{"id":141601,"date":"2020-02-04T23:57:12","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T04:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/?p=141601"},"modified":"2020-02-04T23:57:12","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T04:57:12","slug":"sundance-2020-news-amazon-studios-picks-up-eugene-ashes-sylvies-love-starring-tessa-thompson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/sundance-2020-news-amazon-studios-picks-up-eugene-ashes-sylvies-love-starring-tessa-thompson\/","title":{"rendered":"Sundance 2020 News: Amazon Studios Picks Up Eugene Ashe’s \u2018Sylvie\u2019s Love\u2019 Starring Tessa Thompson"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Variety<\/a> is reporting that \u201cSylvie\u2019s Love,\u201d writer-director\u00a0Eugene Ashe<\/strong>\u2019s period drama about a romance between an aspiring television producer and a talented saxophonist, has sold to Amazon Studios out of this year\u2019s Sundance film festival. The film stars\u00a0Tessa Thompson<\/strong> and\u00a0Nnamdi Asomugha.\u00a0<\/strong>The sale, brokered by Endeavor Content on behalf of the filmmakers, closed in the high seven-figure range, insiders added.<\/p>\n

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Written and directed by Eugene Ashe,\u00a0the cast includes\u00a0<\/span>Tessa Thompson<\/b>,\u00a0Nnamdi Asomugha<\/b>,\u00a0Ryan Michelle Bathe,\u00a0Reg\u00e9-Jean Page,\u00a0<\/strong>Eva Longoria<\/b>,\u00a0Aja Naomi King<\/b>,\u00a0Wendi McLendon-Covey<\/b>,\u00a0Jemima Kirke, Alano Miller, MC Lyte, Tone Bell, Erica Gimpel,\u00a0John Magaro,\u00a0<\/strong><\/b>and\u00a0Lance Redick.<\/strong><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Set in \u201950s and \u201960s New York City, the story follows\u00a0aspiring television producer\u00a0<\/span>Sylvie (Thompson) as she meets aspiring saxophonist Robert (Asomugha) when he takes a job at her father\u2019s record store in Harlem. After a summer romance that comes to an end, the two fatefully reconnect several years later and find that their feelings for each other have never disappeared.<\/p>\n

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PARK CITY, UTAH – JANUARY 27: (L-R) Eugene Ashe, Tessa Thompson and Nnamdi Asomugha attend the after party for “Sylvie’s Love” at Acura Festival Village on January 27, 2020 in Park City, Utah. (Photo by Michael Kovac\/Getty Images for Acura)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cThey don\u2019t make \u2019em like this any more, innocent and escapist and scrubbed clean of contact with real grubby life. But then, given the poor history of black representation in the Hollywood movies of the Golden Age, \u2018they\u2019 never really did,\u201d<\/strong> wrote Variety<\/em> critic Jessica Kiang in her review from Park City, \u201cand perhaps this small act of retroactive redress is enough of a reason to make such a wildly old-fashioned, fantasy-bubble period romance.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thompson produced the period drama, along with Asomugha through his iAm21 Entertainment and\u00a0Jonathan Baker<\/strong>\u00a0(The Banker),\u00a0Gabrielle Glore<\/strong>\u00a0(Dirty Laundry) and\u00a0Matthew Thurm<\/strong>\u00a0(Crown Heights).\u00a0The c<\/span>inematographer is\u00a0Declan Quinn<\/strong>\u00a0(Rachel Getting Married, Leaving Las Vegas).<\/p>\n