{"id":121789,"date":"2025-09-08T00:18:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T00:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/121789\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T00:18:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T00:18:09","slug":"focus-features-circling-obsession-curry-barker-horror-film-for-15m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/121789\/","title":{"rendered":"Focus Features Circling &#8216;Obsession&#8217; Curry Barker Horror Film For $15M"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Sources are telling us that <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/focus-features\/\" id=\"auto-tag_focus-features_1\" data-tag=\"focus-features\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Focus Features<\/a> is in exclusive talks on the first big buy at the <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/toronto\/\" id=\"auto-tag_toronto_1\" data-tag=\"toronto\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto<\/a> Film Festival with the Midnight Madness horror movie, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/obsession\/\" id=\"auto-tag_obsession_1\" data-tag=\"obsession\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Obsession<\/a> from YouTube sensation Curry Barker. Details of the deal are still early for the <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/caa\/\" id=\"auto-tag_caa_1\" data-tag=\"caa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CAA<\/a> Media Finance repped title, but we\u2019re hearing that the deal will be upwards of $15M for what\u2019s expected to be U.S. and a component of international. Capstone is handling international sales. We\u2019ll let you know when this is closed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe movie stars Michael Johnston and Inde Navarrette in a story about a hopeless romantic who makes a wish that his long-time crush falls in love with him. A sinister enchantment ensues. James Harris is the producer. Barker wrote, directed and starred in the 2024 horror movie Milk &amp; Serial for a reported $800, and dropped it on YouTube where it racked up 2 million views in the last year. Obsession is being billed as his feature directorial debut. The movie made its world premiere on Friday at 11:59PM at the Royal Alexandra Theatre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWhile NEON and A24 have arguably been prominent in the specialty horror space, Focus Features planted a massive flag back at Christmas with Robert Eggers\u2019 Nosferatu which became the label\u2019s third highest grossing movie at the global box office with $182M. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tCurry is repped by UTA, Underground and Yorn, Levine &amp; Barnes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Sources are telling us that Focus Features is in exclusive talks on the first big buy at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121790,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[58014,96,58015,2839,14159,58016,14160,5840,44277,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-121789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-caa","tag-entertainment","tag-focus-features","tag-movies","tag-obsession","tag-the-dish","tag-tiff","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-film-festival","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}