Sony Photos Classics has picked up Clint Bentley’s Jockey on the second night time of this 12 months’s Sundance Movie Pageant, buying all worldwide rights to the movie.
Set to premiere on Sunday, Jan. 31 within the U.S. Dramatic Competitors part, Bentley’s movie follows an getting older jockey (Clifton Collins, Jr.) who hopes to win one final title for his longtime coach (Molly Parker), who has come to own what appears to be a championship horse. Nevertheless, the years and accidents have taken a toll on his physique, throwing into query the jockey’s potential to proceed his lifelong ardour. The arrival of a rookie rider (Moises Arias), who claims to be his son additional complicates the jockey’s plans to fulfilling his dream.
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“Filmmakers Clint Bentley (a formidable directing debut), co-writer Greg Kwedar and producer Nancy Schafer have made such a superb film, that’s participating, satisfying, visible, and exact cinematic storytelling,” Sony Photos Classics mentioned in an announcement. “Anchored by a very wonderful efficiency by Clifton Collins Jr., an actor we have now admired in so many roles for over 2 a long time (from Capote to Westworld), ably supported by Molly Parker and Moses Arias, JOCKEY is about what occurs to an expert on the finish of a profession with the background of horse racing, a topic of curiosity to audiences worldwide. We’re excited to deliver the film to a large viewers this 12 months.”
Jockey is produced by Bentley, Kwedar and Nancy Schafer and government produced by Larry Kalas, Larry Kelly, Linda & Jon Halbert, Cheryl & Walt Penn, Genevieve & Mark Crozier, Cindy & John Greenwood, Ann Grimes & Jay Outdated, Benjamin Fuqua, Jordy Wax, and Collins Jr. Extra actors are Logan Cormier and Colleen Hartnett
“We’re overjoyed Sony Photos Classics shall be releasing JOCKEY. Rising up, watching motion pictures with their brand made us the filmmakers we’re immediately,” mentioned Bentley and Kwedar. “We have been so taken by SPC’s ardour and imaginative and prescient and our shared love for Clifton Collins Jr. It’s surreal for our film to be within the household of so many unbelievable movies and filmmakers. This film was made with a lot love, within the vibrant, itinerant world behind the racetrack. It’s an honor to accomplice with Michael Barker, Tom Bernard and their workforce who take such care in how they launch movies.”
Sony Photos Classics negotiated the cope with ICM Companions, on behalf of the filmmakers. Worldwide gross sales have been dealt with by Movies Boutique.
The Jockey acquisition follows Neon’s choose up of Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s Flee and Apple’s record-breaking $25 million CODA sale.