2010 http://www.indietalk.com/showthread.php?t=34549
2011 http://www.indietalk.com/showthread.php?t=37696
IDK why I haven't done 2012s. ??? to me. Something else to do, I suppose.
Maybe while I'm waiting for these 2013s to goto DVD!
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2013 Sundance film list: http://www.imdb.com/list/qRXz0oASzug/
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/sundance-2013-don-jons-addiction-414675
http://insidemovies.ew.com/2013/01/22/sundance-2013-the-deal-report/
2011 http://www.indietalk.com/showthread.php?t=37696
IDK why I haven't done 2012s. ??? to me. Something else to do, I suppose.
Maybe while I'm waiting for these 2013s to goto DVD!
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2013 Sundance film list: http://www.imdb.com/list/qRXz0oASzug/
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/sundance-2013-don-jons-addiction-414675
"Relativity Media’s colossal deal ($4 million upfront and a $25 million prints-and-advertising commitment) for Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s racy directorial debut, Don Jon’s Addiction.
Fox Searchlight bought the dramedy The Way, Way Back for $9.75 million.
at least four commanded $1 million-plus: Pussy Riot — A Punk Prayer (HBO Films), The Summit (Sundance Selects), Twenty Feet From Stardom (The Weinstein Co.’s Radius label) and Blackfish (Magnolia Pictures and CNN Films).
Fruitvale surprised as The Weinstein Co. paid $2.5 million for the quiet drama with a low-profile cast.
Michael Winterbottom’s The Look of Love went to IFC Films,
Radius bought the drama Concussion,
and UTA’s Rena Ronson orchestrated a bidding war for Jerusha Hess’ Austenland, which went to Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions for $4 million-plus.
Sony Pictures Classics acquired Kill Your Darlings for just south of $2 million,
while CBS Films acquired the coming-of-age drama Toy's House
and eOne Distribution paid low seven figures for U.S. rights to the horror film We Are What We Are."
Fox Searchlight bought the dramedy The Way, Way Back for $9.75 million.
at least four commanded $1 million-plus: Pussy Riot — A Punk Prayer (HBO Films), The Summit (Sundance Selects), Twenty Feet From Stardom (The Weinstein Co.’s Radius label) and Blackfish (Magnolia Pictures and CNN Films).
Fruitvale surprised as The Weinstein Co. paid $2.5 million for the quiet drama with a low-profile cast.
Michael Winterbottom’s The Look of Love went to IFC Films,
Radius bought the drama Concussion,
and UTA’s Rena Ronson orchestrated a bidding war for Jerusha Hess’ Austenland, which went to Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions for $4 million-plus.
Sony Pictures Classics acquired Kill Your Darlings for just south of $2 million,
while CBS Films acquired the coming-of-age drama Toy's House
and eOne Distribution paid low seven figures for U.S. rights to the horror film We Are What We Are."
http://insidemovies.ew.com/2013/01/22/sundance-2013-the-deal-report/
"FEATURE FILMS:
• Don Jon’s Addiction, written, directed, and starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as a porn addicted lothario, sold for $4 million to Relativity Media, with a reported $25 million promotional commitment. [EW, Deadline]
• The Way, Way Back, a coming-of-age comedy starring Steve Carell, Sam Rockwell, Toni Collette, Allison Janney, and Maya Rudolph, and written-and-directed by The Descendants‘ Oscar-winning scribes Nat Faxon and Jim Rash — sold for a whopping $9.75 million to Fox Searchlight. [THR, Deadline]
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• Austenland, a comedy starring Keri Russell and Jennifer Coolidge about a resort where everyone behaves as if they’re in a Jane Austen novel, sold to Sony for just over $4 million, with Sony Pictures Classics handling U.S. distribution. [THR]
• Fruitvale, starring Michael B. Jordan (Chronicle) and Octavia Spencer in a docudrama about the last day in the life of a man who was killed at a San Francisco subway station on New Year’s Eve, sold to The Weinstein Company, for just over $2 million. [Deadline]
• The Spectacular Now, about a romance between an outgoing high schooler (Project X‘s Miles Teller) and his shy classmate (The Descendants‘ Shailene Woodley), sold to A24 for low seven figures. [Deadline, Variety]
• Concussion, about a lesbian housewife (Robin Weigert, from HBO’s Deadwood) who begins to lead a double life after she’s hit in the head with her son’s baseball, sold to RADiUS-TWC, for low seven figures. [EW]
• The Look of Love, a biopic of British adult establishment proprietor and publisher Paul Raymond (Steve Coogan), sold to IFC Films for an undisclosed sum. [Variety]
FEATURE DOCUMENTARIES:
• Twenty Feet From Stardom, about the lives of backup singers, sold to RADiUS-TWC for an undisclosed sum. [EW]
• Pussy Riot — A Punk Prayer, about the Russian punk protest band famously arrested and imprisoned after an anti-government demonstration in a Russian church, sold to HBO Documentary Films for an undisclosed sum. [EW]
• Blackfish, about how the practice of keeping killer whales in captivity may have led to the death of a Sea World trainer by a killer whale called Tilikum, sold to CNN Films and Magnolia Pictures for an undisclosed sum. [Deadline]
• The Summit, about how 11 experienced mountain climbers either died or went missing during the same 48 hour period near the summit of K2 (the second highest mountain peak in the world), sold to AMC Networks’ Sundance Selects for an undisclosed sum. [Deadline]
• Dirty Wars, about the covert war on terror, sold to AMC Networks’ Sundance Selects, for an undisclosed sum. [Deadline]
• History of the Eagles, from director Alex Gibney (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room) that’s either about the history of the regal bird or the famed rock band (hint: it’s the latter, just want to be sure you’re paying attention), sold to pay-cable network Showtime for an undisclosed sum. [Deadline]"
• Don Jon’s Addiction, written, directed, and starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as a porn addicted lothario, sold for $4 million to Relativity Media, with a reported $25 million promotional commitment. [EW, Deadline]
• The Way, Way Back, a coming-of-age comedy starring Steve Carell, Sam Rockwell, Toni Collette, Allison Janney, and Maya Rudolph, and written-and-directed by The Descendants‘ Oscar-winning scribes Nat Faxon and Jim Rash — sold for a whopping $9.75 million to Fox Searchlight. [THR, Deadline]
GET EW ON YOUR TABLET: Subscribe today and get instant access!
• Austenland, a comedy starring Keri Russell and Jennifer Coolidge about a resort where everyone behaves as if they’re in a Jane Austen novel, sold to Sony for just over $4 million, with Sony Pictures Classics handling U.S. distribution. [THR]
• Fruitvale, starring Michael B. Jordan (Chronicle) and Octavia Spencer in a docudrama about the last day in the life of a man who was killed at a San Francisco subway station on New Year’s Eve, sold to The Weinstein Company, for just over $2 million. [Deadline]
• The Spectacular Now, about a romance between an outgoing high schooler (Project X‘s Miles Teller) and his shy classmate (The Descendants‘ Shailene Woodley), sold to A24 for low seven figures. [Deadline, Variety]
• Concussion, about a lesbian housewife (Robin Weigert, from HBO’s Deadwood) who begins to lead a double life after she’s hit in the head with her son’s baseball, sold to RADiUS-TWC, for low seven figures. [EW]
• The Look of Love, a biopic of British adult establishment proprietor and publisher Paul Raymond (Steve Coogan), sold to IFC Films for an undisclosed sum. [Variety]
FEATURE DOCUMENTARIES:
• Twenty Feet From Stardom, about the lives of backup singers, sold to RADiUS-TWC for an undisclosed sum. [EW]
• Pussy Riot — A Punk Prayer, about the Russian punk protest band famously arrested and imprisoned after an anti-government demonstration in a Russian church, sold to HBO Documentary Films for an undisclosed sum. [EW]
• Blackfish, about how the practice of keeping killer whales in captivity may have led to the death of a Sea World trainer by a killer whale called Tilikum, sold to CNN Films and Magnolia Pictures for an undisclosed sum. [Deadline]
• The Summit, about how 11 experienced mountain climbers either died or went missing during the same 48 hour period near the summit of K2 (the second highest mountain peak in the world), sold to AMC Networks’ Sundance Selects for an undisclosed sum. [Deadline]
• Dirty Wars, about the covert war on terror, sold to AMC Networks’ Sundance Selects, for an undisclosed sum. [Deadline]
• History of the Eagles, from director Alex Gibney (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room) that’s either about the history of the regal bird or the famed rock band (hint: it’s the latter, just want to be sure you’re paying attention), sold to pay-cable network Showtime for an undisclosed sum. [Deadline]"
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