Netflix, American Film Market & Atomic Monster

Epic is launching creature horror I Am the Teeth at AFM with exclusive footage and a proof-of-concept push; Chris Jericho stars as a bounty hunter in the werewolf origin story, with full production eyed for Q1 2027.

Jeff Howard and Helen Black are developing Wendy Webb’s haunted-lake novels into an interconnected supernatural TV universe for Impossible Dream Entertainment and Wall to Wall; season one adapts The End of Temperance Dare.

Sony Pictures has snapped up feature rights to Mouthwashing and lined up a Jennifer’s Body director to steer the adaptation, giving the psychological horror game a fast-track to the big screen.

Blumhouse and Atomic Monster now fly under the Blumhouse Atomic umbrella while keeping separate labels; the combined horror shop says it has topped $2.5 billion worldwide on under $330 million in budgets. Sam Zimmerman’s acquisition push and a 2027 slate packed with River, The Revenge of La Llorona, The Exorcist: Martyrs, Paranormal Activity and Blair Witch sharpen the company’s low-budget horror playbook.

James Wan is framing Blumhouse Atomic as a pipeline for new voices as the merged horror house formalizes its new name. The company is touting more than $2.5 billion worldwide and lining up fresh Paranormal Activity, Blair Witch and Saw chapters.

Paul W.S. Anderson is set to direct adaptations of Kevin J. Anderson’s cosmic horror novels Nether Station and Nether Vortex; Jonathan Wakeham is writing, with W.S. Anderson, Jeremy Bolt, John Harlacher and Tony Eldridge producing. The package leans hard into Event Horizon-style space horror.

Quantify is taking vampire romance Pretty Kill Machine to market at AFM with Jonathan Rhys Meyers leading the cast; Matthew Wilder directs the Joshua Tree-set feature about an immortal blood drinker whose first romance threatens her reign.

Antenna Releasing grabs worldwide rights to Robbie Smith’s 66-minute horror feature I Don’t Like It Here, a sub-$20,000 desert shoot now headed for distribution.

Booboo Stewart, Milo Hutton, and KaDee Strickland board The Thing In the Hall, a psychological horror adaptation of E. F. Benson’s short story. Logan Kishi makes his feature debut as writer-director, with Darkbox Entertainment producing.

Megan Fox, Amanda Seyfried, Karyn Kusama and Diablo Cody are back in the Jennifer’s Body sequel mix; a Vancouver shoot was eyed for October, but 20th Century Studios still hasn’t made the package official.

Universal Pictures Home Entertainment sets Other Mommy for digital on Nov. 10 and 4K/Blu-ray on Dec. 29, extending Rob Savage’s Josh Malerman adaptation after its theatrical run.

Bhumi Pednekar is locked to front T-Series Films and Almighty Motion Picture’s original horror franchise Jaani Dushman, a UK-set mother-daughter haunted-house story targeting a 2027 theatrical launch. Robbie Grewal boards as creative producer and Arshad Syed directs, with filming set to begin shortly.

Cameron Crovetti and Catherine Ashmore Bradley board Jay Henric’s psychological horror feature DollKeeper after an 11,000-submission nationwide search for the leads.

Easy Tiger has locked TV rights to Dervla McTiernan’s psychological thriller after a heated auction and tapped Shaun Grant to adapt; the series is going out to buyers with no broadcaster or streamer attached yet.

MGM+ has season two of The Institute set for Nov. 8 and has added Alfie Allen as tech mogul Nolan Reeves; Stephen King, Jack Bender and Benjamin Cavell return on the adaptation.

Viz Media greenlights a TV adaptation of Julietta Suzuki's vampire manga Otaku Vampire's Love Bite, a supernatural rom-com about a reclusive bloodsucker obsessed with her favorite fictional character.

Godzilla Minus Zero opened to 910 million yen ($5.75 million) in Japan, setting a live-action first-day record and more than doubling Minus One's debut; North American rollout starts Friday.

Strand Releasing holds the U.S. rights to The Blood Countess and is eyeing a spring 2027 theatrical rollout after Ulrike Ottinger trimmed 15 to 20 minutes from the cut; the vampire pic premiered at Berlinale and resurfaced at Tokyo.

Alliance Media Partners has secured worldwide sales on Tim James Brown’s feature debut Modem, a techno-horror set during a family digital detox in a Swedish forest that unleashes a sadistic demon. The title has already played Raindance and the Stockholm City Film Festival.

4K restoration of Just Before Dawn finally clears a rights battle that kept the 1981 slasher hard to find; the title is moving back into circulation on disc.

Brainstorm Media has taken U.S. rights to Jessica Rothe sci-fi thriller Imposters for an early-2027 theatrical launch; Blue Finch closed a full spread of international sales ahead of AFM after the film played SXSW, Beyond Fest, BiFan and Sitges.

Cinemark and Regal are passing on Netflix’s two-week IMAX window for Quentin Tarantino’s The Further Mis-Adventures Of Cliff Booth; AMC is in, and the fight over theatrical exclusivity is widening as streamers lean harder into cinema runs.

Sony rolls out the Resident Evil reboot for home entertainment on Nov. 3 digital and Dec. 29 disc, while Netflix’s Pay-1 window is still headed for early 2027. The Capcom adaptation has already cleared more than $400 million worldwide.

Alamo Drafthouse is booking Littermates for an exclusive theatrical rollout in major cities next week, with playdates set across New York, Los Angeles, Austin, Boston, Chicago and more.

Netflix lines up Dogfight for early-2027 UK production; Guy Ritchie writes and directs, Jason Statham stars, and Black Bear, Toff Guy Films and Punch Palace are producing.

FilmQuest’s closing-night horror western won Best Feature Director for Casey Walker, with Luke Hemsworth, Kevin Durand, and Michael Pitt toplining the Canadian wilderness survival pic. The award gives Ithaqua a festival-market bump as it heads out of the genre circuit.

Adam Green says The Ascent is effectively dead, shelving the hot-air-balloon/shark-attack horror project that surfaced earlier this year.

Initial story outlines are complete and scripting is underway on Amazon MGM’s live-action Warhammer 40,000 series; Cavill remains set to star, with United Artists now partnered on the production and a separate animated project also in motion.

Spoiling You, Too is filming now with Megan Tremethick back as Miss Mutter; Laurence R. Harvey returns and Lawrie Brewster produces for British Horror Studio. The sequel broadens the ASMR horror world while reuniting key cast and crew.

The Temple wrapped in Canada and surfaced with a first-look image; the horror feature centers on an orphaned millionaire using science to contact his dead parents.