The Script Breakdown with Sammy Warshaw
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The Stage 32 Writers' Room Script Breakdown welcomed Sammy Warshaw — the producer and film executive behind Blumhouse's HAPPY DEATH DAY, TRUTH OR DARE, and HALLOWEEN, and Co-Producer on SONIC THE HEDGEHOG 2 — who broke down the script for OBSESSION live. OBSESSION premiered at TIFF where Focus Features acquired it for $14–$15 million, the highest price commanded by a genre film in TIFF history, before grossing $459 million worldwide and becoming the eighth-highest-grossing horror film of all time. Sammy revealed what makes this script work on the page — the structure, the character engine, and the high-concept hook that turned a festival premiere into a global phenomenon.
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