Dunst, Willis, Gere, Sarandon Are Sundance-Bound

First Released: December 5, 2011 4:56 PM EST Credit: Getty Images La, Calif. -- Caption Kirsten Dunst steps out in the Melancholia special screening throughout AFI FEST 2011 in Hollywood, Calif. on November 6, 2011 Itll be considered a busy shopping season at next several weeks Sundance Film Festival, whose star-studded premieres are available by potential theatrical marketers. Some premieres usually go into the independent-film showcase with U.S. distribution already arranged. But festival director John Cooper stated all of the premieres that Sundance introduced Monday is going to be searching for marketers. I dont think thats ever happened before, stated festival director John Cooper. It can make for an infinitely more exciting purchasers market, I believe. A minimum of, lively. Among Sundances large-title premieres: Kirsten Dunsts wedding romp Bachelorette, directed by Leslye Headland Bruce Willis and Catherine Zeta-Johnson Vegas bookie caper Lay the favourite, from filmmaker Stephen Frears Richard Gere and Susan Sarandons Wall Street saga Arbitrage, directed by Nicholas Jarecki Sigourney Weaver and Robert P Niro in Rodrigo Cortes paranormal thriller Red-colored Lights and actor-director Julie Delpys a couple of days in NY, co-starring Chris Rock inside a follow-as much as her 2007 romance a couple of days in Paris. Sarandon also stars alongside Frank Langella inside a second Sundance premiere, director Mike Schreiers geriatric comedy Robot and Frank, that also features Liv Tyler and James Marsden. Former X-Files partners David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson have premieres playing Sundance. Duchovny and Vera Farmiga star in Christopher Neils father-boy story Goat's, while Anderson is featured together with Clive Owen and Andrea Riseborough in James Marshs Irish terrorism tale Shadow Dancer. Director Spike Lee, who found Sundance together with his 2009 rock musical Passing Strange, returns with Red-colored Hook Summer time, the storyline of the Atlanta boy investing the summer time together with his grandfather in Brooklyn. Cooper stated the film is really a go back to exactly the same urban landscape Lee investigated 2 decades ago in Perform the Right Factor, using the director reprising the role he performed for the reason that film. Its very to his roots, greatly in the old-style. Hes even playing his old character, Mookie, Cooper stated. This is actually the same neighborhood. Overseen by Robert Redfords Sundance Institute, the festival runs Jan. 19-29 in Park City, Utah. Sundance opens with four films which were introduced a week ago one of the festivals dramatic and documentary competitions. It shuts and among the premieres revealed Monday, company directors John Klugman and Lee Sternthals literary plagiarism story What, starring Bradley Cooper, Jeremy Irons, Dennis Quaid and Olivia Wilde. The premieres, which screen from competition, likewise incorporate actor-director Josh Radnors campus romance Liberal Arts, co-starring Elizabeth Olsen and Allison Janney Timothy Greenfield-Sanders aging supermodel documentary About Face, featuring Christie Brinkley, Paulina Poriskova and Christy Turlington Rory Kennedys Ethel Kennedy portrait Ethel and 2 musical documentaries an as-yet-untitled Paul Simon documentary from director Joe Berlinger, and rapper Ice-Ts Something From Nothing: The skill of Rap, featuring Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, Eminem, Kanye along with other entertainers. The premieres present strong roles for ladies, stated Trevor Groth, the festivals programming director. Included in this: Michael Ramblers place of work tale Cost Check, starring Sundance regular Parker Posey Lee Toland Kriegers divorce romance Celeste and Jesse Forever, with Rashida Johnson, who also co-authored the film and Frears Lay the favourite, with Rebecca Hall within the lead alongside Willis and Zeta-Johnson. Dunsts Bachelorette, co-starring Isla Fisher and Lizzie Caplan, and director Jamie Travis phone-sex farce For a great time, Call , starring Ari Graynor and Lauren Anne Burns, are raunchy comedies that may need the prosperity of last summer season R-ranked female romps Bridesmaids and Bad Teacher. Both compiled by women, both very funny and pretty crazy for your kind of comedy, Groth stated. Happening to kind of follow within the wake of the prosperity of Bridesmaids, that appears to possess opened up some doorways for creating female comedies outdoors the standard romantic comedy. I believe both of these are actually likely to pop. Copyright 2011 through the Connected Press. All privileges reserved. These components might not be released, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.