Sony Pictures Classics buys rights to Equity

Los Angeles

SONY Pictures Classics, the independent film label of the Japanese electronics and entertainment group, has acquired Equity, the first Wall Street movie in years to feature a woman in the lead role.

Sony bought worldwide rights to the picture, which made its debut on Tuesday at the Sundance Film Festival, the studio said on Monday in an e-mail. Financial terms were not revealed. Nor did the parties give a release date.