Sony Pictures Classics has acquired U.S. and Latin American rights to David Michod's debut feature "
Animal Kingdom," which world premiered at the Sundance Film Festival last month.
Written and directed by Michod, "Kingdom" follows a 17-year-old boy who is thrust into the Melbourne underworld after the death of his mother. The crime drama, which stars Guy Pearce, Ben Mendelsohn, Joel Edgerton and Luke Ford, was handed the world cinema dramatic award at Sundance.