Horror Industry News — Monday, August 17, 2026

Boom! Studios’ Plunder is heading for a screen adaptation, keeping the horror-comic pipeline active with a Saw producer in the mix. No buyer, financing, or distribution terms are disclosed yet.

Season 2 of Alien: Earth is in production at Pinewood Studios in London; Peter Dinklage, Tracey Ullman, Sam Spruell and Jerome Flynn join Noah Hawley’s Hulu series as NECA rolls out a 13-inch eyeball-parasite sheep plush.

Netflix France has rolled cameras on Projet K, with Diane Kruger, Dany Boon and Tim Roth starring as the Klarsfelds and Klaus Barbie in Yvan Attal’s historical thriller; the shoot spans Paris, Lyon, Bolivia and Belgium.

David Robert Mitchell's The End of Oak Street bows to $47M worldwide against an $80M budget; the dinosaur original still needs legs to justify a sequel swing.

IMAX posted $47 million in global weekend receipts, led by a $13 million China opening for Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey and a record $6.3 million in IMAX sneak previews; Universal’s film is already at $19.3 million in IMAX China.

Warner Bros. ’26 problems keep piling up while Paramount Skydance’s tax-savings maneuver is getting scrutinized; the incentive math is back under the microscope.

Found-footage horror Infirmary shoots in an abandoned hospital; Nicholas Pineda leans into location-driven DIY production value ahead of FrightFest.

Shudder and AMC+ set The Creep Tapes Season 3 for a Sept. 15 launch, kicking off with a two-episode drop before a weekly rollout through Sept. 29. Kate Siegel, Nicholas Hamilton, Elliott Fullam and Ora Duplass join the six-episode run.

World premiere at FrightFest gives BAD KARAOKE a genre-fest launch; no sale, buyer or financing attached.

Apple TV’s Widow’s Bay spent 18 years in Katie Dippold’s drawer before becoming a 10-episode horror-comedy breakout; the show’s grounded tone and Hiro Murai’s direction helped turn it into a prestige genre hit. Its first-season buzz and 19 Emmy nominations have made it a case study in how streamer genre can travel when the horror and comedy both land.

OneFox Productions is turning Big Baby into a full feature, with Spider One and Krsy Fox steering the meta horror project from a film-within-a-film gag into a blood-soaked indie. Brainstorm Media is in the mix, and Cher and Chaz Bono are aboard as executive producers.