{"id":153649,"date":"2025-11-25T22:48:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T22:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/153649\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T22:48:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T22:48:11","slug":"4-x-4-the-event-battle-royale-meets-saw-in-new-nightmare-from-it-ends-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/153649\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;4 X 4: The Event&#8217; &#8211; &#8216;Battle Royale&#8217; Meets &#8216;Saw&#8217; in New Nightmare from &#8216;It Ends&#8217; Director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fresh off the rave SXSW reviews for existential horror hangout movie <a href=\"https:\/\/bloody-disgusting.com\/reviews\/3857692\/it-ends-review-inventive-horror-hangout-movie-gets-existential\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">It Ends<\/a>, which is still awaiting release, director <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm10374466\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Alex Ullom<\/a> is back with his next horror movie, 4 X 4: The Event.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/11\/spooky-pictures-image-nation-alex-ullom-4-x-4-the-event-1236628293\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Deadline<\/a> reports that Spooky Pictures and Image Nation have come on board to produce Ullom\u2019s 4 X 4: The Event, which is being compared to Battle Royale, Saw, and Climax.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlot details for 4 X 4: The Event\u00a0are under wraps, but the film is described as\u00a0Battle Royale\u00a0meets\u00a0Saw\u00a0meets\u00a0Climax,\u201d Deadline notes in this afternoon\u2019s exclusive report.<\/p>\n<p>Steven Schneider (Paranormal Activity,\u00a0Insidious,\u00a0Pet Sematary) and Roy Lee (Weapons,\u00a0It,\u00a0The Ring) will produce alongside Adam Hendricks and Greg Gilreath\u2019s Divide \/ Conquer (Black Phone 2,\u00a0M3GAN).\u00a0Image Nation\u2019s CEO Ben Ross will executive produce.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned for more on 4 X 4: The Event as we learn it. We\u2019re also keeping an eye on Alex Ullom\u2019s It Ends, which doesn\u2019t yet have a release date but is expected sometime very soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fresh off the rave SXSW reviews for existential horror hangout movie It Ends, which is still awaiting release,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[102253,102254,156,102255,409,111,139,69,102256],"class_list":["post-153649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-4-x-4-the-event","tag-alex-ullom","tag-entertainment","tag-it-ends","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-spooky-pictures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}