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Anton is fully financing alien-invasion thriller Soon You Will Be Gone And Possibly Eaten, which starts production this summer with Dave Franco and Sophie Wilde attached and Egor Abramenko directing from a screenplay by Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski; Anton and Anonymous Content are handling presales at Cannes with WME Independent on domestic sales.
Neon’s witchy indie Hokum opened to an estimated $6.4M on 1,885 screens against a reported $5M budget; the Damian McCarthy film is Certified Fresh at 86% on Rotten Tomatoes and earned a B CinemaScore, signaling strong marketplace appetite for original horror this May.
Ben Leonberg boards as director and co-writer on Sony Pictures’ Ankle Snatcher, adapting Grady Hendrix’s short story with Escape Artists and Aperture Entertainment producing and Hendrix attached as a producer; Leonberg expands his festival-to-distributor track record after Good Boy.
Warner Bros. delays Sam Esmail’s paranoid thriller Panic Carefully from Feb. 26, 2027 to April 2027 after positive test-screening buzz and ongoing post-production trims; cast includes Julia Roberts, Eddie Redmayne, Brian Tyree Henry and Elizabeth Olsen.
Netflix is adapting A.J. Quinnell's Man on Fire as a 7-part action thriller starring Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, leaning into ultraviolent, Punisher-style revenge beats rather than procedural restraint.
Shudder has made HBO’s Tales from the Crypt available starting May 1 with episodes added weekly through June 12; all 93 original episodes will stream on Shudder for the first time, reintroducing the anthology—and the Cryptkeeper—to a new audience.
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