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Today in Sundance Hell: SAG Clarifies, The Linklater Cult, And Park City Comes To You

5:14AM STV | The first full day at Sundance is eerily quiet in streets and screening rooms alike, but that’s not keeping the snap judgements and quasi-news from cascading in from the Park City press corps:

This Calls For a Long Lunch: Richard Linklater’s …

5:00AM STV | This Calls For a Long Lunch: Richard Linklater’s rambling 1990 masterpiece Slacker is now available for viewing on Hulu, with an accompanying introduction by Kevin Smith at the site’s blog. It’s worth watching for Madonna’s pap smear alone, so get on it, and trust us: If your boss doesn’t understand, s/he isn’t worth working for anyway. [Hulu] More »

2:10AM Defamer Hollywood | School Reunion: We’re learning more today about the tearduct-tweaking, franchise-ready School of Rock “reboot” that Mike White teased us with at the LA Film Festival; Variety has word about School of Rock 2: America Rocks, which Scott Rudin will produce and to which Paramount has attached Jack Black and director Richard Linklater. And as opposed to White’s cruel stonewalling last month, the plot is apparently now safe for public dissemination: Black returns as teacher Dewey Finn, who leads “a group of summer school students on a cross-country field trip that delves into the history of rock ‘n’ roll and explores the roots of blues, rap, country and other genres.” No word yet as to whether or not Black will exercise his newfound clout to add in an autobiographical narcotics-dabbling interlude, or if he and White will save that for the inevitable School of Rock 3: Rehab High. [Variety] More »