Entities/Person/Michael Johnston

Michael Johnston

Person
last seen in coverage 17 days ago
51
Wire items · since Feb 21
3
Deal items
2
Tracked projects
6
Months active
5
Multi-source stories

What they buy · across 3 tracked deal items

100% of tracked dealflow (3/3) is greenlight; 100% of classified deal mediums are film; 67% of staged deals sit early-funnel (in-development or greenlit).machine-derived from the deal record below — not an editorial mandate statement

Deal type
greenlight 3
Reported stage
greenlit 1
in production 1
in development 1
Medium
film 3

Slate · 2 projects from coveragegrouped by latest reported stage — reported, never inferred

Seeking distribution 1
Project · attachedDeal typeLatest reported stageItemsLast seen
Monkey
Curry Barker · Inde Navarrette · Cooper Tomlinson
completed seeking distribution 4 May 16 ↗
Released & tracking 1
Project · attachedDeal typeLatest reported stageItemsLast seen
Obsession
Curry Barker · Inde Navarrette · Cooper Tomlinson
greenlight acquired 50 Jul 10 ↗

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

Curry Barker
Talent attached
48 items · 3 deals · in 94% of all Michael Johnston coverage
Inde Navarrette
Talent attached
45 items · 2 deals · in 88% of all Michael Johnston coverage
Cooper Tomlinson
Talent attached
13 items · 2 deals · in 25% of all Michael Johnston coverage
Jason BlumNamed in coverage7i · 1d
Andy RichterNamed in coverage7i · 1d
Megan LawlessNamed in coverage7i · 1d
James HarrisNamed in coverage2i · 0d
Kane ParsonsNamed in coverage2i · 1d
Abbey MorrisNamed in coverage1i · 0d
Melissa AouateNamed in coverage1i · 0d
Chris DickieNamed in coverage1i · 0d
Steve BlackmanNamed in coverage1i · 0d
Toni ColletteNamed in coverage1i · 0d
Mark FischbachNamed in coverage1i · 1d
Peter KujawskiNamed in coverage1i · 0d
AFFILIATED = APPEARS IN ≥15% OF ALL MICHAEL JOHNSTON COVERAGE · OTHERS ARE COUNTERPARTIES ON SPECIFIC PROJECTS

Box office in coverage orbit · 1 tracked titlegrosses as reported — amber badge = released by another studio

Activity · by month

2
FEB
5
MAR
1
APR
29
MAY
8
JUN
6
JUL
WIRE ITEMSDEAL SHARE

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

CounterpartyItemsDeals
Curry Barker 483
▸ shared record
Inde Navarrette 452
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Focus Features 322
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Obsession 290
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Blumhouse Productions 151
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Cooper Tomlinson 132
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Toronto International Film Festival 120
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Blumhouse 81
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Deal record · 3 entriesamounts shown as reported — ScreamWire tracks deal flow, not comps

May 15 How ‘Obsession’ Filmmaker Curry Barker Became Hollywood’s Next Horror Sweetheart
greenlight @ in-development
with Curry Barker, Inde Navarrette, Cooper Tomlinson, Focus Features, A24
The Wrap A
Apr 21 Panic Fest: Obsession ushers in a new powerhouse voice in horror
greenlight @ in-production
with Curry Barker, Inde Navarrette, Cooper Tomlinson, Megan Lawless, Panic Fest
Google News (Panic Fest) A+
Feb 21 'Obsession' Gets Defined By Teaser Poster; Trailer Tomorrow
greenlight @ greenlit
with Curry Barker, Jason Blum, Andy Richter, Focus Features, Blumhouse
Entity Website A+

Recent mentions · 10 of 48

Methodology

Source. Assembled from ScreamWire's classified archive — 51 wire items (Feb 21 → Jul 10) matching Michael Johnston, deduplicated by URL (2 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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