Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired was one of the big buzz documentaries at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. It managed to get picked up by HBO Films for a $1 million deal, only to see a tiny release in March.

Tiny. Really tiny.

In order to qualify for an academy award, a film has to play in New York and LA for a minimum number of two screenings per day. Wanted and Desired was given it’s bare minimum run at 181st street in New York (far from the film buff districts) and in Pasadena in LA.

The film was pulled pretty damn quick and got virtually no press leading everyone to think that it had died a post-Sundance death like oh so many other projects.

Turns out that’s not true.

HBO has sold Wanted and Desired to ThinkFilm who will give it another theatrical run starting on July 11th, followed by a DVD release next year. HBO did retain the right to air it first, so subscribers will get to see the doc on June 9th.

You can read more about the content of the doc in our old Sundance coverage on its sale here.