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Oscilloscope Laboratories locks North American rights to Oliver Bernsen’s feature debut after festival stops at Sitges, SXSW and Fantasia; the theatrical rollout is set for winter 2026.

Lily James boards Drew Hancock’s Seasons for Amazon MGM; Hancock directs from his script, following Companion. The horror adaptation of Matt & Harrison Query’s viral short story centers on a ranch, ancient spirits and escalating rituals, with Atomic Monster, 21 Laps and 12:01 Films producing.

All three Hannibal seasons land on Netflix July 27; Bryan Fuller says the cast wants back, but rights remain split among Thomas Harris, MGM/Amazon and Gaumont, keeping revival chatter alive without a formal pickup.

Sony Pictures Classics locks North American, Southeast Asian and airline rights to Florian Zeller’s thriller Bunker, with an awards-qualifying run planned for year-end and an early 2027 release. Javier Bardem, Penélope Cruz, Stephen Graham, Paul Dano and Patrick Schwarzenegger lead the package.

Panama's Expansive Cine, Peru's Cine Infinito and producer Santiago Durán have boarded Felipe Zúñiga's Fantastic Lab winner We Won't Let the Goat Die, expanding the project's regional co-production stack. Incendio Cine is also in final talks with Chile's Clara Films as the Costa Rica-rooted package keeps building financing.

Spain's Testaferro and Uruguay's Guay Films have boarded Natalia Solórzano Vásquez's hybrid doc Spells to Revive a Witch, with Sputnik Films producing in Costa Rica. The project, built around fortune teller Soralla de Persia, has already come through Rueda, CIMA Impulsa and Ventana Sur's Proyecta.

Breaking Glass Pictures sets the VOD rollout for Mary Gallagher's psychological horror feature Mouser; Eleanor spirals after a night out triggers hallucinatory encounters with a sinister talking cat.

Joseph Scrimshaw’s haunted-DVD horror comedy Dead Media opens in select theaters July 16 before hitting VOD July 28. Joe Lynch exec-produces the 99-minute feature, which is rolling out with a small-city theatrical run and a fast post-theatrical window.

Amazon MGM Studios and United Artists win an 11-studio bidding war for The Mandela Catalogue, with Steven Spielberg boarding to produce and creator Alex Kister set to direct the feature. The viral analogue-horror YouTube series becomes the latest internet IP Hollywood is racing to package.

Evil Dead Burn is tracking to open at $13.7 million domestically, well below the $25 million–$30 million range and under Evil Dead (2013)’s $25.8 million and Evil Dead Rise’s $24.5 million debuts.

Telefilm-backed Canadian Creative Accelerator opens a 2026 horror cohort for Canadian production companies with pre-development funding; five selected companies get LA workshops, 1:1 mentorship, and meetings with U.S. producers, financiers, distributors, and managers.

Fantasia International Film Festival turns 30 in 2026 and is highlighting 5 animated features and 5 shorts to watch, including Cherry and Virgin from Masanao Kawajiri and GROTESQQQUE from Atsushi Nishigori. The festival runs on independent genre voices with a heavy slate of animated titles.

Women in Fan LatAm launches at Costa Rica Media Market as a permanent Latin American extension of Sitges' WomanInFan, built to push women-led fantastic projects into the international market. The initiative was sparked by a run of top submissions in Fantastic Lab and is meant to open a steadier path to financing and co-production.

Ariana Grande exits American Horror Story season 13 after her rescheduled Eternal Sunshine tour pushed into the shoot window. Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk still have Sarah Paulson, Evan Peters, Angela Bassett, Kathy Bates, Jessica Lange, Emma Roberts, Billie Lourd, Gabourey Sidibe, John Waters and Leslie Grossman lined up for the Sept. 24 premiere.

July 22 Hulu debut for Sophia Maddox and Alexandra Orton’s My Grandfather Charles Manson; Disney+ carries the international window, while the title slots into Hulu’s expanding true-crime slate. SMUGGLER Entertainment and Joan of Arc Pictures produce the doc, which is also positioned for Hulu on Disney+ bundle subscribers in the U.S.

Select theaters take Attack of the Killer Tomatoes: Organic Intelligence this August; the trailer is set to debut at SDCC ahead of the rollout.

Warner Bros.' The Hunt for Gollum is in its first week of production in New Zealand, with Serkis saying AI use will stay minimal and motion-capture still needs Oscar recognition. He also revisits the long road to Animal Farm and the U.K. rollout after a weak U.S. box office launch.

Netflix's I Will Find You logged about 24 million views in its first four days and became the streamer’s biggest original series debut of 2026; restrained, family-shareable suspense is proving a strong thriller formula.

NIFFF’s top Narcisse prize goes to South African filmmaker Nico Scheepers’ Do You Believe in Angels, Mr. Drowak?; Hokum also picked up honors. The 2026 genre festival’s awards slate continues to surface titles with exportable festival heat.

Buffalo 8 sets an Aug. 7 digital bow for Sean Astin’s political survival thriller; Jason Mac directs from Alex Hanno’s script, with a Fourth of July dinner turning into a nuclear-strike evacuation scramble.

Disney+ is leaning on an A Shop for Killers sequel as a Korean thriller tentpole while Netflix keeps the regional lead; the move reads like a platform strategy play, not just a routine renewal.

Low-budget Korean sci-fi debut Last Mankind leaned on AI in post to finish its capsule creatures and close the movie after a 2022 shoot. BIFAN support and Fantastic 7 exposure pushed Huh Gun from Bucheon to Cannes, with the film building a dystopian eco-collapse world around a test subject chasing human connection.

Entertainment Weekly revealed the first look at Amazon’s 8-episode Carrie series, with Mike Flanagan reworking Stephen King’s 1974 novel as a modern-day story rather than a straight remake. The image shows Alison Thornton as Chris Hargensen and Siena Agudong as Sue Snell.

Robert Eggers’ Werwulf arrives Dec. 25 via Focus Features and is set in 13th-century England, around 1300, before silver-bullet and bite-transmission lore entered werewolf mythology. Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Lily-Rose Depp, Willem Dafoe, Ralph Ineson and Bodhi Rae Breathnach star.

Brad Caleb Kane teased a Monday the 13th reveal for Crystal Lake, keeping Peacock and A24’s Friday the 13th prequel in play. The series is being framed as a paranoid ’70s psychological thriller with slasher DNA; Linda Cardellini’s Pamela Voorhees remains the headline cast swing.

Behind-the-scenes footage confirms Pinocchio Unstrung’s killer puppet is a fully practical animatronic, with blinking eyes, articulated mouth, and facial movement; Emmy-winning effects artist Todd Masters oversaw the puppetry under director Rhys Frake-Waterfield.

AMC showed the first teaser for Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches season 3 during The Vampire Lestat, with the clip now online; the new season is set to premiere in 2027 on AMC and AMC+. Adapted from Rice’s Lives of the Mayfair Witches trilogy.

Take It Studio is bringing waleedzo’s first-person narrative horror adventure The Green Light, already on Steam and the Epic Games Store, to PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and Nintendo Switch; no console release date has been announced.

Fangoria has announced the 2026 Chainsaw Awards Best Documentary Feature nominees.

Tiago Rech’s psychological horror adventure I SHALL NAME THE DEAD is being published by DANGEN Entertainment for PC via Steam, with release set for early 2027. More details are due later this year.