Sundance 2026/2012 // It's Such a Beautiful Day // Beasts of the Southern Wild

In today's episode, When Movies Met Movies discusses Sundance 2026 and takes a look back at Sundance 2012, with a deeper dive into It’s Such a Beautiful Day (2012) and the US Drama winner Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012). After a brief recap, we start off with some current news with the announcement that Legendary’s untitled Gundam film was acquired by Netflix (16:30) and AMC’s new 4DX theater in Houston (20:42). We then continue with the first look at Sam Mendes’ Beatles biopics (23:28) and the new trailer for The Drama (25:17). We the get to the special topic of the episode with a sneak peek at the films that premiered at Sundance in 2026 (28:55) and reflect on the Sundance premieres of 2012 (43:43), with a deeper look at It’s Such A Beautiful Day (53:09) and Beasts of the Southern Wild (1:10:52).You can reach us at [email protected] and find our socials at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://linktr.ee/whenmoviesmetmovies