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Netflix gives Jack Thorne’s untitled spy drama a straight-to-series order; Millie Bobby Brown and David Harbour star and executive produce, with A24’s Cut To on board. The pickup reunites the Stranger Things pair and extends Netflix’s relationship with both leads beyond the flagship series.

March 12, 2027 release is now set for Mike Flanagan's Exorcist: Martyrs; Scarlett Johansson, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Diane Lane, Noah Jupe, Laurence Fishburne, Sasha Calle and John Leguizamo board the Universal/Blumhouse reboot.

$75 million A24 partnership with Google DeepMind pushes AI workflow tools into the indie-studio stack; the move is already triggering backlash over creative labor displacement and automation.

Fifth entry in Jagged Edge Productions’ Twisted Childhood Universe leans hard into practical effects and public-domain horror; Rhys Frake-Waterfield says Pinocchio Unstrung is the best-received chapter yet and keeps the Poohniverse’s IP pipeline open. Robert Englund voices the Cricket, Richard Brake plays Geppetto, and the film screened at Raindance ahead of wider rollout talks.

Lily James boards supernatural horror thriller Seasons for Companion director Drew Hancock at Amazon MGM; the genre package is coming together around an original feature play.

Middle English dialogue, Oxford professor consultation and wolf-dog hybrids shape Robert Eggers' Werwulf; Lily-Rose Depp reteams with Eggers as Focus Features keeps the Christmas 2026 rollout.

Forbidden Fruits wraps its theatrical run and lands exclusive on Shudder; Meredith Alloway and Lily Houghton’s mall-set witchy slasher is now being extended with merch collabs from Mise en Scènt and Super Yaki.

Anirudh Pisharody leads Chronos, a Greek-mythology thriller that shot in Greece with Tongayi Chirisa, Eleni Sotiropoulou and Lisa Morrell. Gianinni Semedo Moreira directs the indie feature around a father racing to Olympus before the gods erase his family.

Blumhouse-Atomic Monster taps Thordur Palsson to direct the Dead by Daylight adaptation; Jason Blum unveiled the move at the game’s 10th anniversary, with James Wan saying Palsson’s The Damned proved he can sustain the claustrophobic terror the property needs.

Curry Barker has closed a rich eight-figure deal with Universal Film Group and Blumhouse Atomic Monster for his third film, an original horror idea he will write, produce and direct. The project, bought from a pitch to Universal brass, stays in the Universal family after Obsession.

MGM+ fills July with The Westies plus genre library titles Cold Storage, Is God Is and The Silence of the Lambs; the Amazon-owned service is leaning on crime and horror-thriller programming for the month.

Chile shoot is penciled for H2 2026 on Netflix’s Eleven; Pablo Larraín reteams with Fabula and Guillermo Calderón on 11 intercut coup-era stories centered on Sept. 11, 1973.

Amazon MGM has pulled Artificial from its release slate, pushing the Sam Altman drama into the market as distributors circle; Guadagnino is now framing the film as an AI-era warning after the project’s San Francisco shoot and a reported $50 billion OpenAI investment at Amazon.

1.2 million views in 45 days for Ceremony TV’s free YouTube slate; the new channel is building 7-to-10-minute investigative docu-series around sport, crime and power, with Dirty Game: Football at the Edge leading the push.

Elon Musk pushes Uwe Boll’s Citizen Vigilante onto X for a 48-hour window after its streamer/theatrical debut, turning the platform into a pop-up distributor. The stunt gives Armie Hammer another visibility boost while sidestepping a conventional release path.

Netflix sets the U.S. streaming bow for Julian Schnabel’s 2h33m thriller In the Hand of Dante on June 24; Oscar Isaac plays a dual role opposite Al Pacino, with Jason Momoa, John Malkovich, Gerard Butler and Martin Scorsese in the ensemble.

Netflix brings Hannibal seasons 1-3 back on July 27, restoring Bryan Fuller’s NBC psychological-thriller to the service five years after its removal and renewing revival chatter around the dormant cult title.

Adrian Chiarella’s debut feature Leviticus, starring Joe Bird and Thrash’s Stacy Clausen, was acquired by Neon after Sundance and is now headed for a U.S. wide release. The film follows two boys in a homophobic religious town who are hunted by a shape-shifting entity that takes the form of who they desire most.

Taylor Sheridan’s Tulsa King has surged to No. 10 on Paramount+’s global series chart ahead of Season 4, which is expected in fall 2026. Starring Sylvester Stallone, the crime series has three seasons streaming now.

Stephen King’s classic supernatural thriller is leaving free streaming; the title and platform aren’t specified in the report, but the film is set to exit the ad-supported service soon.

After Backrooms grossed over $250 million worldwide on a $10 million budget, studios and agencies are mining Reddit creepypastas for horror IP. Warner Bros. has Sydney Sweeney attached to I Pretended to Be a Missing Girl, with Eric Roth scripting.

Mark Jenkin’s third feature, Rose of Nevada, premiered at Venice last September and held a 100% approval rating as of June 17; George MacKay and Callum Turner lead the sci-fi ghost ship story about a missing Cornish fishing boat that returns after 30 years.

Fathom Entertainment sets Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth for a 20th-anniversary theatrical reissue on Oct. 9; tickets go on sale Sept. 9.

A24 lines up Conner O’Malley’s feature directing debut on Schiller Park; Ari Aster and Lars Knudsen’s Square Peg produces off casting notices.

Amazon MGM locks Mercedes Ron into a first-look spanning the Culpables, Dímelo and Bali book lines; Ron will EP current and future adaptations as Prime Video keeps building a high-volume IP pipeline around her work.

Paramount says its 2026 theatrical rollout climbs to 15 films; Ti West's Ebenezer, a new Paranormal Activity, a fresh Longlegs and Parker Finn's Possession update headline the studio's genre push. The slate also spotlights Children of Blood and Bone and A Place in Hell, with Mark Viane framing the lineup as a return to scale under David Ellison.