‘Salem’s Lot’ Remake Officially Set for Straight-to-Streaming Release on Max

The long-awaited adaptation of Stephen King’s Salem’s Lot from director Gary Dauberman (Annabelle Comes Home) is still without a release date, but we’ve learned from The Hollywood Reporter this afternoon that the film will NOT be releasing in theaters at all. As we suspected, Salem’s Lot will be a straight-to-streaming release for the Max streaming service. THR notes, “No date […]

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Stephen King Again Tweets Support for Shelved ‘Salem’s Lot’ Remake from Warner Bros.

The long-awaited adaptation of Stephen King’s Salem’s Lot from director Gary Dauberman (Annabelle Comes Home) is still without a release date here in 2024, and Stephen King has once more taken to Twitter this week to ask the big question: WHAT’S THE DEAL?! Originally set for theatrical release on September 9, 2022, the new Stephen King adaptation was recently bumped […]

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TNT’s ‘Salem’s Lot’ Miniseries Is an Anti-War Relic from a Bygone Era [The Losers’ Club Podcast]

The Losers return to a very familiar place: ‘Salem’s Lot. But things look a tad different in 2004. Starring Rob Lowe, Donald Sutherland, Samantha Mathis, and the late and great Andre Braugher and Rutger Hauer, this TNT miniseries updated the 1975 novel by shifting the vampiric action into modern times. This affords the narrative a […]

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Original ‘Salem’s Lot’ Star David Soul Has Passed Away at 80

Best known for playing Detective Ken ‘Hutch’ Hutchinson in the original 1970s “Starsky & Hutch” television series, actor/singer David Soul has passed away this week at the age of 80. A post to the late actor’s official Twitter account states this morning, “David Soul—beloved husband, father, grandfather and brother—died yesterday after a valiant battle for […]

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Stephen King News Roundup: On ‘You Like It Darker’, ‘The Life of Chuck’, and ‘Salem’s Lot’ [The Losers’ Club Podcast]

The heat is on across King’s Dominion. To cool off,  The Losers’ Club put on their shades, put the top down on their 1958 Plymouth Fury convertible, and feel the breeze in Hollywood King. It’s another high-octane news episode that finds Losers Michael Roffman, Jenn Adams, Dan Caffrey, and Randall Colburn cycling through the latest Stephen […]

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“Chapelwaite” – Season 2 of Stephen King Horror Series Not Moving Forward Per Showrunner

It’s tough out there for adaptations of Stephen King‘s Salem’s Lot and its prequel story “Jerusalem’s Lot.” While the Salem’s Lot remake hangs in limbo without a release date, the “Chapelwaite” showrunner announced today that season two won’t be moving forward after all, despite a renewal in 2022. “Chapelwaite” co-showrunner Jason Filardi broke the news via X, […]

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Stephen King Shares His Thoughts on the ‘Salem’s Lot’ Remake; “The Feel of Old Hollywood”

The long-awaited adaptation of Stephen King’s Salem’s Lot from director Gary Dauberman (Annabelle Comes Home) is still without a release date, but we did get a bit of an update on Halloween night earlier this week. According to the latest reports, Warner Bros. is toying with the idea of bringing Salem’s Lot straight-to-streaming sometime in […]

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‘Salem’s Lot’ Remake May Be Headed for Streaming Instead of Theatrical Release

One of the biggest questions this year in terms of horror releases remains: Where’s the Salem’s Lot remake? According to Variety,  the Gary Dauberman-directed Stephen King adaptation may be heading to Max, the Warner Bros. Discovery streaming platform. Originally set for theatrical release on September 9, 2022, the new Stephen King adaptation was recently bumped to […]

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Ranking Stephen King’s Writers: From Ben Mears to Scott Landon [The Losers’ Club Podcast]

Of all the advice Stephen King offers in On Writing, “write what you know” may be the best. It’s certainly advice he follows as his vast catalogue is bursting with writers and the occasional villainous scribe. With King’s last literary outing as Richard Bachman behind them, the Losers round up all of King’s fictional writers […]

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Original ‘Salem’s Lot’ Star Lance Kerwin Has Passed Away at 62

Actor Lance Kerwin, best known to horror fans for playing Mark Petrie in Tobe Hooper’s Salem’s Lot (1979), has passed away at just 62 years old, Variety reports this afternoon. “An autopsy to determine the cause of death is being conducted, according to his daughter Savanah,” Variety reports. Lance Kerwin was born on November 6, […]

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‘Salem’s Lot’ – Lewis Pullman Says the Remake is Very Faithful to Stephen King’s Novel

The new adaptation of Salem’s Lot from director Gary Dauberman (It, The Nun, Annabelle Comes Home) is currently missing in action, originally set for release in September 2022 before more recently being bumped to April 2023. As we learned over the summer, the WB/New Line movie is now without a release date entirely, and we’re waiting […]

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The ‘Salem’s Lot’ Remake Is Once Again Without a Release Date

In the midst of many big time changes over at Warner Bros., we’ve learned tonight that the Salem’s Lot remake from WB/New Line has been bumped from release yet again. Originally set for theatrical release on September 9, 2022, the new Stephen King adaptation was recently bumped to April 21, 2023, and now the film […]

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Stephen King News Roundup: On ‘The Regulators’, ‘Salem’s Lot’, and Why Most King Movies Are In Development Hell [The Losers’ Club Podcast]

The heat is on across King’s Dominion. So, once again, The Losers’ Club is putting on their shades, revving up their Plymouth Fury convertible, and feeling the breeze in Hollywood King. Yes, it’s another high-octane news episode that finds Losers Michael Roffman, Justin Gerber, Ashley Casseday, and Randall Colburn cycling through all the latest Stephen King […]

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‘Salem’s Lot’ Remake Moves from September 2022 to April 2023

Well, just about an hour after we shared the latest update on Warner Bros./New Line’s upcoming Salem’s Lot remake, we’ve learned that the film’s release date has been changed. Originally set for theatrical release on September 9, 2022, Bloody Disgusting has learned that the new Stephen King adaptation will now bite into theaters on April […]

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‘Salem’s Lot’ – Official Details Reveal That the New Movie Is Set in the 1970s

The marketing campaign hasn’t yet begun but it looks like Warner Bros. is still sticking to the September 9, 2022 release date for Salem’s Lot, their brand new big screen adaptation of Stephen King‘s classic horror novel. James Wan produced for Warner Bros. and New Line, with Gary Dauberman (It, The Nun, Annabelle Comes Home) writing […]

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