Blumhouse, Netflix & Emma Tammi

Blumhouse Atomic Monster taps Gary Dauberman to script Five Nights at Freddy’s 3; Scott Cawthon steps back from writing duties but stays on as executive producer. The switch keeps the game-to-film franchise in franchise-horror hands after two box-office hits.

A24 and AMC Theatres are sending Backrooms: Everything Must Go Edition back into theaters July 3 with 16 minutes of bonus footage after its record-breaking run. Kane Parsons is turning the reissue into a theatrically exclusive post-credit event.

Chase Yi boards Paramount and Blumhouse’s next Paranormal Activity as Ian Tuason directs the franchise’s eighth feature for a May 21, 2027 theatrical release.

Columbia Pictures and Constantin Film set Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil for Sept. 18, 2026; Austin Abrams leads the courier-centered reboot with Zach Cherry, Kali Reis and Paul Walter Hauser in the cast.

William Stuart is using American Afterlife as proof-of-concept IP, turning Pedro Hoffmeister’s novel into a dramatic audio podcast designed to sell a future TV series or feature. The pitch now leans on audience traction, Scarlett Estevez’s voice cast, and a packaged asset he can take to financiers, studios, and streamers.

Severin Films takes North American handling on Peter Hengl’s gothic short The Fated Hour as the Kier-La Janisse EP heads into a summer festival run.

Disasterpeace boards a new score for They Follow as David Robert Mitchell pulls Maika Monroe and multiple original creative collaborators back into the It Follows sequel. The package keeps the follow-up anchored to the original film’s core team.

Contained supernatural horror pic locks Beth Broderick as a retired FBI special ops agent; Ryan Kelly directs and co-writes with David Landau, while Michael Alden produces and Cecelia Hall consults. Ensemble also includes Jared P-Smith, Sarah Baskin, Vandit Bhatt, Taylor Selé and Andrew Ximenes.

Netflix renews Nemesis for Season 2 after the crime drama spent five weeks in the global top 10 and hit No. 1 in week two. Courtney A. Kemp and Tani Marole are doubling down on a streamer-tested series with clear audience pull.

Farbod Ardebili’s debut feature The American Winner wraps with Troy Kotsur and Flula Borg leading a contained horror-satire set entirely inside a Silicon Valley billionaire’s bathroom. The indie from Bad Grey and Plain Text blends body-horror energy with American Psycho-style tech commentary.

Alex Noyer shot Love Is the Monster in Canada to get the Finnish-folklore horror feature across the line; the relocation helped unlock the greenlight. The film blends couples-retreat drama with supernatural horror rooted in Lempo and Nordic mythology.

Dark Star Pictures has set YOU’RE DEAD TO ME for digital and on-demand on July 7 after its FrightFest 2025 world premiere. The Gen Z slasher riffs on Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer, with Denise Richards, Siena Agudong, and Jessica Belkin in the cast.

July 1 exclusive on Screamify; Casey Jackson’s Deadlocked: Dad of the Dead is a zombie horror-comedy that traps an accountant and his daughter in a public restroom during an outbreak. Derek Theler leads the cast alongside Eric Roberts, Hayley Law, Melissa Peterman and John Omohundro.

Anything But Ghosts is in post as Curry Barker lines up a Blumhouse-backed follow-up that Focus Features will release; Cooper Tomlinson confirms the film plays as a buddy-comedy setup that turns into a supernatural scare machine. The project expands the Obsession universe while keeping Barker’s next feature in motion.

Big Spooky House lands its lead cast with Ben Bishop as Seth O. Spooky and Angela Aiello as Luna, giving Jerry S. Gonzalez’s feature debut a key indie horror-comedy package. The Candy House Productions title leans on practical puppetry and Halloween nostalgia as production builds in Chicago.

Del Toro’s Frankenstein earned nine Oscar nominations and won three (costume design, production design, makeup and hairstyling); del Toro also sits on the Academy’s Board of Governors; veteran producer Gale Anne Hurd’s credits include Aliens, The Abyss, Armageddon and Terminator 2.

Netflix’s Bad Bridgets adds Colin Farrell, Steve Coogan, Charlie Heaton, Domhnall Gleeson, Himesh Patel, Niamh Algar and Simone Kirby ahead of a July Northern Ireland shoot. Rich Peppiatt’s period thriller is adapted from Elaine Farrell and Leanne McCormick’s Bad Bridget book and moves with LuckyChap and Coup d’Etat producing.

47 Ronin director Carl Erik Rinsch was sentenced to 30 months in prison for defrauding Netflix out of $11 million tied to an unmade sci-fi series, White Horse; he was also ordered to pay $11 million restitution and serve 3 years’ supervised release.

NEON sets Her Private Hell for theaters July 24, pairing Sophie Thatcher with Nicolas Winding Refn’s sci-fi-giallo blend and a futuristic mist mystery.

Robert Henrysson exits as Supermassive Games CEO, leaving the Dark Pictures and Little Nightmares studio amid a reshuffle at Nordisk Games.