PARK CITY, Utah (AP) – The Associated Press is all over the Sundance Film Festival, which runs through Jan. 31, from its premieres to the Hollywood glitz. Here’s what they’ve seen and heard:
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HOW DANNY DEVITO ESCAPED THE BLIZZARD
Danny DeVito had a plan for escaping the east coast blizzard even before it hit: He headed west to the Sundance Film Festival.
“I’m only staying tonight. I’m leaving tomorrow. Yeah, I’ve got to go to LA,” said DeVito, who is among the stars of “Weiner-Dog,” which premiered Friday night. “I’m going west and I’ll get to LA and wait for the snow to become slush and then I’ll go to New York because I like it better when it’s really ick and you slosh through. Otherwise why buy boots?”
–By Kay Angrum
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DANIEL RADCLIFFE AND HIS ‘SWISS ARMY MAN’ CO-STARS BUNK TOGETHER
The cast and crew of the movie “Swiss Army Man” are so tight, they wanted to stay together while at the Sundance Film Festival.
“That to me is like the defining thing about this (film),” Radcliffe said Friday at the film’s premiere. “I really don’t think there is another film I’ve ever made where I’ve been like, ‘Yeah, let’s all stay in a house together for like five days.'”
The film’s co-director, Dan Kwan, described the group housing situation as “like heaven.”
“A premiere? Whatever. Dinner with my friends in a big house in a big house it’s like the dream,” Kwan said.
The cast may be marveling over their love fest but the movie is getting buzz as well. It stars Paul Dano as a man stranded on a deserted island who discovers a dead man’s body that washes up on shore, played by Daniel Radcliffe. The two set out on an adventure to help Dano’s character get home.
Radcliffe says playing dead is not easy.
“How can I look dead and look slightly embarrassed at the same time or, you know, what does that look like?’ So there was a lot of that to be worked out but 90 percent of that came from being in the room with Paul (Dano) and the (directors),” he said.
“We had a good time,” recalled Dano. “When you see it, we get to do some fun stuff, we get to do some silly stuff and, yeah. I spent like five weeks carrying Dan around.”
“And that’s the thing,” added Radcliffe. “I feel like there will be a lot of shots in the movie where people are like, ‘Oh, that’s obviously a dummy because Paul Dano wouldn’t have schlepped him around like that but he did.”
–By Alicia Rancilio