Netflix, Lionsgate & Anne Hathaway

Paramount+’s 6-part Fear Not centers Margy Palm, the final woman kidnapped by serial killer Stephen Morin in 1981; Anne Hathaway boards as the lead, with Julie Miller’s Vanity Fair feature as the source material and the adaptation framing the survivor over the killer.

Kevin J. O’Connor, Oded Fehr and Numan Acar board Radio Silence’s fourth The Mummy movie alongside returning franchise leads Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz and John Hannah. The sequel is targeted for Oct. 15, 2027 with Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett directing from David Coggeshall’s script.

Banjong Pisanthanakun’s Inherit premieres at TIFF’s Centrepiece as a Thai horror feature adapting Tayard Asoon for the first time; Barunson E&A is handling non-Asia sales while GDH559 covers Asia. Davika Hoorne leads the cast as the film pushes into the international market.

Cinetic Media has North American sales rights to Wayne Wapeemukwa’s Manhunt, with Aspect Ratio handling international sales. The Locarno competition title reframes Canada’s 2019 murders as a true-crime parable about alienation, masculinity and violent far-right fantasy.

Abnormal Studios has boarded worldwide sales on Malaysian cannibal comedy-horror Ali & Ben’s Spicy Meats and will launch it at Busan’s ACFM. The Feisal and Iskander Azizuddin feature pushes explicit horror-comedy into a rare local taboo lane, with Amir Nafis leading the cast.

NZ On Air has put NZ$8m into four scripted projects, with Wellington Paranormal landing up to NZ$1.85m for season 5 and Ms X scoring up to NZ$3.75m for season 2. The money locks in another run for the Taika Waititi/Jemaine Clement supernatural comedy offshoot.

Locarno’s Open Doors 2026 is leaning into African genre-driven development, with supernatural feature Life On the Other Side of the Sun and blood-money crime thriller Diya among the standouts. The program is also pushing new investment and co-production models as African producers look beyond scarce domestic financing.

World premiere lands Sept. 26 at NYFF’s Spotlight Gala; Takashi Yamazaki returns with GKIDS’ Godzilla follow-up, extending the postwar kaiju franchise after Godzilla Minus One’s Oscar run.

Submissions close Aug. 9 for South African Horrorfest's 22nd annual edition; the continent's dedicated horror and genre event is expanding in hybrid form for 2026. The fest remains the key programming and discovery hub for South African genre fare.

TIFF rolls out 54 features for Sept. 10-20; Centrepiece world premieres include The Surgeon, Love Is The Monster and Back In Black, while Wavelengths adds BBC Film-backed At Night and a slate of North American debuts.

Netflix’s three-part Idaho Murders doc opened with 18.2 million views in five days; Ransom Canyon season 2 logged 5.5 million as true crime kept driving the weekly TV and film charts.

Douglas Forrester’s supernatural Satanic Panic thriller Carry the Darkness hits Bloodstream on Aug. 14, then rolls out across additional platforms in September. The Horror Collective is behind the release push.

Uncork’d Entertainment has dropped Louis Mandylor’s action-horror PARALYSIS onto digital and on-demand; the revenge thriller follows a nurse hunting the gang behind a family massacre using the drug that gave the film its title. Niko Foster and Sophia Louisa wrote the script.

Six weeks out, Sony’s Resident Evil reboot is pacing as the hottest title on The Quorum board at 51% awareness and 52% interest; the survey says Zach Cregger is the draw, with the film leading every competitor on the summer chart.

Cult-manipulation horror centers on a five-year coma that drops Madison into a town rebuilt around a secret church; Robert Hollocks and Amy Rhinehart Bailey are already developing a Jonah/Athaliah prequel.

$5.5 million self-financed horror feature bankrolled via foreign pre-sales and Canadian tax credits; Roth is launching The Horror Section to keep budgets lean, own the IP, and roll out two to four theatrical horror titles a year on roughly 45-day windows. Ice Cream Man opens Aug. 7, with Stiletto next and a Snoop Dogg team-up heading into production.

Netflix is giving La Bola Negra a 47-day theatrical exclusive, its widest cinema window yet; the Cannes acquisition now opens Oct. 16 before a Dec. 2 streaming bow and adds Canadian rights to the streamer’s hold on the title.

Vision Films sets North American TVOD for Forever Mia on Aug. 18, 2026; Katherine Diaz makes her feature directing debut on the Colombia-USA suspense pic from horror duo Katherine Diaz and David Bohórquez.

Full Moon takes Head of the Family 2: Sirens of Seduction to camera in Los Angeles on Aug. 25, reviving Myron Stackpool with practical FX from Tom Devlin’s 1313FX. The sequel leans into lurid supernatural body-horror and keeps Michael Citriniti back in the monster chair.

Brittany Snow boards The Housemaid’s Secret as Marybeth; Paul Feig returns to direct, with Sydney Sweeney, Michele Morrone and Kirsten Dunst already set for Lionsgate’s 2027 sequel.

Temple Hill is officially producing a CLOWN IN A CORNFIELD sequel, extending Adam Cesare’s slasher IP after the first film’s breakout. Frendo’s comeback gives the franchise an early second-life signal without any announced cast or financing terms.

U.K. regulators barred London Underground and outdoor poster creative for Lee Cronin’s The Mummy after ruling the image could read as a dead child; Warner Bros.’ TV and Prime Video spots were cleared. The U.K. release grossed $2.9 million, underscoring the campaign’s reach even as the poster rollout is pulled.

Lionsgate’s Beware Boiúna teases a giant-snake survival horror set in Brazil, with Mike P. Nelson directing Jessica Rothe and Kiana Madeira from Tony Giglio and Alan B. McElroy’s script. The R-rated creature feature heads to theaters Oct. 2 with Constantin Film and JB Pictures producing.

“Welcome to Spider Island!” “Do not even joke!” An official trailer has debuted for the horror comedy movie Spider Island, a brand new creepy crawlers creature feature to watch this summer. Playing at FrightFest London before it hits theaters later this month.

World Fantasy Awards finalists are set, with literary fantasy, weird fiction, and horror-leaning names like Josh Malerman in the mix and Blumhouse/Dave Schilling landing a special award nod. The ballot points to a strong year for genre publishing ahead of the October convention in Oakland.

Image Comics revives Creepshow as a new anthology series this fall; the horror IP gets a fresh publishing run, with no screen deal attached.