Netflix, Focus Features & Godzilla Minus Zero

$31.6 million domestic and $63 million worldwide launch for Godzilla Minus Zero; GKids and Toho are touting the sequel as the distributor’s biggest opening ever, with $12 million from Imax alone.

CrossBorder Films takes international sales and will show the 1960s-set feature to AFM buyers; Sceadwe Films co-produces ahead of a late-November U.K. shoot.

Alicia Witt and María Camila Giraldo board Colombian horror thriller Incuba Project; Red Collision Studios is launching the feature from its in-house writers’ room and lining up a Colombia shoot.

Focus Features has set Robert Eggers’ Werwulf for Dec. 25, 2026; Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Willem Dafoe and Bodhi Rae Breathnach star in the new horror feature. The title is positioned as Eggers’ next theatrical event after The Witch and The Lighthouse.

Netflix has ordered six episodes of Stiffs (Skóry), a psychological thriller inspired by Poland’s Skin Hunters scandal and produced by Fremantle. Filming is underway in Łódź, Warsaw and across Silesia, with a 2028 premiere planned.

GPP has licensed Jane Howatt’s Jigsaw & Jane for a TV adaptation, turning the John ‘Jigsaw’ St John true-crime book into a new series after the earlier NBC drama Jigsaw John.

Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley are steering Paramount’s next Star Trek reboot into thriller mode, with Training Day and Crimson Tide cited as tonal comps. If the reset lands as planned, it becomes the franchise’s first true sci-fi thriller.

Cineplex takes Colombian and Latin American rights to Indigenous eco-thriller The Cry of Serankwa after a triple-award run at Sanfic Industria; the film is backed by Colombian funds and $20,000 in grants.

Disney+ Japan’s Gannibal has set new streaming records, becoming the service’s most-viewed live-action title in the country after season 2 launched; Hulu keeps the folk-horror manga adaptation available in the U.S.

Bang Zoom Studios adds James Cromwell, Keith David and Jackie Tohn to its horror audio anthology as the series rolls out new Halloween-season episodes on streaming services.

£1.7 million UK-Ireland opening for Ramayana: Rise Of A Legend sets a territory record for an Indian film; Godzilla Minus Zero follows at £1.1 million as Asian titles take the top two spots for the first time. The report also flags Ramayana as a reported $420 million two-part epic, with Part 2 already dated for October 2028.

Lupin Season 4 is sitting in the Top 5 across dozens of territories after its Oct. 23 rollout, giving Netflix another global crime-thriller hit led by Omar Sy.

$1.2 million domestic to date for Taika Waititi's Klara and the Sun; Sony has stopped reporting numbers after a sophomore frame that fell into roughly $45,000-$165,000 depending on theater count. The wide release is collapsing fast, with some locations averaging low double digits per day.

Obsession turned a sub-$1 million budget into more than $400 million worldwide and now becomes Netflix’s next streaming play; the horror breakout is one of the century’s biggest original hits.

Epis has added Two Marys and The Swindler & the Billionaire Murder to a true-crime slate that now spans 75 projects and more than 2,250 shortform episodes. Both titles come from Silvio Productions, adding more documentary crime inventory to RoseBerry Media’s vertical app play.

A Pair of Shoes in the Dark Corner of the Moon enters advanced development with financing in place and $20,000 in grants; El Amir and Riyadh are using Thessaloniki’s industry forum to chase co-pro partners ahead of a late-2028 shoot.

Netflix has international rights to The Gallerist, locking a same-day Dec. 4 day-and-date launch outside the U.S.; Roadside Attractions and Vertical handle the domestic theatrical rollout.

Thomas Mendolia’s debut feature bows at PÖFF’s Youth and Children’s Film Festival with Bridge Independent handling sales; the horror-tinged psychodrama centers on an imaginary friend and a road trip through the American South.

$523 million worldwide from a $750,000 budget makes Obsession one of horror’s most extreme box-office outliers; Focus Features is now positioning Curry Barker for an awards run.

Prime Video canceled Spider-Noir after one season despite 2.6 billion viewing minutes in six weeks; Cage says Amazon pushed an AI waiver and he’s moving on to True Detective.

Toruń Camerimage has turned its 2026 edition into an AI referendum for cinematographers; panels are splitting between efficiency hype and the labor threat artists say the tech poses. The festival's programming is making the AI fight a live industry conversation instead of a theoretical one.

Nick Stahl boards Robert Husted’s supernatural horror debut as a rogue archangel; production has wrapped in Calgary and the film is still without a distributor, with Tangerine Dream on the score.

A24’s Death Stranding adaptation is moving toward production with Michael Sarnoski directing and calling it a straight-up adventure movie rather than a survival-thriller. The film is being framed around life, death, isolation and connection as prep ramps for next year.

Netflix has started production on Operation TAP, its first feature shot in Portugal; João Nuno Pinto directs the true-story hijacking drama from SPi, with a $10 million demand built into the plot.

Prime Video's The Dark Tower is mapped as a multi-season saga; Mike Flanagan is building the Stephen King adaptation around the books' full arc to avoid a rushed ending.

A Danielle Harris documentary is in motion, framing the child star’s rise and her horror legacy through the Halloween-era breakout that made her a genre fixture.

Netflix drops the Trinity trailer and locks a Dec. 1 debut for Jed Mercurio’s political thriller; Gugu Mbatha-Raw stars opposite Richard Madden, with Michael Cuesta and Maja Vrvilo directing.