RADiUS-TWC, the multi-platform label from the Weinstein Company, has acquired North American and French rights to Sundance documentary, "Cutie and the Boxer." 

Directed by first-time feature filmmaker Zachary Heinzerling, below, the film focuses on the 40-year love story of Ushio and Noriko Shinohara, two Japanese artists who met and married in New York in the early 1970s. Heinzerling won the U.S. Documentary Directing Award on Saturday night at Sundance's awards ceremony. 

The film was produced by Lydia Dean Pilcher,...

Oscilloscope Laboratories has acquired North American distribution rights to “Mother of George,” Andrew Dosunmu’s film about a couple’s struggles to conceive a child.

The film premiered Jan. 18 at Sundance, prompting the New York Times’ Manohla Dargis to laud it as “visually splendid” and Entertainment Weekly’s Owen Gleiberman as “dazzingly shot.”

Dosunmu’s film stars Danai Gurira as Adenike and Isaach De Bankole as Ayodele, the owner of a Nigerian restaurant in Brooklyn.

As their nuptials approach, Adenike struggles to conceive a child and must decide whether to permit her fiancé to have his child with another woman.

“It is exactly the kind of gem which we love to champion,” Oscilloscope’s David Laub and Dan Berger said in a statement. “In only his second...

The biggest sale at Sundance this year -- "The Way, Way Back" -- began with a promise and ended with a fried egg sandwich.

Producer Kevin J. Walsh, a former assistant to Scott Rudin, told the agents selling his movie that he’d make everyone food if they closed a big deal. But before he could cook, a bidding war broke out that would pit the favored Fox Searchlight against a half-dozen other studios, including Lionsgate, Paramount, Magnolia, FilmDistrict and Open Road.

Fox Searchlight won out and paid one of the highest prices for a Sundance movie in recent years -- $9.75 million -- for the story of an alienated 14-year-old ("The Killing's" Liam James) on summer vacation.

The one big thing in their favor: Once “The Way, Way Back” premiered on Monday, everyone knew it would sell. The film not only drew a...

Sony Pictures Classics has acquired “Before Midnight,” one of the best-reviewed films at the Sundance Film Festival. Richard Linklater’s film is the third installment in his series that began with “Before Sunrise.”

Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy star as Celine and Jesse, two people with an undeniable attraction who run into each other for brief bouts of romance every several years. In this case, the setting is Greece, with the characters now in their early 40s.

Linklater wrote and directed the film, which premiered on Sunday. He also produced it with Christos V. Konstantakopoulos and Sara Woodhatch.

"In 1991 we were in Sundance with ‘Slacker’ and...