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Hot Link: Handy $$ chart or Sundance '07 cash flow
Take this recommended read from the stable minds at Screen Daily and love it.
The U.K.-based film trade offers a Sundance preview not unlike others before it but this one's got a shiny toy inside (if film festival acquisition charts are your thing).
The story carries a recurring Sundance curtain-raiser theme this year: lightness of tone. The 121 feature-length films are still sight unseen -- to an 450,000 estimated en route to Utah -- so you can bet that sunshine-y early messaging is coming hard and heavy from festival programmers' mouths.
But push on through to Screen Daily's peerless acquisition chart (also posted below). Shop and compare. Tell us which '08 film will be the first to go for 10M+ this weekend in the comments section.
-- Sheigh Crabtree
FILMS ACQUIRED AT OR AFTER SUNDANCE 2007 | ||
| North | North | |
| American | American Gross | |
| Film (Sundance section) distributor | release date | to date |
| 1 Waitress (Spectrum) Fox Searchlight | May 2 | $19.1m |
| 2 Once (World Competition: Dramatic) Fox Searchlight | May 16 | $9.4m* |
| 3 No End In Sight (Competition: Documentary) Magnolia Pictures | July 27 | $1.4m |
| 4 In The Shadow Of The Moon (Competition: Documentary) ThinkFilm | Sept 7 | $1.1m |
| 5 Broken English (Competition: Dramatic) Magnolia Pictures | June 22 | $960,000 |
| 6 The Ten (Spectrum) ThinkFilm | Aug 3 | $769,000 |
| 7 Joshua (Competition: Dramatic) Fox Searchlight | July 6 | $450,000 |
| 8 Interview (Spectrum) Sony Classics | July 13 | $416,000 |
| 9 The Savages (Premieres) Fox Searchlight | Nov 28 | $383,000* |
| 10 Clubland aka Introducing The Dwights (Premieres) Warner Independent Pics | July 4 | $379,000 |
| 11 Crazy Love (Competition: Documentary) Magnolia Pictures | June 1 | $300,000 |
| 12 King Of California (Premieres) First Look Pictures | Sept 14 | $270,000 |
| 13 For The Bible Tells Me So (Competition: Documentary) So First Run Features | Oct 5 | $255,800* |
| 14 Starting Out In The Evening (Competition: Dramatic) Roadside Attractions | Nov 23 | $246,000* |
| 15 Eagle Vs Shark (World Competition: Dramatic) Miramax Films | June 15 | $221,000 |
| 16 Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten (World Competition: Documentary) IFC | Nov 2 | $240,482* |
| 17 My Kid Could Paint That (Competition: Documentary) Sony Classics | Oct 5 | $216,484* |
| 18 The Devil Came On Horseback (Spectrum) International Film Circuit | July 25 | $132,000 |
| 19 Send A Bullet (Manda Bala) (Competition: Documentary) City Light | Aug 31 | $122,000 |
| 20 Dedication (Spectrum) The Weinstein Company | Aug 24 | $92,000 |
| 21 Zoo (Competition: Dramatic) ThinkFilm | April 25 | $69,000 |
| 22 The Nines (Premieres) Newmarket | Aug 31 | $63,000 |
| 23 Finishing The Game (Midnight) IFC | Oct 5 | $52,000 |
| 24 War/Dance (Competition: Documentary) ThinkFilm | Nov 9 | $49,000 |
| 25 The Good Night (Premieres) Yari Film Group | Oct 5 | $22,400 |
| 26 The Great World Of Sound (Spectrum) Magnolia Pictures | Sept 14 | $20,000 |
| 27 Flying: Confessions Of A Free Woman (Special Screening) Artistic License | July 4 | $20,000 |
| 28 Grace Is Gone (Competition: Dramatic) The Weinstein Company | Dec 7 | $13,800* |
| 29 Crossing The Line (World Competition: Documentary) Kino | Aug 10 | $9,250 |
| 30 Slipstream (New Frontier) Strand Releasing | Oct 26 | $8,900 |
| 31 Protagonist (Competition: Documentary) IFC | Nov 30 | $8,200* |
| 32 Everything's Cool (Competition: Documentary) City Lights | Nov 23 | $4,890* |
| 33 Adrift In Manhattan (Competition: Dramatic) Screen Media | Sept 21 | $2,000 |
* indicates the film is still on release in North America, grosses are at Dec 9, 2007 | ||
| FILMS PREMIERED AT SUNDANCE 2007 WITH DISTRIBUTION IN PLACE | ||
| 1 The Last Mimzy (Special Screening) New Line | March 23 | $21.5m |
| 2 Black Snake Moan (Premieres) Paramount Vantage | March 2 | $9.4m |
| 3 Resurrecting The Champ (Premieres) Yari Film Group | Aug 24 | $3.2m |
| 4 Year Of The Dog (Premieres) Paramount Vantage | April 13 | $1.5m |
| 5 Rocket Science (Competition: Dramatic) Picturehouse | Aug 10 | $714,000 |
| 6 Trade (Premieres) Roadside Attractions | Sept 28 | $214,000 |
| 7 Smiley Face (Midnight) First Look Pictures | Nov 16 | $6,000** |
* indicates the film is still on release in North America, grosses are at Jan 6, 2008 ** still on release | ||
| UPCOMING RELEASES IN 2007-08 | |
| Nanking (Competition: Documentary) ThinkFilm | Dec 12*** |
| Teeth (Competition: Dramatic) Roadside Attractions | Jan 18 |
| How She Move (World Competition: Dramatic) Paramount Vantage | Jan 25 |
| The Signal (Midnight) Magnolia Pictures Midnight | Feb 22 |
| Chicago 10 (Premieres) Roadside Attractions | Feb 29 |
| Snow Angels (Competition: Dramatic) Warner Independent Pictures | March 7 |
| Under The Same Moon (Spectrum) Fox Searchlight | March 21 |
| Son Of Rambow (Premieres) Paramount Vantage | May 2 |
| Padre Nuestro (Competition: Dramatic) IFC | May 14 |
| Never Forever (Competition: Dramatic) Arts Alliance America/Prime Entertainment | 2008 tbc |
| Chapter 27 (Premieres) Peace Arch Entertainment | 2008 tbc |
| *** film had not opened at time of going to press | |
-- Sheigh 'Sunshine' Crabtree
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