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TAW Entertainment’s Ed Gein: The House of Horrors has wrapped/finished production (reporting indicates the film is done and positioned to move toward distribution), marking another true‑crime/horror biopic entering the market.

Grimmfest confirmed dates for Oct 8–11, 2026 in Manchester, revealed new festival artwork by Ilan Sheady and announced early slate highlights: the western-horror short THE BONES EXIST and the UK premiere of Damien Fannon’s debut feature IVAN, which explores AI paranoia in a Cronenberg-esque vein.

Caleb Phillips’s feature debut Imposters premiered in SXSW’s Midnighter strand; the psychological thriller starring Charlie Barnett and Jessica Rothe examines parental grief and identity and is framed as a festival launch for distribution.

James Cullen Bressack returns to horror with I Have Proof, a psychologically driven feature to be shot entirely on VHS‑C in Los Angeles starting later this month, produced via his Sandaled Kid banner with David Josh Lawrence and featuring Larsen Deane and Lilly Van Der Meer.

Tumor, a Los Angeles-shot psychological thriller that wrapped production, stars Sam Rockwell and Maisy Stella and adds Chris Messina, Michael Peña, Esai Morales and Gigi Zumbado; the story follows an LA PI losing his grip while hunting a missing girl.

Adam McKay says his long‑gestating serial‑killer lobbyist satire remains under consideration while his climate drama, now titled 2C, has moved forward; McKay also referenced other projects on his backlog and noted continued creative development with Netflix collaborators.

DIY genre filmmakers the Adams Family announced The Glorious Dead, an apocalyptic monster film starring Toby Poser as a small-town sheriff confronting a world upended; the family will produce and star alongside their usual collaborators.

Luke Jaden’s folk-horror Animals of the Land will world premiere at Fantaspoa 22; the prehistoric, nature-revenge story stars Andrea Tivadar and Jord Knotter and lists several producers including Phil Wurtzel and Corrina Roshea.

Vietnam’s Mockingbird Pictures is taking worldwide distribution rights to the folklore-rooted dark comedy-drama A “Good” Best Luck (Lên Hương), starring Hồng Đào and led by directors Khương Ngọc and Tấn Hoàng Thông; the film is in final production and aims for a Vietnam release in Q4 2026 with festival and streaming buyer outreach underway.

Marvel Zombies Season 2 is now in production—Marvel streaming chief Brad Winderbaum confirmed he’d seen the first animatic and teased a major MCU-connected beat alongside the series’ zombie premise; Season 1 aired on Disney+.

Coverage clarifies that Brendan Fraser is not in Lee Cronin’s The Mummy (out April 17) and flags audience confusion between Cronin’s Warner release and a separate Brendan Fraser Mummy project — Blumhouse has posted repeated denials on X to reduce misattribution.

IFF Panama (April 9–12) expands with a new international non-fiction competition, opens with Tribeca-winner Runa Simi, closes with Leticia Tonos’ Milly, Queen of Merengue, and includes genre fare such as Thai horror-comedy A Useful Ghost plus a post‑pandemic record seven Panamanian films in competition.

The Marché du Film’s Cannes Investors Circle will pitch eight auteur projects (budgets €1M–€12M+) to private VIP investors May 16–17, with an emphasized presence of elevated genre-driven works and follow-up activity planned beyond Cannes to help projects secure private financing.

SAG-AFTRA and the AMPTP will resume contract talks on April 27 under a media blackout, with the union pushing for stronger health/insurance terms, streamer residuals and AI guardrails ahead of the current agreement’s June 30 expiry — DGA talks follow in May.

Exclusive: Olivia Holt is in talks to reprise her role for Heart Eyes 2 alongside Mason Gooding under writer-director Josh Ruben, with production possibly beginning as early as this summer after the original grossed $33M worldwide.

Report reiterates Jenna Ortega is in talks for Gremlins 3 as production is eyed to start summer before its Nov. 19, 2027 release; studio emphasizes practical puppetry and returns Spielberg as EP with Chris Columbus directing/co-writing.

The Indian Film Festival of L.A. announced Industry Days programming April 24–25 with participation from Netflix, HBO, Universal and other studios, plus pitch competitions (one $10,000 development grant) and panels on animation, gaming and indie distribution to connect South Asian creators with Hollywood partners.

Bloody Disgusting and Storm King Productions are partnering with John Carpenter to launch two original scripted horror podcasts under the ‘John Carpenter Presents’ banner, with the first series already released.

Netflix will remove Jaws, Jaws 2 and Jaws 3-D on May 1, 2026; the piece reiterates franchise box-office tallies (original Jaws ~$490M global, Jaws 2 ~$187M, Jaws 3-D ~$88M) and notes Spielberg declined the sequel.

Marcus Theatres named Jeffry F. Tomachek president after a national search; the chain operates 985 screens and is reporting early‑year box office gains tied to recent tentpoles and holiday weekends.

Ben Shapiro dismissed an IATSE strike against The Daily Wire/Bonfire Legend’s untitled Jonathan Majors film as politically motivated, while producers downplayed an on-set accident (actors fell through a loose pane); IATSE confirmed picketing for improved healthcare and safety standards.

Tanner Zurkoski's hybrid live-action/animated documentary Illustrated Legacies: Graveyard of the Pacific will have its world premiere at Vancouver's DOXA Documentary Film Festival as part of the festival's lineup.

Thinestra is a body-horror feature about a woman whose weight-loss drug causes her shed fat to manifest as a ravenous doppelgänger; penned by Avra Fox-Lerner, directed by Nathan Hertz, starring Michelle Macedo and Melissa Macedo, and will stream April 14 via Breaking Glass Pictures.

Buffet Infinity is a Canadian horror-comedy told as faux TV commercials; it opens in select theaters April 24 and arrives VOD May 8 via Yellow Veil Pictures, leaning into retro screenlife format and SCTV-style comedy-horror.

Apple TV+ released a trailer for MAXIMUM PLEASURE GUARANTEED, a dark-comedy thriller starring Tatiana Maslany as a woman whose day spirals into chaos.