Sundance 2014 will channel the independent spirit of film festivals past, as buyers and sellers say this year’s crop of movies looks decidedly less commercial – at least on its face.
“It’s a year of a lot of unknown,” Michael Barker, co-chief of Sony Pictures Classics told TheWrap.
Barker’s company already has three movies playing at the festival — and one’s a sequel (“The Raid 2: Berandal,” right) — but several distributors echoed Barker’s perspective: Few movies this year are obvious candidates for a major sale, lacking the massive star or premise to whet the appetite of a larger studio.