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Jaden Smith Predicts ‘Skate Kitchen’ Will Create a Skating Epidemic

Jaden Smith was joined by his “Skate Kitchen” co-star Rachelle Vinberg and writer-director Crystal Moselle at the Variety Studio presented by AT&T at the Sundance Film Festival to discuss the...

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‘Private Life’ Cast and Director on the World of In Vitro Fertilization

“Private Life’s” director Tamara Jenkins and stars Molly Shannon, Kayli Carter, Kathryn Hahn, and Paul Giamatti stopped by the Variety Sundance Studio presented by AT&T to talk about the world of...

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Maggie Gyllenhaal on How ‘Kindergarten Teacher’ Expresses the ‘Female...

Star Maggie Gyllenhaal and writer-director Sara Colangelo sat down at the Variety Sundance Studio presented by AT&T to discuss their drama, ‘The Kindergarten Teacher.” “As women, we do get kind of...

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‘A Stupid and Futile Gesture’ Cast on That Food Fight Scene: ‘It Was...

“A Stupid and Futile Gesture” director David Wain and stars Joel McHale, Domhnall Gleeson, Thomas Lennon, and Emmy Rossum stopped by the Variety Studio presented by AT&T to talk about the new film,...

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Gucci! How ‘Eighth Grade’ Got Their Catch Phrase

“Eighth Grade” writer/director Bo Burnham and star Elsie Fisher discussed portraying the ambivalence of the internet in their new film. “This is a good portrayal of what the internet is. It’s not...

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Inside Michael Jackson Sex Abuse Documentary ‘Leaving Neverland’

Dan Reed’s four-hour Michael Jackson documentary “Leaving Neverland,” which details the allegations of child sex abuse against Jackson by two men, premiered at Sundance Friday. The Michael Jackson...

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Zac Efron on Ted Bundy’s Facade: ‘Cops That Knew Him Seemed to Think He Was...

“Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile” actor Zac Efron sat down at the Variety Studio at Sundance presented by AT&T to talk about embodying one of the U.S.’ worst serial killers, Ted Bundy....

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Why It’s Hard for Films like ‘Hala’ to get Made in Hollywood

Minhal Baig’s film “Hala” is based on her own life and dynamic with her parents, who are immigrants from Pakistan. Jada Pinkett Smith openly admits it was hard to make a movie like this in Hollywood....

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Pete Davidson on Rehab, Quitting Instagram and That Time He Walked Out of...

Pete Davidson is familiar with Sundance, but not for the annual film festival. “I love Park City, Utah, because the last time I was here, I was in rehab,” Davidson told Variety about checking into the...

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Jake Gyllenhaal Reveals What’s Really Scary About Netflix’s ‘Velvet Buzzsaw’

“Velvet Buzzsaw” cast members Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo, Zawe Ashton, Tom Sturridge, Billy Magnussen, and Natalia Dyer and director Dan Gilroy broke down what’s frightening about the modern-day art...

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Rosie Perez on Testifying at Harvey Weinstein’s Trail for Friend Annabella...

Rosie Perez took the stand last Friday to testify at the Harvey Weinstein rape trial on behalf of her friend Annabella Sciorra. The actress revisited the experience while doing press for her upcoming...

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Will Ferrell, Lin-Manuel Miranda and More Reveal the Last Time They Cried at...

Every year the line-up of the Sundance Film Festival is filled with powerful stories from independent filmmakers from around the world. Because many of them brought us to tears, Variety decided to ask...

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‘Manari’ Cast on Telling an Immigrant Story ‘Every Human Can Relate To’

Director Lee Isaac Chung’s movie “Minari,” which won the top prize when it debuted at Sundance Film Festival, is a deeply personal story about a Korean American family who moves to a small farm in...

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Director Benh Zeitlin Says He Always Wanted to Create Peter Pan Reboot...

Seven years after receiving his first Oscar nominations for “Beasts of the Southern Wild,” director Benh Zeitlin is back, seven years later, with his follow-up film “Wendy.” The reimagining of the...

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Why ‘Welcome to Chechnya’ Used Deepfake-Like Face Replacement Technology to...

When director David France and executive producers Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Justin Mikita set out to document the horrific true tale of persecution taking place among LGBTQ-identifying people in...

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‘McMillions’ Documentary Directors Unravel the Shocking $24 Million McDonalds...

HBO launched its documentary series “McMillions” at the Sundance Film Festival last month, pulling back the curtain on how a man defrauded $24 million by gaming McDonald’s Monopoly sweepstakes between...

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‘Falling’ Cast Gets Political at Sundance: ‘We’re Not Going to Let the Same...

After the “Falling” premiere at Sundance, the film’s cast reflected on the polarizing project at Variety’s Sundance Studio. Viggo Mortensen, who wrote, directed, and starred in the film centered around...

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Jude Law and Carrie Coon Reflect on Bad Parenting in ‘The Nest’

Nine years after winning the US directing award for best drama at the Sundance Film Festival for “Martha Marcy May Marlene,” writer-director Sean Durkin returned to his old stomping ground to debut his...

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Horror Movie ‘Scare Me’ Dares to Rekindle the Beauty of Scary Stories

The classic and beloved art of telling a scary story is put to the test in Shudder’s new horror movie “Scare Me.” The premise is small: two humans holed up in a cabin attempt to terrify the other by...

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How a Summer Camp for Teens with Disabilities Led to the Obama-Produced...

In the early 1970s, ‘Crip Camp’ director Jim LeBrecht was just a camper at Camp Jened, a summer camp for disabled teens in the Catskills. For LeBrecht and the other kids, the experience was more about...

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