Fantastic Fest, Beyond Fest & Resident Evil

Paramount Television Studios and Iron Ocean are adapting Keith Rosson’s vampire novel Coffin Moon for TV; Noah Harpster and Micah Fitzerman-Blue board to adapt and showrun, with Jessica Biel producing under Iron Ocean’s first-look deal.

American Cinematheque, Monkeypaw Productions and Universal are bringing back No Drama for a second run, backing up to three emerging genre filmmakers with a $50,000 grant pool and a first-look option; finished shorts premiere at Beyond Fest 2027.

Roy Lee is lining up a new Silent Hill take off the Resident Evil breakout; the horror producer's next game adaptation is still early and talent-light.

Tubi turns Terror on Tubi into a permanent Canadian horror hub with 13,000 hours of library content; the rollout also tees up original anthology Bite Size Terror and follows Tubi's 110 million MAU mark.

Hulu sets Soulm8te as the M3GAN spinoff’s first subscription home on Oct. 1; the Blumhouse Atomic Monster title now opens Huluween after its scrapped theatrical path and digital detour.

Fantastic Fest’s 2026 winners list put Ghost in the Cell, Bloody Tennis and the rest of the year’s genre slate on the board. Father Figure also left the fest with a $100,00 Chroma financing award, a distribution deal and a 2027 Fantastic Fest premiere.

Ember Production Limited has N.E.S.T. Project in production in the U.K.; the post-apocalyptic sci-fi-horror feature is targeting a late-2026 wrap and 2027 festival cut.

MUBI sets Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma for Oct. 2 streaming and rolls out a real VHS campaign with Beyond Fest screenings and microcinema tour dates through Oct. 20.

Warner Bros. is remaking Stephen King’s The Mist with Mike Flanagan scripting; the project is still in development and production timing remains TBD.

Sub-$80 million total budget attached to Robert Eggers' Romeo and Juliet at Focus Features; the studio beat A24, Sony and Warner Bros. and the film is now his next production after Werwulf.

Eight-episode Rules of Prey lands a greenlight at MGM+; Jensen Ackles boards as Lucas Davenport, with Bruce Terris running the show and filming set to start this month in Toronto. The book-to-series package is rolling out across MGM+’s U.S. and international territories.

Shudder has acquired Finnish horror-comedy Red Snow out of Fantastic Fest and will stream it Dec. 15; Ilja Rautsi’s vampire-Santa feature bowed in the fest’s world premiere slot.

The cult sequel is heading to theaters and VOD after festival play at Fantastic Fest, Sitges, BIFAN and Fantaspoa, extending the Deathgasm franchise back into the marketplace.

Magnolia Pictures sets a Sept. 25 theatrical bow for Dave Boyle's SXSW Midnighter Audience Award and Overlook Grand Jury Prize winner; Moeka Hoshi leads the ghost-story feature.

Sony won North American and key foreign rights to TIFF thriller The Surgeon after a multi-bid auction; Michelle Yeoh stars as an abducted surgeon fighting her captors, with Roshan Sethi directing for Thunder Road and Tango. The sale extends Sony's festival buy activity across Latin America, Italy, China and Hong Kong.

First R-rated Godzilla film in franchise history lands an R for violent content and bloody images; GKIDS sets North American release for Nov. 6, 2026 after Japan bows Nov. 3, with Takashi Yamazaki returning and the sequel shot as Japan’s first IMAX production.

Good Fiend Films is spinning up Good Fiend Lit, a new division targeting genre literature and immersive storytelling across horror, sci-fi and fantasy; Natasha Preston will oversee the launch alongside Dastmalchian.

AI shaved eight days off a major battlefield sequence on Michel Hazanavicius’ WWI-set The Third Hand, collapsing a 10-day shoot into two; Goodfellas says the tech made the mad-scientist body-horror setup cheaper and faster to mount.

Antenna Releasing launches Joseph Scrimshaw’s horror-comedy roadshow with a limited theatrical expansion on Oct. 2 and VOD on Oct. 23.

Texas Lights awards an inaugural grant to FANGORIA Studios’ SITORA, giving Diffan Sina Norman new funding for the weretiger horror feature as part of the program’s first cohort.

$60 million domestic opening for Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil; the filmmaker says he rebuilt the ending in post with Scanline’s 3D volume after an earlier cut undercut Bryan’s emotional stakes.

Italy has picked Paolo Strippoli’s The Spiral as its Best International Feature Film contender for the 99th Academy Awards. The Venice Competition title bows in Italy on Oct. 18 via 01 Distribution, with Le Pacte handling international sales.

Ryan Murphy has Jessica Lange back for American Horror Story: 13; Lange is set to reprise Constance, Sister Jude, Fiona Goode and Elsa Mars, with a fifth mystery role in play.

IFC and Shudder push Breeder from Oct. 16 to Oct. 28; the Tribeca-premiered horror debut from Alex Goyette now opens later in the month after landing an R for disturbing material, violence, graphic nudity and language.