A round-up of today’s distribution sales, deals, and awards at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival.
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Brie Larson
Story centers on Axel Freed, a university professor with a serious gambling addiction who owes his bookies a large sum of money. Unable to pay, they grow impatient, and when Freed finally scrapes enough money together, he decides to keep it and gamble it all away.
Logline: Kept under wraps.
Centers on Carol Danvers, an air force pilot whose DNA is fused with that of an alien during an accident. As a result, she is imbued with super powers of strength, energy project, and flight.
Story centers on Axel Freed, a university professor with a serious gambling addiction who owes his bookies a large sum of money. Unable to pay, they grow impatient, and when Freed finally scrapes enough money together, he decides to keep it and gamble it all away.
Kingsley and Larson join Daniel Radcliffe in the upcoming biopic.
Logline: Kept under wraps, but deals with King Kong’s origins on Skull Island.
The “127 Hours” actor may star in the adaptation of “Silver Lining Playbook” author Matthew Quick’s newest novel.
Logline: Kept under wraps.
Logline: A small town pot head discovers the sport of rowing, which works to help turn his life around.
Actress joins drama.
In talks to join comedy.
“Short Term 12” star in talks to join drama adaptation.
Only one will get the role, the rest will be…terminated!
“Short Term 12” star in talks to join remake.
Logline: Kept under wraps.
Top 10 have already dominated the indie circuit, and now set their eyes on world (box office) domination!
Logline: The story follows a 5-year-old who grows up in an 11-by-11 shed he believes to be the whole world as his young mother has shielded him from the truth that they are captives.
Logline: A woman who spent her childhood being drilled that monogamy is unrealistic by her depressed father, finds her “forever single” lifestyle threatened when she starts to fall for a successful sports doctor.
Follows a porn-addicted, modern day Don Juan who sets out to become a less selfish person after meeting a recently widowed older woman.
A hard-partying high school senior’s life changes when he meets a shy, insecure girl.
A counselor at a foster home begins to struggle with her own personal issues.
Follows a porn-addicted, modern day Don Juan who sets out to become a less selfish person after meeting a recently widowed older woman.
Logline: A married Broadway director falls for a prostitute-turned-actress and works to help her advance her career.
Logline: The story follows the intertwined lives of four people, who are all outsiders in their own right. However, in the wake of grieving over pain and loss in their lives, they come together to form the most unlikely family.
Logline: India rice farmers find their livelihood in jeopardy when a young American scientist creates a new strain of rice.
This week’s casting news!
Logline: A counselor at a foster home begins to struggle with her own personal issues.
Thesp on board for Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s directing debut!
Rising thesp to star in comedy.