Netflix, Lionsgate & Mike P. Nelson

Mike P. Nelson boards Lionsgate's next Saw installment, with James Wan, Jason Blum and Leigh Whannell producing under Blumhouse Atomic Monster after the franchise's return from Twisted Pictures.

Letterboxd could fetch north of $300M; A24 and The New York Times are among the latest suitors, with Netflix, Sony and Paramount Skydance also having kicked tires.

U.S. rights acquired for Russell Goldman’s debut psychological thriller; Dark Sky Films sets a nationwide theatrical rollout for spring 2027 after SXSW, with Jamie Lee Curtis producing and the cast led by Britt Lower, Rhea Seehorn, David Dastmalchian and Anna Baryshnikov.

Louis McCartney, Jessica Reynolds, Sky Yang and Gabriel Nagy board A24’s Anglo-Irish horror No One Is Coming; Ronan Corrigan directs, with Film4 and Screen Ireland co-financing.

Belmont Cameli boards Sony’s Hollow as Brom Bones; the Sleepy Hollow reimagining pairs him with Sydney Sweeney, while Beer adapts her own 2027 novel and Honey Trap’s first feature moves under Sony’s first-look pact.

Well Go USA dates giant-spider survival pic Don’t Move for digital Oct. 13; Maclain Nelson directs the James Murray/Darren Wearmouth novel adaptation starring Lyndsy Fonseca, Rob Riggle and T-Pain.

Indie sci-fi comedy Into the Sky lands Sam Richardson and a 25-day shoot; the podcast unpacks a financing path built off Black List heat, 500 VFX shots and heavy prep at Fantastic Fest.

Bloodsucking ticks stand in for anxiety in Sebastian Granskog’s body-horror feature debut; Character House has the project set up as a U.K.-Nordics co-production, with Elias Salonen and Anna Böhm attached and practical effects prioritized.

Netflix UK upfronts unveiled Witch Hunt, a dark thriller from Abi Morgan and Sister starring Sarah Lancashire as a woman released after 30 years for drowning her daughters; the same slate event also surfaced Bob Mortimer/Richard Ayoade comedy Hot or Cold.

CAA signs Nick Kozakis after the TIFF bow for Kick On; the filmmaker’s second feature is set for Fantastic Fest and Beyond Fest, while his horror debut Godless: The Eastfield Exorcism previously won at Sitges and sold to XYZ Films.

Telefilm Canada has selected 16 projects for its 2026-27 Talent to Watch program, keeping Canadian indie financing moving into the next cycle.

NYFF lands Toho’s Godzilla Minus Zero and Luca Guadagnino’s Artificial; several titles are also seeking distribution out of the festival, keeping New York in play as a market launchpad.

David Gordon's feature debut Astrolatry bows at Sitges as a psychologically driven genre satire; Ethan Daniel Corbett fronts the premiere on the festival circuit.

HBO has unveiled its October Halloween slate of horror programming, though no specific titles, premiere dates, or scheduling details were provided.

Michael S. Rodriguez’s slasher Cinefiend gets a world premiere on The Monster Channel, lining up a free-streaming Halloween rollout for the indie title.

Zurich Summit lines up FilmNation, AMPAS, Mubi, CAA, UTA, YouTube and TikTok for panels on box office, AI, the creator economy and distribution; Glen Basner gets the Game Changer honor.

Freestyle Digital Media has acquired J. Davis’ dark comedy after festival stops at Austin, Santa Barbara, Chattanooga, RiverRun and Wilmington; the film rolls out on digital Oct. 6 with a limited theatrical kickoff Oct. 8 at Vidiots.

Netflix upgrades The Beast in Me to a second season and locks Howard Gordon to an overall deal; the limited series logged seven weeks in the global Top 10 and nearly 97 million U.S. streaming hours.

Dave Boyle’s supernatural thriller lands a theatrical run after SXSW Midnighter Audience Award and Overlook Grand Jury Prize wins; Stephen King praise gives Never After Dark a festival-to-cinema boost.

Warner Bros. moves Gremlins 3 to Oct. 6, 2028 and confirms Chris Columbus is directing, with Steven Spielberg EPing and Hannah Marks on the current draft; the first teaser lands, but the sequel is now roughly 11 months off its prior date.

Amazon MGM optioned Mike Makowsky’s true-story dark comedy Hang the Decorators and put Greg Berlanti/Sarah Schechter on producing duties; the project is now in development at the studio.

Benjamin Finkel’s debut feature Family, launched at SXSW in 2024, is getting a theatrical release. Ruth Wilson, Ben Chaplin and Cameron Dawson Gray star in the supernatural drama, inspired by Finkel’s childhood loss of his father to cancer.

Lili Reinhart is shopping a lesbian-vampire novella adaptation and still needs a studio; the project would give her a horror-leaning book-to-screen play after Prime Video’s The Love Hypothesis.

22Dogs VFX is opening a Toronto base at Pinewood, expanding its Canadian footprint and adding post/VFX capacity in the market.

Toho’s first IMAX-shot Godzilla sequel opens NYFF’s Spotlight Gala on Sept. 26 before a Nov. 6 North American theatrical rollout; Takashi Yamazaki returns, and Minus One’s $56 million North American run raises the stakes.

Rue Dangeau sets Séance for a limited U.S. theatrical run on Oct. 2, then a North American VOD rollout on Nov. 13; the Vivian Kerr-directed gothic thriller opens one week at Laemmle Royal before widening. The film pairs a haunted-house setup with a one-night chamber drama and is already 100% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes.

DC's Clayface is a $40M R-rated body-horror swing; James Watkins directs from Mike Flanagan and Hossein Amini's script, with Warner Bros. eyeing a low-to-mid $20M opening for Oct. 23, 2026.

Lionsgate has tickets on sale for the Oct. 2 theatrical run of Beware Boiúna, an R-rated Amazon jungle creature feature from Mike P. Nelson and Alan B. McElroy that bowed at Fantastic Fest.

Shudder’s ninth V/H/S film, V/H/S/MIXTAPE, premieres October 9, 2026, with segments by Ernest Dickerson, RZA, David Moreau and Renee Zhan; Tobias Forge makes his directorial debut with a music video, alongside Flying Lotus and GWAR.