{"id":137724,"date":"2025-08-11T19:34:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T19:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/137724\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T19:34:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T19:34:11","slug":"a24-acquires-ian-tuason-horror-movie-after-fantasia-premiere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/137724\/","title":{"rendered":"A24 Acquires Ian Tuason Horror Movie After Fantasia Premiere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<strong>EXCLUSIVE:<\/strong> In a competitive situation, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/a24\/\" id=\"auto-tag_a24\" data-tag=\"a24\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A24<\/a> has acquired genre writer <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/ian-tuason\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ian-tuason\" data-tag=\"ian-tuason\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ian Tuason<\/a>\u2018s horror film <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/the-undertone\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-undertone\" data-tag=\"the-undertone\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Undertone<\/a>, securing worldwide rights following its July 27th premiere at the Fantasia Film Festival.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWhile unconfirmed, we\u2019re told that there were six buyers in the mix, and that the deal was for mid-7 figures \u2014 a momentous one for a young filmmaker unveiling his debut feature.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe Undertone stars Nina Kiri as Evy, a paranormal podcast host who returns home to care for her dying mother. Thereafter, she begins receiving recordings from a married couple plagued by strange noises in their house, pulling her into a spiral of fear and paranoia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIn her description of the film for Fantasia Fest, programming director Carolyn Mauricette wrote, \u201cFans of SKINAMARINK and I AM THE PRETTY THING WHO LIVES IN THE HOUSE will love this slow-burn nightmare that will make hackles on your neck rise and your blood chill.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe film was produced by Dan Slater for Slaterverse Pictures and Cody Calahan for Black Fawn Films. Exec producers include Steven Schneider and Roy Lee for Spooky Pictures, Chad Archibald for Black Fawn Films, Brit MacRae and Daril Fannin for Kino Studios, and DimensionGate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tA Toronto-based writer-director active in the genre space, who won a Watty Award in 2016, Tuason\u2019s live-action virtual reality horror shorts have garnered over 14M organic views on YouTube, showcasing at SXSW, Fantasia Film Festival, and the March\u00e9 du Film NEXT Pavilion in Cannes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe deal was negotiated by Black Fawn Distro and 3 Arts Entertainment, whose Will Rowbotham and Luke Maxwell rep the filmmaker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation, A24 has acquired genre writer Ian Tuason\u2018s horror film The Undertone, securing worldwide&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":137725,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[3028,171,82629,53,82630,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-137724","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-a24","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ian-tuason","11":"tag-movies","12":"tag-the-undertone","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115011811172414612","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}