Sunday, July 26, 2026

Ryan Gosling is set to play Ghost Rider in a new standalone Marvel film dated for 2028, with Shawn Levy directing. Marvel Studios is back in the supernatural pocket of the character after Nicolas Cage’s Sony films and the scrapped Hulu spinoff years ago.

Hanna Bergholm’s Nightborn takes Fantasia’s Cheval Noir top prize, with genre titles like Sleep No More and Ferine also landing screenplay, cinematography, score and performance honors. The jury is clearly rewarding the festival’s dark, body-horror-leaning slate with international prestige boosts.

Final six-issue chapter of Patrick Horvath’s IDW serial-killer comic lands in February 2027; the franchise has already moved more than 400,000 copies across comics and collections and spun off art books, anthology issues and merch.

Cinema Epoch has locked worldwide rights to Vito Trabucco’s giallo thriller-comedy and is teeing up an AFM launch ahead of a late-October digital rollout; sister label Cineridge is already lining up Trabucco’s next suspense feature for a December shoot.

Ari Millen fronts Eli Roth’s splatter feature; Roth directs, produces and co-writes with Noah Belson, with an SDCC activation and new footage rolling out ahead of the Aug. 7, 2026 nationwide theatrical launch.

Warner Bros. steps in on Zach Cregger’s The Flood after Netflix balked at a theatrical-first demand; the sci-fi horror feature is dated Aug. 11, 2028. Cregger also says the film closes “this chapter” of his career, while Sony’s $20M Resident Evil deal underscores his current leverage.

Namaslay opens in LA and NY on Aug. 6 before expanding nationwide Aug. 13, giving the yoga-studio horror pic a staggered theatrical rollout.

Paramount and Blumhouse Atomic Monster’s new Paranormal Activity reboot adds Maya da Costa; Ian Tuason directs, with a May 21, 2027 theatrical date and Oren Peli, James Wan and Jason Blum producing.

Mad Cave Studios is launching Satanic Panic!, a four-issue horror comic built around 1980s moral panic and slasher tropes. The title adds fresh genre IP to the comics pipeline even without a screen deal attached.

Audible has announced DRACULA, a multi-language, fully cast audio original reimagining of Bram Stoker’s novel, timed for Halloween. The project is described as a global production.

A scripted Dungeons & Dragons sequel exists, but the franchise’s path forward is wobbling after Honor Among Thieves underperformed at $205.46 worldwide against a reported $150 million budget. Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley say the economics may keep the sequel off the board despite the first film’s strong fan response.

Shin Min-a thriller crosses 1.5 million viewers in Korea; solid local box-office milestone for a genre title with measurable theatrical traction.

80-page graphic novel adaptation of Stranger Things: The First Shadow lands at Dark Horse; Rachel Pinnelas scripts, with art from Jake Bartok, Michael Atiyeh and Tyler Smith. The book extends the stage-play IP beyond Broadway and the West End into publishing.

Flanagan says he pitched and co-wrote Clayface before James Watkins took over directing; DC Studios wanted him on the Batman-villain pic, but Carrie and The Exorcist kept him off the chair.

Films Boutique picked up international sales on Manuel Wetscher debut Eklipse after its Venice Horizons selection. The Austria-Italy copro, backed by regional film funds, follows two friends in the Tyrolean Alps during the 1999 solar eclipse.

TIFF’s Primetime lineup puts Mike Flanagan’s Carrie in the closing-night slot and opens with Below, Josh Hartnett’s Netflix horror miniseries. A24’s Crystal Lake also lands in the section, giving the fest a cluster of high-profile genre series ahead of the Sept. 10-20 run.

Fantasia world premiere for Harrison Atkins’ sophomore feature; the surreal body-snatching hangout pic spent years in development before Atkins finally pushed it into production with actors already attached.

World premiere at Fantasia for The Last Temptation of Becky, the third Becky movie; Jenn Wexler and Lulu Wilson are leaning into bigger punk energy and a wider action scale for the franchise’s latest chapter.

Jennifer’s Body 2 is lining up an October shoot in Vancouver, with Megan Fox and Amanda Seyfried back and Diablo Cody and Karyn Kusama returning on the creative side. The cult sequel has moved from chatter to a real production window, even as 20th Century Studios has yet to make an official announcement.

Emmy Rossum and Lola Petticrew front Hulu’s female serial-killer thriller Furious, keeping the streamer’s genre slate visible ahead of rollout. The piece is interview-led, but the project itself remains one of Hulu’s clearest horror-adjacent bets on the board.

Sony Pictures takes ex-India distribution on Prime Focus Studios’ Ramayana, while Prime Focus keeps India rights for the November global launch. The multilang fantasy epic, led by Ranbir Kapoor, Yash and Sai Pallavi, already has a sequel feature in development.

Marvel Animation already has X-Men ’97 seasons 3 and 4 in development and rolled new Brotherhood of Mutants test footage at Hall H; original creators and voice cast remain embedded on the series.

The Withering lands on digital and on demand July 28, with Daniel J. Pico’s horror feature rolling out a life-draining amulet premise tied to aging and bodily decay.

Criterion locks in a 4K UHD home-video release for Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein, including a new 158-minute extended cut dubbed The Reborn Cut. The package leans prestige-heavy with commentary, making-of docs, interviews and a release date of Oct. 27.

Season 2 adds newcomer Ruaridh Aldington as series regular Keats, a mysterious alien with a wanted-man storyline. The final season stays in post-Burn territory under Alex Kurtzman and Noga Landau at CBS Studios, Secret Hideout and Roddenberry Entertainment.

Prime Video sets Oct. 7 for Mike Flanagan’s first TV Carrie, a Stephen King adaptation led by Summer H. Howell and Samantha Sloyan; the streamer adds a fresh horror franchise play to its fall slate.

Crave’s half-hour Baba Yaga reimagining lands on AMC+ in the U.S. with an October debut; the Canadian mystery thriller gives Kat Sandler her first greenlit series and pairs Carrie-Anne Moss with Noah Reid, Clark Backo and Hudson Williams.

Apple TV sets Jan. 22 for its 10-episode Neuromancer adaptation, with Callum Turner leading a series order that turns William Gibson’s cyberpunk landmark into a flagship sci-fi title.

AMC+ and Crave unveil Yaga, a sexy-dark Baba Yaga reimagining that pivots the Slavic folktale into a contemporary mystery thriller; global distribution is through Sphere Abacus, with an October 2026 launch.