Mike Flanagan (Gerald’s Game, Doctor Sleep) returns to the world of Stephen King with The Life of Chuck, and Variety reports today that NEON (Longlegs) is “closing a distribution deal” to acquire the film in the wake of it winning the People’s Choice Award at TIFF. Variety speculates, “The film will likely be released in the summer of 2025.” […]
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Writer/Director Gary Dauberman’s Salem’s Lot makes it easy to see why the previous two adaptations of Stephen King’s 1975 novel were miniseries. King packs his stories with rich character work and humanity, so much so that the 1979 and 2004 adaptations couldn’t condense 439 pages into any less than 181 minutes of runtime. After sitting […]
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When Stephen King takes to Twitter to rave about a horror movie, horror fans across the world scramble to get their hands on it. The latest King-approved horror movie is titled The Rule of Jenny Pen, and while King wants you to watch it, that’s not actually possible… yet. Stephen King took to Twitter this […]
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Stephen King is no stranger to murderous cars. From Christine and From a Buick 8 to the malevolent Goblin truck haunting the roads of Maximum Overdrive, the master of horror knows his way around gory gear shifts, sinister steering wheels, and dangerous drivers. In 2014, he released Mr. Mercedes, a crime novel pitting Bill Hodges, […]
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The long-awaited movie adaptation of Stephen King’s Salem’s Lot from director Gary Dauberman (Annabelle Comes Home) is coming exclusively to Max this Halloween season. Salem’s Lot premieres on Max on October 3, 2024. Watch the official trailer for Max’s Salem’s Lot below. Stephen King had recently tweeted praise for the film. He wrote earlier this year, “I’ve seen the new SALEM’S LOT and it’s […]
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The long-awaited movie adaptation of Stephen King’s Salem’s Lot from director Gary Dauberman (Annabelle Comes Home) is coming exclusively to Max this Halloween season. Announced today, Salem’s Lot premieres on Max on October 3, 2024. Stay tuned for the official trailer, coming very soon… Stephen King had recently tweeted praise for the film. He wrote earlier this year, “I’ve seen […]
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It’s not the horror that makes prolific author Stephen King‘s works so compelling, though it certainly helps, but rather his talent for capturing the nuanced multitudes of the human condition. His three-dimensional characters leap off the pages and into Constant Readers’ hearts, ensuring their emotional journeys resonate with or without horror. It’s something writer/director Mike […]
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The long-awaited adaptation of Stephen King’s Salem’s Lot from director Gary Dauberman (Annabelle Comes Home) is finally hitting Max this October, and Entertainment Weekly ran a preview piece today that includes the first clip from the new movie. The outlet explains, “In EW’s exclusive clip from Salem’s Lot, Ben [Lewis Pullman] and Susan [Makenzie Leigh] join Alfre Woodard as Dr. […]
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Stephen King considers himself a novelist, but he loves a good short story. There’s something to be said for a shorter, more intense experience. It can be invigorating, sometimes even shocking, like a waltz with a stranger you will never see again, or a kiss in the dark, or a beautiful curio for sale laid […]
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Mike Flanagan (Gerald’s Game, Doctor Sleep) returns to the world of Stephen King with The Life of Chuck, and Vanity Fair has shared a gallery of first-look images this week. Tom Hiddleston plays the title character in the film, based on the 2020 Stephen King short story of the same name. The film will World Premiere at the […]
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Like most of his Constant Readers, Stephen King certainly has his own share of fears. Trying his hand in any literary form is not one of them, however, a notion he once again proves in his 2015 collection The Bazaar of Bad Dreams. Spanning 20 tales, a number of them include his knack at poetry… […]
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Published in 2019, Stephen King‘s novel The Institute is getting a TV series adaptation from MGM+, with Deadline reporting on the latest casting news this afternoon. Simone Miller (Run The Burbs) and Jason Diaz (Vampire Academy) have joined a cast that includes Ben Barnes (Shadow and Bone) and Mary-Louise Parker (Weeds). Deadline details in today’s report, “Miller plays Kalisha, a sarcastic-but-friendly Institute […]
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Constant Listeners, yes, we originally planned to drop our Bazaar of Bad Dreams coverage this week. However, given Stephen King’s renewed interest in Hearts in Suspension, we opted to unlock our coverage of the collection from The Stephen King Archives. For those not in the know, The Stephen King Archives is our Patreon exclusive imprint […]
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An adaptation of the Stephen King story, horror movie The Monkey is headed our way in early 2025 from NEON, producer James Wan and director Osgood Perkins (Longlegs). The Monkey will release in theaters February 21, 2025. Watch the official teaser trailer for The Monkey below. [Related] Osgood Perkins Previews His Fun-for-the-Family Stephen King Movie The Monkey is a short horror story that appeared […]
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In 2018, the second season of David E. Kelley’s adaptation of Stephen King’s Mr. Mercedes aired once again on the Audience Network. Instead of adapting the second book in the true crime novel franchise — 2015’s Finders Keepers — the show’s sophomore season jumped ahead to the finale of the Mercedes trilogy, 2016’s End of […]
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