A24 is closing on Eva Victor’s Sundance hit Sorry, Baby, The Hollywood Reporter confirmed on Sunday.
Victor’s film — which she wrote, directed and starred in — tells the story of a college professor recovering from sexual assault. Per the logline, “Something bad happened to Agnes. But life goes on… for everyone around her, at least.”
A24 noted that bidding was an incredibly competitive situation, but that the studio is closing on acquiring worldwide rights to the movie. The final price tag is still unknown.
Naomi Ackie, Lucas Hedges, John Carroll Lynch, Louis Cancelmi and Kelly McCormack co-star, with Moonlight‘s Barry Jenkins, Adele Romanski and Mark Ceryak as producers. The movie took home Sundance’s Waldo Salt Award for Screenwriting, and earned a 100 percent critics score on Rotten Tomatoes. THR’s Jon Frosch called it “a winning, at times strikingly strong big-screen debut.”
The film also landed on THR‘s list of 15 best movies out of this year’s Sundance, where Frosch continued: “The film positions Victor as a triple threat, with a specific, fully formed voice blending irony and earnestness to beguiling effect.”
Kiva Reardon and Myriam Schroeter co-produced. Executive producers include Tim Headington, Lia Buman, Ana Leocha, Neil Shah, Alex Orlovsky, Duncan Montgomery, Jack Selby, Rick Covert, Michael B. Clark, Tim Foley, Alex Turtletaub, Catalina Rojter, Frank Ariza, Carole Baraton, Pauline Boucheny Pinon.
UTA Independent Film Group structured the financing and negotiated the deal on behalf of the filmmakers.
Sorry, Baby is a Tango, High Frequency Entertainment, Big Beach presentation of a Pastel production, in association with Charades Prods., Case Study and AF Films & Productions, S.L. Victor is repped by CAA, Management 360 and Felker Toczek.