• One of the biggest films of Sundance 2012 is The Words, an interesting drama story starring Bradley Cooper as a fraudulent novelist, and boasting a cast of Zoe Saldana, Jeremy Irons and Olivia Wilde. So, it's not a big surprise that CBS is closing a 7-figure deal to acquire the film. The Words, directed by Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal. The story follows an aspiring writer, Rory (Cooper), who finds an unpublished manuscript inside a piece of antique luggage purchased for him by his girlfriend (Saldana). Rory decides to pass off the story as his own, which launches him to stardom...but poses a dilemma when the work's true author (Irons) enters Rory's life.
  
• Another noteworthy entry at this year's festival is Celeste & Jesse Forever, a comedy/drama starring Rashida Jones and Andy Samberg as a pair of young lovers who try to maintain their lifelong friendship even through a divorce and the pursuit of separate relationships. Sony Pictures Classics announced today that it has purchased the rights to the promising new film. The screenplay was co-written by Jones herself and her own ex-boyfriend, Will McCormick, and the film was directed by Lee Toland Krieger.
  
• Fox Searchlight has acquired Ben Lewin's The Surrogate, a film derived from the autobiographical writings of California journalist Mark O'Brien, who decides after a life of being confined to an iron lung, to finally lose his virginity. John Hawkes of Winter's Bone and Martha Marcy May Marlene fame portrays O'Brien alongside a cast including Helen Hunt and William H. Macy. Lewin wrote and directed the film.

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