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4Prime Video has dropped the first Carrie clip from Mike Flanagan’s eight-episode Stephen King adaptation; the series stars Summer H. Howell, Samantha Sloyan, Amber Midthunder and Matthew Lillard, with an Oct. 7 launch set.
Sony has the first-look on Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein after Freaks and Final Destination Bloodlines; Paramount already picked up Freaks 2, and the duo are now writing Amblin/Universal’s Long Lost plus Sony’s Gremlins 3 and Metal Gear Solid projects.
FilmCornwall LiveOct 3
Cornish horror film The Cull will have its world premiere at FrightFest Halloween.
An $8M domestic opening is looming for Digger against a $125M budget; Verity is set to win the weekend with $33.6M, while Resident Evil, Heart of the Beast and Lionsgate’s Beware Boiúna keep the frame genre-heavy.
Market & Business
5Netflix is shifting away from prestige filmmaker deals toward lower-budget series, reality, live events and sports; David Fincher’s pact is ending, Shawn Levy has moved to Disney and the Duffer Brothers are now at Paramount.
IndustryRue MorgueOct 3
Cullen Bunn and Marika Cresta reunite for We Cannot Remain, a new horror comic; further plot, publisher and release details have not been announced.
9.7 million views and 65.7 million hours viewed pushed Not a Stranger to No. 1 on Netflix’s non-English chart, but the Turkish psychological thriller has no season 2 order yet.
IndustryIPVarietyOct 3
Lyrical Animation is developing a RuneScape series with Jagex and Charlie White; the fantasy adaptation is early-stage, with more details slated for 2027.
FilmIPLoktej EnglishOct 4
Ajay Devgn's Drishyam 3 is still driving box-office chatter; Karan Johar singled out the sequel's run as a commercial win for the franchise.
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14Netflix lines up an 8-episode live-action Quiztopia for Dec. 17, 2026; Takayuki Yamada stars as host KK, with 16 new cast additions and 8,000 extras across the shoot.
18-part Canadian crime thriller Murder in a Small Town has cracked Netflix’s U.S. top tier after landing on the platform; the streamer is using the series as a fresh SVOD hit despite its linear origins on Fox and Global.
Ink opens theatrically Dec. 11 before a Jan. 8 Netflix debut; Danny Boyle casts the Rupert Murdoch origin story as a warning shot for modern journalism.
World premiere in Tribeca's U.S. Narrative Competition; Daniel Blake Schwartz's addiction drama-thriller stars Kyle Gallner and Sosie Bacon in Chelsea, Massachusetts.
20th Television has locked Tracker’s international Netflix window for February 2027; U.S. streaming stays with Paramount+ and Hulu while the CBS procedural expands overseas on a staggered rollout.
Netflix is only licensing The Way Home’s U.S. library run; Hallmark ended the time-travel drama with Season 4 and has no revival plan, leaving Hallmark+ as the strategic first-window home.
IndustryPhantasmagoriaSep 19
Kat Sandler’s eight-episode Canadian series Yaga premiered two episodes at TIFF, starring Noah Reid, Hudson Williams, Clark Backo and Carrie-Anne Moss. A private eye investigates a billionaire fishery heir’s disappearance in a coastal town steeped in Baba Yaga folklore.
Disney's Endgame re-release pushes the film back to the top of the all-time worldwide chart at $2.925 billion; the studio now owns seven of the 10 biggest films and is teeing up Avengers: Doomsday.
IndustryPhantasmagoriaSep 18
Eugene Kotlyarenko’s TIFF thriller Vintage Violence stars Cole Sprouse as ex-con livestreamer Carter, who takes 19th-century Levi’s to Japan and clashes with a vintage-denim-obsessed yakuza; Kiko Mizuhara, Nijirô Murakami, Hio Miyazawa and Pierre Taki co-star.
Cregger says Resident Evil’s finale was reworked from a simpler kill-the-scientist cut into the lab sequence that keeps Bryan’s fate alive until the last beat.
Chris Hansen is weighing legal action over A24’s 'Primetime,' accusing the film of fictionalizing 'To Catch a Predator' and using his name and likeness without consultation.
Netflix’s two-episode TIFF premiere of Below stars Josh Hartnett, Charlie Heaton and Mackenzie Davis in Jesse McKeown’s Newfoundland sea-monster miniseries, where a $140,000-per-household resettlement offer and illegal trawler disappearance precede the discovery of “bad ice.
Carry-On has climbed to No. 3 on Netflix’s most popular movies list after launching with 42 million views; the holiday-set thriller remains a durable SVOD performer nearly two years after release.