{"id":152744,"date":"2025-09-13T01:01:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T01:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/152744\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T01:01:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T01:01:07","slug":"a24-prevailing-tv-series-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/152744\/","title":{"rendered":"A24 Prevailing, TV Series First"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSources say that <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/a24\/\" id=\"auto-tag_a24\" data-tag=\"a24\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A24<\/a> is winning the film and TV rights for <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/texas-chain-saw-massacre\/\" id=\"auto-tag_texas-chain-saw-massacre\" data-tag=\"texas-chain-saw-massacre\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas Chain Saw Massacre<\/a>, which were up for auction and had a handful of bidders. First up would be a series from JT Mollner, Roy Lee and Glen Powell, though the latter will not star as we <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/03\/texas-chainsaw-massacre-glen-powell-jt-mollner-1236346692\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"1236346692\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">previously told you<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tApparently, the deal hasn\u2019t closed yet, but A24 has pole position. Another source close to the action tells us that this is all premature, but it\u2019s clear that the genre label behind Hereditary isn\u2019t letting this one go.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWith the deal, A24 beats out a feature directed and co-written by Bryan Bertino with Oz Perkins producing, as well as a Taylor Sheridan-produced version of Leatherface.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWe previously said that Jordan Peele\u2019s run at Texas Chain Saw Massacre dissipated quite quickly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tLee was also looking to do a Netflix movie feature; we hear that is still in the cards with A24 producing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWe\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/03\/texas-chainsaw-massacre-glen-powell-jt-mollner-1236346692\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first told you<\/a>\u00a0about this beauty contest, administered by <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/verve\/\" id=\"auto-tag_verve\" data-tag=\"verve\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Verve<\/a>, the agency that has repped rights to the slasher franchise since 2017. Exurbia Films is the primary production company behind\u00a0Texas Chain Saw Massacre,\u00a0with Pat Cassidy, Ian Henkel and Kim Henkel as producers. The property is repped by attorney Marios Rush.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHooper directed the original movie, and co-wrote with Kim Henkel. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tInSneider had the news about A24. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe original 1974 movie was made for $140,000 and distributed by Bryanston Distributing Company, which released the 1972 X-rated success\u00a0Deep Throat.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/texas-chainsaw-massacre\/\" id=\"auto-tag_texas-chainsaw-massacre\" data-tag=\"texas-chainsaw-massacre\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas Chainsaw Massacre<\/a>\u00a0grossed $31M, with the filmmakers getting stiffed on profits. In 1983,\u00a0New Line Cinema\u00a0took distribution rights for the entire franchise via nine movies, minting $252 million-plus worldwide. There were comic, novel and video game ancillaries during the IP\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe highest-grossing installment of Leatherface remains the 2003 version produced by Michael Bay and Quiet Place\u00a0producers Andrew Form and Brad Fuller, with Marcus Nispel directing. The film, which starred Jessica Biel, grossed $107M around the globe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sources say that A24 is winning the film and TV rights for Texas Chain Saw Massacre, which were&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152745,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[17979,88,206,93861,67346,93862],"class_list":["post-152744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-a24","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-texas-chain-saw-massacre","tag-texas-chainsaw-massacre","tag-verve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}