‘Friends With Benefits’: Sony Pictures International & Brazil’s Bionica Filmes Hook Up For Feature Remake ‘Amizade Colorida’
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Adding to its roster of local-language remakes, Sony Pictures International Productions is teaming with Biônica Filmes on a Brazilian redo of 2011 romantic comedy, Friends with Benefits which starred Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis.
The Brazilian version, Amizade Colorida, is directed by Rafael Gomes and stars Maria Bopp and Ícaro Silva. Bopp plays Julia, a headhunter from Sao Paulo who recruits Daniel (Silva), an art director from Salvador, for a job interview at a major technology company.
Initially skeptical about leaving his family and a house overlooking the sea in Bahia, he accepts the job after a day exploring the allure of Sao Paulo, guided by Julia.
In a short time, their friendship turns into a casual friends-with-benefits relationship until they both realize that inevitably they are in love.
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