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Don Mancini revealed at Steel City Con he is writing the next Child’s Play feature — a franchise reset that will return Chucky to theaters while keeping a loose connection to the TV series finale, marking a new in‑development phase for the 35+ year IP.
A24 won a competitive fight to acquire adaptation rights to Patrick Radden Keefe’s upcoming book London Falling ahead of its April 7 publication, with Keefe pushing for family consultation and the book already mapped toward a TV series development.
Arthouse streamer Mubi lost ~200K subscribers amid a Palestine‑related PR storm but rebounded to a record 1.7M subs in Q1; the company lost $7.3M on ~$200M revenue last year, made several high‑profile acquisitions and struck a multi‑year co‑financing pact with IPR.VC.
Netflix’s Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen (April 2026) is positioned as the streamer’s post-Mike Flanagan flagship horror miniseries, starring Camila Morrone in a bridal-road-trip nightmare that leans into domestic/folk-horror beats and family psychodrama.
Explains the liminal-horror sub-genre powering projects like A24's Backrooms and 2025's Exit 8: it mines online-era liminal-space aesthetics (empty malls, fluorescent offices) and analog/analog-horror tropes to create a nostalgia-tinged unease that’s poised to mainstream in horror filmmaking.
Director/writer Tommy Wirkola's shark disaster thriller Thrash (Netflix) is now streaming; leads Phoebe Dynevor, Whitney Peak and Djimon Hounsou discuss intense water sequences and production challenges — marketing/interviews boosting visibility.
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