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Robert Eggers’ medieval werewolf feature Werwulf has wrapped filming for Focus Features with a star-stacked cast—Ralph Ineson, Aaron Taylor‑Johnson, Lily‑Rose Depp, Willem Dafoe—and is scheduled for December 25, 2026, marking a major auteur-driven release in the prestige horror calendar.

Neon rolled out a new poster for Julia Ducournau’s body-horror drama Alpha ahead of its theatrical opening on March 27; the film continues Ducournau’s transgressive horror through a coming-of-age logline about a 13-year-old with a mysterious tattoo.

David Gordon Green has exited the planned sequel The Exorcist: Deceiver and the title has been pulled from release calendars, leaving the project’s production timeline and studio backing unclear.

Diablo Cody is currently writing the long-discussed Jennifer's Body 2, reuniting original star Amanda Seyfried and potentially director Karyn Kusama (both have previously expressed interest), signaling active development on a high-profile horror sequel.

Zach Cregger’s sci‑fi horror Flood — a time‑warping alien crew thriller — reportedly cleared negotiations with Netflix for a likely theatrical‑first, robust rollout after Cregger’s recent awards success; the project is still in development with no casting yet and Steven Spielberg attached as a producer.

Shudder revealed headline exclusives for its 'Halfway to Halloween' April programming — including Shudder originals/exclusives Deathstalker (Apr 3), Somnium (Apr 10), Night Patrol (Apr 17) and Dolly (Shudder Original, Apr 24) — with the full schedule to follow.

Camila Morrone is promoting Netflix’s 8-episode horror miniseries Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen (drops March 26); series created by Haley Z. Boston with Duffer Brothers as EPs and co-stars Jennifer Jason Leigh, Ted Levine and Adam DiMarco.

A24 has a new psychological horror titled Undertone slated for release — positioned as a disorienting, mind-bending entry in the label's horror slate, with creative specifics and release timing not yet disclosed.

Netflix will release Apex, a survival/thriller starring Charlize Theron, Taron Egerton and Eric Bana, on April 24, 2026; directed by Baltasar Kormákur and produced by Chernin and Ian Bryce, the film was shot in New South Wales and is being marketed as a high‑stakes hunter‑versus‑prey thriller for Netflix’s spring slate.

KXAN interview/feature with Damian McCarthy on Hokum covers the film’s SXSW premiere, McCarthy’s Irish roots, and working with Adam Scott — positioning the project for U.S. visibility at the festival.

Marvel announced The Punisher: One Last Kill, a Jon Bernthal-led TV special co-written by Bernthal and directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green, will debut on Disney+ May 12—timed to air the same night as the Daredevil: Born Again Season 2 finale—and features returns from several Daredevil-era cast members.

An exclusive deleted scene from Send Help highlights Rachel McAdams’ character discovering a survival breakthrough; the piece also reports the film has grossed nearly $100M worldwide and notes Raimi’s upcoming producing slate (including projects with Jordan Peele and new Evil Dead titles).

Nicolas Winding Refn shared first set/production images from Her Private Hell, a mysterious sexy-violent thriller starring Sophie Thatcher, Charles Melton and Kristine Froseth, signaling active production/early marketing activity.

Stephen Lang has joined The Dregs — a comedic thriller about a friends’ trip in the Italian Alps undone by a cursed bottle of grappa — which recently wrapped production; Connor Martin (making his directorial debut on his own script) developed the project and produces through Astral Plane alongside several producers.

Regional indie Allegheny Image Factory landed two Netflix top‑5 hits and cites West Virginia’s film production tax credit for enabling local shoots; the company’s original horror River (about brothers attacked by a homicidal maniac) is due to debut at TIFF in fall 2027, with local direct spend on $2–2.5M films reported at roughly $600k–$700k.

New posters and a clip for Devil May Cry Season 2 spotlight both Dante and Vergil (including Dante acquiring Ebony & Ivory), continuing the anime adaptation of Capcom's game franchise ahead of the season rollout.

Stephen King’s Misery (theatrical/horror classic) is scheduled to leave Netflix soon — reminder push to rewatch before it exits the service.

He Came from Ridley Park: The RL Ryan Story, a forthcoming documentary from Leroy Street Films and Movie Dumpster, is preparing to explore the life and cult legacy of 1980s Troma actor RL Ryan (The Toxic Avenger, Class of Nuke 'Em High).

The BFI National Lottery Innovation Challenge Fund granted £200,000 to the British Screen Forum to pilot data‑sharing between distributors/exhibitors and build a lifetime commercial‑performance database to boost investment and budgeting for UK independent film companies.

The Television Academy has created a new Property Masters subgroup within the Directors Peer Group, making property masters eligible for active or associate membership and voting if they meet new credit-based criteria; the Academy also updated Emmy category rules and AI guidelines this year.

Row K, an indie distributor launched less than eight months ago, is facing operational problems after releasing Gus Van Sant's Dead Man's Wire, putting upcoming titles including Maude Apatow's directorial debut in jeopardy.

Adam Cunningham is promoted from chief strategy officer to global CEO of Allied Global Marketing, with Kelly Estrella elevated to COO and former CEO Clint Kendall moving to the board—positioning the agency to scale integrated, data-led marketing and applied AI tools for entertainment and gaming clients.

The Academy named the 2025–2026 Nicholl Fellowship winners and for the first time accepted submissions through a global partner program that included The Black List, expanding the fellowship's sourcing pipeline.

Eurimages’ first 2026 funding round awarded €9.8m across 32 features, including joint‑largest €500,000 grants to Justine Triet’s psychological thriller Fonda (starring Mia Goth, Allison Janney, Andrew Scott) and Mia Hansen‑Love’s If Love Should Die; Studiocanal is financing/co‑producing Fonda.

French filmmaker Vincent Dietschy has filed a new copyright suit alleging Netflix’s shark thriller Under Paris (Sous la Seine) copied his screenplay Silure; he seeks to pause production of the sequel and claims 135 parallels, while Netflix denies access and the Paris IP court set a hearing for April 9.

Sony acquired Ian Shorr’s original spec 71 Minutes after a competitive situation; Jason Reitman will produce via Ghost Corp (not attached to direct) — the script is a real-time supernatural/ticking-clock thriller that drew over 20 production companies and studios.

Collider reports an exclusive production update from a star of Mike Flanagan's Prime Video Carrie adaptation, offering new on-set/casting or development details about the series’ progress.

Jim Cummings and PJ McCabe premiered The Screener — a five-part miniseries in Sundance’s episodic program — that dramatizes the culture and business of screener distribution and leaks, framing the issue through an indie filmmaker’s legal battle (including a RICO angle) and calling attention to recent festival-era piracy incidents.

Netflix is developing Rabbit, Rabbit — a hostage drama from Philip Barantini and Peter Craig — starring Adam Driver and Regina Hall, with a large ensemble cast recently added.

Kirsten Dunst has signed on to co-star opposite Sydney Sweeney in Lionsgate’s The Housemaid sequel, an adaptation of Freida McFadden’s thriller novel The Housemaid’s Secret.

Netflix unveiled the full trailer for Unchosen, a six-episode psychological cult thriller starring Asa Butterfield, Fra Fee and Molly Windsor that follows a woman’s emancipation after an escaped prisoner upends life inside a closed Christian sect, with an April release window.

Thinestra, a grotesque, darkly comic body-horror feature starring twins Michelle and Melissa Macedo, will be released digitally April 14 via Breaking Glass Pictures after drawing comparisons to The Substance.

Crimzon Harvest — a meta slasher starring Felissa Rose, Robert Mukes and Lew Temple featuring a killer scarecrow — launched a trailer and is targeting a late-summer release; logline centers on a financially strapped farming family.

The Chilean period horror The Evil That Binds Us opened in Chilean theaters and a new trailer/images emphasize a revenge-driven plot about a bereaved boy connecting with an isolated German-origin family; marketing push underway locally.

The trailer for A Yard of Jackals, a Chilean political psychological thriller set in 1978 during Pinochet’s dictatorship, was released with an April 17 launch on IndiePix Unlimited, emphasizing tense paranoia and historical-political stakes.