The ultimate Sundance Movie Pageant in its dwelling of over 40 years, Park Metropolis, Utah, will probably be lacking a key venue from the pageant’s storied historical past: The Egyptian Theatre on Essential Road is not going to return for the 2026 version earlier than Sundance strikes to Boulder, Colorado, beginning in 2027.
The theater, opened on Christmas Day 1926, has served as a stay performing arts area along with serving as a cinema. It was conspicuously ignored of the “What to Know Concerning the 2026 Sundance Movie Pageant” letter written by the director of the Sundance Movie Pageant and Public Programming, Eugene Hernandez, that press obtained July 14.
The Egyptian Theatre’s government director Randy Barton informed Park Metropolis’s native NPR affiliate KPCW that the venue was certainly sitting out the ultimate Sundance altogether and is “not arrange for movie” in any respect. It is going to be completely a live-performance area going ahead.
A supply from Sundance tells IndieWire, although, that there’s a want to discover a second within the remaining Park Metropolis pageant to acknowledge the shared historical past and legacy that the pageant has with the Egyptian, regardless that it’s going to certainly not be a venue this time round.
That second of acknowledgment could be effectively price it: The Egyptian is the place so many iconic moments in Sundance historical past have taken place. As longtime dwelling of the Midnight part, it’s the place “The Blair Witch Undertaking” and “Hereditary” premiered. To not point out many others, together with Lars von Trier’s “Nymphomaniac,” which had a secret screening there at Sundance upfront of its official premiere at Berlin. Earlier than the Eccles Theater opened on the Park Metropolis Excessive Faculty, the Egyptian was the pageant’s showcase theater.
In higher information, nevertheless, the Yarrow Theatre will probably be returning now that Slamdance has left Park Metropolis for Los Angeles. The Sundance rival took over the theater, situated within the Yarrow Doubletree resort on Park Avenue, for the 2024 version of the pageant, and it sat empty in 2025, regardless of Sundance transferring its pageant headquarters and press badge pickup there this yr. (The pageant headquarters will return to the Sheraton, additional away, in 2026, nevertheless.) The final time the Yarrow Theatre was a part of Sundance was in 2023 when it operated beneath the identify “The Park Avenue Screening Room” and premiered movies corresponding to Doug Liman’s nonetheless unreleased Brett Kavanaugh documentary, “Justice.”
Additionally, regardless of being completely closed the remainder of the yr — as indicated by Google, its elimination from proprietor Metropolitan Theatres’ web site, and the reporting of an IndieWire supply who was lately on the bottom in Park Metropolis — the Vacation Village Cinemas will reopen beneath a particular association only for Sundance 2026, because it additionally did in 2025.
Different screening venues for Sundance 2026 would be the Eccles Theatre, Library Heart Theatre, The Ray Theatre, and Redstone Cinemas.