EXCLUSIVE: We perceive Netflix has crushed out a number of suitors and is closing up a worldwide deal for Natalie Portman rom-com Good Intercourse in a pact across the $55M mark.
It was a sluggish EFM when it comes to splashy offers on the bottom in Berlin however the wheels have been turning behind the scenes and this is without doubt one of the greatest ever carved out of the market.
As we revealed, the bundle sparked a bidding warfare earlier this month with Warner Bros, Amazon, Apple and Netflix amongst these within the combine.
Oscar winner Natalie Portman is about to star within the buzzy bundle, written and to be directed by Golden Globe winner Lena Dunham (Ladies). CAA Media Finance and Movie Nation Leisure launched the undertaking forward of the market.
It’s zeitgeisty fare. After Babygirl and Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy, age hole romances are in vogue and in Good Intercourse it’s Portman’s flip to have a dalliance with a youthful man. Patrons we’ve spoken to have praised the script.
The synopsis reads: “After spending a decade in a failed relationship, profitable {couples}’ therapist Ally (Portman) is popping 40 and is pushed, kicking and screaming, by her greatest pal again into the hopeless New York relationship scene. 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. As a romantic crossroads blossoms right into a full-blown id disaster, Ally juggles to maintain these two very completely different males separate and to make sense of her personal conflicting needs earlier than she dangers dropping them each.” Casting for the 2 male leads is in course of.
Portman and Sophie Mas will produce via their firm, MountainA, together with Dunham and Michael Cohen below their Good Factor Going banner. Portman has beforehand spoken of her admiration for Dunham as a filmmaker and the way she was impressed by her after seeing Tiny Furnishings.
The profitable bid is way in extra of the preliminary finances, greater than double, and extra once more when tax breaks are factored in due to an anticipated New Jersey shoot. The deal is simply shy of the EFM file from 2022 when Sony paid round $60M for Tom Hanks pic A Man Known as Otto, however Good Intercourse surpasses that when tax breaks are factored in.
Black Swan and Could December star Portman has Man Ritchie’s Fountain Of Youth and Cathy Yan’s The Gallerist in publish. Ladies creator Dunham is in publish on Netflix mini-series Too A lot with Will Sharpe and Megan Stalter.
Netflix, CAA and FilmNation have been unavailable for remark.
