A24 has gotten on the board on the Sundance Movie Pageant. The indie distributor is closing an acquisition deal for Sorry, Child. Scripted and directed by Eva Victor, the drama premiered Monday night time at Eccles. It change into the third movie in sight of a deal, with extra coming. Movie was fought over by a number of suitors, and bought for round $8 million, Deadline hears.
The logline: One thing unhealthy occurred to Agnes. However life goes on … for everybody round her, at the least. The movie stars Eva Victor, Naomi Ackie, Lucas Hedges, John Carroll Lynch, Louis Cancelmi, and Kelly McCormack. Producers are Adele Romanski, Mark Ceryak, and Barry Jenkins.
UTA Impartial Movie Group structured the financing and is brokering the deal on behalf of the filmmakers.
That marks the third deal of the competition. Every one has been a wrestle, however that was not sudden given the tenuous state of the indie enterprise, and the reminiscence of the Southern California wildfires contemporary in everybody’s minds.
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It’s too simple to guage the state of the ecosystem from one competition. When Kiss of the Spider Woman sells — Jennifer Lopez, Diego Luna and Tonatiuh flip in nice performances, so a deal appears doubtless — its price range will imply a excessive acquisition value, which is able to in all probability break the Sundance file. Different movies are negotiating if at a snail’s tempo, so the again of the baseball card on this fest will look okay even when not spectacular.
I’ve been at this a very long time — I bear in mind breaking the one Toronto deal in 2008 for A Single Man when the monetary collapse hit and most studios bailed and folded their indie shingles. Now, that was a second of actual concern, as was the worldwide pandemic, a yr’s shutdown due to labor strife and these cursed fires. However Robert Redford’s authentic imaginative and prescient remains to be true, even when Park Metropolis is not an excellent place and different cities are knocking. A number of the largest filmmakers and actors in Hollywood had been launched by this competition, and that custom will proceed.
