What we thought could be one of many hottest gross sales titles at TIFF 2024 has lastly offered and can get a chief theatrical launch. Sony Photos Classics will launch “On Swift Horses,” the interval conflict drama and romance from director Daniel Minahan, buying the movie forward of it closing out the SXSW Movie & TV Competition subsequent month.
“On Swift Horses” encompasses a solid that’s as buzzy because it will get with Jacob Elordi, Daisy Edgar-Jones, and Will Poulter, and is predicated on a novel by Shannon Pufahl with a screenplay by Bryce Kass. The movie additionally stars Sasha Calle and Diego Calva.
The movie follows Muriel and her husband Lee as they’re starting a brilliant new life in California upon Lee’s return from the Korean Struggle. However their newfound stability is upended by the arrival of Lee’s charismatic brother, Julius, a wayward gambler with a secret previous. A harmful love triangle shortly types. When Julius takes off seeking the younger card cheat he’s fallen for, Muriel’s eager for one thing extra propels her right into a secret lifetime of her personal, playing on racehorses and exploring a love she by no means dreamed attainable.
Following its premiere at TIFF, IndieWire praised the performances of Elordi and Edgar-Jones, and referred to as it a romance that eschewed conventions.
“‘On Swift Horses’ is a surprising tableau of almost-romances, weaving collectively ephemeral moments of magic with the ache that inevitably follows when the universe takes them away,” Christian Zilko wrote.
The movie is introduced by Ley Line Leisure, FirstGen Content material, Cor Cordium, The Dan Corp, Wavelength, and Killer Movies. It’s government produced by Nate Kamiya, David Darby, Claude Amadeo, Randal Sandler, Chris Triana, Jenifer Westphal, Joe Plummer, Christine Vachon, Mason Plotts, Alvaro R. Valente, Bryce Kass, Lauren Shelton, Jeffrey Penman, Jacob Elordi, Daisy Edgar-Jones, Teddy Schwarzman, and John Friedberg, and produced by Peter Spears, Daniel Minahan, Tim Headington, Mollye Asher, Theresa Steele Web page, and Michael D’ Alto.
Sony Photos Classics, whereas quiet to this point at Sundance, has been energetic on the gross sales market. Simply yesterday the label acquired director Haifaa Al Mansour’s “Unidentified,” the most recent from the director of “Wadjda” and “The Good Candidate.” SPC is also driving excessive on its Oscar-nominee “I’m Nonetheless Right here,” which is increasing theatrically in worldwide markets beginning as we speak, February 7.