{"id":201142,"date":"2025-09-05T02:27:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T02:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/201142\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T02:27:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T02:27:11","slug":"black-bear-to-release-sydney-sweeney-boxing-drama-christy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/201142\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Bear to Release Sydney Sweeney Boxing Drama ‘Christy’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\u201cChristy,\u201d a sports drama that features a transformative performance from \u201cEuphoria\u201d star Sydney Sweeney<\/a> as a female boxer, will be released by Black\u00a0Bear\u00a0in theaters in the thick of awards season. <\/p>\n

\n\tHeading into the Toronto Film Festival<\/a> where it will premiere, \u201cChristy\u201d was one of the hottest acquisition targets, but Black Bear<\/a>, which financed the picture, has decided to take it off the board and make it the inaugural release of its fledgling distribution label. The film is a biopic of Christy Martin, a WBC female\u00a0super welterweight\u00a0champ. It\u2019s directed by Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner David Mich\u00f4d (\u201cAnimal Kingdom\u201d) and co-stars Ben Foster, Merritt Wever, and Katy O\u2019Brian. \u201cChristy\u201d will be released in theaters nationwide on Nov. 7 and Black Bear plans to mount an Oscar campaign for the picture and for Sweeney\u2019s performance, which is said to be chameleonic.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe\u2019re thrilled about the upcoming release of \u2018Christy,\u2019 a moving portrait of resilience and defiance from visionary filmmaker David Mich\u00f4d,\u201d said\u00a0Black\u00a0Bear\u00a0President of U.S. Distribution Benjamin Kramer. \u201cLed by Sydney Sweeney\u2019s masterful transformation into the iconic Christy, capturing a young woman\u2019s fierce determination to define her own destiny, the film is elevated by Mich\u00f4d\u2019s elegant direction and enriched by an electric supporting turn from Ben Foster. Both tender and unflinching, \u2018Christy\u2019 is a celebration of persistence, humor, and humanity in the face of unexpected turns. We cannot wait to share it with audiences across the country.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMich\u00f4d co-wrote the screenplay with Mirrah Foulkes, from a story by Katherine Fugate. The film follows Martin as \u201cshe charges into the world of boxing under the guidance of her trainer and manager-turned-husband, Jim (Foster). But while Christy flaunts a fiery persona in the ring, her toughest battles unfold outside it, as she confronts family, identity, and a relationship that just might become life-or-death.\u201d The film is\u00a0Black\u00a0Bear\u2019s second collaboration with Sweeney, who previously starred in the studio\u2019s horror film \u201cImmaculate.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cChristy\u201d\u00a0was produced by\u00a0Black\u00a0Bear, Anonymous Content, Votiv, Fifty-Fifty Films, and Yoki. Producers are Kerry Kohansky-Roberts,\u00a0Black\u00a0Bear\u2019s Teddy Schwarzman, Votiv\u2019s Brent Stiefel and Justin Lothrop, Mich\u00f4d, and Sweeney. <\/p>\n

\n\tUTA Independent Film Group\u00a0and AC Independent co-represented U.S. rights and negotiated the deal with\u00a0Black\u00a0Bear\u00a0on behalf of the filmmaking team.\u00a0Black\u00a0Bear\u00a0is handling international rights and will theatrically release the film in the U.K. and Ireland.<\/p>\n

\n\tBlack Bear launched its distribution arm in July bringing over Kramer from CAA to run it and hiring David Spitz, a long-term Lionsgate distribution executive. The company has previously been an active producer and financier, backing such films as \u201cSing Sing\u201d and \u201cI Care a Lot.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cChristy,\u201d a sports drama that features a transformative performance from \u201cEuphoria\u201d star Sydney Sweeney as a female boxer,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":201143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[2416,171,53,21218,77123,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-201142","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-black-bear","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-movies","11":"tag-sydney-sweeney","12":"tag-toronto-film-festival","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115149330461949244","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}