“Christy,” Sydney Sweeney‘s buzzy biopic of iconic boxer Christy Martin, has closed a raft of international sales following its successful premiere at Toronto International Film Festival earlier this month.
Black Bear has completed deals including Tobis Film in Germany and Austria; Roadshow Films and Kismet in Australia and New Zealand; Metropolitan Filmexport in France; Belga Films in Benelux; Ascot Elite in Switzerland; Lusomundo in Portugal; Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions in Italy, Spain, Scandinavia, Latin America, the Middle East, South Africa and most of Asia; The Film Group in Greece; Top Film in Ukraine and Eastern Europe; ACME in the Baltics; Caribbean Cinemas in the West Indies; Forum Film in Israel; MovieCloud in Taiwan; Pioneer Films in the Philippines; and Star Entertainment in India, among others.
Directed by David Michôd, the film has been gaining Oscar buzz since its TIFF premiere with Sweeney tipped for a best actress nomination for her transformation into Martin. In Variety‘s review, chief film critic Owen Gleiberman said that Sweeney delivers a “potent, true-note, game-changing knockout of a performance” and plays Martin “with a vicious swagger in the ring that is just this side of gleeful.”
Black Bear is distributing “Christy” in the U.K. and Ireland, in Canada via subsidiary Elevation Pictures and in the U.S. as the inaugural film of its theatrical distribution slate. The new division, led by Black Bear president Benjamin Kramer and head of U.S. theatrical distribution David Spitz, will theatrically release 12 films per year.
“Christy” releases in the U.S. on Nov. 7.
