Netflix, A24 & FlixPatrol

Hulu hands Ryan Coogler’s X-Files reboot a full series order after the pilot greenlight; Danielle Deadwyler and Himesh Patel lead the new FBI duo, with Coogler directing and execing via Proximity Media and Onyx Collective.

Production has wrapped on Osgood Perkins' The Young People; the new horror feature is now headed into post from one of the genre's hottest working directors.

A24 has a vampire feature in the works with Hunter Schafer attached; plot, director and release details are still under wraps.

Bite Club is a vertical-format horror project featuring genre veterans Barbara Crampton and Russell Todd.

Bill Hader used the Future of Filmmaking Summit to surface new details on They Know, his first horror feature; Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s influence and Hader’s post-divorce pivot frame the project.

Lionsgate drops the first six images and sets a Dec. 4 U.S. theatrical launch for the sealed-capsule survival pic; Idris Elba co-directs with Martin Owen from a script by Elizabeth Morris, Matthew Mitchell and Vicki Sargent. Principal photography wrapped at Pinewood on an underwater stage, with Caitlin FitzGerald and Hero Fiennes Tiffin co-starring.

$7M-ish domestic opening on a reported $60M budget puts Disney and 20th Century's Whalefall on the ropes; weak turnout and a soft B CinemaScore signal a fast move to streaming is coming. Josh Brolin's survival thriller is also getting outpaced by a smaller-screen A24 doc, underscoring how thin the theatrical lane is for original genre-adjacent pics.

MUBI extends its Australia and New Zealand theatrical partnership with Madman Entertainment; Madman will roll out Jane Schoenbrun's Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma alongside Cannes and Berlinale titles across the region.

Evil Dead Burn hits No. 1 on HBO Max worldwide, topping FlixPatrol's global chart within weeks of launch and giving the franchise a strong Halloween-window streaming win.

Netflix's Myron Bolitar adaptation is already in production with Colin Woodell starring, turning Harlan Coben's 12-book thriller run into a long-tail franchise play. The streamer is banking on a built-in case-of-the-week engine that can stretch far beyond its usual one-season Coben model.

25.6M viewers in its first 35 days and 104M in its first six months put Netflix's His & Hers in genuine streamer-hit territory. Jon Bernthal and Tessa Thompson front the six-episode Alice Feeney adaptation, which now has durable binge value on the platform.

Netflix's Animals is No. 1 in the U.S. and charting in 93 countries, with FlixPatrol logging top placement in 78 markets and 64 straight days at No. 1 in 64 of them.

$6 million Split became a $278.45 million worldwide hit; McAvoy says it's still the only role that reliably throws off residual checks, a reminder of Shyamalan's low-budget profit model.

Oct. 23 is locked for Lupin season 4, with all eight episodes dropping at once; Omar Sy says Netflix pushed the French thriller bigger on action, drama and production value. The new run adds a stronger rival and a more elaborate heist setup for Assane Diop's return.

Blumhouse Television is extending Worst Ever with In-Laws and Friends and bringing back Worst Neighbor Ever for season two; the Netflix true-crime franchise has already spent 17 weeks in the streamer’s global top 10 and 13 weeks on Nielsen’s originals chart.

AMC+ and Crave’s eight-part mystery thriller sets an Oct. 23 U.S. premiere and lands a Trevor Yuile score, with Alanis Morissette cutting a cover of Donovan’s “Season of the Witch” for the trailer. Kat Sandler created the series from her play; Carrie-Anne Moss, Noah Reid and Katharine Isabelle lead the cast.

Stephen King horror title is surging on Prime Video despite a 33% Rotten Tomatoes audience score, turning its streaming spike into fresh market data. The platform heat matters more than the critical split here.

A24 and Peacock's eight-episode Crystal Lake centers Pamela Voorhees' origin story, with Brad Caleb Kane saying the series leans into science fact over sci-fi and that earlier Pamela prequel attempts fell through before his version landed.

15-minute sci-fi short AURORA lands at the 27th Malibu Film Festival; Angad Aulakh and Guy Kent are developing it as a feature proof of concept through Last Carnival.

Project Hail Mary leans on wire rigs, practical puppetry and heavy VFX cleanup to sell zero-G and Rocky; ILM and Framestore split the digital heavy lifting around Ryan Gosling’s space epic.

British indie horror The Cull sets its world premiere at Tubi FrightFest Halloween; the trailer teases a wrongfully convicted man dragged into an occult conspiracy in a remote cabin town.

Small-budget deepfake horror Appofeniacs was built on savings, friends and family money; Sean Gunn backs Chris Marrs Piliero's feature debut as a timely AI panic piece with a tight indie script. Gunn also frames the film as a warning shot on digital performers and deepfake chaos.