33% of tracked dealflow (1/3) is option; 67% of classified deal mediums are film; 50% of staged deals sit early-funnel (in-development or greenlit).machine-derived from the deal record below — not an editorial mandate statement
| Jul 15 |
‘Backrooms’ & ‘Longlegs’ Producer Chris Ferguson & His Oddfellows Ink First Look Deal With Warner Bros.
with Warner Bros., Oddfellows, Chris Ferguson, Warner Bros. Pictures Group, Clockwork
|
Deadline+3 src | A |
| Jun 28 |
Exclusive: Backrooms VFX Supervisor Edward J. Douglas on Visualising Kane Parsons' Liminal Horror
with Kane Parsons, Edward J. Douglas, Chiwetel Ejiofor, A24, Backrooms
|
Phantasmagoria | B |
| Apr 22 |
Viral Horror Short About the Terror of AI Is Getting a Feature Film From the Studio Behind 'Longlegs'
with Neon, Sam Evenson, Grimoire Horror, A24
|
Google News (Neon) | A+ |
Source. Assembled from ScreamWire's classified archive — 11 wire items (Apr 15 → Jul 27) matching Phobos, deduplicated by URL (0 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.