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Prime 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.
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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.
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FilmCornwall LiveOct 3
Cornish horror film The Cull will have its world premiere at FrightFest Halloween.
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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.
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IndustryWeRSMOct 4NetflixDisneyParamount
Netflix 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.
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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.
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TVThe Mac ObserverOct 3Netflix
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.
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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.
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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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TVIPbutwhytho.netOct 4Netflix
Netflix 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.
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TVMovieWebOct 4NetflixFox
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.
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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.
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Filmtribecafilm.comOct 4Tribeca Festival
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.
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TVMovieWebOct 4NetflixCBSParamount+
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.
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TVWhat's on NetflixOct 4Netflix
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.
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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.
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FilmVarietyOct 4DisneyMarvel
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.
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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.
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FilmIPWinter is ComingOct 3Zach Cregger
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.
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FilmThe Express TribuneOct 3A24
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.
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TVPhantasmagoriaSep 12Netflix
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.
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FilmMovieWebOct 3Netflix
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.
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FilmiHorrorOct 3
Screamfest world premiere is set for Oct. 8 on Ron Krauss’ 35mm vampire horror Wounds; Jack Kilmer, Paris Jackson and Eric Roberts lead the cast, and the film is still seeking distribution.
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