Entities/Person/Curry Barker

Curry Barker

Person
last seen in coverage Aug 14
134
Wire items · since Feb 21
17
Deal items
6
Tracked projects
7
Months active
30
Multi-source stories

What they buy · across 17 tracked deal items

47% of tracked dealflow (8/17) is remake reboot; 89% of classified deal mediums are film; 94% 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 8
greenlight 5
option 2
pitch sale 2
book adaptation 1
Reported stage
in development 14
greenlit 1
in production 1
optioned 1
Medium
film 16
industry 2

Slate · 6 projects from coveragegrouped by latest reported stage — reported, never inferred

In development 3
Project · attachedDeal typeLatest reported stageItemsLast seen
Anything But Ghosts
Jason Blum · Cooper Tomlinson · Roy Lee
 greenlight remake reboot in development 13 Jul 3
Texas Chainsaw
Inde Navarrette · Michael Johnston · Roy Lee
 remake reboot greenlight in development 12 Jun 16
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Inde Navarrette · Michael Johnston · Roy Lee
 remake reboot greenlight in development 9 Jun 16
Released & tracking 3
Project · attachedDeal typeLatest reported stageItemsLast seen
Obsession
Michael Johnston · Inde Navarrette · Cooper Tomlinson
 greenlight remake reboot in development 108 Aug 14
Backrooms
Kane Parsons · Chiwetel Ejiofor · Renate Reinsve
 greenlight book adaptation completed seeking distribution 19 Aug 14
Leviticus
Adrian Chiarella · Jane Schoenbrun · Kiyoshi Kurosawa
 acquired 3 Jul 9

Key people · from coveragenames as they appear in sourced items; no contact data by design

Michael Johnston
Talent attached
49 items · 3 deals · in 37% of all Curry Barker coverage
Inde Navarrette
Talent attached
49 items · 2 deals · in 37% of all Curry Barker coverage
Kane Parsons
Talent attached
26 items · 3 deals · in 19% of all Curry Barker coverage
Cooper TomlinsonTalent attached18i · 2d
Jason BlumTalent attached15i · 4d
Andy RichterNamed in coverage8i · 1d
Megan LawlessNamed in coverage8i · 1d
Roy LeeTalent attached7i · 3d
James HarrisNamed in coverage6i · 2d
Steven SchneiderNamed in coverage6i · 2d
Ben RossNamed in coverage5i · 1d
Chiwetel EjioforNamed in coverage5i · 1d
Renate ReinsveNamed in coverage5i · 1d
Zach CreggerTalent attached5i · 2d
Aaron PaulTalent attached4i · 0d
AFFILIATED = APPEARS IN ≥15% OF ALL CURRY BARKER COVERAGE · OTHERS ARE COUNTERPARTIES ON SPECIFIC PROJECTS

Box office in coverage orbit · 3 tracked titlesgrosses as reported — amber badge = released by another studio

Obsession
“$234.5 million worldwide”Jun 12 · worldwide→“$234.5 million”Jun 12 · worldwide→“$234 million globally”Jun 14 · India / worldwide→“$286.5M”Jun 18 · worldwide→“$290 million so far”Jun 19 · 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→“$371 million worldwide”Jun 30 · worldwide→“more than $370 million worldwide”Jul 1 · worldwide→“approximately $403 million globally”Jul 6 · worldwide→“$400 million worldwide”Jul 7 · worldwide→“$403 million globally”Jul 8 · worldwide→“more than $403m worldwide”Jul 9 · worldwide→“$404.4 million worldwide”Jul 9 · worldwide→“$403 million worldwide”Jul 9 · worldwide→“$249.5M domestic”Jul 10 · domestic→“$443.3 million worldwide”Jul 27 · worldwide
latest: “$443.3 million worldwide” (worldwide) as reported in tracked coverage — not a comparable figure
Backrooms
“more than $307 million worldwide”Jun 28 · worldwide→“$81.4M domestic / $118M worldwide”Jun 28 · domestic→“$330 million worldwide”Jul 2 · worldwide→“approximately $357 million worldwide”Jul 8 · worldwide→“more than $212 million worldwide”Jul 8 · worldwide→“$357 million worldwide”Jul 8 · worldwide
latest: “$357 million worldwide” (worldwide) as reported in tracked coverage — not a comparable figure
Leviticus
“$4.3 million worldwide”Jun 26 · domestic
latest: “$4.3 million worldwide” (domestic) as reported in tracked coverage — not a comparable figure

Activity · by month

2
FEB
7
MAR
7
APR
54
MAY
37
JUN
22
JUL
5
AUG
WIRE ITEMSDEAL SHARE

Works with · top 8 of 23click to expand shared record

CounterpartyItemsDeals
ObsessionTITLE 797
▸ shared record
Focus FeaturesCO 708
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BlumhouseCO 529
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Michael JohnstonPERSON 493
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Inde NavarrettePERSON 492
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A24CO 3810
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UniversalCO 329
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Toronto International Film FestivalFEST 295
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Deal record · 17 entriesamounts 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 16 Curry Barker Has “Whirlwind” Idea For ‘Obsession 2,’ Declares Gen-Z Is “Tired Of Slop” When It Comes To IP Overload: “We Want Good Movies Back”
TALENT remake-reboot @ in-development
with A24, Obsession, Anything But Ghosts +1
 The Playlist 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 19 Curry Barker and Zach Cregger Swap Horror Stories
greenlight @ in-development
with Zach Cregger, Obsession, Texas Chainsaw Massacre +5
 Interview Magazine A
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 22 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre reboot to be helmed by Curry Barker
remake-reboot @ in-development
with A24, Roy Lee, Steven Schneider +5
 Google News (Blumhouse Productions)+3 src A+
Apr 22 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre reimagining lands Obsession director
remake-reboot @ in-development
with A24, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
 JoBlo 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 — 134 wire items (Feb 21 → Aug 14) 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. Amber “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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