Deals and acquisitions in the books from the 2012 Sundance Film Festival:
| SUNDANCE 2012 DEAL REPORT | ||||
| MOVIE | DIRECTOR | STARS | STUDIO | AMOUNT |
| The Words | Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal | Bradley Cooper, Zoe Saldana, Jeremy Irons, Olivia Wilde, and Dennis Quaid | CBS Films | $3.5 million |
| The Queen of Versailles | Lauren Greenfield | N/A (documentary) | Magnolia Pictures | Undisclosed |
| Searching For Sugar Man | Malik Bendjelloul | N/A (documentary) | Sony Pictures Classics | Undisclosed |
| Black Rock | Katie Aselton | Kate Bosworth, Lake Bell, and Katie Aselton | LD Distribution | $1 million |
| The Surrogate | Ben Lewin | John Hawkes, Helen Hunt, and William H. Macy | Fox Searchlight | <$6 million |
| [Multi-movie deal] | Kevin Smith | N/A (distribution deal) | Phase 4 | Undisclosed |
| Beasts of the Southern Wild | Benh Zeitlin | N/A (non-professional actors) | Fox Searchlight | Undisclosed |
| Celeste and Jesse Forever | Lee Toland Krieger | Rashida Jones, Andy Samberg, Emma Roberts, Elijah Wood, Will McCormack, and Ari Graynor | Sony Pictures Classics | $2 million |
| For a Good Time, Call [DL] | Jamie Travis | Nia Vardalos, Sugar Lyn Beard, Lauren Miller, Ari Graynor, and Justin Long | Focus Features | $2 million |
| Indie Game: The Movie [DL] | Lisanne Pajot and James Swirsky | N/A (documentary) | HBO and Scott Rudin | Undisclosed |
| Me @ The Zoo [DL] | Chris Moukarbel and Valerie Veatch | Chris Crocker | HBO | Undisclosed |
| Red Lights [HR] | Rodrigo Cortes | Robert De Niro, Cillian Murphy, Sigourney Weaver, and Elizabeth Olsen | Millennium Entertainment | <$4 million |
| Arbitrage | Nicholas Jarecki | Richard Gere, Tim Roth, Susan Sarandon, and Brit Marling | Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions | $2 million+ |
| Robot & Frank | Jake Schreier | Frank Langella, Susan Sarandon, Liv Tyler, James Marsden, and Peter Sarsgaard | Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions and Samuel Goldwyn Films | $2 million+ |
| Liberal Arts | Josh Radnor | Josh Radnor, Elizabeth Olsen, Richard Jenkins, Allison Janney, John Magaro, and Elizabeth Reaser | IFC Films | $1 million+ |
| V/H/S [DL] | Adam Wingard, David Bruckner, Ti West, Glenn McQuaid, Joe Swanberg, and Radio Silence | N/A (found footage) | Magnolia Pictures | Undisclosed |
| Chasing Ice [DL] | Jeff Orlowski | N/A (documentary) | National Geographic Channel | Undisclosed |
| Wish You Were Here | Kieran Darcy-Smith | Joel Edgerton, Theresa Palmer, and Felicity Price | Entertainment One | Undisclosed |
| The Pact | Nicholas McCarthy | Caity Lotz and Casper Van Dien | IFC Midnight | <$1 million |
| How To Survive a Plague [HR] | David France | N/A (documentary) | Sundance Selects | Undisclosed |
| Simon Killer [Reuters] | Antonio Campos | Brady Corbet | IFC Films | Undisclosed |
| Middle of Nowhere [Reuters] | Ava DuVernay | Emayatzy Corinealdi and David Oyelowo | Participant Media and AFFRM | Undisclosed |
| Shadow Dancer | James Marsh | Clive Owen, Andrea Riseborough, Gillian Anderson, Aidan Gillen, and Domhnall Gleeson | ATO | Undisclosed |
| Compliance [DL] | Craig Zobel | Ann Dowd and Dreama Walker | Magnolia Pictures | Undisclosed |
| Nobody Walks [Reuters] | Ry Russo-Young | John Krasinski and Olivia Thirlby | Magnolia Pictures | Undisclosed |
| 2 Days in New York [HR] | Julie Delpy | Julie Delpy, Chris Rock, and Albert Delpy | Magnolia Pictures | Undisclosed |
| Lay the Favorite [Reuters] | Stephen Frears | Rebecca Hall, Bruce Willis, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Joshua Jackson, and Laura Prepon | The Weinstein Company | $2 million+ |
| The Comedy [DL] | Rick Alverson | Tim Heidecker | Rough House Pictures | Undisclosed |
| Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap [Reuters] | Ice-T | Ice-T | The Indomina Group | Undisclosed |
| Safety Not Guaranteed [HR] | Colin Trevorrow | Aubrey Plaza, Mark Duplass, Jake Johnson, and Karan Soni | FilmDistrict | $1 million+ |
Read more:
EW Special Coverage: Sundance 2012
Gallery: Sundance Star Portraits
Sundance Film Festival Awards: ‘Beasts of the Southern Wild,’ ‘The Surrogate’ honored
Sundance 2012: The 12 biggest stories of the indie film fest
