Stephen King’s short story “The Children of the Corn” has been catnip to horror filmmakers for nearly fifty years. Originally published in the March 1977 issue of Penthouse, the tale of a quarreling couple who stumble onto a murderous cult of children in a Nebraska cornfield was included the following year in King’s first short […]
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There’s a new crop in the cornfields. Yes, the long-running Children of the Corn franchise is back yet again with another installment. In fact, it’s the third eponymously titled feature of the brand (following 1984’s and 2009’s), only this one comes from the mind of writer-director Kurt Wimmer, who has harvested his own reimagining of […]
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Dark Star Pictures has acquired North American rights to Daphné Baiwir’s feature documentary King on Screen, Deadline reports today. The documentary, approved by Stephen King, “will hit theaters in late summer, with a digital release to follow in the fall.” Deadline details, “King on Screen offers audiences an intimate sit-down with directors who have adapted King’s […]
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Stephen King‘s 1977 short story inspired an entire Children of the Corn franchise nearly a dozen deep, each new entry drifting further away from the source material. Writer/Director Kurt Wimmer (Equilibrium, Ultraviolet) keeps that momentum going with the franchise’s eleventh installment, an entry that bears very little in common with King’s story other than murderous kids, an abundance of corn, […]
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“Man has come to dominate the planet thanks to two essential traits. One is intelligence. The other has been the absolute willingness to kill anyone and anything that gets in his way.” The Losers are taking that to heart as they run out of Boston Common. All around them, The Pulse has turned the world […]
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On the way from HBO Max is a series titled “Welcome to Derry,” which will serve as a prequel to the two Stephen King movies from Andy Muschietti, and THR reports this afternoon that the project has now officially been given a straight-to-series order! Andy Muschietti and Barbara Muschietti (IT, IT: Chapter Two) and Jason Fuchs are on board the […]
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Director Kurt Wimmer’s new take on Stephen King’s horror story Children of the Corn has been acquired for release by RLJE Films and Shudder, with the companies recently announcing that the film will first hit theaters on March 3 for an 18-day theatrical run. King’s story and the franchise it birthed followed murderous children who worshipped the mysterious entity “He Who Walks […]
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Director Kurt Wimmer‘s new take on Stephen King‘s horror novel Children of the Corn has been acquired for release by RLJE Films and Shudder, with the companies recently announcing that the film will first hit theaters on March 3 for an 18-day theatrical run. The new movie will then arrive on demand and digital on March 21. Today, […]
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One of the very best Stephen King adaptations is tearing into 4K Ultra HD, with Kino Lorber announcing that director Lewis Teague’s Cujo is one of their next 4K UHD upgrades. The company is teasing a “brand new HDR Dolby Vision master.” Dee Wallace, Ed Lauter, Daniel Hugh Kelly, and Danny Pintauro star in Cujo, […]
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“I’m on vacation.” The Losers’ Club sure isn’t, though. Today, the gang is heading to the J. Edgar Hoover Building in Washington, DC to help the FBI solve a strange case file that was sent to them from the Derry Private Library in Maine. It’s an X-File dated February 8, 1998 and there’s a single […]
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Billed as “the first-ever Stephen King work to be adapted entirely in a foreign language,” the upcoming short film The Last King will adapt King’s short story, The Doctor’s Case. Variety details today, “The timely short film, which is in Farsi, is set in Iran and reflects the country’s ongoing “Woman, Life, Freedom” revolution. It […]
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Published in 2021, Stephen King‘s novel Billy Summers is the next King tale to get a film adaptation, with Deadline reporting that J.J. Abrams will produce the feature for Warner Bros. The original plan was for Billy Summers to be adapted as a limited series, you may recall, but Deadline confirms that the project is […]
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One club welcomes another on the latest installment of The Losers’ Club’s On Writers series. This week, co-hosts Randall Colburn and Mel Kassel chat with acclaimed novelist Paul G. Tremblay about last year’s The Pallbearer’s Club, a twisty tale of two loners that allows them both operate as unreliable narrators — one via his unpublished […]
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Winter is fierce, but the heat is on across King’s Dominion. So, once again, The Losers’ Club is putting on their shades, revving up their Plymouth Fury, and feeling the breeze in Hollywood King. Yes, it’s another high-octane news episode that finds Losers Michael Roffman, Justin Gerber, Dan Caffrey, and Randall Colburn cycling through all the […]
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Stephen King’s creative output is the stuff of legend. The number of stories that have flowed from that man’s brain, like water from a tap that can’t be shut off, is staggering. They’ve been followed by a similarly jaw-dropping number of film and television adaptations, to the point that some have argued the best of […]
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