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...According to Gilmore, other American film festivals cannot match the marketing draw of Sundance. Major studios flock to the tiny Utah town to survey the latest independent flicks, and if they’re lucky, nab the next sleeper hit for national distribution...
...When did Johnny ' s sleeping troubles start? A week ago. Had he been a good sleeper up to that time? Slept through the night starting at age two months, never had a nightmare. Any changes at home or at school? Everything has been normal. Any new stressors in the family? Nothing. What happened the day his sleeping problems started? He went to a soccer game in the morning then a birthday party that afternoon. Anything exciting happen at the birthday party? Not that I know of. It was a superhero party. They had jumped in a "superhero " bounce house, played...
...unheard-of.”Unheard-of, indeed—especially given that it was the first show he’d ever directed, and the first show many of the actors had ever done. But Hanley thinks inexperience, far from an impediment, can make a show into a sleeper hit.“’Picasso’ was an underdog success,” he says. “I think the most significant part of it is that I had five people on that stage that had never acted before.” Indeed, he prides...
...Antarctica's emperor penguins. For months, while the mother forages for food, the father struggles to keep the egg safe in a -80F chill. This French documentary, for which its heroic makers deserve the Lgion d'Honneur and cups of steaming cocoa, became a $77 million sleeper hit in North America. Now that it's winter, watch the film again on DVD, and be warmed...
...joke. The rest of you have actually watched the show. Adapted from a cheesy '70s Star Wars clone of the same name, Galactica (returning in January) is a ripping sci-fi allegory of the war on terror, complete with religious fundamentalists (here, genocidal robots called Cylons), sleeper cells, civil-liberties crackdowns and even a prisoner-torture scandal. The basic-cable budget sometimes shows in the production, but the writing and performances are first-class, especially Edward James Olmos as the noble but authoritarian commander in charge of saving the last remnants of humanity. Laugh if you want, but this story...