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: ‘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
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.