Monday, July 27, 2026

Zach Cregger is building Resident Evil as an original survival-horror story inside Capcom’s universe; he’s skipping Leon and the games’ existing character arcs to focus on dread, resource scarcity and a new protagonist-driven setup.

Prime Video has ordered a RoboCop series from Blumhouse and Atomic Monster. No cast, creative team, or release window was announced.

Netflix has Parasyte: TAMIYA lined up for a 2027 global launch; the live-action manga continuation is in post-production, with Shioli Kutsuna leading as parasite Ryoko Tamiya and Yeon Sang Ho co-writing. WOWPOINT is producing, with Kensaku Kakimoto and Kazuhiro Nakagawa directing.

Curry Barker’s micro-budget supernatural horror Obsession jumps past The Exorcist to No. 6 on the all-time horror box office chart with $443.3 million worldwide. Shot for $750,000 and sold in a $15 million-plus Focus Features deal, the film keeps expanding its theatrical run while drawing fresh PVOD traffic.

Na Hong-Jin’s sci-fi thriller Hope held No. 1 in South Korea with a $5.5M weekend and a $25.3M cume off 3.4M admissions. The alien-survival tentpole still owns two-thirds of the market while the overall box office slumped to $8.2M.

90-minute Spawn animated movie is fully voiced and nearly complete; Todd McFarlane says only Foley and final animation remain before he shops the package, with Keith David and Mark Hamill attached.

Cinephobia Releasing locks North American rights to José María Cicala's Argentine horror The Dollmaker and sets the VOD/digital bow for Aug. 25; the film premiered at Screamfest, where Rodrigo Noya won Best Actor.

Polimera 3 is headed into production with franchise director Dr. Anil Viswanath returning and Arjun Sarja boarding the cast in a key role. The Telugu horror series stays in expansion mode for producers Vamsi Nandipati and SVC LLP.

Mayhem opens its 22nd edition with Caleb Phillips’ Imposters, Thunderlips’ body-horror comedy Mum, I’m Alien Pregnant and a 4K restoration of Guy Maddin’s Careful; early-bird passes run £95 through Aug. 10.

Third Window Films lines up a limited 2,000-unit two-disc set of J-horror cult pair Crazy Lips and Gore from Outer Space for Sept. 14; both discs pack new restorations and extras.

Capcom is using Resident Evil remakes to keep the franchise on a steady release cadence while preserving room for new mainline entries. The publisher frames revisits as a core revenue engine, not filler, as the series' remake pipeline underwrites the next wave of horror IP.

Netflix has already renewed House of Guinness for Season 2; Steven Knight’s historical crime drama is moving fast off launch, with James Norton and the Guinness ensemble anchoring the streamer’s next swing at prestige serial drama.

NEON's Her Private Hell opened to $530,000 from 675 theaters for a $785 PTA; MUBI is backing Nicolas Winding Refn's Maniac Cop remake, set to shoot in early 2027.

Wrapped UK crime thriller Going Under pairs Ray Winstone and Danny Dyer for their first feature together; Vertigo Releasing has a spring 2027 UK-Ireland theatrical rollout and Essential Film Group is on worldwide sales.

Fantasia gives Cherry and Virgin Film an award, giving the title festival recognition but no sale or distribution lift yet.

Prime Video lines up an Aug. 7 global bow for the eight-episode Tamil suspense-thriller Vadhandhi Season 2. Andrew Louis returns to write and direct; Pushkar and Gayatri are back as creative producers via Wallwatcher Films.

The 1988 cult horror film Watchers is getting a new Blu-ray re-release with added special features. The Corey Haim title returns to physical media with new extras.

Collider posted a horror survival quiz pitting Jason Voorhees, Michael Myers, Freddy Krueger, Pennywise and Chucky against each other across eight questions to determine which killer you’d best survive.

IDW’s best-selling Event Horizon comic trilogy ends in December with Event Horizon: Pandemonium, by Eisner winner Christian Ward and artist Hernán González; the SDCC horror roundup also spotlights Marvel’s Midnight and Fangoria.

Prime Video has locked Blade Runner 2099 as a one-season limited series; the Michelle Yeoh and Hunter Schafer spinoff is not slated to return for season 2.

Daley and Goldstein say the Star Trek reboot script is underway; the film drops the previous Kelvin cast and jumps further into the future, signaling a hard reset for Paramount’s dormant theatrical franchise.

The Woman in the Wall jumps into Netflix’s TV top 10 after a late library add; the BBC limited series blends psychological horror, gothic mystery, and crime-drama DNA, giving the streamer another data point on imported genre-adjacent titles.

FrightFest pairs a UK-first Alien: Isolation 2 demo with a 1979 Alien screening in London on Aug. 30; Creative Assembly and SEGA use the genre fest to preview the next survival-horror chapter.

A24’s Onslaught has wrapped principal photography and is locked for a Sept. 4, 2026 theatrical/IMAX release; the Adam Wingard slasher stars Adria Arjona, Dan Stevens, Rebecca Hall and Drew Starkey from a Simon Barrett script.

Alice Maio Mackay’s seventh feature pairs a meteor-shower alien incursion with a queer horror-sci-fi setup; Australian premiere lands at MIFF after Frameline, with Jane Schoenbrun producing.

Sony Pictures boards Ramayana as international distributor, widening the mythological epic’s overseas footprint as the trailer launch is pushed back.