When I, a run-of-the-mill movie fan, think of all the good things that come out of Sundance Film Festival, they usually come to a head at the thought of all those indie-films getting the coveted, “Official Selection 2012 Sundance Film Festival” label, which they can proudly show off in their upcoming trailers. What I tend to forget about are all those indie films (as well as all those not-so-indie-films) which broker deals at Sundance, getting picked up by major studios of all kinds. These deals should be my primary focus when reading about Sundance, however, as these are the deals which provide for the distribution of all of these exciting trailers (and, of course, the distribution of the actual films as well).

And so, without further ado, let me present the major Sundance Films which have been been sold. According to The Wrap, we movie fans have quite a good crop of distribution-friendly independent films coming at us.

CBS Films payed a hefty $2 million dollars for Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal’s The Words, a drama starring Bradley Cooper, Zoe Saldana, Olivia Wilde, Dennis Quaid, and Jeremy Irons.

LD Entertainment was first in line to pick up Katie Aselton’s thriller Black Rock, which places three friends, played by Kate Bosworth, Lake Bell, and Katie Aselton herself, on a remote island close to Maine for a weekend full of deadly survival fun.

Two documentaries also found distribution homes: Searching for Sugar Man was picked up by Sony Pictures Classics about a folk singer in 1970s Detroit, and The Queen of Versailles, focusing on a timeshare developer and his wife’s decision to build a 90,000 square-foot mansion in Florida, reveled in its Magnolia Pictures deal.

Other films are still in the deal-or-no-deal go-around that one expects to find at Sundance. Lee Toland Krieger’s romantic comedy, Celeste and Jesse Forever starring Andy Samberg, Rashida Jones (who also happened to co-write the film), Emma Roberts and Elijah Wood has seen four offers thus far.

The Wrap is also claiming that Nicholas Jarecki’s part drama, part thriller Arbitrage starring a pretty stellar cast of Susan Sarandon, Richard Gere and Tim Roth as well as Josh Radnor’s comedy/drama, Liberal Arts, about a thirty-something who falls in love with a 19 year old college student at his alma mater starring Radnor, himself, in addition to Zac Efron, Allison Janney, Richard Jenkins and personal favorite Elizabeth Olsen, should both be expecting confirmed deals before the Sundance Film Festival comes to a close.

Well, just looking at a some of the main-stayers of Sundance, this sure looks to be an exciting time in the festival/independent films season. Stay tuned!