{"id":265003,"date":"2026-01-26T17:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T17:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/265003\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T17:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T17:06:10","slug":"neon-acquires-4x4-the-event-described-as-battle-royale-meets-saw-meets-climax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/265003\/","title":{"rendered":"Neon Acquires &#8216;4&#215;4: The Event,&#8217; Described as &#8216;Battle Royale&#8217; Meets &#8216;Saw&#8217; Meets &#8216;Climax&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Neon has acquired the global rights to 4\u00d74: The Event, the sophomore film from writer-director Alex Ullom \u2014 whose It Ends was <a href=\"https:\/\/bloody-disgusting.com\/movie\/3922563\/neon-acquires-gen-z-horror-it-ends-for-2026-theatrical-release\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">purchased by the studio<\/a> last month.<\/p>\n<p>Described \u201cBattle Royale meets Saw meets Climax,\u201d 4\u00d74: The Event sees eight contestants enter an illegal sensory-assault livestream where they must kill or be killed using only what they can order online.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/01\/sundance-neon-alex-ullom-4-x-4-the-event-1236696122\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Deadline<\/a> reports that Neon made an aggressive deal to preemptively acquire the project ahead of production, which begins later this year.<\/p>\n<p>Roy Lee (Weapons, Barbarian) and Steven Schneider (Paranormal Activity,\u00a0Insidious) of Spooky Pictures produce alongside Adam Hendricks and Greg Gilreath for Divide \/ Conquer, Haley Johnson, and Evan Barber. Image Nation\u2019s Ben Ross and Spooky Pictures\u2019 Jakob Pollack executive produce.<\/p>\n<p>Named one of Filmmaker Magazine\u2019s 25 New Faces of Independent Film in 2024, Ullom made his feature debut on It Ends, which premiered\u00a0at SXSW last year and is due out in theaters this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Neon has acquired the global rights to 4\u00d74: The Event, the sophomore film from writer-director Alex Ullom \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[130562,130256,93,61,60,270,17453],"class_list":{"0":"post-265003","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-4-x-4-the-event","9":"tag-alex-ullom","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-movies","14":"tag-neon"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265003","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=265003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}