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Cast for “Lord of the Flies in Space” Sci-fi Film ‘Voyagers’ Includes Colin Farrell and Tye Sheridan
Divergent director Neil Burger is next headed to outer space for the sci-film Voyagers, which is being described as “Lord of the Flies in space.” And casting is well underway.
Reported by Deadline, Colin Farrell (Fantastic Beasts And Where to Find Them), Tye Sheridan (Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse), Lily-Rose Depp (The King), Fionn Whitehead (Dunkirk) and Keean Johnson (Alita: Battle Angel) have signed on, with Kelvin Harrison (Mudbound), Isaac Hempstead Wright (Game Of Thrones), Chanté Adams (Roxanne Roxanne) and Madison Hu (Bizaardvark) in negotiations to join them.
The film, penned by Burger, centers on “30 children who are sent on a multi-generational mission to populate a new planet.”
“After the captain of the mission is killed in mysterious circumstances, the young crew descends into chaos, aligning themselves into tribes as they surrender to their most feral impulses.”
AGC Studios is producing with Thunder Road.
Curry Barker’s Obsession has been on a generational run at the box office these last several weeks, with the incredible word-of-mouth driving the box office totals higher and higher and higher with each passing week. After a debut weekend of $17 million, Obsession made a whopping $23 million in its second weekend, and then scared up $26.4 million in its third weekend. In its fourth weekend, Obsession just scared up another $25.6 million in the U.S.!
Deadline notes in a report this morning, “Obsession reps the biggest fourth weekend ever for a horror movie ahead of 1999’s Blair Witch Project which did $24.3M.”
Worldwide, Obsession is now the highest grossing movie in history for Focus Features. The current worldwide total is $224.7 million, while the domestic total is $152.1 million.
That also makes Obsession the highest grossing horror movie of 2026, far exceeding the $207.9 million worldwide total ($121.9 million domestically) of Scream 7 earlier this year!
Yes, the highest grossing horror movie of 2026 is an ORIGINAL HORROR MOVIE!
The best part? The production budget for Obsession was just $750,000, with Focus Features acquiring the film for a reported $15 million. Even when you factor in the marketing spend and the fact that theaters get their own sizable cut, this one is a MASSIVE win for Focus.
From A24 and director Kane Parsons, Backrooms is already nipping at the heels of that record after just a couple weeks in release. The current domestic total of Backrooms is $135 million, while the worldwide total is now sitting at a very healthy $212.6 million. That means Backrooms has also already surpassed Scream 7, and may soon pass Obsession as well.
In Curry Barker’s theatrical debut Obsession, after breaking the mysterious One Wish Willow to win his crush’s heart, a hopeless romantic finds himself getting exactly what he asked for but soon discovers that some desires come at a dark, sinister price.
Inde Navarrette (“Superman & Lois”) and Michael Johnston (“Teen Wolf”) star.
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