Godzilla Minus One & Godzilla Minus Zero

Paramount locks David Bruckner to helm Smile 3, with Nick Antosca writing and Parker Finn staying aboard as producer while he pivots to the Possession remake. The trilogy-completing sequel keeps the franchise moving after Smile and Smile 2 pushed the series past $350M worldwide.

LaKeith Stanfield exits Blumhouse and Paramount’s Molepeople after scheduling conflicts; Rob Savage also drops off, with Ben Wheatley stepping in to direct Nathan Elston’s subterranean horror script. The package reset keeps the project alive and hands the movie to a filmmaker known for off-kilter, high-concept genre work.

Toho says Godzilla Minus One’s $57.1 million North American run rewired its global rollout playbook; Godzilla Minus Zero opens in Japan Nov. 3 and in North America Nov. 6 through Gkids, which Toho acquired in 2024.

Cinephobia Releasing has picked up North American and UK rights to Marcel Walz's Brute 1986, extending the Brute franchise one decade forward from Brute 1976. The package keeps indie horror distribution active with a sequel hook and a return to leather-metal slasher chaos.

Shudder maps its late-year slate with new originals New Group, Tinsman Road, Ice Cream Man, The Holy Boy, Unholy Night and Split Rock, plus a $29.99 annual promo. The streamer is also teaming with Alamo Drafthouse for one-night Tales From the Crypt screenings.

Scout Taylor-Compton is directing and co-writing Survive: The Game, with filming already underway in Spain. Olivia Holt, Rohan Campbell and Jaimie Alexander are aboard for the cabin-set horror feature from producer Randy Wayne and Rebellium.

Jamie Jones directs, with WestEnd launching sales ahead of AFM; Electric Shadow’s Jay Taylor produces with Rumble’s David Lancaster and Adam Knopf. Wales shoot set for early 2027.

Apple TV cult-horror adaptation of Adam Nevill’s Last Days casts the trio as series regulars alongside Caitríona Balfe.

Connor Storrie is in talks for the Ghost Rider villain opposite Ryan Gosling; Shawn Levy directs the MCU reboot, which already has a July 28, 2028 release date.

Ethel Cain’s six-minute "Wynter Waxeth" lands over Werwulf’s closing credits; the track drops Nov. 13, 2026, with the soundtrack due Dec. 18 and the film due Christmas 2026 in the U.S. Robert Eggers’ werewolf pic stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Willem Dafoe, and Lily-Rose Depp.

Blumhouse-Atomic Monster optioned Josh Malerman’s Incidents Around the House fast; Rob Savage and Jessica Chastain board the adaptation, which has already topped $94 million worldwide. Malerman says the film stayed close to the novel’s child-eye dread while the team tested multiple cuts before locking picture.

Vampire horror thriller Landlord lands at Grimmfest and the Frontières Buyers Showcase; Black Mandala is handling international sales. Remington Smith’s Louisville-set pic mixes neo-Western grit, supernatural horror, and practical gore.

Under-$10,000 Appalachian horror anthology Stranger Tales from Appalachia is finished after a five-year grind and is now headed to horror-festival submissions before a late-2027 streaming push. A third chapter, Strangest Tales from Appalachia, is already being developed for a 2027 start.

Dr John De Simone’s first feature score lands on Sean Hogan’s mock true-crime supernatural horror The Dark Gets In, which is now set for a UK bow at FrightFest Halloween after Beyond Fest and Horrorthon plays.

Salt Entertainment has struck a rights agreement with Clive Barker and Park Ave Ent. LLC to develop and publish an officially licensed Hellraiser tabletop line; the first games are targeted for Halloween 2027 with Michael Shinall and Francesco Nepitello designing the slate.

Windows is sponsoring Barker's October 29 YouTube short Mama Bear; the piece also confirms his 2027 Focus Features feature Anything But Ghosts and his attachments to A24's Texas Chain Saw Massacre reboot and an original Universal horror pic.

IMN has taken U.S. and Canadian rights to Qilin Li’s alien-creature sci-fi thriller Variant as Cappu Films closes Europe, Asia and Latin America sales at TIFFCOM; terms were not disclosed and several territories remain open.

$150M minority stake in Legendary and a non-exclusive Japanese IP pact are powering TBS’s global J-content push; the broadcaster is planting LA desks at Legendary and teeing up first Studio Monowa projects with CJ ENM and U-NEXT.

$25M-$35M domestic launch tracking for Toho's Godzilla Minus Zero would mark the biggest North American opening ever for a Japanese Godzilla film; Takashi Yamazaki's sequel follows Minus One's $114M worldwide breakout on a $15M budget.

John Carpenter is set for ACE's Golden Eddie Filmmaker of the Year prize at the 77th awards; Bonnie Koehler and Christopher Nelson also land career achievement honors.

Hungry has hit No. 1 movie on Prime Video and No. 3 overall on Amazon’s service, turning Signature Entertainment’s low-budget hippo creature feature into a streaming breakout after a tiny theatrical/VOD rollout. The chart run gives James Nunn’s animal-attack pic real cult-crossover upside despite weak reviews.

Netflix’s Obsess lands Oct. 30 with Yaqoub Alfarhan, Haya Abdel Salam and Laila Abdallah in a 1970s Kuwait-set psychological horror series; Said El-Marouk directs from Eyad Saleh’s script.

Primordial Soup, Darren Aronofsky’s AI production studio, filed for a $15 million equity raise as Camerimage lines up his Director’s Award; the honor also spotlights his long-running collaboration with Matthew Libatique.

A 16-day Baton Rouge shoot pushed more than $1 million in local production spending; Marginal MediaWorks’ On the Last Day of Christmas used the low-budget horror-comedy as a regional economic driver. The film premiered at the New Orleans Film Festival and was made entirely in Baton Rouge.

4K UHD/Blu-ray lands December 15 via Well Go USA for Yeon Sang-ho's zombie thriller Colony; the disc adds a making-of, Q&A, and trailers.

Universal tees up Mike Flanagan's Exorcist reimagining for March 12, 2027; Scarlett Johansson leads a serial-killer possession thriller with Chiwetel Ejiofor, Diane Lane, Laurence Fishburne, and John Leguizamo.

Rene Rivas Productions and GRUNGE FILM LLC are launching a proof-of-concept short and Indiegogo campaign for 'Grunge'; the feature is rooted in Seattle grunge history, with Crypt TV set for the short premiere and support from Sub Pop and C/Z Records.

Bong Joon Ho’s 'The Host' is back in theaters in a new 4K remaster on Nov. 20, paired with an in-person conversation featuring Edgar Wright.

Hammer has unveiled Ithaqua, a new survival-horror feature starring Luke Hemsworth and Kevin Durand. The teaser pushes the project as a return to folklore-driven genre filmmaking and confirms the studio’s latest horror title is moving forward.