Searchlight Pictures, Hulu swoop on Sundance hit ‘Summer Of Soul’

Most recent high-profile deal follows buys on Passing, Coda, Flee.In another Sundance deal involving a major streamer Searchlight Pictures and Hulu will release Questlove’s festival hit Summer Of Soul after the studio said on Thursday (February 4) it had acquired worldwide rights.The winner of the Sundance documentary grand jury prize and audience award will open theatrically and stream exclusively on Hulu in the US, and will debut internationally on Star and Star+.Searchlight acquired the film with Disney General Entertainment’s Bipoc Creator initiative.Summer Of Soul takes place at the Harlem Cultural Festival in 1969, when some of

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