sundance 2008
Quentin Tarantino, Okay, Doesn’t Want To Be Bothered By The Paparazzi, Okay, While He’s Drinking Starbucks Coffee, Okay
8:27AM Mark Graham | Ever since Quentin Tarantino blew the doors off an unsupecting Sundance Film Festival with the release of Reservoir Dogs, he’s been a consistent January fixture on the Park City scene since that fabled winter of `92. Heck, after 16 years, he’s practically a local by now. So imagine QT’s surprise when he strolled out of local Starbucks with his mocha choca latté ya ya and encountered a pesky paparazzo standing there in the parking lot. The good news? QT looks like he’s dropped some LBs since we last saw him (at the presser for Golden Globe nominations). The bad news? He got a little slap happy with the lensman. More »
Trade Roundup: Putting A Sleepy Sundance To Bed
7:17AM Mark | · As a disappointing™ Sundance limps towards the finish line, buyers are proving immune to the charms of Big Name Stars like Robert DeNiro and Tom Hanks, whose films (What Just Happened and The Great Buck Howard) have “held all of the appeal of three-day-old fish.” [Variety] Sundance? More like Stunned‘dance, quips the Reporter as the sound of a rimshot slowly fades into the eerie quiet of Park City’s Main Street. Are we right, ladies? [THR] · Universal signs Atonement’s Joe Wright, red-hot from seven Oscar nominations (though not one for directing; thanks, Jason Reitman!) to a two-picture deal. [Variety] [After the jump: Marvel and the WGA make nice on an interim basis; Disney tries to squeeze even more money out of the Toy Story franchise.] More »
Adrien Grenier Acts Like Flaky Celebrity At Sundance, CNN Reels In Shock
8:27AM Defamer Hollywood | With no real news to blog about at Sundance, CNN entertainment producer Jennifer Wolfe decided to blog about, well, the comings and goings of celebrities. And it turns out that, except for the mittens and mukluks, there’s not too much difference between the way celebrities behave in Los Angeles and how they act in Park City. Some celebrities have entourages. Some celebrities are nice. And, if the celebrity in question is Adrien Grenier, he tells little white lies in order to, we’re guessing, free up more time in his busy schedule to blank the blank out of a snow bunny or two. More »
