{"id":119064,"date":"2025-09-04T20:18:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T20:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/119064\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T20:18:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T20:18:07","slug":"sydney-sweeney-boxing-movie-christy-gets-november-release-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/119064\/","title":{"rendered":"Sydney Sweeney Boxing Movie \u2018Christy\u2019 Gets November Release Date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/sydney-sweeney\/\" id=\"auto-tag_sydney-sweeney_1\" data-tag=\"sydney-sweeney\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sydney Sweeney<\/a>\u2019s boxing movie <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/christy\/\" id=\"auto-tag_christy_1\" data-tag=\"christy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Christy<\/a> is getting a US theatrical release via Black\u00a0Bear. The Teddy Schwarzman outfit, which also produced the movie, recently launched a U.S. distribution arm headed by CAA vet Benjamin Kramer. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tChristy, which is set to hit theaters on an awards friendly Nov. 7 date, will be the division\u2019s inaugural release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tDavid Mich\u00f4d directs the film, which will bow at the Toronto International Film Festival. It stars Sweeney as the titular Christy Martin, a pioneer of women\u2019s boxing with a harrowing personal story. Ben Foster, Merritt Wever, and Katy O\u2019Brian also star in the movie, which was written by Mirrah Foulkes and Mich\u00f4d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/black-bear\/\" id=\"auto-tag_black-bear_1\" data-tag=\"black-bear\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Black Bear<\/a>, Anonymous Content, Votiv, Fifty-Fifty Films, and Yoki produced the feature. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tLaunched this summer, Black Bear\u2019s U.S. distribution arm is looking to release a slate of up to 12 films per year. Said Kramer, \u201cBoth tender and unflinching, Christy 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<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tProducers are Kerry Kohansky-Roberts, Black Bear\u2019s Schwarzman, Votiv\u2019s Brent Stiefel and Justin Lothrop, Mich\u00f4d, and Sweeney. Executive Producers include Black Bear\u2019s Michael Heimler, John Friedberg, Andrew Golov, and Clementine Quittner, Anonymous Content\u2019s David Levine and Nick Shumaker, as well as Mirrah Foulkes, Harrison Huffman, Brad Zimmerman, and Ryan Schwartz.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tUTA Independent Film Group\u00a0and AC Independent co-represented U.S. rights and negotiated the deal. Black Bear is handling international.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sydney Sweeney\u2019s boxing movie Christy is getting a US theatrical release via Black\u00a0Bear. The Teddy Schwarzman outfit, which&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119065,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,83069,802,84187,85,30000],"class_list":{"0":"post-119064","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-black-bear","11":"tag-boxing","12":"tag-christy","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-sydney-sweeney"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}