The Sundance Film Festival resumes its duties as a great equalizer of the cinema world. This is where complete unknowns can suddenly find themselves sought-after talent among Hollywood distributors. This is where marquee talent such as Richard Gere, Susan Sarandon and Chris Rock turn up in thoughtful ...

The 25th Sundance Film Festival gets underway on Thursday with more than 100 movies due to be screened over the 10-day carnival, the world's largest marketplace for independent film. Against a backdrop of the faltering US economy, organizers are expecting a more subdued festival with less raucous partying as film-makers, actors and studio executives descend on the mountain town ...

Leaders of Hollywood's biggest actors union ended a two-day meeting but failed to set a date for a referendum that could lead to a potentially devastating walkout. The Screen Actors Guild (SAG) board met during a two-day, 30-hour showdown to discuss divisions within the union over plans to hold a strike authorization ballot following the breakdown of contract talks ...

Israel's "Waltz with Bashir" was on Tuesday named on a shortlist of nine movies vying for the Oscars' coveted foreign language film award. Ari Folman's film, a moving animated memoir of the director's experiences as a young Israeli soldier during his country's invasion of Lebanon in 1982, is the likely favorite and won the corresponding award ...