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Comedies From 2015 Sundance That You Might Have a Chance To See in Theaters

This year’s Sundance Film Festival has distributors combing through the big bills in their wallets for comedy/dramedy.

Even though, Me And Earl And The Dying Girl ended up not setting a buy record at the festival, it still carried a decently sized price tag in the mid 7 figure range.

Other films that might potentially rule the specialty box office and beyond this year include:

–Kevin Pollak’s documentary Misery Loves Comedy acquired by Tribeca Film.

–The D Train with Jack Black, James Marsden, Kathryn Hahn, Jeffrey Tambor, Mike White, and Kyle Bornheimer bought up by IFC Films for $3 million.

-The world rights for Results from Andrew Bujalski, the man who brought Computer Chess into the world, acquired by Magnolia Pictures.

–The North American rights to Don Verdean with Sam Rockwell, Danny McBride, Leslie Bibb, Jemaine Clement, Will Forte, and Amy Ryan from Jared Hess acquired by Lionsgate.

–The U.S. rights to The Bronze starring and co-written by Melissa Rauch acquired by Relativity for $3 million.

–The Overnight produced by The Duplass Brothers and Adam & Naomi Scott’s Gettin’ Rad bought up by The Orchard for $4 million.

–The world rights to Tangerine, also produced by The Duplass Brothers, acquired by Magnolia Pictures.

–Dope with Zoe Kravitz, the voice of Forest Whitaker, Blake Anderson, and more bought up by Open Road Films and Sony Pictures for $7 million.

–Mistress America from Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig bought up by Fox Searchlight for $6.5 million before it even played at the festival.

It’s inevitable that we’ll all be obsessing over their trailers in the coming months.

Dramedy “Me And Earl And The Dying Girl” Bought By Fox Searchlight and Indian Paintbrush For $12 Million UPDATE: Mid 7 Figures

January 26, 2015

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(via Deadline)

Studios are really shelling out the big bucks from their deep pockets for the festival films these days. Last year, Chris Rock got $12.5 million for Top Five from Paramount while at the Toronto International Film Festival.

That was a record buy for TIFF and another record buy was just set last night at Sundance. Fox Searchlight and Indian Paintbrush put in $12 million, after a bidding war over the last several hours, to buy the much-buzzed about Me And Earl And The Dying Girl.

UPDATE 1/28: Me And Earl And The Dying Girl went to Fox Searchlight and Indian Paintbrush for mid 7 figures, which won’t set a record.

The movie itself is getting a fantastic reception in Park City right now, has a cast of Thomas Mann, RJ Cyler, Olivia Cooke, Nick Offerman, Connie Britton and Molly Shannon, and follows a forced friendship with a classmate that has been diagnosed with leukemia.

In the coming months, we’re sure we’ll all get to see and hear plenty of promotion about it, but we hope it’s more 50/50 than The Fault In Our Stars.