Netflix Buys "Mudbound" for $12.5 Million

Jason Mitchell as Ronsel Jackson and Garrett Hedlund as Jamie McAllan, brothers-in-arms who return from WWII to face very different welcomes in Jim Crow Mississippi. Photo by Steve Dietl.

The purchase made "Mudbound" the top sale of this year's Sundance Film Festival. The movie will begin streaming on Netflix in the fall, with a concurrent theatrical release. Variety and Forbes covered the story.