A Quick and Dirty Look at the Sundance Sales So Far

Posted by Dr. Cole Abaius (cole.abaius@filmschoolrejects.com) on January 29, 2010 Share

Instead of getting all wordy on you (considering the massive hangover I got from playing 13 chess games, 4 games of scrabble, 2 Risk rounds, and one epic match of Calvin Ball simultaneously last night), I figure you’d rather just get a snapshot of who bought what and for what amount and who slept with who to make it happen.

Here you go:

  • Focus Features bought The Kids Are All Right (the Julianne Moore/Mark Ruffalo flick about a sperm donor to a lesbian couple becoming a member of the family) for $4.8 million.
  • Hannover House bought Twelve (the drug/murder drama version of “Gossip Girl” featuring a cast member from “Gossip Girl”) for $2 million.
  • Newmarket bought Hesher (the much-lauded Joseph Gordon-Levitt anarchist/home-made tattoos movie) for $1 million.
  • Lionsgate bought Buried (that movie where Ryan Reynolds is in a box the whole time and I owe Neil ten bucks because I didn’t think it would get distribution) for $3.2 million.

I’ll add more to the list as they come in.

Now, I leave it to you simply to argue over whether you want to see those films.

What do you think?


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  • lizard6
    I think I already saw buried. Wasn't it the season 5 finale of CSI directed by Quentin T.
  • Jeff R Hall
    I'd ask instead, are any of these sales surprises? Are there any films that people thought would be purchased that were not?
  • I'm interested to see if the stoner comedy 'High School' sells. The trailer looked funny, and the premise (valedictorian fails drug test, so he needs to get the entire school also to fail the test), but whenever I google the title looking for reviews all I get are high school musical links, which i'm definetly not looking for.
  • Angelo
    I have to see Buried... I just cant imagine something this simple actually working... My mind has some thoughts of how you could pull this off but I am still skeptical. Ill have to see it to believe it.
  • Cole_Abaius
    I got to see a flick a few years back called "The Quietest Sound" which was a single, straight-on shot for 71 minutes straight.

    And it was incredible. Brilliant movie.

    You'd be surprised what some filmmakers can do with limited space or range of motion. It all comes down to the writing and acting at a certain point.
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