Netflix Buys Natalie Portman, Lena Dunham ‘Just right Intercourse’ for $55 Million

Netflix has emerged victorious within the bidding battle for Lena Dunham‘s new rom-com “Just right Intercourse,” starring Natalie Portman.

The movie was once printed to patrons ultimately month’s Ecu Movie Marketplace by way of CAA Media Finance and FilmNation, and Netflix is now ultimate a world deal across the $55 million mark — some of the greatest to ever emerge from EFM.

“Ladies” writer Dunham is about to put in writing and direct “Just right Intercourse,” which stars Portman as couple’s therapist Best friend, who rejoins New York’s courting scene in her 40s after a decade-long courting. “However Best friend reveals her existence pulled in opposing instructions as she falls right into a steamy fling with a 20-something Brooklyn hipster simply as she starts a promising, extra typical courting with Alan, a a success 50-something in Ny,” the movie’s synopsis reads. “As a romantic crossroads blossoms right into a full-blown id disaster, Best friend juggles to stay those two very other males separate and to make sense of her personal conflicting needs prior to she dangers dropping them each.”

Portman could also be generating “Just right Intercourse” along Sophie Mas below their MountainA banner, with Dunham and Michael Cohen generating for his or her corporate Just right 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 collection “Too A lot” this yr and lately entered an inventive partnership with the streamer. She’s additionally writing a a film about cryptocurrency fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried for Apple and A24, in response to Michael Lewis’ guide “Going Countless.”

Oscar winner Portman maximum lately graced the massive display in Todd Haynes’ significantly acclaimed “Might December,” which earned her a Golden Globe nomination. But even so “Just right Intercourse,” different upcoming initiatives come with Roald Dahl animated comedy “The Twits,” Man Ritchie’s heist movie “Fountain of Early life” and mystery “The Gallerist” along Jenna Ortega.

Time limit was once the primary to file the inside track of the sale.