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TriStar has secured feature rights to Trevor Henderson’s viral horror property Cartoon Cat and is already searching for a filmmaker; Roy Lee, Steven Schneider, Scott Glassgold and J. Todd Harris are producing.
Fantasia opens its 30th edition with 119 features, 400 shorts and an expanded Frontières market rollout into Tokyo and Toronto; Nicolas Winding Refn collects the Cheval Noir award while Neon, MUBI and other genre titles anchor the slate.
Peacock has locked a 10/15/26 launch for Crystal Lake, the Friday the 13th prequel series, with all eight 60-minute episodes dropping at once. Linda Cardellini leads the A24 series from creator-showrunner Brad Caleb Kane; the cast also includes William Catlett, Devin Kessler, Cameron Scoggins, and Gwendolyn Sundstrom.
Netflix sets an Oct. 8 debut for Below, its six-episode Newfoundland creature thriller starring Josh Hartnett, Charlie Heaton, and Mackenzie Davis; Jesse McKeown frames the series around local legend and isolation.
Don Mancini is scripting a new Chucky movie with a fresh angle; Brad Dourif says it won't pick up where the series ended. The move keeps the killer-doll franchise active on the feature side with a standalone reset in development.
Jordan Downey’s The Cycle lands as a Shudder exclusive on Oct. 23, 2026; Deborah Ann Woll leads the crime-scene-to-creature horror with a dark cold-case hook.
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