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[QUOTE]PARK CITY, Utah (Reuters) -- A flurry of movie deals were struck as the Sundance Film Festival reached its midpoint Tuesday, and the widely anticipated film "Hounddog" debuted, starring young Dakota Fanning as the victim of a child rape.

The movie by writer/director Deborah Kampmeier received a storm of complaints before the festival from groups concerned about a scene in which a 12-year-old girl named Lewellen is raped by a teen-age boy. The groups had not yet seen the film.

The New York-based Catholic League earlier this month called for a federal probe to determine whether child pornography laws were violated because Fanning, like the character she plays, is 12 years old.

In the rape scene, only Fanning's face, neck, shoulders, hand and foot appear onscreen. Much of the rape is depicted in darkness with flashes of lightning and the sound of Lewellen screaming "stop it, stop it." (Blog: Read the reaction of CNN's Brooke Anderson.)

Kampmeier told Reuters that the scene onscreen is exactly how the film was shot on a closed set, with a limited crew.

"It's important for people to remember that when you are crafting a film, you are putting images next to each other. It's not like we had Dakota acting out the rape, we didn't," she said. "Dakota and I were there together."

Fanning, who has played kids in numerous Hollywood films like Steven Spielberg's "War of the Worlds," said conjuring up the emotion for the scene was like any other. She added the controversy over it was "blown out of proportion."

"I'm not going through anything like that, it's just my character. It's just another scene and wasn't any different from anything else I've done," Fanning said.

"Dakota was screaming 'Stop it.' She could be screaming 'stop it' about anything," Kampmeier added.

Dark themes, bright deals
Sundance is the top U.S. film festival for movies made outside Hollywood's mainstream studios, and movies screening here often tackle dark subjects -- like child rape -- that the studios will not.

Many movies at Sundance are up for sale as part of a regular market for distribution rights that takes place, and after a slow start the deal-making picked up by Tuesday.

Harvey Weinstein's privately held The Weinstein Co. paid around $4 million to acquire another tough movie, "Grace is Gone," starring John Cusack.

Among documentaries, theatrical rights for widely praised "In the Shadow of the Moon," about the Apollo moon missions, were picked up by ThinkFilm. The Discovery Channel will air the movie on television.

Warner Independent Pictures, a unit of Time Warner Inc.'s Warner Bros., bought the comedy "Clubland" with Brenda Blethyn for $4 million.

Fox Searchlight, a unit of News Corp.'s 20th Century Fox film studio, bought two movies, romantic comedy "Waitress" starring Keri Russell, and psychological thriller "Joshua" with Vera Farmiga, for $5 million and $4 million, respectively, according to news reports.

The 10-day festival ends Sunday, following a ceremony in which awards are given out for top films and filmmakers.
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You know what I find funny, is that the Catholic League is pressing for a probe to see if child porn laws were broken but what are they doing about all those Pedophile preists out there? There have been worse movies out there than this one, will I see it? No, not my kind of movie and Dakota Fanning and her bug eyes scare the **** out of me. Honestly people need to shut up about this, he mom was on set when this scene was filmed along with child service people so there were no laws broken I am sure if Fanning said she didn't want to do the scene they would of cut it out of the movie or gotten someone else for the part.

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