Pixowl has announced that pre-registration is now open for Goosebumps: HorrorTown, a character-driven simulation game based on R.L. Stine’s hit Scholastic series. Goosebumps: HorrorTown will take players to HorrorTown to build and manage a quirky town, collect iconic monsters, frighten hapless humans, unlock compelling human characters, and undertake scary missions where young townsfolk spy on monsters to […]
Goosebumps 2 undergoes another change of title
Last month, author R.L. Stine announced that production was underway on the Goosebumps sequel, revealing that the movie was going under the title Goosebumps: Slappy Halloween. Well, at CinemaCon yesterday, Sony confirmed that the film has undergone a name change, and is now being referred to as Goosebumps: Haunted Halloween. While plot details are being […]
R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps coming to comic books courtesy of IDW
R.L. Stine’s spine-tingling series Goosebumps is coming to comic books courtesy of IDW Publishing, who are set to bring the scares to a new generation of young readers this October. “My first reading thrill when I was a kid were the EC horror comics, Tales from the Crypt and The Vault of Horror,” said R.L. Stine. “They introduced me […]
Sony developing Goosebumps sequel
Sony Picturs is developing a sequel to last year’s Goosebumps movie, Entertainment Weekly is reporting. As yet, no deals are in place but the studio is looking to bring back Jack Black as R.L. Stine, the author of the bestselling book series, while director Rob Letterman and writer Darren Lemke are also in talks to […]
Jack Black’s Goosebumps 2 return in doubt
Goosebumps was something of a modest hit when it was released back in 2015, earning $150m off a $50m budget, and starring a pre-13 Reasons Why Dylan Minnette, alongside Jack Black as Goosebumps author R.L. Stine. Based on Scholastic’s worldwide best-selling book series, which has over 400 million copies of the 62 book series in print, […]
Movie Review – Goosebumps (2015)
Goosebumps, 2015. Directed by Rob Letterman. Starring Jack Black, Dylan Minnette, Odeya Rush, Amy Ryan, Jillian Bell and Ryan Lee SYNOPSIS: A teenager teams up with the daughter of young adult horror author R.L. Stine after the writer’s imaginary demons are set free on the town of Greendale, Maryland. 2015/2016 seems like such an odd […]
The Martian returns to top of the US box office while new releases flounder
The wave of new films at multiplexes this weekend failed to make much of an impact on the US box office chart, giving previous releases a chance to stand their ground. The Martian edged out last week’s number one, Goosebumps, to return to the top spot. Ridley Scott’s sci-fi adventure raked in another $15.9 million […]
Movie Review – Goosebumps (2015)
Goosebumps, 2015. Directed by Rob Letterman. Starring Jack Black, Dylan Minnette, Odeya Rush, Amy Ryan, Jillian Bell and Ryan Lee. SYNOPSIS: A teenager teams up with the daughter of young adult horror author R.L. Stine after the writer’s imaginary demons are set free on the town of Greendale, Maryland. It’s a tough task to pick […]
Goosebumps scares off The Martian and tops the US box office with $23.5 million
After topping the US box office for the last two weeks, Ridley Scott’s The Martian was toppled this weekend by children’s horror movie Goosebumps. Based off the book series of the same name, Goosebumps took around $23.5 million over the weekend from 3,500 theatres. Despite a big Thursday opening, Sony hedged their bets by saying the […]
Goosebumps sequel already in development
It’s not even released yet (but will be shown at this year’s London Film Festival), but it looks like Sony already have plans for a sequel to Goosebumps. Sources for The Tracking Board have confirmed to them that Sony are looking for a new writer to start work on the sequel draft. There’s no word […]