{"id":264761,"date":"2025-11-05T17:33:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T17:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/264761\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T17:33:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T17:33:09","slug":"curry-barker-focus-features-movie-sets-summer-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/264761\/","title":{"rendered":"Curry Barker Focus Features Movie Sets Summer Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/curry-barker\/\" id=\"auto-tag_curry-barker\" data-tag=\"curry-barker\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Curry Barker<\/a>\u2018s <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/obsession\/\" id=\"auto-tag_obsession\" data-tag=\"obsession\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Obsession<\/a>, the TIFF Midnight horror title<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/09\/tiff-obsession-focus-features-curry-barker-1236510833\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> that we first told you<\/a> Focus Features snapped up for $15M+ in the first deal of this year\u2019s fest, will release in cinemas on May 15, 2026. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tObsession will play against Amazon MGM Studios\u2019 Is God Is and Row K\u2019s Maude Apatow title Poetic License. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tPic\u2019s blurb: After breaking the mysterious \u201cOne Wish Willow\u201d to win his crush\u2019s heart, a hopeless romantic finds himself getting exactly what he asked for but soon discovers that some desires come at a dark, sinister price. Barker directed off a screenplay he also wrote. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tMichael Johnston, Inde Navarrette, Cooper Tomlinson, Megan Lawless and Andy Richter star in the movie. Pic is produced by James Harris (Teashop Productions), Haley Nicole Johnson (Under the Shell) and Christian Mercuri on behalf of Capstone Pictures. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tPost TIFF, the movie went on to sold-out screenings at Fantastic Fest and also won Sitges\u2019 People\u2019s Choice Award. Thirty-three reviews on Rotten Tomatoes have Obsession at 97% fresh. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tUniversal Pictures International will handle international distribution on Obsession. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tFocus Features\u2019 fall slate includes Chlo\u00e9 Zhao\u2019s\u00a0Hamnet, based the New York Times bestselling novel, starring Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley on Nov. 26, and Song Sung Blue, starring Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson on Christmas Day. Currently in theaters is Yorgos Lanthimos\u2019 fifth collaboration with Emma Stone, Bugonia, which also stars Jesse Plemons; that pic counting a current running cume of $13M+ at the global box office, now in its second week in theaters. Looking to 2026, Focus will release\u00a0Werwulf,\u00a0its third collaboration with director, Robert Eggers, on Christmas Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Curry Barker\u2018s Obsession, the TIFF Midnight horror title that we first told you Focus Features snapped up for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,82422,134,344,85719],"class_list":["post-264761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-curry-barker","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-obsession"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}