s distress after the horse…

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…

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…

There's quite a lot going on beneath the shiny, fun surface of this animated comedy, though some of the questions it deals with — animal mortality, the world's fragile eco-system — might be too much for younger children to process. For older, smarter kids, it could be a gateway film, a way to turn young…

The last of the Sundance buzz titles has landed. Netflix closed a deal for Will & Harper, the documentary in which Will Ferrell takes a road trip with his lifelong pal Harper Steele after the latter transitioned. Sources said deal was for eight figures. Related…

David Schwimmer makes a bold choice with this ambitious, if not entirely seamless psychodrama. Starting out as a hyperactive life-in-crisis movie, like a more melancholy, introspective Fight Club, it swaps horses in midstream with a shocking twist that will likely alienate any viewers seduced by seeing…

When the Oscar nominations came out last week, the Best Documentary Feature category contained some bombshells: no recognition for two of the most decorated nonfiction films of the year.  In the latest edition of Deadline's Doc Talk podcast, co-hosts John Ridley and Matt Carey drill down on the…

Focus Features said Wednesday that it has acquired global rights on Sean Wang’s Dìdi, which won the U.S. Dramatic Audience Award and the U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Best Ensemble Cast at the just-concluded Sundance Film Festival. Last week, Wang was nominated for an Oscar for his documentary…

EXCLUSIVE: Over three years after The Black List and the then MGM launched their feature film script writing partnership to find and amplify new voices, the team-up has found their fourth and final recipient. Audrey Rosenberg will receive a two-step Guild minimum open script deal with Amazon MGM…