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Next Narrative Africa Fund launched a $50M content initiative ( $10M in grants; $40M commercial fund) to support African and diaspora film/TV over five years, financing up to 20% of production budgets; inaugural slate includes Trevor Noah, Rapman, the Esiri Brothers and a Ghanaian comedy‑horror The Return.
Horror veteran Charles Band and U.S. microdrama stars have launched Full Moon Artists (FMA) Productions to produce a 12-title slate of vertical microdramas (first goes into production this spring) with alternate horizontal feature versions planned for platforms like Prime Video, Tubi and Full Moon’s channel.
Grimmvision premiered an 8-episode horror series South of Hell (first episode dropped Feb 26, with weekly episodes through April 16), starring Mena Suvari, with directors including Ti West, Eli Roth and Jennifer Lynch and Jason Blum producing — free to watch in the UK on Grimmvision.
Universal is abandoning its 17-day pandemic-era minimum and instituting a 31-day theatrical minimum for its 2026 slate (expanding to 45 days in 2027), a move studios say supports theatrical-first distribution and that will affect horror tentpoles including Mike Flanagan’s The Exorcist adaptation on the upcoming slate.
Netflix will stream the eight‑episode atmospheric horror limited series Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen — described by showrunner Haley Z. Boston as sitting between Carrie and Rosemary’s Baby — starring Camila Morrone and Adam DiMarco and executive produced by the Duffer Brothers; all episodes arrive March 26.
Brea Grant’s anthology horror Grind received its world premiere at SXSW — Grant and co-creator Ed Dougherty wrote the interlocking four stories (directed by Grant, Dougherty and Chelsea Stardust) centering on workplace horror and a demonic corporation called DRGN, with shared cast/visual language designed as a coherent universe.
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