Toronto 2011: Icon Takes Australia Rights to Horror Pic ‘You’re Next’ As Paramount Joins U.S. Suitors (Exclusive)

As U.S. buyers continue to zero in on You’re Next, one sale already has emerged: Icon has picked up Australian rights to the hot horror movie directed by Adam Wingard.

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Meanwhile, on the North American side, Paramount is the latest to show interest in the movie, via its underused low-budget horror label Insurge. The company now joins TWC/Dimension, CBS Films and Lionsgate among the U.S. distributors showing intense interest. Lionsgate, according to sources, is the only one that has made a bid.

As Heat Vision reported earlier, the movie played extremely well at Saturday’s Midnight Madness sidebar. We’re not afraid to say it: this is the stand-up and cheer horror movie of the year.

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You’re Next features a family being hunted by a group of sadistic murderers at a reunion getaway. There was a second-day screening of the movie Sunday and sources say it was after this screening that Paramount decided to take a closer look at the film.

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