Stonecutter Media has picked up the North American rights to The Sweetest Kill, an indie gangster crime thriller starring Sidney Flanigan and Sofia Yepes. An April 2026 release is set for the movie billed as a film noir set in LatinX and LGBTQ+ Los Angeles and based on Yepes’ story, which she co-wrote with director Francisco Ordoñez. Stonecutter Media’s Steven Karel said of the acquisition: “We love to put out edgy action crime thrillers on the streets of cities. Done right they can be both cool and commercial at the same time. In this case, you get to see powerful females in the drug game which is a distinct difference from normal drug king pin portrayals in that environment.” The Sweetest Kill, earlier titled The Low End Theory, has Yepes playing Raquel, an aspiring beats producer navigating the low-budget hip-hop world while moonlighting as a drug money launderer. When mounting debts tied to an obsessive romantic relationship push her to the edge, Raquel desperately steals from her crime-lord boss. Flanigan (Never Rarely Sometimes Always) plays Veronica, Raquel’s …