Toronto International Film Festival, A24 & Mipcom

Universal Pictures and Blumhouse-Atomic Monster have paid upward of $10 million for River out of TIFF Midnight Madness, flipping the Shudder-produced slasher from a streaming plan to a full theatrical release.

Screen Gems and Spyglass are mounting a present-day Pulse reimagining; Dave Boyle boards to direct and rewrite Luke Piotrowski’s script, with Parker Finn and Jonathan Fass producing through Bad Feeling.

NEON sets Hope for digital on October 13 after a 1,500-screen North American run; Na Hong-jin’s creature feature has tracked around $45 million worldwide on a reported $46 million budget, with Korea carrying most of the box office.

Epic Pictures and Dread open DEVOUR in select theaters and on digital Oct. 13; Scott B. Hansen’s supernatural mash-up stacks heavy metal, vampires, cannibals, witchcraft and a werewolf siege.

Roy Lee has a Silent Hill reboot in development off his Resident Evil momentum; format is still open, with no writer, director, or cast attached yet.

High-seventy-million-dollar bidding war lands Focus Features Robert Eggers' Romeo and Juliet; A24, Sony and Warner Bros. were in the mix, with Eggers set to tackle Shakespeare after Werwulf.

Adam Driver is now locked for Heat 2; Stephen Graham confirmed the cast addition and production is set to start in November on Michael Mann’s crime-thriller sequel.

A24's Backrooms has climbed to roughly $350 million worldwide and is now on HBO Max; Kane Parsons' feature debut is A24's highest-grossing film after turning a viral concept into a breakout horror event.

Saber Interactive is building Hellraiser: Revival around a faithful Pinhead recreation, with Clive Barker involvement and the Cenobite design translated from concept art into controller form.

FilmColumbia is opening its 2026 run by honoring Jane Schoenbrun at the Oct. 16 kickoff; the Columbia County fest is pairing the salute with nearly 50 unreleased features and shorts plus an I Saw the TV Glow Q&A at the newly renovated Crandell Theatre.

Nippon TV is taking two romantic-thriller formats to Mipcom, 25 Years of You and Punch-Drunk Woman, both built as high-concept adaptation plays for global buyers. The pitch leans on emotional romance wrapped around murder, family secrets and corporate conspiracy.

VMI Worldwide boards worldwide sales as Empire Studios, Rascal Entertainment and Green 13 shoot Coz Greenop’s survival thriller at Shinfield Studios in the UK; Daniel Stisen, Eloise Lovell Anderson and Jason Flemyng star.

Yellow Veil Pictures boarded The Glorious Dead for worldwide sales after the film was placed on the Frontières Buyers Showcase; the Adams Family’s apocalypse-scale horror made its U.S. premiere at Fantastic Fest.

Hur Jin-ho’s historical thriller opened to $11.3M in Korea across its first five days and led the Chuseok holiday frame with 1.55 million admissions. Netflix-backed Possible Love debuted with about $1M, while horror title Obsession reached a $6.7M Korea cume.

US$8bn Banijay-All3Media consolidation is now reflected in Banijay’s first post-buyout Mipcom slate; Maya, a psychological-thriller about a mother and daughter in witness protection, leads the scripted push alongside Reputation and Sarek.

Unabomber hit No. 1 on Netflix worldwide within days of launch and also led the U.S., U.K., Canada and Australia charts; FlixPatrol data shows the true-crime thriller is punching through weak reviews with broad international demand.

Four-body rehearsals in Prague mapped the Merged Monster's movement before cameras rolled; the creature's gait was built in-room first, then finished with CGI in the final cut.

Production is underway on The Mummy 4; Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz are back as Rick O’Connell and Evelyn Carnahan, with new set photos surfacing from the shoot.

Infinity Vision ties Disney's premium-format push to 'Avengers: Doomsday'; theaters that qualify must hit 45-foot width, 7.1 sound and 14 foot-lamberts, while Cinemark is upgrading about 200 auditoriums to XD.

Kristen Stewart and Olivier Assayas reteam on Spiritual World, a supernatural feature about a clairvoyant woman getting premonitions; Vicky Krieps, Riley Keough, Wagner Moura and Barbara Sukowa board, with cameras rolling in February.

Jon Watts boards Lucasfilm's next Star Wars trilogy; Simon Kinberg scripts, with Daisy Ridley's Rey expected back in some capacity.

Prime Video locks Oct. 7 for Mike Flanagan’s eight-episode Carrie; the Stephen King adaptation streams in more than 240 countries and updates the story around modern bullying and social-media harassment.

Tubi is launching Bite Size Terror Oct. 2 with ten short-form horror episodes from GJMD Studio and EP Peter Rice; Jasmine J. Johnson’s Floral Remains joins a slate spanning supernatural, body horror and dark comedy. The series extends Tubi’s Terror on Tubi hub and spotlights new genre filmmakers.