stephen king Archives

Abrams, Stephen King, creators/writers Sam Shaw and Dustin Thomason, the anthology series combines a number of King's works into a shared universe structure based around the famed (and infamous) fictional town Andre Holland, Bill Skarsgård, Sissy Spacek, Jane Levy, Scott Glenn, Terry O'Quinn, Chosen Jacobs, and Allison Tolman star in the series. Credit: Hulu Here's a look[...]

Abrams, Stephen King, Shaw and Thomason, the series combines a number of King's works into a "shared universe" narrative based around the famed (and infamous) fictional town. Andre Holland, Bill Skarsgård, Sissy Spacek, Jane Levy, Scott Glenn, Terry O'Quinn and Chosen Jacobs also star in the ten-episode first season. During an audience conversation following the screening of an[...]

Credit: Audience Between the international box office success of Stephen King's It and the hotly anticipated "King shared universe" anthology series Castle Rock set to bow on Hulu next month, the author's been having an amazing run of adaptations lately AT&T/Audience Network's take on Mr Mercedes would definitely be considered one of those successes, reaching audiences[...]

The Weekly Static is Bleeding Cool‘s look at the past week in the land of the networks, cable, and streaming, from a (hopefully) interesting perspective. THIS WEEK: WWE/Fox deal Smackdown; Damon Lindelof talks Watchmen; Twitch marathons Doctor Who; NFL owners take a knee; and Castle Rock gets a Stephen King thumbs up.

Stephen King's new novel, The Outsider, comes out on May 22nd If you can't wait that long, here's an excerpt courtesy of Entertainment Weekly for you to wet your whistles with.   He was prepared for another of those accusing stares, but Terry only glanced at him briefly, and with no expression at all, before turning his attention[...]

Abrams, Stephen King and executive producers/writers Sam Shaw and Dustin Thomason; and combines a number of the author's works into a "shared universe" narrative. Focusing on death row attorney Henry Deaver's (Andre Holland) return to his hometown to investigate a mystery that will force him – and others – to face the town's horrific past, Hulu's newest teaser trailer presents[...]

The film, based on the Stephen King novel of the same name, will be directed by James Wan of The Conjuring fame. The book was turned into a television series in 1993 starring Jimmy Smits and Marg Helgenberger The book is not one fans or King himself are very fond of, with King once saying about[...]

Maybe you didn't know (I didn't) that The Tommyknockers is Stephen King's second best selling work in his career thus far Considering how many mini series and films there have been of his lesser selling stories, this is surprising, because as it stands, we've only gotten one version of 'Tommyknockers' thus far. That's gonna change, as today veteran producer[...]

Pennywise the Dancing Clown from Stephen King's IT is getting a new line of plush dolls from Factory Entertainment and they look awesome!

Credit: DFree / Shutterstock.com Chosen Jacobs looks to be extending his stay in the Stephen King universe, with the It star set to join the cast of Hulu's Castle Rock from J.J Abrams and King Jacobs has been tapped to play Wendell Deaver, son of death row attorney Henry Deaver (Andre Holland) The streaming service's drama-thriller series combines[...]

Credit: Stephanie Lawton [CC BY 2.0], Wikimedia CommonsStephen King's path towards total media domination (which he would probably then use as the basis for a very cool four-book series) continues unabated with news that Chris Long (Mr Mercedes) and David Ayer's (Bright) Cedar Park Entertainment has secured the rights to King's narrative poem The Bone Church[...]

Pretty much every important work of fiction from the early to mid-20th century is here, with works by such heavyweights as James Joyce, John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway, Leo Tolstoy, Issac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Stephen King, L Frank Baum, Truman Capote… the list goes on and on. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 50%; } #gallery-1 img[...]

Stephen King has finally approved the release of a special edition of his award-winning novel Misery Going up for order on August 8th, the special edition will come in three awesome editions, including two different ones signed by King himself along with artist Rick Berry The numbered edition is limited to 200 copies, and the[...]

Abrams that combines a number of author Stephen King's works into a "shared universe" narrative During the second quarter – possibly closer to halftime – of the NFL's national championship game between the New England Patriots and Philadelphia Eagles, Hulu will air the following thirty-second Super Bowl spot (at a cost of $5 million) for the[...]

Stephen King has one of the biggest followings and fandoms in publishing history One such fan is named Gerald Winters Winters has spent the last twenty years collecting everything from manuscripts to first editions of the horror king's novels He even moved from Thailand to the Bangor, Maine with the intention to open a rare[...]

Mercedes set to begin next month, Boardwalk Empire alum Jack Huston and Maximiliano Hernandez (Sicario) are joining Stephen King's game of "cat and mouse" between Brendan Gleeson's Detective Bill Hodges and Harry Treadaway's Brady Hartsfield David E Kelley (Big Little Lies) and Dennis Lehane (Mystic River) will be heading this season's writers' room; Game of Thrones' Jack[...]

For Hulu, it represents another olive branch to horror fans for 2018; coinciding nicely with the streaming services upcoming Stephen King-based series Castle Rock: "At the heart of the deal is an extremely passionate audience and an extremely activateable audience in terms of horror It's not even the larger bucket of 'genre.' I would say this[...]

Credit: Pinguino [CC BY 2.0], Wikimedia Commons Created by Sam Shaw (Masters of Sex) and Dustin Thomason (Lie to Me), Hulu's psychological suspense / thriller series Castle Rock is bringing together common elements from a number of Stephen King's works to create a terrifyingly new "shared universe." The fictional town of Castle Rock has figured prominently in works[...]

This time, we hit the gas and don't look back as we charge into 2018 with a series that's giving us enough of the feels that it's earned the distinction of being our 2018 "Cusack" Series*: Hulu's Castle Rock: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3U7Z94NHgg The fictional town of Castle Rock has figured prominently in a number of Stephen King's works[...]

Welcome to the first chunk of The Weekly Static's three-part mid-season finale, where we're going to take a look at our personal choice for 2017's "little engine that could" (truTV) and the show we've got the hots for going into 2018 (Hulu's Castle Rock). But first, it's time for a little clean-up by taking a look[...]

Stephen King Dalton Ross Chuck Klosterman Rob Sheffield Those names are my reasons, don't need any more. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VkQCuXOjn4Video can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Caroline Zatina Stand Up Comedy at Carolines on Broadway October 2016 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VkQCuXOjn4) ●Perform 20 minutes of live stand-up to a sold-out crowd at Caroline's on Broadway in NYC[...]

Stephen King thinks Columbia Pictures made a big mistake in adapting his fan-favorite series The Dark Tower to film last summer According to King, the movie should have had an R-rating King cites the studio's decision to make a PG-13 Dark Tower as the primary problem with the film in an interview reflecting back on the year[...]

Well, it's only taken nearly three decades for the bad taste of one of Stephen King's worst film adaptations to fade While Pet Sematary remains one of King's great underappreciated novels, its original 1989 film entirely excised vast chunks of the book — unfortunately, they were the parts that contained the connective threads Variety is[...]

Stephen King is having quite the year Movies, books, TV shows — the guy is everywhere These are all quality releases, as well, in all areas That includes this new soundtrack collection, up for order today from Varèse Sarabande Records Four of the most under-appreciated scores from his many film adaptions are represented here[...]

Stephen King continues to have a bumper year, with no less than four films based on his stories coming out in 2017 alone Now Variety is reporting that another property is being queued up over at Paramount to come back out of the grave for another go-around: Pet Sematary The directing duo of Dennis Widmyer and[...]

Welcome back to The Weekly Static on a very sunny and chilly Friday the 13th in the northeast as we look back on the week in television!

Pennywise and Georgie are reunited forever in a new Vynl set from Funko. These figures are a new thing for them, and we will probably be picking these up.

That one's gruesome (we will get there), but there are monsters at work in this film much worse than the Monnlight Man. Based off the novel of the same name by Stephen King, we are introduced to Jessie (a game Carla Gugino) and her husband Gerald (Bruce Greenwood) They are heading up to a secluded home[...]

Hollywood continues to get the "royal" treatment, as Josh Boone (The Fault in Our Stars, New Mutants) has been tapped to pen Amblin Entertainment's adaptation of Stephen King and Peter Straub's horror-fantasy novel The Talisman Although Boone is currently on the project solely to write the screenplay, there is a strong possibility that he could also[...]

Mercedes head of the show's first season finale. Based on Stephen King's best-selling Bill Hodges Trilogy (Mr Mercedes, Finders Keepers and End of Watch), David E Kelley and Jack Bender will be returning to write and direct the second season, respectively King, Kelley, and Bender will also continue serving as series executive producers, along with author[...]