Mike Flanagan (Gerald’s Game, Doctor Sleep) is headed back into the world of Stephen King with an adaptation of King tale The Life of Chuck, Deadline reports tonight. Tom Hiddleston (Crimson Peak) and Mark Hamill (Star Wars) will star! “Based on the short story from King’s 2020 anthology If It Bleeds, The Life of Chuck is three separate stories […]
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The Losers speak to writer Meg Elison about her 2021 Fantasy Magazine article, “All the King’s Women: The Fats”. In the article, Elison discusses the ways King has written fat people in his work — from novels like IT to short stories like “Word Processor of the Gods.” It’s a breezy and lighthearted chat that […]
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Video games may not be as well respected as other narrative artforms, but it’s only a matter of time before mainstream media begins to regard these interactive experiences with the same prestige as film and television. Fortunately, there are some artistic pioneers from other areas that have already recognized the creative potential of gaming, and […]
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We take a trip back inside the mind of Stephen King with 20th Century Studios and 21 Laps’ The Boogeyman on June 2, 2023, and today four new posters have arrived. Who’s under the bed? What’s lurking in the closet? Preview the supernatural terror below… In the film, “High school student Sadie Harper and her younger […]
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With Blaze back on the shelf, the Losers have finished their Richard Bachman run. To cap it off, they do what any self-respecting Constant Reader would do: argue and rank all seven of his novels. To recap, that includes: 1977’s Rage, 1979’s The Long Walk, 1981’s Roadwork, 1982’s The Running Man, 1984’s Thinner, 1996’s The […]
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Forgive the creaking hinges and fluttering moths, Constant Listeners. The Losers just cracked open Stephen King’s fabled TRUNK, the one where he keeps all the inked-up pages he’s not yet ready to unleash upon the world. It’s here where Blaze moldered for decades. Written in late 1972 and early 1973 on his wife’s Olivetti typewriter […]
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The upcoming series “Welcome to Derry” will serve as an official prequel to the two Stephen King-based IT movies from Andy Muschietti, and Variety reports this week that Madeleine Stowe (Revenge) and Stephen Rider (Daredevil) have signed on to star. Variety details, “The duo’s exact roles remain under wraps. But Variety has confirmed Stowe will appear in a recurring […]
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One of the most iconic movie review blurbs of all time came from Stephen King, whose rave review for Sam Raimi’s The Evil Dead back in 1982 was so influential that it played a huge role in the movie’s success. King called Sam Raimi‘s debut “The most ferociously original horror film of 1982,” and at the […]
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Director Daphné Baiwir examines not the literary work of prolific author Stephen King but the vast body of ongoing adaptations of King’s work, beginning with 1976’s Carrie, in the documentary King on Screen. With over 80 films and TV series and counting, adapting his work by over 50 directors, the horror author remains one of the most adapted in the […]
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The new trailer and a new poster for 20th Century Studios’ and 21 Laps’ The Boogeyman has been unleashed this afternoon. The supernatural horror-thriller from the mind of best-selling author Stephen King opens June 2, 2023, exclusively in theaters worldwide. In the film, “High school student Sadie Harper and her younger sister Sawyer are reeling from the recent […]
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“You always were the clumsy one, old hoss.” Believe it or not, but this month marks the 30th anniversary of George A. Romero‘s The Dark Half. Starring Timothy Hutton in a dual role and Michael Rooker as Sheriff Alan Pangborn, the 1993 supernatural thriller brought Romero back to King’s Dominion with the late filmmaker both […]
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Spring’s here, but the Summer heat is on across King’s Dominion. Once again, The Losers’ Club is putting on their shades, revving up their Plymouth Fury, and feeling the breeze in Hollywood King. It’s another high-octane news episode that finds Losers Michael Roffman, Justin Gerber, Rachel Reeves, and Jenn Adams cycling through the latest Stephen […]
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Night. The house is stirring. The wind is screaming outside. The bed feels lonely. You close your eyes and see the purple parting before you. Orange light fills in. A breeze brushes by with tufts of frangipani, bougainvillea, dusty roses, and the night-blooming cereus… Head to Boo’ya Moon with Losers Michael Roffman, Ana Marie Cox, […]
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“You can ring my bell, ring my bell…” The Losers gather at Boston International Airport to close out their coverage on Stephen King‘s Cell. Now that they’ve explored the 2006 novel, they’re dialing into the 2016 adaptation. Originally announced as an Eli Roth project two months after the book’s release, the film spent 10 torturous […]
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Get behind the wheel of one wild ride when Lionsgate’s Vestron Video Collector’s Series releases Stephen King’s Maximum Overdrive on Blu-ray SteelBook on May 30! The Blu-ray + Digital SteelBook is exclusive to Walmart, up for pre-order now. Maximum Overdrive was notably written for the screen and directed by Stephen King himself. We assume the […]
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