Few protesters show at Sundance for Prop. 8 movie

(Park City, Utah) Despite rumored anti-gay protests, a Sundance Film Festival documentary about the Mormon church’s role in a 2008 California political battle over gay marriage played to a friendly audience on Sunday in Park City.

Only about two dozen gay marriage activists chanted – “Separate, church from 8″ – in …

Jim Carrey On Kissing Ewan McGregor: “A Dream Come True”

Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor were an item at the Sundance Film Festival, where their gay romance “I Love You Phillip Morris” premiered.

Carrey and McGregor steam up the screen with some hot and heavy necking.

What was it like for Carrey to lock lips with McGregor?

“A dream come true. I mean, look at the guy,” Carrey said, gesturing at McGregor during a question-and-answer session with the audience after the film’s Sundance premiere Sunday night. See Jim Carrey On Kissing Ewan McGregor: “A Dream Come True”

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One love, many escapes in ‘I Love You Phillip Morris’

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Jim Carrey, left, and Ewan McGregor play the real-life lovers who met behind bars.

Make no mistake: “I Love You Phillip Morris” is no “Brokeback Mountain.”

Sure, both are high-profile films that tell the story of two men sincerely in love. “Brokeback Mountain” came from Oscar-winner Ang Lee, well known for his finely etched studies of repressed human beings. “I Love You Phillip Morris,” on the other hand, is the directorial debut of longtime writing partners Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, best known for the Billy Bob Thornton comedy “Bad Santa,” about a misanthropic, drunken department store St. Nick and his partner in crime, an utterly profane homicidal dwarf.

“Brokeback Mountain” is based on a poignant Annie Proulx short story. “I Love You Phillip Morris” happens to be based on fact, the true-life tale of a onetime married police officer turned gay Texan con man, Steven Russell, who had a penchant for breaking out of prison on Friday the 13th and a mad passion for a fellow inmate by the improbable true name Phillip Morris. The $14-million film stars Jim Carrey as Russell and Ewan McGregor as his younger lover Morris and premieres tonight at the Sundance Film Festival. See One love, many escapes in ‘I Love You Phillip Morris’
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Jim Carrey’s gay movie among Sundance buzz titles

A star-studded cop drama like “Brooklyn’s Finest?” A high-profile animated opening-night film like “Mary & Max?” Jim Carrey’s turn as a gay man in “I Love You Philip Morris?”

Maybe.

A rough-hewn documentary about a popular rapper? A quiet drama about Middle East immigrants in the Midwest? A real-life story about men who attack dolphins?

Very likely.

As the Sundance Film Festival opens in this mountain resort on Thursday, buzz titles are springing from buyers’ lips, as they do every year. “Brooklyn’s Finest,” a reunion of “Training Day” partners Antoine Fuqua and Ethan Hawke, leads a pack of prominent titles seeking distribution, along with movies that follow this year’s trend toward one-word titles, including “Spread,” an off-color comedy starring Ashton Kutcher, and “Shrink,” a drama starring Kevin Spacey.

Buyers expect at least one or two films to go for solid seven figures, with one or two more pulling in respectable sales. One also can throw Shana Feste’s family drama “The Greatest,” Lone Scherfig’s period romantic comedy “An Education,” the Michael Cera-starring quasi-documentary “Paper Heart” and the Robin Williams-Bobcat Goldthwait collaboration “World’s Greatest Dad” into the mix.

But with high-profile movies flaming out at the festival or the box office last year — Barry Levinson’s “What Just Happened?” and Andrew Fleming’s “Hamlet 2,” respectively — and acquisition-minded distributors carrying thinner wallets, small movies might make the biggest splash. That especially will be true if a high-profile title gets even a small amount of negative attention.

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Queer Lounge rejects gay boycott

Rejecting calls by some gay activists for a boycott of the Sundance Film Festival, the gay-friendly Queer Lounge intends to return to Park City during January’s festival.

The decision by the Queer Lounge, which is an established hotspot for gays and heterosexuals, comes amid tensions spurred by Proposition 8, the ballot measure California voters passed against gay marriage.

There has been talk about a boycott of Sundance by people who link the Proposition 8 results to the Salt Lake City-based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It has been difficult, however, to gauge how deep the boycott groundswell is.

The Queer Lounge’s decision to press forward with its plans in Park City for 2009 provides an inkling that the boycott could not be as widespread as the supporters want. An executive with the Queer Lounge said gays and lesbians in the film industry support the lounge’s decision to return to Park City in 2009.

Ellen Huang, who is the founder and the program director of the Queer Lounge, said in an interview the not-for-profit organization is “galvanized” as Sundance approaches.

“It’s more important for us to be in Utah. It’s more important for us because of the passage of Prop 8 in California,” she said, adding, “There were actually a number of organizations looking to us to take the lead.”

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