Netflix, Apple TV & Hiro Murai

Spin Master adds Blumhouse, AMC Global Media, and Lionsgate to Hellbreak, its horror trading-card game set for a Fall 2026 launch with Universal already on board. The multi-studio licensing push turns horror IP into a tabletop franchise play across toys, games, and consumer products.

Widow’s Bay lands 19 Emmy nominations, the best tally for any new series; Apple TV’s horror-comedy is already renewed for season 2, with Matthew Rhys, Kate O’Flynn, Dale Dickey, Stephen Root, Betty Gilpin, Hamish Linklater, Katie Dippold and Hiro Murai in the awards mix.

Piece of Magic locks Toho’s Godzilla Minus Zero for 46 territories across Europe and beyond, with the rollout beginning November 4 and North America set for November 6 via Toho and GKids. Takashi Yamazaki returns to write, direct and oversee VFX; Anime Limited takes the UK and Ireland.

‘Dune: Part Three’ is shooting in Abu Dhabi with Denis Villeneuve, Timothée Chalamet and Zendaya back on Arrakis; the 31-day Liwa Desert run leaned on a 35% cashback rebate and more than 600 local crew.

Apple TV takes Hall H at SDCC for the first time, using the platform to push horror-comedy Widow’s Bay, the Matchbox movie and a Dark Matter season 2 preview alongside a Silo installation. The move spotlights Apple TV’s growing genre-adjacent fandom play and gives the streamer a comic-con footprint that doubles as release marketing.

David Howard Thornton boards slasher sequel Behind the Mask II, adding Terrifier bloodline cachet to the project’s cast package. The move keeps the horror sequel in the genre conversation without changing the underlying financing or distribution picture.

Joseph Scrimshaw's DEAD MEDIA kicks off a limited theatrical run July 16 before a July 28 VOD bow; the haunted-DVD horror throwback is booking dates across Braindead, Laemmle, and regional indie cinemas.

Sony Pictures Classics has acquired North America, Southeast Asia and airline rights to Florian Zeller’s Bunker, a survival-bunker thriller starring Javier Bardem, Penélope Cruz, Stephen Graham, Paul Dano and Patrick Schwarzenegger. The film is lining up a year-end qualifying run before an early 2027 release and an awards campaign.

Prime Video has rolled ‘Un’Altra Madre’ into production as an Italian psychological thriller from Francesco Carrozzini; Sabrina Impacciatore and Alessandro Borghi star, with Amazon MGM Studios co-producing for a worldwide release.

9 Light Entertainment is spinning up a sales and distribution arm in Canada and launching it with Sound & Fury, a comedic thriller heading into production this fall. Daniel Maslany, Shaun Majumder and Kaelen Ohm star in Charles Wahl’s feature debut.

Popcorn Frights drops its first wave for the 12th edition, signaling another packed genre lineup and a meaningful calendar marker for the indie horror circuit.

Leviticus sweeps BIFAN with Best of Bucheon and Audience awards after its Sundance Midnight and SXSW run, while Neon’s international pickup keeps the queer demonic horror in circulation. The same awards slate flags Obsession as the first sub-$1M film to cross $403M worldwide, and Jane Schoenbrun’s Teenage Sex And Death At Camp Miasma lands the jury prize after a Cannes Queer Palm win and Mubi acquisition.

Netflix lines up The Whisper Man for next month, with Robert De Niro, Adam Scott, and Michelle Monaghan fronting the Alex North adaptation; the serial-killer thriller continues the streamer’s genre-friendly book-to-screen pipeline.

10-month Academy Museum horror exhibition opens Sept. 26, 2026; six themed galleries, screenings of Prince of Darkness, Horror of Dracula, The Craft and Carrie, with advisory input from Willem Dafoe and Osgood Perkins.

Paramount’s Possession remake adds Diego Calva to a package already led by Callum Turner, Margaret Qualley and Paul Dano; Parker Finn directs and writes, with Roy Lee, Jonathan Fass and Robert Pattinson producing. The 1981 supernatural thriller update remains in development at the studio, keeping Finn on a high-profile genre track after his breakout run.

Woodcut Media and Sphere Abacus team on true-crime doc Hair Fetish Killer for Prime UK&I; premiere is set for later this year. The package adds another distribution lane for a genre-adjacent crime title with streamer backing.

Cinetic Media lands North America rights to Manhunt while Aspect Ratio handles international sales; Wayne Wapeemukwa reframes a 2019 Canadian murder case as a true-crime road movie about two men careening into violence.

Netflix’s six-part Bad Wolf thriller adds Harry Lawtey, Timothy Spall, Arsema Thomas, Gemma Whelan and Sophie Willan around Damson Idris; Jonathan Brackley and Sam Vincent script, with Ben Chanan directing.

Devilworks fully finances Hansel & Gretel’s Halloween and launches a teaser for the Grimm-twist horror fantasy; Chris Hoyt wrote the screenplay, with Marcus Mallard and Logan Walcher directing and producing.

Plus M has pre-sold Na Hong-jin’s Hope into roughly 200 territories out of Cannes, recouping nearly half the film’s net production budget before release; Neon opens the sci-fi creature feature in North America Sept. 9.

The Horror Section launches with Ice Cream Man as its inaugural feature; Eli Roth’s slasher opens Aug. 7 in 2,000 North American theaters via Iconic Events Releasing.

Casper Kelly’s twisted creature feature lands in theaters August 28 via Saban; Buddy reframes a children’s mascot as a violent horror figure, keeping the project on the genre festival-to-theatrical lane.

Saban Films sets Feed for an Aug. 14 digital rental/own bow; the vampire horror thriller lands on VOD after the new trailer drop.

Fantasia 2026 world-premieres Angus Silver’s Insectasy in the Underground sidebar; the bug-fetish transgressive pic lands as a visually slick genre play ahead of the fest.