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The Sundance Film Festival had it’s first major deal go down Saturday night as young distributor Senator Entertainment (in a co-venture with Sony Pictures Worldwide) picked up North American rights to Antoine Fuqua’s admittedly unfinished Brooklyn’s Finest for a price tag of less than $5 million (with a marketing commitment of $10 million).

Other acquisitions made just before and since the festival began include the following:

• Visit Films purchased worldwide rights to Ry Russo-Young’s You Won’t Miss Me, N.C. Heikin’s Korean War documentary Kimjongilia and David Russo’s comedy The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle.
• PBS’ P.O.V. series picked up television rights to two documentaries: William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe and El General.
• Another doc, Brothers at War, was bought by Samuel Goldwyn Films for a U.S. theatrical release.
• Danish documentary Burma VJ went to HBO for a theatrical run at NYC’s Film Forum and cable broadcast.
• E1 Films Canada picked up Canadian rights to Sophie Barthes’ Cold Souls.
• Sony Classics finally confirmed that it had indeed bought North American rights to Carlos Cuaron’s Rudo y Cursi.

All these pickups have been added to SpoutBlog’s Sundance Deals chart, which will continue to be updated throughout the festival. So remember to keep checking back and bookmark the post if you haven’t yet.