Neon and Hulu will team up on distributing Andy Samberg’s “Palm Springs” and have acquired the worldwide rights to the film for $17.5 million and 69 cents. That’s 69 cents more than Fox Searchlight bought “The Birth of a Nation” for in 2016 — the festival’s biggest sale ever.
The comedy stars Cristin Milioti, J.K. Simmons, Meredith Hagner, Camila Mendes, and Peter Gallagher, and was directed by Max Barbakow. Andy Siara wrote the screenplay.
The film is about a maid of honor, Sarah, who is in Palm Springs for her younger sister’s wedding. There she meets Nyles, the date of another bridesmaid, together they wreak havoc on the wedding and soon find themselves in a surreal state of mind.