Sunday, August 2, 2026

Steve Asbell shuts down the Alien: Romulus 2 shelving rumor on X; 20th Century Studios is still actively shaping the franchise, with Brian Duffield separately developing another Alien feature.

Neill Blomkamp has launched an AI-focused film studio after unveiling a 13-minute Seedance 2.0 sci-fi short; Darren Aronofsky’s Primordial Soup is also raising $15M in equity, signaling funded momentum for AI-native production.

Quarantine 2: Terminal has become a global Netflix performer; the 86-minute horror sequel underscores demand for compact genre titles on the service.

UK artwork lands ahead of Death Among the Pines' September VOD/streaming rollout via High Fliers Films; Shepka Productions is positioning the suspense thriller as its second feature after gothic horror The Baby in...

Apple lands "Liminal," a sci-fi action-thriller adaptation of AWA's "Telepaths" graphic novel; Vanessa Kirby, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Louis Leterrier are attached, with Justin Rhodes scripting for Apple Studios.

Shudder will stream the 2026 FANGORIA Chainsaw Awards on Oct. 25; Devon Sawa is set to host, and the nominees list spotlights 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, Weapons, Frankenstein, Dust Bunny and Alien: Earth.

FilmNation stacks TIFF with three 2026 titles: Peter Farrelly's I Play Rocky in Special Presentations, Anton Corbijn's A Talent For Murder in Gala, and Florian Zeller's Bunker in Gala after Venice. The lineup mixes awards-season prestige with a thriller and a sports biopic.

FilmNation lands Bunker in Venice Main Competition, with Florian Zeller's end-times drama set for a world premiere before a TIFF Gala Presentation bow. Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem star.

Shudder locks Brock Bodell's psychological horror feature Hellcat for an August exclusive; the original expands AMC Networks' genre slate with another streamer-first title.

Audible lines up a multilingual Dracula Original with Jonathan Bailey as Dracula; Ella Purnell, Aimee Lou Wood and David Jonsson board the cast, with Mary Lambert directing her first audiobook adaptation and an Oct. 1 launch.

Pan's Labyrinth gets a 20th-anniversary 4K/3D restoration for Oct. 9 theatrical re-release; Guillermo del Toro says the remaster used zero AI, turning the rollout into a craft-and-labor signal. Criterion follows later this fall with the home-video debut of The Reborn Cut of Frankenstein.

AMC renews Interview with the Vampire for season 4 and retitles it Anne Rice's Queen of the Damned; Hannah Moscovitch takes over as showrunner while Rolin Jones stays on as EP. The new run pivots to Akasha as the franchise expands its Anne Rice adaptation pipeline.

Andy Muschietti says Season 2 of It: Welcome to Derry is in the writers’ room and will be set in 1935 around Stephen King’s Bradley Gang Massacre interlude, confronting Depression-era poverty and cultural horrors.

Ridley Scott's The Dog Stars opens nationwide in August; the Peter Heller adaptation keeps Scott in dystopian survival-thriller territory after Alien and Blade Runner.

Terror Films Releasing and 741 Films set Wes Clark's found-footage psychological horror The Psychic: Files for a worldwide streaming rollout in August.