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Focus Features ties Fukunaga down for next 2
Focus Features will get first dibs on the filmmaker make him write a project that will be nothing close to Sin Nombre, and then the parent company (Universal) will have Fukunaga embark on another project.
Sundance Journal 2009 Day 9: Lee Daniel’s Push: Based on a Novel by Sapphire
The punishing look into incest, mental, physical, emotional abuse brought the house down and the reason why it is such a crowd pleaser is because of the film's heroine in first time actress (see pic) Gabourey 'Gabby' Sidibe.
Sundance Journal 2009 Day 8: Robert Siegel’s Big Fan
For me Big Fan is the culmination of my viewing experiences of the past week: original film ideas that overall works in several areas.
Sundance Journal 2009 Day 7: Cruz Angeles’ Don’t Let Me Drown
When Hollywood and indie film started tackling 9/11, for the most part, these films' integrated characters into a story-line, you get a sense that it is the other way around with Cruz Angeles' drama/coming-of-age portrait where the characters have a backstory and where the backdrop and the aftermath are found in daily reminders by a thoughtless comment or an overhead plane appearing to be too close to the ground.
Sundance Journal 2009 Day 7: Nicolas Winding Refn’s Bronson
When fleshing out the script for Bronson, Nicolas Winding Refn didn't have much to go on – the subject of the film has been in solitary confinement for the better part of his adult life and yet, the Danish filmmaker somehow managed to take a thin on plot biopic and fancy a style that uses fantasy to explore the missing pieces and the mindset of a man who finds extreme pleasure in extreme pain.
