EXCLUSIVE: Word will be happening soon from NEON that they’ve secured global on Adrian Chiarella’s Sundance Midnight premiere Leviticus for seven figures. In addition, A24 and Focus Features are the last two standing for Olivia Wilde’s sexual romcom The Invite. We foreshadowed all of this yesterday.
NEON is taking global on Leviticus, and will represent foreign rights on the pic which has Mia Wasikowska’s comeback after three years, and also stars Talk to Me‘s Joe Bird, as well as Stacy Clausen (Crazy Fun Park), Jeremy Blewitt (The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart), Ewen Leslie (Nightingale), David McKenzie (Silent Night), Nicholas Hope (Bad Boy Bubby) and Zhara Newman (Thirteen Lives).
WME Independent handled sales on this title bout two teenage boys who must escape a violent entity that takes the form of a person they desire the most — each other. Pic is produced by Talk to Me producers Samanta Jennings and Kristina Ceyton at Causeway Films and Hannah Ngo. Causeway Films also bankrolled the picture. Leviticus is currently 100% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes.
Meanwhile The Invite, after playing to great laughs at the Eccles Theatre on Saturday night is 94% fresh with critics on Rotten Tomatoes. Word is Wilde wanted a theatrical release for the movie, hence the melting away of Netflix. Megan Ellison’s Annapurna is a producer on the movie starring Wilde, Seth Rogen, Edward Norton and Penelope Cruz which is based on the Spanish movie The People Upstairs. The other bidders on The Invite, which is being sold by UTA, included Black Bear, Searchlight and NEON.
Here’s our interview with Leviticus‘ Chiarella, Wasikowska, Bird and Clausen out of the Deadline studio:
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