2012 Sundance Film Festival: Day 2

2012 Sundance Film Festival: Day 2

Day 2 links!

IndieWire: Magnolia buys The Queen of Versailles

IndieWire: Why Malik Bendjelloul’s ‘Searching for Sugar Man’ Was the First Buy of Sundance 2012

IndieWire: Sony Classics acquires Sugar Man

IndieWire: ‘Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie’ Inherits the ‘Dumb and Dumber’ Throne

NY Magazine [Vulture]: How Did the First-Day Movies Fare?

THR: Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim Skewer ‘Douchey’ Hollywood in Their ‘Billion Dollar Movie’ (Q&A)

THR: ‘Beasts of the Southern Wild’ Has Buyers Roaring

THR: Tears and Anger as Peter Jackson’s ‘West of Memphis’ Premieres

THR: Hello I Must Be Going: Sundance Film Review

THR: ‘Buried’ Director Unveils New Thriller ‘Red Lights’

New Online Hub ‘Slated’ Launches

Total Film: Day 2 notes

24 Frames: Bawdy flicks with chicks, but don’t say ‘Bridesmaids’

24 Frames: Meaty roles for black actors in ‘Middle of Nowhere’

Photo from Franklin Leonard at the Festival:

Franklin emailed this: “btw first discovery of the Fest: BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD. just beautiful and bursting with humanity. the young actress who stars, Quvenzhane Wallis, brought the house down.” That’s confirmed by the THR report above.