UPDATED: WINNER! Indie movie shot on Canon HDSLR “LIKE CRAZY” sold to Paramount for $4 million
Posted on 30. Jan, 2011 by planetMitch in 5D2, Video
UPDATE 1/30/2010 – Sundance gave the U.S. Dramatic Competition Grand Jury Prize to “Like Crazy” and Special Jury Prize, U.S. Dramatic Competition went to Felicity Jones for her performance in “Like Crazy”
From the festival awards blog:
Winner of the U.S. Dramatic Competition Grand Jury Prize:
Like Crazy, directed by Drake Doremus.
Doremus, out of breath and in a valentine pink dress shirt says, “This movie is about love, and about love never dying. Your first love will never leave you. It hasn’t left me and it’s with me here tonight.” At the last second he remembers to add, “Oh, and thank you to Paramount Pictures for buying the movie.”Winner of the Special Jury Prize, U.S. Dramatic Competition:
Felicity Jones for her performance in Like Crazy.
Ferrera says Jones’ performance “reminds us of why we fall in love in the first place. If you don’t know her name, you will soon,” says Ferrera. With Jones not in attendance – she’s working in England – director Drake Doremus emotionally accepts the award on her behalf.
And in case you missed the post: “Hell and Back Again” by Danfung Dennis wins Sundance WORLD CINEMA GRAND JURY PRIZE – DOCUMENTARY
original post (Jan 24, 2011 @ 22:00) continues:
Here’s a wow – an Indie movie shot on a Canon 7D modified for PL lenses by HotRod Cameras called “LIKE CRAZY” that was just shown at the Sundance film festival has been sold to Paramount for $4 million!
Yes, $4 million!
We were contacted by Hollywood-DI – the company that graded the movie – and they sent us this info – thanks Neil Smith! Neil also forwarded us a link to a review of the movie in case you want to know more about it. There isn’t a website for the movie itself.
Press Release
UPDATE: I was contacted by John Guleserian (the DP on the movie) who told me the PR we posted was a rough draft and not the final version… we’re removing the old one until we can get the proper text.
Like Crazy - Canon HDSLR movie
About ‘LIKE CRAZY’
A complex exploration of the fragility of first love, LIKE CRAZY chronicles the tumultuous romance between Jacob (Anton Yelchin), an American college student, and Anna (Felicity Jones), a British citizen studying in Los Angeles. When Anna must return to the UK upon graduation, she makes the fateful decision to remain with Jacob and overstay her student visa. Consequently barred from the country, Anna finds she and Jacob forced to negotiate their commitment from afar.
As months and even years pass, the thorny territory of a long-distance relationship proves to take its emotional toll on the young lovers. His visits tend to complicate matters, and their once tight bond begins to emotionally unravel as jealousies and miscommunications fracture an already delicate arrangement. Yet, the strength of their love lingers, forcing them to make difficult decisions about their future together.Directed by Drake Doremus, and written by Doremus and Ben York Jones, Like Crazy also stars Jennifer Lawrence, Charlie Bewley, Alex Kingston, Oliver Muirhead, Finola Hughes, Chris Messina, Ben York Jones and Jamie Thomas King.
For more information on director, Drake Doremus, contact United Talent Agency, David Flynn on 310 273 6700.
For more information on Super Crispy Entertainment call Jonathan Schwartz on 310 453 4545.About Hollywood-DI
Located on the The Lot in West Hollywood, California, Hollywood-DI provides screening and digital finishing services for studios and independent filmmakers worldwide. The facility’s centerpiece is the versatile Fairbanks Theater, a 33-seat screening room that offers a Barco 2k DLP projector and a 35mm Simplex projector in a precision-calibrated DI environment. Offering a full RGB 4:4:4 workflow plus a complete range of 2K, 4k and HD editing and color correction tools, Hollywood-DI helps independent filmmakers ‘get the most from post’. To see color-corrected digital footage or to discuss the benefits of our ‘collaborative post’ approach, please call us at 323 850 3550.
Visit www.hollywooddi.com for more information on our HDSLR, RED and ARRI workflows and the ’collaborative post’ approach.
$4 million! Congratulations to everyone involved! What would you do if your indie was sold for that much?
(cover photo credit: snap from the PR showing some of the actors)
17 Responses to “UPDATED: WINNER! Indie movie shot on Canon HDSLR “LIKE CRAZY” sold to Paramount for $4 million”
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January 25, 2011
[...] real lenses) sold to Paramount for $4,000,000. Yep, 4 million. Just felt like typing some zeros. Planet5D has more on this one too, so head on over if that’s you thing. I’m not sure, where LIKE CRAZY (what’s up with the capitals?) will place in the [...]
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January 27, 2011
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August 10, 2011
[...] The movie won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival this year, which led to Paramount snapping it up for a cool $4 million — much better than $200,000 in profits using a Canon 5D, wouldn’t you say?What do you [...]
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Phillip Gibb
25. Jan, 2011
wow, that is awesome.
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Greg
25. Jan, 2011
yep, very awesome!
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Alex 7D
25. Jan, 2011
Who said you can’t make a real movie with an HDSLR? One important thing, it is not only that a movie should look good and profesional, you get that with HDSLR’s, but you should also HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY, and that sells.
cheers
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Justin
26. Jan, 2011
Yup, story comes first!
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Jesse Anthony
25. Jan, 2011
I couldn’t find a trailer but I found some footage from the film on youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oS5SzfkRmOc
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Carlos Avila
26. Jan, 2011
Congratulations to Director Drake Doremus, Ladies and Gentleman the revolution has begun, this is the Indie cinema moment. Lets take advantage of it.
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troy stallion
26. Jan, 2011
start them up !
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Ellsworth
26. Jan, 2011
I wonder what their budget was?
Very cool to see the little guys being picked up.
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Yuki
28. Jan, 2011
Story is important but looking like a professional movie is also important when a distributor is spending money. If Like Crazy looked like the Sundance movie Once [my favorite of 2007] the offer probably would have been $875,000 instead of $4-million!
I saw the movie at Sundance on the biggest screen, and the movie looked better than movies at Sundance shot on 35mm. They used a Hot Rod 7D-PL camera. Hot Rod made tweets about the movie @ http://twitter.com/HotRodCameras
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sammy
31. Jan, 2011
Not news at all…Remember a mini-dv movie Tadpole sold for $1 million more way back in 2002. Tadpole sold for 5 million and here is a list of
other Sundance high-bidders that didn’t pan out with
real audiences. Hope this film is better than these….
http://www.avclub.com/articles/in-park-city-it-stayed-10-sundance-films-that-died,2138/
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Roy
31. Jan, 2011
What I saw looked like a 7D, definitely not like 35mm. Well done still for getting the sale. I’d say they’d have made twice as much if it did look like film.
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bwhitz
07. Feb, 2011
Well, I guess your the only one that doesn’t think so…
You should get a hold of all those professional DPs that say otherwise. You obviously have a better eye and are more in-tune with images. Thank you for blessing us with you’re astute knowledge.
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