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EXCLUSIVE: In the first big deal of the 2021 virtual Sundance Film Festival, Apple has landed worldwide rights to CODA, for a number just north of $25 million. That sets a new a Sundance acquisitions record — above the $22.5 million that Palm Springs received last year from Hulu/Neon. But this time, all the premiere…

If the coronavirus pandemic has forced the Sundance Film Festival to reinvent itself virtually this year, it could not have gotten off to a more satisfying start than with CODA (Child of Deaf Adults), the warm coming-of-age story of a hearing child in a deaf family. With deaf actors including Children of a Lesser God…

When Oscar winner Marlee Matlin read the script for CODA, she immediately fell in love. "I told [writer/director Sian Heder] probably a hundred million times that, 'I need to be in this movie, I must be in this movie, I have to do this movie,'" she recalled recently, while sitting down with her director and co-stars…