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Blumhouse Atomic Monster and Platinum Dunes have locked Paul Feig to direct horror-thriller Detention from Daniel Gold’s spec; Universal is positioned as the likely first crack on the package. Feig and Laura Fischer produce via Pretty Dangerous, with Michael Bay, Jason Blum and Brad Fuller among the producers.

Paramount Animation has set Dan Trachtenberg's untitled Freddy the 13th animated horror-comedy for Oct. 13, 2028; the PG family horror feature adapts Yehudi Mercado's indie comic and pairs Trachtenberg with co-director Mercado. The release-date lock lands four months after Trachtenberg's three-year first-look producing/directing pact with Paramount Pictures.

Evil Dead Wrath is already in post-production and due in 2028, signaling the franchise is being mapped as a multi-picture pipeline rather than a one-off revival. The piece also frames the series’ continuity strategy around the Necronomicon and Bruce Campbell-era canon.

Folk-horror Banshee bows at Galway as feature-film talks begin, turning the festival premiere into a possible expansion path for the Derry-Donegal title. The project moves from local genre buzz toward a bigger feature play off the festival launch.

Netflix dates The Last House for Aug. 7; Greta Lee and Wagner Moura star in Louis Leterrier’s sci-fi horror survival thriller, shot on 35mm with practical effects.

Horror, Inc. is expanding Jason Voorhees across film, TV, gaming and merch with the 13-minute “Sweet Revenge,” Peacock’s October “Crystal Lake” series starring Linda Cardellini as Pamela Voorhees, and last month’s “Dead by Daylight” crossover. Barsamian says 2026 projects are just “the tip of the iceberg.

Iron Lung opened to roughly $17 million domestic on a sub-$3 million self-financed budget, turning Markiplier’s fanbase into a theatrical distribution engine. The game adaptation rolled out on about 2,500 screens without a traditional studio marketing push.

Nikias Chryssos’ first English-language feature Bloody Tennis is heading to Locarno with Helena Zengel and Sandra Guldberg Kampp in the cast. The German horror feature adds an international package to Chryssos’ move into English-language production.

Abnormal Studios has grabbed Malaysia and Brunei theatrical rights to Mimpi Kita: Castle in the Air and will sell the sci-fi-fantasy feature internationally ahead of its Busan ACFM launch; Kotodama Lab's audience-engagement tech is being folded into the rollout.

Neuchatel’s penultimate-day lineup leans hard into genre; Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s medieval thriller The Samurai and the Prisoner, Joko Anwar’s supernatural prison comedy Ghost in the Cell, Alex Goyette’s Breeder and Basque folk horror Gaua anchor the day.

Popcorn Frights books Mitch McLeod's Marrow for a world premiere on Aug. 15; the 12th annual fest runs Aug. 6-16 and rolls out 14 feature premieres in its first wave.

63-day theatrical-to-Peacock window on Curry Barker's Obsession; Focus Features pre-bought the TIFF Midnight title for $15M+ and the Blumhouse/Capstone-financed microbudget has surged to $249.5M domestic and roughly $400M global. Peacock gets the horror breakout July 17 as Focus eyes awards-season upside.

Lee Cronin’s The Mummy hits HBO Max globally on July 3 after a theatrical run that brought in about $90.4 million on a $22 million budget; Warner Bros. keeps the R-rated folk-horror title in window with James Wan, Jason Blum and John Keville producing.

CAA presses Meta to flip Muse's default from opt-out to opt-in for public-profile data, arguing creators need explicit consent before AI tools can use their likeness or work. The agency is widening its AI-rights push after testing YouTube's deepfake detection and opting clients out of OpenAI's Sora.

First wuxia feature made with virtual production lands in Locarno’s main competition; Nelson Yeo’s The House On The Moon world-premieres with Momo Film Co, Aview Images and co-pro support from Germany, Canada and Indonesia.

Chase Yi lands the lead in Paramount and Blumhouse Atomic Monster's next Paranormal Activity; Ian Tuason directs and Paramount keeps worldwide release rights for the May 21, 2027 launch.

Jodie Whittaker boards Ella Grace Kennedy's dystopian thriller short The Country as star and EP; the role-reversal commune story centers on male bodily autonomy under an extremist religious regime. Anna Popplewell and Jake Kenny-Byrne join the cast while Kennedy is developing horror feature Home at Anton.

FX’s Alien: Earth has begun season 2 production in London and added Tracey Ullman, Sam Spruell and Jerome Flynn to the cast; they join returning stars Sydney Chandler, Alex Lawther, Timothy Olyphant and new addition Peter Dinklage.

Digital rental and purchase lands Aug. 11 via WG Pictures and Radial Entertainment after a March theatrical rollout; Oscar Boyson’s directorial debut opened to a $33,138 per-theater average on one screen before expanding nationwide, after a Tribeca premiere that drew Audience Award runner-up status.

Fangoria rolls out the 2026 Chainsaw Awards Best Series nominee slate, giving the horror TV race an early read on which shows are breaking through with genre voters.

Toho dropped a new trailer for Takashi Yamazaki’s Godzilla Minus Zero, which opens in theaters Nov. 6 via GKids, including Imax; it’s the first Japanese film shot for Imax and is set in 1949, two years after Godzilla Minus One. Ryunosuke Kamiki and Minami Hamabe return, with Min Tanaka joining as biologist Kanji Murakami; Hidetaka Yoshioka, Yuki Yamada, Kuranosuke Sasaki, Sakura Ando and Miou Tanaka also reprise roles.

Locus is launching a Kickstarter-funded anthology series built from its Recommended Reading Lists; the first volume spans science fiction, fantasy and horror, with stretch goals set to double author pay.

Disney Entertainment Television is bringing SDCC activations starting Thursday, July 23, for Percy Jackson and the Olympians, FX’s 13th American Horror Story, and Hulu’s Animayhem, with Futurama and King of the Hill environments and specialty cold brews. Panels include Percy Jackson, King of the Hill, Bob’s Burgers, Futurama, American Dad!, Family Guy and The Rookie.