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Remembering Carrie, the best Stephen King adaptation

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Henry Bevan on Carrie… The camera glides through the girls’ locker room. The girls are in various states of undress; steam from the shower creates a dreamlike quality, shrouding the scene, fogging up the lens. The camera pushes in on Carrie (Sissy Spacek) as she rubs herself with soap. It focuses on various parts of […]

Stephen King says a sequel to The Dark Tower needs to be R-rated

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Sony and MRC’s long-awaited adaptation of Stephen King’s fantasy epic The Dark Tower may not have set the box office alight, although the film has recouped around half of its $60 million production budget, and with many international markets still to come, the Nikolaj Arcel-directed film could well go on to turn a profit. Whether […]

It director and producer would like to remake Stephen King’s Pet Sematary

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It seems that the It directing and producing team of siblings Andy and Barbara Muschietti are looking to expand their Stephen King output beyond the upcoming adaptation of the 1986 novel. Speaking to The Toronto Sun, Barbara revealed that the duo hold the film rights to King’s 1981 short story The Jaunt, but are particularly […]

The Dark Tower tops the U.S. box office with $19.5 million

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Despite a wave of negative reviews, Columbia Pictures and MRC’s The Dark Tower has opened in first place at the North American box office this weekend, with the film grossing $19.5 million across the Friday to Sunday period. Internationally, the $60 million-budgeted fantasy grossed a further $8 million from 19 countries, meaning it has recouped […]

The Walking Dead’s Glen Mazzara to serve as showrunner on The Dark Tower TV series

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The Dark Tower feature film may have found itself struggling with critics and audiences [read our review here], but it seems the planned TV show spinoff Wizard and Glass is still moving forward, with THR reporting that The Walking Dead executive producer Glen Mazzara has signed on to serve as showrunner. “I’ve been a Stephen […]

The Mist Season 1 Episode 7 Review – ‘Over The River and Through The Woods’

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Martin Carr reviews the seventh episode of The Mist… Theological debates, hot sweat cold turkey ordeals and savage beatings in psych wards await the eager viewer in The Mist this week. Throw in some flashback sequences, electro shock therapy and school bully confessions and there is plenty to get excited about. What became apparent over […]

The Dark Tower is not reviewing well, and it all may boil down to “clashing visions” on set

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The long-awaited film adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower is nearly here, and early reviews are not being kind to it. As of this writing, the movie is sitting at a lowly 18% rotten rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Reading various reactions across the web, the main criticism seems to be that it’s a middling […]

New It TV spot features Pennywise in a sing-along

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It was just yesterday that we heard Bill Skarsgard’s Pennywise speak in a new promo for It, the adaptation based on Stephen King’s famous novel. Now we have a new It TV spot that features more of Pennywise’s deadly antics, including appearing in and altering a children’s sing-along show to further torment The Losers’ Club. Watch the […]