Disney+, A24 & Netflix

Netflix is splitting UCAN scripted into genre-specific pods; Cole Galvin gets bumped to VP, and the new Genre, Action & Crime lane pulls horror, sci-fi, Westerns, spy drama, and crime under Michael Azzolino.

Joseph and Vanessa Winter board Future Me for Longevity Pictures, Spooky Pictures and Image Nation Studios; the viral NoSleep Reddit short is being folded into a new multi-picture horror slate alongside Home Safety Hotline.

Disney+ and Hulu lock January 2027 for Night Tales Club; Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Takashi Shimizu and five other directors steer the six-part supernatural horror anthology adapting Ichi Sawamura's short story collection.

Rome’s MIA Market turned into a horror strategy session as buyers and sellers praised the breakout runs of Obsession and Backrooms, with leaders now chasing the next Gen Z-facing horror voice and international breakout title.

WGA East is rolling out Cloak, a free script-registration tool meant to keep member work out of AI training sets; non-members pay $10. The move deepens the guild's fight over generative AI and writer control.

FX renews American Horror Story for season 14 before the season 13 finale; the current run posted the franchise’s biggest Hulu/Disney+ launch and first two weeks in Nielsen’s top 10, pushing the anthology past 150 episodes and keeping Ryan Murphy eyeing an international offshoot.

Rink Rat has optioned TV and film rights to Scott Henderson’s gothic novella, a Kingston-set period mystery with horror-adjacent DNA. Mary Sexton’s Newfoundland banner is backing the adaptation of Henderson’s debut novel imprint release.

Production starts tomorrow, with Suvari playing physician Dr. Abby Morrison.

Hoyts and Kismet have sealed a theatrical partnership for Nathan and Nick Lacey’s Feeding Ground across Australia and New Zealand; the alliance also adds Neon horror thriller 4 x 4: The Event, with both titles backed by Screen Australia and Screenwest support.

Queensland and Indonesian filmmakers are joining forces on Crossroads, a horror feature project with cross-border packaging momentum. The collaboration adds an international coproduction signal to the genre slate.

Screen Australia, Screenwest and Screen NSW are backing Brouhaha’s Sarah Bailey adaptation for a 2027 Perth shoot; the series is projected to inject more than $8.5 million into Western Australia and create about 300 local jobs.

Blood in the Snow has rolled out a 61-film Toronto lineup with four short-film strands and 11 world premieres; the next industry marker is the still-to-be-announced Horror Development Lab roster.

Grimmfest adds a December online edition with 15 features, two shorts programs and a fresh crop of UK and world premieres; the slate spans supernatural, psychological, sci-fi and slasher titles from Federico Zampaglione, Lisa Belcher and more.

Tokyo International Film Festival is leaning into franchise heat with Godzilla Minus Zero as centerpiece and zombie thriller Colony closing, while new leadership courts U.S. studios and global launch titles.

Unsolved Mysteries is back as a weekly video podcast on YouTube and audio platforms; the brand is extending its true-crime franchise into a new distribution window with fresh cases.

Trieste's 26th edition packs 60-plus premieres, Paolo Strippoli's horror masterclass and a Werner Herzog closer; the slate spans sci-fi, horror and fantasy across six days.

38 million views in two weeks for Netflix’s Canadian thriller; debuted at 17 million views and held No. 1 in 82 countries. The series is the streamer’s most-viewed Canadian title launch ever and has driven more than $90 million into Canada’s economy.

SYFY cancels Revival, leaving just one original series on the network; another supernatural slot opens up in the cable lineup.

Blumhouse's Other Mommy is logging a solid weekend run while landing a D+ CinemaScore, a sharp audience disconnect that will matter for legs.

Cineverse locked North American VOD and streaming rights to Ralph’s Perfekt Christmas; the Christmas-obsession thriller stars Tom McLaren as a family man whose scheme to fix his marriage spirals into a kidnapping plot. The pickup puts the title onto a multi-window genre route across home-viewing platforms.

Dead of Night is set for a November theatrical bow, giving the horror-thriller a clean release runway with Dermot Mulroney, Scott Grimes, Jake Busey, Kirrilee Berger and Chris Jericho in the ensemble. Jericho also boards as an executive producer, adding a genre-facing promotional hook to the rollout.

Radial has renewed Hashtag Homicide for season 2, and the 10-episode true-crime series is already in production for a summer 2027 premiere. Big Media and Wildbear Entertainment are back as coproducers.

Alfonso Gomez-Rejon has joined Disney+’s Afterlife with Archie, while former Riverdale star KJ Apa says he would like to appear in a cameo.

Peacock's eight-episode Crystal Lake keeps the Friday the 13th gore but strips out nudity; A24 backs the prequel with Linda Cardellini as Pamela Voorhees and Brad Caleb Kane running the show.

Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross board as composers and producers on A24’s Slayground; Jeremy Saulnier’s horror-thriller is locked for a Jan. 29, 2027 theatrical release.

Henchman is still a pet project for Zach Cregger; he says the Batman script is built around a Gotham pharmacist on the edge of the Joker conflict and that the idea is being overblown online.

dATE drops a new trailer and lands an official Screamfest 2026 selection, giving the dating-horror title an early festival-marketing boost. The placement signals a genre-fest push rather than a pure promo beat.