Mike Flanagan, Netflix & Paramount

Sony/Constantin’s Resident Evil clears $245.4M worldwide through its third weekend and is headed past $280M+ after a $20M China start. Zach Cregger’s game adaptation will overtake Weapons as his biggest grosser.

Prime Video’s Carrie lands Oct. 7 with all eight episodes at launch; Mike Flanagan modernizes the locker-room humiliation with smartphones and social-media cruelty, with Summer H. Howell starring as Carrie White. Samantha Sloyan, Siena Agudong, Amber Midthunder and Matthew Lillard round out the cast.

Netflix’s second Monster of Florence chapter is shooting in Rome with Stefano Sollima, Leonardo Fasoli and Paolo Carnera back on the anthology; the first installment was the streamer’s most-watched series globally in its opening week.

Busan market launch puts Danny and Oxide Pang’s supernatural crime thriller in front of international buyers as 852 Films opens the remaining territories; the Josie Ho-led feature already has Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan and Southeast Asia spoken for.

Cineverse expands SCREAMBOX onto DIRECTV, adding another paid-distribution lane for its horror brands and widening the company's shelf space across linear and streaming bundles.

Netflix launches The Conjuring: Unspoken on Oct. 13; Supermassive Games built the interactive horror title with Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, extending the franchise into cloud-streamed gameplay.

Ron Perlman’s horror feature Renew has wrapped filming; the next stop is post and sales on the genre title.

Variety’s Horror Impact Report spotlights the talent driving the genre pipeline, with Austin Abrams on Resident Evil, Naomi Ackie on Clayface and They Follow, Curry Barker on Anything But Ghosts, and Anna Biller on The Face of Horror. Michael Bitar and Verve’s genre packaging also get the kind of attention that signals where the next wave of horror dealmaking is headed.

A24 is set to publish an official Crystal Lake novelization, extending the Friday the 13th prequel into books ahead of the series rollout.

British Horror Studio launches Picture House, a new UK theatrical distribution arm; Black Chariot kicks off an autumn cinema rollout, while The 99 Legs lands on Comixology Originals on Nov. 17, 2026 and in print via Mad Cave Studios on Aug. 3, 2027.

A$6.9M in unsecured claims is set to return only 3 to 3.5 cents on the dollar at Quirky Wars; Screen Australia's Producer Offset on Scurry delivered A$589,493 plus A$28,107 in interest, with just A$25,025 recovered across Scurry and Bring Him to Me to date.

Low Light Films boards sales on Theodore Schaefer’s 81-minute The Arrow at Rest at Every Instant of its Flight ahead of its Sitges bow; Jane Schoenbrun EPs the NY indie as international buyers and programmers get their first look.

Lionsgate’s Beware Boiúna keeps Jessica Rothe in scream-queen mode, while River’s TIFF Midnight Madness buzz pushed the slasher past $10 million and into Universal/Blumhouse hands despite an IFC/Shudder distro deal. Rothe says Christopher Landon has also reconceived Happy Death Day 3 around Tree’s post-college life.

288 features and 127 shorts fill Sitges' 59th edition; record submissions hit nearly 3,800, with Found Alive opening and Mike Flanagan's Carrie series screening its first episode alongside the 50th-anniversary rerelease.

17th Telluride Horror Show runs Oct. 16-18 with River, The Cycle, Black Sheeps, Ghost in the Cell and the final cut of Recluse; the Colorado festival is leaning hard into premiere-heavy programming.

Screamfest world premiere lands Saturday for Postmortem; Andres Beltran's morgue-set supernatural horror stars Odette Annable and drew a Sitges Pitchbox Special Mention.

California’s latest tax-credit round puts 35 features in play and is expected to drive $1.08 billion in local spend; the slate includes Michael 2, Last Friday and an untitled 20th Century horror pic, while the state folds in a post-production credit and AI rules.

Prime Video drops all eight Carrie episodes at once; Mike Flanagan directs four and showruns, Amazon MGM Studios produces, and Stephen King executive produces the first TV adaptation of the novel.

FilmNation installs Toby Emmerich as consultant across Infrared’s genre slate, sharpening the label’s franchise-friendly development push. Upcoming Infrared titles include Derek Kolstad’s Painter and JT Mollner’s Skeletons.

Universal has set The Exorcist: Martyrs as Mike Flanagan's next franchise entry; Scarlett Johansson and Jacobi Jupe star, with Blumhouse, Atomic Monster, Morgan Creek and Red Room Pictures producing for a March 2027 theatrical launch.

$24 million domestic opening is tracking for Universal/Blumhouse-Atomic Monster’s ‘Other Mommy,’ with upside to $30 million if reception breaks right; Rob Savage’s original horror could land near ‘The Black Phone’ and reset Blumhouse’s original-franchise momentum.

Netflix locks The Hunting Wives for a third season before Season 2 lands Nov. 26; Season 1 hit 35M views, cracked the Top 10 in 40 countries, and the upgraded international rollout turned the former Starz acquisition into a Netflix original from Season 2 onward.

World English-language rights to Jamie Scallion’s Nines have landed with Marc Forster’s 2DUX² and Me+You Productions after a fierce auction; Fremantle is selling globally and Forster is set to direct the first block as casting and writers conversations begin.

Digital on Oct. 27; 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray follows Nov. 17 as Well Go USA rolls out Joko Anwar’s Indonesian horror-comedy after its theatrical run.

Skydance’s Paramount-Warners push is leaning hard into AI as a studio operating system, with David Ellison pitching 15-20 audience-tested versions of a movie to tighten creative feedback loops. The bet lands against roughly $80B in debt and a likely labor backlash over automation.

Cinema Epoch is taking Human Hibachi 2 and Human Hibachi 3 to Blu-ray/DVD after the franchise crossed 500K views on Tubi. Walmart and Barnes & Noble are in the mix as the label pushes the sequels into physical retail and long-tail genre monetization.

8-episode Netflix sea-creature horror miniseries Below lands Josh Hartnett, Mackenzie Davis, Charlie Heaton, Natasha Henstridge, and Rohan Campbell; Jesse McKeown created the Newfoundland-set creature feature.

Warner Bros. rolls Pan's Labyrinth back out worldwide in 3D/4K on Oct. 8, 2026; Guillermo Navarro, Doug Jones and Ivana Baquero backed the Academy Museum premiere as the 20-year-old title gets a fresh theatrical play.

Shudder’s V/H/S/Mixtape lands Friday, October 9, with David Moreau’s “Heartbeat” segment teasing an urbex found-footage trap inside a decommissioned military site. The anthology’s music-and-sound theme also points to V/H/S: SCP heading to theaters next year with A24 collaboration.

Xbox is centralizing film and TV, consumer products, partnerships and live experiences under new XP, with Kayleen Walters moving over as president; Maria Angelidou-Smith takes over Mojang as Microsoft doubles down on transmedia around Minecraft, Fallout, Diablo and Halo.