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Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired North American rights to Marcel Sarmiento’s baseball drama The Royal, with plans to release it in limited theaters and on digital on July 15.

The film tells the story of iconic former Kansas City Royal slugger Willie Mays Aikens, whose promising career quickly turned disastrous because of drug addiction. Aikens, to this day a World Series home run record holder, was entrapped by tricky cops and ultimately sentenced to the longest prison sentence ever given to a professional athlete in a drug case. The Royalis an intimate portrait of a man taking the hard circumstances of his life and turning them around against all odds, as he seeks redemption with his estranged family and friends (including George Brett), with baseball, and ultimately with himself upon his release from prison.

Amin Joseph, Elisabeth Rohm, Olivia Taylor Cruz, Andrea Navedo, Michael Beach and Nic Bishop star. Scott Resnick, Joseph and Gregory Jordan served as the film’s producers.

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