Netflix, Mike Flanagan & Prime Video

Amazon MGM has started production on Summoner, with Kevin Bacon joined by Daniel Ings and Stephanie Beatriz; Jeremy Slater writes-directs the demon-on-witness-protection horror play from the Muschiettis and Russell Ackerman.

Season 2 is already writing and casting with a production schedule in hand; Warner Bros. and HBO have renewed It: Welcome to Derry, and Brad Caleb Kane says Andy Muschietti is building a bigger 1935 chapter after the Season 1 finale drew 6.5M U.S. users in three days.

Netflix preempts Brandon Feldman's horror-thriller creature feature 'Canopy' in a six-figure spec sale; Verve ran the auction, with Adam Goodman and Matt Skiena producing via Dichotomy.

Scarlet Stallone's SRYN Productions has optioned all six Fears to Fathom games for film and TV, with creator Mukul Negi and Rayll in the development mix.

Marion Le Correller's debut body-horror feature SPECIES lands at Shudder for next year; the streamer keeps stocking up on festival-ready international genre titles.

Cinephobia Releasing has picked up North American and UK rights to Marcel Walz’s Brute 1986, the sequel to Brute 1976; the slasher will world premiere Oct. 31 at Tubi FrightFest in London.

Sitges hands its top Fantastic Selection prize to Marion Le Corroller's body-horror Sanguine, a €20,000 win that lands as festival admissions rise 6% to €1.05M.

Netflix is deepening its Blumhouse Television partnership with two new Worst Ever spinoffs and a renewal, extending the streamer’s true-crime unscripted franchise.

Mike Flanagan's "Carrie" has hit No. 1 globally on Prime Video within a week of launch, giving Amazon another horror chart topper. The eight-episode Stephen King adaptation is also sitting at an 85% Rotten Tomatoes score, with Flanagan floating multi-season expansion plans.

Halloween 2027 Disney+ premiere is locked for the Archie Comics zombie series; Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa’s Afterlife with Archie is already in script-to-series mode at Warner Bros. TV and Berlanti, with KJ Apa angling for a cameo.

Haunted Hotel is back for season 2 after a rapid renewal; the Netflix animated horror-comedy has also rebounded onto the U.S. chart, giving the show a fresh audience signal.

Paramount lands Red Rising with Francis Lawrence directing and Justin Rhodes writing; Lawrence also has a separate Lionsgate horror adaptation, Carry Me to My Grave, in the works.

Sony’s Screen Gems has Mouthwashing in feature development as a horror title; no talent, budget or rights details are disclosed yet.

Antonio Banderas boards True Detective season 5 opposite Nicolas Cage; Issa López is writing and showrunning the Jamaica Bay-set HBO installment, with production eyed for 2027.

Prime Video's 'Fourth Wing' locks Esther McGregor as Violet and Emilio Sakraya as Xaden; Meredith Averill runs the series from Kilter Films and Outlier Society after the May series order.

Life-sized whale-stomach sets, California tax credits and Weta-built practicals powered Whalefall’s production; Brian Duffield and Daniel Kraus had to engineer cameras, lighting and costumes around a cramped survival-body-horror setup.

Prime Video has ordered Julie Plec's competitive tennis drama "Rally"; Plec writes, directs and showruns under her Universal Television overall deal, with Andre Agassi, Justin Gimelstob and Guymon Casady EPing. The series comes from Universal Television, Entertainment 360 and Amazon MGM Studios.

Cineverse has taken North American VOD and Screambox rights to debut feature "Ralph's Perfekt Christmas," with a November rollout set. The holiday-set dark genre pic stars Tom McLaren and comes from Mary McLaren and Tom McLaren's Next Chapter Entertainment banner.

Paramount has the live-action Cyberpunk film set up under Skydance, and CD Projekt Red says it will tell a new story in the game’s world instead of retelling V’s quest.

Salt & Bone has rolled cameras on a post-apocalyptic horror feature from Visionary, marking the project’s production start.

Flanagan says Warhammer 40,000 is his toughest adaptation yet, but Amazon MGM’s series has already cleared outline stage and is moving into scripts. The rights package from Games Workshop keeps Henry Cavill attached to star and EP, with no release window set.

Artlist’s The Arc is being used as a proof-of-concept for AI-assisted TV, with the sci-fi series reportedly built for $38,000; the experiment puts a hard number on how far generative tools can compress scripted production costs.

Tom Rhys Harries leads James Watkins’ horror-thriller as Matt Hagen; Warner Bros. dates the DC Studios pic for Oct. 23, 2026 and drops the first clip ahead of release.

Kate Siegel voices Adelaide, a cult leader, before appearing onscreen in the finale; she also directed Episode 3 of Prime Video’s 8-episode Carrie adaptation.

Madeleine McGraw, Xochitl Gomez and Jack Champion headline Jason Perlman's YA horror pic Bad Influence; the hitchhiker thriller is cast but still shopping for a distributor.

Netflix has not renewed Haunted Hotel for Season 3 yet, but creator Matt Roller says the writers’ room is done and he’s targeting a pre-Halloween 2027 rollout if the streamer gives the go-ahead.

DC Studios’ R-rated body-horror Clayface is already in Oscars chatter on the strength of its practical-effects makeup, with awards positioning building before release.

Fandango will stream the first five Hunger Games films free Oct. 16-31 while selling Sunrise on the Reaping tickets in-app; Lionsgate is using the franchise’s $3.3 billion box office to push theatrical turnout.

Dark Sky Films sets a Nov. 4 theatrical rollout for Larry Fessenden's creature feature Trauma Or, Monsters All, opening at IFC Center before expanding to Los Angeles and additional markets. The Glass Eye Pix production folds Habit, Depraved, and Blackout into one monster-crossover story.