SUNDANCE: Liberal Arts, Robot and Frank, V/H/S and The Pact Sell

It may be a relatively quiet Sundance year ? even Pixar?s Lee Unkrich, in town for the festival, Tweeted his dismay at the ?mixed bag? of movies ? but films are selling. Granted, they?re mostly the ones with name actors and mostly okay-to-decent reviews (with a few exceptions), but buyers continue to be getting busy in the snow. The latest batch of pick-ups (Olsens and robots and scares, oh my!) after the jump.

Liberal Arts (IFC Films) ? Josh Radnor?s follow up to happythankyoumoreplease, another Sundance pick, features Radnor as a thirty-something man who returns to his college campus and is intrigued by both his former professor (Alison Janney) and a young coed (Elizabeth Olsen). IFC picked up Liberal Arts and plans on releasing it later in 2011.

Robot and Frank (Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions/Samuel Goldwyn Films) ? It?s Frank Langella and a robot. What more do you need to know? Oh, fine: Directed by Jake Schreier and co-starring Susan Sarandon, Peter Sarsgaard, and Liv Tyler, this charmer won over critics during Sundance.

V/H/S (Magnolia) ? The horror anthology opened to such a raucous, receptive Midnight debut that it?s no wonder a specialist like Magnolia snapped up the surefire genre pleaser. Did reports of a seizure at this week?s screening help?

The Pact (IFC) - This deal's a bit of a surprise, given the negative-to-lukewarm reviews Nicholas McCarthy's feature debut (adapted from his own Sundance short of the same name) received this week. Yet another spooky tale, about a young lady investigating bumps and scares in her dead mother's house, it went to IFC for a reported "high-six-figure deal" as the distrib hopes it catches fire in limited release/VOD.

Previously:

Arbitrage (Lionsgate/Roadside Attractions) - Nicholas…

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