A thin best actress Oscar race was jolted on Friday afternoon by the Toronto International Film Festival’s world premiere of David Michod’s Christy, a drama centering on a performance by Sydney Sweeney as the trailblazing female boxer Christy Martin, which was greeted with a prolonged standing ovation in the Princess of Wales Theater. Sweeney, who was also a producer of …
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Sydney Sweeney was on hand at the Toronto Film Festival for the Friday afternoon premiere of her highly anticipated drama Christy and shed some light on how she transformed into the film’s titular boxer. Sweeney told the festival crowd that she trained for two to three months with a boxing coach prior to filming to play real-life athlete Christy Martin. …
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Sydney Sweeney has the goods to punch her way into the Oscar race for “Christy.” The talented actress completely transforms in “Christy,” a bruising, emotionally charged biopic about groundbreaking boxer Christy Martin. Directed by Australian filmmaker David Michôd (“Animal Kingdom”), the film chronicles Martin’s rise as the most recognizable female boxer in the late 1980’s America, as well as the …
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The Toronto Film Festival hosted the world premiere of Christy, a new biopic from director David Michôd that stars Sydney Sweeney as legendary boxer Christy Martin and Ben Foster as her husband and coach Jim Martin. Guests on the red carpet Friday included Sweeney, Foster, Christy Martin, Katy O’Brian, Michôd, Chad L. Coleman, Jess Gabor, Marvin LaViolette, Shailene Woodley and …
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Sydney Sweeney’s boxing movie Christy is getting a US theatrical release via Black Bear. The Teddy Schwarzman outfit, which also produced the movie, recently launched a U.S. distribution arm headed by CAA vet Benjamin Kramer. Christy, which is set to hit theaters on an awards friendly Nov. 7 date, will be the division’s inaugural release. David Michôd directs the film, which …
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Christy, the Sydney Sweeney-Ben Foster movie about boxing legend Christy Martin, will serve as the inaugural U.S. theatrical release for Black Bear‘s new U.S. theatrical distribution arm. The pic will hit theaters nationwide on Nov. 7 in time for awards season. The movie world premieres tom’w at TIFF at 2PM at the Princess of Wales. Heading into the festival today, …
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