Reported from Park City by Vanessa Juarez, Gregory Kirschling, Whitney Pastorek, Missy Schwartz, Christine Spines, and Adam B. Vary

News flash from Sundance, day 7: On Wednesday, the festival found itself fully over the hump, past its point of no return. The final weekend beckoned. Crowds had dissipated. Sales slowed again (the only ones being the low-cost acquisitions of festival faves American Teen and Frozen River). Swag suites closed shop. And tumbleweeds would have been blowing through town — if it weren't a-hundred-million degrees below zero! To wit, highlights from day 7 in Park City...

Chilling out
The cold may slow things down for some people (heh, anybody wanna go for a jog?), but the stars kept zipping through EW's interview seat. Charlize Theron, for instance, was in town promoting her latest dark drama, Sleepwalking, in which she plays a negligent mother to Bridge to Terabithia's AnnaSophia Robb. The Oscar winner thoughtfully ruminated on the roles that she's chosen and how Hollywood portrays women on film.

But, seriously
Staying on the darker side of things, Ray Romano — yes, he whom everybody loves — popped by to talk about his move far, far away from sitcoms with his pitch-black comedy The Last Word, costarring Wes Bentley and Winona Ryder. Think he's joking? Try again: The film has to do with a writer who pens other people's suicide notes. Now, that's cold.

Staying warm
Seeking heat — of the Fahrenheit and, you know, the buzz variety — EW reporters hit Park City's theaters to get all sorts of scoop and audience reaction to movies like Hamlet 2 (the biggest sale of the festival so far, at $10 million) and A Raisin in the Sun. (Ahh, the sun.) Meanwhile, our critic went into the deserts of Super Size Me director Morgan Spurlock's Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden? and came out thinking — well, besides, &#%!$&*%# it's cold outside! — that a sophomore slump had struck.

Still, the fun never ends
And back in EW headquarters, staffers kept cozy, shooting and editing videos from the first half of the festival (hey, Felicity Huffman, love your scarf!), and blogging about things like ultra-late deadlines, the eye-bulgingly attractive cast of A Raisin in the Sun, and anxious filmmakers. Oh, and tumbleweeds.

(Compiled by Joshua Rich)