EXCLUSIVE: In aggressive bidding, A24 has acquired U.S. theatrical rights to Sing Sing, the Greg Kwedar-directed drama that stars Colman Domingo. The movie premiered at Toronto to rapturous critiques and A24 is plotting a 2024 theatrical launch.

Breakin’ The Mummy’s Code and John H. Richardson’s The Sing Sing Follies.

Bentley and Kwedar produced with Monique Walton. Colman Domingo, Raul Domingo, Michael Heimler, Teddy Schwarzman, Larry Kalas, Larry Kelly, Nancy Schafer, Clarence “Divine Eye” Maclin, and John “Divine G” Whitfield are the exec producers.

CAA Media Finance brokered the home deal, and Black Bear is promoting worldwide territories.

Domingo turned in two robust performances in competition movies, with the opposite being his flip as Bayard Rustin in Netflix’s Rustin. That’s the George C. Wolfe-directed drama about how Rustin was the quiet organizational catalyst of the Civil Rights march on Washington, the place Dr. Martin Luther King Jr gave his iconic speech.

Sing Sing has fairly a backstory.,

In line with the filmmakers’ deep respect for his or her collaborators, an idea that Kwedar and Bentley had initially developed for his or her movie Jockey was employed on Sing Sing. The venture is a SAG-AFTRA guild signatory however not members of different guilds, and the filmmakers wished to make sure that everybody concerned within the movie felt like an equal, and shared within the upside of the movie’s success. The filmmakers deployed a community-based mannequin, the place each member of the movie was handled equally and have become a revenue participant.

“Everybody got paid the same rate, be it cast or crew, based on the SAG scale rate. And then, everyone shared in a piece of the equity. I’d never heard of an equity model that invited everyone to fully participate,” says producer Monique Walton. That strategy appealed to forged members like Domingo, too. “There’s no money on the table for you,” he says. “But there’s a sense of purpose, and that’s the sort of art you make time for. There’s an understanding that, at the heart of it, everyone involved is in it for the right reasons.”

Every member of the forged and crew obtained a professional rata portion of the movie’s fairness pool, primarily based on the quantity of days labored and the interval of inventive providers supplied. Every member of the forged and crew, from Domingo to the PAs, have been paid the identical day by day and weekly fee. Each single certified member of the manufacturing meaningfully participates within the monetary success. And due to that association, “this radical transparency birthed a radical trust,” says Kwedar. “We realized that we rise and fall together, we all shared the same goals, and there was no hierarchy. It was a culture where the best ideas could come forward from anyone on the team and be heard. ”