{"id":393616,"date":"2026-01-27T18:52:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T18:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/393616\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T18:52:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T18:52:07","slug":"neon-buying-sundance-conversion-therapy-horror-film-leviticus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/393616\/","title":{"rendered":"Neon Buying Sundance Conversion Therapy Horror Film &#8216;Leviticus&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tNeon, the indie label behind \u201cParasite\u201d and \u201cAnora,\u201d is inking one of the first deals of this year\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/sundance-film-festival\/\" id=\"auto-tag_sundance-film-festival\" data-tag=\"sundance-film-festival\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sundance Film Festival<\/a> and buying \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/leviticus\/\" id=\"auto-tag_leviticus\" data-tag=\"leviticus\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Leviticus<\/a>,\u201d a buzzy horror film about conversion therapy. The pact hasn\u2019t been finalized, but sources peg the sales price in the seven-figure range. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe film is the feature directorial debut of writer-director Adrian Chiarella. According to the official plot description, \u201cLeviticus\u201d is about \u201ctwo star-crossed teenage boys [who] must escape a violent entity that takes the form of the person they desire most \u2014 each other.\u201d The cast includes Joe Bird, Stacy Clausen Jeremy Blewitt and Ewen Leslie. It premiered in the midnight section. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tCritics embraced the picture, with The Guardian writing: \u201cIn many increasingly overcrowded fields \u2013 trauma horror, curse horror, gay horror,\u00a0Sundance horror\u00a0\u2013 \u2018Leviticus\u2019 stands tall.\u201d Indiewire compared the film to \u201cHeated Rivalry\u201d and \u201cIt Follows\u201d \u2014 the hybrid we didn\u2019t know we wanted!<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tIt\u2019s been a glacial market for sales at this year\u2019s festival, but things are finally heating up as studio executives depart Park City. Olivia Wilde\u2019s \u201cThe Invite\u201d has sparked a bidding war, with A24 and Focus Features locked in a tense fight for the rights to the relationship comedy. \u201cWicker,\u201d with Olivia Wilde, and \u201cJosephine\u201d with Channing Tatum and Gemma Chan, are also drawing interest from buyers. But studios are being more cautious. The indie box office is in a rut and many, many Sundance movies are huge hits with festival crowds and ignored by the general public when they finally make it to theaters. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tWME Independent is selling the rights to \u201cLeviticus.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Neon, the indie label behind \u201cParasite\u201d and \u201cAnora,\u201d is inking one of the first deals of this year\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,146905,2839,65692,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-393616","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-leviticus","10":"tag-movies","11":"tag-sundance-film-festival","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393616","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=393616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}