Marking the first big buy at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, Fox Searchlight acquired worldwide rights Saturday to "Little Miss Sunshine," the audacious comedy debut from husband-and-wife rookie filmmakers Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton says The Hollywood Reporter.
The dark comedy, which stars Alan Arkin, Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Paul Dano and Greg Kinnear as a dysfunctional family taking a little girl (Abigail Breslin) to a California beauty contest, drew a standing ovation at the Eccles Theater Friday evening.
source deal at north of $10 million, the record set by Miramax Films' purchase of "Happy, Texas" in 1999.
