Venice Film Festival, Netflix & Maggie Gyllenhaal

AMC Global Media has settled the Walking Dead profits suit for $120 million, with $85 million due this month and $35 million due next year as an advance against future participation. The resolution closes out another major franchise accounting fight after AMC’s $500 million Netflix pact for the Walking Dead library.

Universal Pictures kicks off production on The Mummy with Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz back for the first time in 25 years. Radio Silence directs from David Coggeshall’s script, with the shoot split between the UK and Morocco and a theatrical date set for October 15, 2027.

Juliette Gariépy boards Halsey-led psychosexual horror Replacer alongside Karl Glusman and Boys Noize; Montreal shoot starts Sept. 16 with Lilly Wachowski executive producing. The project went out with sales at Cannes earlier this year, pairing a first-time feature lead with a new horror package.

Paolo Strippoli’s Italian horror thriller 'The Spiral' premiered in Venice to a 9-minute standing ovation, with Le Pacte handling international sales and remake rights now in play. 01 Distribution opens the film in Italy on Oct. 8, giving the title a clear commercial runway off its festival buzz.

Stephen King's horror IP is getting a first UK adaptation, adding another genre property to the development pipeline. The project keeps King's catalog hot for screen buyers chasing proven brand-name material.

Night of the Mannequins has moved into screen adaptation development after a producer commissioned a screenplay and a director took a pass; Stephen Graham Jones says the novella’s movie version is still alive.

$11M in California tax credits on $50M qualified spend kept Whalefall in-state for 62 days of shooting; 20th Century weighed Louisiana vs. California before locking Radford Studios and local specialty crews.

Netflix’s The Perfect Lie is examined through its cast, story, release date, ending and source book, with the available report offering no further production or plot details.

The 2026 summer box office has broken an all-time record, with audiences returning for blockbusters including Spider-Man and smaller releases such as Obsession.

BBC renews Small Prophets for season 2 after episodes drew up to 9.2 million viewers; Apple TV took worldwide rights to season 1 last month, and the series shifts from BBC One to BBC Two for a 2027 return.

IMAX posted its biggest summer ever at $728 million worldwide, up 73% versus 2023, and captured a record 5.8% share of overall box office across just over 1,800 screens. Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey powered the run.

Whisper Man is back atop Netflix and VOD home-viewing charts; the horror title is posting another post-theatrical rebound across transactional and subscription windows.

Grimmfest loads up its Manchester lineup with Dracula, Victorian Psycho and more, opening with Hammer Films’ uncensored 4K restoration of the vampire classic. The program reinforces the festival as a key launchpad for horror catalog play and new genre title visibility.

South Korea’s highest-grossing horror film of all time, Salmokji: Whispering Water, lands its UK premiere at FrightFest; Lee Sang-min’s feature debut has outpaced A Tale of Two Sisters, Train to Busan and Gonjiam on the local box office chart.

A Contracorriente launches Johanna Moder’s psychological maternity thriller in Spanish cinemas on Sept. 11 after Berlin and Sitges. The Austria-Switzerland-Germany coproduction stars Marie Leuenberger, Hans Löw, Claes Bang and Julia Franz Richter.

Curtas Festival do Imaxinario loads its 54th edition with 85 shorts and videoclips from 29 countries, including 11 world premieres and 66 titles in the Official Fantastic section. Horror, sci-fi, fantasy and black comedy anchor the lineup, with fresh discoveries spread across Spain and Galicia premieres.

Ilya Khrzhanovsky’s 20-year DAU project has finally turned into a finished 165-minute feature, with the film set to premiere in competition at Venice. The original Kharkiv shoot generated 700 hours of 35mm footage and became one of European cinema’s strangest production sagas.

Venice bows Alex Gibney’s nearly four-hour Musk doc alongside Florian Zeller’s psychological thriller Bunker, which Searchlight is releasing in theaters early next year; Casey Affleck’s Company is also shopping for distribution.

Apple TV+ sets July 9, 2027 for the fourth and final Silo season, locking the endgame for Graham Yost’s dystopian saga. Rebecca Ferguson returns as the streamer wraps one of its clearest sci-fi tentpoles.

Banjong Pisanthanakun’s horror Inherit has kicked off a wave of sales ahead of its Toronto premiere; Robert Eggers also joins the BFI London Film Festival lineup for a Screen Talk while Werwulf stays set for New Year’s Day theatrical release.

Neon sets It Ends for VOD and Digital HD on September 15, 2026 after its theatrical run. Alex Ullom’s SXSW-debuted horror feature continues its rollout off a Neon release pattern that favors windowed horror monetization.

Fan boycotts and buycotts are becoming a real theatrical variable; Paramount’s Scream 7 survived a spring protest push while Coyote vs. Acme benefited from values-driven support in the marketplace.

NEON’s Hope is already being framed as a franchise play: Na Hong-jin says the sci-fi creature feature has a written sequel while the film pits Hwang Jung-min, Zo In-sung and Hoyeon against an unseen alien threat. Michael Fassbender, Alicia Vikander, Taylor Russell and Cameron Britton appear via motion capture and an invented alien language.

A twisted horror film starring a Yellowjackets cast member has officially secured a Hulu release date, though the available source material does not specify the movie title, performer or premiere date.

Seven new movies arrive Sept. 8-14 on Netflix, Hulu, HBO Max, Starz and premium video-on-demand, including Tyler Perry’s latest, HBO Max’s Supergirl and an action-thriller starring Henry Cavill and Jake Gyllenhaal. Moana hits Prime Video Sept. 8; Mutiny also leads PVOD.

Cregger frames Sony/Constantin’s Resident Evil around player panic over canon fidelity; Austin Abrams plays a hapless courier through Raccoon City, with Capcom lore used as mood and mechanics rather than character adaptation.

Umbrella is pushing Mum, I'm Alien Pregnant toward a New Zealand theatrical rollout after its Sundance Midnight premiere; the debut feature from Thunderlips mixes alien-pregnancy body horror with horror-comedy.

First-look pics land as Black Palace moves into post-production; New Regency is lining up worldwide sales and courting distributors ahead of the fall festival window. Freya Allan, Kodi Smit-McPhee and Jon Croker headline Nick Hamm’s Jack the Ripper-era period thriller.

Tom Nicoll's feature debut Salvation bows in TIFF Discovery; the darkly comic psychological thriller follows a life coach spiral and arrives with a first teaser ahead of premiere.