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Focus Features

Company
last seen in coverage today
127
Wire items · since Feb 20
12
Deal items
11
Tracked projects
6
Months active
35
Multi-source stories

What they buy · across 12 tracked deal items

42% of tracked dealflow (5/12) is book adaptation; 92% of classified deal mediums are film; 100% of staged deals sit early-funnel (in-development or greenlit).machine-derived from the deal record below — not an editorial mandate statement

Deal type
book adaptation 5
greenlight 4
remake reboot 4
Reported stage
in development 11
greenlit 1
Medium
film 12
industry 1

Slate · 11 projects from coveragegrouped by latest reported stage — reported, never inferred

In development 6
Project · attachedDeal typeLatest reported stageItemsLast seen
Werwulf
Robert Eggers · Aaron Taylor-Johnson · Lily-Rose Depp
 in development 10 Jul 1 ↗
Anything But Ghosts
Curry Barker · Cooper Tomlinson · Jason Blum
 greenlight remake reboot in development 10 Jul 3 ↗
Bugonia
Yorgos Lanthimos · Emma Stone · Jesse Plemons
 acquired 4 Apr 30 ↗
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Curry Barker · Michael Johnston · Inde Navarrette
 greenlight remake reboot in development 4 Jun 15 ↗
Hot Spot
Agnieszka Smoczyńska · Noomi Rapace · Jenn Wexler
 — 3 Jul 8 ↗
Mandalorian And Grogu
Jon Favreau · Sigourney Weaver · Jeremy Allen White
 — 3 Jun 8 ↗
Released & tracking 5
Project · attachedDeal typeLatest reported stageItemsLast seen
Obsession
Curry Barker · Inde Navarrette · Michael Johnston
 greenlight remake reboot acquired 73 Jul 27 ↗
Michael
Curry Barker · Michael Johnston · Inde Navarrette
 greenlight completed seeking distribution 10 Jun 12 ↗
Backrooms
Kane Parsons · Curry Barker · Chiwetel Ejiofor
 greenlight book adaptation in development 10 Jul 8 ↗
Eyes
Curry Barker · Michael Johnston · Inde Navarrette
 acquired 4 Jul 10 ↗
What
Curry Barker · Inde Navarrette · Michael Johnston
 acquired 3 Jul 9 ↗

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

Curry Barker
Talent attached
67 items · 8 deals · in 53% of all Focus Features coverage
Inde Navarrette
Talent attached
34 items · 1 deals · in 27% of all Focus Features coverage
Michael Johnston
Talent attached
32 items · 2 deals · in 25% of all Focus Features coverage
Jason BlumTalent attached14i · 2d
Robert EggersTalent attached14i · 1d
Cooper TomlinsonTalent attached11i · 1d
Kane ParsonsTalent attached11i · 2d
Lily-Rose DeppTalent attached8i · 0d
Aaron Taylor-JohnsonTalent attached8i · 0d
Willem DafoeTalent attached8i · 0d
James HarrisNamed in coverage7i · 2d
Andy RichterNamed in coverage5i · 1d
Megan LawlessNamed in coverage5i · 0d
SjónNamed in coverage5i · 0d
Ralph InesonTalent attached4i · 0d
AFFILIATED = APPEARS IN ≥15% OF ALL FOCUS FEATURES 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→“$300M worldwide”Jun 20 · worldwide→“$305.1 million worldwide”Jun 22 · 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→“$25 million”Jul 8 · Australia and New Zealand→“$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
Disclosure Day
“$30M running worldwide cume”Jun 13 · worldwide
latest: “$30M running worldwide cume” (worldwide) as reported in tracked coverage — not a comparable figure
Backrooms
“$212.6M worldwide”Jun 14 · worldwide
latest: “$212.6M worldwide” (worldwide) as reported in tracked coverage — not a comparable figure

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Works with · top 8 of 25click to expand shared record

CounterpartyItemsDeals
Curry Barker 678
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Obsession 483
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Inde Navarrette 341
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Michael Johnston 322
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Blumhouse Productions 322
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A24 315
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Toronto International Film Festival 274
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Blumhouse 243
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Deal record · 12 entriesamounts shown as reported — ScreamWire tracks deal flow, not comps

Jul 8 ‘The Fisherman’ – David Lowery Directing Film Adaptation of John Langan’s Horror Novel
BUYER book-adaptation @ in-development
with David Lowery, John Langan, The Fisherman
 Bloody Disgusting+7 src A+
Jun 15 Curry Barker’s ‘The Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ Movie Aims to Capture the Rawness of the Original Classic
remake-reboot @ in-development
with Curry Barker, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Anything But Ghosts, Legendary Entertainment
 Bloody Disgusting B
Jun 15 Curry Barker Got His Wish: Inside the ‘Obsession’ Director’s Wild Month (Exclusive)
BUYER remake-reboot @ in-development “$15 million”
with Curry Barker, Peter Kujawski, James Harris, A24, Texas Chainsaw Massacre
 THR+7 src A+
Jun 8 ‘Obsession’ Crosses $200M Globally to Become Focus’ Top Movie of All Time
remake-reboot @ in-development
with Universal, Curry Barker, Obsession, Toronto International Film Festival, Blair Witch Project
 THR+1 src A+
Jun 8 ‘Obsession’ Sequel Talks Haven’t Happened… Yet
remake-reboot @ in-development
with Curry Barker, James Harris, Tea Shop Productions, Atomic Monster, Blumhouse
 Dread Central+1 src A+
May 19 Curry Barker and Zach Cregger Swap Horror Stories
greenlight @ in-development
with Curry Barker, Zach Cregger, Obsession, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Resident Evil
 Interview Magazine A
May 15 How ‘Obsession’ Filmmaker Curry Barker Became Hollywood’s Next Horror Sweetheart
greenlight @ in-development
with Curry Barker, Michael Johnston, Inde Navarrette, Cooper Tomlinson, A24
 The Wrap A
May 7 Horror! A24’s Youngest Director Ever Started on YouTube
greenlight / book-adaptation @ in-development
with A24, Kane Parsons, Atomic Monster, James Wan, 21 Laps
 The Ankler A+
Mar 27 Hot Package: 3 Studios Battle For Tom Hanks & Marielle Heller Baseball Re-Team ‘The Comebacker’
book-adaptation @ in-development
with Tom Hanks, Marielle Heller, Dave Eggers, Gary Goetzman, Playtone
 Deadline A
Mar 12 Billie Eilish to Make Feature Acting Debut in ‘The Bell Jar’ Adaptation for Director Sarah Polley and Focus Features
book-adaptation @ in-development
with Billie Eilish, Sarah Polley, The Bell Jar
 IndieWire C
Mar 7 MILEY CYRUS: SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL
book-adaptation @ in-development
with Hannah Rose May, Vanesa Del Rey, IDW Publishing, Jason Blum, Ryan Turek
 XYZ Films+1 src A
Feb 21 'Obsession' Gets Defined By Teaser Poster; Trailer Tomorrow
greenlight @ greenlit
with Curry Barker, Jason Blum, Michael Johnston, Andy Richter, Blumhouse
 Entity Website A+

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Methodology

Source. Assembled from ScreamWire's classified archive — 127 wire items (Feb 20 → Jul 27) matching Focus Features, deduplicated by URL (12 cross-day re-sightings removed). Every entry links to the original reporting. Descriptive, never predictive.

Why no deal amounts. Only 0.7% 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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