Ryan Murphy, Netflix & A24

Production on The Watcher season 2 starts this fall in New York, with Naomi Watts, Bobby Cannavale, Margo Martindale and Isabel Gravitt all back. Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan’s Netflix series returns four years after the first season became a global Top 10 hit in 90+ countries.

A24 and Neon are racing SCP Foundation horror features into 2027; Neon says its anthology will honor the CC BY-SA license, while the A24 side is drawing pushback from the SCP Wiki over exclusivity claims.

Richard Brener is expected to stay on as New Line’s top exec after the Skydance close, keeping the label’s horror engine intact across The Conjuring, It and Final Destination plus future plays like The Flood and Evil Dead Wrath.

ACCESS: HORROR is back with a month-long virtual horror lineup for 2026; the accessibility-first fest is keeping genre programming streaming for audiences across the month.

Universal is weighing J.A. Bayona for the next Jurassic World sequel after Gareth Edwards exited; David Koepp is back on script and Scarlett Johansson, Mahershala Ali and Jonathan Bailey are expected to return if schedules line up.

Season 2 of The Watcher is in pre-production at Netflix; filming is set in New York from Oct. 27, 2026 through Mar. 9, 2027, with the new run shifting into a fraternity-centered college storyline.

Prime Video’s Carrie retools Stephen King’s novel for the TikTok era; Mike Flanagan and King backed a casting search that drew more than 1,400 reads before Summer H. Howell landed the lead.

FX still hasn’t renewed The Shards, leaving Ryan Murphy’s series in limbo after a small linear audience and no Nielsen streaming breakout; Disney’s long Murphy relationship may end up deciding whether season two happens.

Ryan Murphy is bringing the witches back for American Horror Story season 13; Emma Roberts confirms Madison Montgomery returns alongside Jessica Lange, Sarah Paulson and Angela Bassett. The season is being framed as a reunion play for the franchise’s core cast.

HBO Max rolls out a Halloween horror hub, Horror Comes Home, with a new Essential Horror virtual channel; A24's Backrooms is streaming after a more than $400 million box office run and Evil Dead Burn lands alongside it.

Verity is opening to roughly $32M domestically off $4.5M in previews; Resident Evil is holding to about $11.5M in weekend 3 and has pushed past $123.8M cume. Horror and thriller titles keep driving the weekend while Digger underperforms against a heavy budget.

Netflix's new psychological thriller is climbing the platform despite a 27% Rotten Tomatoes score; Russell Crowe and Jacob Tremblay headline Janus Metz's Unabomber movie, giving the title real streaming lift.

Sony is in talks for Battlefield rights with Christopher McQuarrie set to direct and Michael B. Jordan attached as producer and potential lead; the game-to-film package is not closed yet. The project keeps Sony in the videogame adaptation lane with a top-tier action filmmaker circling the board.

Brazilian folklore creature feature hits nationwide theaters through Lionsgate; the rainforest-set snake horror extends its theatrical run to U.S. multiplexes.

Canadian shoot Bellows River has wrapped in Yukon, putting a revenge thriller into post with no distributor attached yet. The wrap is a useful production signal for the region, with the title now presumably heading toward a sales pass.

Richard Boddington has wrapped production on Red Viper, an action thriller filmed in Parry Sound.

The Last Temptation of Becky locks a November theatrical release after its Fantasia bow, extending the Becky franchise into a third chapter. The rollout keeps the cult horror property on a traditional big-screen path.

Chris Marrs Piliero’s darkly comic techno-thriller hits theaters today after its Screamfest premiere; Magenta Light’s Bill Vergos joins an Industry Days panel on packaging, financing, distribution and marketing.

Oct. 20 U.S. theatrical launch with same-day Prime Video rollout; XYZ Films is using Marq Evans' SXSW-premiered Bigfoot doc as a hybrid event title.

Beyond Fest Q&A pulled a fresh Remain tease from M. Night Shyamalan; the Jake Gyllenhaal and Phoebe Dynevor thriller pairs a Cape Cod grief story with a Nicholas Sparks script and a trailer trick the director says changes how the movie plays.

Season 2 jumps to 1935, widening IT: Welcome to Derry's timeline and pushing the Pennywise prequel deeper into Derry's backstory. Andy Muschietti's new reveal sharpens the show's period-horror trajectory.

$1 million-budget Obsession is going to the Globes as a musical/comedy after becoming Focus Features' highest-grossing release; the campaign leans on the same category logic horror titles have used to crack awards ballots before.

Lionsgate's American Psycho adaptation is back in limbo; Luca Guadagnino says it may never happen, even after Scott Z. Burns' script circulated and Drew Starkey read it.

Glen Powell has exited Sam Esmail's Amazon MGM / United Artists sci-fi package; summer shoots in London and Hungary are off as the script comes back into play.

British Horror Studio launches Picture House as its theatrical distribution arm; Black Chariot kicks off the rollout with UK dates from Oct. 30 through mid-November, and the banner is eyeing a North American expansion in 2027.

Crystal Lake is bringing Camp Crystal Lake to New York Comic Con, while Linda Cardellini has shared a sneak peek at the series’ opening scene.

First-look set images confirm Wrong Number is rolling as Kid Cudi's second directorial feature, teasing a romance-turns-deadly hook. The social drop doubles as a production pulse on the indie horror pic.

Dark Sky Films lines up a U.S. direct-to-VOD bow for Grégory Morin's French horror-comedy; Flush premiered at Fantasia 2025 and stars R. Jonathan Lambert as a drug runner trapped in a squat toilet.