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January 16, 2009
A Sundance Chart
Who doesn't always need just one more chart?
This one is designed to get a handle on the films most likely to find buyers (or not), to give you an overview of the market that Sundance has become, and to offer a daily perspective on what seems to be brewing.
We won't be surprised when this one gets imitated.
Here is the link. It's going to be updated daily... as all our coverage is on The MCN Sundance Page and The MCN Sundance Blog.
I expect we will be posting more every day as we go... after all, they've only shown one movie so far. We've only just begun...
Posted by dpoland at January 16, 2009 01:36 AM
Comments
"We won't be surprised when this one gets imitated."
Oh, please.
Posted by: gradystiles ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.mcnblogs.com/thehotblog/nav-commenters.gif)
at January 16, 2009 09:32 AM
Just make sure you come back and show such contempt when it happens, Grady.
Posted by: David Poland at January 16, 2009 09:44 AM
Great. Now this can do for art at film festivals what weekend grosses did to art at the theaters...
Posted by: mutinyco at January 16, 2009 11:46 AM
No one will imitate it Dave because it's flawed at the moment. Why not just have a simple 'BUZZ' indicator next to titles. It'd be more useful. The actual odds you post don't relate to anything, and you say as much. Maybe if you could show how those odds came to be.. advance word, star power, previous film, easy sell, nice hook etc. Come up with little icons for each of these and then make a proper chart. Then you'd get imitated in EW.
Posted by: Jeffrey Boam's Doctor at January 16, 2009 12:39 PM
I don't see why this needs to be a Sundance thing - all year long, DP could make a scorecard of individual films' and filmmakers' worth in dollars. David Gordon Green > David Lynch > Harmony Korine and so on. Finally, quantifiable data to fill the void of all the vanishing 'critics'.
Posted by: jeffmcm at January 16, 2009 12:55 PM
Glad to hear the positive remarks about Adam Elliot's Mary & Max. A friend of mine worked on the character designs in that and Harvey Krumpet was great so I'm definitely looking forward to it. It's out here in April, does it have an American distrib?
Posted by: KamikazeCamelV2.0 at January 16, 2009 07:49 PM
What a cool chart-concept! Would be hilarious if it became one more tip sheet for obsessive gamblers to go to town on.
But if I was a gambling man, I'd probably go 2:1 on "September Issue," actually.
Posted by: SJRubinstein at January 18, 2009 07:44 AM
Still waiting on this to be copied--or to be relevant at all...
Posted by: gradystiles at January 18, 2009 08:06 PM
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