Sundance

Zac Efron is trying to graduate from High School Musical into more mature roles both in front of and behind the scenes.

He managed to shop around a film adaptation of a graphic novel called Fire this week at Sundance and inked a deal with Universal to star in and executive produce the thriller.

What's the most talked about movie at this year's Sundance? For sure, it is the Joan Jett biopic, The Runaways, starring Kristin Stewart, sans vampires.

We know it seemed like the big film awards show season just ended (Don't forget the Emmy Awards tonight!), but there's already a new Best Picture favorite.

In Adam, a beautiful, simple, heartbreaking film, Rose Byrne and Hugh Dancy play New Yorkers who meet in the laundry room of their glorious Manhattan brownstone. She’s lovely, he’s handsome, she’s a school teacher who wants to write children’s books, he’s got Asperger’s Syndrome, which essentially means he’s high functioning autistic. 

Whoa! The record scratches.

Adam was one of our favorite movies at Sundance and it hits theaters today.

Click here to find out why.

Hugh Dancy, our beloved Brit, talked to BlackBook this month about the problematic side of playing a man with Asperger's Syndrome in Adam (out August 7):

“This project was rife with opportunities for me to f**k it up enormously and, by doing so, prove my own limitations. To botch the whole thing would have been calamitous.”

In an interview with USA Today, Zooey Deschanel and Justin Gordon-Levitt discussed their onscreen chemistry and Zooey's habit of sticking with guys.

Fast-talking and slightly withdrawn, Fukunaga looks every inch the film school hipster you’d expect to find in an NYU coffee shop pontificating on Kurosawa’s oeuvre. And, about a year ago, he probably was.

Adventureland, which we saw at Sundance back in January, arrives in theaters today.

Is it a day at the amusement park or a trip on The Zipper after one too many corndogs?

Travel back in time to find out. 

—Sasha Perl-Raver