A24 and Focus Features are in a big competition to get Olivia Wilde’s new movie, “The Invite.” The film got great reviews at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. After its premiere on Saturday night at the Eccles Theater in Park City, many companies like Neon, Netflix, Apple, Searchlight, and a new distributor called Black Bear showed interest in buying the movie. But as the offers got higher, some companies pulled out. The offers started going over $10 million, and it became clear that Wilde wanted the movie to have a traditional theater release. Right now, the offer is more than $12 million, according to people who know about the talks.
Directed by Olivia Wilde and written by Rashida Jones and Will McCormack, “The Invite” is about a dinner party between a married couple and their upstairs neighbors, who are swingers.
Wilde, Seth Rogen, Penelope Cruz, and Edward Norton star in the film, which is an English remake of the Spanish comedy “The People Upstairs.”
This is Wilde’s third movie as a director, after “Booksmart” in 2019 and “Don’t Worry Darling” in 2023.
She was also at Sundance with Gregg Araki’s “I Want Your Sex,” an erotic thriller where she co-stars with Cooper Hoffman.
Variety’s chief film critic, Owen Gleiberman, praised “The Invite” as a “bravura dinner-party dramedy that’s like ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’
redone as vintage Woody Allen.” He said the movie keeps you laughing and never stops surprising. He added that it’s so original, full of surprises, and fresh in how it looks at relationships, making you watch it with excitement and delight.
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