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HAF relaunched a dedicated genre focus at the Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum showcasing five in-development genre projects and one WIP seeking production partners and financing — the slate lists budgets (e.g., In The Name Of Right $5.65M; The Power Plant $1.67M; The Grass $800K) and prizes including HAF awards (~HK$100,000 each) to incentivize financing.
104 Films has launched D-Horror, a BFI Creative Challenge Fund-backed development programme to guide 10 disabled UK creatives over four months to produce market-ready horror projects and 'reclaim the genre,' featuring creators from Reunion and We Might Regret This.
Lionsgate has acquired the killer-crocodile survival-thriller spec The Death Roll, written by Kas Graham Rebecca Pollock, with Glen Powell executive producing via Barnstorm alongside Dan Cohen and Bryan Haas of Chasing Epic Pictures; project now moving into development at Lionsgate.
Specialty distributor 3388 Films secured international theatrical rights to Vietnamese dark psychological thriller Bunny!! (a domestic hit that grossed over $16M in Vietnam) and will roll it out across multiple territories starting March 26, positioning the film for broader festival and commercial exposure.
Brian K. Vaughan — acclaimed comics/TV writer — co‑wrote Dune: Part Three with Denis Villeneuve; the film adapts Frank Herbert's Dune Messiah and hits theaters in December.
Collider (and other outlets) report Tommy Lee Jones is joining Season 2 of Hulu’s Ethan Hawke-led noir The Lowdown — framed as a high-profile casting coup and Jones’ first regular TV role in ~40 years, reinforcing Hulu’s commitment to prestige genre drama.
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