Neon has struck a first-look deal with frequent collaborator and horror filmmaker Osgood Perkins as he launches his production company Phobos with partner Chris Ferguson.
The partners will jointly produce and Neon will distribute in the US and handle international sales on the films Perkins writes and directs, and those he produces for other filmmakers. He will continue to work with producer Brian Kavanaugh-Jones of Range.
The deal comes after the recent release of The Monkey and Longlegs, the serial killer thriller starring Nicolas Cage and Maika Monroe that earned $75m in North America to rank as Neon’s biggest hit and the biggest independent horror release in years. Neon is also distributing Perkins’ Keeper in October.
“There’s only one Osgood Perkins — fearless, deeply imaginative, relentlessly funny and operating on a frequency that’s all his own,” said Neon CEO and founder Tom Quinn.
The deal marks the latest in Neon’s expansion of its production business, with upcoming projects including David Robert Mitchell’s They Follow starring Maika Monroe; Boots Riley’s I Love Boosters starring Keke Palmer, Naomi Ackie, LaKeith Stanfield, Demi Moore, and Eiza González; and The Wrong Girls with Kristen Stewart and Alia Shawkat.
Neon negotiated the deal with CAA, Untitled, and Lichter, Grossman, Nichols, Feldman, Rogal, Shikora & Clark, Inc., on behalf of Perkins.
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