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An Unlikely Movie Just Became The Biggest Sale In Sundance History · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest, Plaster Andie Sandberg. Sci
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Speaker 1: fi comedy romance Palm Spring set a record at the
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Speaker 1: legendary Sundance Film Festival by being the most expensive movie
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Speaker 1: debuting there after it's sold to Hulu for twenty two
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Speaker 1: and a half million dollars. But that record has just
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Speaker 1: been broken by a fairly unlikely project, and despite the
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Speaker 1: festival being held virtually this year. Coda, a drama with
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Speaker 1: few name actors outside of Academy Award winner Marley Matlin,
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Speaker 1: of a deaf family. But as soon as the film
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Speaker 1: debuted on opening night, word spread it's a powerful film
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Speaker 1: out of its lead, Emilia Jones. So a bidding war
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Speaker 1: between all major studios broke out, and in the end,
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Speaker 1: Apple TV Plus walked away with the rights to the
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Speaker 1: film for an unprecedented million dollars. That's direct from Hollywood.