Neon, 01 Distribution & Adriano Giannini

The 2026 summer box office has broken an all-time record, with audiences returning for blockbusters including Spider-Man and smaller releases such as Obsession.

Paolo Strippoli’s Italian horror thriller 'The Spiral' premiered in Venice to a 9-minute standing ovation, with Le Pacte handling international sales and remake rights now in play. 01 Distribution opens the film in Italy on Oct. 8, giving the title a clear commercial runway off its festival buzz.

Stephen King’s horror IP is getting a first UK adaptation, adding another genre property to the development pipeline. The project keeps King’s catalog hot for screen buyers chasing proven brand-name material.

AMC Global Media has settled the Walking Dead profits suit for $120 million, with $85 million due this month and $35 million due next year as an advance against future participation. The resolution closes out another major franchise accounting fight after AMC’s $500 million Netflix pact for the Walking Dead library.

IMAX posted its biggest summer ever at $728 million worldwide, up 73% versus 2023, and captured a record 5.8% share of overall box office across just over 1,800 screens. Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey powered the run.

Fan boycotts and buycotts are becoming a real theatrical variable; Paramount’s Scream 7 survived a spring protest push while Coyote vs. Acme benefited from values-driven support in the marketplace.

Grimmfest loads up its Manchester lineup with Dracula, Victorian Psycho and more, opening with Hammer Films’ uncensored 4K restoration of the vampire classic. The program reinforces the festival as a key launchpad for horror catalog play and new genre title visibility.

[Editor’s Note: It’s a Spanish Article] Curtas Festival do Imaxinario loads its 54th edition with 85 shorts and videoclips from 29 countries, including 11 world premieres and 66 titles in the Official Fantastic section. Horror, sci-fi, fantasy and black comedy anchor the lineup, with fresh discoveries spread across Spain and Galicia premieres.

Apple TV+ sets July 9, 2027 for the fourth and final Silo season, locking the endgame for Graham Yost’s dystopian saga. Rebecca Ferguson returns as the streamer wraps one of its clearest sci-fi tentpoles.

Neon sets It Ends for VOD and Digital HD on September 15, 2026 after its theatrical run. Alex Ullom’s SXSW-debuted horror feature continues its rollout off a Neon release pattern that favors windowed horror monetization.

Juliette Gariépy boards Halsey-led psychosexual horror Replacer alongside Karl Glusman and Boys Noize; Montreal shoot starts Sept. 16 with Lilly Wachowski executive producing. The project went out with sales at Cannes earlier this year, pairing a first-time feature lead with a new horror package.

NEON’s Hope is already being framed as a franchise play: Na Hong-jin says the sci-fi creature feature has a written sequel while the film pits Hwang Jung-min, Zo In-sung and Hoyeon against an unseen alien threat. Michael Fassbender, Alicia Vikander, Taylor Russell and Cameron Britton appear via motion capture and an invented alien language.

$11M in California tax credits on $50M qualified spend kept Whalefall in-state for 62 days of shooting; 20th Century weighed Louisiana vs. California before locking Radford Studios and local specialty crews.

Universal Pictures kicks off production on The Mummy with Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz back for the first time in 25 years. Radio Silence directs from David Coggeshall’s script, with the shoot split between the UK and Morocco and a theatrical date set for October 15, 2027.

Umbrella is pushing Mum, I'm Alien Pregnant toward a New Zealand theatrical rollout after its Sundance Midnight premiere; the debut feature from Thunderlips mixes alien-pregnancy body horror with horror-comedy.

First-look pics land as Black Palace moves into post-production; New Regency is lining up worldwide sales and courting distributors ahead of the fall festival window. Freya Allan, Kodi Smit-McPhee and Jon Croker headline Nick Hamm’s Jack the Ripper-era period thriller.