Searchlight Closes $7.5M U.S. Deal For Sundance Pic ‘Good Luck To You, Leo Grande;’ Hulu Releasing

Robin Roberts shared some sad news about her longtime partner, Amber Laign.

Well, this story just took an even darker turn — and that’s quite a feat considering…

Rebel Wilson was seen going for a solo coffee run after finishing up a workout session at a gym in Los Angeles on Friday afternoon.The 41-year-old performer sported two layers of warm clothing as she took a phone call while enjoying the pleasantly cool California winter weather on her stroll.The actress' outing comes before the premiere of a feature that will see her acting in a pointedly dramatic role. Heading out:Rebel Wilson was seen going for a solo coffee run after finishing up a workout session at a gym in Los Angeles on Friday afternoonWilson wore a burgundy turtleneck sweater underneath a black button-up jacket while stepping out.The Pitch Perfect star also rocked black leggings and a contrasting pair of stark white tennis shoes.

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Lana Del Ray was all smiles when she stepped out for lunch with a pal in Los Angeles on Friday.The 36-year-old pop star (bornElizabeth Woolridge Grant) bared a sliver of her midriff in a white crop top over a pink bra while leaving celeb-loved restaurant All Time in Los Feliz.The Summertime Sadness hitmaker showed off her curves in a pair of blue skinny jeans. In good spirits:Lana Del Ray was all smiles when she stepped out for lunch with a pal in Los Angeles on FridayThe New York native donned a blue and white cropped flannel shirt over her top and sported white sneakers.

It can be difficult to see any hope in a situation like what’s going on in Ukraine.

Orlando Bloom was seen grinning ear-to-ear on Friday as he got a chance to drive away in his new luxury electric car.The 45-year-old Lord Of The Rings star was in Beverly Hills to pick up his new Lucid Air sedan, which could have cost him as much as $169,000 for its top-of-the-line model.Despite looking as if he was in the mood for a celebration, the actor arrived at the dealership looking cool and casual in a cream-colored sweatshirt and a matching baseball cap. Can't wait to test drive: Orlando Bloom, 45, couldn't contain his excitement on Friday as he picked up his new Lucid Air luxury electric car at a dealership in Beverly HillsOrlando contrasted his shirt with olive-colored trousers, which he wore rolled up at the hems.He opted for comfort with a set of green-and-black New Balance trainers, and he sported a shaggy hairdo and a close-cropped beard.

Mila Kunis was sticking to business even as Russian troops attacked her birth country Ukraine.The 38-year-old That '70s Show actress was spotted taking a break from work with a walk in West Hollywood near her office.The film and television star looked sporty and casual in a baggy navy sweatshirt and matching sweatpants while getting in some steps with some of her office staff. Getting some air: Mila Kunis, 38, was sticking to business on Friday amid Russia's attack on her birth country Ukraine.

Award season is looking brighter.

The deals keep coming at the 2022 Virtual Sundance Film Festival. MUBI closed the docu Free Chol Soo Lee, including North America, and Warner Bros is negotiating a near $7 million WW rights deal for the Tig Notaro/Stephanie Allynne film Am I Ok? to place the film on HBO Max. The Lauren Pomerantz-scripted film stars Dakota Johnson, Sonoya Mizuno, Jermaine Fowler, Molly Gordon, June Diane Raphael, and Sean Hayes.

The Sundance Film Festival is revealing award winners for its 2022 edition on Friday afternoon beginning at 2 p.m. PT. Like the rest of this year’s festival, which was forced to go all-virtual because of the recent Omicron surge, the awards ceremony is playing out on Twitter.

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EXCLUSIVE: Good Luck To You, Leo Grande and Blazing Samurai backer Align has joined animated movie 10 Lives, which is being sold at the upcoming virtual EFM by GFM Animation.

Apple has closed the biggest deal of the 2022 Virtual Sundance Film Festival, securing worldwide rights to the Cooper Raiff-directed Cha Cha Real Smooth for around $15 million. The streamer has been the front runner for the picture since it premiered January 23 in the US Dramatic Competition category.

EXCLUSIVE: Searchlight Pictures has emerged as the favorite to acquire Good Luck To You, Leo Grande, the Sophie Hyde-directed drama that stars Emma Thompson as a widow who decides to seek out something that has eluded her over a 31-year marriage: a proper, mind-blowing, toe-curling orgasm. Negotiations are underway and will hopefully climax into the first narrative film deal at 2022 Sundance, after a weekend of foreplay but no consummation beyond the docu Fire of Love.

Fans will be seeing a lot more of Emma Thompson in her new movie Good Luck To You, Leo Grande, with the actress revealing how she prepared for a nude scene.The film had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival over the weekend, with the 62-year-old actress opening up about going nude with Entertainment Weekly.The actress revealed that she and co-star Daryl McCormack both rehearsed the scene fully nude, while director Sophie Hyde also disrobed. Nude scene:Fans will be seeing a lot more of Emma Thompson in her new movie Good Luck To You, Leo Grande, with the actress revealing how she prepared for a nude scene'Sophie, Daryl, and I rehearsed entirely nude and talked about our bodies, talked about our relationship with our bodies, drew them, discussed the things that we find difficult about, things we like about them, described one another's bodies,' Thompson said in a Cinema Cafe conversation at Sundance.'It's very challenging to be nude at 62.

Emma Thompson is opening up about going nude in her new movie.

The complexities of female sexuality are still frustratingly misrepresented in mainstream cinema. In one corner, we have the eruptive rise of a certain type of one-dimensional badass feminism, featuring often straight, go-getting women who can win a fistfight, have it their way and enjoy great, consequence-free sex.

Even in its truncated virtual Covid-afflicted form last year, the Sundance Film Festival was remarkably able to debut several movies that a year later we are still talking about in the Oscar conversation including CODA, Jockey, Passing, Flee, and Mass. Maybe this success was due to the fact they all had one word titles, but more realistically it was because despite all the drawbacks, the fest honchos picked very well and now awards voters are enjoying the riches.  As I have been seeing one film after another in this year’s (virtual) fest I find myself looking for that breakout movie or performance which with the right distribution we will be talking about still a year from now. There have been some promising performances so far from the likes of Julianne Moore, Bill Nighy and a couple still to come later, but the wow factor really hit me in seeing Emma Thompson in the British film Good Luck To You, Leo Grande, premiering today at Sundance, where to put it mildly, she knocks it out of the park. This is Thompson at her best, a witty, dazzling. and above all brave performance that will undoubtedly be talked about. Her co-star Daryl McCormack  in this two-hander is equally good in the movie which centers on a 60ish widowed mother of two and religious studies teacher who hires a sex worker for a tryst in a hotel room. It is much more complicated than that, in this story of two disparate souls who come together, one full of anxiety and past regrets, the other professional to his core but with a guard he will not let down and a line he will not cross.

Amy Nicholson In the opening sequence of Sophie Hyde’s riveting “Good Luck to You, Leo Grande,” a suave young man (Daryl McCormack) steps out of an ice cream parlor, catches a mint candy in his mouth, and swings around a street pole like a hipster Gene Kelly. The Irishman is confidently cool — and not quite himself. He’s getting into character as Leo Grande, a charming sex worker who sells the Leo Grande Fantasy: a “service,” he calls it, where he gives paying customers exactly what they need, be it physical release, conversation or, for one client, dressing like a cat.

Jenelle Riley Deputy Awards, Features EditorOn the surface, a film set primarily in one hotel room with a pair of actors might seem simple. But in the case of “Good Luck to You, Leo Grande,” which premieres Jan. 22 at the Sundance Film Festival, limiting the location gave the film an opportunity to explore what star Emma Thompson calls “the emotional landscape.”Thompson plays Nancy, a widow and former teacher who has stepped outside her comfort zone for the first time in her life and hired a sex worker, the titular Leo Grande, played by “Peaky Blinders” actor Daryl McCormack.