Anonymous Content & Craig Flores

Lionsgate taps David F. Sandberg to direct psychological horror pic Mommy’s Home from James Morosini; Anonymous Content, Craig Flores, Dawn Olmstead and Sandberg’s Mångata are producing, with Nathan Kahane on EP duties.

HBO Max renews Welcome to Derry for season 2 after a breakout first season; the new chapter shifts to 1935 and keeps expanding Stephen King’s IT universe. Brad Caleb Kane stays on as sole showrunner while Andy and Barbara Muschietti, Roy Lee and Dan Lin remain EPs.

Cineverse locks domestic rights to Eugene the Marine for a late-year U.S. release; Scott Glenn, Jim Gaffigan, Annette O’Toole and Shioli Kutsuna star in the giallo-leaning serial-killer thriller.

Jane Schoenbrun’s Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma has surpassed $1 million nationwide after opening August 7 in five theaters and expanding to 54 in its second weekend; Mubi plans a broader rollout.

Worldwide pre-buys stack up for All3Media International’s six-part thriller Maya; ARD Degeto, Movistar Plus, Canal+, TV2, TV4, NPO, Foxtel, Sky and others board the Channel 4/Starz series ahead of launch.

Higgsfield AI opens up the prompts behind its Cannes-launching AI feature ‘Hell Grind’ through a free Academy to funnel creators into Cinema Studio; the company says it’s already at a $500 million annual run rate and has 26 million users worldwide.

Judge sides with MGM on Return of the Living Dead chain of title; the ruling undercuts Living Dead Media’s franchise claim and tightens control over a key horror IP.

Netflix picks up Sam Raimi’s WWII-set thriller, adding a horror-leaning genre play from one of the market’s most bankable genre auteurs to its pipeline.

Ron Perlman returns to Glass Eye Pix’s Tales from Beyond the Pale, extending the indie horror audio anthology’s run. The booking keeps Perlman tied to one of the genre banner’s signature projects.

Universal Kids Digital Studio launched Universal Monster Tots, a short-form animated series reimagining the Universal Classic Monsters as toddlers; its first two episodes are streaming on YouTube, teaching values including sharing and caring.

Searchlight shifts suspense horror Monitor up to April 16, 2027; Disney also locks Ryan Gosling’s Ghost Rider for July 28, 2028 and maps out 2028-29 tentpoles across Marvel, Pixar, and Disney Animation.

TIFF’s Midnight Madness opens with Joshua Giuliano’s River, kicking off the festival’s late-night genre sidebar with an opening-night slot. The placement keeps the title in the genre marketplace even before broader sales or release details surface.

Roadside Attractions and Saban Films lock CRAWLERS for an Oct. 16, 2026 theatrical bow; the red-band trailer confirms Ángel Gómez Hernández's spider-infestation horror pic for Halloween corridor play.

Dark Horse is bringing Mike Mignola, Christopher Golden and Bridgit Connell’s occult series back this December with Lady Baltimore: The Constant Death of Dr. Rose. The new chapter extends the publisher’s horror IP pipeline without a studio deal attached.