(Updated with statement from Pride flag ban co-sponsor Rep. Lee) Utah's governor licked his wounds and moved on quickly from the news that the Sundance Film Festival is leaving the state for Boulder, Colorado in 2027. Just hours after the Robert Redford founded Park City-based shindig revealed it…

After over 40 years, the Sundance Film Festival is leaving Park City for a new and lucrative home in Boulder, Colorado. As Deadline has been telling you for months, the Rocky Mountain metropolis has been in pole position over the United Utah bid and the efforts of Cincinnati, Ohio since the…

With just two days to go until Utah’s governor either signs or vetos a controversial bill that would ban the Pride Flag from government buildings in the state, the chances of Sundance staying in the Beehive State aren’t looking good. At least according to Park City’s Mayor. “Deputy City…

Sony Pictures Classics has acquired all worldwide rights to Oh, Hi!, written and directed by Sophie Brooks (The Boy Downstairs). The film, Brooks’ sophomore feature, stars Molly Gordon, Logan Lerman, Geraldine Viswanathan, and John Reynolds. It premiered at this year's Sundance Film Festival. Oh…

EXCLUSIVE: By the end of April, the new home of the Sundance Film Festival should be public knowledge with the Salt Lake City/Park City combo, Boulder, Colorado or Cincinnati bid picked as the host for the next decade. However, a bill heading toward Utah Gov. Spencer Cox’s desk that would ban the…

New York indies Cartuna and Dweck Productions have acquired North American rights for Grace Glowicki's thriller Dead Lover as the first acquisition of their newly announced joint distribution venture Cartuna x Dweck. The partners acquired the film out of SXSW where the Canadian thriller made its…

The new documentary The Dating Game is lining up dates at film festivals around the world. Director Violet Du Feng's film — about men in China struggling ardently to find spouses — heads to the Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival in Greece for its international premiere this…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix is working on a $6M to $7M deal to acquire Selena Y Los Dinos, the Isabel Castro-directed documentary about the slain queen of Tejano Music. Other bidders are in the mix as Cinetic auctions a film that became so popular that when Sundance put it on its portal for industry to watch…

EXCLUSIVE: Weeks after the indie film crowd left Park City, the box score on the Sundance Film Festival marketplace looks like this: a splashy auction and $15M WW deal by Neon on Together to start, followed by a handful of deals that moved sluggishly, with numbers that got smaller as leverage shifted…

The 2025 Sundance Film Festival turned out to be a low-key affair, but it got off to a rousing start with a $15 million world rights sale of Together, the body horror film acquired by Neon. Starring Dave Franco and Alison Brie, it gives Neon a chance to follow up the rousing genre success of Longlegs…

EXCLUSIVE: Visit Films has acquired worldwide sales rights to Sundance premiere, Luz, starring French cinema icon Isabelle Huppert (The Piano Teacher), alongside Sandrine Pinna (Dead Talents Society) and Guo Xiao Dong (The Warlords).  The film follows an ex-con searching for his estranged…

While the Sundance Film Festival mulls a big move for 2027, the 2025 program, its 41st edition, kicked off January 23 in Utah, and you can look below for all of Deadline’s reviews from the fest. Sundance founder Robert Redford promised that audiences “can expect a 2025 program that showcases…