Thursday, July 30, 2026

Paramount is developing Grady Hendrix’s horror novel The Final Girl Support Group with Christopher Landon writing and directing; Andy and Barbara Muschietti are producing via Double Dream, with Hendrix set as an EP. The studio is also developing Hendrix’s BadAsstronauts, signaling a deeper carve-out of the author’s horror IP at the banner.

Cosm and Warner Bros. are turning It into Cosm's first horror Shared Reality title, with launches set for Los Angeles, Dallas and Atlanta on Aug. 28; the move extends the company's experiential slate around legacy IP.

AMC Global Media and Netflix strike a five-year, $500 million co-exclusive rights pact for The Walking Dead universe beginning in 2027; the package covers 371 episodes across the flagship series and all six spinoffs.

Parker Finn's Possession remake adds Madeline Brewer, Emory Cohen and Nicholas Alexander Chavez to a package already led by Margaret Qualley, Callum Turner, Paul Dano and Diego Calva; Robert Pattinson and Roy Lee are producing.

Disney+ greenlights House of Fates, the first Battle of Fates spinoff; the Korea-shot format reunites the breakout series’ top fate readers around shamanic ritual and spiritual travelogue storytelling.

Charles Parnell, Marta Kessler, and Caleb Dolden join Matthias Schweighöfer in the Ed and Lorraine prequel, which is already dated for Sept. 10, 2027 in theaters.

AMC lifts full-year guidance after striking a $500 million co-exclusive streaming pact with Netflix for The Walking Dead universe; the license is expected to deliver about $445 million in present value and $200 million-$225 million in annual revenue recognition in 2026 and 2027.

KORK International Horror Film Festival has unveiled its 2026 lineup, a routine genre-festival programming signal with no sales or acquisition activity attached.

Mum, I’m Alien Pregnant takes the New Flesh Award at Tokyo Horror Film Festival; the shorts circuit keeps surfacing proof-of-concept horror calling cards.

Universal licenses Ozzy Osbourne’s likeness and life story for a Halloween Horror Nights maze across multiple parks, with the event rolling out in Hollywood and Orlando and expanding to other international markets.

Rhys Frake-Waterfield’s Pinocchio: Unstrung opened to $386K from 500 screens; the indie horror lane is still trailing the bigger pull of Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey.

Midsummer Scream and Paramount Scares will mark Scream’s 30th anniversary at the Long Beach Convention Center Aug. 7–9, with cast appearances from Matthew Lillard, Skeet Ulrich, David Arquette, Jamie Kennedy and Roger L. Jackson. The event also includes a Bradley Video pop-up, haunted walkthroughs and a Saturday anniversary panel.

Ryan Murphy’s FX horror drama got Ellis’ light-touch blessing after the author saw the first two episodes and signed off; the adaptation leans on the book while keeping Ellis mostly out of day-to-day production. Cast and producers frame the series as preserving the novel’s tone rather than a straight page-to-screen translation.

Universal teams with Atari and Entertainment 360 on features based on 10 Atari game IPs, with the first script already underway from Matt Reilly and Carl Hampe. The pact extends Atari’s IP monetization push after the Hipster Whale acquisition and European leadership expansion.

Seven more cast members board Thud, with Sarah Michelle Gellar and Rudy Pankow leading Mali Elfman's supernatural rom-com as the Grim Reaper and the Devil; the shoot is set to kick off in Los Angeles.

Miracle Media sets Harbinger for digital Aug. 11 in the U.S. and Aug. 10 in the U.K.; James Crow's horror feature centers on a serial-killer spirit trapped inside a fortune-telling machine.

Dark Sky Films’ Blood Shine lands in theaters and on VOD Aug. 21 after a North American acquisition; Emily Bennett and Justin Brooks follow their Alone With You breakout with a religious folk-horror feature starring David Call and Larry Fessenden.

First Taiwan-India co-produced feature; Light House Productions and Kleos Entertainment Group set the action-horror comedy for Digital and VOD on August 7.

Capstone's Fall franchise adds a second sequel as Lionsgate lines up Fall 2: Deadpoint for Sept. 2; the original cleared more than $20 million worldwide on a $3 million budget, and Scott Mann is already set to direct the third film.

Gallows Humor Pictures’ first feature lands on Screambox Aug. 4; the found-footage horror-comedy anthology follows a cursed livestreamer pulled into a chain of missing-creator videos.