A24, Backrooms & Focus Features

CAA sold Obsession out of Toronto for around $14M to Focus; the Curry Barker horror breakout has since hit $264M domestic and $520M worldwide off a $1M budget, while Backrooms is sitting at $400M global off $10M.

Fede Álvarez has a Don’t Breathe 3 script in hand and wants Jane Levy and Stephen Lang back; the first film’s $26.4 million domestic launch and $157 million worldwide haul prove the franchise still has heat.

John Goodman, Ian Alexander and Laura Bailey board Season 3 of The Last of Us, with HBO pulling game voice talent back into live action; the season is set for 2027 and could be the series' last.

Mike Flanagan has started work on a new The Mist adaptation; format and buyer remain undisclosed.

Warner Bros. has released the final trailer for Clayface, DC Studios’ first horror thriller, directed by James Watkins and starring Tom Rhys Harries; the film reaches theaters in October.

$20 million opening-weekend benchmark for Primetime is fueling Mubi’s growth pitch; Efe Cakarel says the company has scaled from 40 to 400 employees and wants the capital to fully finance, distribute and release bigger auteur films globally. He also says 2027 remains a growth year after a slower 2025.

TIFF 2026: Samjad’s Half stars Ranjith Sajeev and Aiswarya Raj as twin half-blooded daywalker vampires battling desert-highway hijackers in a gory martial-arts “curry Western,” filmed after four months of desert training and shooting.

Fantastic Fest 2026’s first four days included Quentin Dupieux’s Full Phil, starring Woody Harrelson, Kristen Stewart, Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim, plus Vertiginous, a PlayStation 2-style simulation satire, and puppet barbarian gore film Kylgor in the Grisly Abyss.

Alex Goyette’s Breeder hits theaters Oct. 28 with Daniel Doheny, Dot-Marie Jones and Maddie Phillips aboard. The creature-horror is now set for a straightforward theatrical launch.

Season 7 lands Oct. 27 on Shudder and AMC+ as Dragula marks 10 years; the franchise remains Shudder’s highest-performing unscripted original, with Rose McGowan, Doug Jones, David Dastmalchian, Harvey Guillén and Lloyd Kaufman among the guest judges.

Melissa Barrera says she’d return as Sam Carpenter only if Scream leaves Spyglass; Paramount and Spyglass already have Scream 8 in motion after the franchise crossed $200M worldwide.

West Key Studios’ #VYMARA, written and directed by Paul Bukoskey, hits AMC Theatres exclusively in October; Ava Westcott, Mason Kokodynski, Reid Robison and Jenna Karan star as creators livestreaming a missing-YouTuber search that uncovers a cult and conspiracy.

$23.5M second weekend keeps Sony/Constantin's Resident Evil on pace for a $103.6M domestic cume; the zombie title is sharing Imax and PLFs with Disney's Avengers: Endgame: Encore and remains the weekend's strongest hold.

Bong Joon Ho says his Seoul subway horror film, in development for roughly 25 years, remains active; after completing Ally, he is considering “two or three” darker crime/horror stories, including potentially smaller-scale projects.

Four titles are tracking for $20M-plus weekends, with Resident Evil and Heart of the Beast in the mix; the frame points to a stronger late-summer box office pulse than 2022. Weekend tracking like this is useful market read-through on genre playability and exhibitor momentum.

James Gray's Paper Tiger opens NYFF 2026, putting the thriller in front of awards voters and buyers as the fall campaign ramps up.

Kelly Macdonald is out of Dept. Q season 2 after scheduling conflicts with HBO’s Lanterns; Scott Frank used Bloody Scotland to tease the returning ensemble and the show’s expanded character focus.

Stop-motion adaptation The Buried Giant is active at ShadowMachine in Portland, with Guillermo del Toro on site while the Kazuo Ishiguro novel move continues in production. The project keeps del Toro in the literary adaptation lane after Pinocchio.

Focus Features won the bidding war to finance Eggers’ next feature, a Shakespeare-era Romeo and Juliet adaptation; Werwulf opens Dec. 25 with Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Lily-Rose Depp, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie and Willem Dafoe aboard.

Internal legal memo tees up a smaller Disney legal footprint; automation, self-service models and outsourced support are on the table as the company leans harder into AI-driven workflow redesign. The shift follows recent Marvel cuts and the hiring of Karandeep Anand as Disney’s first CTO.