The Weinstein Company announced tonight that it has acquired North American rights to Concussion, one of the most provocative and well received films at this year's Festival that is drawing endless comparisons to Belle de Jour.

Written and directed by Stacie Passon in an auspicious directing debut effort, and produced by Rose Troche, Concussion is a poignant sexual examination of Abby (Robin Weigert), a forty something married wealthy, lesbian housewife who, after suffering a blow to the head from getting smacked by her son's baseball—walks around every corner of her suburban life to confront a mounting desire for something else.

Ryan Coogler's drama Fruitvale, based on the last day in the life of 22-year-old Oscar Grant before he was shot dead on New Year's Day 2009 by the transit police at a BART subway stop in Oakland, California, has gotten a lot of attention this past weekend at the Sundance Film Festival. There have been more than a few comparisons to previous Sundance hits Precious and Beasts of the Southern Wild, both which went on to receive Best Picture nominations. According to Deadline and other sources, the Weinstein Company has won the bid and is negotiating a deal for the rights to release the movie for somewhere between $2 and 3 million.

The Sundance Film Festival has started to heat up as sales have started to close on the bigger buzz movies of the weekend. One of the biggest deals so far is Relativity Media picking up the rights to Joseph Gordon-Levitt's directorial debut Don Jon's Addiction for a reported $4 million with plans to give the movie a wide release and a marketing commitment of $25 million.

It didn't take long for Steve Coogan and Michael Winterbottom's fourth collaboration The Look of Love, based on the life of London club owner and porn publisher Paul Raymond, known as "The King of Soho," to get scooped up by IFC Films who bought the North American rights on Sunday night. Previously Coogan starred in Winterbottom's 24-Hour Party People about Factory Records owner Tony Wilson, and then teamed with Winterbottom and Rob Brydon for Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story and 2011's The Trip.

A24 announced this morning that they have picked up the North American distribution rights to James Ponsoldt's The Spectacular Now, which played very well at the Sundance Film Festival over the weekend. Adapted from Tim Tharp's novel by Scott Neustadter and Michael Weber, who wrote the previous Sundance hit (500) Days of Summer, it stars Miles Teller (Footloose) and Shailene Woodley (The Descendants), as well as Brie Larson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Kyle Chandler and Andre Royo.

Parts & Labor announced today that Sir Michael Gambon and Alfred Molina will star in Love is Strange, Independent Spirit Award Nominee Ira Sachs’s (Keep the Lights On) newest feature. Production is slated to begin in New York City this summer.

RADiUS-TWC has today announced that it has acquired North American rights to Twenty Feet From Stardom, which held its world premiere at Sundance last night.

Anchor Bay Films has picked up The Rambler, starring Dermot Mulroney (My Best Friend's Wedding, The Grey). Written and directed by Calvin Lee Reeder, the film is set to premiere on Monday, January 21st (11:59pm) during Sundance Film Festival's Park City at Midnight. The agreement covers theatrical, home entertainment, television and digital distribution rights in the North America, the U.K. and Australia. Today’s announcement was made by Anchor Bay Entertainment’s President Bill Clark.

This year's Sundance Film Festival kicks off on Thursday, January 17 and runs though the 27th. In case you missed our previous mentions, ComingSoon.net will not be attending this year's festival for various reasons, but that doesn't mean we're not excited about what this year's festival has to offer in terms of new movies. As in years past, many of the movies premiering at Sundance will be what we'll be watching and talking about from now until the end of the year.

We decided to pick out twenty movies we think will have the most interest and buzz at the festival. For the most part, the movies we picked are ones that have yet to get distribution but are very likely to have some by the end of the festival with three exceptions, that being the two movies from Fox Searchlight that are premiering at the festival and one other. Hopefully all twenty of these movies will be ones we'll all have a chance to see real soon.

ComingSoon.net has your exclusive first look at the poster for Running From Crazy, director Barbara Kopple's documentary on the Hemingways that will have its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 20th.