Netflix held first place for a second month. And half of the month’s eight highest-graded deals originated as unowned internet horror: creepypasta, ARG, SCP.
Correction. Published July 31, 2026; corrected October 15, 2026. This issue originally led on deal volume falling 13% from June. That figure was wrong: it counted 29 days of July against a complete June, and the archive behind it has since been rebuilt to match the editions that actually published. Deal Flow Monthly withdrew the figure in Nº 002 on September 7, 2026 and no longer reports month-over-month volume; this issue’s headline, summary and sharing text no longer use it. The changes in the buyer table below were measured against the archive as it stood on July 30. The correction in Nº 002 explains why. The definition of a tracked deal story below was corrected at the same time: several stories can cover one project, and not every story is a sale.
A tracked deal story is a story ScreamWire’s classifier flagged as deal activity, counted once on first sighting across 500+ trade and genre sources. Several stories can cover one project, and some cover a project already in motion (a casting, a trailer) rather than a sale. It measures reported activity, not money. ScreamWire publishes no dollar figure unless a source states it verbatim.
All four share a trait: no rights holder to negotiate against, no purchase price to report, and an audience that arrived before the deal did.