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SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2009 PARK CITY UPDATES + PICS PARIS HILTON, CHRIS ROCK, MARIAH CAREY,ASHTON KUTCHER

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Jan 19, 2009 | 2:02 PM PST
Tags: Ashton Kutcher , mariah carey , nick cannon , Paris Hilton , Robert Redford

Sundance continues until January 25th with the 25th anniversary celebration of the indie festival. Nia Long joined Chris Rock who premiered his new documentary "Good Hair" which is in competition. Mariah Carey and her hubby Nick Cannon both went indie with starring roles in films at the festival.

It's seem like anybody who is on the A-list party hopped at Sundance and headed out of town to Washington D.C to attend Barack Obama's historic inauguration.

Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon walked the red carpet at Sundance then jetted to the Inauguration.

Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore attended the Park City premiere of Ashton's sexy gigolo flick "Spread". Dashmi were spotted in D.C. at the Entertainment Industry Foundation "A New Era of Service" Breakfast at Ballou Senior High School with Tobey Maguire and Martin Luther King III.

The Sundance Film Festival wouldn't be complete without an annual cameo appearance by party gal heiress Paris Hilton.

The Hollywood Reporter made some predicitons and is now reporting that sales are stuck at Sundance with lukewarm receptions for Wesley Snipes and Don Cheadle's "Brooklyn's Finest". Click here for more celebrity Sundance photos...

The Sundance sales market took a brief spin around the ballroom this weekend, even as many of its larger players maintained their recent positions along the wall.

WMA and CAA engineered a low- to mid-seven-figure sale of Antoine Fuqua's police drama "Brooklyn's Finest," with upstart Senator Distribution and partner Sony buying North Americans rights to the Millennium Films project. The purchase was a rarity in the current film-fest market: a decisive offer that culminated in a less than 24 hours after a movie premiered.

But the "Finest" deal failed to ignite a larger sales frenzy, with some of the specialty world's biggest players, including Focus and Fox Searchlight, yet to make serious noise in Park City.

And a number of the most expectation-laden titles that premiered over the weekend -- which included the Ashton Kutcher dramedy "Spread," Shana Feste's family-tragedy drama "The Greatest" and the Michael Cera quasi-doc "Paper Heart" -- had not as of press time closed a deal after their Saturday debuts.

The lack of a major sale to follow "Finest" -- which coming into the fest was read by some as a bellwether for the sales market -- put some veterans in a pessimistic mood.

But the exec who bought the Fuqua film said little should be read into what followed that deal. "Not all good films have a strong identity, and those deals take a little longer to come together," Senator president Mark Urman said. "We were just fortunate to encounter on the day we arrived a film that does have an identity and fits with what we want to do." source

Has the Sundance Film Festival lost its prestige? Is it the economy, inauguration or over commercialization of Robert Redford's 25-year-old independent film festival that has alienated the A-list crowd and instead provided a playground for psuedo-celebs to pose and party for well, no real reason at all?

Pop Tarts noticed that the one woman getting most of the attention in the oddly quiet (and much warmer than normal) Park City on Saturday was none other than "Hogan Knows Best" star, Linda Bollea. So what was she doing at a film fest? Like most celebs in town, a whole lot of nothing.

Donning a terrible fur coat and pink lipstick, Bollea paraded her 19-year-old boytoy Charlie Hill up and down Main Street to fully utilize the photo op and at one point traffic controllers had to stop the cars in every direction as so many "fans" and paps were crazily rushing to get a snap of the happy-to-pose twosome. Although perhaps it was more a case of follow the pack as most snappers were asking "Who are we taking a photo of again?"

Sundance wouldn't be Sundance if perennial party-princess Paris Hilton didn't make a star-studded appearance and if you thought she was itty-bitty before, you should see her now. Super super-slim Paris flew in on the posh private ExpressJet Friday evening after hanging around the L.A hangar at a VIP cocktail party with 30 tons of real snow, accompanied by the likes of Brittany Snow (plus her co-stars in the Sundance hit "The Vicious Kind") and Demi Moore.

Moore laid low on the trip and was clearly missing her beloved Ashton Kutcher who caught ExpressJet's earlier flight into Salt Lake City. The stunning starlet used every opportunity to chat to her "Spread" star both before take-off and immediately after landing. But in the air the obviously very loved-up Ms. Moore enjoyed a beer while admiring the blown-up desktop pic of her and Kutcher touching tongues. Charming.

The majority of "celebs" strolling the Sundance streets and hitting the hotspots basically had no reason to be in town and were the likes of fired "Danity Kane" diva Aubrey O'Day, George Clooney's former flame Sarah Larson, Tila Tequila's ex Courtneay Semel (who Pop Tarts spied making out with her on-again/off-again heiress lover Casey Johnson at TAO nightclub) and even Kevin Federline's ex Shar Jackson. Shar was apparently so desperate for freebies she drove all the way up with her kids from Los Angeles just to attend the gifting lounges.

So obviously the paps were pretty pleased to finally have the opportunity to harass the slightly more famous Hilton sisters and DJ AM as they picked at their salads as the MySpace Cafe on Saturday. source

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