Cannes | Another Sundance?
Pamela McClintock and Winter Miller have a primer on the Cannes buying activity, framing it within lackluster activity at Sundance.
The sellers are trying to put a good face on lean times. “At the end of the day this Sundance will have been less profitable than the previous Sundance, but we’ve got more of a 52-week business than we’ve ever had,” says Cinetic’s John Sloss, who had brought a whopping 19 films to sell at the January fest, including “What Just Happened?”
“I debate on a daily basis whether we should have taken it to Sundance. The bloggers and press outlets had it in for the movie. It had a big bull’s eye painted on it.” Cinetic says they sold every film but one, with several on the verge of closing.
Michael Jones is the film festival editor at Variety.com. 
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