Behind The Scenes Of Zach Cregger’s Extraordinary ‘Weapons’ Auction & Its Aftermath: The Dish
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Days after a feverish auction wrapped up for Weapons, the town is still talking about the wake left in its path.
The Dish hears that the deal for the Zach Cregger-directed horror film is remarkable in that this is only Cregger’s second film — after the highly profitable debut Barbarian — and it sold to New Line for an overall sum around $38 million, including the budget and Cregger getting $5 million to direct, and $10 million total when that sum is added to his fees for scripting and producing alongside Vertigo’s Roy Lee and Miri Yoon, and J.D.
Lifshitz and Raphael Margules. The bidding also included Universal, with Jordan Peele and his Monkeypaw to produce. While others circled it came down to those two studios.
Sources said that that the Uni bid was about $7 million less than New Line. Peele, we hear, was ready to kick in part of his contractual back end.
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