Invite, The: Olivia Wilde’s Sundance Hit Sells to A24 fir more than $12 Million

‘The Invite’ Sells to A24 after Sundance Premiere

Olivia Wilde, Seth Rogen, Penélope Cruz and Edward Norton appear in The Invite by Olivia Wilde, an official selection of the 2026 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute | photo c/o The Invite
Courtesy of Sundance Film Festival
After multi-day bidding war, Olivia Wilde’s Sundance hit The Invite has sold to A24.

A24 and Focus Features were locked in a tense fight for rights to the relationship comedy after other interested buyers, like Neon, Netflix, Apple, Searchlight and new distributor Black Bear, backed out of negotiations.

The sale is north of $12 million, according to sources familiar with the terms of the deal.

Wilde reteamed with Megan Ellison’s Annapurna on the project, the studio that made her directorial debut, “Booksmart.”

UTA Independent Film Group and FilmNation co-repped the sale.

The hilarious ensemble comedy plays out during a dinner party between a couple who are going through a rough patch and their upstairs neighbors, who turn out to be swingers.

Rashida Jones and Will McCormack wrote the screenplay, a remake of the Spanish film “The People Upstairs.” CAA reps Wilde and Cruz. UTA reps Rogen, Norton and McCormack and Jones.

It’s been a slow sales market out of the festival’s final hurrah in Park City. (Sundance heads to Boulder in 2027).

Neon is closing a sale for the conversion therapy thriller “Leviticus” for a price tag that’s reportedly in the seven-figure range.

“Wicker,” a fantasy comedy with Olivia Colman, Peter Dinklage and Alexander Skarsgard, as well as the harrowing drama “Josephine” starring Channing Tatum and Gemma Chan, have also been drawing interest from buyers.

She was also at Sundance with director Gregg Araki’s I Want Your Sex, an erotic thriller in which she co-stars with Cooper Hoffman.

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