Win a copy of the insightful documentary on Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, Room 237
On September 24th, IFC Midnight will release the wry and provocative documentary Room 237 on Blu-ray and double-disc DVD. The film centers on Stanley Kubrick’s landmark modern horror The Shining. On the same day that Room 237 comes to home video, Stephen King will publish Doctor Sleep, a sequel to The Shining. In the new ….
Steven Spielberg and Stephen King team up for Under the Dome TV series
Stephen King’s The Stand adaptation gets new writer
Ben Affleck is moving forward on the viral adaptation, Stephen King’s The Stand, about survivors of a chemically weaponized super-flu, according to New York Magazine. Executive Producer Affleck has tapped screenwriter David Kajganich to pen the script after Kajganich apparently knocked Warner Bros. off their feet with another recent King adaptation – for the 1986 ….
Stephen King in talks to pen an episode of The Walking Dead
IGN reports that during The Walking Dead panel at Chicago’s C2E2 pop culture event, it was revealed that author Stephen King is in talks to write an episode of Season 2. No surprise since the iconic horror author has a long relationship with show producer Frank Darabont, who adapted King’s The Shawshank Redemption, The Green ….
Preview image of author Stephen King as a biker gang member from Sons of Anarchy
Iconic horror author Stephen King will make an appearance as “Bachman” on next week’s episode of FX Network’s Sons of Anarchy, titled “Caregiver,” airing September 21st at 10:00 PM, and producers have released an image of the legendary writer straddling his ride. In anticipation of the episode, Sons of Anarchy’s (Samcro’s) official production blogger recently ….
Police Academy and Pet Sematary remakes on the way to theaters
THR’s HeatVision reports that New Line is relaunching the Police Academy franchise, with original producer Paul Maslansky onboard for a new spin on the series, which originally spawned six sequels and a television series that lasted one season in 1997. No writer or director are attached to the project yet. The original Police Academy centered ….
Win one of three copies of Ti West’s horror The House of the Devil on DVD
On February 2, 2010, Dark Sky Films and MPI Media Group will release Ti West’s critically acclaimed cult horror film The House of the Devil on DVD. To celebrate The House of the Devil’s release on DVD, FilmFetish is giving away three copies of the DVD to readers. PLEASE NOTE: To be considered to win ….
Steven Spielberg and Stephen King team to bring King’s supernatural thriller Under the Dome to small screen
Watch Carrie, Lon Chaney’s Wolf Man and Rosemary’s Baby on the big screen for Halloween season
The Loew’s Jersey continues its series of classic revival cinema, with an early Halloween weekend of classic cult horror films, including Carrie, Lon Chaney’s The Wolf Man and Rosemary’s Baby. Events kick-off on Friday, October 23rd, and continue on through the next night. Check out the entire schedule below. Friday, October 23rd – 8PM Carrie ….
Stephen King’s Cell will now be a TV miniseries instead of a feature film
In 2006, Eli Roth was attached to collaborate with and direct a film version of Stephen King’s Cell, but then left the project to focus on his own material. Now Fangoria has learned that screenwriter John Harrison is developing the story for a TV miniseries, which the Weinstein Company will be shopping the project to ….
Guillermo Del Toro’s The Strain book review
It shocks me that Guillermo Del Toro had the time to work on a trilogy of horror novels, with The Hobbit 1 and 2, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Drood and many other filmed projects on his agenda. While reading this first novel in the series, The Strain, I found out that it was originally ….
Stephen King’s It headed to the big screen
Warner Bros. has tapped Dave Kajganich – wrote penned The Invasion and Joel Schumacher’s upcoming horror Creek – to adapt Stephen King’s horror novel It, with Dan Lin, Roy Lee and Doug Davison producing, according to Variety. The original story follows the lives of seven children in a small Maine town who confront a demonic ….
Battlestar hottie Kandyse McClure talks Children of the Corn remake
Battlestar Galactica’s Dualla a.k.a. Kandyse McClure, has wrapped that series, but is returning to the SCI FI Channel as the leading lady in the upcoming Children of the Corn remake, according to Sci-Fi Wire. The new made-for-TV film is being called a “re-imagining” of the original, which was based on the Stephen King short story, ….
Demo scene from Stephen King’s The Talisman feature
I found this great scene for a proposed film version of Stephen King and Peter Straub’s book The Talisman. Mathieu Ratthe, who directed the scene, says his main objective for creating the piece was to demonstrate his directing ability and vision to Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy, who own the feature film rights to the ….
Children of the Corn remake rounds out cast
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the Sci Fi Channel is has added to the cast of its Children of the Corn remake, with David Anders, Kandyse McClure, Preston Bailey and Daniel Newman coming aboard the two-hour telefilm. Based on the Stephen King novel, the TV-film features Anders and McClure as a couple with marital problems, ….