Sundance Sees Flurry Of Pic Deals

The specialty divisions of Hollywood studios have started their pocket change to the noise Sundance Film Festival. Fox Searchlight, a heavyweight in recent fests, made its first acquisition late Monday night. The crowd-pleaser, which Rose Byrne and Hugh Dancy stars in a romance of New York, has played well in his first Monday afternoon, and Searchlight, which bought the rights throughout the world, hopes to make the next Once who has acquired in 2007. Sort of.