Resident Evil, Disney & A24

Tubi lands a three-picture R.L. Stine play with Front Street Pictures, using Pumpkinhead as the launch pad for a broader kid-safe horror universe. The streamer is calibrating the slate for TV-14/Vs TV-PG boundaries while Jem Garrard boards the adaptation.

RMB62.5 million second weekend keeps Sony/Constantin Film’s Resident Evil atop mainland China; the reboot’s cume reaches $55.8 million. China’s frame totaled $26.7 million as local titles faded after Golden Week.

Bridge Independent takes domestic sales on Thomas Mendolia’s feature-debut psychological horror Henry’s Ebb after its Tallinn bow and Frontières showcase. U.S. premiere lands at Cucalorus, with Kingston Rumi Southwick leading alongside Banks Repeta.

A24's untitled vampire feature has wrapped with Arkasha Stevenson directing and Ari Aster EPing through Square Peg; Hunter Schafer says the bachelor-party horror pic is "batshit crazy" and still lacks a title or release date.

$<1M horror breakout Obsession lands on Netflix Nov. 17 after a 186-day theatrical window; the Focus Features title paired a long domestic run with 93% critics and 94% audience scores. The streaming move gives Netflix a proven microbudget genre hit with clear crossover momentum.

118 territories already sold on Yeon Sang-ho’s psychological thriller; overseas revenue has topped the film’s net budget ahead of its Hawai‘i premiere. Well Go USA has North America, with South Korea opening Oct. 21.

The Exorcist: Martyrs skips ‘Tubular Bells’; Mike Flanagan is leaning into an all-new score as he targets a harder, scarier reboot for the March 12, 2027 theatrical launch.

Lewis Pullman boards Apple TV+’s Guilty Creatures opposite Julia Garner; Craig Gillespie directs Sarah DeLappe’s adaptation of Mikita Brottman’s true-crime book for Tomorrow Studios.

Julia Ducournau boards a film adaptation of Adèle Yon’s bestseller Mon vrai nom est Elisabeth, a rights play that puts the Titane filmmaker on another literary IP with awards heat. The project is still unshopped publicly; no release date or cast is attached yet.

Steven Knight’s script finally gets Sicario 3 unstuck; Josh Brolin, Benicio del Toro and Emily Blunt are back, with Taylor Sheridan no longer driving the sequel draft.

$17.5M worldwide start for 20th Century Studios’ Whalefall on a reported $60M budget; The Devils’ restored NC-17 cut opened to $1.64M from 350 theaters, while Other Mommy crossed $78.78M worldwide and Resident Evil surged past $361M global.

Peacock's weekly chart put a new horror prequel atop the service's most-watched TV ranking, a fresh demand read for franchise horror on the platform.

Disney Portugal takes 10 Tatort: Vienna TV movies; Canal+ locks an Austria fiction package that includes Kafka and In the Shadow of Fear, while Samsung TV Plus and GSN widen the reach of ORF-Enterprise’s crime and factual library.

£2.3m UK-Ireland debut for Street Fighter leads the frame; Other Mommy fell 54% to £924,000 on week two and Resident Evil has climbed to £13.6m in the territory.

Lionsgate lines up digital purchase and rental for Mike P. Nelson’s giant snake horror Beware Boiúna on Nov. 3 after its Fantastic Fest world premiere; Jessica Rothe, Kiana Madeira and Logan Marshall-Green star.

Sanguine takes Sitges’ top prize, with Joko Anwar winning best director for Ghost in the Cell and The Spiral landing key acting honors; the festival’s genre sections also crowned Gummy, Hen and Wildwood among the major winners.

Adelaide Film Festival moves supernatural thriller Wreck and Ruin into JAFF Future Project; Rosie Lourde, Katharine McPhee and Josh Trevorrow take the package to Yogyakarta as AFF deepens its market bridge with Cannes Marché.

Brooklyn Horror Film Festival hands out its 2026 jury awards, with body horror, psychological thrillers and splatter-heavy titles taking top honors.

Netflix logs its first official theatrical grosses on La Bola Negra, debuting to $277.5k on four screens with a 45-day window before a wider November rollout; the streamer is using awards-season prestige to test a theatrical corridor.

Rights to The Hellbound Heart and Barker’s original Hellraiser screenplay reverted to him in 2021; he now says he has multiple film ideas waiting to be developed and wants to keep expanding the mythology. He also says comics are in motion and frames Hellraiser: Revival as a wake-up call for the franchise.

Zendaya boards Alex Garland’s untitled A24 sci-fi pic; cameras are slated to roll in 2027 with an early 2028 release window in play. Garland is back in the lane that made Ex Machina and Annihilation prestige sci-fi touchstones after wrapping Elden Ring.

Doha Film Festival’s Gala and Special Screenings lineup puts James Gray’s Paper Tiger and Rami Kodeih’s Furies on the slate, alongside Media City Qatar-backed Artou. The Nov. 19-27 festival also expands its international profile with films from the U.S., Lebanon, Brazil and beyond.

West Milford, NJ set footage confirms Crystal Lake is in active production; the Friday the 13th prequel series is leaning hard into gore and a fog-drenched woods look.

Animated indie horror feature The Weird Kidz lands on VOD nationwide this October; James Fino and Lucky McKee are among the key genre names backing Zach Passero’s feature debut.

Guilder Cinema Group is rolling Scott Windhauser’s supernatural horror-thriller into theaters now; the 92-minute R-rated feature stars Spencer Boldman and Paola Andino and traps a search party in a supernatural prison.

Eggers used a Lumière masterclass to revisit Werwulf and float a 1930s Batman concept; the session keeps his next two genre projects in the conversation without any new financing or casting.

Bonsai Films locks an April 1, 2027 Australian theatrical rollout for James Hunter's psychological horror debut; Lucy Lovegrove stars as a grieving midwife haunted in the Victorian bushland.