Busan International Film Festival & Mike Flanagan

John Gore Studios has snapped up Susan Hill’s full catalog, giving Hammer a fresh rights pool spanning film, TV and theater; the move reopens the door to new Woman in Black and other gothic horror adaptations.

Radial Entertainment has ordered 16 new A Haunting episodes from Jupiter Entertainment, with the revival set for September 2027 on its Paranormal Chronicles FAST channel; the Oaktree-backed distributor is using owned paranormal IP to drive repeatable engagement.

Tubi sets a 2027 live-action adaptation of R.L. Stine’s The Babysitter, extending its horror partnership with the author beyond the Nightmare Hour / Haunting Hour pipeline. Blue Ice produces; Jem Garrard writes and exec produces, with Trevor Calverley directing.

Thai horror 'Rinrada: The Influencer' closes Asia and Middle East distribution deals off its Screamfest debut; Macau opens on Halloween, with additional territory rollouts set across Southeast Asia and the GCC.

Alliance Media Partners has boarded world sales on post-production vigilante horror Non-Player Character ahead of AFM; the Nathan Tape feature blends surrealist horror with vigilante-thriller muscle and stars Jared Bankens, Eddie Jemison and Madison Wolfe.

Korean horror is drawing buyers at Busan's ACFM, with sales outfits front-loading titles and pushing regional bets like 'Vampir,' 'Stoneborn' and 'The Uninvited' as The King's Warden's nearly $120M local run keeps genre demand hot.

Universal lines up Mike Flanagan’s The Exorcist: Martyrs for March 12, 2027; Scarlett Johansson, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Sasha Calle, Diane Lane, Laurence Fishburne and John Leguizamo star in the supernatural crime thriller. Flanagan wrote and directed; Jason Blum, David Robinson and Ryan Turek produce.

Focus Features and Blumhouse-Atomic Monster set Anything But Ghosts for nationwide release on May 7, 2027; Curry Barker’s Obsession follow-up is already wrapped, and the same piece teases a rich eight-figure Universal horror deal plus A24’s Texas Chain Saw Massacre reboot on his slate.

Mike Flanagan’s Carrie rework is leaning hard into modern social-media bullying; Tim Bagley confirms his Mr. Morton role and new episode details alongside Summer H. Howell and Samantha Sloyan.

ITV’s The Party is already on air and on the market at MIPCOM, with Luke Evans, Tom Cullen and Sarah Solemani fronting the Elizabeth Day adaptation; ITV Studios is pitching the thriller globally after a 1.5 million peak launch.

Studiocanal boards the 11-part pan-Asian survival thriller kiDnap Game ahead of MIPCOM; Canal+ has already locked multiple territories while Studiocanal handles North American and broader international distribution. The Fuji TV/MakerVille/Simstory series premiered across 28 Asian territories and is now being shopped globally.

Kickstarter is funding the first print run of Long Winter Nights: A Horror Advent Anthology while helping bankroll season two; the collected book packages all 25 first-season stories plus a Krampusnacht bonus episode.

Fakku has acquired FairyTale’s publishing rights and is bringing cult horror adventure Dead of the Brain to Steam on Oct. 30; another retro IP play out of the Japanese PC-98 catalog.

Konami is mapping out second and third waves of Silent Hill titles after the first batch, signaling a longer franchise rollout for the horror IP.

ZDF Studios has moved more than 500 hours of scripted fare into 20+ territories ahead of MIPCOM, with SOKO sold to 12 broadcasters this year and vampire series Love Sucks picked up by Amazon, Apple, Disney Germany, Sky Switzerland and France Télévisions.

Cineflix Rights has locked in Canal+, NPO, SBS, RTV and LTV on Nordic crime drama Hildur after the Finland/Iceland co-production’s rollout; the series is adapted from Satu Rämö’s novels, which have sold more than two million copies.

Hoyts is adding two IMAX with Laser screens in Auckland and Sydney before Dune: Part Three, giving New Zealand its first IMAX footprint.

Hulu’s Clown Panic premieres October 12, 2026, on Hulu and Disney+ in the U.S., with Disney+ international; Ed Perkins’ documentary revisits the 2016 creepy-clown hysteria and arrives with four new clips.

Festival do Rio gave The Riverbank five wins, including best fiction feature, supporting actress, cinematography, sound and the Felix queer prize. Matheus Farias and Enock Carvalho’s debut thriller emerged as the night’s breakout as Brazil’s indie sector faces a fragile outlook.

Dave Boyle’s first horror film Never After Dark blends J-horror with Gothic Western textures for Magnolia Pictures, centering a medium’s exorcism at an isolated country house. Practical effects, a reversal of the usual ghost-story logic and a Stephen King endorsement give the project extra heat.

In-development 'Veil of Dust' is shopping financing and co-production partners at Busan Asian Project Market; Dominic Sangma pauses his village trilogy for a mystical mining drama rooted in indigenous belief.

Fantastic Fest’s 21st edition runs Sept. 17–24, 2026, with Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil, Isabelle Huppert’s The Blood Countess, Anna Biller’s The Face of Horror, and Robert Pattinson psychological horror Primetime among the lineup.

Hellraiser: Revival holds No. 1 on Steam's global top sellers chart five days after launch; 94% user approval versus Metacritic scores in the 60s signals strong fan demand despite technical drag. Saber Interactive's survival-horror adaptation is outperforming critics on visibility and engagement.

James Gray backs a U.S. federal production incentive and says a Warner Bros.-Paramount regime under David Ellison could preserve a healthier theatrical release slate; he also frames Paper Tiger as a director-driven project over committee filmmaking.

Netflix wrapped production on Scooby-Doo: Origins, with Josh Appelbaum and Scott Rosenberg showrunning, Toby Haynes directing the pilot, and Maxwell Jenkins, Mckenna Grace, Abby Ryder Fortson, Tanner Hagen and Paul Walter Hauser in the gang. Scooby-Doo is also back in HBO Max’s U.S. top 10, signaling fresh franchise heat.

Post-production wrapped on the 93-minute Halloween-set slasher-romcom; Brian Patrick Butler is taking A Corpse in Kensington to festivals while shopping distribution.

Jinga Films and Danse Macabre have set Scared to Death’s DVD collectors edition for Oct. 13; the Lin Shaye-led supernatural horror already played theaters and VOD.

A Possession in Lincoln County, FOUND TV’s first original found-footage feature, premieres October 22 and begins streaming October 23; a limited 500-copy Blu-ray release is also planned.

Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing board Marvel's Darkhold Destiny tie-in comic as Wizards of the Coast unveils new cards and a fresh character at NYCC.

At NYCC ’26, the Star Trek Universe panel showcased Starfleet Academy, featured William Shatner, and displayed a Gorn head.