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Michel Hazanavicius Film ‘Final Cut’ Drops Out of Virtual Sundance

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Michel Hazanavicius’ film “Final Cut” has dropped out of its planned premiere at the Sundance Film Festival after the festival chose to move to a fully virtual format amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Hazanivicius, an Oscar winner for Best Picture winner “The Artist,” said he and the filmmakers fully support the festival’s decision but prefers to premiere the film in a theater with a live audience.

The film is also no longer live on the Sundance program website for 2022. “We fully support Sundance’s decision to move the festival to a virtual format, as the safety of audiences and filmmakers is of paramount importance,” the director and the filmmaking team said in a statement.

However, we believe that it is best to premiere ‘Final Cut’ in a theater with a live audience and have made the difficult decision to remove the film from this year’s festival.

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