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Netflix locks the Holly Jackson adaptation for a third and final four-episode season; Season 3 has wrapped and is set for 2027, with Moonage Pictures co-producing and BBC/ZDFneo handling key territory splits.

Obsession has crossed $224M worldwide and $150M domestic, overtaking Fahrenheit 9/11 as the highest-grossing film ever acquired at a festival. The $1M horror breakout is now one of only a handful of genre titles to clear $200M domestic and still has several overseas markets left to open.

Backrooms has cleared $200 million worldwide after a $25.9 million second frame; the A24 horror breakout opened to $81 million domestic and $118 million global, now the studio’s biggest title ever.

A24’s Backrooms is now the company’s highest-grossing title at $212M worldwide, while Focus’s Obsession crossed $200M on a sub-$1M acquisition; Paramount/Miramax’s Scary Movie reboot opened to $55M domestic and $105M global, reinforcing that late-’90s and early-2000s IP is the current theatrical sweet spot.

WME signs French horror filmmaker Sébastien Vaniček off Infested and Evil Dead Burn; the agency will rep him in all areas as he rides a festival breakout and a July 10 Warner Bros. franchise launch.

Paramount’s 'Scary Movie' reboot opens to £4.1 million in the U.K. and Ireland; A24’s 'Backrooms' climbs to £11.6 million, Universal’s 'Obsession' to £13.8 million, and Spielberg’s 'Disclosure Day' is set for a 300-plus-location launch.

Park Hae-soo, Claudia Kim and Cho Jung-seok board Netflix Korean crime thriller Paper Man; Lee Il Hyung directs, with the series already in production. Netflix is leaning deeper into Korean-language originals after clearing 4.5 billion streams across Korean film and TV.

Momoa is out of Helldivers as Sony searches for a new star; the sci-fi action adaptation stays dated for Nov. 10, 2027, with Hutch Parker, Asad Qizilbash and Justin Lin producing.

$184M worldwide on a $105M budget; Predator: Badlands topped UK kids’ ratings despite the franchise’s first PG-13 reset, underscoring how the film sold as a broader family-event play than prior Predator entries.

The $750K horror breakout Obsession is now north of $224M worldwide, a roughly 300x return that puts it among the most lucrative genre runs in years; Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival will handle the Korea rollout.

Obsession is now 2026's top-grossing horror title, extending its TIFF breakout into a record-setting run for Focus Features and keeping Curry Barker on the genre box-office map.

Netflix has renewed A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder for a third and final season; the four-episode run is already wrapped and will adapt As Good As Dead for a 2027 global launch. Emma Myers returns as Pip as the streamer closes out Holly Jackson’s book trilogy adaptation.

Netflix and Toho team on an eight-episode Human Vapor revival, the first collaboration between the two companies; Yeon Sang-ho showruns with Ryu Yong-jae, and Shinzo Katayama directs for a July 2, 2026 premiere.

$55M domestic and $105.5M global on a reported $30M budget puts Scary Movie instantly profitable for Paramount; the opening makes Scary Movie 7 the obvious next play if the Wayans and Michael Tiddes reteam.

Storiesbound is gearing up a Japan shoot for psychological thriller The Degrees Of Pain in Q4 2026, with Luna Fujimoto, Show Kasamatsu, Takehiro Hira, Rila Fukushima and Naoto Takenaka attached. The production is targeting Japan’s relaunched cash rebate, capped at $10M per project.

A Terrifier breakout boards the lead in Red Wedding, putting a horror-franchise face atop a new genre feature as casting locks in. No further production or financing details are attached yet.

Indonesian remake of Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum lands a world premiere next month before rolling into local theaters; Anggy Umbara directs from Lele Laila’s script.

Netflix has extended its global rights deal for Masha and the Bear, landing Seasons 8 and 9 while retaining Seasons 1 through 7 and the spin-offs. The pact covers 100+ countries and keeps one of the world’s biggest preschool brands inside the Netflix ecosystem.

Kino Lorber has acquired U.S. rights to Black Zombie, an SXSW selection.

Kane Parsons says Backrooms was reverse-engineered from its ending and mapped as a serialized mythology years ago; he also ties the comments to the film’s $200 million-plus global run for A24.

Brillstein signs Natalie Palamides for management as she tours Weer, follows a Drama Desk nomination, and keeps TV and animation lanes open with A24, Netflix and Fox credits.

Curzon has taken UK-Ireland rights to Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s Cannes Competition title The Beloved, reuniting with the filmmaker after The Beasts. Goodfellas is handling sales on the Movistar Plus-backed Spain-France co-production starring Javier Bardem and Victoria Luengo.

Warner Bros. rolls Evil Dead Burn into U.S. theaters on July 10; Ghost House, New Line, Screen Gems and Sony co-finance, with Sony handling most international territory and Sébastien Vaniček steering the rebooted standalone sequel.

Metis Films has landed UK-Ireland rights to Babystar for an autumn 2026 theatrical release, with additional sales closing across Latin America, Denmark, Eastern Europe, Slovakia and Poland. Yellow Affair is steering world sales after the Toronto Discovery premiere and German theatrical launch.

Masters of the Universe’s $54M global bow against a reported $170M budget is the latest Gen X IP miss; Scary Movie’s $55M domestic launch shows millennial nostalgia still has sharper theatrical pull. The analysis frames legacy IP as increasingly dependent on younger demos, with The Devil Wears Prada 2 cited as another millennial win.

BIFAN marks its 30th edition with 321 films, 38 AI-generated titles, and 28 XR projects, pushing the fest deeper into tech-forward genre curation. Organizers are framing the event as a bridge between streaming, theaters, and emerging AI workflows, with a French sci-fi retrospective and spotlight programs on East Asian markets.

Financiers shifted money from a scrapped indie into Sophia Takal’s teen-acting thriller 'Act One'; the New Jersey-shot feature bows at Tribeca with Ella Beatty, Ari Graynor and Nate Mann.

Aster says a Hereditary prequel script exists but remains shelved; the same sit-down points to Scapegoat, with Scarlett Johansson attached and A24 lined up to distribute.

Netflix’s Scooby-Doo: Origins is in production in Atlanta for a 2027 global debut. Warner Bros. Television backs the live-action reimagining, with Josh Appelbaum and Scott Rosenberg showrunning and Toby Haynes directing the premiere episode.

20th Century Studios’ The Dog Stars carries a reported $110M budget and a late-August theatrical slot; the post-pandemic adaptation stars Jacob Elordi, Margaret Qualley, Josh Brolin, Guy Pearce and Benedict Wong, with the trailer and weak test chatter raising dump-date alarms.