After a quiet turn in 2018, Amazon is taking this year’s Sundance Film Festival by storm. In the last few days, the streamer has dropped record-breaking sums to scoop up a handful of movies, including Mindy Kaling’s Late Night, Jillian Bell’s Brittany Runs a Marathon, and Adam Driver’s The Report.

It’s a change of pace from last year, which saw Amazon come to Sundance ready to show films of its own, rather than to snatch up new offerings. This year, Amazon has returned to form, setting historic records as it picks up buzzworthy titles, starting with Late Night.

This week, the streamer spent $13 million to close the deal on U.S. rights to Kaling’s film Late Night, which stars Emma Thompson as, what else, a forceful, magnetic late-night host. Kaling, who wrote the script and produced the film, co-stars as a staff writer named Molly. Directed by Nisha Ganatra, the film has earned warm reviews at Sundance, including from Vanity Fair’s own Richard Lawson, who writes that the film has a touch of The Devil Wears Prada about it. Amazon’s purchase was one of the first big sales of this year’s festival, setting the tone for its careful spending spree.

The streamer then picked up the worldwide rights to The Report, the Scott Z. Burns political drama starring Driver, for a whopping $14 million. The film tells the story of Daniel Jones (played by Driver), an investigator for the U.S. Senate who completed a comprehensive, six-year investigation into the C.I.A.’s torture methods. Oscar buzz has already begun percolating for the film, which also stars Annette Bening, Michael C. Hall, Maura Tierney, and Jon Hamm. Perhaps this drama will bring Amazon closer to best-picture glory than 2016’s Manchester by the Sea, the Kenneth Lonergan drama that earned Amazon its first nomination in that prestigious category, but stopped short of winning the honor (though star Casey Affleck was named best actor).

Lastly, Amazon has also picked up the global rights to Brittany Runs a Marathon for $14 million. The dramedy, written and directed by Paul Downs Colaizzo, stars Bell as a down and out millennial trying to change her life by focusing on an upcoming marathon. Per Variety, Lionsgate and Netflix were also circling the film, with Amazon stepping back as the price rose. However, the streamer jumped back into the conversation after Amazon Studios head Jennifer Salke saw the film on Tuesday and became directly involved in negotiations.

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