{"id":124389,"date":"2025-09-09T04:50:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T04:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/124389\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T04:50:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T04:50:07","slug":"focus-features-reportedly-picking-up-curry-barkers-obsession-for-15-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/124389\/","title":{"rendered":"Focus Features Reportedly Picking Up Curry Barker’s ‘Obsession’ for $15+ Million"},"content":{"rendered":"

Curry Barker, the director of the viral hit Milk & Serial<\/a>, unleashed his new horror movie Obsession at the Toronto International Film Festival last week, which earned a rave 4-star review<\/a> from Bloody Disgusting\u2019s Head Critic, Meagan Navarro. According to a report from Deadline<\/a>, Focus Features is already making moves to acquire Obsession out of TIFF.<\/p>\n

The outlet reports, \u201cSources are telling us that Focus Features is in exclusive talks on the first big buy at the Toronto Film Festival with the Midnight Madness horror movie, Obsession from YouTube sensation Curry Barker. Details of the deal are still early for the CAA 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

In Curry Barker\u2019s Obsession,\u201d When a hopeless romantic makes a wish that his long-time crush falls in love with him, a sinister enchantment ensues.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s horror \u2014 completely horror,\u201d Barker teased. \u201cIt\u2019s terrifying. It\u2019s going to be insane. This movie is unlike anything I think anyone\u2019s ever seen. It\u2019s so different from\u00a0Milk & Serial\u00a0\u2026 I\u2019m not in it and it will not be a found footage movie. It\u2019ll be shot more like\u00a0The Chair.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meagan raves in her TIFF 2025 review of Obsession for Bloody Disgusting, \u201cit\u2019s one insane journey paved with blood-soaked violence and no shortage of nightmare fuel.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stay tuned for more on Focus Features\u2019 acquisition of the film as we learn it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Curry Barker, the director of the viral hit Milk & Serial, unleashed his new horror movie Obsession at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[56153,96,2839,14159,14161,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-124389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-curry-barker","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-obsession","tag-tiff-2025","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124389","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=124389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}