Suddenly the deals are falling into place. After a slow start and gloomy rumblings about the economy, a handful of Sundance movies found owners over the long weekend. Magnolia snapped up the rights to Humpday, paying in the mid-six figures for “a lo-fi buddy comedy that attracted six offers and a protracted bidding war.” Sony spent close to $2 million to acquire Black Dynamite, proclaiming that the blaxploitation spoof, “which was snapped up soon after its smash Sunday midnight screening, has franchise potential.” The hottest property may be An Education, which has a number of suitors and has already rejected an offer in the $1 million range from Fox Searchlight.

Spoutblog talked to Tom DiCillo about his Doors documentary When You’re Strange and found he had little positive to say about the Oliver Stone biopic. “I looked at the first three minutes and I had to turn it off. I just found it utterly phony. ..It was completely one dimensional. No human being is one dimensional. No story is one dimensional. I was bored by it.”

Our Screengrab pick-to-click Cold Souls got a fairly warm reception. LA Weekly’s Scott Foundas writes that director Sophie Barthes’ “low-fi futurism, generous good humor and respect for the audience's literacy are easy to admire,” while IndieWire’s Eric Kohn says “Barthes builds a fully believable universe around her seemingly ridiculous premise.” Cinematical has an interview with star Paul Giamatti, who claims “I kind of forgot that I was playing myself in this.”

Previously:
Sundance: Day Four
Sundance: Day Three