Tribeca Film Festival failing to sell movies

Nobody was in a rush to buy movies at the Tribeca Film Festival the last days. The buyers are there again, but the situation is different this year. "It's not the heated bidding situation that it used to be because the marketplace is in a slump," said Peter Goldwyn, vice president of acquisitions for Samuel Goldwyn Films.

The Robert De Niro vehicle "What Just Happened?," which debuted at Sundance, still doesn't have a distributing deal. The only movies generating some interest are 'Trucker' with Michelle Monaghan and 'From Within' with Rumer Willis, the daughter of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore. But sales agent John Sloss isn't in a rush to sell those either. "We're hanging back until we can see where the market is and then we'll trigger it," he casually noted.

Still, Tribeca is not the place to look for bidding wars. "If something does sell, it's not going to happen during the festival," Goldwyn said.