Entities/Person/Curry Barker

Curry Barker

Person
last seen in coverage Sep 4
110
Wire items · since Feb 21
13
Deal items
7
Tracked projects
8
Months active
28
Multi-source stories

What they buy · across 13 tracked deal items

38% of tracked dealflow (5/13) is remake reboot; 92% of classified deal mediums are film; 92% of staged deals sit early-funnel (in-development or greenlit).machine-derived from the deal record below — not an editorial mandate statement

Deal type
remake reboot 5
greenlight 4
option 2
pitch sale 2
book adaptation 1
Reported stage
in development 10
greenlit 1
in production 1
optioned 1
Medium
film 12
industry 1

Slate · 7 projects from coverage

Grouped by latest reported stage — reported, never inferred.

In development 2
Texas ChainsawMichael Johnston · Inde Navarrette · Roy Lee greenlightremake reboot7 itemsJun 15 Texas Chainsaw MassacreRoy Lee · Steven Schneider · JT Mollner greenlightremake reboot4 itemsJun 15
Released & tracking 5
ObsessionMichael Johnston · Inde Navarrette · Cooper Tomlinson greenlightremake reboot@ acquired88 itemsSep 4 BackroomsKane Parsons · Chiwetel Ejiofor · Renate Reinsve greenlightbook adaptation@ optioned17 itemsAug 25 Anything But GhostsCooper Tomlinson · Jason Blum · Aaron Paul greenlightremake reboot@ completed seeking distribution13 itemsAug 24 LeviticusAdrian Chiarella · Jane Schoenbrun · Kiyoshi Kurosawa @ acquired3 itemsJul 9 BlockbusterDavid Ellison · Joachim Trier 3 itemsAug 27

Key people · from coverage

Names as they appear in sourced items; no contact data by design.

Michael Johnston
Talent attached
34 items · 3 deals · in 31% of all Curry Barker coverage
Inde Navarrette
Talent attached
33 items · 2 deals · in 30% of all Curry Barker coverage
Kane Parsons
Talent attached
23 items · 3 deals · in 21% of all Curry Barker coverage
Cooper Tomlinson
Talent attached
17 items · 2 deals · in 15% of all Curry Barker coverage
Jason BlumTalent attached14i · 4d
Andy RichterNamed in coverage6i · 1d
Megan LawlessNamed in coverage6i · 1d
Roy LeeTalent attached6i · 2d
James WanNamed in coverage6i · 3d
Chiwetel EjioforNamed in coverage6i · 1d
Renate ReinsveNamed in coverage6i · 1d
MarkiplierNamed in coverage6i · 1d
James HarrisNamed in coverage5i · 2d
Steven SchneiderNamed in coverage5i · 1d
Aaron PaulTalent attached4i · 0d
Violet McGrawTalent attached4i · 0d
AFFILIATED = APPEARS IN ≥15% OF ALL CURRY BARKER COVERAGE · OTHERS ARE COUNTERPARTIES ON SPECIFIC PROJECTS

Box office in coverage orbit · 3 tracked titles

Grosses as reported — “via” badge = released by another studio.

Obsession
16 reported figures — view track
“$234.5 million”Jun 12 · worldwide→“$234 million globally”Jun 14 · India / worldwide→“$286.5M”Jun 18 · worldwide→“$300 million worldwide”Jun 20 · worldwide→“$300M worldwide”Jun 20 · worldwide→“over $300 million worldwide”Jun 22 · worldwide→“$215 million / $332.4 million”Jun 23 · domestic / worldwide→“$220.1 million”Jun 25 · domestic→“more than $370 million worldwide”Jul 1 · worldwide→“approximately $403 million globally”Jul 6 · worldwide→“more than $403m worldwide”Jul 9 · worldwide→“$249.5M domestic”Jul 10 · domestic→“$443.3 million worldwide”Jul 27 · worldwide→“$501.5 million worldwide”Aug 24 · worldwide→“$488.05 million”Aug 27 · worldwide→“$505.6 million worldwide”Sep 4 · worldwide
latest: “$505.6 million worldwide” (worldwide) as reported — not a comparable figure
Backrooms
“more than $307 million worldwide”Jun 28 · worldwide→“$85 million to $90 million through the w”Jun 28 · domestic→“$330 million worldwide”Jul 2 · worldwide
latest: “$330 million worldwide” (worldwide) as reported — not a comparable figure
Leviticus
“$4.3 million worldwide”Jun 26 · domestic
latest: “$4.3 million worldwide” (domestic) as reported — not a comparable figure

Activity · by month

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CounterpartyItemsDeals
ObsessionTITLE 644
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Focus FeaturesCO 627
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BlumhouseCO 447
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UniversalCO 379
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Michael JohnstonPERSON 343
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Inde NavarrettePERSON 332
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A24CO 317
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Toronto International Film FestivalFEST 233
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Deal record · 13 entries

Amounts shown as reported — ScreamWire tracks deal flow, not comps.

Jul 2 After Backrooms, Hollywood Goes All-In On Siren Head
option @ optioned “low seven figures”
with Warner Bros., Trevor Henderson, Zach Cregger +5
 Cosmic Book News+5 src A+
Jun 20 Blumhouse Signs Curry Barker for Original Horror Movie
SELLER pitch-sale @ in-development “rich eight-figure deal”
with Blumhouse Atomic Monster, Universal Film Group, James Wan +5
 Horror Obsessive+2 src A+
Jun 19 Curry Barker’s Third Film, an Original Horror Concept, Heads to Universal and Blumhouse Atomic Monster
SELLER pitch-sale @ in-development
with Universal Film Group, Blumhouse Atomic Monster, Universal +5
 Variety+8 src A+
Jun 15 Curry Barker’s ‘The Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ Movie Aims to Capture the Rawness of the Original Classic
TALENT remake-reboot @ in-development
with Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Anything But Ghosts, Focus Features +1
 Bloody Disgusting B
Jun 15 Curry Barker Got His Wish: Inside the ‘Obsession’ Director’s Wild Month (Exclusive)
TALENT remake-reboot @ in-development “$15 million”
with Focus Features, Peter Kujawski, James Harris +5
 THR+7 src A+
Jun 8 ‘Obsession’ Crosses $200M Globally to Become Focus’ Top Movie of All Time
remake-reboot @ in-development
with Focus Features, Universal, Obsession +5
 THR+1 src A+
Jun 8 ‘Obsession’ Sequel Talks Haven’t Happened… Yet
remake-reboot @ in-development
with James Harris, Tea Shop Productions, Focus Features +5
 Dread Central+1 src A+
May 23 Curry Barker Promises a “Deeply Uncomfortable” and Very Different ‘Texas Chainsaw’ Reboot
remake-reboot @ in-development
with Texas Chainsaw Massacre
 HorrorFuel C
May 15 How ‘Obsession’ Filmmaker Curry Barker Became Hollywood’s Next Horror Sweetheart
greenlight @ in-development
with Michael Johnston, Inde Navarrette, Cooper Tomlinson +5
 The Wrap A
May 12 Your Next Favorite Horror Director Just Might Be a YouTuber
option @ in-development
with Kyle Edward Ball, Kane Parsons, Markiplier +5
 Dread Central A
May 7 Horror! A24’s Youngest Director Ever Started on YouTube
greenlight / book-adaptation @ in-development
with A24, Kane Parsons, Atomic Monster +5
 The Ankler A+
Apr 21 Panic Fest: Obsession ushers in a new powerhouse voice in horror
greenlight @ in-production
with Inde Navarrette, Michael Johnston, Cooper Tomlinson +4
 Google News (Panic Fest) A+
Feb 21 'Obsession' Gets Defined By Teaser Poster; Trailer Tomorrow
greenlight @ greenlit
with Jason Blum, Michael Johnston, Andy Richter +3
 Entity Website A+

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Methodology

Source. Assembled from ScreamWire's classified archive — 110 wire items (Feb 21 → Sep 4) matching Curry Barker, deduplicated by URL (5 cross-day re-sightings removed). Every entry links to the original reporting. Descriptive, never predictive.

Why no deal amounts. Only 0.9% of tracked deal items site-wide carry a reported figure — the trades rarely publish terms — so dollar amounts appear only as the source phrased them (e.g. “rich eight-figure deal”), never as comparable numbers. This is a deal-flow tracker, not a comps database.

Buyer/seller roles are captured on a minority of deal items today; role-based stats are suppressed until capture coverage improves.

Slate clusters coverage by project title; stage is the latest reported stage, never a projection. “via” badges mark titles tracked within this entity's coverage orbit but released by another distributor. Grades are ScreamWire's editorial coverage grade — how strongly the wire covered the story — not a deal-quality score.

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