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Toronto International Film Festival

Festival ⌖ Watchlist
last seen in coverage Sep 5
187
Wire items · since Feb 24
18
Deal items
12
Tracked projects
8
Months active
60
Multi-source stories

What they buy · across 18 tracked deal items

44% of tracked dealflow (8/18) is book adaptation; 67% of classified deal mediums are film; 64% 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 8
remake reboot 5
greenlight 4
series order pilot pickup 1
pitch sale 1
public domain adaptation 1
Reported stage
in development 8
completed seeking distribution 3
in production 2
greenlit 1
Medium
film 12
industry 3
tv limited series 3

Slate · 12 projects from coverage

Grouped by latest reported stage — reported, never inferred.

In development 6
Released & tracking 6

Key people · from coverage

Names as they appear in sourced items; no contact data by design.

Curry BarkerTalent attached24i · 3d
Michael JohnstonTalent attached10i · 0d
Inde NavarretteTalent attached10i · 0d
Jason BlumTalent attached5i · 0d
Mike FlanaganTalent attached5i · 2d
Takashi MiikeNamed in coverage4i · 0d
Kane ParsonsNamed in coverage4i · 2d
Yeon Sang-hoTalent attached4i · 0d
Josh HartnettTalent attached4i · 2d
Gillian AndersonNamed in coverage4i · 0d
Andy RichterNamed in coverage3i · 0d
James HarrisNamed in coverage3i · 1d
AFFILIATED = APPEARS IN ≥15% OF ALL TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL COVERAGE · OTHERS ARE COUNTERPARTIES ON SPECIFIC PROJECTS

Box office in coverage orbit · 2 tracked titles

Grosses as reported — “via” badge = released by another studio.

Effi O Blaenau
latest: “$300k” (UK) as reported — not a comparable figure

Activity · by month

2
FEB
34
MAR
12
APR
22
MAY
19
JUN
22
JUL
61
AUG
15
SEP
WIRE ITEMSDEAL SHARE

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Cannes Film FestivalFEST 382
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TIFFFEST 361
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NetflixPLAT 314
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Focus FeaturesCO 253
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Curry BarkerPERSON 243
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A24CO 225
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Sundance Film FestivalFEST 192
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SXSWFEST 192
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Deal record · 18 entries

Amounts shown as reported — ScreamWire tracks deal flow, not comps.

Sep 4 Meryl Streep, Colman Domingo, Bill Hader Join ‘Lincoln in the Bardo’ Animated Cast for Starburns Industries (Exclusive)
book-adaptation
with Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep, Colman Domingo +5
THR B
Aug 25 Pimmada Chaisakcharoen’s Thai Horror ‘Tame’ Launches EST N8, BrandThink’s B-EST Pictures (EXCLUSIVE)
Deal @ completed-seeking-distribution
with Thamuya Thasananukulkij, Anucha Boonyawatana, Pimmada Chaisakcharoen +5
Variety A+
Aug 6 Talia Ryder Joins Michael Shannon in ‘Doctor Caligari’s Cabinet of Wonders’ (EXCLUSIVE)
remake-reboot @ completed-seeking-distribution
with Michael Shannon, Talia Ryder, John Erick Dowdle +4
Variety+3 src A+
Aug 5 ‘Inherit’: exclusive first trailer for Banjong Pisanthanakun’s TIFF horror starring Davika Hoorne
book-adaptation @ completed-seeking-distribution
with Banjong Pisanthanakun, Davika Hoorne, Barunson E&A +5
Screen Daily+1 src A+
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 +5
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 +5
TheWrap+1 src A
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 +5
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 +5
THR+1 src A+
May 15 Kristen Stewart & Wagner Moura Film First On Slate For XYZ & Vixens
greenlight @ greenlit
with Kristen Stewart, Wagner Moura, XYZ Films +5
Deadline 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 +3
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 +2
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 +5
The Ankler 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 +4
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 +5
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 +3
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 +4
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 +5
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 +5
Deadline A+

Recent mentions · 10 of 169

Methodology

Source. Assembled from ScreamWire's classified archive — 187 wire items (Feb 24 → Sep 5) matching Toronto International Film Festival, deduplicated by URL (8 cross-day re-sightings removed). Every entry links to the original reporting. Descriptive, never predictive.

Why no deal amounts. Only 0.9% 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. “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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