Sundance Film Festival: Day 3

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Yesterday, Christine Jeff’s Sunshine Cleaning and Jonathan Levine’s The Wackness premiered at the Racquet Club to a packed crowd of distributor heads carrying their checkbooks, but so far the only movement has been for doc films – HBO (no longer partnered with Picturhouse) picked off Black List: Volume One and The Weinsteins picked up world right excluding North America for Marina Zenovich’s Roman Polanski: Wanted and
Desired
. You can be sure that major deal announcements are nano-hours away from happening with the lawyers proof-reading the paper load. Today we have: the Morgan Spurlock marketing machine via slashfilm.com (see below) and a couple of Variety reviews: The Wackness (positive), In Bruges (average) and Good Dick (negative).

Morgan Osama

Eric Lavallée
Eric Lavalléehttps://www.ericlavallee.com
Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist, and critic at IONCINEMA.com, established in 2000. A regular at Sundance, Cannes, and Venice, Eric holds a BFA in film studies from the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013, he served on the narrative competition jury at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson’s "This Teacher" (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). He is a Golden Globes Voter, member of the ICS (International Cinephile Society), FIPRESCI and AQCC (Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma).

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