In a deal for one of the most controversial titles at Sundance, Red Flag Releasing has acquired all North American rights to Reed Cowan's "8: THE MORMON PROPOSITION."
I missed this press release last week. Congratulations to Reed Cowan and company. They were very cool to us at the beginning of our Sundance project, and their participation was a big reason other filmmakers were willing to sit down with us at the outset.
In yet another Sundance deal, Roadside Attractions has picked up all North American distribution rights to writer/director Debra Granik's "Winter's Bone," toplining Jennifer Lawrence.
Roadside, run by indie veterans Howard Cohen and Eric D'arbeloff, was the victor of a bidding war for the drama-thriller, paying in the low- to mid-six figure range.
One suitor came in at the 11th hour with a higher offer for "Winter's Bone," but the filmmakers decided to stick with Roadside. Pact was closed midday Saturday.
Submarine's Josh Braun, who's repping the film, has been fielding interest since "Winter's Bone" premiered in dramatic competition at the Sundance Film Festival a week ago. Those circling included Samuel Goldwyn Films, Sony Pictures Classics, Apparition and the Weinstein Co, although not all submitted official bids.
Debra Granik's one of the filmmakers we were able to follow for our Sundance project this week. Sundance just posted the 'Winter's Bone'-related episode of "Living the Dream" on their YouTube channel, and I'll post it here this weekend.
"New Low" is part of Sundance's "Next" program, which focuses on sub-$500k budgeted features. We've got a couple of additional episodes with the writer/director Adam Bowers coming up, too.
Here's episode 2 of our Sundance web series, the first of three we've now done on "8: The Mormon Proposition." We keep getting great material thanks to our incredible crew and Adam Bowman's tireless and excellent direction. Several new webisodes went up on the Sundance YouTube channel today, and we should have a handful of new ones up tomorrow, too.
I haven't had a chance to post about this until now, but the reason I'm at Sundance 2010 is to produce a feature documentary about the filmmaker's experience of the festival by my non-scripted producer/director client, Adam Bowman. We'd been talking to the organizers about doing a series of webisodes throughout the festival, and we got the word Saturday afternoon that our stuff had been approved to be included on Sundance's YouTube channel. The last couple of days have been pretty intense, but our crew has been fantastic and we've definitely hit our stride.
We've got 7 episodes in the can now, all of which are available in the "Lost And Found" section of the Sundance YouTube channel here: http://bit.ly/5dZ5o0 I'm going to post them here as well in a series of posts. The first one is below, and I look forward to your thoughts.
UPDATED: P.S. Should have mentioned that "TUB," the short film highlighted in the below episode, is about a guy who impregnates his bathtub, which makes the comments in the episode's teaser a little more meaningful.
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