The second Friday at Sundance is a day when many observers have returned home. But the festival is not over, and our intrepid crew remains on the scene. Deals. The sight of Ashton Kutcher 's naked gigolo butt evidently convinced Anchor Bay Films that David Mackenzie's Spread was the movie for them. ...

Filed under: Sundance, Festival Reports, Cinematical Indie The second Friday at Sundance is a day when many observers have returned home. But the festival is not over, and our intrepid crew remains on the scene. Deals. The sight of Ashton Kutcher 's naked gigolo butt evidently convinced Anchor Bay F...

Filed under: Sundance, Festival Reports, Cinematical Indie Sundancers enjoyed unseasonably warm weather (41 degrees in the afternoon) as the festival headed toward its concluding weekend. Deals. After picking up the Nazi zombie flick Dead Snow, IFC Films added another comedy to its roster, acquiring...

Wednesday featured a fight between a film critic and a producer's rep that became physical -- detailed by Erik Davis -- which doesn't sound as much fun as a celebrity food fight would have been. Oh, to see Jim Carrey and Ewan MacGregor hurling cherry pies at Paris Hilton! Deals. Norwegian Nazi zombi...

Filed under: Sundance, Festival Reports, Cinematical Indie Wednesday featured a fight between a film critic and a producer's rep that became physical -- detailed by Erik Davis -- which doesn't sound as much fun as a celebrity food fight would have been. Oh, to see Jim Carrey and Ewan MacGregor hurli...

Filed under: Sundance, Festival Reports, Cinematical Indie The dam finally burst and a flood of deals were unleashed today in Park City, Utah. (Please note: for the purposes of this article, we define "a flood of deals" as three (3)). But don't worry, America: Sundancers stopped to watch the inaugur...

Filed under: Sundance, Festival Reports, Cinematical Indie Deals. Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group picked up Scott Sanders' Black Dynamite for a reported $2 million. The salute to 70s blaxpoitation pictures premiered at 11:30 p.m. on Sunday; negotiations continued into the "wee hours" of M...

Packed with screenings and the beginnings of buzz on several titles, Saturday kept Sundance visitors hopping. Deals. Antoine Fuqua's police drama Brooklyn's Finest , starring Richard Gere, Don Cheadle, and Ethan Hawke, was in play after its Friday night debut as a "work in progress," with several di...

Filed under: Sundance, Festival Reports, Cinematical Indie Packed with screenings and the beginnings of buzz on several titles, Saturday kept Sundance visitors hopping. Deals. Antoine Fuqua's police drama Brooklyn's Finest , starring Richard Gere, Don Cheadle, and Ethan Hawke, was in play after its ...

The first full day of screenings began on Friday, and by the evening Park City had claimed its first victim, a very knowledgeable and well-liked friend of Cinematical who slipped on some black ice and ended up bloody and bruised. It's dangerous out there, folks! Mind your step as we present the day ...