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Sundance Reveals 2010 Non-Competition Slate

22 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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Robert Pattinson Talks Remember Me and Unbound Captives

3 December 2009 9:36 PM, PST | PopStar | See recent PopStar news »

Robert Pattinson is starring in the number one movie right now, but sadly The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009) will leave the theater and what will we have to look forward to? Luckily, there are two movies being released to a theater near you in 2010 and Rob is set to star in two others. First, in March of 2010 we will see Rob in Remember Me (2010). Then, in June of 2010, we will see Rob with his Cullen family when they return in The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010). In a recent interview with MTV, Rob spoke about two movies that are in the works to be filmed hopefully in the winter/spring of 2010. In Remember Me (2010), Rob stars as Tyler who is dealing with a tragedy that has split his family and left his relationship with his father, played by Pierce Brosnan, strained. Tyler feels like no one understands him and what he is »

- klilius@corp.popstar.com (Kristy Lilius)

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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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2010 Sundance Film Festival Out-of-Competition Line-up Announced

3 December 2009 3:30 PM, PST | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »

Yesterday, the Sundance Institute announced the in competition line-up for the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. Today Sundance unveiled the out-of-competition line-up for the annual January fest. And I have to admit, while there isn't any huge surprises, but the line-up is pretty solid across the board. Here are a few of the films I'm particularly interested in checking out: John Wells's The Company Men, starring Ben Affleck, Kevin Costner, and Tommy Lee Jones as three company men who attempt to survive a round of corporate downsizing while trying to fend off its effects on their families and their identities. Maria Bello, Chris Cooper, and Rosemarie DeWitt also star. American Splendor directors Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini's The Extra Man, about a down-and-out playwright who escorts wealthy widows in Manhattan's Upper East Side takes a young aspiring writer under his wing. Cast: Katie Holmes, John C. Reilly, Paul Dano, »

- Peter Sciretta

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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 '10 Announces Non-Competing Film Premieres

3 December 2009 1:50 PM, PST | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »

Sundance is a celebration of independent filmmaking, but half the fun is seeing the premieres of larger films that might not come out for months, or years in some cases. In fact, the non-industry people who attend Sundance every year might not be able to tell you what documentary won the Grand Jury prize last year (it was Ondi Timoner's We Live In Public), but they're always able to tell you when they saw "that new George Clooney movie."

With that in mind, Sundance has announced the premieres that are screening out of competition. You can see a full list, complete with synopsis and cast listing for each film, just beyond the break. There's a few standouts so far, and I'd have to say my most eagerly anticipated is The Company Men, where Ben Affleck, Kevin Costner, Tommy Lee Jones, Chris Cooper and others have to survive corporate downsizing. »

- Kevin Kelly

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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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Universal Announce Dual Format Blu-Ray/DVD ‘Flipper’ Discs

2 December 2009 1:33 AM, PST | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »

Ever since Toshiba’s HD DVD (now discontinued) released their two-in-one combo discs back in 2007, it was inevitable that double sided Blu-Ray/DVD discs would eventually be made available. It therefore comes as no surprise that Universal Studios (the only major movie studio that backed HD DVD during the high-definition format war) is now leading the way with duel format Blu-Ray/DVD discs. The first films to be released on these ‘flipper’ discs will be Matt Damon’s Jason Bourne Trilogy, which will be available on January 19 2010.

Although the idea of selling discs with Blu-Ray on one side and DVD on the other will undoubtedly help shift consumers toward switching over to Blu-Ray (whilst slowly discontinuing the production of standard DVDs), I have personally never been a fan of dual sided discs as they are more prone to damage (despite the fact Blu-ray discs themselves do not scratch very easily »

- Andrew Peters

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Remember Me trailer: only thing to recall is Robert Pattinson's in it

2 December 2009 1:31 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

This drama may also star Pierce Brosnan and Emilie de Ravin from Lost, but as far as its trailer is concerned, there is only RPattz

The Twilight Saga: New Moon has been out for a few weeks, and fans are sad. Sad because it will be another nine months at least until Eclipse is released and with it the next sighting of Edward Cullen, everyone's favourite sparkly vampire.

Luckily the wait isn't as long to see Robert Pattinson, who will be in something sooner. In this, in fact.

Some might argue that a trailer that begins with the words "Gandhi said …", but then shapes up to be about nothing more history-bothering than the angsty love story of beautiful emo youth, is probably worth dismissing at that point and exploring no further.

But no matter: those people are themselves dismissed from this week's class. For they are not the ones likely »

- Anna Pickard

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Remember Me Movie Poster 2

2 December 2009 12:46 AM, PST | ShockYa | See recent ShockYa news »

This could quite possibly be the first official movie poster featuring Robert Pattinson from the upcoming Robert Pattinson film “Remember Me” by director Allen Coulter (Rubicon, Sons of Anarchy) and starring Robert Pattinson (Twilight, Unbound Captives, Bel Ami), Pierce Brosnan (Vanilla Gorilla, The Ghost), Emilie de Ravin (Public Enemies, The Hills Have Eyes, Lost), Chris Cooper (Where the Wild Things Are, Capote), Martha Plimpton (Grey’s Anatomy) and Lena Olin (Queen of the Damned, Awake). Synopsis: A drama centered on two lovers whose newfound relationship is threatened as they try to cope with their respective family tragedies. Stay tuned to Shockya.com for the latest movie news and trailers from “Remember Me” and Robert [...] »

- Brian Corder

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Universal Announces 'Flipper' Format for Home Video

1 December 2009 1:06 PM, PST | Comicmix.com | See recent Comicmix news »

We think the following press release from Universal is pretty cool and could be a game changer for those quibbling about being forced to upgrade to Blu-ray.

Universal City, California, December 1, 2009 – In a move that is poised to elevate the Blu-ray™ Hi-Def format and provide consumers with the ultimate in convenience and viewing flexibility, Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Ushe) announced the introduction of groundbreaking dual-format discs containing both Blu-ray™ Hi-Def and DVD versions of some of Hollywood’s most iconic films.  An industry first, the new “flipper” discs will launch on January 19, 2010 with the blockbuster superspy thrillers The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum, starring Matt Damon, premiering as individually packaged Blu-ray™ discs.

For the first time ever, consumers will have the ability to choose between Blu-ray™ and DVD formats, simply by flipping a single disc.  With complete utility in one convenient package, the revolutionary medium can »

- Robert Greenberger

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Matt Damon’s The Bourne Identity movies first to be Blu-ray & DVD Flipper Discs

1 December 2009 9:43 AM, PST | The Scorecard Review | See recent Scorecard Review news »

I was just speaking to someone, explaining Blu-ray is definitely here to stay, but DVDs won’t be going anywhere. I said there will probably be a movement toward selling them together. I just never made the connection they could be on the same disc. Universal Studios has changed all of that.

News release from Universal …

In a move that is poised to elevate the Blu-ray™ Hi-Def format and provide consumers with the ultimate in convenience and viewing flexibility, Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Ushe) announced the introduction of groundbreaking dual-format discs containing both Blu-ray™ Hi-Def and DVD versions of some of Hollywood’s most iconic films. An industry first, the new “flipper” discs will launch on January 19, 2010 with the blockbuster superspy thrillers The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum, starring Matt Damon, premiering as individually packaged Blu-ray™ discs.

For the first time ever, consumers will have the »

- Jeff Bayer

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Universal Announces ‘Flipper’ Discs. Features Both Blu-ray and DVD Versions on One Disc

1 December 2009 9:41 AM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »

Universal Studios has announced a new type of dual-format disc they’re calling “Flipper” discs and it’ll launch in January with the Bourne movies.  The discs will feature Blu-ray and DVD versions on each side of the same disc.  According to the studio:

“Universal’s flipper discs are the perfect way for consumers to future-proof their collections while still enjoying their favorite movies on all their existing DVD players,” said Craig Kornblau, President of Universal Studios Home Entertainment.  “The flipper disc offers an easy way for viewers to convert to Blu-ray now or at any time in the future, confident in the fact they will be able to experience their home entertainment purchases in the highest quality picture and sound when they do.”

This is one of those products that really should have launched when Blu-ray got released.  But everything about the launch of Blu-ray was screwed up, it »

- Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub

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Remember Me Photos with Brosnan and Pattinson

29 November 2009 11:11 PM, PST | ShockYa | See recent ShockYa news »

From the official Facebook page, here’s a few brand new stills of Robert Pattinson, Pierce Brosnan and Emilie de Ravin in the upcoming Robert Pattinson film “Remember Me” by director Allen Coulter (Rubicon, Sons of Anarchy) and starring Robert Pattinson (Twilight, Unbound Captives, Bel Ami), Pierce Brosnan (Vanilla Gorilla, The Ghost), Emilie de Ravin (Public Enemies, The Hills Have Eyes, Lost), Chris Cooper (Where the Wild Things Are, Capote), Martha Plimpton (Grey’s Anatomy) and Lena Olin (Queen of the Damned, Awake). Synopsis: A drama centered on two lovers whose newfound relationship is threatened as they try to cope with their respective family tragedies. Stay tuned to Shockya.com for the latest movie news [...] »

- Brian Corder

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Remember Me Photos Featuring Robert Pattinson

28 November 2009 11:00 PM, PST | ShockYa | See recent ShockYa news »

Check out three brand new movie stills featuring Robert Pattinson in the upcoming Robert Pattinson film “Remember Me” by director Allen Coulter (Rubicon, Sons of Anarchy) and starring Robert Pattinson (Twilight, Unbound Captives, Bel Ami), Pierce Brosnan (Vanilla Gorilla, The Ghost), Emilie de Ravin (Public Enemies, The Hills Have Eyes, Lost), Chris Cooper (Where the Wild Things Are, Capote), Martha Plimpton (Grey’s Anatomy) and Lena Olin (Queen of the Damned, Awake). Synopsis: A drama centered on two lovers whose newfound relationship is threatened as they try to cope with their respective family tragedies. Stay tuned to Shockya.com for the latest movie news and trailers from “Remember Me” and Robert Pattinson. »

- Brian Corder

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Watch Robert Pattinson in 'Remember Me' Trailer

25 November 2009 2:54 PM, PST | Reel Empire | See recent Reel Empire news »

It looks like Robert Pattinson, star of Summit Entertainment's hit vampire saga "Twilight", has his sights set on a girl other than Kristen Stewart in his upcoming romantic flick "Remember Me". Like "Twilight", Summit Entertainment is also releasing this picture which tells the love story of two young people who learn the importance of loving passionately and living loudly. The film stars Robert Pattinson, Emilie de Ravin, Chris Cooper, Lena Olin and Pierce Brosnan. It's quite an impressive cast. Inside, you can watch the official trailer in HD. Also, you can check out Pattinson in "Twilight: New Moon", the number one movie in America, now playing in theaters everywhere!

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- Chad Langen

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Robert Pattinson Romances Another Girl In New ‘Remember Me’ Movie Trailer

25 November 2009 10:03 AM, PST | OnTheFlix | See recent OnTheFlix news »

Robert Pattinson romances another girl in new 'Remember Me' movie trailer. Summit Entertainment is at it again with Robert Pattinson in their new,upcoming film, "Remember Me." It's a romance/drama. It also stars : Emilie de Ravin, Chris Cooper, Lena Olin, and Pierce Brosnan. they've recently released this brand new movie trailer for it (below). "Remember Me" is a movie that has combines drama,humor,and romance. It tells the love story of two young people who learn how important it is to love passionately and live loudly everyday of one's life. »

- Andre@ontheflix

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