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Check Out ‘Carrie’ White’s Birth Certificate!

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Posted by MrDisgusting on September 22, 2012 @ 11:04pm
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The official Facebook for MGM and Screen Gems’ Carrie remake shared the newly discovered birth certificate for Carrietta White, played by Chloe Moretz. Julianne Moore, Alex Russell, Ansel Elgort, Gabriella Wilde, Judy Greer and Portia Doubleday all star.

In theaters March 15, 2013, “‘Carrie’ tells the supernatural tale of a telekinetic teenage girl tormented by her peers. The quiet suburb of Chamberlain, Maine, is home to the deeply religious and conservative Margaret White (Moore) and her daughter, Carrie (Moretz). Carrie is a sweet but meek outcast whom Margaret has sheltered from society. Gym teacher Miss Desjardin (Greer) tries in vain to protect Carrie from local mean girls led by the popular and haughty Chris Hargenson (Doubleday), but only Chris’ best friend, Sue Snell (Wilde), regrets their actions. In an effort to make amends, Sue asks her boyfriend, high school heartthrob Tommy Ross (Ansel Elgort), to take Carrie to prom. Pushed to the limit by her peers at the dance, Carrie unleashes telekinetic havoc.”

Brian De Palma’s 1976 film version of Carrie earned Oscar nominations for stars Sissy Spacek and Piper Laurie. READ MORE

Stephen King Dates “The Shining” Sequel, “Doctor Sleep”

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Posted by MrDisgusting on September 18, 2012 @ 3:52pm
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If you’re beyond excited for the hotly anticipated “The Shining” sequel, you may want to skip this story and revisit it next summer. This is going to be a long wait.

Scribner and Hodder & Stoughton have established September 24, 2013 as the official first publication date for “Doctor Sleep,” a sequel to “The Shining,” reports author Stephen King’s official website. The sequel follows Danny Torrance, Jack’s son from “The Shining”, as an adult.

Here’s the official plot: “On highways across America, a tribe of people called The True Knot travel in search of sustenance. They look harmless—mostly old, lots of polyester, and married to their RVs. But as Dan Torrance knows, and tween Abra Stone learns, The True Knot are quasi-immortal, living off the “steam” that children with the “shining” produce when they are slowly tortured to death.

Haunted by the inhabitants of the Overlook Hotel where he spent one horrific childhood year, Dan has been drifting for decades, desperate to shed his father’s legacy of despair, alcoholism, and violence. Finally, he settles in a New Hampshire town, an AA community that sustains him, and a job at a nursing home where his remnant “shining” power provides the crucial final comfort to the dying. Aided by a prescient cat, he becomes “Doctor Sleep.”

Then Dan meets the evanescent Abra Stone, and it is her spectacular gift, the brightest shining ever seen, that reignites Dan’s own demons and summons him to a battle for Abra’s soul and survival. This is an epic war between good and evil, a gory, glorious story that will thrill the millions of hyper-devoted readers of The Shining and wildly satisfy anyone new to the territory of this icon in the King canon.” READ MORE

[Book Review] ‘A Book of Horrors’ Yet Another Excellent Anthology From ‘Mammoth’ Editor Stephen Jones

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Posted by Ryan Daley on September 15, 2012 @ 1:57pm
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With an output that includes an annual entry in the Mammoth Book of Best New Horror omnibus, as well as an ongoing series of Karl Edward Wagner collections (Walk on the Wild Side, Vols. 1 and 2), it’s a miracle that editor Stephen Jones had enough time to tag his name on yet another horror anthology. Perhaps that explains why he titled this new compilation A Book of Horrors, rather than THE Book of Horrors––when you’re an editor as prolific as Jones, each new anthology must seem like merely another bullet point on your resume. But considering Jones’ talent for selecting new fiction––along with a table of contents that includes heavy-hitters like Stephen King, Ramsay Campbell, Dennis Etchison, and John Ajvide Lindqvist–– this book comes equipped with a built-in pedigree that refuses to be ignored.

Since its original publication in the U.K. last September, A Book of Horrors has garnered Best Anthology nominations from both the British Fantasy Society and the World Fantasy Board, not to mention a host of nominations for several of the individual stories included within. Americans will finally get a taste of the action when St. Martin’s Griffin releases A Book of Horrors stateside this Tuesday. Additional details lie beyond the jump. READ MORE

Joan Allen To Star In Stephen King Adaptation ‘A Good Marriage’

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Posted by EvanDickson on September 11, 2012 @ 4:02pm
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A project we first reported on a few months back is gaining some traction. A Good Marriage, which originally appeared in the Stephen King anthology “Full Dark, No Stars”, will be making its way to screens sometime next year with Peter Askin (Trumbo) directing. And now the film has its lead – Joan Allen (Pleasantville, Manhunter, The Bourne Supremacy) will be playing Darcy Anderson.

In the book, “When her husband of more than twenty years is away on one of his business trips, Darcy Anderson looks for batteries in the garage. Her toe knocks up against a box under a worktable, and she discovers the stranger inside her husband. It’s a horrifying discovery, rendered with bristling intensity, and it definitively ends a good marriage.”

Stephen King himself wrote the screenplay for the independently financed film. A Good Marriage begins shooting in New York in mid-October.

Wanna See Chloe Moretz’s ‘Carrie’ Covered In Pig’s Blood?

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Posted by EvanDickson on August 23, 2012 @ 1:20pm
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Updated: With higher quality pics!

Now filming in Toronto, Canada is Sony Screen Gems’ remake of Carrie, which has Kimberly Peirce (Boys Don’t Cry, Stop-Loss) in the director’s chair.

I was recently on set and – while I can’t say anything about it yet – I can share these pics that EW got their hands on. They feature Chloe Moretz in one of Carrie‘s most iconic moments as well as a look at Julianne Moore in character as Margaret White. It should be noted that this picture looks like it’s from later in the movie – after the prom. You’ll notice she’s outside.

The film also stars Judy Greer (The Descendants), Alex Russell (Chronicle), Gabriella Wilde and Portia Doubleday. Carrie tells the supernatural tale of a telekinetic teenage girl tormented by her peers. “The quiet suburb of Chamberlain, Maine, is home to the deeply religious and conservative Margaret White (Moore) and her daughter, Carrie (Moretz). Carrie is a sweet but meek outcast whom Margaret has sheltered from society. Gym teacher Miss Desjardin (Greer) tries in vain to protect Carrie from local mean girls led by the popular and haughty Chris Hargenson (Portia Doubleday), but only Chris’ best friend, Sue Snell (Gabriella Wilde), regrets their actions. In an effort to make amends, Sue asks her boyfriend, high school heartthrob Tommy Ross (Ansel Elgort), to take Carrie to prom. Pushed to the limit by her peers at the dance, Carrie unleashes telekinetic havoc.” Brian De Palma’s 1976 film version of Carrie earned Oscar nominations for stars Sissy Spacek and Piper Laurie.

Head inside for the pics! Carrie is slated for a March 13, 2013 theatrical release. READ MORE

Rachel Nichols To Be One Of ‘The 10 O’Clock People’

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Posted by EvanDickson on July 27, 2012 @ 1:38pm
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Rachel Nichols (pictured inside; Star Trek, P2, The Amityville Horror, Conan The Barbarian) is in talks to join director Tom Holland’s (Fright Night 1985, Child’s Play) The 10 O’Clock People, Holland’s latest Stephen King adaptation. If she signs the dotted line, she’ll be joining Justin Long who has already been cast as the lead of Brandon Pearson. Per THR, “Rachel Nichols is in negotiations to join Justin Long in Stephen King’s The Ten O’Clock People. Nichols would play a woman who, like the man, can see a horrible aspect of reality, hidden in plain sight.”

King’s “The Ten O’clock People” was a short story published in 1993 as part of his “Nightmares and Dreamscapes” collection (pictured above). “The story follows Brandon Pearson, who in trying to kick his smoking habit uncovers a frightening aspect of reality, he plans to extinguish through extreme measures.” Holland has remarked that “This film will be a modernization of the original short story, a paranoid suspense piece.”

The Ten O’Clock People will film this summer and be produced by Making Ten O’Clock Productions and Holland’s Dead Rabbit Films. READ MORE

Stephen King’s ‘Pet Sematary’ Gets High Def Blu-ray Release!

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Posted by MrDisgusting on July 12, 2012 @ 3:33pm
Category: Movies / Home Video

Home is where the horror is in the terrifying fan-favorite Pet Sematary, rising up on Blu-ray for the first time on October 2, 2012 from Paramount Home Media Distribution.

Written for the screen by internationally renowned author Stephen King and based on his sensational book, “‘Pet Sematary’ tells the story of Louis and Rachel Creed and their two children, an average family who move into an idyllic home in the countryside to begin what promises to be a perfect new life. Unfortunately, their dream home sits next to a pet cemetery with a horrible and dark secret. When a family tragedy causes Louis to become unhinged with grief, he pays a visit to the cemetery and unleashes an unspeakable evil on the world.”

The Pet Sematary Blu-ray includes commentary by director Mary Lambert, a guided tour of the frightening locations led by author Stephen King along with an exploration of the origins of the novel, an introduction to the cast and characters, and a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the film.

Bonus features are as follows:
· Commentary by director Mary Lambert
· Stephen King Territory
· The Characters
· Filming the Horror

Art inside! READ MORE

5 Remakes We’d Actually Like To See!!!

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Posted by EvanDickson on July 09, 2012 @ 1:32pm
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The unfortunate truth is that most remakes are pre-destined to be awful. I’m not saying they’re all bad, there are some I rather like, but most of the recent ones never really had a chance to be good. Even if a passionate writer, director and cast are brought onboard they’re still essentially fighting an uphill battle against the reason they were hired in the first place. Money. If a studio owns a certain piece of recognizable property, when they opt to remake it they do so because they feel like it’s a secure financial decision (even if many recent ones have tanked). This means it’s already a film by committee even before the creative team is added. That’s an unhealthy, and usually unfixable, power dynamic for any production.

But what if that wasn’t the case? I mean, we can dream right? I know John Carpenter’s The Thing is always cited as one of the times they “got it right” – but the climate has changed a lot since 1982. I need only to point you in the general direction the 2011 version The Thing to illustrate how much. I suppose one of the recent ones that almost got it right was Dennis Iliadis’ 2009 remake of The Last House On The Left. It had the right idea in that most successful remakes update films that had interesting ideas, but weren’t necessarily great to begin with. Wes Craven’s 1972 TLHOTL is one of those films. It’s a totally incompetent mess (Craven got better later). But while Iliadis’ film is far superior in many ways, it bungles the themes and crosses the line. It allows the daughter to survive, which turns it from a revenge film into a survival film. And it also lingers on the rape scene for far too long. It’s a scene that’s even less necessary than it was before because the audience no longer needs to be sold on the revenge motif.

But at least it got close! It took an unwatchable film and made it watchable (again – except for the inexcusable context for that 5 minute assault)! What if we lived in a world where remakes were even better than this and actually hit their marks creatively? What are some of the famous properties that could use a good dusting off? Let’s indulge in the fantasy of a universe where remakes actually happen for semi-decent reasons!

If you can get onboard with that, head inside to check out which remakes we’d like to see! Then let us know yours in the comments! READ MORE

Justin Long Could Be One Of ‘The 10 O’Clock People’

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Posted by EvanDickson on June 29, 2012 @ 3:48pm
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Justin Long (pictured below; Drag Me To Hell, Going The Distance) is in talks for the lead role of Brandon Pearson for director Tom Holland (Fright Night 1985, Child’s Play) in The 10 O’Clock People, Holland’s latest Stephen King adaptation. Per Deadline, “Justin Long is in negotiations for the lead role in The Ten O’clock People. The Live Free Or Die Hard actor would play Brandon Pearson in the modernized adaptation of the Stephen King short story.”

The Ten O’Clock People will film this summer and be produced by Making Ten O’Clock Productions and Holland’s Dead Rabbit Films.

I thought he was great in Drag Me To Hell, but I haven’t read this story. Do you guys think he’s right for it? READ MORE

The New ‘Carrie’ Has Officially Started Filming In Canada, First Pic Of Moretz In Character

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Posted by EvanDickson on June 27, 2012 @ 5:10pm
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Kimberly Peirce is official behind the camera for Carrie, the latest adaptation of Stephen King’s coming-of-age novella. The MGM/Screen Gems reboot has announced the full casting including Chloe Moretz (Kick Ass, Let Me in), Julianne Moore (Hannibal), Alex Russell (Chronicle), Ansel Elgort, Gabriella Wilde (The Three Musketeers), Judy Greer (The Descendants) and Portia Doubleday (Youth In Revolt).

Principle photography started this week in Toronto, Ontario with a March 15, 2013 locked.

In the film, “The quiet suburb of Chamberlain, Maine is home to the deeply religious and conservative Margaret White (Moore) and her daughter Carrie (Moretz). Carrie is a sweet but meek outcast whom Margaret has sheltered from society. Gym teacher Miss Desjardin (Greer) tries in vain to protect Carrie from local mean girls led by the popular and haughty Chris Hargenson (Portia Doubleday, Youth in Revolt), but only Chris’ best friend, Sue Snell (Gabriella Wilde, The Three Musketeers), regrets their actions. In an effort to make amends, Sue asks her boyfriend, high school heartthrob Tommy Ross (newcomer Ansel Elgort), to take Carrie to prom. Pushed to the limit by her peers at the dance, Carrie unleashes telekinetic havoc.”

Update: A Pic has emerged from Splash News Online of Moretz in character on set. Head inside to check it out. READ MORE

‘Fright Night’ Director Tom Holland Lights Up For ‘The 10 O’Clock People’

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Posted by EvanDickson on June 05, 2012 @ 5:07pm
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Tom Holland has has a couple of classics under his belt with the original Fright Night and Child’s Play. He’s also no stranger to Stephen King adaptations having helmed Thinner and The Langoliers. So the fact that he’s signed on to direct The 10 O’Clock People not only marks a welcome return to features, but it’s also the rekindling of his collabortaion with King.

The Ten O’Clock People will film this summer and be produced by Making Ten O’Clock Productions and Holland’s Dead Rabbit Films. A quick visit to cinematographer Nathaniel Kramer‘s website reveals that January Jones (“Mad Men”, American Wedding) has been pegged for a role, but that bit of unconfirmed casting something we’re treating as a rumor at the moment.

Head inside for a teaser poster for the film. READ MORE

Stephen King’s ‘A Good Marriage’ Being Turned Into A Film, Who’s Read It?

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Posted by EvanDickson on May 20, 2012 @ 4:41pm
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If you read this site then there’s a good chance you like Stephen King and will be glad to know that A Good Marriage will be making its way to screens sometime next year. The original story comes from King’s “Full Dark, No Stars” compendium and Peter Askin (Trumbo) has been hired to direct.

Per Screen Daily, “Atlas International has added Stephen King adaptation ‘A Good Marriage’ to its Cannes slate.
Peter Askin will direct the psychological thriller based on a short story from King’s book Full Dark – No Stars, winner of the 2010 Bram Stoker Award for Best Collection. Will Battersby produces.”

The project is casting. Have any of you guys read this story? How is it and who do you think should be in it?

Park Entertainment Sees The Dead At Cannes, Will Adapt Stephen King’s ‘The Reach’

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Posted by MrDisgusting on May 10, 2012 @ 9:49am
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London-based sales company Park Entertainment is bringing a new Stephen King project to Cannes.

Budgeted in the $12-14m range, The Reach, from a Stephen King short story, is “based on the memories and hallucinations of a 50-year old woman who sets out on her first ever journey to mainland.”

Here’s the plot synopsis from Wiki: “Stella Flanders, the oldest resident of Goat Island, has just celebrated her 95th birthday. She has never crossed the reach, the body of water that separates the Island from the mainland, in her entire life. She tells her great-grandchildren when they ask, “I never saw any reason to go.” Stella comes to the realization that the cancer that she’s known she has, and kept to herself, is it its final stages when she starts seeing the deceased residents of Goat Island. Her visions start with her husband inviting her to “come across to the mainland.””

Producers are Grayson Ross and Jodi Hansell for DownEast Village Productions. Screen Daily reports. READ MORE

Stephen King Slashes His Way Back To Gore!

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Posted by MrDisgusting on April 10, 2012 @ 10:56am
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You’d think at the ripe old age of 65 horror author Stephen King would slow a bit, but to the fan’s delight that’s not the case at all…

King, who is also penning “Dr. Sleep,” a sequel to his classic “The Shining,” is currently at work at a new slasher tale entitled “Joyland.”

Author Neil Gaiman tells the U.K.’s Sunday Times that King is “writing a book called “Joyland,” about an amusement park serial killer.”

King, who is being interviewed by Gaiman, jokes about his own death, and how his son, Joe Hill, could finish it.

“So if I got hit by a taxi cab, like Margaret Mitchell… “Joyland” wouldn’t be done but Joe could finish it, in a breeze. His style is almost indistinguishable from mine. His ideas are better than mine. Being around Joe is like being next to a Catherine Wheel throwing off sparks, all these ideas. I do want to slow down. My agent is dickering with the publishers about “Dr. Sleep,” that’s the sequel to “The Shining,” but I held off showing them the manuscript because I wanted time to breathe.”

Other notable King projects include Ron Howard’s ambitious plans for “The Dark Tower,” Ben Affleck’s potential trilogy adaptation of “The Stand,” John Mellencamp’s King-written stage musical, Showtime and Brian K. Vaughan’s “Under the Dome” miniseries, Jonathan Demme snagging the rights to “11/22/63,” along with theatrical and Hollywood resurrections of “Carrie” (Vulture.)

Kimberly Pierce Thinks You Should See This ‘Carrie’ Fan Poster

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Posted by EvanDickson on April 03, 2012 @ 7:54pm
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Carrieland40312 Kimberly Pierce Thinks You Should See This Carrie Fan Poster

We don’t normally report on fan-made posters here, but director Kimberly Pierce (Boys Don’t Cry, Stop Loss) has given the thumbs up to this fan poster for her upcoming remake of Carrie starring Chloe Moretz. Clearly, she’s jazzed to be taking on the film. Some outlets have reported that Pierce herself made this poster, but we don’t believe that to be the case.

The story centers on “Carrie White, who is raised by a nightmarish religious fanatic mother, and comes to grip with devastating telepathic powers just as she reaches puberty. She eventually uses those gifts for lethal means when fellow classmates use the prom as an excuse to humiliate her before the entire school in a parable about bullying.”

Sissy Spacek played the character in the first movie, with Piper Laurie playing her mother, and Amy Irving, Nancy Allen, John Travolta, Betty Buckley and William Katt rounding out the cast. Both Spacek and Laurie got Oscar nominations for their work in the 1976 film.

What do you think? Does this poster get you stoked for Moretz as Carrie? Or could you do without? READ MORE

Meet The Teens Responsible For ‘Carrie’s Vengeance

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Posted by MrDisgusting on March 29, 2012 @ 5:14pm
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Meet The Teens Responsible For Carries Vengeance

Bloody Disgusting did a little digging into the forthcoming remake of Carrie, which will feature Chloe Moretz in the title role, and Kimberly Peirce behind the camera.

With shooting slated for this coming June in Toronto, casting is under way for the ensamble that will push Carrie to the brink of madness, and ultimately to the death of hundreds of students.

Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa penned the MGM/Screen Gems reboot that’s an adaptation of the Stephen King thriller about the hyperkinetic teenager who gets pushed too far at the prom and wreaks havoc on her fellow high school students.

We’ve learned of the four main “teen” roles that surround CARRIE, beginning with SUE SNELL, a popular senior who struggles to become a better person after being part of a cruel bullying incident. Her redemption, and self-inflicted punishment, comes in that she will skip prom and instead send her boyfriend with Carrie. This leads to Sue having to confront Carrie in the big finale.

Supporting characters include CHRIS HARGENSEN, another senior who’s called the baddest and sexiest girl in school. Her character is insanely rich (dad’s a lawyer) and acts like an entitled brat. She manipulates everyone around her with her sexy charm, including her boyfriend BILL NOLAN, who is a high school dropout. He’s also one of the main antagonists who unleashes Carrie’s fury. Lastly, they’re casting TONNY ROSS, the popular jock character who takes Carrie to the prom, falls in love with her and accidentally sets the destruction in motion. READ MORE

Chloe Moretz Becomes Bloody Homecoming Queen ‘Carrie’

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Posted by MrDisgusting on March 27, 2012 @ 4:48pm
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Chloe Moretz Becomes Bloody Homecoming Queen Carrie

After meeting and reading a group of young actresses for Carrie, MGM and director Kim Peirce have made their decision and made the formal offer today to Chloe Moretz, reports Deadline.

If negotiations work out, she’ll play the title role in the remake of the Brian DePalma original that was based on the 1974 Stephen King bestseller. She’s expected to play the shy high school student “Carrie White, who is raised by a nightmarish religious fanatic mother, and comes to grip with devastating telepathic powers just as she reaches puberty. She eventually uses those gifts for lethal means when fellow classmates use the prom as an excuse to humiliate her before the entire school in a parable about bullying.”

Moretz is building an impressive resume from Let Me In to Kick-Ass, (500) Days of Summer, Hugo and the forthcoming Tim Burton-directed Dark Shadows with Johnny Depp. READ MORE

‘Carrie’ Casting Down To Two Very Different Actresses

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Posted by EvanDickson on March 23, 2012 @ 11:12pm
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Wow. Casting for the lead in Sony/MGM’s remake of Stephen King’s Carrie is down to two very different choices. Chloe Grace Moretz (pictured above; Kick Ass, Let Me In) and Haley Bennett (pictured below; Lawless).

Per Vulture, “now we’re told the field has narrowed to two main contenders: the 15-year-old Chloë Moretz (Kick-Ass) and the 24-year-old Haley Bennett… we also hear that earlier this week, The Descendants’ Shailene Woodley passed on an offer from MGM to take the title role.” Apparently Jodie Foster has been offered the role of Carrie’s mother but there’s no word yet on if she’ll do it.

Kimberly Peirce is directing the redo of King’s thriller “about the telekinetic teenager who gets pushed too far at the prom and wreaks havoc on her fellow high school students,” .Carrie was previously turned into the 1976 film that starred Sissy Spacek, John Travolta and Amy Irving, with Piper Laurie as the repressive mother.

The new script has been written by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa. READ MORE

Warner Brothers May Ride To ‘The Dark Tower’ With Javier Bardem

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Posted by EvanDickson on March 13, 2012 @ 12:33am
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DarkTower31212 Warner Brothers May Ride To The Dark Tower With Javier Bardem

And the The Dark Tower saga continues. Back in November Ron Howard managed our expectations a bit by saying, “These kinds of projects often take years to come together in the right ways. But I am in love with the material, and the minute it can come together in the right way, I am fully committed to it.”

That may be happening. Per Deadline, “I hear that Warner Bros is now very close to a deal that will give Ron Howard the chance to direct at least the first feature, potentially with Javier Bardem starring as gunslinger Roland Deschain. And Akiva Goldsman (who wrote the script) is producing with Brian Grazer and the author. Basically they bought Goldsman’s script and are paying him to do a polish. Howard remains attached to direct, likely in first quarter 2013. Pic is a co-production between Goldsman’s Weed Road and Howard and Grazer’s Imagine. Bardem’s participation would depend upon his availability, but he was firmly attached when the project was at Universal.”

In short, if you’re a fan of Roland Deschain this could be very good news. READ MORE

Want To Hear The First Chapter Of The Sequel To ‘The Shining’?

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Posted by EvanDickson on February 22, 2012 @ 4:06pm
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KingReadingLand22012 Want To Hear The First Chapter Of The Sequel To The Shining?

This past weekend Stephen King made an appearance at the Savannah Book Festival. During his lecture or Q&A, which apparently touched on all aspects of his career, he read an excerpt from his new sequel to The Shining – “Dr. Sleep”.

While the sequel is far ranging and the bulk of it takes place many years after the events in The Shining – and apparently includes vampires for some reason – this portion of the first chapter directly concerns The Overlook Hotel. So it should be of direct concern to you.

The folks over at The Daily Dead got the video. Hit the jump to check it out! READ MORE

Mick Garris’ ‘Bag of Bones’ Gets DVD Date

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Posted by MrDisgusting on January 03, 2012 @ 5:05pm
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BagBones120211 Mick Garris Bag of Bones Gets DVD Date

Ryan Daley straight up hated A&E’s Bag of Bones when it aired mid-December. Now, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has announced it will arrive on DVD March 13 with the folowing special features: Voicemail from Sid featurette and I Miss You Jo featurette.

Mick Garris’ four-hour long adaptation stars Melissa George, Jason Priestly, Pierce Brosnan, Annabeth Gish, William Schallert, and Anika Noni Rose.

“ ‘Bag of Bones’ is based on a Stephen King novel about a writer (Brosnan) trying to recover from the death of his wife. A dream inspires him to return to the couple’s lakeside retreat in western Maine, where he becomes involved in a custody battle between the daughter of an attractive young widow (George) and the child’s enormously wealthy grandfather while dealing with mysterious ghostly visitations, ever-escalating nightmares, and the realization that his late wife still has something to tell him.” READ MORE

[Review] Ryan Daley Says ‘Bag of Bones’ Has No Bite

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Posted by MrDisgusting on December 19, 2011 @ 2:55pm
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BagBones120211 [Review] Ryan Daley Says Bag of Bones Has No Bite

Heed our warning….

There just wasn’t a whole lotta hype behind A&E’s
Bag of Bones, their miniseries adapted from a Stephen King novella and directed by king regular Mick Garris. Even I didn’t set my dvr. Ryan Daley turned it off halfway through and picked up a rerun in order to tough through for the following review.

“Let’s be honest, there no way that even the juiciest of gore was ever gonna save an endeavor as silly as ‘Bag of Bones’, an adaptation that was destined to be weak sauce from the very beginning. It’s one of those King movies that’s all bark and no bite. And it never really had any bark to begin with.”

Click the title above to read his review or to write your own. READ MORE

TV: Watch 5-Minutes From A&E’s ‘Bag of Bones’

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Posted by MrDisgusting on December 06, 2011 @ 11:22pm
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TV: Watch 5 Minutes From A&Es Bag of Bones

Can;t wait for the Mick Garris-directed adaptation of Stephen King’s “Bag of Bones“? A&E’s two-part mini-series starring Pierce Brosnan, Melissa George, Annabeth Gish, Anika Noni Jones, Matt Frewer and Jason Priestly airs on Sunday, December 11 and Monday, December 12, and to get you ready they’ve provided Amazon a five-minute long clip. We’ve also attached a pair of our own after the break.

“ ‘Bag of Bones’ is the story of grief and lost love’s enduring bonds, an innocent child caught in a terrible crossfire and a new love haunted by past secrets. Bestselling novelist Mike Noonan, played by Pierce Brosnan, is unable to stop grieving after the sudden death of his wife Jo. A dream inspires him to return to the couple’s lakeside retreat in western Maine where he becomes involved in a custody battle between the daughter of an attractive young widow and the child’s enormously wealthy grandfather, the mysterious ghostly visitations, the ever-escalating nightmares and the realization that his late wife still has something to tell him.”

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TV: Two More TV Spots and Fresh Imagery from ‘Bag of Bones’

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Posted by MrDisgusting on November 21, 2011 @ 11:30pm
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TV: Two More TV Spots and Fresh Imagery from Bag of Bones

A&E released a third and fourth TV Spot from the Mick Garris-directed adaptation of Stephen King’s “Bag of Bones“. The two-part mini-series starring Pierce Brosnan, Melissa George, Annabeth Gish, Anika Noni Jones, Matt Frewer and Jason Priestly airs on Sunday, December 11 and Monday, December 12. You’ll also find a trio of new imagery. I’m still waiting to see something insane.

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