The Sundance Film Festival has reached its halfway point and the sales market has been brisk thanks to streaming giants like Amazon and Netflix, who as expected, have been as active as anyone in Park City.
Open Road Films
North American rights for romantic comedy Home Again have landed at Open Road Films. The film starring Reese Witherspoon marks the feature directing debut for Hallie Meyers-Shyer.
Domestic rights and some foreign territories to the Johnny Depp thriller LAbyrinth have been picked up by Open Road Films. The film comes from a 2015 Black List script by Christian Contreras, who adapted Randall Sullivan’s book. The Infiltrator helmer Brad Furman is set to direct.
The Captain America: Civil War star is set to play the historic lawyer in his early years before he became a Supreme Court justice.
Danai Gurira is best known for her role as the samurai sword toting Michonne on TV’s The Walking Dead, but she will be taking a break from killing walkers to something more maternal as Afeni Shakur in the Tupac Shakur biopic, All Eyez On Me.
A chronicle of the life of rapper, Tupac Shakur.
A young Thurgood Marshall travels to Connecticut in the 1940s to defend a black chauffeur accused of sexual assault and attempted murder by his white employer. Chadwick Boseman will portray Marshall and Reginald Hudlin will direct a script from Jacob and Michael Koskoff.
Parody of the popular Fifty Shades Of Grey series created by E.L. James, which follows literature student Anastasia Steele as she gets roped into the mysterious and intriguing lifestyle of billionaire Christian Grey.
A round-up of today’s distribution sales, deals, and awards at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival.
Logline: Kept under wraps but centers on the 1990s investigation into ties between hip hop, street gangs and the LAPD.
Logline: A young man hopes to strike it rich by running drugs for a dealer.
A science teacher and his students living in a tight-knit community, in a remote part of Texas are living quiet, ordinary lives until the Old Testament descends on the world and they’re forced to fight for their lives.
Logline: Kept under wraps.
Logline: Follows a woman who turns to a new psychiatrist to cope with the anxiety of the upcoming release of her husband from prison and the love triangle that forms between the three of them.
Logline: An ex getaway driver in Witness Protective breaks the rules to drive his girlfriend to Los Angeles for a dream job, attracting the attention of the criminals after him.
Logline: Two best friend patrol cops in South Central film their work and personal lives, as they become heroes targeted by a Mexican cartel.
Logline: Ten DEA agents start dying one by one mysteriously after a mismatched enforcement operation.
Logline: In order to bring down a band of cold-blooded contract killers, an elite group of vigilantes is formed from the ranks of England’s select paramilitary operatives.
Logline: Story centers on a group of plane crash survivors who are stranded in the desolate forest, and are being hunted by a pack of wolves.
Logline: In the near future, Earth has been assimilated by an alien species of benevolent parasites. One such parasite is fused with a dying human in an attempt to locate the last pocket of surviving humans on Earth.
Logline: A young woman is arrested for a crime she did not commit and she is thrown into a world of terror and confusion
Logline: A single father is targeted by U.S. government agents because his body contains answers to important national secrets.
Logline: After losing his job, a chef opens a food truck to regain his mojo and get his family back together.
