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Curry Barker will write, direct and produce his third feature, an original idea set up with Blumhouse Atomic Monster and Universal Film Group alongside Roy Lee and Steven Schneider’s Spooky Pictures and Divide/Conquer; Barker’s second film Anything but Ghosts is currently in post for Blumhouse/Focus.
Peacock gives Dungeon Crawler Carl a straight-to-series order, adapting Matt Dinniman’s sci-fi LitRPG books with Chris Yost writing and Seth MacFarlane’s Fuzzy Door producing. The streamer is betting on a monster-filled apocalypse series after keeping the project in development and following up another pickup this month.
Neon sets Alex Ullom’s feature debut It Ends for theaters Aug. 21, keeping the Gen Z road horror on the big screen this summer.
Ari Aster has three features queued up and plans to shoot his next film in November. The update keeps one of horror’s most closely watched filmmakers on a firm production timetable.
Vietnam’s Cinema Department is tightening content rules as horror saturates the local box office; imported genre titles may need cuts or face distribution barriers, while Ma Xó leads with nearly 135 billion VND.
Werwulf is already in production in the UK and headed for a December 25, 2026 release; Focus Features says Robert Eggers' werewolf film aims for scares and an intimate portrait of the curse, with Ralph Ineson, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Lily-Rose Depp and Willem Dafoe aboard.
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