Eric Lavallée

It's been a great year for veteran Czech director Jirí Menzel - a FIPRESCI Prize at  the Berlin film festival, accolades from his...

Where's Bruge? What is Bruges? Think a smaller Amsterdam without the illegal stuff replaced by fries, beer and postcard setting. Just a couple of days ago, the Sundance Film Fest announced the opening film for their 2008 edition - the to-be-released on February 8th hit man comedy by Focus Features is the feature film debut from Martin McDonagh (the winner for Oscar for best short film Six Shooter). While many of you are enjoying your turkey or faux-turkey, I'm thinking that In Bruges might be anything but that. We've got the exclusive first look at the official trailer, plus a pair of pics for you below.

Its good to know that no matter how many years you've been making doc films that the money (that of the support kind) is...

A little less than a week left until the Sundance film festival reveals its entire line-up (Wednesday & Thursday of next week) we here at IONCINEMA.com headquarters like to guestimate the films that have fabulous chances at preeming at the event. Keeping track on all U.S indie developments is the name of our game, so without much further ado – here is a potential list of 20 films comprised of long shots, low probabilities and a couple of no-brainer picks (including a clumping of docu projects) that should be clamoring for attention.

I hated Teeth (you can read my Sundance review here). But plenty out there in the audience during the film's world premiere loved it (including our own Jameson Kowalczyk (you can read his review here). What I could admire was Jess Weixler's performance and from a marketers perspective I must have thought this is either a marketers' dream or nightmare. If the film was kept intact then it is perhaps the strongest reason why Lionsgate Films and the The Weinstein Company who co-bought the pic didn't know how to handle it.