Just days after its Monday night Sundance Film Festival premiere, Brooklyn has been scooped up for release by Fox Searchlight. Variety reports Searchlight’s $9 million purchase came out on top of a bidding war involving The Weinstein Company, Focus Features and Roadside Attractions. The John Crowley-directed period piece was written by Nick Hornby, adapted from a 2009 novel by Irish writer Colm Tóibín. Saorise Ronan stars in a role that some are already touting as a potential 2016 Oscar contender.

Early reviews of Brooklyn have been mostly strong, with some comparing the film’s mix of comedy, drama and romance against the backdrop of an immigrant’s story to In America. Following young Irish immigrant Eilis Lacey (Ronan) as she navigates 1950’s Brooklyn, finds new love, and is forced to choose between two countries. The Guardian’s Jordan Hoffman wrote, “First half of Brooklyn is just about perfect. Loses considerable steam toward the end, but still good overall.” Tim Grierson of Paste Magazine calls Brooklyn, “The Immigrant meets The New World with the sweetest human beings ever.”

Brooklyn also stars Domnhall Gleeson, Emory Cohen, Jim Broadbent, & Julie Walters, and will likely come to theaters late in 2015. The movie continues to screen through this weekend at Sundance 2015.

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl has already garnered some of the 2015 Sundance Film Festival’s most enthusiastic reviews, but now Fox Searchlight & Indian Paintbrush have made a massive move to acquire the comedy-of-age comedy. Deadline reports a gigantic $12 million deal for the film directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon (although The Wrap’s Jeff Sneider contests it sold for $4.7 million). Following their highly lucrative most recent collaboration The Grand Budapest Hotel, Searchlight & Paintbrush plan to release Me and Earl and the Dying Girl sometime in 2015.

The movie is based on a book of the same name written by the movie’s screenwriter Jesse Andrews. Following a teenage filmmaker with only one friend, Earl, forced by his mother to befriend a girl with leukemia, and was described by Time Out’s David Ehrlich as, “The Fault in Our Stars for Criterion Collection fetishists + an Eno soundtrack”. /Film’s Germain Lussier also praised MAEATDG calling it, “one of those movies you come to #Sundance for. Perfect balance of smart, heart, comedy, drama and film love.”

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl stars Thomas Mann, Olivia Cook, R.J. Cyler with Nick Offerman, Molly Shannon, Jon Bernthal and Connie Britton. Its four remaining screenings at Sundance 2015 are Waitlist only.

One word came to mind after watching the trailer for Beasts of the Southern Wild, ambitious. Alright I lied, there were two words, ambitious and wow. The film made a splash at Sundace this year when it won the dramatic Grand Jury Prize Award. 6-year-old Quvenzhané Wallis was widely considered the Sundance darling of 2012 and it is not hard to see why.

From first time filmmaker Benh Zeitlin comes a story about a young girl named Hushpuppy who is raised by her drunk and barely present father. She uses her imagination to see the beauty in their natural surroundings to find a way to survive. Beasts of the Southern Wild is in select theaters June 27th.

UPDATE: Our review of Beasts of the Southern Wild

Official trailer for Beasts of the Southern Wild: