Netflix, American Film Market & Blumhouse Atomic

Blumhouse Atomic inks a first-look with James Tynion IV’s Tiny Onion for horror IP across film, TV and animation; the package also pushes Exquisite Corpses and a 1408 sequel toward AFM with co-financing and sales on the board.

Netflix locks a 2028 launch for its live-action Stranger Things spinoff; the new series expands the franchise into Marion, Nevada and keeps one of streaming’s biggest genre brands in play.

David Bruckner takes over Smile 3 with Nick Antosca on the script; Parker Finn stays aboard as producer after pitching the framework, giving Paramount a new creative team for the franchise’s third chapter.

Simon Pegg boards opposite Paul Giamatti in gothic horror feature Boutique; Manifest has taken over international sales from XYZ ahead of AFM while UTA Independent handles domestic and Prospect finances.

Vasaria Pictures inks a development and distribution pact with TerrorBox, the horror-only vertical app. Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan will adapt Jezebel into a vertical series and develop original feature Fate, giving the platform an in-house genre pipeline.

Toronto-shot horror thriller Can I Come In? is now in post and heading into AFM sales with Launch North steering production; Brenton Thwaites, Hannah John-Kamen and Henry Thomas lead the cast.

Paramount has moved Paranormal Activity to Oct. 22, 2027, restoring the franchise to a pre-Halloween lane; Blumhouse Atomic and Paramount are financing and producing, with Paramount still set for worldwide distribution.

Banjong Pisanthanakun has locked an Inherit sequel, with Davika Hoorne returning as the centipede-spirit grandmother. The Thai horror hit is also becoming a referendum on local financing, with the filmmaker eyeing a Thai-Korean co-production lane.

Republic Pictures backs Ben Leonberg’s feature take on Dan Baillie’s horror novella Look Out; Leonberg writes with Alex Cannon, with Vertigo Entertainment’s Roy Lee and Andrew Childs producing and AWA’s Zach Studin aboard.

Sony Pictures snaps up Liv Zander's Heartstring Duet for feature development; the dark fantasy-romance books fuse plague curse stakes, horror and romance, and have already crossed 100 million Kindle page reads worldwide.

Netflix’s animated adaptation of Stephenie Meyer’s 2020 novel Midnight Sun has a two-season plan following its 2024 straight-to-series order; the book retells Twilight from Edward Cullen’s perspective.

Kansas Bowling joins Deathstalker Productions' Witchcraft: The Lanterne of Light; Carissa Pierson directs the found-footage supernatural franchise entry from Andrew Pierson's script.

Warner Bros.’ old contract language left TV rights with the Golding estate, letting Eleven Film and Jack Thorne unlock a four-part Lord of the Flies adaptation after years of legwork; BBC greenlit it and Netflix later picked it up in the U.S.

Lionsgate’s Hunger Games prequel now has an $80 million-plus opening floor, with presales ahead of Wicked and the franchise’s previous installment; the Thanksgiving box-office race is shaping up around one of the studio’s biggest post-Covid launches.

$6.7 million in domestic previews for Godzilla Minus Zero gives the kaiju sequel a strong early read, while Ramayana: Rise of a Legend adds $3.5 million ahead of release.

Prime Video availability helped The Rocky Horror Picture Show re-enter Amazon's U.S. streaming charts over Halloween weekend, extending the title's decades-long afterlife as a cult horror staple.

Senscape launches a publishing arm with Seclusion: Islesbury, a Steam-bound point-and-click horror adventure from Silent Game House; the first title targets next year and shifts the ASYLUM/Serena maker into publishing.

AFM package Violet is shaping up as a dark psychosexual horror feature, with genre talent colliding on the market floor and no buyer attached yet.

Horror Island adds TERROR EXPERIMENTAL as a new cross-border partner and names Dagon Films its official boutique distribution partner for 2026; the festival also rolls out trophies and award categories in Las Palmas.

Library of the Dead’s Kickstarter has cleared $1.75M; Clive Barker is curating Compositions of the Dead, an original horror soundtrack planned as digital backer content with a limited vinyl run.

Disney+ and Hulu log their biggest local-original premiere ever with The Remarried Empress, which tops 50 markets worldwide after a three-day launch window. The K-drama replaces Moving as Disney’s Korean benchmark; rollout continues weekly through Nov. 25.

Crawlers reaches digital and Blu-ray, putting the arachnid creature feature into a fresh home-entertainment window; Angel Gómez Hernández directs from Jayson Rothwell’s script.

Fall 2: Deadpoint hits digital and VOD, with the Spierig Brothers steering the high-altitude survival sequel and Harriet Slater, Arsema Thomas, and Tom Brittney aboard.

Netflix lines up a Spanish true-crime documentary on the unsolved murder of María del Carmen Martínez, produced by LACOproductora for a streaming release.

Scout Taylor-Compton is assembling horror talent around Survive: The Game; no financing or release details are disclosed.

Robert Eggers' Werwulf is gaining traction in makeup and hairstyling conversations, with the Nosferatu follow-up cutting into The Odyssey's Oscar-category chatter.

$40,000 New Year’s Eve horror-comedy from Chris LaMartina opens a Baltimore roadshow Nov. 12 before a U.S. tour into January; Terror Vision plans a Blu-ray with making-of extras.