‘I Carry You With Me’ Acquired By Sony Pictures Classics – Sundance

Carrie Underwood may be a superstar in the music world, but things are slightly different in her son’s eyes.

Winner of both prizes awarded in the Next category of the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, “I Carry You With Me” tells the true story of an undocumented gay couple from Mexico who risk their lives for love, liberty and the American Dream.

By Nellie Andreeva

Sony Pictures Entertainment has renewed its feature film agreement with Spanish pay-TV leader Moviestar Plus.

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By Nancy Tartaglione

Currently riding high at the global box office with “Bad Boys For Life,” Japanese electronics to entertainment conglomerate Sony reported third quarter profits of $2.10 billion (JPY220 billion). That is sharply down on the $3.83 billion reported at the same point last financial year. Revenues increased by $1 billion to reach $22.5 billion ($2.46 trillion), compared with $21.4 billion (JPY2.40 trillion).

By Nellie Andreeva

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By Anthony D'Alessandro

Sony Pictures Classic is partnering with Stage 6 Films for worldwide rights to the immigration love story I Carry You With Me, which is set to be released later this year.Based on a true story, I Carry You With Me is a decades-spanning romance that begins in Mexico between two young men, an aspiring chef and a teacher.

By Dino-Ray Ramos

Sony Pictures Classics has teamed with Sony’s Stage 6 Films to oversee the global release of Heidi Ewing’s feature narrative debut “I Carry You With Me (Te Llevo Conmigo),” a gay love story about two men who immigrate to the United States. The deal follows the movie’s enthusiastic reception at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. The romantic drama debuted to multiple standing ovations in Park City, where it was shown in the NEXT section. It will be released later this year.

Sony Pictures Classics has acquired worldwide rights to “The Truffle Hunters” out of the Sundance Film Festival. The pact is for $1.5 million, according to an insider.

By Mike Fleming Jr

By Anthony D'Alessandro

The battle lines of territorial masculinity are drawn with compelling psychological complexity in Summer White, in which a 13-year-old boy impatient to become a man grows increasingly hostile to the presence of his single mother's new partner in their lives. Mexican director Rodrigo Ruiz Patterson establishes a domestic situation of almost unhealthy mutual emotional dependency and then ruptures it with the arrival of an outsider whose kindness and generosity make him even more of a threat.

If Human Flow, Ai Weiwei’s uncompromising 2017 documentary about global immigration, challenged the viewer to contemplate the seemingly limitless universe of displaced persons roaming the planet, his compassionate, socially conscious new film Vivos takes the opposite tack.