Also snapped up for distribution was this Ryan Reynolds starring tale of a US truck driver kidnapped and buried in a coffin in Iraq. 

Tense, imaginative and clever, Buried was one of the first hits of the Festival with critics at Sundance calling it “staggering” and “powerful”. Not bad for a movie about a man in a box.

Unsurprisingly, writer Chris Sparling's next unlikely sounding project, ATM, about three men whose lives take a disastrous turn during a trip to a cash machine, has already been given the green light.