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Overlook Film Festival

Festival ⌖ Watchlist
last seen in coverage 11 days ago
60
Wire items · since Mar 12
6
Deal items
2
Tracked projects
5
Months active
9
Multi-source stories

What they buy · across 6 tracked deal items

50% of tracked dealflow (3/6) is book adaptation; 83% of classified deal mediums are film; 75% 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 3
spec sale 1
remake reboot 1
option 1
Reported stage
in development 2
optioned 1
completed seeking distribution 1
Medium
film 5
industry 1

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

In development 1
Project · attachedDeal typeLatest reported stageItemsLast seen
Obsession
Curry Barker · Damien McCarthy · Rick Baker
5 Jul 16 ↗
Seeking distribution 1
Project · attachedDeal typeLatest reported stageItemsLast seen
Exit 8
Genki Kawamura · Kazunari Ninomiya · James Wan
remake reboot book adaptation completed seeking distribution 6 Jun 23 ↗

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

Genki KawamuraNamed in coverage4i · 3d
Kazunari NinomiyaNamed in coverage4i · 3d
John KassirNamed in coverage3i · 0d
Dacre MontgomeryNamed in coverage2i · 0d
Amy MadiganNamed in coverage2i · 0d
Ryan CooglerNamed in coverage2i · 0d
Adam ScottNamed in coverage2i · 0d
Stanley KubrickNamed in coverage2i · 0d
Guillermo del ToroNamed in coverage2i · 0d
Steven SpielbergNamed in coverage2i · 0d
George LucasNamed in coverage2i · 0d
James WanNamed in coverage2i · 1d
AFFILIATED = APPEARS IN ≥15% OF ALL OVERLOOK FILM FESTIVAL COVERAGE · OTHERS ARE COUNTERPARTIES ON SPECIFIC PROJECTS

Activity · by month

10
MAR
26
APR
17
MAY
4
JUN
3
JUL
WIRE ITEMSDEAL SHARE

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

CounterpartyItemsDeals
Shudder 100
▸ shared record
Protagonist Pictures 93
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NEON 72
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SXSW 61
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Legendary Entertainment 60
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Genki Kawamura 43
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Kazunari Ninomiya 43
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Obsession 40
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Deal record · 6 entriesamounts shown as reported — ScreamWire tracks deal flow, not comps

May 6 Exit 8 (2025) Film Review – Exit Strategy
book-adaptation @ completed-seeking-distribution
with Genki Kawamura, Kazunari Ninomiya, Kotake Create, Exit 8, Protagonist Pictures
Grimoire of Horror C
Apr 15 Period film flooded with admirers in NOLA
option @ in-development
with Brooke H. Cellars, Lauren Kitchen, Agnes Applewhite, Boston Underground Film Festival, Fantastic Fest
Google News (Overlook Film Festival) A
Apr 10 EXIT 8 Interview with Director / Co-Writer Genki Kawamura
book-adaptation
with Genki Kawamura, Kazunari Ninomiya, Yamato Kôchi, Nana Komatsu, Kotake Create
Daily Dead+1 src A+
Apr 8 Neon Reveals Final Poster for ‘Exit 8’ Ahead of This Weekend’s Premiere
book-adaptation @ in-development
with James Wan, Call of Cthulhu, H.P. Lovecraft, Neon, Toronto International Film Festival
Google News (Neon)+4 src A+
Apr 1 ‘Exit 8’ Director Says They’re Discussing a Remake of His Liminal Horror Hit [Exclusive]
remake-reboot @ optioned
with Genki Kawamura, Exit 8, Neon, Kazunari Ninomiya
Dread Central+1 src A+
Mar 23 How Arnold Schwarzenegger Turned A $0 ‘Twins’ Salary Into A $40 Million Payday
spec-sale
with Arnold Schwarzenegger, Danny DeVito, Ivan Reitman, Universal Pictures
No Film School C

Recent mentions · 10 of 54

Methodology

Source. Assembled from ScreamWire's classified archive — 60 wire items (Mar 12 → Jul 16) matching Overlook Film Festival, deduplicated by URL (1 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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