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IllFonic is developing the official Halloween video game — an asymmetrical multiplayer (plus single‑player) experience where one player is Michael Myers and others are the Heroes of Haddonfield; John Carpenter teases fans will be pleased and the game is due Sept. 8, 2026.
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Mike Flanagan’s new Exorcist film is in production in NYC with Scarlett Johansson and a large ensemble (Chiwetel Ejiofor, Laurence Fishburne, John Leguizamo, Diane Lane, Sasha Calle, Rahul Kohli and many Flanagan regulars) under a Blumhouse‑Atomic Monster/Red Room/Morgan Creek banner; the article notes Universal/Peacock paid roughly $400M for trilogy rights and The Exorcist: Believer grossed $137M on a $30M budget.
AMC+ and Shudder will premiere The Terror: Devil in Silver on May 7 (six episodes, weekly) — Ridley Scott exec produces, Chris Cantwell and Victor LaValle wrote and run the season (LaValle's novel is the source), Karyn Kusama directs the first two episodes and Dan Stevens headlines a large cast.
Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Frankenstein reimagining The Bride! has underperformed catastrophically: reported $90M production budget and an estimated $20M global gross to date, with a second-weekend drop over 70% and projections implying a major studio loss if typical P&A and revenue splits hold.
Sky acquired a slate of Crave originals for UK/Ireland distribution, including Heated Rivalry S2 and Crave’s mythic coastal thriller YAGA (a Baba Yaga reimagining co‑directed by David Frazee and Rachel Talalay), while also picking up multiple other U.S./global series including A24’s Superfakes.
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