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EXCLUSIVE: Amazon took the acquisitions market at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival by storm, making eight-figure deals for Late Night, Brittany Runs a Marathon and The Report, with another $5 million for Honey Boy. All of them were fine films, but the collective box office gross of around $26 million on films acquired…

UPDATED with adjusted weekend grosses. The specialty box office was fairly quiet this weekend, with a handful of releases and holdovers that were, at best, mild. Neon and Participant Media‘s Monos hit theaters in New York and Los Angeles on a total of five screens. Directed by Alejandro Landes, the Red Dawn-esque…

The writer/director behind Amazon Studios' Brittany Runs a Marathon, Paul Downs Colaizzo is a rare bird in this day and age. Bringing his first feature to the Sundance Film Festival this year, Colaizzo left Park City with a major prize (the Audience Award for Dramatic Features), and a $14 million deal to boot. The…

Brittany Runs a Marathon jumps into five New York and Los Angeles theaters this weekend ahead of a steady sprint nationwide in September. Amazon Studios picked up the title, starring Jillian Bell, following its Sundance premiere earlier this year. Fellow Sundancer Give Me Liberty from the festival's Next section heads…

Brittany Runs a Marathon — one of the big hits at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, which got a top price from Amazon Studios for its distribution — proves to be a real crowd pleaser as well as a certain star-making performance for Jillian Bell in the title role. Paul Downs Colaizzo makes his feature…

Women in the World and IFC Center unveiled their lineup for the very first 51Fest, an event that celebrates the voice, vision and stories of the female majority through compelling screenings and conversations, all by or about women. The inaugural festival takes place July 18-21 in New York City. 51Fest will open the…

In Paul Downs Colaizzo’s Brittany Runs a Marathon, we see change is possible — even for the hard-partying underemployed. In the new trailer for the Sundance Audience Award winner, we get to see the titular Brittany Forgler (played by the talented Jillian Bell) transform from an irresponsible 27-year-old who is…

EXCLUSIVE: Paul Downs Colaizzo, the writer-director whose feature film helming debut Brittany Runs a Marathon won the audience award at the Sundance Film Festival this year and landed a $14 million deal with Amazon in the process, has signed with CAA. Brittany, based on Colaizzo's roommate, stars Jillian Bell as a…

Based on the cast, Brittany Runs a Marathon seems like it would be a comedy, but when writer-director Paul Downs Colaizzo and stars Jillian Bell, Lil Rel Howery, Utkarsh Ambudkar, and Michaela Watkins came to the Deadline Studio at Sundance to talk about the film it leans more drama than comedy. The film, which…