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Netflix Buys ‘Train Dreams’ At Sundance; Deal In High-Teen Millions


Netflix is buying the Joel Edgerton and Felicity Jones drama Train Dreams at Sundance. Sources tell us that the deal was in the high teen millions. The pic made its debut in the Premieres section of the fest. Pic is based on the 2011 Denis Johnson novella and directed by Academy Award-nominee Clint Bentley. Bentley […]

Joel Edgerton and Felicity Jones appear in Train Dreams by Clint Bentley, an official selection of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. Movie follows Robert Grainer, an average man living in extraordinary times, who worked as a day laborer in the American West at the beginning of the 20th century. Deadline first told you about the first deal out of Sundance: Neon’s $15M global pick-up of Michael Shanks’ horror movie Together starring Dave Franco, Alison Brie and Damon Herriman.

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