Thursday, August 6, 2026

Generative AI surfaced on StudioCanal's 'Ice Cream Man' remake after Eli Roth confirms the tech was used on the horror pic, reversing his earlier denial; 'Thanksgiving 2' is also slipping on cast scheduling.

Anton is fully financing and selling worldwide rights on the contemporary Caligari reimagining at TIFF’s inaugural market; Talia Ryder boards Michael Shannon in the wrapped Germany shoot from John Erick Dowdle.

Straight-to-series at Netflix; Jane Schoenbrun is writing and directing the full first season of Charles Burns’ Black Hole, with the first two episodes already done. Plan B and New Regency are producing as the body-horror adaptation keeps moving after years of stalled attempts.

Shudder has locked Bloody Tennis before its Locarno premiere, giving the German sports horror pic an early streaming home. The acquisition adds another festival-side genre title to the streamer’s slate.

MUBI came aboard as financier on Jane Schoenbrun’s Camp Miasma at a reported $10M budget after A24 passed, forcing the project onto a smaller-scale path. Schoenbrun also says Netflix is in early development on a Black Hole series adaptation, with the filmmaker now pushing other projects like Public Access Afterworld.

Fantasia audience awards crowned Nicky Murphy’s vampire mockumentary I Love Paris as best international feature; Canadian genre titles like Unholy Night also picked up gold, underscoring the fest’s audience appetite for offbeat horror and hybrid fare.

Restored R-rated cut of The X-Files: I Want to Believe lands on Hulu on Aug. 14, with Disney using the vault title to tee up Ryan Coogler’s new X-Files pilot. The soft reboot shelf-clearing underscores how the studio is re-activating dormant genre IP across streaming and TV.

Bleecker Street pushes Victorian Psycho to Nov. 13, 2026, putting Maika Monroe’s gothic horror thriller into awards-season territory. The MPA has already rated the Virginia Feito adaptation R for strong bloody violence and brief sexual material.

UK regulators upheld complaints against The Mummy’s outdoor ad campaign, banning billboards and transit posters that showed a distressing mummified-child image; Warner Bros. and Lee Cronin are standing by the film’s grief-driven horror pitch.

Mubi opens Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma this week after its Cannes Un Certain Regard bow and Queer Palm win; Jane Schoenbrun extends a fast-rising horror auteur profile with another slasher-adjacent psychodrama.

Screamify green-lit Crack, its first ASMR and medical-horror feature, directed by Calvin Morie McCarthy and starring Peyton Grace Bell, Alexander Molina and Tuesday Knight; filming starts this fall in Portland ahead of a late-2026 exclusive premiere.

Arrow Video lines up the first 4K UHD disc for In the Mouth of Madness; the set adds a new restoration plus commentaries, interviews, and archival features for the cult Carpenter title.

Lionsgate is bringing REPO! THE GENETIC OPERA back to shelves with a new 4K disc release this fall. The cult horror musical keeps its home-video runway alive for collectors and physical-media buyers.

Tubi FrightFest’s Short Film Showcase runs Aug. 28-30 at London’s Leicester Square, featuring international titles including Fangoria Presents’ Goodbye Monster, TLSM, Pretend With Pibble starring Julia Davis, and Hush Little One with Mandip Gill.

A24’s new Onslaught trailer confirms Adam Wingard’s film as a spiritual sequel to The Guest, with three genetically engineered soldiers—Crybaby, Cockroach and The Butcher—besieging the desert; Adria Arjona, Dan Stevens and Alex Pereira star.

Mike Flanagan is making a major change to the ending of a Stephen King supernatural reboot headed to Prime Video, reshaping the adaptation for the streaming platform.

TIFF’s 2026 Midnight Madness unveils 10 films across 10 late-night days, opening with Joshua Giuliano’s slasher River starring Jane Levy and Jessica Rothe and closing with Duncan Jones’ animated sci-fi war film Rogue Trooper.

Miracle Media and Shogun Films set occult British horror Harbinger for digital release Aug. 11; James Ross II's feature pairs a PTSD-haunted survivor with a fortune-telling machine possessed by a serial killer.

Bokshi is set for an October theatrical release in India following its international festival run.

A24’s Jeremy Saulnier thriller, currently post and still without a release date, is a Halloween-set fugitive chase built around Cory Michael Smith as a mass-murder suspect on the run. The project has been screened internally, with A24 still holding the line on final launch timing.

Locarno honoree Sigurjón Sighvatsson argues AI will hit television harder than film and calls Netflix a closed system built for its own box; the Palomar chief also says smaller festivals are better positioned than Cannes-style megafests.

Lionsgate will release a remastered 2024 cut of The Blair Witch Project on Blu-ray and VHS October 13, 2026, sourced from original Hi8 and 16mm elements; the Blu-ray includes three cuts, a Ken Taylor poster and 104-page booklet.

Kristen Bell's Mrs. Claus almost got seeded in the first Violent Night; 87North says the role was held back until the sequel, where Tommy Wirkola brings Bell into the mix opposite David Harbour.

Jane Schoenbrun’s Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma won the 2026 Cannes Queer Palm; Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson lead the slasher, screening at Dalston’s Rio on August 13 before UK/Ireland cinemas on August 21.

Shudder sets Parasomnia for Sept. 4; James Ross II’s supernatural chiller follows a young woman whose night terrors bleed into waking life.

PiperPlay has boarded sales on The City of the Living ahead of its Venice Orizzonti world premiere and TIFF Centrepiece debut; the feature is freely inspired by Nicola Lagioia’s true-crime work about a 2016 Rome murder. Eagle Pictures will handle the Italian theatrical release, with HBO Max participation on the production side.

Image reissues Wytches as a remastered Pledged Edition ahead of Amazon MGM Studios’ animated TV adaptation; the new recolor is being aligned to the show’s look and lands Oct. 21 in shops, Nov. 17 in bookstores.