2013 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Paul Schrader’s The Canyons

If my predictions come out right, this year’s Sundance will be heavy on the porn thematic. Couple of Sundance editions back Soderbergh pulled out The Girlfriend Experience as the fest’s secret/surprise film and that was when several folks discovered starlet Sasha Grey. This year, we could find James Deen (that is Lohan’s bed-partner in the pic above) make the jump with Paul Schrader’s The Canyons. Schrader has been at the fest twice before with 92’s Light Sleeper and who could forget 98’s Affliction, but this Kickstarter funded item is perhaps part of a new wave of future Sundance entries – trending crowd-sourcing films from established auteurs. Production began in July, post-prod in September and we’ve witnessed a slew of media items since. The Lindsay Lohan vehicle/Bret Easton Ellis (The Informers cracked the fest line-up in 2008) could spill the most ink in Park City and plus it has Gus Van Sant in it.

Gist: This documents five twenty-something’s quest for power, love, sex and success in 2012 Hollywood.

Production Co./Producers: Braxton Pope (Shrink)

Prediction: Premieres section

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