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Film is so back. Shooting on Kodak film continues to be both a more popular choice among filmmakers and to gather more Oscar prestige. At this year’s Academy Awards Sean Baker’s Best Picture winner, “Anora,” was shot on 35mm by cinematographer Drew Daniels; Brady Corbet’s Best Cinematography winner, “The Brutalist,” was shot on 35mm VistaVision to great aplomb by Dp Lol Crawley; Walter Salles’ Best International Feature Film winner, “I’m Still Here,” was shot on both 35mm and S8mm by cinematographer Adrian Teijido; and the Best Live Action Short winner, “I’m Not a Robot,” was also shot on 35mm.

This year looks set to build on that success. There will be a cohort of prominent movies captured on film from some of the usual analog-loving directors: Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners,” Luca Guadagnino’s “After the Hunt,” Wes Anderson’s “The Phoenician Scheme,” Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Bugonia,” Josh Safdie’s “Marty Supreme,...

James Norton will be on hand to talk about his historical epic King & Conqueror as Paramount Global ushers buyers into the Curzon Cinema in London’s Soho later this week. Giving clients a first look at the period drama is top of mind for Lisa Kramer, President, International Content Licensing at Paramount Global Content Distribution. The studio exec and her team will also be pushing hard on selling premium originals from Paramount+ to buyers, with second window sales a bigger priority for premium tentpoles.

London offers a moment for the Hollywood studio to see clients before the LA Screenings in May. Some mid-season network shows have hit the air and there’s a helpful pause before acquisition execs head to LA to watch new network series. Because of that, London is a better bet for the U.S. heavyweights than the now defunct MIPTV.

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The upcoming HBO limited series “Dtf St. Louis” has added both Chris Perfetti and Joy Sunday to its cast, Variety has learned.

Perfetti and Sunday join previously announced cast members Jason Bateman, David Harbour, Linda Cardellini, and Richard Jenkins. The show was picked up for seven episodes at HBO back in November and is now in pre-production.

The official logline for the show states, “A limited series about a love triangle between three adults experiencing middle-age malaise, that leads to one of them ending up dead.”

Perfetti will appear in the role of Tiger Tiger, while Sunday will play Jodie. Further character details are being kept under wraps.

Perfetti currently stars in the hit ABC mockumentary series “Abbott Elementary” in the role of Jacob Hill. The show is currently airing its fourth season and has been renewed for a fifth. He has also appeared in shows like HBO’s “The Night Of...

Actors from Abbott Elementary and Wednesday are (temporarily) leaving their respective schools.

Chris Perfetti and Joy Sunday have joined the cast of HBO’s limited series Dtf St. Louis. The show about a love triangle gone wrong is in pre-production. Perfetti and Sunday join a cast that also includes Jason Bateman, David Harbour, Linda Cardellini and Richard Jenkins.

As has been the case with the other actors, details on the roles Perfetti and Sunday will play are being kept quiet for now.

Created by Steven Conrad (Wonder, Prime Video’s Patriot), Dtf St. Louis will follow “a love triangle between three adults experiencing middle-age malaise, that leads to one of them ending up dead,” per the show’s logline.

Perfetti plays the extremely earnest teacher Jacob Hill on ABC’s Abbott Elementary, for which he’s won a SAG Award as part of the show’s ensemble and a Critics Choice Award for breakthrough performance.

Chris Perfetti and Joy Sunday (Wednesday) have joined HBO‘s seven-episode limited series Dtf St. Louis from writer, director, showrunner and executive producer Steve Conrad.

They join the previously announced cast that includes Jason Bateman, David Harbour, Linda Cardellini and Richard Jenkins.

Dtf St. Louis, currently in production, is about a love triangle among adults experiencing middle-age malaise that leads to one of them ending up dead.

Perfetti will portray “Tiger Tiger” and Sunday will play “Jodie.”

Dtf St. Louis is executive produced by Conrad; David Harbour; Jason Bateman; Todd Black, Jason Blumenthal and Steve Tisch for Escape Artists; Molly Allen; Bruce Terris; Michael Costigan for Bateman’s Aggregate Films; Jennifer Scher for Elephant Pictures; Kristina Wenson for Bravo Axolotl; and MGM Television.

Perfetti stars as a series regular on ABC’s Abbott Elementary, currently in its fourth season and recently renewed for a fifth. In the hit comedy,...

As far as horror directors go, they don’t get much more influential than Sam Raimi. If he’d only made The Evil Dead trilogy, his place in the pantheon would be guaranteed, but he also made two kick-ass thrillers, A Simple Plan and The Gift, and – oh yeah – the original Spider-Man trilogy starring Tobey Maguire. After a brief return to superhero movie directing with Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness (which made just under a billion dollars worldwide), Raimi is set for a return to horror with Send Help, which now has a January 30th, 2026 release date.

His first legit horror flick since 2009’s underrated Drag Me to Hell, Raimi’s Doctor Strange co-star Rachel McAdams takes the lead in what’s being called a survival thriller/horror film. Initial reports called it “Misery meets Cast Away,” with it said to be a two-hander. Film scooper Daniel Richtman...

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The following contains spoilers for Twinless, which premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. It also contains a mention of sexual assault.

It's hard to deny Dylan O'Brien's Twinless is the talk of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. The movie was even pulled from online streaming due to leaks and copyright infringement. Nonetheless, critics and in-person viewers got to soak in a powerful story about love and rejection.

The highly-acclaimed film won the Audience Award for the US Dramatic category, summing up how good it was. O'Brien also copped a Special Jury Award for his performance. Interestingly, while early buzz promotes Twinless as a whimsical dark comedy, there is a dark twist that occurs that's actually ideal for the horror genre.

What Is Twinless About? Dennis Manipulates Roman After His Twin's Death

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US-based independent film financier Tpc is expanding its financing offer, providing gap funding to movies starting with Gus Van Sant’s upcoming thriller Dead Man’s Wire.

Tpc expects to provide gap financing for around 10-15 films a year.

Van Sant’s 18th feature film,Dead Man’s Wire stars Bill Skarsgård, Dacre Montgomery, Colman Domingo and Cary Elwes and recently wrapped principal photography in Louisville, Kentucky. Based on a true story, the film follows a former real estate developer who takes the mortgage banker who did him wrong hostage. WME Independent is handling world sales.

Tpc has helped to finance over 400 films in the past 15 years,...

US-based independent film financier Tpc is expanding its financing offer, providing gap funding to movies starting with Gus Van Sant’s upcoming thriller Dead Man’s Wire.

Tpc expects to provide gap financing for around 10-15 films a year.

Van Sant’s 18th feature film,Dead Man’s Wire stars Bill Skarsgård, Dacre Montgomery, Colman Domingo and Cary Elwes and recently wrapped principal photography in Louisville, Kentucky. Based on a true story, the film follows a former real estate developer who takes the mortgage banker who did him wrong hostage. WME Independent is handling world sales.

Tpc has helped to finance over 400 films in the past 15 years,...

Sundance patrons were enjoying the festival online when U.S. Dramatic Competition Audience Award winner “Twinless” suddenly went missing on Friday, January 31. It wasn’t a tech glitch: Some user(s) leaked the film through social media clips, and Sundance pulled the movie. Nor was it the first time: The night before, the festival yanked “Selena y Los Dinos” after fans of the Tejano music icon began sharing clips from the documentary on TikTok. Distribution remains on the hook for both titles.

The festival, not the filmmakers, decided to pull the titles, IndieWire has learned. However, IndieWire spoke to some rattled Sundance filmmakers now forced to consider if they’re vulnerable to piracy, or if they would submit to the competition at all again. Since 2021, the online platform has made most competition titles available online during the festival.

Sundance wants to reassure that its movies will not be leaked; encrypted...

Urban loneliness is strange. Despite being surrounded by people who could potentially make our empty lives whole, most of us are stuck dining alone. We are so incredibly awkward about our need for people that when we get a glimmer of hope in finding someone, we cannot refocus our gaze on anything else. In James Sweeney’s “Twinless,” two men bond with each other after meeting at a bereavement group that is catered to people who have lost their twins – both of them craving for the oneness in someone who is an exact copy of them – someone who understands the DNA that propels them to be who they are.

Dylan O’Brien plays the first set of twins Rocky and Roman. The narrative is focused on Roman – a big-old softy who is intellectually challenged and gets on the edge when pushed to see just how transparent his personality is. Rocky’s...

In this week’s episode of “Screen Talk,” we take a look at the slow Sundance market as well as the new shape of the Oscar race post-Karla Sofía Gascón’s implosion.

There were a few competitive buys at the tail end of this year’s Sundance: Neon bought horror flick “Together,” Netflix acquired period Denis Johnson adaptation “Train Dreams,” Janus and Sideshow bought art film “Peter Hujar’s Day,” and A24 bought breakout Eva Victor’s “Sorry Baby.”

But so far, no one has picked up Bill Condon’s “Kiss of the Spider Woman,” which awkwardly tries to meld a Kander & Ebb Broadway musical with a prison romance. If a distributor positioned it well, there might be some action for star Jennifer Lopez as a legacy prize, as well as breakout Tonatiuh.

Netflix is making an Oscar play with Clint Bentley’s “Train Dreams,” starring Joel Edgerton. And “Sorry...

Netflix's Happy Gilmore 2 continues to bolster its star-studded cast as it adds a comedy veteran to the ranks. The anticipated sequel reunites star Adam Sandler with a new addition in acclaimed actor Kym Whitley.

Via The Hollywood Reporter, Whitley will portray Bessie, a friend of Sandler's title character from a support group. Whitley has starred in various comedies dating back to the '90s, appearing in The Wayans Bros., The Parkers, The Upshaws and The Neighborhood, while also having voice roles in The Boondocks and The Cleveland Show.

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The Happy Gilmore follow-up reunites Whitley with Sandler and Ben Stiller, who starred together in the 2020 horror comedy mystery film, Hubie Halloween. The Netflix film, which also starred the late Ray Liotta,...

Dylan O'Brien's breakout role was Stiles Stilinski in the MTV supernatural teen series Teen Wolf, but since the show's ending, he has established himself as a successful actor. He's had his own dystopian trilogy, The Maze Runner, starred in the two-time Oscar-nominated film Deepwater Horizon, and his latest roles have cemented him as a very successful star.

In 2024, O'Brien attempted a different role as he played a real person on Saturday Night. The film is based on the late-night live sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live, most specifically the show's premiere night in 1975, and O'Brien played Dan Aykroyd. Following the critical success of the film, Saturday Night is a new hit on Netflix, Tudum reports.

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At the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, "The Maze Runner" franchise star Dylan O'Brien made quite a splash with dual performances in a darkly comedic exploration of grief and loneliness called "Twinless." Not only did O'Brien win the US Dramatic Special Jury Award for Acting, but the film also took home the Audience Award in the U.S. Dramatic section of Sundance. That's because this is the best performance of O'Brien's career, and filmmaker James Sweeney pulls off an impressive balancing act both as a filmmaker and a captivating performer himself. 

"Twinless" follows Dylan O'Brien as Roman, who is mourning the death of his twin brother Rocky (also O'Brien). Roman is a bit of a dim bulb without much of a personality, and he has a short fuse exacerbated by his grief. But most of the time, he's also a nice, quiet guy. Meanwhile, Rocky was the more outgoing brother, and he...

Gilmore Girls is a comfort show to many but, as it turns out, it's one of Lauren Graham's favorite works, too. The actress played Lorelai Gilmore in the series and its revival series, and, although she's had other exciting roles, Gilmore Girls is one of her favorites.

Graham's latest roles include the 2024 Christmas film The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, 2025's Twinless, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival with stunning reviews, and the upcoming series The Z-Suite. The latter is set to premiere on Tubi on Feb. 6 as a Tubi Original. Ahead of the series release, Graham stopped by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and talked about the new series but also Gilmore Girls.

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The 2025 Sundance Film Festival honored this year’s standout independent films with its jury and audience awards, celebrating projects that tackled themes of resilience, political influence, and personal transformation.

The awards were announced two days before the festival’s conclusion on Feb. 2, following an impressive lineup of 94 feature-length films and 57 short films—selected from over 15,000 submissions—screened in Park City, Salt Lake City, and online.

The U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic was awarded to Atropia, starring Alia Shawkat, while Seeds took home the U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary, recognized for its compelling portrayal of Black generational farmers in the American South. In the international categories, Sabar Bonda (Cactus Pears) and Cutting Through Rocks (اوزاک یوللار) claimed the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic and Documentary, respectively.

Audience awards, presented by Acura and United Airlines, highlighted films that resonated strongly with festivalgoers. Twinless won U.S. Dramatic, André is an Idiot earned U.

Sundance is a place for discovery, where new stars are minted because of the fresh, invigorating images they bring to the screen. It was where Steven Soderbergh helped kick off the indie film revolution in 1989 with “sex, lies, and videotape” and Quentin Tarantino launched “Reservoir Dogs” in 1992. They showed that, at Sundance, if you have something to say, you can have a seat at the table.

This year, that daring new voice belongs to Eva Victor, whose comedic character study “Sorry, Baby,” about a young professor reeling from a trauma, sold to A24 for $8 million. “Sorry, Baby” also has the distinction of placing first in many of the categories in IndieWire’s 2025 Sundance Critics Survey, including Best Performance (for Victor herself), Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best First Film, and Best Film itself.

Though “Sorry, Baby” was the undeniable favorite across the board at Sundance 2025, our critics survey shared the love...

Sundance 2025 may have been an ill-timed off year for an institution in the midst of an existential crisis (largely by dint of its place in an industry in the midst of an existential crisis), but the festival remains completely unrivaled as America’s greatest showcase for the best in new independent cinema, and its latest edition did nothing to change that. Underwhelming as it was on the whole, the 88-feature lineup still had more than its fair share of fantastic and revitalizing films, many of which we’re sure to be talking about for the rest of the year and beyond.

Some (like James Sweeney’s “Twinless” and Clint Bentley’s “Train Dreams”) found semi-established directors emerging as singular talents. Others saw relative unknowns or long-absent favorites step into the spotlight as though it had always been waiting for them. Predictably, however, it was the documentaries that drove most of the conversation,...

Twinless starts like a prototypical Sundance movie––grim and serious, plus unexpected levity. That’s the general formula for a festival that might as well have manufactured the term “dramedy.” In this case there’s an offscreen car accident and quick cut to a funeral. Roman (Dylan O’Brien) stands grieving beside his mother (Lauren Graham) as the casket containing his gay identical twin brother, Rocky, is lowered into the ground. It’s a somber affair––tears, tissues, a violinist’s rendition of “Danny Boy”––until the song pauses abruptly on a false note, engendering awkward silence. It’s the first permission you have to laugh, then to recognize the faint absurdity of a gathering in which mourners approach Roman and bawl at his uncanny likeness to the deceased.

This kind of sad, strange, bewildering tone makes up the first 20 minutes of James Sweeney’s dark comedy (or lighthearted drama?) and...

February 2 Update: Ryan White’sCome See Me in the Good Light won theFestival Favorite Award on Sunday, marking the final piece of business for the festival, which endedon February 2.

The US film charts two poets’ “journey through love, life and mortality”.

Original January 31 Report:Sundance Film Festival announced its awards winners on Friday, with grand jury prizes going to Atropia, Seeds, Sabar Bonda (Cactus Pears), and Cutting Through Rocks.

In the audience awards, Twinless, André Is An Idiot, DJ Ahmet, and Prime Minister prevailed.The Next Innovator Award went to Zodiac Killer Project and Next Audience Award was presented to East Of Wall.

Sundance audiences have cast a bright light on Ryan White’s, Come See Me in the Good Light, by delivering a festival favorite prize on the feature film documentary.

Come See Me in the Good Light follows two poets, Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley, as they “go on an unexpectedly funny and poignant journey through love, life and mortality,” per the official festival description, spurred by the former’s incurable cancer diagnosis. The doc’s high profile roster of producers and executive producers includes such names as Tig Notaro, Brandi Carlile, Glennon Doyle, Abby Wambach, Kevin Nealon and Sara Bareilles, among others.

“Throughout the festival we saw audiences moved by Andrea Gibson’s and Megan Falley’s journeys in Come See Me in the Good Light. Festival goers embraced the humor and heartbreak of this intimate documentary directed by Ryan White, as it speaks to art and love and reminds...

A24 is closing on acquiring worldwide rights to “Sorry, Baby,” one of the buzzier movies to premiere at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.

The movie sparked a days-long bidding war with Neon and Mubi among the independent studios in the mix. Sources say the price tag is near the $8 million mark.

As the logline for “Sorry, Baby” teases: “Something bad happened to Agnes. But life goes on… for everyone around her, at least.” Comedian Eva Victor wrote, directed and stars in the film, about a college professor who is recovering from sexual assault. Naomi Ackie and Lucas Hedges co-star in “Sorry, Baby,” which was produced by “Moonlight” filmmaker Barry Jenkins. The movie premiered on Monday night at the Eccles Theatre, where the audience in Park City embraced the poignant drama with a standing ovation.

In Variety’s review, chief film critic Peter Debruge described the movie as a “disarmingly funny,...

At the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, there were movies that provoked their share of buzz and chatter and official breathless enthusiasm. But it’s fair to say that no movie this year generated half the conversation that Sundance did about itself. The buzz was all about the festival — which city it would move to in 2027 (Cincinnati or Boulder? The smart money is now on Cincinnati), as well as the question that’s been the backdrop of that move: Can Sundance, a festival that in the ’90s altered the very landscape of cinema, find a way to sustain its relevance into the 21st century?

The jury is very much out on that. Sundance still generates excitement and headlines, as well as a small handful of films that will have a chance to make an impact. But as much as I remain a Sundance believer, the festival’s mojo is increasingly shrouded in...

Dylan O’Brien’s latest starrer is all about grief. Specifically, what happens when an identical twin loses his other half? Six years after his first feature, Straight Up, James Sweeney is back as the writer/director/star of a new Sundance breakout. Twinless is an uncommonly funny, romantic, and tragic film about twinhood, parasitic relationships, and insecurity.

Twinless Sundance Review

Twinless features Dylan O’Brien in a dual role of sorts. He plays Rocky and Roman, two identical twins who couldn’t be more different. Roman, the macho man’s man, is our lead, a role O’Brien perfectly plays alongside Rocky, his softhearted homosexual mustachioed brother. After the sudden, tragic death of Rocky, Roman finds solace at a twin bereavement center. He meets Dennis (Sweeney), who has a secret connection to Roman’s late twin. After the two hit it off, they go on a journey of self-discovery as they navigate grief,...

Twinless has been one of the most-talked-about releases out of the Sundance Film Festival, as fans itch to know more about the Dylan O'Brien comedy. 

Directed by James Sweeney, Twinless follows the romance of two young men who spark up a relationship while participating in a support group for twinless twins (someone whose twin has died). 

O'Brien (who led last year's gripping thriller Caddo Lake) stars alongside Sweeney in the 2025 film, which debuted at Sundance and won the festival's vaunted Audience Award. 

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Sundance suddenly has a piracy problem.

James Sweeney’s Twinless, a Sundance Film Festival selection that emerged as a double winner after Friday’s awards ceremony, has been pulled from the fest’s online screening portal after clips surfaced on social media platforms. The move came just hours after Isabel Castro’s documentary about late superstar Selena Quintanilla, Selena y Los Dinos, was pulled over similar piracy concerns. That film also became a fest favorite after picking up a trophy for U.S. documentary special jury award for archival storytelling.

“The film Twinless was a victim of some copyright infringement on various social media platforms, therefore the festival in partnership with the filmmakers have made the decision to remove the film from the Sundance Film Festival online platform. We regret that online ticket holders will no longer be able to access the film,” per the festival in an official statement,...

Writer-director James Sweeney is no stranger to novel concepts that walk a tonal and thematic tightrope. In his 2019 feature-length directorial debut, Straight Up, he starred as a young gay man so turned off by sex that he seeks a relationship with a woman, turning a silly and potentially retrograde setup into an anti-rom-com exploration of contemporary sexual identity, Ocd, and the modern complexities of finding love. Sweeney brings the same keenly observational millennial eye to his sophomore feature, Twinless, a bizarrely moving and darkly comic story about feeling like you’ve lost something you never had.

Twinless opens at a funeral, with the straight Roman (Dylan O’Brien) and his mother (Lauran Graham) receiving mourners after the death of Roman’s twin brother, Rocky (also O’Brien). Struggling with the loss of his other half, the shy Roman joins a bereavement support group for siblings processing the death of a twin,...

Dylan O'Brien's new film has received a lot of interest following its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. So much so that the movie had to be pulled from the website after a major leak online.

After the film's premiere on Jan. 23, 2025, Twinless debuted with a perfect score on Rotten Tomatoes. Twinless received praise for the comedy and performances, which stars O'Brien and James Sweeney, who also wrote and directed the film. However, Variety reports Sundance had to remove Twinless from its streaming site after a major leak online.

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Twinless won the festival's Audience Award on Friday, Jan. 31, and ahead of the win, there were several leaks from the streaming site, including sex scenes and other moments from the film.

For years, Buzzfeed has kept the audience entertained with a section of their online portfolio titled Thirst Tweets. Celebrities enter a journey defined by the aggressive erotic awkwardness of their fans’ tweets while reading them out loud on air. 2 years ago, Dylan O’Brien happened to be one of the celebrities chosen for an episode that would go down in history.

Dylan O’Brien in The Outfit [Credit: Focus Pictures]

The star of the Maze Runner trilogy, Dylan O’Brien, rose in fame and popularity through Teen Wolf, where he stole the show as the hyperactive, loyal best friend of the lead character. As his fame grew, so did his fandom, which famously had a collective meltdown after the actor debuted a platinum blond buzz cut for the film Not Okay.

Now, as he branches out in his field, the fanbase brings back some memories from the recent past as O’Brien...

Movies streaming on the Sundance Film Festival’s online viewing platform are dropping like flies thanks to piracy: “Twinless” is now the second film to get yanked from the platform amid copyright infringements. Sundance pulled the bromance comedy, written and directed by star James Sweeney and co-starring Dylan O’Brien, on Friday evening, sparking online outrage from festivalgoers hoping to see the Audience Award winner at home.

Earlier on Friday, the Selena Quintanilla documentary “Selena y Los Dinos” was also taken down due to piracy. IndieWire understands that fans were sharing pirated clips on social media. Similarly, “Twinless” clips featuring a sex scene with Dylan O’Brien, as well as major spoilers for the movie’s twisty plot, were leaked online.

“I woke up this morning with an email thread about people posting spoilers with photos. If anyone’s seen the film, you know what I’m talking about. So I...

“Twinless” is the latest Sundance movie pulled from the festival’s online viewing platform after pirated videos of the film, including sex scenes involving star Dylan O’Brien, flooded social media on Friday night. The documentary “Selena y Los Dinos” was removed from the online platform Friday after clips from that film started circulating on social media.

Videos from the film, including sex scenes involving O’Brien, started circulating on X, TikTok and other social media platforms on Friday night, boosted by fans of the actor. By Saturday early afternoon, most of the videos had been removed, but the film itself is now no longer available on the Sundance Film Festival’s online viewing platform.

“We regret that online ticket holders will no longer be able to access the film,” the festival said in a statement to TheWrap. “We acknowledge and regret the disappointment this may cause. However, part of our...

Updated With Statement From Sundance: Twinless, a very hot title at Sundance, has been pulled from the festival’s streaming site due to piracy.

This is the second movie on the fest’s portal to be pulled after online leaking. Yesterday we told you first that the fest award winning documentary Selena y Los Dinos was dropped from the Sundance site after making its way on TikTok, etc.

The Mazerunner and High Road actor Dylan O’Brien plays twin brothers Rocky and Roman. Rocky dies tragically, and his lover Dennis feels responsible. He befriends Roman in a twin grieving therapy circle, pining for his late lover. There’s some spicy sex scenes in Twinless, however, there were also spoiler scenes leaked.

Twinless was part of Sundance’s opening day films and out of the gate counts 100% on Rotten Tomatoes among critics.

Sundance requires...

“Twinless,” a comedic drama starring Dylan O’Brien, has been pulled from Sundance’s streaming site after sex scenes and other content from the film leaked online. The leaks came as “Twinless” won the festival’s coveted Audience Award on Friday.

It’s the second movie to be pulled from Sundance’s site this year. “Selena y Los Dinos,” a documentary about Tejano singer Selena, was also scrubbed from the service after the film “suffered a series of copyright infringements,” meaning it also leaked online. There were reports that fans were putting various musical numbers from “Selena y Los Dinos” on TikTok and Instagram.

“The film ‘Twinless’ was a victim of some copyright infringement on various social media platforms, therefore the festival in partnership with the filmmakers have made the decision to remove the film from the Sundance Film Festival online platform. We regret that online ticket holders will no longer...

Today, in "This may actually be why we can't have nice things" news: Dylan O'Brien's buzzy dark comedy Twinless has been pulled from the online streaming portal for the Sundance Film Festival, due to claims of piracy from festival organizers. The movie is the second film this year to...

At its heart, Sundance is about discovery. Some of our brightest, biggest filmmaking stars — we’re talking Steven Soderbergh, Richard Linklater, Ava DuVernay, Paul Thomas Anderson, Lulu Wang, Ryan Coogler, Aubrey Plaza, Catherine Hardwicke, Todd Haynes, Tessa Thompson, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert Eggers, the Duplass brothers, Michael B. Jordan, Amy Adams, Elizabeth Olsen, Brie Larson, Lakeith Stanfield, Miles Teller, Anya Taylor-Joy, and many, many more — first rose to acclaim by bringing their work to Sundance.

In 2025, a year that was long-heralded as one all about new discoveries, that tradition only continued. While this year’s lineup included a number of returning names, like Ira Sachs, Amy Berg, Andrew Ahn, Justin Lin, Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, Cooper Raiff, Kahlil Joseph, Heidi Ewing & Rachel Grady, David France, Jesse Short Bull, Ryan White, Sophie Hyde, Jesse Moss & Amanda McBaine, Meera Menon, and Clint Bentley, there were also a hefty number of newbies joining those filmmaking ranks.

The acerbic war film comedy that doesn’t really take place in a war zone (Iraq) but instead, a manufactured training base landed the top honors at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. Hailey Gates’ feature debut Atropia claimed the coveted US Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic and while some previous winners would go onto win the Audience Award, it is Twinless by James Sweeney that nabbed that honor (the film also won US Dramatic Special Jury Award for Acting for Dylan O’Brien). Our favorite film from the ten selections in Eva Victor’s Sorry, Baby won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: US Dramatic.…...

Ahead of the final weekend of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, the annual event in Park City, Utah, announced its big winners on Friday, with Atropia, Seeds, and Twinless among those taking the biggest prizes.

“Arriving at our awards ceremony after seven days of connection and discovery is especially rewarding this year,” said Eugene Hernandez, director, Sundance Film Festival and Public Programming. “We are thrilled to honor these filmmakers fore their inventiveness, generosity, and for their valuable conversations, moments of levity, and deep insights their work has offered.”

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Written and directed by Hailey Gates, Atropia earned the Grand Jury Prize for Dramatic Film, Sundance’s top award. Alia Shawkat stars as an aspiring actress in a military role-playing facility who falls in love with a soldier cast as an insurgent, and...

A still from Atropia by Hailey Gates, an official selection of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival (Photo Courtesy of Sundance Institute)

Atropia starring Alia Shawkat and Callum Turner earned the U.S. Grand Jury Prize: U.S. Dramatic Competition award at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, and Seeds was named the U.S. Documentary Competition winner. The 2025 winners were announced today during a ceremony held at The Ray Theatre in Park City.

Additional Grand Jury Prize winners include Sabar Bonda (Cactus Pears) and Cutting Through Rocks. Audience Awards went to Twinless (U.S. Dramatic Competition), André is an Idiot (U.S. Documentary Competition), DJ Ahmet (World Cinema Dramatic Competition), Prime Minister (World Cinema Documentary Competition), and East of Wall (Next).

“We congratulate all of our filmmakers and award winners on a successful 2025 Sundance Film Festival and thank them for the stories they shared with our audiences,” stated Amanda Kelso, Acting CEO, Sundance Institute.

2025 Sundance Film Festival Award Winners Announced: Atropia (U.S. Dramatic Competition), Seeds (U.S. Documentary Competition), Sabar Bonda (Cactus Pears) (World Cinema Dramatic Competition), and Cutting Through Rocks (اوزاک یوللار) (World Cinema Documentary Competition) Awarded Grand Jury Prizes; Next Innovator Award Presented by Adobe Goes to Zodiac Killer Project. Twinless (U.S. Dramatic Competition) and André is an Idiot (U.S. Documentary Competition) Receive Audience Awards Presented by Acura Audience Awards Presented by United Airlines Go to DJ Ahmet (World Cinema Dramatic Competition) and Prime Minister (World Cinema Documentary Competition); East of Wall wins Next Audience Award Presented by Adobe...

The official awards for the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, held in Utah every January, were announced this morning with a small ceremony held in person in Utah. This always marks the end of the fest, with a few days of screenings left. The festival continued this week with at-home viewings in addition to all the in-person events. This year's line-up featured a grand total of 88 feature films, quite a few less than expected, with a number of indie gems in the selection. The main winners for 2025 include Atropia, taking home Grand Jury Prize; along with Brittany Shyne's Seeds winning the Grand Jury Prize for Documentary. The Audience Awards went to Twinless and (doc) Andre is an Idiot, entirely expected based on the effusive reactions to both. The winners this year are rather mild & unexciting, even though there are some amazing films at Sundance not many of them got any awards.

Top L–R: Zodiac Killer Project. Mad Bills to Pay, Mr. Nobody Against Putin, Coexistence, My Ass!, 2000 Meters to Andriivka, Cutting Through Rocks; Second Row L-r: DJ Ahmet, Two Women, The Things You Kill, Sabar Bonda (Cactus Pears), Plainclothes, Twinless; Third Row L-r: Sorry, Baby, Ricky, Atropia, Selena y Los Dinos, Life After, André is an Idiot; Bottom L–R: The Perfect Neighbor, Seeds, East of Wall, Prime Minister Photo: Sundance Institute

The Sundance Film Festival has announced its winners from this year's festival, with the US Grand Jury prizes going to Atropia and Seeds.

In the World section, the Grand Jury prizes went to Cactus Pears (sabar Bonda) and Cutting Through Rocks. The Next award went to UK director Charlie Shackleton for Zodiac Killer Project.

Atropia, written and directed by Hailey Gates stars Alia Shawkat as an aspiring actress in a military role-playing facility, who falls in love...

The 2025 Sundance Film Festival has two more days of in-person and online screenings, but the world premieres have been over since Tuesday. This morning, the festival revealed its juried and audience awards. The big winners were “Atropia,” “Seeds,” “Twinless,” “East of Wall,” and “André is an Idiot.”

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The U.S. Grand Jury Prize Dramatic went to Hailey Gates’ “Atropia.” Set during the Iraq War, Alia Shawkat plays a struggling actress who pretends to play an Iraqi in a fake Iraqi city set up to train soldiers in the California desert.

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The 2025 Sundance Film Festival awards were announced today at The Ray Theatre in Park City, Utah.

See the list of 2025 winners below, and congrats to all the winners.

U.S. Dramatic Competition

Grand Jury Prize

Atropia (USA) – Hailey Gates

Directing Award

Ricky (USA) – Rashad Frett

The Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award

Sorry, Baby (USA) – Eva Victor

Special Jury Award for Acting

Twinless (USA) – Dylan O’Brien

Dylan O’Brien and James Sweeney appear in Twinless by James Sweeney, an official selection of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute | photo by Greg Cotten.

Special Jury Award for Best Ensemble

Plainclothes – Carmen Emmi

Audience Award

Twinless – James Sweeney

U.S. Documentary Competition

Grand Jury Prize

Seeds (USA) – Brittany Shyne

Directing Award

The Perfect Neighbor (USA) – Geeta Gandbhir

Special Jury Award

Life After (USA) – Reid Davenport

Special Jury Award for Archival Storytelling

Selena y Los Dinos (USA) – Isabel Castro

Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award...

The 2025 Sundance Film Festival — and perhaps its second-to-last in Park City — has wound down with the annual awards ceremony.

On January 31, jurors presented prizes in the competitive sections, including the U.S. Dramatic Competition, U.S. Documentary Competition, World Cinema Dramatic Competition, World Cinema Documentary Competition, and the Next lineup. Jurors across the sections looked at nearly 90 films representing more than 30 countries and territories.

Hailey Gates’ Iraq war satire, starring Alia Shawkat and produced by (among others) Luca Guadagnino, won the festival’s top award: the Grand Jury Prize in the U.S. Dramatic competition. The politically charged comedy, which follows an aspiring actress in a military role-playing facility, is still looking for U.S. distribution amid mixed reviews out of Sundance. Meanwhile in that section, Eva Victor’s staggering feature debut “Sorry, Baby,” a startlingly wise and unsentimental depiction of trauma set in American academia, won a Screenwriting prize...

Atropia, Seeds, Sabar Bonda (Cactus Pears) and Cutting Through Rocks were among the key winners at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival.

During a ceremony held Friday in Park City, Atropia won the Grand Jury prize for U.S. Dramatic Competition, while Seeds picked up the U.S. Documentary Competition award. Sabar Bonda (Cactus Pears) prevailed for the jury prize for the World Cinema Dramatic Competition section, while Cutting Through Rocks nabbed the award for World Cinema Documentary Competition.

Among the audience awards, Twinless won in the U.S. Dramatic Competition, and André Is an Idiot topped the U.S. Documentary Competition. DJ Ahmet collected the audience award for World Cinema Dramatic Competition, with Prime Minister prevailing for the World Cinema Documentary Competition.

Additionally, Zodiac Killer Project landed the Next innovator award, with East of Wall receiving the audience award for the Next section.

Sundance Institute acting CEO Amanda Kelso said in a statement,...

As the Sundance Film Festival heads into its final weekend, the Park City event handed out trophies this morning to this year’s best. See the full list below.

Hailey Gates’ war satire Atropia took the marquee U.S. Grand Jury Prize for dramatic features. Alia Shawkat stars as an aspiring actress in a military role-playing facility who falls in love with a soldier (Callum Turner) cast as an insurgent, but their unsimulated emotions threaten to derail the performance.

The Audience Award: U.S. Dramatic went to Twinless, James Sweeney’s film about two young men (Dylan O’Brien and Sweeney) who meet in a twin bereavement support group and form an unlikely bromance.

Georgi M. Unkovski’s DJ Ahmet won the Audience Award: World Cinema Dramatic and also nabbed the Special Jury Award for Creative Vision. It follows Ahmet (Arif Jakup), a 15-year-old boy from a remote Yuruk village in...

Awards for the 2025 Sundance Film Festival were handed out on Friday morning, with the Dylan O’Brien-fronted dark comedy “Twinless” taking home the audience award in the U.S. Dramatic Competition category. The film, which received a warm response upon its debut at the beginning of the festival, hails from writer/director/co-star James Sweeney and follows two strangers who meet in a twin bereavement support group. O’Brien also won a special jury award for acting for his work in the film.

Writer/director Hailey Gates’ “Atropia” won the U.S. Grand Jury Prize in the Dramatic category, scoring top honors for a film that started life as a documentary. Produced by Luca Guadagnino, the film stars Alia Shawkat as an aspiring actress in a military role-playing facility who falls in love with a soldier cast as an insurgent. Callum Turner, Chloë Sevigny and Tim Heidecker co-star.

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The snow from this year’s Sundance Film Festival has mostly melted off of Hollywood’s Dior boots, and as the Utah event draws to a close the time has come to crown a new class of indie filmmaking stars.

Multiple pedigreed juries will hand out prizes to movies in competition on Friday at Park City’s The Ray Theater — where buzzy titles will duke it out for honors including directing, acting, screenwriting and the most coveted honors, the audience award and the grand jury prize.

“Storytelling is important, part of human continuity,” Sundance interim CEO Amanda Kelso said at the top of the ceremony, quoting its founder Robert Redford.

This year’s U.S. dramatic jury consists Reinaldo Marcus Green, Arian Moayed (“Succession”) and Celine Song. Steven Bognar, Vinnie Malhotra, and Marcia Smith are presiding over the domestic documentary section. Actor Elijah Wood is the sole juror for the Next section,...

This year's awards season is wrapping up, which means it's time to look forward to the films we'll be discussing this time next year. Some of those hopefuls just premiered in Park City during the Sundance festival, which generally provides one of our first glimpses at next year's landscape. If...