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

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

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Will Forte on Tim & Eric?s Billion Dollar Movie: It Doesn?t Get Much Nuttier

Movieline caught up with Will Forte this week in Park City, where he was at Sundance to support Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim?s absurdist midnight offering Tim & Eric?s Billion Dollar Movie. In the film, Forte plays the uptight, moustachioed owner of a sword store in a mall that bumbling filmmakers Tim and Eric have taken over following the epic failure of their brush with Hollywood. Forte compared the more restricted sensibilities of his gig on Saturday Night Live to working within the madcap, surrealist stylings of the cult duo.

Forte, like Billion Dollar Movie co-stars Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly, also appeared on Heidecker and Wareheim?s Comedy Central sketch show Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! He recalled his first time on the series, filming a bit called the Lazy Horse Mattress Ad.

?I just did exactly what Tim and Eric asked me to do -- that was the first time I ever worked with these guys, and it was the best experience,? Forte remembered. ?It was so fun, because it?s this advertisement for a mattress store and in between there?s this crazy dream, and for the crazy dream part they just turned the camera on and said ?Go nuts for a while!??

?They?d turn the camera off for four or five minutes, say ?Try this, do this here?? They were so good about giving you direction but also giving you a ton of freedom. It was one of the best times I?ve ever had ? it was so therapeutic to just be able to go nuts for a while. You don?t get to do that very often.?

His more famous gig on Saturday Night Live, on the other hand, is understandably a much different process. ?I love SNL, but it?s different. It?s got…

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Archaeopteryx feather colour and structure revealed

Archaeopteryx, a 150 million-year-old raven-sized dinosaur, had black feathers on its wings that were structurally identical to those of modern birds, researchers have reported.

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