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The 5 Films Likeliest to Ignite a Sundance 2011 Bidding War

And so it begins: The 2011 Sundance Film Festival launches tonight with all the hype, hysteria and hosannas you’ve come to know and expect, an avalanche of movie-love from the racing heart of the Wasatch Mountains. Movieline will have troops on the ground as per custom, but before the first frame unspools, let’s take a step back and see what’s stimulating Park City’s real winter sports: The Sundance bidding wars.

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The 5 Films Likeliest to Ignite a Sundance 2011 Bidding War

Perfect Sense Trailer: Ewan McGregor and Eva Green Have a Cry-Off

In the wake of all those crazy-making I Melt With You teasers , what we really need from our Sundance previews right now is a vessel for some good old-fashioned character and story. The trailer for Perfect Sense , a festival premiere starring Ewan McGregor and Eva Green and directed by David Mackenzie, is not that vessel.

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Perfect Sense Trailer: Ewan McGregor and Eva Green Have a Cry-Off

And Here’s 15 Seconds of Thomas Jane Thrashing Around in the Sand

The despondent , face-ripping marvel that is I Melt With You went even crazier this afternoon wit the release of its latest… teaser? Experimental plug? Tormented curio? All of the above? Whatever you want to call this krazy klip , it features co-star Thomas Jane’s own headscratching riff on the “pain of the modern male psyche.” Because when Tom Jane hurts, he apparently takes it out on the desert.

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And Here’s 15 Seconds of Thomas Jane Thrashing Around in the Sand

DVD: Are We Allowed to Call Broadcast News a Classic Yet?

While Network is the movie that prophesied the future of corporate-controlled TV news, James L. Brooks’ 1987 Broadcast News was more zeitgeist-y. The shift toward happy-talk infotainment had been going on long enough that Brooks had satirized it in the 1970s on The Mary Tyler Moore Show , but the battle against what Holly Hunter’s character calls “the historic influence of Entertainment Tonight ” had not been so roundly lost as it is now.

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DVD: Are We Allowed to Call Broadcast News a Classic Yet?

Movieline’s Giving Away Tickets To See Jane Fonda In 33 Variations!

Good news for any Los Angeleno readers who saw medical marvel and veteran actress Jane Fonda present at Sunday’s Golden Globes: Movieline and Center Theatre Group are giving away tickets to see the two-time Oscar winner’s triumphant return to the stage in Moisés Kaufman’s 33 Variations .

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Watch 15 Random Seconds of Rob Lowe at His Most Tormented

The buzz on I Melt With You — director Mark Pellingon’s bleak thriller exploring ” the pain of the modern male psyche ” — is building ahead of its Sundance premiere next week. Or rather, it was building; now it’s a deafening boom of anticipation fueled by the most random Rob Lowe clip in the history of Rob Lowe clips. Click through and have a look.

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Here’s the Movie that Beat Ridley Scott and Kevin Macdonald to Their ‘Historic’ User-Generated Doc

So everyone’s gotten over yesterday’s Inception hype and has apparently moved on to something smaller called Life in a Day — a collaboration between directors Ridley Scott and Kevin Macdonald that will comprise a bundle of user-generated clips shot and uploaded to YouTube on July 24. The finished product will premiere next January at the Sundance Film Festival. Today’s PR blitz calls Life the “first user-generated feature-length documentary film shot on a single day” and a “historic global film experiment.” Which wouldn’t be so off-base — if it were true.

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Here’s the Movie that Beat Ridley Scott and Kevin Macdonald to Their ‘Historic’ User-Generated Doc