Apple acquires Dakota Johnson-starrer ‘Cha Cha Real Smooth’

Dakota Johnson-starrer ‘Cha Cha Real Smooth’ will feature on Apple TV+. The tech-giant acquired Cooper Raiff’s directorial for $15 million at the 2022 Virtual Sundance Film Festival. 

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‘Cha Cha Real Smooth’ is officially the biggest sale of the festival this year so far. It was amongst the several films that were screened at the virtual event. Others were – ‘We Met in Virtual Reality’, ‘Hatching’, ‘Resurrection’ and ‘Emily the Criminal’. 

Apple’s biggest aquisition was duringlast year’s Sundance, when it paid a record-breaking $25 million for ‘CODA’. 

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‘Cha Cha Real Smooth’ also stars director and writer Raiff, 25, who plays a college graduate Andrew and gets a job as a bar mitzvah hype man. Andrew befriends young mother Domino (Dakota Johnson) and her autistic daughter Lola, played Vanessa Burghardt. Other stars in the film include Leslie Mann, Evan Assante, Brad Garett, Raúl Castillo and Odeya Rush.

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Johnson has produced the film along with Raiff,  Ro Donnelly, Erik Feig and Jessica Switch. The executive producers are Jeff Valeri, Shayne Fiske Goldner and Julia Hammer. ICM Partners, WME and Endeavor Content handled the deal.

In December last year, Apple Original Films nabbed the distribution rights to Adam McKay’s long-in-development biographical drama film ‘Bad Blood’. It stars Jennifer Lawrence as Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes.