‘CODA’ Sells to Apple for Record-Breaking $25 Million After Sundance Bidding War
Sundance 2021: Drama directed by Sian Heder follows the daughter of a deaf family who joins her school’s choirBeatrice Verhoeven and Brian Welk | January 30, 2021 @ 11:24 AM Last Updated: January 30, 2021 @ 12:59 PM
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Sian Heder’s “CODA” has sold to Apple for up to $25 million after an intense bidding war ended in a Sundance record-setting deal, an individual with knowledge of the deal told TheWrap.
The deal knocked down the $17.5 million that “Palm Springs” went for last year to Hulu and Neon to No. 2 as the highest sale from a film from the Sundance Film Festival.
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Crow observantly follows three Mexican-American El Paso teenagers as they navigate the idea of a future that might clash with their values and priorities.
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“Active Shooter at 12! Hostage negotiation at 1:30! Drug raid at 2:30,” hollers an authoritative voice in a sun-baked concrete yard. The retired police officer who announces this schedule at the start of “At the Ready,” Maisie Crow’s sobering documentary about a community of kids growing up on the Mexican border, isn’t at a professional police school or military facility. And yet, he addresses neat rows of individuals dressed in military gear all teenagers, attending an unusual extracurricular training program at El Paso’s Horizon High School, seeking eventual employ
CODA does not break any coming-of-age molds. There's an outcast teen with a heart of gold. She sets out on a path of her own, which pits her against everything expected of her. There's a cute boy because, duh. Then some tension, with a great emotional release. You probably already know how it ends. Adapted from the 2014 French film La Famille Bélier by writer-director Siân Heder, what sets CODA apart from other formulaic Netflix-adjacent.
Strawberry Mansion Review: Cheerfully Lo-Fi Fantasy Aims to Save Our Dreams From Corporate Overlords Strawberry Mansion Review: Cheerfully Lo-Fi Fantasy Aims to Save Our Dreams From Corporate Overlords
Kentucker Audley and Albert Birney s sweet, shoestring Sundance oddity posits a near future in which our sleeping hours are up for sale.
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With: Kentucker Audley, Penny Fuller, Grace Glowicki, Reed Birney, Linas Phillips, Constance Shulman, Ephraim Birney, Albert Birney.
Running time: Running time: 91 MIN.
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It’s a popular conception that there’s nothing more boring than hearing about other people’s dreams, which by rights should make James Preble the meek, cutely mustachioed hero of “Strawberry Mansion” the unfortunate owner of the world’s dullest job: He’s a tax auditor who has to scan his clients’ recorded dreams for hidden expenses. This makes a rough kind of sense in Kentucker A
Try Harder! Review: Endearing, Alarming Doc on Senior-Year College-Application Hope and Heartbreak
The agonies and ecstasies of a high-achieving majority Asian-American senior class during a cutthroat college application season.
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Running time: Running time: 84 MIN
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“You get used to feeling mediocre,” says one of the merely very bright students in a school full of what he considers “geniuses.” “Try Harder,” Debbie Lum’s simultaneously charming and chastening documentary on the senior class in Lowell High the majority Asian-American, top-ranked school in San Francisco takes its cue from its lovable, dorky, high-achieving subjects and mostly remains in a cheerful register, heroizing a group rarely celebrated in high school movies: the good kids.