{"id":307734,"date":"2026-01-28T09:06:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T09:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/307734\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T09:06:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T09:06:07","slug":"olivia-wildes-the-invite-sells-to-a24-in-sundance-bidding-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/307734\/","title":{"rendered":"Olivia Wilde&#8217;s &#8216;The Invite&#8217; Sells To A24 In Sundance Bidding War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<strong>EXCLUSIVE: <\/strong>A24 has won the multi-party bidding war for <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/olivia-wilde\/\" id=\"auto-tag_olivia-wilde\" data-tag=\"olivia-wilde\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Olivia Wilde<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/annapurna\/\" id=\"auto-tag_annapurna\" data-tag=\"annapurna\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Annapurna<\/a>\u2019s buzzy Sundance Film Festival film <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/the-invite\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-invite\" data-tag=\"the-invite\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Invite<\/a>. The title was won with a highly competitive eight-figure deal after a 72-hour marathon bidding battle. The bids started at $10 million and climbed upward. Word was that Wilde wanted a theatrical release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tToward the end, it was a three-horse race after <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/warner-bros\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Warner Bros<\/a>\u2018 new contemporary film label headed by former Neon marketing guru Christian Parkes put in a last-minute bid against\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/a24\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A24<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/focus-features\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Focus Features<\/a>. Now, A24 has the film. Previous bidders on the project included Netflix, Neon, Searchlight and even Sony.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe Invite reteams Wilde with Megan Ellison and Annapurna, who produced Booksmart.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe Wilde-directed romantic comedy follows two couples. Joe and Angela (Wilde and Seth Rogen) are on thin ice, and tonight might be when it all falls apart. Unfortunately, their upstairs neighbors (Edward Norton and Pen\u00e9lope Cruz) are about to arrive for dinner, and everything that can go wrong goes worse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWilde shot the\u00a0The Invite\u00a0in chronological order, approaching the Rashida Jones and Will McCormack-adapted movie like a play.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe director told Deadline Awards Editor Antonia Blyth at Sundance that the premiere there \u201cwas the best night of my life, it was so fun. To sit and laugh with that audience was just so wonderful, so full of joy. I was just levitating in my seat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tUTA Independent Film Group and FilmNation co-repped the sale. Wilde is repped by CAA, Untitled, Narrative and JSSK. Cruz is also at CAA and Untitled. UTA reps Norton, Rogen, McCormack and Jones.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<strong>DEADLINE RELATED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: A24 has won the multi-party bidding war for Olivia Wilde and Annapurna\u2019s buzzy Sundance Film Festival film&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[268],"tags":[745,150933,434,18,117,19,17,37540,147936],"class_list":{"0":"post-307734","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-a24","9":"tag-annapurna","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-olivia-wilde","16":"tag-the-invite"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115971935044872655","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}