Two new updates to our Sundance deal chart: Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired has landed US distribution via HBO, who may or may not release the film theatrically; and ESPN has acquired the soccer doc Kicking It. Interesting that it’s day four of the festival and, with the exception of Ballast’s deal for international representation, a) the only films with announced deals are documentaries, and b) no one seems to be talking about how much money they’re putting on the table. Check out our full Sundance 2008 acquisitions chart here.

We’ve made several updates to our Sundance 2008 Deal chart over the past 24 hours. The most significant news is that the Weinsteins have acquired the doc Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired for theatrical distribution in every territory *except* for the U.S. and Canada. I saw the film this morning and will have more to say about it later today, but suffice it to say for now that the film casts a very, um, “European” eye on Polanski’s child rape scandal, poking quite a bit of fun at American attitudes towards sex and media and, especially, our justice system.

Also of note: United Artists has bought the remake rights to Timecrimes, a Spanish sci-fi film premiering here before hitting theaters under the auspices of Magnolia, as well as the excuse for a raging karaoke party in Park City last night (anything you may have heard about your blogger’s Fred Schneider impression has been grossly exaggerated.) Finally, Celluloid Dreams has signed a deal to rep Lance Hammer’s Ballast for international sale. I hope to see Ballast later today–it wasn’t on my original schedule, but after a colleague described it as “The Dardennes on the Mississippi Delta,” I’m intrigued.

Check out the full list of Sundance 2008 deals here.

Here’s our running tally of each of the distribution deals announced throughout the course of the Sundance Film Festival. We will update this post whenever new information comes in, so bookmark it and keep checking back for the newest latest.

• The film will unspool in the States uncut and with an NC-17 rating, but Ang Lee has agreed to slash 30 minutes from Lust, Caution for its Chinese release. “The spirit of the film remains despite the cutting and the fluency will not be affected…for a viewer who has not watched the full version, the short version remains reasonable,” the director told Variety.
• Variety reports that the crush of serious issue films at the festival has led to a dearth of sales, and with so many films about Iraq, immigration and terrorism in the mix, lighter diversions such as Juno are hogging all the good buzz with audiences. “The question of audience fatigue is rearing its head before any of these pix have actually bowed in theaters,” write Ali Jaafar and Dade Hayes.  The Visitor, one of the films cited in that story as having “no movement,” did eventually sell last night to Overture Films.
  
• Other sales: Helen Hunt’s directorial debut Then She Found Me sold to ThinkFilm; IFC picked up the Icelandic procedural Jar City; and The Weinstein Company bought Boy A.
• IFC and B-Side are working together to acquire overlooked festival films for TV and online distribution. IFC’s Evan Shapiro says B-Side’s online community of festivalgoers is “like the world’s largest focus group”; B-Side’s Chris Hyams says the IFC partnership is aimed at combating a certain “perversity in the traditional upfront payment model.”