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Another movie premiering at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival has struck a distribution deal.
Sony Pictures Classics has bought the worldwide rights to director Luca Guadagnino's gay love story "Call Me by Your Name," according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The film, set in the summer of 1983, stars Armie Hammer as an American scholar in northern Italy, where he meets a 17-year-old Jewish-American boy (Timothee Chalamet). Michael Stuhlbarg also stars as the boy's father.
The movie is adapted from Andre Aciman's novel, with the screenplay credited to Guadagnino, James Ivory (of Merchant-Ivory fame) and Walter Fasano.
Guadagnino brought his 2009 movie "I Am Love," starring Tilda Swinton, to Sundance, and most recently directed "A Bigger Splash" with Swinton, Ralph Fiennes and Dakota Johnson.
"Call Me by Your Name" will have its first Sundance screening on Sunday, Jan. 22, at 6:15 p.m. at the Eccles Theatre in Park City.