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The Coven has launched international sales on survival psychological thriller Man Or Bear starring Lauren LaVera, directed by Teresa Sutherland and adapted from Jaime Saginor’s short Black Creek Trail; production is scheduled to begin this summer and the package trades on LaVera’s Terrifier franchise profile and viral TikTok premise.
Send Help; streaming debut hit No.1 on Hulu and Disney+ charts via FlixPatrol tracking; $94M global on a reported $40M production budget and a 93% Rotten Tomatoes critics score, confirming Raimi’s profitable return to R-rated survival horror starring Rachel McAdams and Dylan O’Brien.
A24's Backrooms—Kane Parsons' feature debut adapted from his web series—credits producer Osgood Perkins and the Phobos crew as key mentorship and resource channels during a quiet Vancouver shoot; film stars Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve and premieres May 29 theatrically under A24.
Studios are scaling back Cannes premieres due to seven-figure costs, risk of adverse critical blowback and tighter marketing control; the trend follows recent festival flops and middling returns (cited Indiana Jones and Joker: Folie à Deux examples) and is prompting festivals to reposition their value proposition to big studios.
Answr; completed psychological sci‑fi thriller is playing Cannes market with Gersh handling North American rights and Radiant Films International on foreign sales; Stephen Kay wrote/directed the film about a grieving man bonding dangerously with an experimental AI, starring Moises Arias and Piper Perabo.
Finecut closed sales across seven territories for Hong Sangsoo’s The Day She Returns following its Berlinale Panorama world premiere and has also acquired international sales rights to July Jung’s Dora; Finecut will screen first footage at Cannes Market for upcoming Long Long Night and Japanese horror-thriller Wash Away.
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