{"id":264090,"date":"2026-01-26T02:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T02:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/264090\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T02:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T02:32:08","slug":"neon-buys-next-film-from-it-ends-director-alex-ullom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/264090\/","title":{"rendered":"Neon Buys Next Film from ‘It Ends’ Director Alex Ullom"},"content":{"rendered":"

Turns out \u201cIt Ends<\/a>\u201d is just the beginning. Neon<\/a> announced that it has acquired the worldwide rights to \u201c4 X 4: The Event,\u201d the second horror feature from director Alex Ullom<\/a>, whose debut \u201cIt Ends\u201d will be released by Neon later this year<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Neon only just bought \u201cIt Ends\u201d last month<\/a> after it premiered at SXSW way back in spring 2025, and already the company has picked up his second movie before \u201cIt Ends\u201d opens later this year. It\u2019s a whirlwind of a couple of months for Ullom; his film<\/a> gained extra attention after it was one of the few films briefly made available through Letterboxd\u2019s newly launched Video Store<\/a>, which was designed to let film lovers digitally rent undistributed movies out of festivals.<\/p>\n

\"PARK<\/a> \"Olivia<\/a> <\/p>\n

Now with \u201c4 X 4: The Event,\u201d Neon is picking up worldwide rights to the movie ahead of a production start later this year. It seems to follow a similar trajectory Neon followed with another rising horror auteur, Oz Perkins, who got a first-look deal from Neon<\/a> shortly after his film \u201cLonglegs\u201d became one of Neon\u2019s biggest successes ever.<\/p>\n

Neon\u2019s \u201c4 X 4\u201d acquisition is the first acquisition coming out of Park City so far, where the market thus far for completed films premiering at the festivals has been deadly quiet. A source tells IndieWire that Neon made an aggressive deal to preemptively acquire the film ahead of it going into production. Spooky Pictures and Image Nation do have a film at Sundance, \u201cUndertone<\/a>,\u201d but that film was already acquired by A24 following its world premiere at Fantastic Fest last year.<\/p>\n

\u201c4 X 4: The Event\u201d follows eight contestants who enter an illegal, sensory-assault livestream where they must kill or be killed using only what they can order online. The film is being produced by Spooky Pictures and Image Nation as part of a multi-title partnership, and Neon is releasing another one of their movies later this year, Damian McCarthy\u2019s supernatural horror film \u201cHokum\u201d starring Adam Scott.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt Ends\u201d stars Mitchell Cole, Akira Jackson, Noah Toth, and Phinehas Yoon, and it\u2019s about a group of recent college grads who find their plans derailed when, after a late-night food run, they find themselves trapped on an infinite highway inside their Jeep, doomed to otherworldly terrors as they try to find an escape.<\/p>\n

Producers for \u201c4 X 4: The Event\u201d include Roy Lee and Steven Schneider for Spooky Pictures, Adam Hendricks and Greg Gilreath for Divide \/ Conquer, Haley Johnson, and Evan Barber. Executive producers include Ben Ross for Image Nation and Jakob Pollack for Spooky Pictures. The deal was negotiated by Kate Gondwe for NEON with UTA Independent Film Group on behalf of the filmmakers.<\/p>\n

Ullom is represented by UTA, Entertainment 360, and McKuin Frankel Whitehead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Turns out \u201cIt Ends\u201d is just the beginning. Neon announced that it has acquired the worldwide rights to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264091,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[130256,93,1043,61,60,105594,270,17453],"class_list":{"0":"post-264090","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-alex-ullom","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-film","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-it-ends","14":"tag-movies","15":"tag-neon"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}