Steve Jobs biopic to close Sundance Film Festival 2013
The Sundance Festival have announced the forthcoming Steve Jobs biopic – jOBS starring Ashton Kutcher – will close this year’s Sundance Film Festival.
jOBS is directed by Joshua Michael Stern, and features a supporting cast including Dermot Mulroney, Josh Gad, Lukas Haas and Matthew Modine.
Sundance organisers made the announcement on Monday afternoon (December 3), also confirming further non-competition world premiere screenings.
Daniel Radcliffe, Casey Affleck, Rooney Mara join big-name stars heading to Utah for next year’s festival, which boasts record number of female directors.
The Dark Knight Rises actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s directorial debut Don Jon’s Addiction will also premiere at Sundance, along with Before Midnight, Richard Linklater’s follow-up to Before Sunrise and Before Sunset.
Other movies debuting in the Premieres strand include Michael Winterbottom’s The Look of Love – a biography of adult magazine publisher and entrepreneur Paul Raymond – and Lovelace, which stars Amanda Seyfried as adult film star turned anti-pornography campaigner Linda Lovelace.
The 18 feature films announced in the Sundance Premieres strand are:
- A.C.O.D.
- Before Midnight
- Big Sur
- Breathe In
- Don Jon’s Addiction
- The East
- The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete
- jOBS
- The Look of Love
- Lovelace
- The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman
- Prince Avalanche
- Stoker
- Sweetwater
- Top of the Lake
- Two Mothers
- Very Good Girls
- The Way, Way Back
The 2013 Sundance Film Festival takes place between January 17 and 27 in Utah.
