Netflix has emerged victorious within the bidding struggle for Lena Dunham‘s new rom-com “Good Intercourse,” starring Natalie Portman.
The movie was revealed to consumers ultimately month’s European Movie Market by CAA Media Finance and FilmNation, and Netflix is now closing a worldwide deal across the $55 million mark — one of many largest to ever emerge from EFM.
“Women” creator Dunham is about to put in writing and direct “Good Intercourse,” which stars Portman as couple’s therapist Ally, who rejoins New York’s relationship scene in her 40s after a decade-long relationship. “However Ally finds her life pulled in opposing instructions as she falls right into a steamy fling with a 20-something Brooklyn hipster simply as she begins a promising, extra typical relationship with Alan, a profitable 50-something in Manhattan,” the movie’s synopsis reads. “As a romantic crossroads blossoms right into a full-blown id disaster, Ally juggles to maintain these two very totally different males separate and to make sense of her personal conflicting needs earlier than she dangers dropping them each.”
Portman can be producing “Good Intercourse” alongside Sophie Mas underneath their MountainA banner, with Dunham and Michael Cohen producing for his or her firm Good Factor Going.
Netflix declined to remark. FilmNation and CAA didn’t instantly reply to Selection‘s request for remark.
Dunham is getting ready to premiere her new Netflix sequence “Too A lot” this 12 months and just lately entered a inventive partnership with the streamer. She’s additionally writing a a film about cryptocurrency fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried for Apple and A24, based mostly on Michael Lewis’ guide “Going Infinite.”
Oscar winner Portman most just lately graced the massive display screen in Todd Haynes’ critically acclaimed “Might December,” which earned her a Golden Globe nomination. Moreover “Good Intercourse,” different upcoming initiatives embrace Roald Dahl animated comedy “The Twits,” Man Ritchie’s heist movie “Fountain of Youth” and thriller “The Gallerist” alongside Jenna Ortega.
Deadline was the primary to report the information of the sale.
