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Odessa Young is only 26, but she already has a truly impressive body of work behind her. Assassination Nation, A Million Little Pieces, Shirley, Mothering Sunday, The Stand, The Staircase, Manodrome, in each of these projects, she seems to have an effortless command over her character, each unique, never forced, always true. Now she stars as Vita, the lead character based on Zia Anger in My First Film. On this episode, she talks about the need to “cultivate an obsession” as character preparation, recent musings on “how much an actor should act to the camera,” why she never worries about […]

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Odessa Young is only 26, but she already has a truly impressive body of work behind her. Assassination Nation, A Million Little Pieces, Shirley, Mothering Sunday, The Stand, The Staircase, Manodrome, in each of these projects, she seems to have an effortless command over her character, each unique, never forced, always true. Now she stars as Vita, the lead character based on Zia Anger in My First Film. On this episode, she talks about the need to “cultivate an obsession” as character preparation, recent musings on “how much an actor should act to the camera,” why she never worries about […]

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Oscar-winner Ariana DeBose (West Side Story) takes the lead in the horror thriller House of Spoils, which is coming to us from Blumhouse Television and Amazon‘s Prime Video. This one has the great Halloween season release date of October 3rd, and with that date right around the corner, a trailer has arrived online. You can check it out in the embed above.

The film has been written and directed by the duo of Bridget Savage Cole and Danielle Krudy, whose previous credits include the 2019 film Blow the Man Down, episodes of the recent mini-series adaptation of Stephen King’s The Stand, and episodes of the AMC+ series Moonhaven.

Described as a “tense, psychological and sensuous” thriller, House of Spoils stars DeBose as an ambitious chef who opens her first restaurant—a farm-to-table affair on a remote estate—where she battles kitchen chaos, a dubious investor, crushing self doubts… and...

The JonBenét Ramsey limited series at Paramount+ is rounding out its cast with four new additions.

Variety has learned that Garrett Hedlund, Alison Pill, Emily Mitchell, and Owen Teague are all set to star in the series. They join previously announced series leads Melissa McCarthy and Clive Owen as well as cast members Shea Whigham and Will Patton. Production is set to begin soon in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

As previously announced, the official description for the series states it will follow “the Ramsey family, before and after the tragedy as they go through the painful loss of a child while facing intense public scrutiny caused by a media frenzy that caused this case to captivate an entire nation. At the heart of the series, it is the story of Patsy (McCarthy) and John Ramsey (Owen) – exploring the unbreakable partnership of these two complex people – as husband and wife, as mother...

The New Mutants director Josh Boone and CBS All Access’ new adaptation of Stephen King’s The Stand will make no reference to the actual coronavirus. And today we learned the miniseries will shuffle the chronology of King’s book. It looks like we will meet the major characters in the ruined world, and then see flashbacks to their old […] More...

The New Mutants director Josh Boone and CBS All Access’ new adaptation of Stephen King’s The Stand released a handful of first-look images yesterday. And today Showrunner Taylor Elmore tells Vanity Fair that as timely as the new miniseries is, there will be no reference to the actual coronavirus, saying: “This is an alternate version of how things […] More...

Today brings our first look at the newest adaptation of Stephen King’s classic novel, The Stand, which arrives on CBS All Access later this year. Stephen King’s hellish post-apocalyptic world of The Stand comes back to life with an all new limited series from CBS All Access. The story already had a mini-series adaptation back […]

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The Covid-19 pandemic may have some horror fans thinking about Captain Trips from Stephen King's The Stand, and perhaps as timely as ever, a new adaptation of King's epic novel is coming soon from CBS All Access.

Ahead of its release, the first photos of the limited event series have been revealed by Vanity Fair, giving us our first look at Whoopi Goldberg as Mother Abagail, Odessa Young as Frannie Goldsmith, Owen Teague as Harold Lauder, Owen Teague as Harold Lauder, Heather Graham as Rita Blakemoor, Jovan Adepo as Larry Underwood, Amber Heard as Nadine Cross, Gordon Kyle Diez Cormier as Joe, Alexander Skarsgård as Randall Flagg, and Nat Wolff as Lloyd Henreid.

The cast also includes James Marsden as Stu Redman, Greg Kinnear as Glen Bateman, and Henry Zaga as Nick Andros.

As previously revealed, Stephen King will write a new final chapter for the event series that won't be from the book,...

The New Mutants director Josh Boone and CBS All Access’ new adaptation of Stephen King’s The Stand has just released a handful of first-look images. Check them out below! How excited are You about Stephen King’s The Stand? Make sure to hit us up and let us know in the comments below or on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram! Related: Stephen King’s The […] More...

A new article from Vanity Fair gives fans their first look at the new The Stand TV series, which is set to air on CBS All Access later this year. Among the details revealed in the piece is one interesting tidbit about how the nine-episode miniseries will open. Unlike “The Complete and Uncut” version of the Stephen King novel and the 1994 CBS adaptation, this miniseries won’t begin during the initial outbreak.

Instead, the story starts in media res, with most of the world’s population already dead from the virus known as Captain Trips. The first episode, which was directed by Josh Boone (The Fault in Our Stars), “opens with survivors in masks and protective gear cleaning up a neighborhood full of the dead in Boulder, Colorado,” according to Vanity Fair.

This opening scene could be a bit disorienting for fans of the novel who were likely expecting to...

Up until now, CBS All Access has been the de facto “Star Trek” network, as the streaming service has struggled to gain traction outside of the sci-fi franchise. That being said, later this year, CBS All Access is going to adapt one of Stephen King’s most revered novels, “The Stand,” for a new star-studded limited series, in an attempt to show that the streaming service is more than just spaceships.

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13 Reasons Why Season 4 was made official by Netflix last September, setting up what will serve as the final season for the series.

After the series released its third season last year, it became clear that formerly controversial water cooler topic series 13 Reasons Why was running out of reasons to cite, thus putting a finish line firmly on the horizon. While the show typically runs 13 episodes, this final run will contain just 10. However, creator/showrunner/Ep Brian Yorkey remained onboard to see things through.

13 Reasons Why Season 4 Trailer

The trailer for the fourth and final season of 13 Reasons Why has arrived, previewing a series that must first pick up the pieces after Monty (Timothy Granaderos) was killed in prison at the end of Season 3. With the late Monty having spent the series as a bully and rapist, it made him the perfect patsy for the killing of Bryce Walker, whose real killer,...

It already feels like we're living in a Stephen King novel with the current events of the Covid-19 pandemic but CBS All Access is ready to remind us just how on the nose Stephen King actually is in their new miniseries adaptation of his novel, "The Stand." The new version of his legendary novel was in production just as the Covid-19 pandemic hit and actually had…...

Just in time for a real pandemic, here comes The Stand! Stephen King‘s tome about the end of the world, and what comes after, is being turned into a miniseries yet again – this time on CBS All Access. James Marsden, Amber Heard, Greg Kinnear, Odessa Young, Whoopi Goldberg, and more star in the adaptation, and you […]

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When CBS All Access announced that they were producing a fresh adaptation of Stephen King’s The Stand for 2020, it didn’t raise too many eyebrows. A big-budget TV miniseries based on a classic King story makes perfect sense after the wild successes of the It movies and other recent adaptations. But now, in the wake of everything that’s happened so far this year, a story about a killer flu ravaging the world and changing society beyond recognition is suddenly disturbingly relevant.

So relevant that you have to imagine that CBS is worried that viewers may be a bit tired of hearing about ‘killer viruses’ and watching civilization fall apart by now. Whatever the case, The Stand is certain to be the show everyone is talking about later this year and now, courtesy of Vanity Fair, we have our first look at it.

The stills show us Owen Teague as Harold Lauder,...

Too soon…?

First photos are circulating of CBS All Access’ nine-part adaptation of Stephen King’s The Stand, which presents an apocalyptic vision of a world decimated by plague and embroiled in an elemental struggle between good and evil. Though production fell four days short due to the real-world pandemic, and a precise release date has not been set, King himself penned the final installment — which will include a new coda that didn’t exist in his original best-selling novel.

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When the coronavirus pandemic first arrived, many of us found ourselves abruptly pulled away from our vibrant social lives, and locked up indoors with only our thoughts to keep us company. For Stephen King, however, such a predicament meant nothing new. That’s not to say he particularly likes being alone with himself, though. On the contrary, in a recent interview with The Late Show, the acclaimed horror writer shared which of his countless literary creations he would least prefer to board with during these trying times.

Surprise, surprise: the character that topped off his list was the antagonist from Misery, Annie Wilkes, a psychotic middle-aged woman who kidnaps and mutilates her favorite author so he can write his stories the way she wants him to, no questions asked. The personification of both writer’s block and the toxic relationships between artists and their admirers, Ms. Wilkes probably wouldn’t...

The writer/director of The Love Witch talks about her favorite classic women’s pictures.

Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode

The Love Witch (2016)

Baby Face (1933)

Stromboli (1950)

Europa ’51 (1951)

Fear (1951)

Duel In The Sun (1946)

The Scarlet Empress (1934)

Blonde Venus (1932)

Nora Prentiss (1947)

Woman On The Run (1950)

Wait Until Dark (1967)

Rosemary’s Baby (1968)

Imitation of Life (1969)

Little Women (2019)

Emma (2020)

My Cousin Rachel (2017)

Sex and the City (2008)

Mamma Mia! (2008)

Mildred Pierce (1945)

The Reckless Moment (1949)

Sudden Fear (1952)

Torch Song (1953)

Captain Marvel (2019)

Other Notable Items

The Captain Trips virus in Stephen King’s novel The Stand (1978)

Marlene Dietrich

Mae West

Jennifer Jones

Joan Crawford

Joan Bennett

Gene Tierney

Barbara Stanwyck

The Hays Code

Cary Grant

Marilyn Monroe

Ingrid Bergman

Roberto Rossellini

The Academy Awards

Bette Davis

Jennifer Jones

Gregory Peck

Joseph Cotten

Travis Banton

Josef von Sternberg

Catherine the Great

The Criterion Collection

Kent Smith

Dan Duryea

Douglas Sirk

Jane Austen

Mildred Pierce TV miniseries...

While the Covid-19 pandemic will prevent an in-person Chattanooga Film Festival this year, a virtual edition of the fest will move forward with plenty of screenings and special events to look forward to, including a Lifetime Achievement Award for filmmaker Joe Dante.

You can check out the full lineup for Chattanooga Film Festival 2020 below, and to learn more, visit:

https://www.chattfilmfest.org/

Press Release: Chattanooga, Tn - The Chattanooga Film Festival (Cff) along with its presenting sponsor Gunpowder & Sky’s Alter and media partner Bloody-Disgusting.com, are thrilled to announce their innovative lineup of features, panels and live events set for May 22 to May 25. In unprecedented times, the festival is offering a full-access badge price of $30 and divvying up a portion of the proceeds back to participating filmmakers.

A mix of iconic guests are taking part in the festival, including Law & Order: Svu star, hip-hop visionary, and frontman...

“Revival” is the latest of Stephen King’s successful horror novels to be getting a big screen adaptation. Variety reports that Warner Bros., which found considerable success with its two “It” films, will develop the film. Horror veteran Mike Flanagan will adapt the script with an option to direct, while Trevor Macy, who produced “Doctor Sleep,” is set to serve the same role on the upcoming film, through Intrepid Pictures. Warner Bros. executive Kevin McCormick is overseeing “Revival” for the studio. Additional details, such as casting and a potential release date, are unknown.

A Warner Bros. spokesperson confirmed Variety’s report with IndieWire.

King’s “Revival,” which was released in 2014 and enjoyed favorable reviews, spans several decades and focuses on a former minister who engages in experimental healing practices — with horrifying consequences — after a tragic accident causes him to lose his family and renounce his faith.

Flanagan and Macy are...

Mike Flanagan, the horror auteur behind The Haunting of Hill House and last year’s theatrical version of Stephen King’s Doctor Sleep, is attached to yet another King property: the 2014 novel Revival.

Deadline reports that Flanagan will write an adaptation of the novel for Warner Bros. Pictures “with an option to direct,” so he’s not confirmed yet to do the latter. Flanagan is also going to produce the project along with his regular producing partner, Trevor Macy, through their Intrepid Pictures banner.

Revival has been acclaimed as one of King’s better recent novels, and at 405 pages, one of his more succinct. The plot follows a young boy named Jamie Morton and his friendship with small-town minister Charles Jacobs. Years later, long after Jacobs lost his faith following an unspeakable tragedy, the two meet again and Jamie ends up assisting Jacobs in grim experiments that involve using electricity...

Stephen Colbert had another Stephen, acclaimed author Stephen King, on The Late Show Tuesday night, where he asked King how he was able to so accurately predict the coronavirus crisis.

“People have been telling me for years that I sort of foresaw Donald Trump,” King said. “I wrote a book called The Dead Zone, and there was a character in there, a TV comedian-type guy who appealed to the common people, and told everybody that he was gonna solve the pollution problem ’cause he was gonna shoot it all into outer space!

With day-to-day life currently seeming like one of his more apocalyptic novels, Stephen King continues to provide a library of titles that are ripe for adaptation. After the box office success of the It series, and the other major adaptations of the last few years, we’re already looking forward to new takes on ‘Salem’s Lot, The Tommyknockers and The Stand, to name just a few. The latest King book to get a screen adaptation has now been announced though and it’s his 1999 novella The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon.

For those not aware, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon follows Trisha, a preteen girl who gets lost in the Appalachian Trail while on a family hike. As she tries to find her way to safety, Trisha is comforted by listening to baseball games on her Walkman, and imagining Boston Red Sox pitcher Tom Gordon. Over time, her survival...

With a killer flu sweeping the globe and forcing radical changes in everyday life, many people are thinking of Stephen King‘s The Stand. His story has some eerie parallels with our own, with King himself even saying he can’t help but be reminded of it.

In a new interview with Vanity Fair, he stated:

“When you hear reports that 100,000 or 240,000 people are going to die, you’ve got to take notice, and it is going to be bad. It’s bad right now. It’s brought the economy to a complete stop. In a lot of ways, I mean, you see the pictures of Times Square or London, and you say, ‘It really is like The Stand.’”

But King also says that the current situation is reminding him of another of his novels, specifically in how the Coronavirus lockdown is affecting him.

“I’m working on a book,...

Stephen King's The Stand is heading back to the small screen -- this time, with a 10-episode streaming series coming to CBS All Access. King's 1978 novel is one of his most popular titles ever and centers on a group of survivors who have managed to make it through the catastrophic plague that cost

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It’s no accident that Stephen King is one of the most heavily-adapted writers in horror movie history. From horror gross-outs and intense psychological thrillers to far-out sci-fi romps and ambitious horror epics like It Chapter One and Chapter Two, there’s a King movie or TV show for everyone.

It certainly helps that King is also one of the most prolific and successful writers working today. Since 1974, with the publication of Carrie, his debut novel about a troubled girl with telekinetic powers, King has been raising the bar of weird fiction. He certainly has some of the best human villains and supernatural villains of all-time.

Perhaps it’s his B-movie sensitivity that really makes his ghoulies shine, but its really about how the prose flows in his novels and countless short stories — they aren’t your normal fast-paced reads for the most part. King takes his time building tension and suspense.

The Alpha for World of Warcraft: Shadowlands is live and Den of Geek had an opportunity to check out the long-running Mmo’s upcoming expansion. We visited the Bastion zone, the Necrotic Wake dungeon, and saw first-hand the upcoming class and gameplay changes, and we’ll have additional coverage in the coming weeks as Blizzard continues to release new Alpha and Beta content.

When Battle for Azeroth launched in August 2018, the game had some positive things going for it. Blizzard’s art and music teams had once again knocked it out of the park, and the story leading up to the release included one of the biggest events in World of Warcraft history, with Horde Warchief Slyvannas Windrunner burning the Alliance city of Darnassus to the ground. Players went into Battle for Azeroth excited to see what would happen next.

But there was also some discontent and what started as...

The adaptation of Korean post-apocalyptic film “Snowpiercer” into an American television series took a tumultuous, multiyear journey. And that was even before the coronavirus pandemic brought a dose of real-life calamity into the world right before launch.

Now TNT is about to premiere a show about people isolated indoors in order to survive a world gone mad, just as audiences are experiencing somewhat similar circumstances. But rather than shelve the show, the network is leaning into the unexpected timing, and has even moved up the premiere from May 31 to May 17.

“People are home watching television,” says Brett Weitz, general manager of TNT, TBS and TruTV. “They want an escape, and they want entertainment. No matter what’s happening, people want that disconnect. Although this is a far-fetched premise, I think in this day and age it’s become a little less far-fetched but still an escape. People will want to...

Deadline has confirmed that Annabelle Comes Home director Gary Dauberman is also taking the reins of the New Line feature adaptation of Stephen King’s Salem’s Lot. Dauberman was already adapting the 1975 horror novel for the big screen for producers James Wan, Roy Lee and Mark Wolper.

Dauberman will also be Ep. He previously worked with Wan writing the Annabelle franchise, and made his feature directorial debut on last summer’s Annabelle Comes Home.

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Salem’s Lot follows a writer named Ben Mears who returns to the town of Jerusalem’s Lot (or Salem’s Lot for short) in Maine, where he had lived from the age...

With the coronavirus pandemic drawing associations with his epic story of a flu-like virus in The Stand, Stephen King has been regularly sharing his takes on the current situation. Over the last month, King has both moved to reassure people that Covid-19 is nowhere near as deadly as The Stand‘s Captain Trips, as well as sharing some humorous takes on how the lockdown would affect his characters. While the author’s latest book, If It Bleeds, is getting an early publication this month, King is already working on his next effort. However, it seems that the impact of the coronavirus has changed his original plans for the novel.

More specifically, he’d intended his latest book to take place in 2020, but is now revising the plot due to the overwhelming effect of Covid-19 on daily life. Speaking to NPR, King had this to say about the difficulty of writing...

Poor The New Mutants. Initially one of the bolder and more interesting X-Men projects to originate out of 20th Century Fox, the superhero spinoff has turned into a corporate football delayed by studio mandates, merger politics, and now the coronavirus crisis. When The Walt Disney Company announced The New Mutants would be delayed alongside Mulan and Antlers last month due to the pandemic, it amounted to the fourth time New Mutants’ release date has been pushed back or postponed.

In the more bizarre corners of fandom, this has resulted in whispers of “curses,” and in the less crazy parts, it’s led to a general skepticism that Josh Boone’s horror-superhero hybrid will never be released in theaters. Many, in fact, are speculating the film could premiere on Disney’s shiny new streaming service, Disney+, or on Hulu, another streamer that Disney owns a 60 percent stake in. After all, Universal Pictures...

Here are many more movies to watch when you’re staying in for a while, featuring recommendations from Jim Gavin, Karyn Kusama, Matt Christman, and Jonah Ray.

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Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode

Three Tough Guys (1974)

Two Gentlemen Sharing (1969)

Tower of Evil a.k.a. Horror on Snape Island (1972)

Blow-Up (1966)

Blow Out (1981)

Body Double (1984)

Rififi (1955)

The Big Clock (1948)

No Way Out (1987)

Funeral In Berlin (1966)

The Ipcress File (1965)

Billion Dollar Brain (1967)

The Innocents (1961)

Miracle Mile (1988)

Femme Fatale (2002)

Main Street Women (1980)

Sleepwalkers (1992)

A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984)

Dracula’s Dog (1977)

Moneyball (2011)

Together (2000)

Contagion (2011)

Panic In The Streets (1950)

The Killer That Stalked New York (1950)

The Satan Bug (1965)

A Prophet (2009)

Point Break (1991)

The Thing (1982)

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

Hit! (1973)

Outbreak (1995)

The Island (2005)

6 Underground (2019)

Pain And Gain (2013)

The Invitation (2015)

High-Rise (2015)

The ’Burbs (1989)

To My Great Chagrin: The Unbelievable...

While the Covid-19 pandemic has delayed the releases of numerous horror films throughout the spring and summer, horror fans can at least now look forward to reading Stephen King's latest book earlier than expected.

Initially scheduled to come out on May 5th, StephenKing.com now reveals that King's new novella collection, If It Bleeds, will be released in April, with Bloody Disgusting also sharing the news.

It's worth noting that while Amazon lists an April 28th release date for the hardcover and audiobook versions of If It Bleeds, it lists an April 21st release date for the Kindle and audio CD editions of the collection, and the book's page on StephenKing.com also lists an April 21st release date at this time, as does its page on Simon & Schuster's website.

Despite these conflicting dates, what we do know for sure is that the collection will be released in April,...

While President Donald Trump has said that he only wants to give this Covid-19 a couple weeks before the U.S. reopens, check out this tweet by Stephen King. Even though his monumental pandemic novel The Stand was first published 41 years ago, he offered up an audiobook reading of the chapter where he explains in his folksy fictional fashion how a dangerous virus spreads. It is a chilling listen.

I can recall first reading that book while I was under the weather, the imagery was so vivid I was sure I was a goner but hoped to hang on long enough to finish it. Wonder how it would be to re-read the whole thing right now?

Chapter 8 of The Stand.

Self-isolation offers a chance to catch up on the classics – but that requires a calm it’s currently hard to muster. In the first of a new series, one writer reveals the truth about their coronavirus viewing habits

Last week, the BFI released a list of the films streaming on Netflix and Amazon Prime. It’s terrific. It contains several movies I’ve always wanted to see and several I love and want to see again. The weekend was beckoning and the world appeared to be ending. I drafted a timetable of all the great films I would watch.

Now it is Monday and the timetable is in ruins – which is to say that I didn’t watch a single film. What I watched was the BBC news, which is playing as a real-time adaptation of Stephen King’s novel, The Stand. What I watched was five episodes of the French sitcom Call My Agent,...

With film and television productions shutting down, concerts and other major events being canceled, and venues from amusement parks to select movie theaters closing their doors temporarily amid coronavirus concerns, there is one tried and true place to which to turn for entertainment and escapism: books.

From Stephen King’s “The Stand” in 1978 to the more recent “Station Eleven” by Emily St. John Mandel, there have been quite a few stories written over the years that depict dystopia in a way that may feel educational now. But if that is too on-the-nose for the current climate, there are lots of recently-released options that let readers immerse themselves in slightly more optimistic, even if often still somewhat surreal, worlds.

Combining those ideas, here Variety has compiled a list of books to binge-read when you need to take a break from your family, roommates or constantly refreshing news about the state of the epidemic.

In Stephen King’s The Stand, the world is ravaged by a killer flu strain. A few isolated cases spiral into a pandemic, with the virus proving resilient and incredibly contagious. Soon the flu virus has spread around the world, eventually killing off 99.4% of humanity and most animals. Sound familiar? Well, let’s just say that with the Covid-19 Coronavirus dominating headlines around the world and quickly becoming the biggest health crisis of a generation, many people are thinking about the influenza-induced societal collapse that takes place in King’s epic novel.

But while Coronavirus is very serious and more deadly than anyone would like it to be, it’s not “kill 99.4% of humanity” deadly. In fact, Stephen King took to Twitter, presumably in response to him being repeatedly quizzed about the Coronavirus’ similarities to The Stand, to make a statement, which reads as follows:

“No, coronavirus is Not like The Stand.

Beginning with The Andromeda Strain in 1971, disease movies quickly established themselves as a commonplace cinematic subgenre, usually within the science fiction umbrella. In the years that followed, we got the likes of Outbreak, Contagion, Virus, The Stand, 12 Monkeys, The Crazies, 28 Days Later, most post-Night of the Living Dead zombie movies, The Omega Man, Winds of Terror, and dozens of others.

It only made sense. Despite antibiotics and advances in medical research, new dread diseases continued to crop up on an annual basis, each one threatening (for a while there anyway) to become a pandemic that could wipe out millions. In recent decades, none of them had killed more than a few thousand people, but the threat and the fear were a constant presence. There was swine flu, various incarnations of bird flu, Sars, West Nile Virus, mad cow disease, Hantavirus ,superbugs, and Ebola. Add to that the...

Never fear, susceptible population: The expanding coronavirus is nowhere near as lethal as the flu strain that killed most of the world’s people in The Stand. We have that from a reliable source: Stephen King.

The prolific horrormeister wrote on Twiiter that the real disease — which has spread from China to six continents and more than 30 U.S. states — is “not anywhere near as serious” as “Project Blue,” the virulent superbug depicted in his 1977 novel The Stand. That strain of influenza was weaponized by the American government but accidentally released by a soldier who flees the lab where it was developed.

No, coronavirus is Not like The Stand. It’s not anywhere near as serious. It’s eminently survivable. Keep calm and take all reasonable precautions.

— Stephen King (@StephenKing) March 8, 2020

In the book, Project Blue is exposed to the public by mistake when Patient Zero escapes with his wife...

The New Mutants is, at long last, set to make its debut in April – two whole years after its intended release. Indeed, the film was designed as a tonally off-beat expansion of Fox’s long-held X-Men movie rights, but Disney’s 2019 acquisition of the studio temporarily rendered it an abandoned oddity. However, director Josh Boone thinks the film still has something to offer, and, in a new interview with EW, dispels the long-held notion that it was subject to extensive reshoots.

Boone, also known as the director of 2014’s The Fault in Our Stars, finally dished about the delays that plagued The New Mutants movie, and, most importantly, directly addressed the reshoot rumors, which – besides giving the impression that the film was lacking in its first cut – implied a few (false) things, from the late addition of Jon Hamm as villain Mister Sinister to Daphne Keen appearing as her Logan character,...

When “The New Mutants” opens in theaters nationwide this April it will bring to an end an infamous production that saw multiple release delays and much-discussed reshoots. Except all of those reshoots the media wrote endlessly wrote about never happened. In a new interview with Entertainment Weekly, “New Mutants” director Josh Boone puts an end to the rumors stating over half the movie was reshot in order to drastically change the tone and story of the film. The director says no reshoots ever occurred because the film went on a hiatus during the Disney-Fox merger and by the time that hiatus was over his cast aged out of their roles.

“Everybody said we did reshoots! We’ve never done reshoots,” Boone tells EW. “And I’ll tell you this: if there hadn’t been a merger, I’m sure we would’ve done reshoots the same way every movie does pickups.

CBS All Access and director Josh Boone’s upcoming 10-episode limited series adaptation of Stephen King’s The Stand will be headed our way in 2020. And today we’ve learned via Variety that Natalie Martinez (The I-Land) will guest star. This new The Stand‘s killer […]

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In today’s TV news roundup, Natalie Martinez will guest star in CBS All Access’ “The Stand,” and USA announces the third season premiere date of “The Sinner.”

Casting

Natalie Martinez (“The I-Land”) will guest star in CBS All Access‘ adaptation of “The Stand,“ based on Stephen King’s novel of the same name, Variety has exclusively learned. Martinez began her career as the spokesmodel for Jennifer Lopez’s (“Hustlers”) fashion line and has since gone on to star in “Self/less” opposite Ryan Reynolds and Warner Bros. “Reminiscence,” which is currently filming.

Karen Fukuhara (“Suicide Squad”), Deon Cole (“Black-ish”), Coy Stewart (“Are We There Yet”), Sydney Mikayla (“The Gabby Douglas Story”) and Dee Bradley Baker (“American Dad”) have been cast in Dreamworks‘ Netflix original series “Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts,“ premiering Jan. 14. The animated series follows a young girl thrust into adventure on the surface of a fantastical post-apocalyptic Earth.

Alex Ross Perry (“Her Smell”) will write and direct the adaptation of Stephen King’s best-seller “The Dark Half” for MGM, an individual with knowledge of the project told TheWrap.

The story had been previously turned into a 1993 MGM film, which starred Timothy Hutton. It followed an author whose crime thrillers under a pseudonym sold better than the books written with his real name. Once his pseudonym is exposed, he decides to give his other ego a burial, but things start turning sinister as the alter ego has taken on a life of its own.

King wrote the book based on his own experiences when it was revealed he was writing thriller novels under the pseudonym Richard Bachman. Those novels included “Thinner,” “Running Man,” “Rage” and “The Long Walk.”

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Perry most recently directed,...

Exclusive: MGM has set Alex Ross Perry to adapt and direct The Dark Half, a new adaptation of the 1989 Stephen King bestseller. Perry popped after writing, directing and producing Her Smell, the drama that premiered at the 2018 Toronto Film Festival, and for which Elisabeth Moss is Spirit Awards-nominated for her portrayal as a self-destructive rock star.

Perry plans a reinvention of a story first turned into a 1993 MGM film by the late zombie impresario George Romero. That film starred Timothy Hutton as an author whose books sell Ok and have a literary vibe to them. They don’t sell nearly as well as grisly crime thrillers he writes under an alter ego. Once his pseudonym is exposed, the author and his wife decide to give the other author a ceremonial burial. And then the people who were involved in doing that start turning up dead as it appears the alter...

IMDb released its list of the Top 10 most-anticipated new TV shows of 2020 Tuesday, with “Star Trek: Picard” leading the pack and “The Falcon and The Winter Soldier” coming in at No. 2, TheWrap has learned exclusively.

Along with the CBS All Access series led by Sir Patrick Stewart, and the Disney+ show featuring Anthony Mackie and Sebastian Stan reprising their McU roles, IMDb’s other most-anticipated small-screen offerings for the coming year include: HBO’s “The New Pope”; AMC’s “The Walking Dead: The World Beyond”; TNT’s “Snowpiercer”; CBS All Access’ “The Stand”; HBO’s “The Outsider”; DC Universe’s “Stargirl”; Amazon Prime Video’s “Hunters”; and The CW’s “Katy Keene.”

“Rather than base its annual rankings on small statistical samplings or reviews from professional critics, IMDb determines its list of most popular movies by the actual page views of the more than 200 million monthly visitors to IMDb,” the...

Warning: This post contains spoilers for the series finale of HBO’s “Mrs. Fletcher”

At the tender age of 19, Owen Teague found himself filming the first sex scene of his career.

The actor, known for the role of Patrick Hockstetter in the 2017 remake of “It” and its sequel, plays the young Julian Spitzer in HBO’s “Mrs. Fletcher.” Based on the novel by Tom Perrotta, the series tells the story of Eve Fletcher (Kathryn Hahn), a single mother who rediscovers her sexuality after her son leaves for college. Teague’s character Julian develops a mutual crush on Eve — who happens to be the mother of his high school bully.

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TheWrap caught up with Teague ahead of Sunday’s series finale to talk about that wild threesome scene, and what it was like to shoot...

HBO has unveiled the first trailer for HBO’s “The Outsider,” the latest Stephen King horror novel to be adapted for the small screen.

The 10-episode series, which is set to hit HBO January 12, will follow police detective Ralph Anderson as he investigates the grisly murder of an 11-year-old. Although authorities quickly make an arrest, the police soon discover contradictory evidence, suggesting their prime suspect (Jason Bateman) was in two places at the same time. Though the case appears simple at first, the show’s trailer suggests that events soon take a more sinister — perhaps even supernatural — turn.

Although investigators looking into a child’s murder might seem like typical whodunit crime drama fare, the trailer for HBO’s “The Outsider” makes clear that the limited series will retain King’s signature horror flairs. Mendelsohn’s character might claim he’s just looking for “facts, evidence, [and] dumb cop shit like that,...

Laura Francis Nov 29, 2019

Enjoy an feminist dystopian yarn a la The Handmaid's Tale? These science fiction titles need to be next on your reading list...

With the ever-growing success of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid’s Tale since its debut in 1985, both the book and its subsequent TV adaptation, you may find you're after something similar to read when you need your next lit fix. There’s no doubt that its relevance and its cultural impact is heavily felt today, after all these years, especially during the #MeToo era.

It has now spawned a whole new sci-fi subgenre of dystopian feminist fiction, which has grown hugely popular, especially over the last few years, and has also helped elevate and amplify the voices of lots of female writers as well as shine a light on many important women's issues. Some have even already been lined up for TV and movie adaptations. And...