Sundance Sales My Idiot Brother Martha Marcy May Marlene The Ledge Homework And Life In A Day All Find Homes

Sundance Sales: ‘My Idiot Brother,’ ‘Martha Marcy May Marlene,’ ‘The Ledge,’ ‘Homework’ And ‘Life In A Day’ All Find Homes

By Russ Fischer/Jan. 24, 2011 1:59 pm EST

After the break, a rundown of sales over the last twelve hours, which includes sales for early festival fave Martha Marcy May Marlene and the comedy My Idiot Brother.

The Weinstein Company nabbed My Idiot Brother. Jesse Peretz directs from a script by Evgenia Peretz and David Schisgall. Paul Rudd, Elizabeth Banks, Zooey Deschanel, Emily Mortimer, Steve Coogan, Hugh Dancy, Rashida Jones, Kathryn Hahn, Shirley Knight, TJ Miller, Janet Montgomery and Adam Scott star. Here’s the synopsis:

[Review coming this evening.]

IFC picked up The Ledge, directed and written by Matthew Chapman, and starring Charlie Hunnam, Liv Tyler, Patrick Wilson, Terrence Howard, and Christopher Gorham. The press release explains:

[Read Germain’s review.]

Finally, National Geographic Films bought rights to Life in a Day, the crowd-sourced YouTube doc produced by Kevin Macdonald and Ridley Scott. The 90-minute film was built from 80,000 submitted clips shot on July 24, 2010. No release window has been announced.