Sundance says it wants a “webolution.” Just don’t look for it at the indie film fest’s website, which has slashed its online offerings even as internet video is taking off.
This year’s Sundance Film Festival, which opens Thursday in Park City, Utah, includes a panel called “Webolution” with Motion Picture Association of America chief Dan Glickman [...]

The same writers strike that transformed the Golden Globes into a news conference might bring smiles to the faces of agents and filmmakers gathered in this snow-covered ski town.
They’re hoping that studios will spend more freely than usual at the Sundance Film Festival, buying up independent movies to fill release schedules that have begun to [...]

 
For many of the sleep-deprived, debt-saddled filmmakers trekking to the Sundance Film Festival this week, gaining acceptance to the world’s most competitive indie market was the easy part. It’s finishing their films in time that will take nothing short of a miracle.
More than 45,000 people are expected to crowd snowy Park City, Utah, for 10 [...]

 
The cinema at the Grand Abu Dhabi Mall, in the capital of the United Arab Emirates, offers a choice of eight films. Six of them are Hollywood blockbusters such as Ridley Scott’s American Gangster. The city’s large Indian expatriate community may be tempted to see a Bollywood musical called Aaja Nachle. The only Arab-language film [...]

 
Just like the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, the scruffy alternative Slamdance Film Festival, will open with a comedy-drama about mob hitmen. 
Slamdance’s opening-night film on Jan. 17 will be “Real Time,” written and directed by Randall Cole, about a hitman (Randy Quaid) who gives his next victim, a compulsive gambler (Jay Baruchel, from “Knocked Up”), one [...]

While much has been made of the competition between the two emirates of Dubai and Abu Dhabi to establish themselves as regional and international film hubs, the rest of the Persian Gulf has stepped up its own cinematic activities.

The likes of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Kuwait all have hefty coin at their disposal with the [...]

“Juno,” the story of an American teenager faced with an unplanned pregnancy, won the top prize at the Rome film festival on Saturday. The film is directed by 30-year-old Canadian-born Jason Reitman, whose 2005 comedy “Thank you for Smoking” scooped a string of awards and was nominated for two Golden Globes. 
“It’s terrifying to bring your [...]

 
New Zealand director Taika Waititi ’s comedy “Eagle vs. Shark” chronicles the quirky romance of two awkward misfits, Lily (Loren Horsley), a shy fast-food restaurant cashier, and her crush, Jarrod (Jermaine Clement), an electronic store clerk. On the day Lily gets fired from her job at Meaty Boy, she musters up the courage to attend [...]

India scored an ace at the recently concluded Cannes Film Festival. Palador, has acquired the extra-special “60th anniversary prize” winner film Paranoid Park. The movie by Cannes Golden Palm and Best Director winner (Elephant) and Oscar Nominated (Good Will Hunting) director Gus Van Sant, had a special screening in the festival this year.
The last [...]

Cristian Mungiu’s “4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days,” a stark, trenchant drama about a woman’s experiences receiving an abortion in the waning days of Romania’s communist era, won the Palme d’Or at the 60th edition of the Cannes Film Festival.
Screened on the fest’s first full day, “4 Months” is one of the few [...]