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Olivia Wilde<\/a>\u2019s sex comedy The Invite<\/a> has lit a fire under the final Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, with major indie distributors and minor studio divisions elbowing each other to make it this year\u2019s festival first big sale.<\/p>\n A24<\/a>, Neon<\/a> and Universal<\/a> division Focus Features are said to be the frontrunners for the feature, although Netflix<\/a> is making a hard move with beaucoup bucks. 20th\/Disney division Searchlight Pictures<\/a> is also said to be in the mix.<\/p>\n The dealmaking has already gone through Sunday night and began almost as soon as the movie received a standing ovation after its Saturday night premiere at the Eccles Theatre and then enjoyed rave reviews.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s going hard,\u201d said one source. \u201cA24 wants to win.\u201d<\/p>\n It\u2019s unclear if the filmmakers are focused on a theatrical release but…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ladies and gentlemen, we have ourselves an old-fashioned Sundance bidding war. Olivia Wilde\u2019s sex comedy The Invite has lit a fire under the final Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, with major indie distributors and minor studio divisions elbowing each other to make it this year\u2019s festival first big sale. A24, Neon and Universal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2251531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2251530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Olivia-Wilde-Sex-Comedy-\u2018The-Invite-Ignites-First-Big-Bidding.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2251530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2251532,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251530\/revisions\/2251532"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2251531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2251530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2251530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2251530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}