Prime Video, Shudder & Sitges Film Festival

Dark Star Pictures has taken North American rights to Motherwitch ahead of Sitges; Shadowz picked up France and Spain, with Poland also sold as the Cyprus-set horror rolls out internationally.

Shudder picked up Split Rock out of Sitges, locking U.S., U.K., Ireland, Australia and New Zealand rights ahead of the festival premiere; Ryan Glover’s sophomore feature streams Dec. 25.

A24’s Poe adaptation The Masque of the Red Death is eyeing a 2027 release after starting production in 2025; Charlie Polinger writes/directs and Mikey Madison is aboard.

Hangtime International Pictures and Severin Films secure remake rights to Lucio Fulci’s The Beyond; the gory Italian classic is first up in a broader horror remake slate.

Prime Video lands an eight-episode true-crime limited series based on the Karen Read case; Elizabeth Banks stars and EPs, with Justin Noble creating and a 2027 launch targeted.

April production start in L.A. for James Wan's remake of The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil; Don Lee boards to star, Shay Hatten scripts, and Don Burgess shoots. Atomic Monster, Blumhouse, and Balboa Productions are producing.

Aldis Hodge and Wunmi Mosaku board George Tillman Jr.'s Orion/Amazon MGM thriller One Night Out; the short-story adaptation is headed to Prime Video worldwide. Nelson Greaves wrote the script, with Lauren Schuker Blum and Rebecca Angelo on revisions.

Sony has bought Casey Giltner’s elevated thriller spec This Land Is Our Land; Andrew Form and Lawdie Pahlavan board to produce, keeping Sony on its recent genre-buying run.

Paramount Pictures is developing a live-action Cyberpunk 2077 feature with Lorenzo di Bonaventura producing alongside CD Projekt Red; the franchise has sold 40 million-plus copies worldwide.

Mediaset’s free-to-air Rete 4 has picked up We Will Dance Again for Italy; Osmosis brokered the sale after the Emmy-winning documentary already landed on BBC One, Paramount+, Movistar+ and RTL1.

Universal is projecting a $20 million North American opening for Other Mommy in 3,200 theaters on a $19 million budget; Sony’s The Social Reckoning is tracking around $7 million as the horror title looks set to own the frame.

Pan’s Labyrinth is getting its first theatrical 4K/3D presentation, with more than 1,000 human artists handling the conversion and Guillermo del Toro explicitly keeping AI out of the pipeline.

Netflix and Bambú Producciones are shooting a Daniel Sancho limited series in Thailand and Spain, with Martiño Rivas cast as Sancho; the true-crime case has already spawned multiple docs and dramas.

Mockingbird Pictures is launching three titles at Busan’s ACFM: Indonesia’s The Doll Ghawiah, Vietnam’s The River Demon (Út Lan 2) and prison comedy-drama The Happiest Cell, starring Tuan Tran and set for Vietnam’s Nov. 20 release.

Belfast International Horror Festival returns for year seven with six events across four venues; Adam Wingard’s Onslaught gets its Irish premiere, alongside The Shining, The Fog and a Halloween Scooby-Doo screening.

Nightmares Film Festival’s 11th edition opens with Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer in 4K, spans 16 features, 150 shorts and 26 screenplay finalists, and says every feature is playing the Midwest for the first time. Columbus also lands the Midwest premiere of The Last Temptation of Becky plus world premieres including Death Came Knocking, Looky Loo: Part II and When You See It.

Six-episode Talk to Me spinoff I Let You In lands exclusively on Meta Quest and Meta VR Glasses for Spring 2027; the VR series opens a new corner of the franchise after Bring Her Back.

$60 million domestic opening; franchise-best launch for Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil reboot, with a B+ CinemaScore pointing to solid hold potential.

Fully produced AI-generated pilot episodes for Ex Machina Studios’ sci-fi series ‘Space Nation’ and ‘Kira’ are screening for buyers at Mipcom, a first-of-its-kind market test for finished generative-AI TV. Globoplay has already come on board as co-producer and Brazilian-rights buyer on ‘Space Nation,’ while K5 Intl. is shopping the dual-series slate worldwide.

Hundreds of U.S. theaters are booking Halloween for Oct. 24-Nov. 1, with nearly 2,000 domestic screenings and 180-plus plays across 12 foreign territories. Trancas is using the seasonal rerun to keep Carpenter’s slasher engine in eventized theatrical circulation.

Eight-week extension through Feb. 28, 2027; Paranormal Activity is running at 98% capacity and grossed $910,556 last week, keeping Paramount’s horror franchise on Broadway as a live-theatre revenue engine.

Alfonso Cuarón is writing a horror feature, his first movie project in nearly eight years since Roma. The Busan masterclass reveal confirms the Oscar winner is finally steering into genre after years of stalled projects.

Marvel will shoot live-action spy thriller Zodiac in London next spring for a 2028 Disney+ release; Marvel Zombies returns with three two-part specials, including The Winter Soldier in Halloween 2027, The Fist of Konshu in 2028 and The Last Guardian in 2029.

Netflix’s BioShock adaptation is inching toward script lock; Francis Lawrence says the screenplay is “pretty close” as the long-gestating Rapture project stays active with 2K and Take-Two Interactive.

Shudder lines up V/H/S/Mixtape for October 9 with segments from Ernest Dickerson, David Moreau, RZA and Renee Zhan; the franchise also tees up V/H/S SCP as the next anthology entry.

Rooster Teeth founders Matt Hullum and Burnie Burns are mounting Christmas elf horror-comedy Bad Toys; pre-production is slated for early 2027 with a Christmas 2027 theatrical target as the brand revival gathers steam.

Mike Flanagan’s The Exorcist: Martyrs stars Scarlett Johansson as NYPD homicide detective and single mother Julie Miller, with John Leguizamo as a serial killer whose execution goes awry. The teaser previews the March 12, 2027 theatrical release; a full trailer is due at New York Comic Con.

Aura Entertainment sets Vampire Carnival for VOD on October 30; David Charbonier and Justin Douglas Powell’s vampire-carnival horror is already in theaters and now pivots to digital rollout.

Six Studios is financing Crossed, with Rob Jabbaz directing and Garth Ennis scripting the comic adaptation; Devin Druid and Ash Santos lead a cast built around the pandemic-scarred survivors and the infamous infected.

Apocalypse Z: New World is heading to Sitges before rolling straight onto Prime Video; the Spanish zombie sequel keeps Carles Torrens back in the chair and extends the Manel Loureiro comic adaptation.