Netflix, A24 & Amazon MGM Studios

A24 is taking Elden Ring to AFM as the priciest standalone package ever shopped at a market; budget is pegged at $175 million-$200 million, with Amazon MGM pre-buying international pay-1 streaming rights for tens of millions. Alex Garland’s fantasy epic is in post for a March 2028 theatrical/IMAX launch, with Kit Connor, Ben Whishaw, Cailee Spaeny and Jonathan Pryce aboard.

HBO has picked up a limited-series take on The Birds for development; Sarah Snook boards to star, with Tom Spezialy writing and exec producing alongside David Heyman and Universal Global Television. The adaptation retools Daphne du Maurier’s novella and the Hitchcock film into a new bird-attack thriller with rights held by Universal Pictures and the du Maurier estate.

Paramount+ has greenlit the six-episode Australian limited series Mushroom Murders, with Melanie Lynskey starring and executive producing as Erin Patterson; Daina Reid will direct all episodes.

Thai forest-spirit horror "Cher" lands in Tokyo’s gap-financing market after becoming the first Thai project to win a top prize at Frontières; the Benetone Films/Fearfolks feature is now building financing momentum ahead of a 2027 shoot and 2028 rollout. Songsak Mongkolthong directs from a Patrick Graham script, with Rattanawadee Wongthong, Pae Arak and Weir Sukollawat aboard.

James Watkins says he added Clayface’s best set-piece late in the process, doubling down on Matt’s dark-glee payoff as the DCU horror film keeps gaining traction. The movie has opened to $24 million domestic and $43 million worldwide against a $44 million budget, putting it on track to be profitably ahead of Supergirl.

$120M committed to U.S. indie film and TV in year one as Head Gear opens a Denver/LA arm led by Samantha Allwinton; the expansion is timed to a proposed federal tax credit and a broader push to finance, package and exec produce stateside projects.

Cineverse snapped up North American rights to The Night Driver after its Screamfest premiere; Josh Lucas, Alyssa Milano and David Arquette star, with VMI International brokering the competitive deal. Sean S. Cunningham exec produces the thriller-horror feature from debut director Jeremy Weiss.

'Crystal Lake' opens to 1.3 billion minutes in 11 days and becomes Peacock’s No. 4 scripted original; the A24-produced Friday the 13th prequel also lands at No. 3 on Nielsen’s streaming chart.

Handmade Sam short Sam’s Harvest drops under Michael Dougherty’s Sam: The Soul of Halloween banner; Trent Shy built the stop-motion piece at 12 fps, while a finished Trick ’r Treat sequel script remains unmounted.

Fox Entertainment Studios and Endemol Shine North America are turning Fear Factor: House of Fear into a scripted vertical horror microdrama for My Drama, with Fox Entertainment Global handling international distribution. The 30-episode, three-minute series marks the franchise’s first unscripted-to-scripted extension and the platform’s first horror title.

Amazon MGM shelves Leigh Bardugo’s Ninth House series after years in development; the dark-fantasy adaptation had already reached pilot-script stage and may now shop elsewhere.

Them! remake stays alive four years on, with Michael Giacchino and Matt Reeves still developing the monster reboot.

Paramount has locked Red Rising after Universal's earlier attempt stalled and Netflix passed; Francis Lawrence boards to direct, Justin Rhodes scripts, and Pierce Brown returns as EP.

Disney has acquired Divine Rivals after Paramount's rights lapsed; the fantasy-romance adaptation keeps Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Pouya Shahbazian aboard, with a new writer now being tapped.

November 18, 2026 is set for Gordon, Netflix's Argentine limited series about 1970s criminal Aníbal Gordon; filming ran in Buenos Aires and Río Negro, with Rodrigo de la Serna leading the cast.

Lilly Wachowski joins Molly Ratermann's completed horror-comedy Making A Bridesmaid as executive producer ahead of an AFM sales launch; the Lake Tahoe feature has already wrapped post and is headed into festival play.

Tubi is expanding its Creatorverse incubator with 10 new original video series from TikTok creators; the slate includes a film-inspired horror show, an animated superhero comedy, a dating series and a travelogue, with rollout details still under wraps.

Rule-based horror turns job insecurity and housing anxiety into creature-driven set pieces; retro Cyworld-metaverse visuals push Netflix's 'Sweet Gig' at Gen Z, with the series set to premiere Oct. 30 and expand Shortcake's horror lane.

New Short Media has wrapped production on horror-comedy microdrama It’s My Party & I’ll Die If I Want To, a dual-format project built to run as both a vertical series and a traditional movie. The launch title anchors the new vertical studio’s inaugural slate and keeps established talent like Eric Roberts in the mix.

From hit No. 2 on Netflix US with 7.7 million weekly views and 45.9 million cumulative; only the first three seasons are on the service in a limited licensing window, with season 4 still exclusive to MGM+.

New Line greenlights Last Friday with Lawrence Lamont directing and Ice Cube scripting, producing and starring; Mike De Luca is backing the long-circling sequel. One of Them Days’ $14M budget and $51M gross give Lamont a clean commercial case to carry the franchise forward.

Now in post-production after shooting in Kyrgyzstan’s Issyk-Kul region and Jakarta; KawanKawan Media’s Yulia Evina Bhara and Amerta Kusuma produce, targeting a 2027 release in English, Indonesian and Kyrgyz.

Production wraps on psychological horror Devour after an Australian shoot; Wildling Pictures is behind the indie feature.

SXSW Midnighter Audience Award and Overlook Grand Jury Prize winner Never After Dark lands on digital today; Dave Boyle’s supernatural thriller stars Moeka Hoshi and turns a ghost-story setup into a living-vs.-dead survival fight.

Lund Fantastic Film Festival is putting European genre cinema in the spotlight, with a program focused on fantastic films from across the continent.

Parker Posey exits Blumhouse and Atomic Monster’s Sleepover, a small casting hit for Jacob Chase’s horror feature.

Connor Storrie is in talks to play the villain in Marvel’s Ghost Rider opposite Ryan Gosling, with Shawn Levy directing. New York production is eyed for next year and the film is dated July 28, 2028.

On the verge of $100 million worldwide, Other Mommy has become a bona fide Blumhouse hit; Rob Savage's Josh Malerman adaptation is now one of the studio's biggest global horror wins of the year.

MVD and Bellini Industries roll out Bunker Heights on Blu-ray today; the two-disc limited edition adds a director’s cut, extended cut and an 80-minute making-of.

Doc traces the lost Texas Chainsaw Massacre film.