Osgood Perkins’ ‘Longlegs’ Crosses $100M Globally For Neon To Become Year’s Highest-Grossing Indie Release
Osgood Perkins’ breakout horror film Longlegs, starring Maika Monroe and an unrecognizable Nicolas Cage, has hit a major benchmark in crossing $100 million globally, the studio announced on Friday.
With a current cumulative gross of $72M in the U.S. and Canada, Longlegs is now Neon’s highest grossing film ever, not to mention this year. Pic is the top independent film release and the top grossing R-rated horror film of the year to date, and has gone further to cement itself as the highest grossing indie horror film of the last 10 years.
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Written and directed by Perkins, Longlegs centers on Lee Harker (Monroe), an FBI Agent in pursuit of a serial killer, who uncovers a series of occult clues that she must solve to end his terrifying killing spree.
Pic’s producers included Dave Caplan of C2, Dan Kagan of Traffic, Brian Kavanaugh-Jones from Range, Cage for Saturn Films, and Chris Ferguson of Oddfellows. C2 also fully financed the film.
Black Bear represented the international sales rights, which account for $31M of the worldwide gross and also distributed directly in the UK and Ireland, which has emerged as the top grossing international territory for the film, with $10M. Black Bear’s sister company, Elevation Pictures, distributed the film in Canada, which accounts for just over $7M of the North American gross. The film has yet to open in a number of major territories, including Latin America and Italy.
Neon has bolstered its genre cred of late, with the release of Longlegs, the Hunter Schafer starrer Cuckoo, and Black Bear’s Immaculate starring Sydney Sweeney. Already, the company has gotten back in business with Perkins, C2 and Black Bear on The Monkey, a buzzy adaptation of the Stephen King short story starring Theo James, which hits theaters on February 21, 2025. In addition, Neon will release Perkins’ forthcoming feature Keeper, starring Tatiana Maslany and Rossif Sutherland, and will reteam with Monroe on They Follow, the anticipated sequel to David Robert Mitchell’s modern classic horror film It Follows.
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