The wannabe indie crowd - pleaser Patti Cake $, which was bought by Fox Searchlight for a hefty $ 9.5 million, averaged an underwhelming $ 4,714 per screen, once again proving that the primary audience for these Sundance items is probably at Sundance and that the distributor that paid $ 12 million for Me And Earl And The Dying Girl and $ 17.5 million for The Birth Of A Nation should maybe consider setting a spending cap for future Sundance - hype - echo -
chamber bidding frenzies.