Sundance

The award winners have been announced for the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. Like Crazy took home the Dramatic Grand Jury Prize, and Circumstance won the dramatic audience award.  Check out the full list of winners below: 2011 Sundance Film Festival Award Winners: The Grand Jury Prize: Documentary was presented to How to Die in Oregon,

Here is the first poster for Tom McCarthy’s new film Win Win that premiered at Sundance. McCarthy directed such films as The Station Agent and The Visitor. Synopsis: Struggling attorney Mike Flaherty (Paul Giamatti), who volunteers as a high-school wrestling coach, takes on the guardianship of an elderly client in a desperate attempt to

The Weinstein Co. is close to purchasing worldwide rights to writer-director Jacob Aaron Estes’ quirky drama The Details for about $8 million. This marks the second major purchase they have made at this year’s Sundance Fest. The dark comedy that stars Tobey Maguire, Elizabeth Banks, Laura Linney, Ray Liotta, Dennis Haysbert and Kerry Washington. Official Synopsis: It

The Irish action comedy The Guard is the latest film to be picked up at Sundance this year. Sony Pictures Classics is working to close a deal for domestic distribution rights for the film written and directed byJohn Michael McDonagh. The film stars Brendan Gleeson as a local cop who forced to assist an FBI

Knuckle which premiered at Sundance this year may already be getting a feature film version from HBO!HBO is currently in negotiations to remake the documentary Knuckle directed by Ian Palmer which is at Sundance this year. The doc is about two Irish families that settle a longstanding dispute by periodically engaging in bare knuckle

Paticipant Media announced today that they have acquired domestic distribution rights to Circumstance from first-time writer/director Mayam Keshavarz.The suspenseful film tells the story of forbidden love set in today’s Iranian youth culture. Check out the full press release below: PARTICIPANT MEDIA ACQUIRES NORTH AMERICAN RIGHTS TO “CIRCUMSTANCE”, SUSPENSEFUL TALE OF FORBIDDEN LOVE SET

Silent House gets picked up by Liddel Entertainment today, but is the film’s gimmick a scam?Mickey Liddell‘s Liddell Entertainment has picked up domestic and most world rights to the horror film Silent House after it’s premiere at Sundance.  The film is a remake of the Gustavo Hernandez-directed Uruguayan thriller La Casa Muda which premiered at

Here is a hilarious clip from their new comedy Cedar Rapids which premiered at Sundance. The film stars Ed Helms, John C. Reilly, Anne Heche, Isiah Whitlock Jr. (Sen. R. Clayton ‘Clay’ Davis from The Wire) Sigourney Weaver, Alia Shawkat, Rob Corddry, Stephen Root and more. It follows a dull and dimwitted Midwestern insurance salesman (Helms) who travels

IFC picked up distribution rights for The Ledge directed by Matthew Chapman today. The deal gives them US distribution rights somewhere in the low 7-figure range.  The Ledge, stars Charlie Hunnam, Liv Tyler, Patrick Wilson, Terrence Howard and Christopher Gorham. It follows a hotel manager (Hunnam) ready to leap to his death. Howard plays the detective trying to

Are you willing to pay $50 – $100 to see a movie? Kevin Smith is hoping his fans will and announced after the premiere of Red State at Sundance that he plans on taking his film on the road. He hopes to make back the budget of Red State on his own by taking the film on tour making

Deals happen just like that at Sundance. The Weinstein Company and Ron Burkle have made a huge purchase of the Paul Rudd comedy My Idiot Brother directed by Jesse Peretz. Earlier we reported that Like Crazy was bought for $4 million and I thought that was high. This deal just announced is even bigger, amounting to a minimum guarantee of $6 million-$7 million, and

Kevin Smith has revealed some cool news at the end credits of Red State, which states that “almost this entire cast will return in Hit Somebody.” This is the main reason that I want to attend Sundance, you never konw what is going to happen or who you are going to run into.

Margin Call has been picked up by Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions before it’s premiere at the Sundance Film Festival!Today it was announced by Steve Beeks of Lionsgate and Howard Cohen of Roadside Attractions that they have teamed to acquire and release J.C. Chandor‘s thriller, Margin Call for a 2011 release. The deal came together after an all

Elizabeth Olsen is getting some great reviews for her performance in Martha Marcy May Marlene and now she has her next starring role lined up in Rodrigo Cortes’ (Buried) new film Red Lights. Olsen has both Martha Marcy May and Silent House playing at Sundance this year. She sure knows how to pick her projects, her new film has an

Paramount Pictures has purchased Like Crazy from director Drake Doremus for $4 million after an all-night bidding session. This heartfelt drama stars Anton Yelchin and Felicity Jones as two young lovers who fall for each other when they are both in Los Angeles, but have to find a way to make the relationship work after her student visa

Universal Pictures has picked up a documentary from Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney about WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The film will be the first project involving Marc Shmuger since he left the chairman post at Universal. Shmuger and Gibney are producing. Shmuger is expected to reemerge as a producer at Universal. Gibney has directed such films