Paramount Pictures, Disney & James Gunn

Paramount greenlights Dan Trachtenberg's animated horror-comedy Freddy the 13th, adapting Yehudi Mercado's comic and setting it for a Friday the 13th release. The move pairs a watched filmmaker with a comic-IP play in a studio-backed genre package.

Epic Pictures and Dread have set Devour for Oct. 13 in select theaters and on digital, giving the supernatural heavy-metal horror a timed launch after a strong festival run. Scott B. Hansen directs from Desiree Hansen’s script, with Apple TV and Fandango at Home preorders already live.

Marvel launches a new digital comics home with WEBTOON as builder/operator; the Midnight Universe horror imprint clears more than 1 million orders and expands the publisher’s IP funnel across Spider-Man, Fantastic Four and X-Men.

ConUnPack launches Panic House at Sitges, a new genre label built around horror, fantasy, thriller and cult acquisitions, releases and sales; the slate includes Yellow Cake, a 4K Tesis restoration and international-sales titles like The Book and Horror and Love.

Nov. 19 brings a Saudi theatrical launch for Traveller’s Hell, MBC Studios’ psychological-thriller adaptation of Osamah Almuslim’s bestseller; Hana Alomair makes her feature-directing debut as the rollout starts in Saudi cinemas.

Paramount+ adds It Follows to streaming as sequel They Follow moves through post-wrap momentum; David Robert Mitchell returns to write, direct and produce, with Maika Monroe back as Jay and Naomi Ackie leading the new ensemble.

BBC’s ninth Christmas ghost story lands Martin Freeman and Jim Broadbent for Mark Gatiss’ Dickens adaptation; principal photography is already complete and BBC Studios handles international sales.

Horror novel to manga adaptation; the IP expands beyond prose into serialized comic form and adds another Japanese genre title to the publishing pipeline.

Livingston, Mont. suspended filming on The Daily Wire’s ICE thriller Pawn Shop after residents and businesses blasted street closures, armed security and poor notice; the permit fight now hangs over a production slated to wrap Oct. 10.

Prime Video’s 8-episode Carrie retools Stephen King’s story for the social-media era; Mike Flanagan says the adaptation starts from Carrie and Margaret’s love before pushing the bullying into a modern digital nightmare.

Ketchup Entertainment’s $50M distribution buy has turned Coyote vs. Acme into a breakout, with the shelved Looney Tunes hybrid clearing $100M worldwide on a $70M production spend. The rebound underscores the value of catalog IP and the cost of burying finished family fare for tax reasons.

Q3 horror economics are being measured against more than one benchmark: Resident Evil arrived big, Buddy turned into a hit, and Evil Dead and Insidious are still defined by cost discipline.

Disney struck a licensing arrangement to put select Disney+ originals and library titles on Netflix in 3-month windows, starting with Percy Jackson and the Olympians seasons 1-2 and all five Ice Age films. The pact extends Disney content beyond its owned services and gives Netflix fresh prestige and family inventory.

Digger opens to $8M domestic and $20M global against a reported $160M-$180M cost, setting Warner Bros. up for a $150M-$200M theatrical loss. Amazon MGM’s Verity counters with a $32.6M debut and $62.5M worldwide, giving the weekend’s only clean win to the thriller lane.

Paramount/Warner Bros. merger pauses Stephen Colbert's Shadow of the Past while the new studio waits to see how The Hunt for Gollum performs before more LOTR greenlights; the Colbert/Boyens script remains in development.

Resident Evil has set a China box-office record in pre-sales, achieving the highest advance-ticket total ever recorded for a Hollywood horror film.

Season 2 drew 4.1 million first-week views, down 43% from Season 1's 7.2 million; Netflix canceled the Jodi Thomas adaptation after two seasons despite a brief Top 10 bounce. The budget-to-viewership mismatch appears to have sealed the western's fate.

Genre startup Forge Films launches with sci-fi, fantasy and horror on the slate; first out of the gate is Lost in Hel, a Viking-mythology series with a proof-of-concept on YouTube and Nik Kacevski directing.

ScareScore is rolling out its body-response app at Screamfest, positioning audience biometrics as a new way to measure horror crowd reaction and awards buzz.

FOUND TV takes Dan Brownlie’s screenlife horror GROUPCHAT as an exclusive Oct. 2 launch after its Halloween International Film Festival run and Best International Film win.

Serial Maven heads into Mipcom with 600+ hours of programming led by Prime Time Predator, a 2x60' ABC commission on Rolf Harris backed by Screen Australia, Amazon UK and Screen NSW. The slate also includes true-crime docs, paranormal competition series The Great Ghost Challenge and the Canadian dark comedy Angles Morts.

Fully financed by Studiocanal and Film4; Jack O'Connell and Odessa A'zion board Ross White and Tom Berkeley’s feature debut, with Canada production set for November and Studiocanal handling worldwide sales and theatrical rollout in its territories.

Strasbourg European Fantastic Film Festival awarded the Golden Octopus to No Rest for the Wicked, naming the film its top prize winner.

Stephen King saw The Evil Dead at Cannes in 1982 and endorsed it as “the most ferociously original horror film of the year,” helping New Line Cinema secure its U.S. release. Made for $375,000, the film grossed about $29.4 million worldwide.

Focus Features cuts a second trailer for Robert Eggers’ medieval wolf-hunt follow-up to Nosferatu; the new footage spotlights Willem Dafoe opposite Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Lily-Rose Depp while Eggers lines up Romeo and Juliet as his next project.

Horror-Fix is launching a publishing imprint with Holy Trinity by KC Price, extending its genre footprint into horror fiction and teeing up Blood Lust as the next release.

Clayface is being positioned as DC Studios’ first true horror feature, with James Watkins directing Mike Flanagan and Hossein Amini’s script for a North American Oct. 23 release and an Oct. 21 international rollout. Tom Rhys Harries leads a cast that includes Naomi Ackie, David Dencik, Max Minghella and Eddie Marsan.

Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil clears a $250 million benchmark in franchise tracking; the Capcom adaptation remains one of the more closely watched horror packages in development.