With the festival over, THR highlights the top domestic acquisitions.

Sony Pictures Classics presciently picked up North American rights to Michael Haneke’s Amour, winner of the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or, back in April. And IFC Films and Sundance Selects took Walter Salles’ On the Road the week before its Cannes debut.
With a number of other high-profile films arriving with distribution in place -- , including John Hillcoat’s Lawless and Andrew Dominik’s Killing Them Softly, both to be released by the Weinstein Co. -- that didn’t leave a lot of available titles for U.S. distributors to haggle over.
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