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IN FULL GIAMATTIVISION: Cold Souls is the too-grimly titled existential comedy starring Paul Giamatti as Paul Giamatti. While rehearsing Uncle Vanya, Giamatti begins to lose himself in his character's depression, and looking for a temporary fix, stumbles across the new process of "soul extraction," as detailed in the New Yorker. While the movie is deadpan, Giamatti is not. His off-kilter spiral into soullessness is by turns hilarious and touching.

The big Seattle news at Sundance was Humpday. Late Monday night, Lynn Shelton's film got a mid-six figure deal. Apparently, Shelton had her pick of the litter, as there were five other offers and a protracted bidding war. But she ends up with "an unorthodox release plan [that] will see Magnolia [Pictures] launch the pic on video-on-demand before an August theatrical release."