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Lionsgate buys Sundance title 'Buried'

$4 mil acquisition marks first pickup at this year's festival

PARK CITY -- Lionsgate on Sunday pulled off the first pickup at Sundance, acquiring North American rights to the Ryan Reynolds-toplined man-in-a-coffin thriller "Buried" for slightly less than $4 million.