Has Neon Found Its Next Oz Perkins? Distributor Buys New Film from ‘It Ends’ Director Alex Ullom

Turns out “It Ends” is just the beginning. Neon announced that it has acquired the worldwide rights to “4 X 4: The Event,” the second horror feature from director Alex Ullom, whose debut “It Ends” will be released by Neon later this year.

Neon only just bought “It Ends” last month after it premiered at SXSW way back in spring 2025, and already the company has picked up his second movie before “It Ends” opens later this year. It’s a whirlwind of a couple of months for Ullom; his film gained extra attention after it was one of the few films briefly made available through Letterboxd’s newly launched Video Store, which was designed to let film lovers digitally rent undistributed movies out of festivals.

Now with “4 X 4: The Event,” Neon is picking up worldwide rights to the movie ahead of a production start later this year. It seems to…