Elizabeth Olsen became the breakout star (well, one of two breakout stars, the other being Brit Marling) of last year's Sundance Film Festival on the strength of two roles. The first was Sean Durkin's cult brainwashing drama Martha Marcy May Marlene, which hit theaters last fall to glowing reviews and serious Oscar buzz for Olsen's…
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Mike Fleming is reporting that Mickey Liddell's Liddell Entertainment has acquired distribution rights to the horror film Silent House. The film which premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, is a remake of the Gustavo Hernandez-directed Uruguayan thriller La Casa Muda which premiered at Cannes. The concept is simple, a girl (played by Elizabeth Olsen) gets…
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Does someone have a case of the Mondays? We understand. Going back to work sucks but while you probably had the weekend off, Slashfilm hasn't stopped working. If you can call watching movies non-stop working. Myself, Peter Sciretta and David Chen have been all over Park City Utah at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival which…
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For their sophomore film, the team that brought us the original Open Water, Chris Kentis and Laura Lau, chose a senior thesis to unveil at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. Silent House, a remake of a Uruguayan film by the same name, sounds simple enough: a girl, her father and uncle are terrorized in their…
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The Sundance Institute announced today that Chris Kentis and Laura Lau, the filmmakers behind the 2004 Sundance sensation Open Water, will return to the Sundance Film Festival with their next feature film -- Silent House will have its world premiere in the out-of-competition Park City at Midnight section. The movie, directed by Kentis and Lau…
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