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Toronto International Film Festival

Festival ⌖ Watchlist
last seen in coverage 1 day ago
185
Wire items · since Feb 24
17
Deal items
6
Tracked projects
6
Months active
37
Multi-source stories

What they buy · across 17 tracked deal items

35% of tracked dealflow (6/17) is book adaptation; 61% of classified deal mediums are film; 86% 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 6
greenlight 5
remake reboot 5
series order pilot pickup 1
pitch sale 1
public domain adaptation 1
Reported stage
in development 11
in production 2
greenlit 1
Medium
film 11
industry 4
tv limited series 3

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

In development 2
Project · attachedDeal typeLatest reported stageItemsLast seen
Carrie
Mike Flanagan · Stephen King · Jesse McKeown
book adaptation remake reboot 4 Jul 26 ↗
Crystal Lake
Mike Flanagan · Stephen King · Jesse McKeown
book adaptation remake reboot 4 Jul 26 ↗
Released & tracking 4
Project · attachedDeal typeLatest reported stageItemsLast seen
Obsession
Curry Barker · Michael Johnston · Inde Navarrette
greenlight remake reboot acquired 25 Jul 10 ↗
Michael
Curry Barker · Michael Johnston · Jason Blum
optioned 7 Jul 9 ↗
Backrooms
Kane Parsons · Curry Barker · James Wan
greenlight book adaptation in production 4 Jul 8 ↗
Furious
Kenji Tanigaki · Joe Taslim · Yayan Ruhian
in development 3 Jul 2 ↗

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

Curry BarkerTalent attached27i · 5d
Michael JohnstonTalent attached13i · 0d
Inde NavarretteTalent attached11i · 0d
Jeff ProbstNamed in coverage6i · 0d
Jason BlumTalent attached5i · 0d
Cameron BaileyNamed in coverage5i · 0d
Christopher NolanNamed in coverage5i · 1d
Christopher WoodrowNamed in coverage4i · 1d
Raj SinghNamed in coverage4i · 1d
Kane ParsonsNamed in coverage4i · 2d
Mike FlanaganTalent attached4i · 2d
Jesse McKeownTalent attached4i · 2d
AFFILIATED = APPEARS IN ≥15% OF ALL TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL COVERAGE · OTHERS ARE COUNTERPARTIES ON SPECIFIC PROJECTS

Box office in coverage orbit · 2 tracked titlesgrosses as reported — amber badge = released by another studio

The Furious
latest: “$31M worldwide” (worldwide) as reported in tracked coverage — not a comparable figure

Activity · by month

2
FEB
34
MAR
31
APR
61
MAY
26
JUN
31
JUL
WIRE ITEMSDEAL SHARE

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

CounterpartyItemsDeals
TIFF 440
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Cannes Film Festival 361
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Focus Features 284
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Curry Barker 275
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Netflix 263
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Sundance Film Festival 262
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A24 206
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SXSW 181
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Deal record · 17 entriesamounts shown as reported — ScreamWire tracks deal flow, not comps

Jul 24 TIFF Just Announced World Premieres for 'Crystal Lake', 'Carrie', and Sea Monster Series 'Below'
book-adaptation / remake-reboot
with Mike Flanagan, Josh Hartnett, Linda Cardellini, Brad Caleb Kane, Michael Lennox
Dread Central+2 src A+
Jul 24 Toronto Film Festival Embraces Horror With New ‘Carrie,’ ‘Friday the 13th’ Shows
book-adaptation / remake-reboot
with Mike Flanagan, Summer H. Howell, Josh Hartnett, Linda Cardellini, Brad Caleb Kane
TheWrap+1 src A
Jul 2 ‘The Furious’ Director Kenji Tanigaki Sets Next Film ‘The Reckoner’ at Lionsgate With Peter Dinklage Starring
deal · articleType @ in-development
with Lionsgate, Kenji Tanigaki, Peter Dinklage, Derek Kolstad, Anthony Russo
World of Reel+1 src C
Jun 15 Curry Barker Got His Wish: Inside the ‘Obsession’ Director’s Wild Month (Exclusive)
remake-reboot @ in-development “$15 million”
with Focus Features, Curry Barker, Peter Kujawski, James Harris, A24
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, Curry Barker, Obsession, Blair Witch Project
THR+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 Joe Begos & WTFilms Team On ‘They Call Him Zorro’ Revisiting Iconic Hero With A Violent & Brutal Twist
public-domain-adaptation @ in-development
with Joe Begos, WTFilms, Johnston McCulley, Gregory Chambet, Channel 83
Deadline A+
May 15 Kristen Stewart & Wagner Moura Film First On Slate For XYZ & Vixens
greenlight @ greenlit
with Kristen Stewart, Wagner Moura, XYZ Films, Vixens, Nate Bolotin
Deadline A+
May 10 Did You Know Osgood Perkins Produced ‘Backrooms’ and Mentored Kane Parsons?
book-adaptation @ in-production
with Osgood Perkins, Kane Parsons, A24, Atomic Monster, Backrooms
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, James Wan, 21 Laps
The Ankler A+
Apr 22 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre reboot to be helmed by Curry Barker
remake-reboot @ in-development
with Curry Barker, A24, Roy Lee, Steven Schneider, Exurbia Films
Google News (Blumhouse Productions)+3 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, Overlook Film Festival
Google News (Neon)+4 src A+
Mar 27 Row K Top Execs Megan Colligan and Ben Carlson to Exit Indie Distributor After 7 Months
greenlight @ in-development
with Row K Entertainment, Megan Colligan, Ben Carlson, Christopher Woodrow, Raj Singh
The Wrap A+
Mar 27 TIFF: The Market unveils programming: labs, financier meetings, IP exchange
pitch-sale
with TIFF: The Market, Ontario Creates, Charles Tremblay, Geoff Macnaughton, CBC
Screen Daily A+
Mar 24 The Filmmakers Tackling the Dark Side of Hollywood’s Screener Culture
series-order-pilot-pickup @ in-production
with Jim Cummings, PJ McCabe, The Screener, Quentin Tarantino, Twinless
Google News (Sundance Film Festival) A
Mar 19 Hasbro's Game Of Life Gets Film Adaptation From Amazon MGM
book-adaptation @ in-development
with Amazon MGM Studios, Chernin Entertainment, Hasbro Entertainment, Sean Anders, Allan Loeb
Google News (Amazon MGM Studios) A
Mar 18 Disabled Creatives Including ‘Reunion’ & ‘We Might Regret This’ Creators Join Development Programme To “Reclaim The Horror Genre”
greenlight @ in-development
with 104 Films, BFI Creative Challenge Fund, D-Horror, Justin Edgar, William Mager
Deadline A+

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Methodology

Source. Assembled from ScreamWire's classified archive — 185 wire items (Feb 24 → Jul 26) matching Toronto International Film Festival, deduplicated by URL (13 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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