Sony wants Sugar
April 13, 2008
Sony Pictures Classics is on the verge of acquiring theatrical rights for the Spanish-language film “Sugar,” Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden’s Sundance tale of immigration and baseball.
The company would acquire theatrical rights in North America and a number of Latin American territories. Television rights would remain with HBO, whose HBO Films produced the picture. The status of home video rights was unclear at press time.
Some parties close to the deal, however, emphasized that it hadn’t closed yet.
The movie centers on Miguel “Sugar” Santos, a pitching prospect from the Dominican Republic who is brought to the U.S. to play for a major league baseball team. Once here, however, he struggles to adapt and ends up taking a different path than he had first hoped.
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