No matter how many gifting suites, D-list "celebrities" and/or head-splitting parties the malevolent forces of modern commerce may stuff into the wintry idyll of Park City over the next week, we'll always have the movies. And as usual, "we" also means studios and distributors with money to burn and release slates to fill. Let the Sundance bidding wars begin!
"This year's Sundance Film Festival will be the biggest buyer's market ever," writes Steve Pond at TheWrap, and whether or not his prediction checks out, tires will be kicked and deals will be made -- perhaps as soon as the credits roll on tonight's openers <>The Queen of Versailles, Hello I Must Be Going, Wish You Were Here and Searching for Sugar Man. But with apologies to those films and other buzzy titles like Spike Lee's Red Hook Summer, Stephen Frears's Lay the Favorite, Julie Delpy's 2 Days in New York and the hip anti-rom-com Save the Date -- and in grand Movieline tradition -- here are five others likeliest to have buyers fanning themselves with their checkbooks.
[Plot descriptions reprinted from the Sundance 2012 Festival Guide]
· Arbitrage
WHAT IT'S ABOUT: "On the eve of his sixtieth birthday, [billionaire hedge fund magnate Robert] Miller finds himself desperately trying to sell his trading empire to a major bank before the extent of his fraud is discovered. When an unexpected bloody error challenges his perception of what things are worth, Miller finds that his business is not the only thing hanging in the balance."
UPSIDE: Like hot market premieres The Company Men (SFF '10) and Margin Call< ?i> (SFF '11), writer-director Nicholas Jarecki's dramatic feature debut has a timely theme…
Elisabeth Röhm Elisha Cuthbert Eliza Dushku Emilie de Ravin Emma Heming Emma Stone Emma Watson Emmanuelle Chriqui
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