Sundance: Weinstein has 'Grace'

January 22, 2007 Audiences nonetheless responded to the somber tale, leading to the first overnight bidding battle of the festival. Fox Searchlight and Sony Pictures Classics were in the running, but by 4:30 a.m. Sunday, the Weinstein Co. co-founder Harvey Weinstein had won over the hearts, minds and pocketbooks of producers New Crime Prods., led by Grace Loh and Cusack, and Plum Pictures with a $4 million offer. Strouse's pregnant wife, Plum Pictures co-founder Galt Niederhoffer, was in the room phoning reports to her husband as Cinetic Media's John Sloss and William Morris Independent's Cassian Elwes and Rena Ronson negotiated the deal.

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