Sundance Watch: Sony Pictures Classics Acquires Baghead

Still in Park City, Winter Miller, Variety's new New York-based indie reporter, has broken the following Sundance news:

In a deal negotiated very early this morning, the film "Baghead," directed and produced by brothers Mark and Jay Duplass, sold North American rights for mid to high six figures to Sony Pictures Classics. The sales rep was Josh Braun of Submarine Entertainment. "Baghead" is a comedy about four actor-writers desperate to launch their careers who spend a weekend brainstorming a script, a process derailed by their mutual attraction--or lack thereof. The Duplass brothers' 2006 "The Puffy Chair" (Sundance 2005) was distribbed by Red Envelope Entertainment and Roadside Attractions.

Upcoming on NPR's All Things Considered this afternoon, Kim Masters' interview with SPC's Tom Bernard on what's wrong with Sundance. And here's a story about SPC recruiting a college class to scout movies for them at Sundance. UPDATE: Here's Manohla Dargis's upbeat NYT Sundance wrap; she raves about Sugar, Ballast and Momma's Man.