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Warner Bros.’ competing Elm Street reboot is out, leaving Paramount Primal as the lone Freddy track after the studio merger. The Craven estate-backed Paramount project remains in development, with no confirmed writer or director locked yet.

Curzon has snapped up Theo Rhys’ body-horror musical for UK-Ireland release after its TIFF Discovery bow; Cornerstone is shopping international rights at AFM. Jodie Comer and Harry Melling headline the BFI-developed feature.

$25,000 in production funding, mentorship and DCP+ distribution is on the table through Sam Raimi’s new horror award with Decentralized Pictures. The one-winner program is open to psychological, supernatural, horror-comedy and other genre shorts; entries close Dec. 31, 2026.

Blue Finch takes U.K./Ireland, Bir Film lands Turkey and Svoe Kino grabs Ukraine on Nikias Chryssos’ English-language horror feature, adding to Shudder’s U.S. buy and a stacked international rollout from Playmaker Munich at AFM.

WME signs J. Zachary Thurman after Fantastic Fest and Screamfest wins for It helps; Crooked Highway is set to produce a feature adaptation with Thurman writing and directing. He’s also attached to direct Black List horror script Crush for 18Hz’s Walter Hamada.

Concord Originals is developing supernatural gothic horror feature Wolf at the Door as an in-house play adaptation; Agustina San Martín boards to direct from Marisela Treviño Orta’s script, with casting underway and Concord leveraging its BMG, Theatricals and RKO IP vault.

April 2, 2027 theatrical date set for Nicolas Curcio’s micro-budget horror debut; Universal Pictures International will handle overseas, with Focus Features and Blumhouse Atomic keeping their Obsession-era pipeline moving.

Netflix turns KPop Demon Hunters into a hook for its new 'Hypersleep' ad push, extending the campaign into Tudum and social with creator-led 'Typecast' content.

Dead-End Job opened at No. 1 on Netflix’s non-English TV chart with 8.7M views and top-10 placement in 76 countries; the Korean horror black comedy topped 22 markets.

Netflix’s Stranger Things prequel underscores franchise IP power; Parrot Analytics and Ampere data show sci-fi, horror and supernatural series premieres sliding even as horror films keep outperforming.

$31.6 million domestic opening for Godzilla Minus Zero; premium IMAX play is triggering smartwatch noise alerts after sustained 90-decibel readings. Takashi Yamazaki returns as director, writer and VFX lead, with Ryunosuke Kamiki and Minami Hamabe back in the cast.

Saban Films has taken North American rights to Blood Behind Us; Lee Meltzer Consulting sets a January 2027 theatrical rollout followed by a February digital release. Brendan Gabriel Murphy directs the action thriller, one of Michael Madsen’s final screen roles.

Alexander Skarsgård, Hunter Schafer, Maya Hawke and Harry Melling board Guy Maddin and the Johnson brothers’ dark psychodrama; Square Peg launches AFM sales with CAA Media Finance, WME Independent and Charades on the package, while Telefilm Canada backs the Canadian side.

EuroObscura has taken TRAPPED and will shop the Canadian psychological thriller to buyers at AFM. The 111-minute feature premiered at Forest City Film Festival and stars Liam Leone, Siddharth Sharma and Alexandra Floras-Matic.

VMI is launching AFM sales on Keoni Waxman’s Manila-set action pic 'Big Tiger'; Luke Goss, Katherine McNamara, Byron Mann and Alden Richards star, with Lux Angeles Studios, Birns & Sawyer and Myriad Entertainment producing.

Shirogumi expanded its rendering hardware and kept the Godzilla Minus Zero pipeline lean, adding about 15 artists while Takashi Yamazaki doubled down on heavy previs and close-floor oversight.

Legendary has tapped Apollo partner Aaron Sobel for a newly created senior management role covering M&A and capital strategy; the hire expands Josh Grode’s team as the company eyes new business and continues to be linked to a Lionsgate acquisition. The move lands while Legendary readies Dune: Part Three, Godzilla x Kong: Supernova and Gundam.

Weta FX and TAICCA signed an MOU to position Taiwan as an AI hub for Asia's content economy; imCore launched Core Studio at TCCF, while organizers said horror remains a natural cross-border fit for Taiwan and Indonesia.

Over $400 million worldwide; Backrooms is now A24’s top-grossing title, making Kane Parsons the youngest filmmaker to ever hit No. 1 domestically and globally. Parsons is also drawing a line against generative AI, saying artists do not need the tools to create.

Kiah Roache-Turner sets invisible-monster horror "Don't Look" with Alyla Browne leading; Cornerstone is taking the package to AFM after the Black List script moved from Sean Loch's directing debut to Roache-Turner.

New title, new director: Kiah Roache-Turner boards From Below, now Don’t Look, after Sean Loch’s exit. Cornerstone is launching international sales at AFM; Alyla Browne leads the cast alongside George Pullar, Masha Basman and Stephen Peacocke.

Elliot Frances Flynn and Michael Paré will star in Jon Russell Cring and Tracy Nichole Cring’s supernatural horror Not Herself, which recently wrapped production in New York; Flynn plays a psychic haunted by a tragic accident, with Paré as Reverend Charles Weathers.

After 15 years away from directing, the filmmaker behind cult zombie titles Deadlands: The Rising and Deadlands 2: Trapped returns with Stoffel vs. the Living Dead, a self-aware AI zombie comedy using stylized creatures and human voice performers.

Lionsgate Limited and Vestron Video are giving Jonathan Levine’s All the Boys Love Mandy Lane its first Blu-ray; the collector’s edition ships Dec. 15 with an Amber Heard interview and legacy extras. The physical-media push keeps the cult slasher cycling through premium home-video windows.

Warner Bros. had a broader DC horror push mapped beyond Clayface before James Gunn’s exit, pointing to a bigger genre lane inside DC Studios. No formal greenlights are confirmed, but the slate strategy was clearly expanding.

Post-production shark-horror sequel The Black Demon: Atlantis hits AFM with Highland Film Group handling worldwide sales. Mucho Mas Media co-finances the Jack Kesy-led follow-up, with Carmen Cabana directing and an under-prison cult/shark setup driving the package.

Cranked Up Films has acquired J. Horton's monster-hunt horror-thriller "The Apex Predators Club" for a January 2027 digital release; the Mahal Empire/ZapruderFlix title premiered at Nightmare in the Ozarks.

Terror Films Releasing has partnered with Joshua Hernandez and Pammy Esquivel on found-footage horror The Wicked Hour, with a North America streaming rollout set for November. The trailer drop doubles as a release signal for the supernatural title.

The Pool Films has boarded international sales on Noon ahead of its AFM launch. Xavier Palud’s survival thriller stars Clara McGregor and pairs Featuristic Films with France’s Phase 4 Productions on a deadly-trials setup.

Cinered Films launches worldwide sales on Moviedreams at AFM after a Sitges world premiere; the Argentine sci-fi thriller follows tech that infiltrates, manipulates and weaponizes human dreams, with an industry screening set for Nov. 12 at AMC Century City.