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Thursday, May 1, 2008

"Sugar" for Sony


Sony Pictures Classics has grabbed theatrical rights to "Sugar," Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden's baseball film that preemed at Sundance

Fleck and Boden's sophmore effort follows their well-received "Half Nelson" which earned star Ryan Gosling an Oscar nom.  "Sugar" is a biopic of Miguel "Sugar" Santos, a Dominican baseball star recruited to play in the US minor leagues.

HBO Films financed the pic and has the TV rights.

(Winter Miller contributed to this post)

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