As The Hollywood Reporter points out, the docs are grabbing distributor’s interests while the bigger fiction titles are definitely being sought out but not sold out. Two titles that were expected to create bidding wars (The Great Buck Howard and What Just Happened?) are probably being bargained for (Variety offers a complete scoop on how the the past couple of days have been processed among the head buyers. Doc films are the apparently hotter than all the gifts bags combined together (read Variety’s piece on stars snubbing the free stuff). Nanette Burstein’s docu American Teen has received tons of interest from the indie divisions: namely Fox Searchlight and Paramount Vantage. NYTime features a 56 year-old acotr finding life to be a biut more entertaining behind the camera: you can read more on Michael Keaton’s (The Merry Gentleman) directorial debut experience here. The Weinsteins are going all out full-promo style with a third poster release in as many days. Today we get an eyeful of George Romero’s Diary of the Dead and for those you might not know it: Lance Hammer’s The Ballast might be the best U.S Dramtic feature worth its weight in gold (read Variety’s review).
