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Toei, Thailand’s M Studio and Korea’s Showbox board a cross‑border Junji Ito adaptation The Long Hair In The Attic with Thai director Sitisiri Mongkolsiri attached; the VFX‑heavy horror is in development with a 2027 shoot and is positioned as a regional model for internationally scalable genre filmmaking.
XYZ Films and Paris financier Vixens ink a multi-picture slate financing deal with Flesh Of The Gods—starring Kristen Stewart and Wagner Moura—set as the first title and backed by IPR.VC and YouRoc; the arrangement continues XYZ’s model of market-savvy international genre financing. The slate dovetails with XYZ’s track record on filmmaker-driven genre (Panos Cosmatos’ A24 acquisition mentioned) and expands cross-border investor appetite for indie genre projects.
Joe Begos and WTFilms are developing They Call Him Zorro, a violent, horror-leaning reimagining of Johnston McCulley’s Zorro set in present-day Los Angeles with Begos writing/directing and shooting planned on 35mm; WTFilms is financing and casting the lead while positioning the property as a brutal vigilante horror-action hybrid.
$30.99B total primetime upfront spend last year; streamers grabbed ~$13.2B while broadcast and cable split the rest; upfronts tilted toward sports rights, star-driven renewals and conservative slates with AI ad tech buzz, and Peacock/Peacock-adjacent presentations surfaced A24/Linda Cardellini’s Friday the 13th prequel Crystal Lake on the advertiser stage.
Alex Turner boards to direct Beg the Devil, a thriller adaptation of Sean Doolittle’s novel The Cleanup, with Brenton Thwaites, Grace Van Dien, Emile Hirsch and Ron Perlman attached and production slated to begin in September in the U.S.; Film Mode Entertainment is handling market representation at Cannes.
26-year-old Curry Barker’s theatrical debut Obsession led Focus Features to acquire his follow-up Anything but Ghosts and A24 to tap him to reboot Texas Chainsaw Massacre; Barker is a YouTube-to-feature success with a horror sensibility likened to Ari Aster, marking another young-director pipeline into mainstream genre filmmaking.
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