Cooper Raiff’s “Cha Cha Actual Clean” is formally dancing to Apple TV Plus. The tech big and rising streamer has nabbed the second characteristic from the heat-seeking director out of this yr’s digital version of the Sundance Movie Competition.
Apple emerged victorious from a aggressive bidding state of affairs that had attracted Netflix, Amazon and Sony Photos as potential consumers.
The deal was brokered by Endeavor Content material with a sale closing as excessive as $15 million, a person acquainted with the talks said.
“Cha Cha Actual Clean” stars Raiff as a current graduate working as a bar mitzvah hype man. Whereas on the job, he strikes up a novel friendship with a younger mom (Dakota Johnson) and her teenage daughter (Vanessa Burghardt). Leslie Mann, Evan Assante, Raúl Castillo and Odeya Rush fill out the ensemble.
Erik Feige’s PictureStart produced the movie, which walked into this yr’s Sundance Movie Competition as one of many buzziest gross sales titles searching for a distributor. Raiff’s 2020 debut “Shithouse” received the grand jury prize on the SXSW Movie Competition, putting the writer-director on the map.
The value tag on “Cha Cha Actual Clean” represents the best buy but for this yr’s digital Sundance market. Final yr, Apple additionally signed a big verify for “CODA” with a $25 million buy, a record-breaking sum for a Sundance title. Further titles which have discovered distributors at this yr’s Sundance embody “Fireplace of Love” and “The Territory” to Nationwide Geographic, “Residing” to Sony Photos Classics and “Good Luck to You, Leo Grande” to Searchlight and Hulu.
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