EXCLUSIVE: In a development that is a fitting epitaph for a 2020 Sundance Film Festival acquisitions market dominated by streamers, Deadline hears that the fest’s biggest sale title — t…
, the 2014 Sundance award winning film that he is turning into a TV series for Netflix. Apple teamed with A24 to break the festival record for documentary with the $12 million deal for. Just now, HBO Max announced it bought the troubled Russell Simmons documentary, the one Oprah Winfrey bailed on as exec producer, taking with her an Apple + distribution deal.
We are all going to have to get used to this streamer stuff, me included. When I called WarnerMedia today saying I heard HBO bought the Russell Simmons docuand I wanted to break it, I was flatly told, not true. Just now, after they announced HBObought it, it became clear to me they consider this upstart streaming arm to be completely separate, which is why they didn’t feel the need to do me the courtesy of clarifying.
, the Radha Blank-directed autobiographical comedy that has widely been cited as one of the festival’s bright spots. Amazon so far has closed three deals: the Alan Ball-directed Paul Bettany-starrer
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