Sony Pictures Classics trumpeted its 2026 slate of triple Bafta winner I Swear, Pedro Almodovar’s Cannes Competition selection Bitter Christmas, and four Sundance acquisitions in the specialty distributor’s first CinemaCon presentation.
After a sizzle reel of highlight titles spanning Blue Moon, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, The Lives Of Others, Run Lola Run, and Incendies, VP sales John Z Shahinian took to the stage at Dolby Colosseum in Caesars palace to the strains of Led Zeppelin’s When The Levee Breaks.
Industry veteran Shahinian joined the company last month to replace the retiring Tom Prassis and kept the barriers locked in terms of new announcements. However he referenced Tom McCarthy’s upcoming untitled environmental satire starring Paul Rudd, Tatiana Maslany, Paul Giamatti, John Turturro, and Amy Ryan which has not been dated.
I Swear, the Tourette syndrome drama that was unwittingly involved in a racial slur incident at the Baftas earlier this year, opens in the US on April 24.
The pipeline includes four Sundance acquisitions: comedy Gail Daughtry And The Celebrity Sex Pass (July 10) with Zoey Deutch and Jon Hamm – “Guaranteed to be the independent box office success of this summer,” Shahinian dared – Stephanie Ahn’s drama Bedford Park (September 22); John Turturro drama The Only Living Pickpocket In New York; and Josef Kubota Wladyka’s Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!
The pipeline includes Haifaa al-Mansour’s mystery thriller Unidentified; and 4K restorations of Danny Boyle’s Trainspotting (June 5), and Jane Campion’s The Piano.
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