With No One Else Buying Movies, Financiers Turn Distributors to Seize Opportunity

With No One Else Buying Movies, Financiers Turn Distributors to Seize Opportunity

It was hardly a secret that Black Bear, which financed Sydney Sweeney boxing biopic “Christy,” might keep the film for its newly launched distribution arm. The company made it official with a TIFF announcement that it “acquired” the film for a November theatrical release. But can you really call it one of the fall festival’s splashier deals when Black Bear essentially sold the movie to itself? What’s less expected is that Black Bear isn’t the on…