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Stephen King’s The Stand adaptation gets new writer

Ben Affleck is moving forward on the viral adaptation, Stephen King’s The Stand, about survivors of a chemically weaponized super-flu, according to New York Magazine. Executive Producer Affleck has tapped screenwriter David Kajganich to pen the script after Kajganich apparently knocked Warner Bros. off their feet with another recent King adaptation – for the 1986 ….

Stephen King in talks to pen an episode of The Walking Dead

IGN reports that during The Walking Dead panel at Chicago’s C2E2 pop culture event, it was revealed that author Stephen King is in talks to write an episode of Season 2. No surprise since the iconic horror author has a long relationship with show producer Frank Darabont, who adapted King’s The Shawshank Redemption, The Green ….

Preview image of author Stephen King as a biker gang member from Sons of Anarchy

Iconic horror author Stephen King will make an appearance as “Bachman” on next week’s episode of FX Network’s Sons of Anarchy, titled “Caregiver,” airing September 21st at 10:00 PM, and producers have released an image of the legendary writer straddling his ride. In anticipation of the episode, Sons of Anarchy’s (Samcro’s) official production blogger recently ….

Police Academy and Pet Sematary remakes on the way to theaters

THR’s HeatVision reports that New Line is relaunching the Police Academy franchise, with original producer Paul Maslansky onboard for a new spin on the series, which originally spawned six sequels and a television series that lasted one season in 1997. No writer or director are attached to the project yet. The original Police Academy centered ….

Win one of three copies of Ti West’s horror The House of the Devil on DVD

On February 2, 2010, Dark Sky Films and MPI Media Group will release Ti West’s critically acclaimed cult horror film The House of the Devil on DVD. To celebrate The House of the Devil’s release on DVD, FilmFetish is giving away three copies of the DVD to readers. PLEASE NOTE: To be considered to win ….

Steven Spielberg and Stephen King team to bring King’s supernatural thriller Under the Dome to small screen

Watch Carrie, Lon Chaney’s Wolf Man and Rosemary’s Baby on the big screen for Halloween season

The Loew’s Jersey continues its series of classic revival cinema, with an early Halloween weekend of classic cult horror films, including Carrie, Lon Chaney’s The Wolf Man and Rosemary’s Baby. Events kick-off on Friday, October 23rd, and continue on through the next night. Check out the entire schedule below. Friday, October 23rd – 8PM Carrie ….

Stephen King’s Cell will now be a TV miniseries instead of a feature film

In 2006, Eli Roth was attached to collaborate with and direct a film version of Stephen King’s Cell, but then left the project to focus on his own material. Now Fangoria has learned that screenwriter John Harrison is developing the story for a TV miniseries, which the Weinstein Company will be shopping the project to ….

Guillermo Del Toro’s The Strain book review

It shocks me that Guillermo Del Toro had the time to work on a trilogy of horror novels, with The Hobbit 1 and 2, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Drood and many other filmed projects on his agenda. While reading this first novel in the series, The Strain, I found out that it was originally ….

Stephen King’s It headed to the big screen

Warner Bros. has tapped Dave Kajganich – wrote penned The Invasion and Joel Schumacher’s upcoming horror Creek – to adapt Stephen King’s horror novel It, with Dan Lin, Roy Lee and Doug Davison producing, according to Variety. The original story follows the lives of seven children in a small Maine town who confront a demonic ….

Battlestar hottie Kandyse McClure talks Children of the Corn remake

Battlestar Galactica’s Dualla a.k.a. Kandyse McClure, has wrapped that series, but is returning to the SCI FI Channel as the leading lady in the upcoming Children of the Corn remake, according to Sci-Fi Wire. The new made-for-TV film is being called a “re-imagining” of the original, which was based on the Stephen King short story, ….

Demo scene from Stephen King’s The Talisman feature

I found this great scene for a proposed film version of Stephen King and Peter Straub’s book The Talisman. Mathieu Ratthe, who directed the scene, says his main objective for creating the piece was to demonstrate his directing ability and vision to Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy, who own the feature film rights to the ….

Children of the Corn remake rounds out cast

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the Sci Fi Channel is has added to the cast of its Children of the Corn remake, with David Anders, Kandyse McClure, Preston Bailey and Daniel Newman coming aboard the two-hour telefilm. Based on the Stephen King novel, the TV-film features Anders and McClure as a couple with marital problems, ….

Kevin Smith, Seth Rogen and Elizabeth Banks make a porno together!

The Weinstein Company and Dimension Films announced today that Seth Rogen (Knocked Up, Superbad) has signed on to play the lead in writer/director Kevin Smith’s and producer Scott Mosier’s Zack & Miri Make a Porno. Elizabeth Banks (40 Year Old Virgin, Invincible) will star opposite Rogen as Miri. The movie will begin shooting in January ….

Stephen King loves The Mist adaptation

At a press conference today for The Mist by Academy Award nominated director Frank Darabont (The Green Mile, The Shawshank Redemption), Stephen King, whose novella the film is based on, gave his blessing of the film adaptation as well as sent out a chilling message to anyone who dares to give away the film’s ending. ….