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Netflix has won over multiple suitors and is clinching a worldwide deal for Natalie Portman‘s rom-com, “Good Sex” with a price tag of $55M. At the European Film Market last month, CAA Media Finance and FilmNation revealed the film to buyers, and Netflix is now closing a worldwide deal that is one of the largest to come out of EFM.

The winning bid is far in excess of the initial budget, more than double, and more again when tax breaks are factored in thanks to an anticipated New Jersey shoot. As we previously mentioned, the package caused a bidding war earlier this month, with Warner Bros, Amazon, Apple, and Netflix all involved.

Natalie Portman, who won an Oscar for her performance in “Black Swan”, is expected to star in the highly anticipated package written and directed by Lena Dunham (“Girls“). After “Babygirl” and “Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy“, age gap romances are on trend, and in Good Sex, Portman is the one who has a flirtation with a younger man.

Here’s synopsis : “After spending a decade in a failed relationship, successful couples’ therapist Ally (Portman) is turning 40 and is pushed, kicking and screaming, by her best friend back into the hopeless New York dating scene. But Ally finds her life pulled in opposing directions as she falls into a steamy fling with a 20-something Brooklyn hipster just as she begins a promising, more conventional relationship with Alan, a successful 50-something in Manhattan. As a romantic crossroads blossoms into a full-blown identity crisis, Ally juggles to keep these two very different men separate and to make sense of her own conflicting desires before she risks losing them both.”

As of now, the casting for the two male leads is in process. Portman and Sophie Mas will produce through their company, MountainA, along with Dunham and Michael Cohen under their Good Thing Going banner. Portman has previously spoken of her admiration for Dunham as a filmmaker and how she was inspired by her after seeing “Tiny Furniture“.