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Jesse Eisenberg, Cheyenne Jackson, Chris Rock, et al. to Be Featured in Sundance Films

Chris Rock
(© Tristan Fuge)
Chris Rock
(© Tristan Fuge)

Additional films have been announced for The Sundance Film Festival, to be held in Park City, Utah, January 19-29, 2012, according to published reports.

Among the new selecitons are Paolo Sorrentino’s This Must Be the Place featuring Oscar winners and stage veterans Sean Penn and McDormand; Philip Dorling and Ron Nyswaner’s comedy Predisposed, starring Jesse Eisenberg and Oscar winner Melissa Leo, and Don Coscarelli’s “John Dies at the End,” featuring Paul Giamatti.


As previously announced, other selections include the film adaptation of Leslye Headland’s play Bachelorette, starring Kirsten Dunst, Isla Fisher, Lizzy Caplan, James Marsden, Adam Scott, and Kyle Bornheimer. Chris Rock is featured in Julie Delpy’s 2 Days in New York. Richard Gere, Susan Sarandon, and Tim Roth will appear in Nicholas Jerecki’s Arbitrage.

Ari Graynor and Chris Messina will be part of the cast of Celeste and Jesse Forever. Graynor will also appear in For A Good Time, Call…, alongside Justin Long and James Wolk.

David Duchovny, Vera Farmiga, Graham Phillips, Justin Kirk, and Ty Burrell will star in Goats, directed by Christopher Niel. Stephen Frears’ new film Lay the Favorite, will feature Catherine Zeta-Jones and Rebecca Hall, alongside Bruce Willis.

Josh Radnor, Allison Janney, and John Magaro will be in Radnor’s film, Liberal Arts. Parker Posey, Annie Parisse, and Cheyenne Jackson are part of the cast of Michael Walker’s Price Check.

Cillian Murphy, Sigourney Weaver, and Robert De Niro will be featured in Rodrigo Cortes’ Red Lights. Frank Langella and Susan Sarandon will appear in Robot and Frank. Andrea Riseborough, Aidan Gillen, and Gillian Anderson will appear in Shadow Dancer. Bradley Cooper, Jeremy Irons, Dennis Quaid, and Olivia Wilde star in The Words.

As previously reported, other stage veterans featured in Sundance films include Lauren Ambrose, Roger Bart, Blythe Danner, Paul Dano, Charles S. Dutton, Danny Glover, Helen Hunt, Megan Mullally, Julianne Nicholson, and Jason Ritter.