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Sundance Reveals 2010 Non-Competition Slate

12 hours ago | newsinfilm.com | See recent newsinfilm news »

On Wednesday the Sundance Film Festival unveiled the films competing in late January 2010.  Yesterday they announced the rest of the line-up of independent films vying for attention for industry types and the curious public.

The entire list of 53 films is below, but here are a few that stood out to me from the premieres alone:

Mumblecore directors the Duplass Brothers, have a new, untitled movie starring an unusually high-profile cast compared to their usual improvisational crew.  John C. Reilly, Marisa Tomei, Jonah Hill, and Catherine Keener.  Reilly and Keener are actually in two films at the 2010 festival.

The Company Men, starring Ben Affleck, Kevin Costner, Maria Bello, Tommy Lee Jones, Chris Cooper, Rosemarie DeWitt about corporate downsizing.

Rodrigo Cortes’ Buried, starring Ryan Reynolds as a man buried alive in a coffin.  I’ve read the script and its great.  More on that as soon as I can.

The Runaways, the »

- Jeff Leins

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Sundance 2010: First Images From Michael Winterbottom Thriller The Killer Inside Me

18 hours ago | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »

Expect Michael Winterbottom's The Killer Inside Me to be one of the big buzz films of Sundance 2010.  Why?  First, because it's Winterbottom and good Winterbottom is very good indeed.  Second, because it has a stellar cast anchored by the always impressive Casey Affleck back by strong character players such as Elias Koteas and a couple faces for the mainstream in Kate Hudson and Jessica Alba.  And, finally, because apparently Affleck pounds one of those faces - namely Alba's - into the dirt, hard, in a beating sequence brutal enough that festival organizers are already cautioning the press about it. And there you have the perfect storm for a media phenomenon.  What's it about?

Based on the novel by legendary pulp writer Jim Thompson, Michael Winterbottom's The Killer Inside Me tells the story of handsome, charming, unassuming small town sheriff's deputy Lou Ford.

Lou has a bunch of problems. »

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More 2010 Sundance Premieres: The Killer Inside Me, Jack Goes Boating, The Runaways

23 hours ago | FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news »

Another batch of 2010 Sundance films were announced yesterday, including some of the bigger premieres and the Park City at Midnight section, which is where all the genre goodness lies. Once again, some of the highlights include: Jack Goes Boating: An offbeat love story between two working class NYC couple. Starring Philip Seymour Hoffman and also his directorial debut. The Killer Inside Me: Michael Winterbottom thriller about a homicidal deputy sheriff. Starring Casey Affleck. Nowhere Boy: John Lennon biopic covering his early years. The Runaways: Joan Jett biopic starring Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning. Twelve: Joel Schumacher drama about rich kids in Manhattan, starring Emma Roberts, Kiefer Sutherland, and 50 Cent. Splice: Sci-fi thriller about genetic engineering from the director of Cube and starring Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley. Louis C.K.: Hilarious: Stand up comedy concert film starring Louis C.K.! Countdown to Zero: Documentary on the threat of nuclear war. »

- Sean

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Sundance 2010 Non-Competition Line-Up Looks Strong

3 December 2009 3:30 PM, PST | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »

Yesterday we got the list for the films playing in competition at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and today we get the rest of the films that will be featured and there are quite a few that make 2010 look much stronger based on pedigree alone than I have seen in quite some time. Variety has a big write-up detailing the categories and more on the festival right here, but I am just going to offer up the titles and let you sort it all out.

The titles already in the RopeofSilicon database are linked.

Premieres

All films are from the United States unless otherwise noted Abel (Mexico-u.S.), the directorial debut of actor Diego Luna, written by Luna and Agusto Mendoza, about a peculiar young boy who, as he blurs reality and fantasy, takes over the responsibilities of a family man in his father's absence. With Jose Maria Yazpik, Karina Gidi, »

- Brad Brevet

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Nowhere Boy, The Runaways and The Company Men All to Premiere At 2010 Sundance Film Festival Out-Of-Competition

3 December 2009 2:58 PM, PST | FusedFilm | See recent FusedFilm news »

Sundance Institute announced today the lineup of films selected to screen in the out-of-competition section of Premieres. Some very anticipated films that we have been tracking are included. Films like The Runaways, starring Kristen Bell and Dakota Fanning as the 70s girl rock group headliners, Joan Jett and Cherie Currie. We have also been following The Company Men and Nowhere Boy, so we are excited to see these films at Sundance 2010.

To showcase the diversity to contemporary independent cinema, the Sundance Film Festival Premieres section offers the latest work from American and international directors as well as world premieres of highly anticipated films. The Premiere section is being presented by Entertainment Weekly.

Abel / Mexico, USA (Director: Diego Luna; Screenwriters:Diego Luna and Agusto Mendoza)-A peculiar young boy, blurring reality and fantasy, assumes the responsibilities of a family man in his father’s absence. Cast: Jose Maria Yazpik, Karina Gidi, »

- Kevin Coll

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2010 Sundance Film Festival Out-of-Competition Films: Premieres

3 December 2009 2:34 PM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »

Yesterday we gave you a list of all the films playing in-competition at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival.  We now have the list of the films playing out-of-competition and they’re divided up into four categories: Premieres, Next, Spotlight, and Park City at Midnight. Since combining these lists would be a lot to read for just one article, we’ve broken it up to give each category its own article.

Know that while there are a lot of films playing in-competition, most of the films to get buzz will be coming from the out-of-competition categories.  First up are the premiers which include John Wells’ The Company Men starring Ben Affleck, Tommy Lee Jones and Kevin Costner; Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini’s The Extra Man starring Katie Holmes, John C. Reilly, and Paul Dano; Get Low starring Robert Duvall and Bill Murray; Michael Winterbottom’s The Killer Inside Me starring Casey Affleck, »

- Matt Goldberg

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Full Sundance line-up announced...and it's a doozy!

3 December 2009 2:08 PM, PST | QuietEarth.us | See recent QuietEarth news »

In addition to the competition titles which were announced yesterday, Sundance has announced the remainder of their line-up and it includes some titles we’re already familiar with along with a huge number of premieres.

Also on the docket are two new series: Next which showcases low/no budget films and Spotlight which highlights films which festival programmers deem worthy of extra love including Enter the Void (review) and Lourdes (the trailer for which I really liked).

I’m particularly excited to see some of the titles in the New Frontier program but overall, the line-up is an impressive one but the Kristen Stewart fan in me is excited to see her turn as Joan Jett in The Runaways and I think it’s fair to say we’re all dying to see Vincenzo Natali’s hotly anticipated Splice (trailer).

In the Midnight section, Adam Green's Frozen is sounding mighty find, »

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Sundance Film Festival 2010: The Rest of the Line-Up

3 December 2009 1:46 PM, PST | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »

Yesterday we were happy to bring you the Competition Line-Up for the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, which we'll be covering in January live from Park City, Utah. And today we've got the rest of the films, including the Premieres, Spotlight, Next, Park City at Midnight and New Frontier selections. Among the premieres are several major titles, including John Wells' The Company Men, starring Casey Affleck, Kevin Costner, Maria Bello and Tommy Lee Jones. Also, another Casey Affleck led cast in Michael Winterbottom's The Killer Inside Me. Philip Seymour Hoffman will make his directorial debut with Jack Goes Boating, and the John Lennon teen years feature Nowhere Boy, starring Aaron Johnson, will also make its premiere. The big premieres are one thing, but where Sundance has really been great the past few years is in the discovered films of the Spotlight and Park City at Midnight categories. Last year, Park City at Midnight delivered films such as »

- Neil Miller

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Sundance 2010 Film Lineup *Updated*

3 December 2009 1:00 PM, PST | LatinoReview | See recent LatinoReview news »

Sundance released their slate for 2010. It includes:43 documentaries on the Middle East12 films about friends who 'discover' something33 movies about people you've never heard about1 comedyHopefully the lineup this year is strong but it doesn't look that way compared to last year. Last year we had Push (Precious), that Lil Wayne documentary that never went anywhere, Mystery Team which might make my top ten, Moon, Mike Tyson documentary, Cold Souls. Just so much last January that was excellent. I hope I don't go out therer and freeze my tail off just to see...I don't know, a documentary about a former Pakistani prime minister or something silly like that.Here's the lineup so far: Premieres To showcase the diversity to contemporary independent cinema, the Sundance Film Festival Premieres section offers the latest work from American and international directors as well as world premieres of highly anticipated films. Presented by Entertainment Weekly. »

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The Naughts: The Actor of the '00s

3 December 2009 10:06 AM, PST | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »

Quietly and unexpectedly, Matt Damon has become the premier Hollywood actor of the past decade. He's lent his minutely constructed, surprisingly athletic performances to the films of directors Steven Soderbergh, Gus Van Sant, Paul Greengrass, Martin Scorsese and Clint Eastwood, a roster that's not coincidentally produced some of the most vital and successful films of the past ten years.

His remarkable career isn't simply a matter of a good agent. It's all in the manner in which he so carefully adapts his particular skills to the roles.

Damon's commitment is displayed on his body, which he relentlessly crafts to the specifications of each character -- he's almost the anti-movie star in his physical malleability. Take a look at how he changes from "The Bourne Identity" in 2002 to the Farrelly Brothers' "Stuck On You," a year later. In the former, he carved himself down to muscle and bone, a tightly packed »

- R. Emmet Sweeney

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Predictions 2010 Sundance Film Festival: Araki, Soderbergh, Winterbottom

30 November 2009 1:32 AM, PST | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »

I remember during my visit at the Cannes' 60th edition thinking to myself how Cannes is a "boys club" in relation to the count them on one hand number of female filmmakers that were invited to participate on the unique short film collection celebrating the festival. Males tend to outnumber female filmmakers in general, but at Sundance you sometimes get the sense that its an even playing field. - I remember during my visit at the Cannes' 60th edition thinking to myself how Cannes is a "boys club" in relation to the count them on one hand number of female filmmakers that were invited to participate on the unique short film collection celebrating the festival. Males tend to outnumber female filmmakers in general, but at Sundance you sometimes get the sense that its an even playing field. Here's another five predictions for the upcoming edition of Sundance. Jack Goes Boating »

- Ioncinema.com Staff

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45 Predictions for the 2010 Sundance Film Festival

30 November 2009 1:32 AM, PST | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »

We'll find out the exact line-up soon enough and I'll see just how my predictions pan out for the upcoming edition of Sundance. - We'll find out the exact line-up soon enough and I'll see just how my predictions pan out for the upcoming edition of Sundance. For practicality reasons, here is a quick listing, I've included the titles below and if you want to familiarize yourself with the projects, you can go back and check out last week's brief summaries: Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V, Part VI, Part VII, Part VIII, Part IX. Would be surprised if these weren't at the festival: Adopt Me, Michael Jordan - Melanie Judd and Susan Motamed, Agua Fria De Mar - Paz Fabrega, All Good Things - Andrew Jarecki, An Invisible Sign of My Own - Marilyn Agrelo, Barry Munday - Chris D'Arienzo, »

- Ioncinema.com Staff

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Jessica Alba Tackles Action Role in 'The Insiders'

25 November 2009 11:03 PM, PST | GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news »

If you've had a chance to watch the grueling promo trailer for The Killer Inside Me, you know already that it's potenially the riskiest role of Jessica Alba's none-too-breathtaking career. I don't know whether it's a real step forward for her acting - it's only a trailer, even if it's longer than usual - but I can say in no uncertain terms that it's the most liberated she's been on screen, and whatever squeaky clean image she portrayed before I saw Casey Affleck whip her bare ass and slap her around has been at least temporarily reevaluated.

Pajiba now writes that Alba will pair with Mabrouk el Mechri, director of Jcvd, for the graphic novel adaptation The Insiders. Over the summer, Alba bought the rights to the Belgian comic book series with Robert Rodriguez, who is set to produce for his Sin City and Machete co-star. Alba will play an action heroine, »

- Colin Boyd

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James Franco’s Daytime Soap Stint Is Fodder For an Art Movie Project

12 November 2009 4:00 PM, PST | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »

When James Franco's short stint on General Hospital was announced, I figured it was something he was doing to challenge himself and set different acting boundaries. Like Lars Von Trier and friends created the Dogme 95 rules in part to establish a new filmmaking framework for themselves, acting on a soap opera would push Franco in unexpected ways. I didn't think that the whole thing might be part of a project akin to Casey Affleck's documentary on Joaquin Phoenix's 'retirement' and subsequent rapping act. But that's what seems to be the case, if Franco's friend Carter isn't putting everyone on. Movieline spoke to Carter, a guy who has collaborated with Franco on a variety of image-related artistic endeavors. The salient bit is this, with respect to Franco taking the soap gig: It was an idea that I posed to him, and it’s tied to another film that »

- Russ Fischer

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Clip of the day: Jessica Alba being spanked in ‘The Killer Inside Me’

11 November 2009 12:20 PM, PST | ReelLoop.com | See recent Reel Loop news »

Good gravy! Here’s a Nsfw clip of Casey Affleck spanking Jessica Alba in the upcoming Michael Winterbottom film, The Killer Inside Me. The films centers on a small town deputy sheriff who turns out to be a psychopath. As you can see…Affleck plays said psychopath.

Joining Affleck and Alba are Kate Hudson, Simon Baker, Elias Koteas and the immortal Bill Pullman.

The film is based on the Jim Thompson novel that  was published in 1952.

Alba is also currently working on Little Fockers, the third entry in the popular Meet the Parents series.

The Killer Inside Me is due out sometime in 2010.

Food for thought: This isn’t very sexy…it’s actually really weird.

Related posts:Shocker: Jessica Alba to play “attractive pharmaceutical rep” in ‘Little Fockers’Tease: Check out Jessica Alba as Sartana in ‘Machete’Jessica Alba Doesn’t See Herself as Sexy

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- Reel Loop News Staff

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'American Pie' Keeps On Going With the Trailer for 'The Book of Love'

10 November 2009 3:02 PM, PST | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »

I know the demographic who watches all of the American Pie Presents films is quite narrow, but when I came across the trailer for American Pie Presents: The Book of Love, I had to step back and give them a bit of a golf clap. Who would have ever thought that a little high school sex comedy from 1999 would go on to spawn two theatrical sequels and four straight-to-video titles? Were there any among us who saw Jason Biggs get intimate with an apple pie and thought, "My God, there needs to be seven of these movies"?

Yet here we are with the trailer for The Book of Love, the seventh entrant to the canon of Pie. And in case you're not a die hard fan of the last three films, they were a trip to Band Camp, a lap running The Naked Mile, and a Beta House whose crowning »

- Peter Hall

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Jessica Alba Gets A Rough Spanking In 'The Killer Inside Me' (Nsfw Video)

10 November 2009 2:42 PM, PST | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »

***Warning: Pictures and video are Nsfw*** ***Scroll all the way down for video*** Jessica Alba's tush gets rosy in the video below thanks to a bare-bottom spanking by a sociopathic sheriff played by Casey Affleck in 'The Killer Inside Me,' out next year. Jessica cries out in pain/pleasure as she endures multiple butt lashings, then she flips over for some more conventional loving. Later she enjoys a post-coital make out session in a cowboy hat and complicated lingerie. Watch: Get HuffPost Entertainment On Facebook and Twitter!... »

- Katy Hall

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Jessica Alba Naked Video Creates Buzz For New Film

9 November 2009 8:00 PM, PST | MoviesOnline.ca | See recent MoviesOnline news »

A brand new video of Jessica Alba half naked getting a spanking in her new film The Killer Inside me is generating a ton of buzz for her new film. Be warned this clip does contain some nudity and is Nsfw. Its a really messed up clip and one that has me wondering if the new psychological thriller has something to offer.

The film tells the story of a small town Sherrif who is actually a serial killer.  The film stars Jessica Alba, Simon Baker, Kate Hudson and Casey Affleck. It is slated for a 2010 release date.

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Indie Trailer Sunday: Michael Winterbottom's The Killer Inside Me

8 November 2009 2:03 PM, PST | firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news »

This trailer has been out for a few days now, but I thought it was the perfect trailer to feature today, not only because no one is at work on a Sunday, but because it's a great indie trailer. The Killer Inside Me is the latest film from British filmmaker Michael Winterbottom about a West Texas deputy sheriff who is slowly unmasked as a psychotic killer. Casey Affleck stars as the sheriff and is joined by Jessica Alba, Kate Hudson, Simon Baker, Elias Koteas, and Bill Pullman. I also need to warn everyone that this is a full-on 5 minute promo trailer which means it contains nudity, violence, sex, you name it. So don't watch it with the kids! Watch the extended promo trailer for Michael Winterbottom's The Killer Inside Me: Sheriff Lou Ford (Casey Affleck) has a lot of problems. Woman problems. Law enforcement problems. An ever-growing pile »

- Alex Billington

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This Week in Trailers: 'Prince of Persia,' 'Salt,' 'The Killer Inside Me'

8 November 2009 5:06 AM, PST | GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news »

Lots of trailers this week, with something for just about everyone. There's action movies, animated flicks, romantic comedies for menopausal ladies, video game adaptations, serious family drama, weird western/film noir flicks where Jessica Alba gets her bare ass strapped by a belt (and loves it)...and Uwe Boll.

We finally got to see Angelina's Salt and Prince of Persia, the summer blockbuster (or that's the hope) with Jake Gyllenhaal. But the one that really grabbed our attention was The Killer Inside, a twisted bit of sociopathy with Casey Affleck as a demented lawman who gets raunchy with Jessica Alba and Kate Hudson. Twisted, twisted stuff for Alba. And it's a longer trailer than the norm, because it's being used as a sales tool this weekend at the American Film Market.

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time

Uwe Boll's Darfur

Wow, does The Killer Inside Me look weird »

- Colin Boyd

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