Netflix, A24 & Clayface

Season 2 of Carrie is greenlit off strong Nielsen results, with Prime Video's horror YA series already ranking as the platform's top U.S. title in its premiere week.

Clayface reached $83M WW on a $44M production as Resident Evil crossed $400M WW, with Other Mommy still pacing ahead of several key horror comps.

Obsession's $750,000 microbudget turned into a $500M-plus global breakout; Curry Barker wants to roll out a near-2:10 extended cut and is now set to reboot Texas Chainsaw Massacre after Anything But Ghosts.

Australia handed Hellraiser: Revival an R18+ while other territories balked at rating it, narrowing launch markets and reinforcing the game's censorship-bait positioning. Clive Barker consulted on the story and Doug Bradley returns as Pinhead.

Sosie Bacon joins Nikolaj Coster-Waldau in The Black Tapes, with the podcast adaptation continuing to build out its cast.

$200M budget and costly reshoots have turned Netflix’s Cliff Booth sequel into a boardroom problem; the streamer is now more open to a theatrical rollout and box-office reporting after years of anti-cinema posture.

Eight-episode Netflix adaptation The Secret of Secrets is in production in Prague; Morgan Spector, Rebecca Hall, Cherry Jones, Corey Stoll, Rob Delaney and Abbey Lee board the cast. Dan Brown co-writes and EPs with Carlton Cuse as Barrandov Studios and Charles Bridge locations roll camera.

No Gray Man 2 shoot is rolling in New York; the viral footage belongs to Great Men, a Lyrical Media indie comedy that started principal photography Oct. 19. Netflix's sequel remains inactive, with no Ryan Gosling or Ana de Armas set presence in the clip.

Black Bear's Wicker opens at £1.7M for a £1.8M UK-Ireland start; horror titles held over Halloween as Lionsgate's Ghosts: The Possession Of Button House reaches £6.3M and Resident Evil keeps climbing overseas.

Black Spot Books is launching an annual Year's Best from Women in Horror reprint anthology; Volume I lands in spring 2028, with submissions opening Oct. 31.

A24’s You Can See Everything has pushed October box office to a 37.5% year-over-year jump and is now closing in on the top five all-time domestic documentaries with more than $63 million. The film’s surprise run is cushioning a soft autumn for the rest of the marketplace, even as horror title Other Mommy stumbles badly.

Sphere Entertainment, Primary Wave Music and 20th Century Studios are mounting The Rocky Horror Picture Show at Sphere for 2027; the cult title becomes the venue's next large-scale immersive IP play after The Wizard of Oz at Sphere.

Halloween Ends is the No. 7 movie on Netflix's U.S. chart, making it the only franchise title in the current top 10; the post-Halloween spike shows lingering franchise demand for a divisive finale.

BIFAN is building an AI pipeline around a new education center and a five-year goal of training 10,000 filmmakers; Shin Chul says commercially significant AI films could arrive within a year and is pushing Korea-Japan collaboration.

Goodfellas launches AFM sales on Toho's live-action manga adaptation Leviathan; the sci-fi thriller is in post and set for a Feb. 11, 2027 Japanese release.

FrightFest Halloween kept Freaks Part II alive in the pipeline; Adam B. Stein and Zach Lipovsky discussed the sequel onstage, signaling the project remains active without a firm production start.

Raven Banner has landed worldwide rights to Marta Giec’s folk-horror feature after its Brooklyn Horror Film Festival run. "Òpi" blends occult ritual, family curse and supernatural dread, giving Raven Banner another genre pickup for its global slate.

The Conjuring is in HBO Max’s U.S. top 10, underscoring the franchise’s durable streaming pull; the original grossed $316 million worldwide on a reported $20 million budget.

Lionsgate Play's November India slate lines up Crawlers on Nov. 13, Yaga on Nov. 6 and April X on Nov. 27, with genre inventory spanning horror, supernatural mystery and sci-fi thriller. The schedule is a straightforward platform-windowing signal rather than a rights deal.

Netflix fronts Lee Chang-dong’s first feature in eight years, with Possible Love set for a Nov. 6 global debut after a South Korean theatrical window. Venice main competition and its Silver Lion/FIPRESCI run sharpen the streamer-as-home-for-auteur-cinema signal.

HBO Max and Peacock are now the co-exclusive home of Orphan Black, giving the cult sci-fi thriller fresh streaming visibility years after its BBC America run ended. The move keeps the Tatiana Maslany series in active circulation across two major platforms rather than as a library title buried in the catalog.

Gemstone E&M and IMTV are teaming on a K-occult horror play around Geumwoldo, with the mid-form drama already backed by Korea Creative Content Agency funding. The project is being built as a dual-format IP across a theatrical film and a 6-episode drama, with Gemstone taking co-production, investment, and music duties.

Dead-End Job hits No. 2 globally and No. 10 in the U.S. on Netflix after three days; the 8-part fantasy thriller extends the streamer’s post-Squid Game push for Korean genre series.

Apple and M. Night Shyamalan’s Servant exit a six-year IP fight after the appeals court upheld the jury verdict; the ruling leaves the streamer clear of the dispute and locks in the fee award outcome.

Darren Lynn Bousman boards Serpentine, a psychological crime thriller from Valerie Palencar; Dream State Studios is producing and no cast is attached yet.

Korean supernatural thriller series follows a debt-ridden job seeker into a deadly temp-work pipeline; Han Jun-hee and Kim Da-min co-direct, with Netflix set for a global Halloween launch after a Busan premiere.

Universal Orlando’s Hellraiser house is the clearest sign yet that HHN is leaning harder into horror’s literary IP; Clive Barker’s rights reverted, which opened the door for direct collaboration and a more faithful maze build. The 35th edition also tests new projection tech while using Hellbound Heart material as a marquee attraction.