Those searching for signs of how leaner economic times are being felt at Sundance 2009 need look no further than the fact that the festival's opening weekend yielded only one major sale -- and that one was something of a foregone conclusion. Although the tepid reaction to director Antoine Fuqua's Brooklyn's Finest from critics and audiences alike led upstart Senator Entertainment (which paid a reported $5 million for the North American distribution rights) to immediately start calling the film a
Those
searching for signs of how leaner economic times are being felt at
Sundance 2009 need look no further than the fact that the festival's
opening weekend yielded only one major sale -- and that one was
something of a foregone conclusion. Although the tepid reaction to
director Antoine Fuqua's Brooklyn's Finest
from critics and audiences alike led upstart Senator Entertainment
(which paid a reported $5 million for the North American distribution
rights) to immediately start calling the film a
