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Sony Pictures Classics has picked up worldwide authorities to the Lewis Pullman-Maya Hawke starring Wishful Thinking which made its world premiere astatine SXSW and won nan apical Narrative Feature prize there.
The Graham Parkes directed and written characteristic follows Julia, an eager crippled designer, and Charlie, a struggling musician, who are astatine a nonaccomplishment for really to repair their volatile relationship. After attending a couples-therapy seminar tally by mysterious copy healers, they find that nan ups-and-downs of their narration person supernatural effects connected nan world astir them. With earthquakes, nan banal market, and full nations astatine risk, Charlie and Julia must face whether their passionate emotion tin past amidst truthful overmuch chaos.
Sony Pictures Classics said, “Audiences person been craving a movie for illustration Wishful Thinking — romantic, unpredictable and genuinely funny — and we can’t wait for them to acquisition Maya and Lewis successful these profoundly quality and refreshingly hilarious starring roles. Graham Parkes has crafted a movie for a caller procreation of moviegoers pinch nan benignant of romanticist drama meant to beryllium shared successful a theater, marking different collaboration we’re proud to proceed pinch Pinky Promise and our caller friends astatine Highway 10.”
Parkes said, “Sony Pictures Classics has been a singular champion of independent cinema for nearly 35 years, releasing immoderate of my favourite movies of each time. So to beryllium included among nan films first brought to an assemblage by them is genuinely nan eventual nickname for nan passionate activity our formed and unit put into making Wishful Thinking.”
The movie besides stars Amita Rao, Randall Park, Eric Rahill, Jake Shane, Kate Berlant, and Kerri Kenney-Silver. The film is produced by Pullman for Buckwild Pictures, Dan Gedman and Matt Smith for Highway 10 who besides afloat financed nan film, and Kara Durrett for Pinky Promise, and executive produced by Alyssa Roehrenbeck, Sarah Mather, Jessamine Burgum, Cameron Fuller, and Graham Patrick Martin.
The woody was negotiated betwixt Sony Pictures Classics and UTA Independent Film Group connected behalf of nan filmmakers.
