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5Sony/Capcom's Resident Evil is Zach Cregger’s lone franchise play for now; the horror-thriller is tracking toward a $45M opening and keeps him in the IP lane only for this one swing.
New Line/Warner Bros. locks Aug. 11, 2028 for The Flood; Amblin boards with Steven Spielberg producing, and Zach Cregger is positioning the sci-fi horror as a slower-burn, deeply unsettling theatrical play.
IndustryScreenAnarchySep 4
Vancouver Horror Show opens Oct. 14 with a Trick ’r Treat 19th-anniversary screening and Michael Dougherty on hand; the 2026 lineup adds world premieres of Encryption, Sleep No More, Ithaqua and The Glorious Dead, plus distribution and craft panels.
294 Regal theaters across 39 states are bringing John Carpenter’s Halloween back tonight in a nationwide repertory run timed to the September 8 launch of Halloween: The Game.
Jacob Chase re-ups with Blumhouse on Sleepover; the horror project lands as another reunion between the filmmaker and the genre banner.
Market & Business
6IndustryHorror SocietySep 4
BloodStream adds 300-plus Severin Films titles in September, expanding its horror and cult library with The Changeling, Cemetery Man, Santa Sangre and other restoration-era staples.
A24 is taking Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett’s Onslaught wide on 1,900 screens; the horror-thriller pairs Adria Arjona and Rebecca Hall and is being sold directly to under-35 genre audiences.
$40M-to-$4M AI math hangs over Paul Schrader’s reworked noir Three Guns At Dawn; the Netflix-sold project now centers on AI-generated human prototypes, with Antoine Fuqua off the producing side.
Universal's The Odyssey clears $1.014 billion overseas, becoming the 17th film ever to top $1 billion internationally and the first Hollywood non-sequel, non-remake to do it since Avatar.
IndustryGulf NewsSep 5
Robert Pattinson plays a Chris Hansen-inspired paedophile-hunting TV presenter in A24 thriller Primetime, premiering in Venice on Sept. 5. Lance Oppenheim directs; Pattinson also produces through Icki Eneo Arlo, with a theatrical release later this month.
Industrymxdwn MoviesSep 4
Hawke confirms another project with Scott Derrickson, extending one of horror's most reliable actor-director pairings after Sinister and The Black Phone.
Noteworthy
15Disney+ is developing a live-action Kane Chronicles with Rick Riordan and Angela Robinson; the series sends Carter and Sadie Kane into a globe-spanning fight after Set unleashes Egyptian chaos and their father disappears.
FilmLive for FilmsSep 4
UK cinemas get Hammer’s restored Dracula from 16 October, followed by a 4K Limited Collector’s Edition Boxset on 26 October; the new cut restores material unseen in the UK and U.S. for decades, with Hammer and Silver Salt Restoration working alongside Warner Archive Collection.
Blue Fox is launching international sales on two in-production Tubi Originals ahead of TIFF; Remember Me adapts Christopher Pike’s supernatural murder-mystery YA novel, while Game On targets the teen-gamer crowd.
FilmVarietySep 5
Seven Swiss fiction and documentary projects fill Venice's Gap-Financing Market; the slate includes Flurin Giger's apocalyptic-sci-fi A Year Without Summer and Stéphanie Argerich's Kyushu Moon, with Beauvoir Films, Heimatfilm and Intermezzo Films among the companies shopping the package.
FilmBailiwick ExpressSep 4
ArtHouse Jersey’s development grant is pushing Bread, Andy Lowe’s 1897 folk-horror feature, into the next build stage as the team hunts local volunteers, sponsors, locations and crew. The project is still assembling cast and production materials, but the funding gives it real forward motion.
IFC Films sets BREEDER for an Oct. 16 theatrical bow; the remote poodle-ranch psychological horror gets trailer support ahead of the fall rollout.
Shudder sets a Sept. 8 Los Angeles advance screening for The Creep Tapes season 3 ahead of the Sept. 15 premiere on Shudder and AMC+; Mark Duplass and Patrick Brice attend, with a six-episode run rolling out weekly through Sept. 29.
Netflix’s action-thriller has climbed into the streamer’s all-time top tier, underscoring sustained demand for star-driven, mid-budget genre-adjacent originals on the service.
FilmIPJoBloSep 4
Filming has wrapped on Head of the Family 2: Sirens of Seduction; Tom Devlin surfaces BTS footage as the indie horror sequel heads into post.
Netflix has shifted from The Forgotten Realms to Ravenloft, a gothic-horror Dungeons & Dragons series in development from John August and Alfonso Cuarón; the project centers on Strahd von Zarovich and his tragic descent into undead power.
A24 let Wingard keep the blood and kink in his R-rated siege movie; he frames Onslaught as the capstone to a loose trilogy with You're Next and The Guest after a decade in the studio system.
Season 2 casting adds Dobby, Ginny Weasley and young Voldemort; HBO keeps leaning into the Harry Potter series with J.K. Rowling still attached as EP.
Sony's Spider-Man: Brand New Day hits $900M domestic in 36 days; Paramount opens Hammerstone-financed By Any Means with $725K in previews and a $29M production tag. A24's Onslaught bows in 1,900 theaters after $275K previews, keeping genre box office in play this weekend.
Netflix rolls cameras in Prague on Carlton Cuse and Dan Brown’s straight-to-series Langdon project after the May 2025 order; Morgan Spector leads as Robert Langdon with Rebecca Hall, Cherry Jones, Corey Stoll, Rob Delaney and Abbey Lee in the ensemble. First-look image drops as the adaptation leans into futuristic science, mystical lore and international intrigue.