Welcome to this week’s BRIEF News Briefs — the week’s horror and sci-fi news, compiled by the OWC editors. Eleven stories made the cut.

Paramount Developing Live-Action Cyberpunk 2077 Movie

Deadline reports that Paramount Pictures is developing a live-action movie set in the universe of CD Projekt Red’s Cyberpunk 2077, with Transformers producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura attached and the Polish game studio co-producing. No director, writer, cast, or release date has been announced. The 2020 game rebounded from a disastrous launch to sell more than 40 million copies, and Netflix’s Cyberpunk: Edgerunners anime — whose second season arrives later this month — already proved Night City works on screen.

Source: Consequence

Other Mommy Opens Today With Jessica Chastain

Universal’s supernatural shocker Other Mommy arrives in theaters today, with Jessica Chastain playing both a mother and the eerie entity wearing her face. Directed by Rob Savage and produced by James Wan’s Blumhouse–Atomic Monster, the R-rated film adapts Josh Malerman’s novel Incidents Around the House. Tracking points to a $20 million opening weekend — likely still number one domestically as spooky season box office heats up.

Source: ComingSoon

The Exorcist: Martyrs Hailed as Mike Flanagan’s Scariest Yet

Mike Flanagan’s next chapter of The Exorcist saga just earned a striking endorsement from one of his closest collaborators. Actress Samantha Sloyan, who has a small role in The Exorcist: Martyrs, told Deadline the film is the scariest thing she has seen Flanagan make. The praise lands just ahead of the movie’s official trailer debut.

Source: SuperHeroHype

Alan Ritchson Takes Over Helldivers, Release Pushed to 2028

Sony has confirmed Reacher star Alan Ritchson as the new lead of its live-action Helldivers adaptation, stepping in after Jason Momoa exited the project earlier this year. Director Justin Lin stays aboard. The studio also moved the film from November 10, 2027 to June 9, 2028.

Source: The Hollywood Reporter

New Clayface Trailer Leans Into Body Horror

A new trailer for DC Studios’ Clayface leans hard into body horror, showing the title character’s bandaged skin cracking and hardening like clay. Penned by Mike Flanagan, the film opens in theaters on October 23.

Source: Instagram

Evil Dead Burn Climbs to No. 1 on HBO Max

Sébastien Vaniček’s sixth Evil Dead installment reached number one on HBO Max’s U.S. Top 10 on October 6 — just days after its October 2 debut. Warner Bros. has already dated the next chapter, Evil Dead Wrath, for theaters on April 7, 2028.

Source: Polygon

Obsession Returns to Theaters for One-Night 4DX Screening

Regal Cinemas will screen Curry Barker’s supernatural horror hit Obsession in 4DX on October 14 — one night only, pairing the story with motion seats and environmental effects.

Source: ComingSoon

Flush Trailer Traps Its Hero in a Toilet for the Whole Movie

Dark Sky Films has released the U.S. trailer for Flush, a French horror comedy built around one gloriously absurd premise: its protagonist spends the entire feature with his head stuck in a squat toilet. It arrives on U.S. VOD today, October 9.

Source: FirstShowing

Johnny Depp’s Ebenezer Trailer Promises a Darker Scrooge

Johnny Depp’s take on Ebenezer Scrooge looks considerably darker than the holiday classic in a new trailer that plays the ghosts as genuine horror. Paramount will release the film, titled Ebenezer, in theaters on November 13.

Source: Fiction Horizon

Tubi Sets R.L. Stine’s Afraid of Clowns for 2027

Tubi has set the third film in its R.L. Stine partnership: Afraid of Clowns, arriving in 2027. Ringmaster Rollo’s sinister troupe rolls into the town of Redhaven in a story about a missing child.

Source: Mandatory

Trick ‘r Treat Returns With a New Graphic Novel October 13

Legendary Comics has unveiled the trailer for Trick ‘r Treat: Witching Hours, the first all-original graphic novel featuring Sam in a decade. The collection delivers four new stories starring the burlap-masked Halloween enforcer. The anthology lands October 13.

Source: GeekTyrant

That’s the week in briefs — see you next Saturday.