The Nosferatu by Robert Eggers, a hit at the cinema, he will move on to another big beast with the same producer, Focus Features.
It’s the redemption of the end of the year. In 2022, Robert Eggers presented The Northmana Viking story budgeted at a minimum of $70 million, which flopped at the box office before limiting its damage on VOD. In 2025, the director still famous for his first feature film, the influential The Witch, was therefore playing big with his remake of Nosferatuespecially since this austere horror fable was released in the middle of the Christmas period, a privileged terrain for family blockbusters.
But against all expectations, the film did very well, accumulating at the time of writing 156.7 million dollars worldwide, including 90.4 million in North America, the most lucrative market. Since it cost less than $50 million according to Deadline and it is still in theaters at the time of writing, it should do good for Focus Features’ finances, despite competition from Wolf Man by Leigh Whannell since mid-January. Precisely, it is on his flowerbeds that Eggers and his producers intend to encroach.
Does Nosferatu see the wolf?
According to Deadlinethe Focus Features studio is therefore already preparing the next feature film of its new foal. It must be said that Nosferatu became his second biggest domestic success behind Downton Abbey. Two chapels, two atmospheres. At first glance, the objective is to reproduce the vampire experience with another mystical figure. In fact, it would be a new “genre film”whose title is Werwulf. The plot is still being kept secret, but it seems obvious that he will not be part of the franchise Beethoven.
-Eggers therefore finds the screenwriter of The Northmanalso artist, writer and regular lyricist for Björk (who had a role in the Viking film), Sjórn. And as if to further acknowledge the strategy adopted, Focus has set a release date for Christmas 2026. The title therefore promises an old-fashioned werewolf film, in the same tone as Nosferatu. As the filmmaker is known for his careful reproduction of past Western cultures, he could well return to the purely folkloric dimension of the beast.
Not everything is a foregone conclusion, however, since the hairy monster made famous in the cinema by Universal’s Universal Monsters, must still prove its attractiveness in contemporary American cinemas. The famous Wolf Man made a very disappointing start compared to Invisible Man and its budget. As for the last major production devoted to the werewolf, it is the The Wolfman of 2010, a real industrial disaster. We assume, however, that the studio will not be foolish enough to put $150 million on the table.
