SUNDANCE FEVER
More films are getting picked up at the Sundance Film Festival, with Fox Searchlight paying $2.5 million for rights to John Malkovich’s feature directorial debut, The Dancer Upstairs. Fine Line Features scored North American rights to the thriller Cherish and ThinkFilm paid more than $1 million for the rights to Gus Van Sant’s Gerry, starring Matt Damon and Casey Affleck.