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Focus Features locks May 7, 2027 for Anything But Ghosts, the $5M follow-up from Obsession duo Curry Barker and Cooper Tomlinson. Aaron Paul, Bryce Dallas Howard, Violet McGraw and Chris Reinacher co-star; Jason Blum, Roy Lee and Steven Schneider produce, and Obsession has already passed $500M worldwide.

Doula rolls into principal photography on Oct. 1 in Winnipeg; the Canadian-U.S. psychological horror pairs Madeleine Arthur and Dianne Doan in a cabin-bound, reality-bending delivery nightmare backed by Manitoba’s tax incentive.

David Fincher is walking away from Netflix when his deal expires next year, ending a 13-year run that covered House of Cards, Mank, The Killer and Mindhunter; the split leaves his Cliff Booth, Chinatown prequel and Bitterroot projects in limbo.

Jennifer Lawrence boards Zach Cregger’s The Flood, with New Line and Warner Bros. set to release the sci-fi thriller theatrically on Aug. 11, 2028. The project came out of Netflix turnaround and is targeting a Europe shoot in early 2027, with Amblin, Roy Lee and Miri Yoon producing.

Neil Druckmann says two The Last of Us projects are in early development at Naughty Dog, keeping the post-apocalyptic horror franchise in expansion mode beyond the TV hit.

Matthew Lillard says Five Nights at Freddy’s 3 is targeting a 2027 shoot, signaling the game adaptation is moving deeper into production.

Jason Blum and Margot Robbie board Cinema United’s Filmmaker Leadership Council as the exhibition lobby group keeps pressing on windows, consolidation and theatrical promotion. Blumhouse’s theatrical footprint remains a key talking point for the council’s broader push to strengthen moviegoing.

Ready or Not 2: Here I Come leads the 2026 DGC feature-film nominations with three cites, while Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein lands two. Black Zombie and Gigi Saul Guerrero’s Petra’s Lasso also break through on the Canadian awards slate.

BBC Studios is launching CliffEdge Entertainment with Deborah Sathe at the helm to build a returning crime, mystery and thriller franchise slate; the label already houses Silent Witness, Father Brown and Shakespeare & Hathaway and has The Night They Vanished and The Detection Club on deck.

CAA loses Sam Esmail after a decade, with the Mr. Robot creator now shopping for a new agency while Anonymous Content and McKuin Frankel stay on the team. His feature Panic Carefully has slipped to April 9, 2027.

Michael Schwarz directs from Martyn Pedler and Marek Polgar’s script, framing the indie as a stylized homage to early-2000s slasher cinema.

Alison-Eve Hammersley’s feature debut Erie world-premieres at Beyond Fest Oct. 1 before moving to Brooklyn Horror; Rat’s Nest Pictures and Dark Atlantic produced the found-footage horror set in 1999 Pennsylvania.

Hammer's survival horror Ithaqua lands its Northern UK premiere at Grimmfest on Oct. 9; Casey Walker's twelve-year passion project stars Luke Hemsworth, Kevin Durand and Michael Pitt.

Fantastic Fest work-print premiere puts In a Violent Nature 2 on the clock; Chris Nash returns with Nate Wilson, Ry Barrett is back as Johnny, and Shudder plus Independent Film Company are steering the sequel to theaters and streaming.

37 narrative features and 26 documentaries run Oct. 14-18 across the Hudson Valley, with Larry Fessenden’s East Coast premiere of Trauma, or Monsters All anchoring the genre slate. Sender, Behemoth!, Homunculus, Mother Wolf and Wicker deepen the horror-heavy program, with Brooklyn Horror overlap giving the titles a two-city October lane.

Remain surfaces in a surprise Beyond Fest screening with Shyamalan on hand for QA, signaling the film is complete and moving through the genre-fest circuit ahead of release.

FoxNXT says AI is already changing pitch behavior, with creatives building budgets around tools that can trim about 15% of costs and let studios redirect savings back into production.

Skyrocket Studios has a pilot in production on Manhattan Transfer, a sci-fi series built with generative AI and authorized digital recreation of Lee Majors. The team says more than one-third of the pilot is already shot and will shop it to networks, streamers, and distributors once complete.

Māori Television has launched Kiri, a 10x3 supernatural vertical drama made for Māori+, YouTube and TikTok; the microdrama is set in 1980s Wellington and was funded by Te Māngai Pāho.

Kristen Stewart and Wagner Moura are set for Olivier Assayas’ Spiritual World, with ARTE France Cinéma backing and cameras scheduled to roll in France and Germany from February through April 2027. The package reunites Stewart with Assayas after Personal Shopper and keeps her on a hot streak of prestige genre projects.

HBO Max UK & Ireland locked first-run and later-window A24 rights, with Backrooms set for an Oct. 26 exclusive debut after its theatrical run. The pact also brings Born to Bowl plus catalogue titles including The Whale, Warfare and Moonlight onto the service.

14.5 million views lifted Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story 20% above premiere week; the season hit No. 1 globally on Netflix’s English TV chart and reached the top 10 in 92 countries.

HBO has set a three-part Lightbox docuseries for October 11; The Pet Cemetery Murders: A Ghost Story blends true-crime investigation with supernatural framing for Halloween.

Alex Garland has completed a script; Boyle says the third installment will move forward, though timing and its final title remain unset.

Sphere Abacus is taking Woodcut Media’s 8x60’ true-crime docuseries Horror at the Hotel to Mipcom with worldwide rights already in hand. Pre-buys are locked from 5 in the UK and Ireland, Crave in Canada and Radial Entertainment in the US; the series is in production.

PG-13 rating and cast update lock in 47 Meters Down: The Wreck as the third shark-horror entry; Patrick Lussier directs, Johannes Roberts produces and co-writes, and a fourth film is already being discussed.

R-rated clearance locks Crawlers for an Oct. 16 theatrical rollout; the spider-invasion horror stars Matilda Lutz as an apartment manager trapped in a quarantined building overrun by venomous arachnids.

Post-production Colombian-Argentine horror Sucumbir heads to Sitges Coming Soon for an industry first look, with 2027 distribution alliances now in play.

Shudder sets an Oct. 16 exclusive streaming launch for Ben Sottak’s post-apocalyptic Halloween home-invasion thriller, starring Milly Shapiro, Ajani Russell, AJ Bowen and Shannyn Sossamon. The feature debut played the festival circuit before landing on AMC Networks’ horror service.

Demand the Screen has booked Silt for event screenings in New York, Chicago, L.A., San Francisco, Atlanta, New Orleans, Austin and Dallas; the Tommy Wiseau cosmic-horror pic was retitled from Lake Vernon and still has no wide-release or streaming plan.

Below lands on Netflix Oct. 8 as a six-episode creature-horror limited series from creator Jesse McKeown; Josh Hartnett also executive produces. Mackenzie Davis, Charlie Heaton, Ruby Stokes, Rohan Campbell and Willow Kean round out the cast.

Alex Prager’s feature debut lands a first trailer; Republic Pictures is targeting a late-2026 release after the SXSW premiere, with Elizabeth Banks, John C. Reilly, Juliette Lewis and Sofia Boutella aboard.