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Blumhouse takes the Saw rights while Ma gets an official sequel greenlight, giving Jason Blum two high-value horror franchises to build around.

Blumhouse and Atomic Monster line up a live-action Phasmophobia adaptation, extending the hit multiplayer game's horror IP pipeline; Saw and Ma updates come attached.

Indie Rights has acquired worldwide rights excluding the U.K. and Ireland to Charlie Shaw’s Revenge out of Cannes’ Marché du Film; the British slasher is slated for theatrical rollouts in Latin America, India and the U.K. as more territories are negotiated.

Munich’s 2026 lineup spans 130 films and 28 world premieres; the genre lanes include Emily Robinson’s horror title Ugly Cry, Jane Schoenbrun’s slasher Teenage Sex And Death at Camp Miasma and Skinner Myers’ horror-thriller Moodswing Whiskey.

Mubi locks an August release for Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, Jane Schoenbrun's queer slasher-comedy that bowed at Cannes; Gillian Anderson and Hannah Einbinder star, and Schoenbrun frames it as a trans coming-of-age meta-horror.

X4 Pictures is taking Demon Hunter: Time 2 Kill to U.S. digital and physical media on July 7; Zoe Kavanagh’s time-bending horror-action title pairs demon-hunting, time travel, and slasher territory with Lisa Wilcox in the cast.

Frankie Tam’s period thriller Secret in the Box, about Hong Kong’s 1974 Happy Valley Box Murder, is in the Golden Goblet main competition at the 28th Shanghai International Film Festival. Zhang Songwen gives his first fully Cantonese-language big-screen performance.

Lilly Wachowski will host a live reading of The Hunted at Dynasty Typewriter on Aug. 7-8, with the dystopian political thriller in late-stage development. Co-written with Mickey R. Mahoney, it’s produced with Natasha Lyonne, who’s aboard via Ariadne Collective.

At Transilvania Intl. Film Festival, Ben Wheatley said the viral-to-box-office success of Kane Parsons’ 21-year-old “Backrooms” and Curry Barker’s 26-year-old “Obsession” proves “it’s a great time to be a young filmmaker.” He’s there promoting 2025 thriller “Bulk.