Final wrap up of Sundance deals
Edward
I ran across this article on The Film Collaborative blog. Many filmmakers have dreams of getting into Sundance and leaving with a distribution deal. There are legendary tales of the late night deals being made up on the mountain. I found this article hopeful because in recent years movies haven't been selling like they use to. Since the 2012 Sundance Film Festival every feature film in the US Dramatic Competition has found a US Distributor.
Final wrap up of Sundance deals – June 13th, 2012
This piece was researched, compiled and written by TFC associate Bryan Glick.
Back in March we looked at the films that were bought out of Sundance and since then the deals have kept coming, including some from major players like Sony Pictures Classics (SPC) and IFC.
Among the companies making fresh acquisitions, Tribeca Films nabbed North American rights to two US Dramatic competition entries, “The Comedy” and “For Ellen”. In fact every film in the US Dramatic Competition now has a US Distributor. SPC secured worldwide rights to “Smashed” for $1,000,000 and Sony Worldwide opened their eyes to US Rights and Canada Ancillary for “The First Time”. Music Box bought “Keep The Lights On” for North America, in what is certainly a change of pace from their typical fare. Meanwhile “Filly Brown” became the fourth film to get bought by Indomina who is making it clear that they are presence in the indie world. They have worldwide rights for the film. The Late Adam Yauch’s Oscilloscope got the North American rights to the opening night film “Hello I Must Be Going” and IFC showed they could acquire the entire festival if they wanted to by adding North American rights for “Save the Date” to their packed slate, and finally Wrekin Hill took a chance on “The End of Love” for which they now hold North American rights.
Read the entire article and see the box office grosses.