Toronto International Film Festival & Netflix

A24 lines up a 2027 theatrical creepypasta adaptation centered on the SCP Foundation, with Image Nation Studios and Spooky Pictures producing. The project arrives with a rights fight baked in, as the SCP wiki pushback says the Creative Commons source does not support exclusivity.

Wrapped over the summer, the Exorcist reboot surfaces with a basic synopsis: Scarlett Johansson plays a cop hunting a satanic serial killer, while her 12-year-old son is targeted by a demonic force. Universal keeps the March launch on the calendar as Mike Flanagan reframes the franchise with a fresh cast and a full reset.

Steven Spielberg boards horror adaptation The Mandela Catalogue, giving the viral analog-horror property marquee producer backing. The project continues Hollywood’s push to mine web-born terror for feature potential.

$20M post-apocalyptic thriller Parish locks a wave of international pre-sales in Toronto ahead of a Minnesota shoot next week; Concourse Media has Germany/Austria/Switzerland with Wild Bunch, Latin America with Energia and Italy with Eagle Pictures, while Archetype Media Finance backs the package.

Invention Studios boards Krishnarjun Bhattacharya’s Indian fantasy-horror feature Tongue, with Nicholas Weinstock joining Divya D’Souza and Sayani Gupta as the project moves through the South Asian Canadian Film Federation’s lab and TIFF’s co-production market. The film follows two sisters trapped in their grandmother’s mansion as monstrous creatures and lethal traps lead them toward the family’s buried secrets.

Seven-figure Black List script sale sends The Waffle House Index to Apple Original Films; Inde Navarrette stars and exec produces, with Louis Paxton directing and Plan B producing.

Vertical takes U.S. rights to Jaume Collet-Serra's Cliffhanger reboot and is targeting a spring 2027 wide theatrical rollout; Lily James and Pierce Brosnan lead the action-thriller, with Rocket Science handling international sales.

Hollywood Ventures Group, Big Picture Cinema Group and Pink Sheep Productions are packaging Moroccan crime thriller The Final Bet as a Casablanca-set feature. Glenn Gainor is adapting Abdelilah Hamdouchi’s bestselling novel; the project is being shopped at Toronto with 2027 production targeted and the partners co-financing.

$5.36M domestic debut on 1,258 screens; Roadside Attractions logged its best post-Covid opening and Saban Films its biggest ever, while J.D. Lifshitz and Raphael Margules also landed Paramount Primal.

MetFilm Sales has boarded world sales on Tom Nicoll’s psychological black comedy Salvation, which world premieres in TIFF Discovery after a Cannes Great 8 showcase. The debut follows a self-help hustler whose reinvention scheme turns manipulative as the money and pressure pile up.

$3.5M weekend on 1,500 screens for Na Hong-jin’s Hope; South Korea cume is near $40M on a record $33M budget. The blood-soaked sci-fi creature epic is already in cult-classic territory after a mixed Cannes response.

Pizza-bomber true-crime feature Evil Genius is Courteney Cox's first directorial outing; the TIFF stop is positioning it as her behind-the-camera calling card.

TIFF slots Samjad’s vampire revenge hybrid Half for its world premiere; the martial-arts western blends bloodline lore, high-speed chases and creature-feature energy. Ranjith Sajeev and Aiswarya Raj star.

Netflix and Blizzard Entertainment partner on a new animated Diablo series, pushing the game franchise’s dark fantasy world into TV development. The pact adds another high-profile IP play to Netflix’s genre-adjacent slate.

Test screenings pushed Cregger to strip most of Resident Evil’s jokes, tightening the survival-horror cut; VOX has the UAE launch on Sept. 17 ahead of Sony’s U.S. release.

Premiere Entertainment Group launches Kellan Lutz-led survival thriller The Rescue to international buyers at TIFF; Darren Simmonds and Jared van Berkel direct from van Berkel’s script, with New Zealand production set for January 2027.

Movistar Plus International closes MUBI’s exclusive streaming rights for La Mesías; rollout begins Sept. 3, 2026 across the UK, Canada, Turkey, the Netherlands, Germany, Australia and France. The seven-part series mixes family-sect drama, thriller tension and magical realism.

$46M worldwide debut for Practical Magic 2, including $30M domestic and $16M overseas; Warner Bros./Alcon lands in line with Bullock-led comps, but the sequel lags the studio's recent post-Labor Day genre breakouts.

Freestyle Digital Media has taken VOD rights to A Bloody Mess from Byron Allen’s Allen Media Group. The move gives the digital distributor a fresh genre-adjacent title for its release pipeline.

Six-figure development deal on Open Door follows Kevin Cate's 28.7 million-view short; he has already cut Birthday Flight, a self-financed airplane thriller, for a fast YouTube rollout via Clinging Vine Films.

Two-week U.S. IMAX-only run starts Nov. 25 before the Netflix drop on Dec. 23; no standard-format or competing PLF bookings. The Tarantino-scripted Fincher sequel is being treated as a limited event play, not a wide theatrical release.

2 billion viewed minutes and 20 million+ views powered The Hunting Wives’ breakout; Netflix sets season 2 for Nov. 26 after expanding the former Starz/Lionsgate title globally.

Debut short Invention 13 lands at Beyond Fest on Sept. 26 with a live Q&A and a Hausu pairing; the Omaha-shot Super 16mm film was cut over four sub-freezing nights and features Emory Cohen, Olivia Howard, Nelly Morville and Phoebe Bridgers.

Peacock sets Crystal Lake for Oct. 15, 2026 as an eight-episode Friday the 13th prequel from A24 and Brad Caleb Kane. Linda Cardellini leads the cast as Pam Voorhees, with a stacked supporting and recurring ensemble plus EPs Roy Lee and Marc Toberoff.