Tonight's the opening night up in Park City, Utah, and the premiere movie event (actually held an hour west in Salt Lake City) is for In Bruges, a grubby gangster comedy starring Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson as hit men on vacation in Belgium.
Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson earlier today at the Sundance Film Festival:
Like most of the festival's 'Premieres' line-up, In Bruges is already the property of a mini-major (Universal's Focus).
But, there are a lot of other good films in and out of competition yet to be picked up. Since we could all be lacking for newly written and produced movies later this year, the studios are likely to spend more than their usual check book allotment for pics over the next 10 days, looking for the next Waitress or Napoleon Dynamite.
There's still much wheeling and dealing to be done...but here are five buzzed about performers/features to keep an eye on:
-Enchanted's breakthrough star Amy Adams, as a rookie "biohazard specialist" in Sunshine Cleaning
-Dakota's sister, Elle Fanning, as a smart, psychologically complicated little kid in the fantastical Phoebe in Wonderland
-Ben Kingsley as a psychiatrist who trades therapy sessions for weed in The Wackness
-Half Nelson moviemakers Anna Bodey's and Ryan Fleck's underdog tale of a Dominican baseball player, called Sugar
-John Malkovich as a larger-than-life magician showing Colin Hanks' the ropes in Great Buck Howard
*More updates on Sundance upcoming on the blog, and in our Indie Film Guide, plus more on awards movies in our Awards Watch site
