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Anton is fully financing alien-invasion thriller Soon You Will Be Gone And Possibly Eaten, which starts production this summer with Dave Franco and Sophie Wilde attached and Egor Abramenko directing from a screenplay by Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski; Anton and Anonymous Content are handling presales at Cannes with WME Independent on domestic sales.

Neon’s witchy indie Hokum opened to an estimated $6.4M on 1,885 screens against a reported $5M budget; the Damian McCarthy film is Certified Fresh at 86% on Rotten Tomatoes and earned a B CinemaScore, signaling strong marketplace appetite for original horror this May.

Ben Leonberg boards as director and co-writer on Sony Pictures’ Ankle Snatcher, adapting Grady Hendrix’s short story with Escape Artists and Aperture Entertainment producing and Hendrix attached as a producer; Leonberg expands his festival-to-distributor track record after Good Boy.

Warner Bros. delays Sam Esmail’s paranoid thriller Panic Carefully from Feb. 26, 2027 to April 2027 after positive test-screening buzz and ongoing post-production trims; cast includes Julia Roberts, Eddie Redmayne, Brian Tyree Henry and Elizabeth Olsen.

Netflix is adapting A.J. Quinnell's Man on Fire as a 7-part action thriller starring Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, leaning into ultraviolent, Punisher-style revenge beats rather than procedural restraint.

$27 million added to the Victorian Screen Incentive in the 2026/27 state budget, lifting total program support to $48.7M and signaling stronger production subsidies for local and international shoots in Victoria.

Bob Nguyen won Australian Cinematographer of the Year for Ky Nam Inn and additional ACS awards recognized cinematography on genre-heavy projects including 2nd Unit work on Alien: Earth and The Electric State, signaling Australian crews’ role on major sci-fi productions.

27th JEONJU International Film Festival opened with a 10-day program under co-directors Min Sungwook and Jung Junho; festival positioning signals continued support for global and genre cinema discovery in Korean festival circuit.

Edinburgh University Press's new entry in the 21st Century Horror series examines the US-Mexico borderlands’ real and supernatural horrors across film, TV, comics and games, offering academic context for contemporary borderland horror.

Publishers are collecting DC vs. Marvel crossover material and Marvel is spinning out Symbie as a solo title while BOOM! Studios adds Vampyrates to its slate, signaling continued publisher activity around horror-leaning IP and franchise extensions.

Fantastico Studio announced Green Inferno, a Cannibal Holocaust‑inspired point‑and‑click horror deduction game for Steam with a demo due in August and full release slated for November 2026; positions itself as a continuation of Ruggero Deodato's cannibal saga.

Exclusive Sight Unseen trailer debuts; the horror feature follows three siblings confronting a mysterious entity after their father’s death and is set to release on VOD in the US and Canada on May 19, 2026.

Shudder has made HBO’s Tales from the Crypt available starting May 1 with episodes added weekly through June 12; all 93 original episodes will stream on Shudder for the first time, reintroducing the anthology—and the Cryptkeeper—to a new audience.

Lanterns showrunner Chris Mundy frames the HBO Max series as a grounded, character-driven drama that preserves Green Lantern mythology; Kyle Chandler and Aaron Pierre lead and the series lands on HBO Max August 16.

Season 4 of MGM+'s From confirms Jim's death as a major narrative inflection and reveals Sophia is the Man in the Yellow Suit; Catalina Sandino Moreno describes a single-camera, intimate approach from director Jack Bender to heighten Tabitha's grief and set up the town's shifting power dynamic.

Your Monster, now streaming on Netflix, is a genre-bending creature-feature romcom/psychological thriller from writer-director Caroline Lindy starring Melissa Barrera and Tommy Dewey, trading expected monster erotica for a tender, darkly comic relationship piece.

Jo‑Ann Brechin’s Killer Whale positions itself as a survival horror centered on two friends trapped with a predatory orca named Ceto; review flags effective tension and visceral physical stakes despite intermittent CGI and leans into creature‑feature tropes.

HOKUM is a slow‑burn atmospheric horror set in a remote hotel showcasing Adam Scott in an intentionally prickly lead; review highlights sound design, mood‑driven scares, intermittent jump shocks and a whip of dark humor that resists conventional exposition.

Jeremy Slater says Oscar Isaac's Moon Knight return hinges on creative interest and contract terms that allow Marvel to 'snap their fingers' when the right story emerges; with Blade stalled, Marvel may route Moon Knight into a supernatural Midnight Sons ensemble or a season 2 focused on Jake Lockley.