Kelly Marie Tran is at Sundance for the second year in a row for Vera Miao’s horror, Rock Springs

Dear Gossips,

Hello from Toronto, currently the snow capital of Canada, where our record-breaking snowfall yesterday made headlines beyond our borders. I shoveled for three hours yesterday and at one point, after getting through a section of the sidewalk, I looked back 15 minutes later to see that at least an inch had fallen during that time. It was back up to my knees when I came back out after dinner, LOL.

Speaking of snow, the snowiest place for celebrities over the weekend, I guess, was the Sundance Film Festival for its final run in Park City, Utah before moving to Boulder, Colorado next year. Word is it’s warmer than usual in Park City right now which might explain why I’ve seen some people without coats on.

Park City is where we find Kelly Marie Tran, for the second year in a row. In 2025 she was there to premiere The Wedding Banquet, a romcom and in 2026 she’s at the festival again, and again with a project from an Asian American director, Vera Miao, featuring a mostly Asian cast, including Benedict Wong and Jimmy O Yang. The film is called Rock Springs, and it’s horror. Specifically it’s a horror story and a diaspora story, about a woman who moves into a town that was the site of the 1885 massacre of 28 Chinese miners by their white counterparts.

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If you’ve seen Train Dreams, just nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars, you’ll recall that the treatment of Chinese immigrants is also addressed in that film as Joel Edgerton’s character, Robert, is haunted by the memory of Fu Sheng, played by Alfred Hsing, a Chinese colleague murdered on the job site. Train Dreams also premiered at Sundance last year. And now Vera Miao is spotlighting yet another dark incident in American history involving Chinese laborers through her unique vision, a horror thriller with a familiar beat: a family in a new home, something sinister lurks in the woods. This time, and so much of the time, the monster is racism.

Here’s the Rock Springs cast and crew at the Sundance portrait studio.

Benedict Wong, Leslie Kwan, Ricky He, Kelly Marie Tran, Fiona Fu, Cardi Wong, Vera Miao and Jimmy O. Yang at Shutterstock And The Elvis Mitchell Suite 2026 Portrait Studio Presented By Rabbit Hole in Park City, Utah, January 25, 2026

You will note, Benedict is wearing one of the most coveted pieces of clothing in 2025 and again in 2026, the Adidas Tang jacket. Adidas released it again in new colourways and more styles but only available to the Chinese market, nowhere else. “Made in China” means something entirely different now than it used to. The jacket has been super viral all year, with foreigners blowing it up on TikTok on their trips to Hong Kong and the mainland, marveling about how much better the inventory is overseas, not just at Adidas but so many western brands who have been releasing capsules for specific territories, collaborating with local artists to represent the tastes of those cultures.

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Benedict is repping his Tang in olive green just a few weeks ahead of Lunar New Year on February 17. On quality and style, the Marty Supreme windbreaker doesn’t come close.