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Prime Video has ordered a six-part UK limited series of Stephen King’s Crouch End; Paul Tomalin adapts and Tom Shankland directs, with Mammoth Screen and Fifth Season producing the Lovecraftian crime-thriller mystery.
Elizabeth McGovern has closed to join Amazon MGM Studios’ horror feature Seasons, now set with Lily James, Jack Reynor and Ron Perlman. Drew Hancock directs the Blumhouse Atomic Monster/21 Laps package, adapting a viral Reddit short about a ranch haunted by ancient spirits.
A24’s Backrooms tops $395 million worldwide and lands an exclusive U.S. streaming debut on HBO Max Sept. 25, followed by a linear HBO premiere Sept. 26. Kane Parsons’ feature debut now stands as A24’s biggest box-office hit; James Wan, Michael Clear and Peter Chernin are among the producers.
Amazon MGM Studios boards THUNDER ROAD and Badlands’ killer-wasp horror Hivemind, locking Samara Weaving and Nicholas Braun into a Prime Video play as Ciarán Foy rolls cameras in Dublin.
Sublimity launches TIFF sales on horror Postmortem, now in post-production with Odette Annable leading the cast; Andrés Beltrán’s grief-driven resurrection play adds Allegra Leguizamo, Julio Cesar Cedillo and Tony Revolori.
Paramount and Warner Bros. are racing separate Elm Street reboots under split rights; Jane Schoenbrun is actively angling for a meeting on the Paramount side while Lee Cronin remains in talks for Warner’s version.
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