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Ella Purnell, Caleb Landry Jones and Samba Schutte join Ari Aster’s A24/Square Peg feature Scapegoat. Scarlett Johansson, Jacob Elordi and Jude Law are already on board, keeping the project’s cast package expanding around Aster’s script.
Shudder has acquired Rebekah McKendry's vampire horror Sundown; Raven Banner negotiated for the filmmakers, with Olwen Fouéré, Camille Sullivan and Summer H. Howell starring.
Focus Features’ roughly $15M pickup for Curry Barker’s Obsession beat Netflix’s straight-to-streaming offer after TIFF; the microbudget horror cost about $600K-$700K and Barker already has Universal/Blumhouse-Atomic Monster’s Anything But Ghosts next.
HBO Max lines up Evil Dead Burn for Oct. 2, with HBO linear premiere on Oct. 3; the theatrical-to-streaming window lands just ahead of Halloween for Ghost House Pictures and Warner Bros. Discovery.
Neon snagged global rights to Luca Guadagnino’s nearly finished $50 million Artificial after Amazon dropped it; New York Film Festival is also using Takashi Yamazaki’s Godzilla sequel as a high-profile unfinished launch title.
16 features, 150 shorts and 26 screenplay finalists; world premieres include Death Came Knocking, Liv’s Last Ride, When You See It and The Curse of Tahu’a, while The Last Temptation of Becky gets its Midwest premiere ahead of theatrical release and Outbreak adds a new digital showcase Oct. 19-26.
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