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Stephen King’s It adaptation begins filming

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It’s been in development for several years, but filming is now finally underway on New Line Cinema’s adaptation of the Stephen King horror classic It, with director Andy Muschietti (Mama) marking the occasion by sharing the following teaser images on Instagram: SEE ALSO: First look at The Losers Club from Stephen King Adaptation It https://www.instagram.com/p/BHK0N3ThiTz/   https://www.instagram.com/p/BHD3WPBB4go/ […]

The Best Stephen King Movie Adaptations

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EJ Moreno on the best Stephen King movies… After 40 years and 100 adaptations, the work of Stephen King still speaks to viewers. In just 2019 alone, we’ve had four feature films based on his work in Pet Sematary, It Chapter Two, In the Tall Grass and Doctor Sleep, along with several television shows. Starting […]

Tweeterhead’s Pennywise the Dancing Clown maquette available to pre-order now

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Sideshow has revealed a batch of promotional images for Tweeterhead’s Pennywise maquette which is based on the appearance of Bill Skarsgard as the malevolent being in Andy Muschietti’s acclaimed Stephen King adaptation It. The collectible is available to pre-order now, priced at $349.99 and is expected to ship September-November 2019; check it out here… SUPPORT […]

Hollywood’s Unhealthy Obsession With Movie Ratings Needs to End

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Harrison Abbott on Hollywood’s unhealthy obsession with movie ratings and why it has to end… From a sanitised Die Hard sequel to an R-rated Star Trek, when it comes to ratings Hollywood is incapable of leaving well enough alone. The Dark Age of PG-13-ification Alien Vs Predator, The Expendables 3, World War Z, Max Payne, […]

Watch an exclusive featurette from the home-entertainment release of It

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Ahead of its home entertainment release next week, we’ve got a UK exclusive featurette for Andy Muschietti’s Stephen King adaptation It which sees young stars Jack Dylan Grazer (Eddie) and Jeremy Ray Taylor (Ben) discussing the Losers Club; check it out here… SUPPORT FLICKERING MYTH: Order via Amazon US or Amazon UK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWsgeUmrgao When children begin to disappear […]

Henry Bowers stalks the Losers Club in deleted scene from It

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With It set for its home entertainment release later this month, a new deleted scene has been revealed from Andy Muschietti’s Stephen King adaptation which sees the disturbed Henry Bowers watching the Losers Club and reveals Vic and Belch’s grisly fate; check it out here… SUPPORT FLICKERING MYTH: Order via Amazon US or Amazon UK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPzlB52lZsI When children […]

Georgie escapes Pennywise in funny alternate opening to It

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With It set for its home entertainment release next month, a rather humorous “alternate” opening scene from the acclaimed Stephen King adaptation has arrived online which features a very different meeting between Georgie and Pennywise; watch it below… SEE ALSO: A director’s cut of Stephen King’s It is coming in 2018, deleted scenes detailed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51WQ08OtvvM SEE ALSO: […]

Stephen King thinks the It reboot was so successful due to impeccable timing

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Andy Muschietti’s It punched us all in the gut this past September. Honestly, when reading for the first time that Stephen King’s It was being remade into a feature film, who actually thought that it would be good? For one, horror remakes tend to be fairly awful (we’re looking at you A Nightmare on Elm Street). Secondly, […]