Lionsgate nabs 'You're Next'

Lionsgate has acquired U.S. and Canadian privileges to Adam Wingard's horror thriller ''You're Next'' following its tests in the Toronto Intl. Film Festival.Deal was introduced Wednesday."You are Next," from the script by Simon Barrett, stars Sharni Vinson, Joe Swanberg, A.J. Bowen, Nicholas Tucci and Barbara Crampton.Snoot Entertainment's Keith Calder and Jessica Wu created with Barrett and Kim Sherman."You are Next" reunites the important thing cast from Wingard and Barrett's serial-killer thriller "A Terrible Method to Die," which tested this past year at TIFF.Story for "You are Next" is placed throughout a household reunion getaway with your family coming within sadistic attack like a gang of mysterious murders start to search the household lower with brutal precision. Regrettably for that murders however, among the sufferers provides hiding for a secret talent for fighting back.Jason Constantine discussed the offer with respect to Lionsgate with Eda Kowan, SVP of Purchases and Co-Productions, and Wendy Jaffe, the Purchases and Co-Production team's EVP of economic & Legal Matters. Snoot Entertainment is repped by CAA, which discussed the purchase on the account with Erik Hyman of Loeb & Loeb. Contact Dork McNary at dork.mcnary@variety.com