Major players such as Netflix, Warner Bros. Discovery and Amazon aren’t writing big checks as freely as they once did.
. Other films that will leave the festival with distribution include “A Little Prayer,” which sold to Sony Pictures Classics, and the documentaries “Kokomo City” and “Little Richard: I Am Everything,” both of which were picked up by Magnolia. But as Sundance closes its first in-person edition in three years, there are several films that are still looking for buyers.
“The mix of buyers and the level of dealmaking shows that the market is super healthy,” notes CAA Media Finance’s Christine Hsu. WME’s McIntosh also highlighted the range of bidders – from deep-pocketed Apple to the indie platform Mubi — had all acquired films at different price levels. She called this diversity of deals “essential to the survival” of the art house market.
Look for the negotiations to extend into the next few weeks or even months. Other potential bidders say they are hoping for the prices to drop as more time passes. That’s when they plan to strike. The fact that the festival was relying solely on closed captioning devices — viewed as outdated and inadequate technology in the disability community — has rankled many.
Richie Siegel, co-founder of Inevitable Foundation, a non-profit that advocates on behalf of disabled screenwriters, was aghast by the conversation that sprung up in the wake of the walkout, with some suggesting that open captions will hurt potential sales.
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