The Circuit

As Patti Smith performed Sunday night at the Composer's Party, Park City calmed as the weekend closed.

Aside from the well-received "The Wave" which Celluloid Dreams sold rights to Canada, UK and Spain, the narrative deals have been mostly rumors.  "American Teen," "Anvil," "The Wackness,"  and "Stranded" are all in play. 

The NY Times weighed in today on the quiet Sundance weekend.

So much for the sellers’ market. The Sundance Film Festival’s opening weekend, often the setting for rapturous audience reactions and frenzied all-night bidding wars, drew to a close looking more and more like a disappointment, if not an outright dud.
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The muted reaction to the most anticipated titles, on the other hand, may end up helping films opening later in the festival or with less advance word of mouth. “People could be hoping that the film that will blow them away is right around the corner,” John Sloss said.

Anne Thompson attended the rousing "U23D" screening:

Yet another hot doc screened at Park City's Eccles Theatre Saturday night: U23D (here's the trailer). Bono and U2, Robert Redford and Al Gore (revisiting the scene of his first Inconvenient Truth triumph) were there. Why Al Gore? "He's with his friend Bono," said one of the National Geographic contingent.