Sony Pictures Classics Takes Rights To SXSW Film ‘Wishful Thinking’

Sony Pictures Classics you’ve gotten picked up worldwide rights to the Lewis Pullman–Maya Hawke starring Wishful Thinking, which made its world premiere at SXSW and won the top Narrative Feature prize there.
The movie written and directed by Graham Parkes follows Julia, an formidable recreation designer, and Charlie, a struggling musician, who’s at a loss for restore their risky relationship. After attending a couples-therapy seminar run by mysterious twin healers, they discover that the ups-and-downs of their relationship have supernatural results on the world round them. With earthquakes, the inventory market and full nations in danger, Charlie and Julia should confront whether or not their passionate love can survive amidst a lot chaos.

“Audiences have been craving a film like Wishful Thinking — romantic, unpredictable and genuinely funny — and we can’t wait for them to experience Maya and Lewis in these deeply human and refreshingly hilarious leading roles,” Sony Pictures Classics mentioned Friday. “Graham Parkes has crafted a film for a new generation of moviegoers with the kind of romantic comedy meant to be shared in a theater, marking another collaboration we’re proud to continue with Pinky Promise and our new friends at Highway 10.”
Parkes mentioned, “Sony Pictures Classics has been a singular champion of unbiased cinema for almost 35 years, releasing a few of my favourite motion pictures of all time. So to be included among the many movies first dropped at an viewers by them is really the last word recognition for the passionate work our forged and crew put into making Wishful Thinking.”
The film additionally stars Amita Rao, Randall Park, Eric Rahill, Jake Shane, Kate Berlant and Kerri Kenney-Silver. The movie is produced by Pullman for Buckwild Pictures; Dan Gedman and Matt Smith for Highway 10, which additionally absolutely financed the movie; and Kara Durrett for Pinky Promise. Executive producers are Alyssa Roehrenbeck, Sarah Mather, Jessamine Burgum, Cameron Fuller and Graham Patrick Martin.

The deal was negotiated between Sony Pictures Classics and UTA Independent Film Group on behalf of the filmmakers.