Netflix, Zach Cregger & Shudder

Raven Banner snaps up worldwide rights to Marta Giec’s Polish folk-horror debut Òpi ahead of its Brooklyn Horror Film Festival bow; the Kashubia-set feature blends ancestral superstition, family trauma and supernatural dread.

Apple is launching Remnants, a 27-minute immersive ghost story from Ti West, as the first horror title built for Vision Pro; the October 16 drop tests spatial storytelling as a premium genre format.

March 12, 2027 theatrical release locked for The Exorcist: Martyrs; the franchise resets as a standalone possession/serial-killer hybrid after the planned trilogy was scrapped.

The Asylum and Vital Signs Entertainment are reviving Z Nation as a 10-episode reboot sequel and shopping it to buyers at Mipcom; the new season is set in the same world with legacy characters in talks and a darker, bigger mythology.

Nine-episode supernatural horror podcast drops Oct. 22 with Ethan Hawke leading the cast and Scott Derrickson/C. Robert Cargill scripting. Hawke's Under The Influence, Crooked Highway and Mickey Schiff are co-financing, with iHeartPodcasts distributing the series.

$750K budget, 20-day shoot, and a built-in YouTube audience turned Obsession into a breakout horror case study; the film is drawing a studio bidding war after clearing its cost in a single weekend.

Sinners has become one of Netflix's biggest recent hits internationally, peaking at No. 5 on FlixPatrol after its streaming rollout. The horror break-out closed at an estimated $371 million worldwide against a $90 million production budget plus about $60 million in P&A.

Warner Bros. Pictures won the bidding war for Siren Head; Zach Cregger and Brian Duffield are writing the adaptation, with Duffield eyed to direct. The internet horror property is the latest high-demand genre IP to spark a studio fight after Backrooms.

Weta says 83% of Zach Cregger's Resident Evil runs through VFX; the team built creature continuity with recurring visual markers, undercutting the 'mostly practical' chatter around the Sony horror reboot.

$80 billion in debt and a $6 billion cost-cut target hang over Skydance’s combined Paramount/Warner film operation; Dana Goldberg, Josh Greenstein and Josh Goldstine are tasked with keeping Warner’s distribution and marketing teams intact while scaling output to 30 films a year. Dune: Part Three is the near-term tentpole, but the real test starts when the merged slate rolls into 2027 and beyond.

Brian Duffield shuts down Alien prequel chatter, even as 20th Century keeps the franchise in motion. Alien: Romulus sequel development is underway, Alien: Earth season 2 is filming, and Alien: Isolation 2 is moving forward.

4K-restored The Devils opens in select North American theaters via Warner Bros. Clockwork this October; the NC-17 rating makes it the film's first official release under that classification.

ITV has taken U.K. rights to the Irish crime thriller, with RTÉ already aboard and ITV Studios handling international distribution. Two Cities Television is producing the deficit-financed series; MIPCOM Cannes launch put Kate Mulgrew and Colm Meaney-fronted series on the market radar.

LaKeith Stanfield is now set to star in Molepeople for Blumhouse and Paramount Primal, replacing Anthony Ramos in Rob Savage’s sci-fi-horror reboot. Filming is slated to kick off in the UK in late November or early December, with an Aug. 27, 2027 theatrical date already on the calendar.

Chandler Riggs' 20-minute Resident Evil 7 fan film Biohazard hits the internet Oct. 14; Riggs writes, directs and stars as Ethan Winters, with Jason Douglas as Jack Baker and Greg Nicotero supplying SFX equipment. Riggs says he'd line up for a future Zach Cregger collaboration on the franchise.

Mark Heyman’s horror feature locks a Jan. 1, 2027 theatrical date; Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Phoebe Dynevor and Norman Reedus star in the New Mexico retreat thriller.

Grimmfest-winning horror-thriller lands a digital rollout Oct. 20 via Archstone Entertainment; Jacob Lees Johnson directs Jon Heder in the feature’s next market step.

Stan, Sky NZ, Hot and OSN+ land the first international pre-buys on Honey as Fifth Season takes the BBC/ZDF-commissioned 6x60 darkly comedic thriller to Mipcom.

$587 million Netflix buyout of InterPositive brings Ben Affleck in as senior advisor; the AI shop's tech was used on Animals for backgrounds and lighting, turning the thriller into a showcase for the streamer’s post-production push.

ACFM’s AI panel put Kling AI, Korean and Chinese creators, and hybrid production methods front and center as filmmakers weigh faster generation against authorial control. Kim Seong-su used the forum to premiere AI short Worm Train and frame AI as a workflow accelerator, not a replacement for human scene construction.

Kannada folk-horror Rudhirvana locks a Nov. 27 theatrical release; Agni Narasimha directs, MP Yaduveer unveiled the poster, and the film bowed in IFFI's Gala Premieres as the lone Kannada title in the section.

Dead Meat is packaging Fresh Meat: Volume One as a feature-length horror anthology competition, extending James A. Janisse and Chelsea Rebecca’s push to surface emerging genre talent. The project followed an open call for submissions earlier this summer.

Universal’s 2023-announced remake pairs writer Chris Winterbauer with Robert Kirkman’s Skybound; Paramount’s The Molepeople, directed by Rob Savage and starring LaKeith Stanfield and Ben Mendelsohn, arrives Aug. 27, 2027.

A24 backed Adam Wingard’s tighter-budget return to his You’re Next/The Guest lane, with final cut the tradeoff for leaner financing. Onslaught hit VOD this week after the director trimmed set pieces to stay inside budget.

48-actor voice cast rolls out for Twin Swans' PlayStation 5 folk-horror game; Hannah Morley and Gregg Lowe lead the ensemble as Hunter's Moon targets Oct. 26 launch.

Universal Pictures moved fast on River after the TIFF premiere; the backwoods slasher is now on a theatrical campaign for a Jan. 15, 2027 release. The film was originally set up as a Shudder Original with IFC handling theatrical before Universal and Blumhouse-Atomic Monster stepped in.

Skincrawl Studios has wrapped principal photography on Patricio Valladares' supernatural horror reimagining of Dante's 'Inferno' and is taking the first look to AFM and Berlinale buyers. The small-budget Italy-Ireland co-production is already plotting a festival run after teaser delivery later this year.

Netflix sets Nov. 11 for The Body, an eight-episode high-school horror series from Quinn Shephard; the teaser spotlights a devil-possession angle and ensemble led by Sofia Wylie, Geena Meszaros and Gabby Windey.