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Piece of Magic locks Toho’s Godzilla Minus Zero for 46 territories across Europe and beyond, with the rollout beginning November 4 and North America set for November 6 via Toho and GKids. Takashi Yamazaki returns to write, direct and oversee VFX; Anime Limited takes the UK and Ireland.
$17 million opening weekend on a $750,000 budget turned Obsession into a record-breaking indie horror machine; Focus Features paid an estimated $15 million at TIFF and the film has now crossed $404.4 million worldwide.
Plus M has pre-sold Na Hong-jin’s Hope into roughly 200 territories out of Cannes, recouping nearly half the film’s net production budget before release; Neon opens the sci-fi creature feature in North America Sept. 9.
Casper Kelly’s twisted creature feature lands in theaters August 28 via Saban; Buddy reframes a children’s mascot as a violent horror figure, keeping the project on the genre festival-to-theatrical lane.
Popcorn Frights drops its first wave for the 12th edition, signaling another packed genre lineup and a meaningful calendar marker for the indie horror circuit.
Sony Pictures Classics has acquired North America, Southeast Asia and airline rights to Florian Zeller’s Bunker, a survival-bunker thriller starring Javier Bardem, Penélope Cruz, Stephen Graham, Paul Dano and Patrick Schwarzenegger. The film is lining up a year-end qualifying run before an early 2027 release and an awards campaign.
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