The deals, moves, and market signals
driving horror.
Every morning you’re making decisions about what to develop, what to acquire, who to call, where the money is moving, with incomplete information. The trades skim genre. The genre press covers fandom. And the actual intelligence layer: who financed it, what the MG looked like, why it went to Shudder instead of RLJE, lives in conversations you’re not in yet.
That’s not a gap you should have to close manually every morning.
Horror is a $4.5 billion business with its own sales infrastructure, its own festival circuit, its own financing logic. The professionals who work it deserve a trade publication built specifically for it.
ScreamWire delivers the deal flow, market data, and production intelligence that horror industry professionals need to do their jobs, every morning, before the day starts.
Who’s Behind It
Cheryl Meyer is an award-winning screenwriter based in Los Angeles whose career spans development, production, and the festival circuit on both sides of the border. She heads Northgrave Pictures, a Canadian horror production company. She’s in the financing rooms, the festival markets, the deals. When the publication she needed did not exist, she created ScreamWire.
What You Get
A curated daily digest of the deals, moves, and market signals shaping horror and genre entertainment. Every weekday at 7:45 AM.
- Spec sales, option deals, acquisitions, and greenlights
- Series orders, renewals, and pilot pickups
- International distribution and co-production deals
- Streaming platform strategy (who’s buying genre, who’s pulling back)
- Festival programming and lab deadlines (Fantasia, Sitges, FrightFest, Popcorn Frights)
- People moves across agencies, management companies, and studio genre divisions
- Comics and IP pipeline activity signaling where development is headed
- Box office and market data with the context behind the numbers
30+ trade and genre sources scanned daily. Hundreds of articles classified. The stories that move the business, in your inbox before your first call.
How It Works
Subscribe. Open your inbox at 7:45 AM. Start your day knowing what moved overnight, before your first call, before your first meeting, before the rest of the industry catches up.