In 1978, director Roman Polanski fled from the US after pleading guilty to statutory rape of a thirteen year old girl. And this is what he will be remembered for, not for his movies. ThinkFilm wants to take a deeper look at this story and has picked up the documentary ‘Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired.’

The documentary focuses on the trial and Polanski’s fleeing and got a lot of positive feedback at the Sundance Film Festival. It even had a little run for an Oscar. The president of ThinkFilm, Mark Urman, worked with Polanski for 6 years during the nineties and helped creating the movie.

ThinkFilm will release ‘Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired’ in theaters July 11 and on DVD late fall.

Nobody was in a rush to buy movies at the Tribeca Film Festival the last days. The buyers are there again, but the situation is different this year. “It’s not the heated bidding situation that it used to be because the marketplace is in a slump,” said Peter Goldwyn, vice president of acquisitions for Samuel Goldwyn Films.

The Robert De Niro vehicle “What Just Happened?,” which debuted at Sundance, still doesn’t have a distributing deal. The only movies generating some interest are ‘Trucker’ with Michelle Monaghan and ‘From Within’ with Rumer Willis, the daughter of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore. But sales agent John Sloss isn’t in a rush to sell those either. “We’re hanging back until we can see where the market is and then we’ll trigger it,” he casually noted.

Still, Tribeca is not the place to look for bidding wars. “If something does sell, it’s not going to happen during the festival,” Goldwyn said.