Mike Flanagan & Warner Bros. Discovery

Post-WBD acquisition, Skydance says it will keep Warner Bros. and Paramount creatively separate while targeting 30 films a year and more original bets like Sinners; Dana Goldberg and Josh Greenstein will oversee both film studios.

The Coven grabs worldwide rights to The Only One ahead of its Brooklyn Horror Film Festival premiere; Michael Schwarz’s Australian slasher stars Mel Jarnson and Saphira Moran, with Three777 Films producing.

Production is underway on Gustaf Skarsgård’s feature directorial debut, psychological horror The Cannibal, shooting on Fårö through late November. Scanbox has Scandinavia rights, with Ardalan Esmaili starring and a stack of Swedish co-producers and public backers attached.

Universal Pictures and Blumhouse-Atomic Monster snap up Joshua Giuliano’s R-rated slasher after its TIFF premiere; Jane Levy and Jessica Rothe lead a Jan. 15, 2027 theatrical bow.

Shudder locks New Group for Nov. 6 after festival play at Fantasia and Sitges; Yûta Shimotsu’s second feature turns a gymnastics routine into a body-horror conformity nightmare.

Resident Evil game engagement jumped 50% around Zach Cregger’s film launch; DAU rose from 500K to 750K and daily sales nearly doubled, but analysts say the real win is IP and brand lift.

Peacock's Crystal Lake centers season one on Pamela Voorhees, not Jason; Linda Cardellini leads the eight-episode prequel, with Brad Caleb Kane promising the sack-mask origin and a gore-heavy '70s slasher build for Oct. 15.

Blumhouse’s long-gestating Something Is Killing the Children adaptation gets a fresh status check; the comic-book horror property is still alive, but no casting or start-date shift is disclosed.

Mike Flanagan is reworking Carrie around cyberbullying and modern school violence; the Prime Video adaptation leans on social-media cruelty, with Summer H Howell and Alison Thornton in key roles.

Universal Pictures India has set Other Mommy for an Oct. 9 theatrical release in India; producer James Wan is framing the Rob Savage/Josh Malerman adaptation as evidence horror is in a new creative swing.

Paramount closes its $110 billion Warner Bros. Discovery acquisition, fusing Paramount+ and HBO Max under Skydance; David Ellison says the combined company will generate nearly $70 billion in annual revenue.

$520M worldwide for Obsession, $400M for Backrooms and $245M for Resident Evil push horror past $1.1B in combined grosses as October opens with Other Mommy, Carrie, V/H/S/Mixtape and Below.

4 million views in four days for American Horror Story: 13 made it FX's biggest streaming premiere ever; the first three episodes logged 476 million minutes and beat Delicate by 50 percent, with the season hitting No. 1 on Hulu and Disney+ charts.

Evil Dead Burn hit No. 1 on HBO Max in the U.S. within two days and sat No. 4 overall on the service while trending across Prime Video, Apple TV, Google, Crave, Rakuten TV, Catchplay and friDay in multiple territories.

Blumhouse Atomic Monster turns BlumFest at New York Comic Con into a first-look drop for Mike Flanagan's The Exorcist, Jessica Rothe's River and Curry Barker's Anything But Ghosts; MatPat hosts the panel with James Wan and Jason Blum on stage.

Rio's Fantastic:Brasil launches as a new genre-circulation hub, pairing development labs, pitch sessions, and international pathways through Cannes, Berlin, Cartagena, and Mexico City partners. Winners include 'Entranhas' and 'Fotograma', with the platform aiming to move Latin American fantastic projects into the global market.

Telluride Horror Show rolls out its 2026 lineup, signaling another year of premiere and networking opportunities for genre indies in Colorado. The program remains a key fall stop for horror buyers, filmmakers, and festival scouts.

Screamfest opens its 26th edition with the world premiere of 'The Night Driver'; the 10-day run stacks 13 world premieres, industry days, and a Peter Deming career tribute. Josh Lucas, David Arquette, and Alyssa Milano lead the opener as the festival doubles as a genre-market hub.

Epic Pictures and Dread set an Oct. 9 theatrical rollout for DEVOUR, Scott B. Hansen’s supernatural heavy-metal horror feature; practical creature FX and a stacked festival run give the title genre traction.

Memphis-made cosmic horror short 'Dreams of a Dead God' takes Best Fantasy/Sci-Fi at the Chicago Horror Film Festival, its eighth award on the circuit. The 36-minute found-footage title is still building a festival run and is slated to reach audiences later in 2026.

ITV Studios rolls into Mipcom with lunar thriller First Woman; the slate adds Steven Moffat's Number 10, psychological thriller The Party and returning Vigil, Line of Duty and Sherlock catalog sales.

$3.3M domestic and $3.4M worldwide on a $15M budget sends Onslaught to digital; A24 is using the PVOD rollout to extend the Wingard-Barrett title’s run after a soft theatrical launch.

Season 2 of Apple TV+’s Widow's Bay is targeting an end-of-April 2027 shoot; Matthew Rhys pegs a 2028 launch as the writers room just reopened.

Three-day IMAX early access lands Nov. 3, giving Toho a premium-format head start ahead of Godzilla Minus Zero’s Nov. 6 nationwide rollout.

Spielberg is now steering the next live-action Transformers for Paramount and Hasbro, while Michael Bay is in early talks to return as director on the Jason Fuchs-scripted eighth installment.

Shropshire-shot horror locks a 2027 release; the U.K. production angle keeps another genre title moving through post and distribution planning.

Universal’s full Exorcist reboot lands a first clip ahead of Friday’s trailer; The Exorcist: Martyrs opens March 12 next year with Scarlett Johansson, Chiwetel Ejiofor, John Leguizamo, Laurence Fishburne, Diane Lane and Sasha Calle aboard.

Vertical lines up Mark Heyman’s cult-horror feature directorial debut Pendulum for a Jan. 1, 2027 theatrical bow; Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Phoebe Dynevor, Jacki Weaver, Jena Malone and Norman Reedus star.