New movies by Stephen Frears and Spike Lee are among a star-studded line-up of world premieres scheduled for the Sundance Film Festival next month, organisers announced.
The big-name movies will appear in the Premieres section at the January 19-29 festival, the annual gathering of independent film-makers founded by Robert Redford and hosted in the Utah mountain resort of Park City.
The official competition will include over 30 US films and 26 foreign features and documentaries from around the world.
Mr Frears’s Lay the Favorite, starring Bruce Willis and Catherine Zeta-Jones, will feature in the out-of-competition section, as will Mr Lee’s Red Hook Summer, about a boy spending a summer in Brooklyn with his grandfather.
Others premieres on offer – all as yet without distribution deals – include wedding movie Bachelorette starring Kirsten Dunst, and Richard Gere and Susan Sarandon in a Wall Street saga Arbitrage, by Nicholas Jarecki.
Sigourney Weaver and Robert De Niro star in Rodrigo Cortes’s thriller Red Lights; and Chris Rock will co-star in 2 Days in New York, by Julie Delpy, a follow-up to her 2007 movie 2 Days in Paris.
Thelma and Louise star Ms Sarandon will also appear in the comedy Robot and Frank by director Jake Schreier, alongside James Marsden and Liv Tyler.
British director Mr Frears, whose movies range from My Beautiful Laundrette to Dangerous Liaisons and The Queen,will be gambling on his Las Vegas casino caper movie Lay the Favorite to entice festival-goers.
Mr Lee, director of films including Do the Right Thing and Malcolm X, tells the story in his new movie of a young Atlanta boy spending the summer in Brooklyn with his grandfather.
The official competition line-up for Sundance, announced last week, includes 16 US narrative feature films, 16 US documentaries, 14 non-US narrative movies and 12 non-US documentaries.
The foreign features include films from Japan, Brazil, Turkey, India, Australia, Britain and France, among others, while the documentaries include Danish, Israeli and Canadian movies.