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It’s hard to keep up with Stephen King‘s projects these days. Besides the multiple adaptations in the works, including It: Chapter Two, Doctor Sleep, Pet Sematary, and The Outsider, just to name a few, King regularly releases new books to add to the huge number of his works. Well, finding and picking out what King book to read next is about to get a lot easier for those who own Amazon Echos and Google Assistants. The two are now King experts. They can recommend a novel, but it’s not random. After asking either machine to “open the Stephen King Library” they ask a series of questions to help guide their recommendation which are voiced by Jeremy Bobb. Enjoy!
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Film FestivalsMoviesNews
This year’s Fantasia Film Festival has announced the latest additions to their lineup. They have also announced that Rusty Cundieff and Darin Scott’s highly anticipated Tales From the Hood 2 will be making its world debut at the festival which runs from July 12 to August 1st, along with other films. The full lineup of 130 films is to be announced on June 28th. TRIPPING THE FOG FANTASTIQUE: DANIEL ROBY’S DANS LA BRUME IS FANTASIA 2018’S OFFICIAL OPENING NIGHT FILM Fantasia is proud to announce that the festival’s 22nd edition will open with the North American Premiere of DANS LA BRUME (“Just a Breath Away”), a large-scale genre co-production between France and Canada, directed by celebrated Quebec filmmaker Daniel Roby (LOUIS CYR, WHITE SKIN), starring Romain Duris (MOOD INDIGO), Olga Kurylenko (QUANTUM OF SOLACE), and Fantine Harduin (HAPPY END). Paris is hit by an earthquake, then filled with a mysterious toxic gas that seems to come from below ground. A
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With filming set to begin soon, it was only a matter of time until the beans were spilled on this season’s theme. Series creator Ryan Murphy has just revealed a few of the details, including that this season will be a crossover of “Coven” and “Murder House”. https://twitter.com/MrRPMurphy/status/1007361446093586432 Murphy had teased last season that we would see a crossover at some point in the future, but it appears that the future is now. Season 8 was rumored to be titled “AHS: Radioactive” but it looks like that may not be true after all. As soon as the real title is announced we will let you know. “You will see so many fan favorites return that you’ll feel like it’s The Love Boat. Very high concept. It’s a season, unlike anything we’ve done because there’s a big hook to it.” Murphy has stated. “There’s a huge thing that happens in episode five.” Evan Peters, Sarah Paulson, Kathy Bates, Billie Lourd, Billy
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Back in 2014, we were introduced to Levan Gabriadze’s social media horror film Unfriended about a group of friends who discover a supernatural force has taken over their dead friend’s account. Now, the sequel, Unfriended: Dark Web is set to be released this summer and the trailer has just been released. In Dark Web, a teen comes into possession of a new laptop and soon discovers that the previous owner is not only watching him but will also do anything to get it back. Colin Woodell, Betty Gabriel, Rebecca Rittenhouse, Stephanie Nogueras, Andrew Lees, Chelsea Alden, Douglas Tait, and Rob Welsh star. Stephen Susco directed from the script written by Nelson Greaves and Stephen Susco. Timur Bekmambetov, Jason Blum of Blumhouse, and Majd Nassif serve as producers. Unfriended: Dark Web opens in theaters nationwide on July 20, 2018.
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Sam Raimi‘s upcoming horror film Bermuda Triangle has entered development with Skydance Productions. News has come that the film has cast one of Hollywood’s biggest names, Deadpool star Ryan Reynolds. That Hashtag Show is reporting that Reynolds will play the male lead in the film, which Raimi (Evil Dead, Ash vs Evil Dead, Drag Me to Hell) will direct. John Gatniss (Kong: Skull Island) wrote the script. Set to begin filming in September, the film will be produced by Don Granger (Annihilation), David Ellison (World War Z), and Dan Goldberg (Annihilation). “When a massive submarine carry nuclear weapons goes missing in the Bermuda Triangle, Commander Vogel enlists the help of Dr. Fisk a theoretical physicist, who while using his grandfather’s research opens a wormhole to reveal a mysterious island that is inhabited by anything lost in the triangle including Sharks, Vikings, and Nazis, in the hopes of finding the nuclear weapons.” We’ll keep you posted.
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Stephen King’s most recently released novel, The Outsider, which hit shelves on May 22nd, is getting a series adaptation. Media Rights Capital has optioned the book for a 10-episode limited series which will be penned by Richard Price (The Night Of). Jack Bender and Marty Bowen who teamed up for Hulu’s “Mr. Mercedes” series will be serving as executive producers. King will be executive producing as well. Deadline is reporting that Bender may also direct the pilot. About the book: “An unspeakable crime. A confounding investigation. At a time when the King brand has never been stronger, he has delivered one of his most unsettling and compulsively readable stories. An eleven-year-old boy’s violated corpse is found in a town park. Eyewitnesses and fingerprints point unmistakably to one of Flint City’s most popular citizens. He is Terry Maitland, Little League coach, English teacher, husband, and father of two girls. Detective Ralph Anderson, whose son Maitland once coached, orders a quick and
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Madness is taking over E3 as Cyanide Studio and Focus Home Interactive released their new trailer for one of the most highly anticipated games of the year, “The Call of Cthulhu” based on the board game of the same name by Chaosium. Players take on the role of Edward Pierce, a private investigator who’s investigating the mysterious death of the Hawkins family while coming to grips with cosmic horrors both real and imaginative. Players can recruit other characters to help Pierce investigate different cases on a mysterious island in an open-world setting. More details about the game and the lore behind it can be read HERE. Enjoy the new trailer below and let the madness wash over you!
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Mike Flanagan‘s adaptation of Stephen King‘s Doctor Sleep has announced its first cast member and its star, Ewan McGregor. What’s more, King himself has blessed the union. The sequel to King’s classic The Shining will have McGregor, who has starred in films like Moulin Rouge!, Trainspotting and T2 Trainspotting, playing Danny Torrence who has grown up. Flanagan, who was behind the King adaptation Gerald’s Game for Netflix, will also be producing along with his partner Trevor Macy and Vertigo Entertainment’s Jon Berg, Variety reports. “Doctor Sleep takes place years after the events at the Overlook Hotel and focuses on the now middle-aged Danny who is still traumatized. He’s followed in his father’s footsteps and has problems with anger management and alcoholism. He soon gives up drinking and settles in a small town in New Hampshire. While there, his psychic abilities start to resurface and he develops a psychic link with a 12-year-old girl named Abra Stone who he must save
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Only a week after the trailer premiered for Halloween, word is a sequel is already on the minds of filmmakers David Gordon Green and Danny McBride. In fact, they have already pitched the sequel to Blumhouse. We were going to shoot two of them back-to-back,” McBride said to EW. “Then we were like, Well, let’s not get ahead of ourselves. This could come out, and everyone could hate us, and we’d never work again. So, let’s not have to sit around for a year while we wait for another movie to come out that we know people aren’t going to like. So, we were like, Let’s learn from this, and see what works, and what doesn’t. But we definitely have an idea of where we would go [with] this branch of the story and hopefully, we get a chance to do it.” It’s likely that Blumhouse would wait to announce a sequel after they see how fans respond when Halloween
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Random Media has acquired all domestic rights to Harley Di Nardo’s Dead Envy, a thriller that centers on an aging rocker who finds himself in over his head when he thinks he meets the perfect protege. The feature film debut of writer-director Di Nardo and co-writer Stacy Hullah, Dead Envy held its world premiere at the Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival, where the filmmakers took home the prize for Best Thriller. Random Media plans a limited release in select markets this fall, followed by a VOD release. To celebrate Dead Envy‘s release announcement Random has released a new trailer. In the film, aging rock star “David Tangier’s sense of identity is all but destroyed as he works cutting hair to provide a comfortable life for himself and his wife. His sound and age bind him to the Rock of the 2000’s, where his band Katatonic Spin once ruled the scene. David cannot tolerate that his entire existence has fallen prey
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BooksNews
It’s hard to keep up with Stephen King‘s projects these days. Besides the multiple adaptations in the works, including It: Chapter Two, Doctor Sleep, Pet Sematary, and The Outsider, just to name a few, King regularly releases new books to add to the huge number of his works. Well, finding and picking out what King book to read next is about to get a lot easier for those who own Amazon Echos and Google Assistants. The two are now King experts. They can recommend a novel, but it’s not random. After asking either machine to “open the Stephen King Library” they ask a series of questions to help guide their recommendation which are voiced by Jeremy Bobb. Enjoy!
Continue reading →
Film FestivalsMoviesNews
This year’s Fantasia Film Festival has announced the latest additions to their lineup. They have also announced that Rusty Cundieff and Darin Scott’s highly anticipated Tales From the Hood 2 will be making its world debut at the festival which runs from July 12 to August 1st, along with other films. The full lineup of 130 films is to be announced on June 28th. TRIPPING THE FOG FANTASTIQUE: DANIEL ROBY’S DANS LA BRUME IS FANTASIA 2018’S OFFICIAL OPENING NIGHT FILM Fantasia is proud to announce that the festival’s 22nd edition will open with the North American Premiere of DANS LA BRUME (“Just a Breath Away”), a large-scale genre co-production between France and Canada, directed by celebrated Quebec filmmaker Daniel Roby (LOUIS CYR, WHITE SKIN), starring Romain Duris (MOOD INDIGO), Olga Kurylenko (QUANTUM OF SOLACE), and Fantine Harduin (HAPPY END). Paris is hit by an earthquake, then filled with a mysterious toxic gas that seems to come from below ground. A
Continue reading →
NewsStreaming TV
With filming set to begin soon, it was only a matter of time until the beans were spilled on this season’s theme. Series creator Ryan Murphy has just revealed a few of the details, including that this season will be a crossover of “Coven” and “Murder House”. https://twitter.com/MrRPMurphy/status/1007361446093586432 Murphy had teased last season that we would see a crossover at some point in the future, but it appears that the future is now. Season 8 was rumored to be titled “AHS: Radioactive” but it looks like that may not be true after all. As soon as the real title is announced we will let you know. “You will see so many fan favorites return that you’ll feel like it’s The Love Boat. Very high concept. It’s a season, unlike anything we’ve done because there’s a big hook to it.” Murphy has stated. “There’s a huge thing that happens in episode five.” Evan Peters, Sarah Paulson, Kathy Bates, Billie Lourd, Billy
Continue reading →
NewsTrailers
Back in 2014, we were introduced to Levan Gabriadze’s social media horror film Unfriended about a group of friends who discover a supernatural force has taken over their dead friend’s account. Now, the sequel, Unfriended: Dark Web is set to be released this summer and the trailer has just been released. In Dark Web, a teen comes into possession of a new laptop and soon discovers that the previous owner is not only watching him but will also do anything to get it back. Colin Woodell, Betty Gabriel, Rebecca Rittenhouse, Stephanie Nogueras, Andrew Lees, Chelsea Alden, Douglas Tait, and Rob Welsh star. Stephen Susco directed from the script written by Nelson Greaves and Stephen Susco. Timur Bekmambetov, Jason Blum of Blumhouse, and Majd Nassif serve as producers. Unfriended: Dark Web opens in theaters nationwide on July 20, 2018.
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MoviesNews
Sam Raimi‘s upcoming horror film Bermuda Triangle has entered development with Skydance Productions. News has come that the film has cast one of Hollywood’s biggest names, Deadpool star Ryan Reynolds. That Hashtag Show is reporting that Reynolds will play the male lead in the film, which Raimi (Evil Dead, Ash vs Evil Dead, Drag Me to Hell) will direct. John Gatniss (Kong: Skull Island) wrote the script. Set to begin filming in September, the film will be produced by Don Granger (Annihilation), David Ellison (World War Z), and Dan Goldberg (Annihilation). “When a massive submarine carry nuclear weapons goes missing in the Bermuda Triangle, Commander Vogel enlists the help of Dr. Fisk a theoretical physicist, who while using his grandfather’s research opens a wormhole to reveal a mysterious island that is inhabited by anything lost in the triangle including Sharks, Vikings, and Nazis, in the hopes of finding the nuclear weapons.” We’ll keep you posted.
Continue reading →
BooksNewsStreaming TV
Stephen King’s most recently released novel, The Outsider, which hit shelves on May 22nd, is getting a series adaptation. Media Rights Capital has optioned the book for a 10-episode limited series which will be penned by Richard Price (The Night Of). Jack Bender and Marty Bowen who teamed up for Hulu’s “Mr. Mercedes” series will be serving as executive producers. King will be executive producing as well. Deadline is reporting that Bender may also direct the pilot. About the book: “An unspeakable crime. A confounding investigation. At a time when the King brand has never been stronger, he has delivered one of his most unsettling and compulsively readable stories. An eleven-year-old boy’s violated corpse is found in a town park. Eyewitnesses and fingerprints point unmistakably to one of Flint City’s most popular citizens. He is Terry Maitland, Little League coach, English teacher, husband, and father of two girls. Detective Ralph Anderson, whose son Maitland once coached, orders a quick and
Continue reading →
GamingNewsProductTrailers
Madness is taking over E3 as Cyanide Studio and Focus Home Interactive released their new trailer for one of the most highly anticipated games of the year, “The Call of Cthulhu” based on the board game of the same name by Chaosium. Players take on the role of Edward Pierce, a private investigator who’s investigating the mysterious death of the Hawkins family while coming to grips with cosmic horrors both real and imaginative. Players can recruit other characters to help Pierce investigate different cases on a mysterious island in an open-world setting. More details about the game and the lore behind it can be read HERE. Enjoy the new trailer below and let the madness wash over you!
Continue reading →
BooksMoviesNews
Mike Flanagan‘s adaptation of Stephen King‘s Doctor Sleep has announced its first cast member and its star, Ewan McGregor. What’s more, King himself has blessed the union. The sequel to King’s classic The Shining will have McGregor, who has starred in films like Moulin Rouge!, Trainspotting and T2 Trainspotting, playing Danny Torrence who has grown up. Flanagan, who was behind the King adaptation Gerald’s Game for Netflix, will also be producing along with his partner Trevor Macy and Vertigo Entertainment’s Jon Berg, Variety reports. “Doctor Sleep takes place years after the events at the Overlook Hotel and focuses on the now middle-aged Danny who is still traumatized. He’s followed in his father’s footsteps and has problems with anger management and alcoholism. He soon gives up drinking and settles in a small town in New Hampshire. While there, his psychic abilities start to resurface and he develops a psychic link with a 12-year-old girl named Abra Stone who he must save
Continue reading →
NewsTrailers
Only a week after the trailer premiered for Halloween, word is a sequel is already on the minds of filmmakers David Gordon Green and Danny McBride. In fact, they have already pitched the sequel to Blumhouse. We were going to shoot two of them back-to-back,” McBride said to EW. “Then we were like, Well, let’s not get ahead of ourselves. This could come out, and everyone could hate us, and we’d never work again. So, let’s not have to sit around for a year while we wait for another movie to come out that we know people aren’t going to like. So, we were like, Let’s learn from this, and see what works, and what doesn’t. But we definitely have an idea of where we would go [with] this branch of the story and hopefully, we get a chance to do it.” It’s likely that Blumhouse would wait to announce a sequel after they see how fans respond when Halloween
Continue reading →
NewsTrailers
Random Media has acquired all domestic rights to Harley Di Nardo’s Dead Envy, a thriller that centers on an aging rocker who finds himself in over his head when he thinks he meets the perfect protege. The feature film debut of writer-director Di Nardo and co-writer Stacy Hullah, Dead Envy held its world premiere at the Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival, where the filmmakers took home the prize for Best Thriller. Random Media plans a limited release in select markets this fall, followed by a VOD release. To celebrate Dead Envy‘s release announcement Random has released a new trailer. In the film, aging rock star “David Tangier’s sense of identity is all but destroyed as he works cutting hair to provide a comfortable life for himself and his wife. His sound and age bind him to the Rock of the 2000’s, where his band Katatonic Spin once ruled the scene. David cannot tolerate that his entire existence has fallen prey
Continue reading →
