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Save this story for later. When the Sundance Film Festival kicks off on January 28, 2021, in Park City, Utah, there won’t be a long line of people standing outside the Eccles Theater, watching their breath catch in the cold winter air—and Main Street surely won’t be packed with revelers and sponsor activations, either. Instead, on account of the coronavirus pandemic, next year’s Sundance will actually expand amid the contraction of live events. Rather than relying solely on in-person ex...

“Welcome to the 2021 Sundance Film Festival,” Tabitha Jackson, Director of the Sundance Film Festival, wrote on the festival’s official website. “A new chapter filled with possibilities. Despite the challenges this year has brought, nothing could stop us from celebrating independent film, visionary artists, unique perspectives, and you, our adventurous audiences. So, for the first time ever, we are bringing the festival to you—both online and in the real world across the US and beyo...

Does it impress? In 2015, when principal photography began on the first Wonder Woman, if you had asked director Patty Jenkins to make a wish, it’s unlikely she would have entertained the possibility that her action-packed blockbuster might become the highest grossing film of all time helmed solely by a woman. Sometimes, fanciful dreams do come true. With worldwide box office takings in excess of 820 million US dollars for the superpowered origin story, it’s no surprise that the Amazonian pr...

Watch the opening scene of Wonder Woman 1984: Diana takes on Themysciras Olympics Sydney Bucksbaum Christmas has come early for anyone dying to see Wonder Woman 1984 — or at least the first few minutes. While the Wonder Woman sequel wont be out until Dec. 25, Warner Bros. is giving fans an early taste by releasing the opening scene, which you can watch below. The footage takes Diana (Gal Gadot) back to her childhood in Themyscira, reminiscing on the "magical land" of her you...

Rewind to the 1980’s as Wonder Woman’s next adventure finds her facing two all-new foes Guess who partnered up with Wonder Woman? Image Credit: Supplied AsusMiddle East partners up with “Wonder Woman 1984” for the exclusive screen premiere of her latest adventure on “Wonder Woman 1984” this new chapter in the Wonder Woman story. Rewind to the 1980s as Wonder Woman’s next big screen adventure finds her facing two all-new foes: Max Lord and The Cheet...

[ Ed. note: This review contains basic plot points from early in the film that some may read as spoilers.] It’s just about impossible to describe Wonder Woman 1984 to someone who doesn’t already know the greater DC movie universe. The problem isn’t that it’s a sequel. The new film neatly sets up many of the interior conflicts for Diana Prince, played again by Gal Gadot. She’s an Amazon in Man’s World, and she doesn’t seem to age, so of course the friends she had in Patty Jenkins...

Jake Coyle December 15, 2020 - 12:19 PM If you’re going to make a movie about wish fulfilment, 1980s America is about as good as you can do for a setting outside the Arabian Desert. “Wonder Woman 1984,” Patty Jenkins’ time-travelling sequel to 2017’s record-setting “Wonder Woman,” shuttles Gal Gadot’s warrior to the era of Regan economics, parachute pants and “Rio.” All have their cameos in “Wonder Woman 1984,â�...

Print Perhaps the most surprising thing about the program announcement for the 2021 Sundance Film Festival released on Tuesday is how much it looks like the program announcement for any other year of the Sundance Film Festival. The festival will be dramatically changed in its form from previous years. Taking place over seven days instead of the usual 11, the 2021 festival will showcase 72 feature films, down from around 120 in 2020. The event will be an ambitious hybrid, decoupled from its usua...

Sundance 2021: a low-key lineup announced for semi-virtual festival Benjamin Lee The 2020 Sundance film festival will be a stripped back, mostly virtual edition following in the footsteps of other festivals that have been forced to redefine themselves in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. The lineup, featuring 72 feature films in comparison to last year’s 118, will be one of its most diverse yet with 47% of them directed by one or more women, 42% from film-makers of colour and...

Wonder Woman 1984 review – queenly Gal Gadot disarms the competition Peter Bradshaw © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Clay Enos/AP Here is an enjoyable Amazonian incursion into Reagan’s America – but the real wonder is Kristen Wiig, playing the warrior queen’s resentful and emotionally wounded antagonist, Barbara Minerva. It is 1984, that pre-Covid utopian era of big hair, rolled-up jacket sleeves and imminent nuclear war, and Diana of Themyscira is getting her s...