CAA, Focus Features & Inde Navarrette

Netflix locks live-action Ravenloft as a gothic horror series; the Dungeons & Dragons IP expands from tabletop to streamer with a built-in fantasy-horror crossover. The move adds another major genre franchise play to Netflix’s originals pipeline.

Disney+ and Hulu lock ABC News’ first original video podcast, a six-part true-crime extension of the Cassie Stoddart case that premieres Sept. 4 before rolling out on podcast platforms.

AR Content, Vertigo Entertainment and Blumhouse Atomic Monster are remaking Stéphan Castang’s horror satire Vincent Must Die, with David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick writing and directing. AR Content optioned the rights from Goodfellas; Roy Lee, Michael Clear and Michael Kupisk are on producing duties, with Stuart Manashil executive producing.

Karl Glusman and Juliette Gariépy board Replacer ahead of a Sept. 16 Montreal start; Avan Jogia directs and stars with Halsey, while Lilly Wachowski executive produces and Kyle Mann’s Independent Edge leads production.

Temple Hill and Anton team with Sam Evenson to turn the viral supernatural short Ignore It into a feature; Lily Collias stars, Evenson writes/directs, and Anton is launching sales in Toronto.

Apple Films lands The Waffle House Index in a seven-figure acquisition; Inde Navarrette boards to star and executive produce, with Louis Paxton directing from Andrew Nunnelly’s script and Plan B producing.

Bendita Film Sales has taken international rights to Norma Vila’s psychological horror thriller Carapace ahead of its Sitges Fantàstic premiere. The Basque debut feature was made for €2.5 million ($2.9 million) with support from regional tax incentives and broadcasters EITB and RTVE.

Badlands acquires Jacob Reiner’s Wildman, a Bigfoot revenge spec out of the Blood and Ink contest; Carson Reeves boards as executive producer.

Alex Garfin boards the Billy Zane-led creature feature Wekiwa, which is already shooting in Orange County, Florida; Richard L. Anderson directs his own script with Salomé Breziner and Scott Rosenfelt producing.

TIFF launches its 2026 market-backed edition with Galas, Special Presentations, Platform and Midnight Madness stacked across Sept. 10-20; Anna Biller’s The Face of Horror and Takashi Miike’s Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo land in the late-night section.

Beyond Fest sets a 12-feature M. Night Shyamalan retrospective for the Egyptian Theatre this fall; the filmmaker appears in person for four curated blocks, including Q&As on The Eastrail 177 Trilogy, Signs/Knock at the Cabin, The Visit/Trap and The Sixth Sense.

Kentucky wrap on Out of the Ashes; Jordan Dykstra is launching worldwide sales out of the upcoming TIFF market via Ignite Pictures while Steven C. Miller's post-apocalyptic thriller heads to buyers.

Tamar AI is using Venice Production Bridge to push TapNow as an AI-native production OS, claiming 3 million daily users across 150 countries and a creator incubation model that doesn’t take copyright. The company is also rolling out Glanze, a new streamer built around AI-native filmmaking and IP incubation.

Colombian AI-assisted essay film The End of Times world premieres in Venice Critics’ Week on Sept. 10; Split Screen is handling sales as the project leans into experimental festival positioning.

Licensable-AI face replacement on Flesh Impact was scrapped after Maggie Gyllenhaal found the Dakota Johnson-to-Marilyn Monroe experiment flattened the performance; she says the tech also raises environmental costs and could squeeze the economics of mid-budget filmmaking.

$35M domestic tracking on Resident Evil, with upside to $50M, would deliver a franchise-opening record for Sony/Constantin; the film is already pacing ahead of Alien: Romulus and 28 Years Later comps.

Sweden shoot is underway on Häxan, a fully financed folk-horror feature from Little Walnut Productions; Erika Linder and T’Nia Miller star, Tina Gharavi directs, and Moby exec produces while composing the score.

1,500 North American theaters are booked for HOPE on Sept. 9; Na Hong-jin's SF thriller becomes the biggest Korean wide release in the region since Parasite after a 4.53 million-admission domestic run.

$505.6 million worldwide on a $750,000 budget has Focus Features mounting a full awards push for Obsession, with Inde Navarrette at the center and Curry Barker in play across director, screenplay and editing. The campaign is still undecided on Golden Globes placement, with Focus weighing drama versus comedy routes.

Trinity Content Partners maps a September UK digital slate of seven horror and thriller titles; the rollout spans folk terror, sci-fi chills, and home-invasion fare via GrimmVision, Seven Tales, and Miracle Media.

Neon opens Na Hong-jin’s creature feature Hope in 1,500 U.S. theaters Sept. 9, its widest Korean-language launch since Parasite; sold-out early access screenings and strong presales signal a major theatrical play.

BBC has pre-bought RTÉ’s true-crime drama The Murder of Mr. Moonlight, which adapts Catherine Fegan’s book and lines up Malcolm Campbell to script while Banijay Rights handles international distribution.

Shudder sets Sept. 4 for Parasomnia, the debut feature from writer-director James Ross II and producer Gabrielle Chapman; the psychological horror-thriller leans on night-terror fears and a Texas indie backstory.

Quiver Distribution lines up a limited release for Thomas J. Churchill’s creature feature The 3 Killer Pigs this month; Marcel Banks and Kaitlin Lyerly handle the practical creature FX and makeup.

Syndetic wraps production in Los Angeles with Jessie T. Usher, Taye Diggs and Brett Gelman among five new castings; Blake Linder’s feature debut pushes a psychological sci-fi thriller with clear horror-adjacent tech paranoia.

Victor Miller dies at 86; Sony screens the first 30 minutes of Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil ahead of release, while HBO Max sets Nancy Won to run The Conjuring series. Apple and Plan B also line up Inde Navarrette for The Waffle House Index as the piece closes on indie horror budgets.

Hammer Films unveiled the first trailer for supernatural survival horror Ithaqua after its world premiere at FrightFest London. Set in 19th-century Canada, it follows mercenary Cole Franklin leading a famine-stricken trading party toward an Indigenous village plagued by an unknown threat.