THE BIG SICK
The Judd Apatow- produced romantic comedy— about a comedian ( Silicon
Valley’s KumailNanjiani) who tries to win back his ex- girlfriend ( Zoe Kazan) after she falls inexplicably ill— was nabbed by Amazon for $ 12 million, the biggest buy of this year’s fest to date. “Because it’s told by Kumail Nanjiani, who is not the sort of person who gets to star in and write these movies, it has a specificity to it that makes it funnier and more interesting, ( with) all of these twists and underpinnings that revitalize that genre,” Buchanan says. “It’s really moving in a lot of surprising ways and could be amajor, unexpected hit.”