Director and writer, Hailey Gates, along with lead actors Alia Shawkat and Callum Turner of ‘Atropia,' drop in at our studio in Park City talk about the process adapting a short film, and turning it into a full length "screwball romantic comedy about the military industrial complex.

Cynthia Erivo, John Lithgow, Lauren Graham, Callum Turner, Dylan O'Brien, Juliette Lewis and more pose at TheWrap's Sundance portrait studio.

Alia Shawkat attends the premiere of "Atropia" during the Sundance Film Festival on Saturday, Jan. 25, 2025, at the Eccles Theatre in Park City, Utah. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)f

It’s never a bad thing when Channing Tatum shows up. Audiences in Park City spent nearly the entire running time of Saturday’s Sundance Film Festival premiere of the anti-war satire Atropia gasping and then melting into stunned laughter.

Mark E. Potts is the senior editor for video at the Los Angeles Times. A native of Enid, Okla., Potts graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a master’s degree in broadcast journalism. He has created and edited video for DreamWorks, YouTube, Microsoft, Sony and BET.

Sundance is the launchpad for many filmmakers, and each year the festival mints new directorial breakouts. This year, the festival is premieri

The Sundance Film Festival catalogue can be overwhelming to navigate, with around 90 feature films playing across 11 days.

While the Sundance Film Festival mulls a big move for 2027 , the 2025 program is under way. The event’s 41st edition kicked off January 23 in Utah, and you can look below for all of Deadline’s reviews from the fest so far.

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Night-sky tourism, or "noctourism," is set to be a major travel driver this coming year, Booking.com predicts. Why it matters: Utah has already been pushing stargazing hard, with a fast-spreading campaign to get parks, towns and resorts certified as " International Dark Sky Places ."

An aspiring actress in an army role-playing facility falls in love with a soldier in Hailey Gates' feature debut, which also stars Callum Turner and Chloë Sevigny.

In writer-director Hailey Gates’ directorial debut, she dives into the Bush-era culture of toxic masculinity, nationalism and Islamaphobia with an amusing and profoundly absurdist sense of satire. Set in 2006,