Netflix, Sam Raimi & Paramount

Warner Bros. Discovery’s pending Paramount acquisition could reshuffle the international Elm Street rights stack; Chuck Russell is publicly warming to Jim Carrey as a Freddy reboot option if the franchise finally moves again.

Another $34.1M global frame lifts Focus Features/Blumhouse's Obsession to a $286.5M worldwide cume; the $750K TIFF Midnight pickup now stands as the highest-grossing festival buy ever, ahead of Blair Witch Project.

Scapegoat is framed as Ari Aster’s next A24 feature, with Scarlett Johansson leading a surgeon story that kicks off after a routine operation turns fatal and triggers public backlash. The project is eyeing a November production start; Darius Khondji is back as DP and additional casting remains open.

Apple renews Widow’s Bay for Season 2 and locks Katie Dippold to an overall deal, extending the horror-comedy’s run after the freshman season. The Apple TV series ends its first season with the island covenant still active, setting up a bigger supernatural engine for the next chapter.

Netflix has pulled the plug on The Boroughs after one season despite a 5.6M-view opening weekend and 9.5M first-week lift; the sci-fi series had a season 2 writers room open before audience drop-off and VFX cost concerns ended the run.

Return to Silent Hill hit No. 1 on Hulu’s U.S. movie chart from June 14-17 and cracked top 10 in multiple countries; the film has grossed $47.8 million worldwide on a $23 million budget, underscoring durable Silent Hill franchise demand.

BloodStream sets SLASHERCISE for an exclusive July 1 premiere, then widens it to additional platforms Oct. 1; Ama Lea’s slasher-aerobics mashup is being positioned as a flagship genre acquisition for the Studio Dome-backed streamer.

Cleopatra rolls out Portraits of the Apocalypse on digital and DVD; Nicanor Loreti, Fabián Forte, and Luca Castello steer the Buenos Aires zombie outbreak pic, reuniting When Evil Lurks leads Demián Salomón and Ezequiel Rodríguez.

July 13 Prime Video premiere set for Murder 101; the three-part true-crime adaptation of the iHeart podcast follows Elizabethton High School teacher Alex Campbell and a student-led cold-case probe into the Redhead Murders.

A 2023 crime film has spiked into a surprise Netflix hit after its limited release, another reminder that library titles can surge once they hit the platform.

Jurassic World: Dominion carries a $658.8 million negative cost, overtaking The Force Awakens as the most expensive film on record; COVID-era safety protocols and pandemic delays helped push the budget past Disney’s prior high-water mark.

NYAFF adds 40-plus titles in its second wave, including a Horrorscope sidebar stacked with genre plays like Red Thread and Tha Rae: The Exorcist, while Yeon Sang-ho’s Colony headlines the festival. Joseph Chang, Gianna Jun and Daniel Wu are set for festival honors as the 25th edition builds out a 69-film lineup across five New York venues.

Backrooms opened to $82 million in North America, with 86% of buyers under 35, reinforcing internet-born horror as a breakout theatrical pipeline. The analysis also folds in Blumhouse’s abandoned Jeff the Killer play, Slender Man’s fading franchise power, and the rise of YouTube-born filmmakers like Jane Schoenbrun and Kyle Edward Ball.

French widow horror angle; Souheila Yacoub fronts Sébastien Vaniček’s Evil Dead Burn, with Robert Tapert saying Sam Raimi gave the team permission to push the franchise into a darker, less bloody but more brutal register ahead of the July 10, 2026 theatrical launch.

Francis Galluppi’s Evil Dead Wrath has wrapped production; the prequel is set in 1972 and lands in theaters April 7, 2028. It’s one of two new Evil Dead films in the pipeline, following Evil Dead Burn from Sébastien Vaniček.

Chattanooga Film Festival launch pad for Josh Lobo’s Night After Night, where two overnight security guards lose their grip on reality after a mute figure begins returning every night; Alexis Louder, Trace Lysette, AJ Bowen, and Johnny Sibilly headline.

Dances With Films: LA books Tender’s world premiere for June 28 at TCL Chinese Theatre; Adam Hoelzel’s debut stars Jesse Garcia and Jess Weixler and lines up Robert Longstreet, David Koechner, and Sonja O’Hara.

Netflix House Dallas and Philadelphia will host a ticketed “KPop Demon Hunters” immersive experience this holiday season, with fan screenings set for June 20. The streamer is extending its biggest movie into a physical attraction and teasing more pop-ups worldwide.

1972-set Evil Dead Wrath is being framed as the franchise’s hardest R-rating battle yet, with Robert Tapert saying Francis Galluppi’s entry leans into coming-of-age sexual hijinks and opens April 7, 2028.

Limonero Films has picked up worldwide rights to the Finnish true-crime docuseries and will launch sales at Sunny Side of the Doc ahead of the July 27 premiere on YLE. Pre-sales are already in place at NRK, SVT and DR, giving the cult-and-conspiracy series immediate Nordic reach.

Adam Wingard’s newest action thriller, Onslaught, is being released by A24 this September, and the new trailer for the film has sparked quite a bit of conversation in its rather short release window