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From the perspective of filmmaker Cooper Raiff, Cha Cha Real Smooth embodies a specific kind of “feel-good” spirit of which he’s always in pursuit. The Sundance Audience Award winner is the up-and-coming multi-hyphenate's second feature, on the heels of his 2020 crowd-pleaser Shithouse, which proved a success in spite…

Apple today unveiled the trailer for Cooper Raiff’s latest acclaimed feature, Cha Cha Real Smooth, which will hit select theaters and premiere globally on Apple TV+ on June 17th. The dramatic comedy centers on 22-year-old Andrew (Raiff), who finds himself without a clear life path after graduating from college—stuck…

EXCLUSIVE: Stranger Things and Black Widow star David Harbour will lead cast of Cooper Raiff’s The Trashers, which is on course to shoot this fall. Raiff is coming off Sundance darling Cha Cha Real Smooth, starring Dakota Johnson, with the movie snapped up by Apple TV+ in a $15 million worldwide deal. His next film…

EXCLUSIVE: Two years removed from his debut film Shithouse winning the top prize at SXSW the year that fest became the first one canceled by the Covid pandemic, writer-director Cooper Raiff finally will get his moment to take a bow in Austin. Apple, which acquired Raiff's Sundance Audience Award-winning follow-up Cha C…

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

“I thought it was really funny having a 22-year-old who is not at all a man, helping little 13-year-olds become men at these bar mitzvahs,” writer, director and producer Cooper Raiff said of his film Cha Cha Real Smooth, which is screening at Sundance. It's also "a coming of age story for a 12-year-old, a 22- year-old…

With a promising start with his first film Shithouse for which he starred, directed and wrote and won the Grand Jury Narrative Prize at SXSW, Cooper Raiff looms now also to be one of the breakouts of this year’s Sundance Film Festival where Cha Cha Real Smooth, his small but splendid second film for which he performs…

EXCLUSIVE: Cooper Raiff can’t seem to catch a break from Covid. A hyphenate who comes into Sundance with one of the buzziest acquisitions titles in Cha Cha Real Smooth, Raiff is coming off the debut Shithouse — it’s more thoughtful than it sounds — that won the Grand Jury Prize at 2020 SXSW. Unfortunately, it was also…

The 2022 Sundance Film Festival begins today, the second in a row to be done virtually. Buyers and sellers won't miss the cold, altitude and avoiding what could have turned into an Omicron super-spreader event as the highly catchy Covid variant continues to hobble the business. It is surreal to once again not gather…

EXCLUSIVE: Cooper Raiff is set to direct, and 30West to finance The Trashers, a drama based on the true story of a Connecticut-based businessman who bought the city’s minor-league hockey team in 2004 and assigned his teenage son to run it. The team’s unexpected rise ended when the teen’s father, Jimmy Galante, was…

EXCLUSIVE: Following a competitive bidding situation, Picturestart and Endeavor Content are set to co-finance and produce Cha Cha Real Smooth. Cooper Raiff, whose debut film Shithouse won the Grand Jury Prize at last year’s SXSW, will direct a script he has written. Raiff will star with Dakota Johnson. Raiff will…

IFC Films has secured the North American distribution rights to Shithouse, the SXSW entry that picked up the Grand Jury Prize for Best Narrative. Written, directed, and starring Cooper Raiff, in his feature debut, the pic will be released sometime in the fall. The college romance follows Alex, a lonely, friendless…