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Sundance 2024 Takeaways: Fewer Oscar Movies, Slower Sales and Some Horror Hits
As Sundance 2024 ends, taking a look at the movies that hit and missed
Other well-received films such as “Thelma,” with June Squibb channeling her inner action hero, and the coming-of-age comedy “My Old Ass” have yet to find homes, while “Super/Man” and “Will & Harper” are taking a more deliberate approach to assessing offers. That’s in marked contrast to the bidding wars that saw agents and studio chiefs burning the midnight oil to land “Manchester by the Sea” or “The Birth of a Nation.” Many executives and some artists think that’s a good thing — it prevents companies from catching festival fever and overspending to get movies of dubious commercial appeal. Sundance isn’t a festival that’s synonymous with Academy Award attention, though recent iterations have churned out Oscar favorites like best picture winner “CODA,” Lee Isaac Chung’s semi-autobiographical “Minari” and Celine Song’s wistful drama “Past Lives.” This year, however, there wasn’t a clear frontrunner.
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