Bought & Sold: Zeitgeist takes 'Yangtze,' HBO buys 'Black List'

Word around the Yarrow this morning was focused on the first two smallish sales at the festival:

HBO Documentary Films confirmed that it scooped up "The Black List: Volume One," in which former New York Times critic Elvis Mitchell interviews noted black Americans such as dancer Bill T. Jones, comedian Chris Rock and Louis Gossett Jr.

Zeitgeist Films was spreading the word that it bought rights to "Up the Yangtze," director Yung Chang's travel up the famous river with locals as his country's government prepares to build the world's largest hydroelectric power station, displacing large populations and destroying historic archaeological sites in its wake.

-- Sheigh Crabtree

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HBO has fallen in popularity since canceling Deadwood. It no longer airs new movies on Saturday night, instead taking shows already shown on CINEMAX.

HBO has also offended viewers with its leftist talk shows, and comedy specials where all the comedian does is spew a string of offensive expletives.