11 Things We Learned At Sundance 20182 of 11
Sales Have Been Slow
Aside from a headline-grabbing purchase of Assassination Nation for a reported $10+ million, only about a dozen films were picked from this year’s crop in the first week of the festival. More titles will be acquired, but it’s a different story than last year, when The Big Sick sold for $12.5 million, Patti Cake$ sold for $9.5 million, and our acquisitions list topped 40 titles overall. The coming days and weeks will reveal the end result.
See the full list of Sundance 2018 acquisitions
Aside from a headline-grabbing purchase of Assassination Nation for a reported $10+ million, only about a dozen films were picked from this year’s crop in the first week of the festival. More titles will be acquired, but it’s a different story than last year, when The Big Sick sold for $12.5 million, Patti Cake$ sold for $9.5 million, and our acquisitions list topped 40 titles overall. The coming days and weeks will reveal the end result.
See the full list of Sundance 2018 acquisitions