With less than 2 days left to go before the end of the '08 Sundance Film Festival-The best way to describe the vibe is put forth by Variety:Underwhelming
While smaller projects and documentaries continued to generate buzz as Sundance started drawing to a close, star-driven vehicles like the Robert De Niro pic "What Just Happened?" and "The Great Buck Howard," which Tom Hanks produced and co-starred in, held all of the appeal of three-day-old fish...
Sundance sales started out slow...and continue to occupy the "slow zone" at this late stage...
Sundance crop too starry
Fest booked too many deal-seeking hybrids...
Most talked-about titles arrived with little buzz...
That does not mean though that the news from Park City Utah is all bad...A few filmmakers do have reason to smile...
'Choke,' 'Poole' sell at Sundance
Fox, Overture purchase rights to festival films
SPC buys 'Baghead'
Sony Pictures Classics inks River
Studio picks up domestic rights to drama....
It's pretty bad when a major industry event, like Sundance, gets a case of the blahs--complicated by sprinkles of ho-hums...
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