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"Tommyknockers & More" Bus Tours

Posted: June 12, 2005, 00:00

Now you can get a complete wrap-up of Broken Circle, the season premiere of The Dead Zone on their official site. And here is a description of this week's episode, The Collector:

This week, Johnny's visions of a young girl's abduction lead him on a life-and-death race to find "the Collector" - a disturbed man who kidnaps young women and attempts to indoctrinate them to be their most "perfect self." It's a race against time to save an innocent girl before the kidnapping spirals into murder.

If you don't have any vacation plans yet, check this tour out: "Tommyknockers & More" Bus Tours.

Reading info and Dead Zone news

Posted: June 11, 2005, 00:00

King's latest column in Entertainment Weekly is now online. The title is Extras Bite and you can read it here.

Thanks to Paul Poroshin.

I have now been revealed that King will be reading from Carrie, The Green Mile and Faithful at the Maple Street School on the 24th, with a Q and A session following each reading.

Thanks to Christopher Looney.

There is an error to the discs in the season 3 DVD box of The Dead Zone. At the top of the screen there's a white line that runs across the top of the picture and flashes. If you have bought a copy and have these lines, please read this.

Thanks to TV Shows on DVD.com

Season 4 of The Dead Zone premiers on USA Network tomorrow, don't miss it.

It seams that Amazon.com got a few copies of the limited edition of Transgressions after all. I have 11 confirmed deliveries from Amazon.com.

Thanks to Brent Phillips.

The UK international mass-market paperback edition of The Dark Tower V - Wolves of the Calla is now out in Sweden.

The Dead Zone season 3 review

Posted: June 8, 2005, 00:00

Now you can see what I think about season 3 of The Dead Zone. My review can be found here and if you want a copy for yourself you can get that one here.

Update on The Ghost Brothers of Darkland County

Posted: June 7, 2005, 11:16

Here is an update about The Ghost Brothers of Darkland County:

After a busy summer apart, rocker John Mellencamp and author Stephen King plan to plow forward with their stage musical later this year.

The two have been working on The Ghost Brothers of Darkland County for several years. They recently held a read-through in New York City, which Mellencamp called the most exciting thing that I have done in my career since somebody called me up in the early '80s and said I had a No. 1 album.

But changes will have to wait until fall.

I've got to do these shows this summer (and) Steve is finishing a book, says Mellencamp, who's written more than 20 songs for the musical. We're going to reconvene in the fall, make some changes and make it our job until we see it on the stage.

Thanks to Bev Vincent.

German Kid and Llamadas

Posted: June 7, 2005, 00:00

Today you can get a copy of season 3 of The Dead Zone from Amazon.com.

Stephen King's Gotham Café is an official selection of the deadCENTER Film Festival in Oklahoma City. The film will be screening at the IAO gallery on June 10th. For tickets go to www.deadcenterfilm.org .

Here is a scan of the German cover of The Colorado Kid. The release date is December 16 and it'll have
160 pages.

There is another Dollar Baby being done in Argentina (earlier Llamadas was done there) and this time it's Harvey's Dream.

Thanks to Ariel.

Broken Circle and other Dead Zone news

Posted: June 2, 2005, 00:00

Here is the poster for season 4 of The Dead Zone.

If you go to the official site there is now a lot of goodies. You can check out the script from Act 1 of Broken Circle (originally called Tipping Point Part II and scheduled for season 3) and other things.

But since you came here I will tell you a few things that isn't on the official site...

- There will be 12 or 13 episodes in season 4, depending on how the Network decides to schedule the episodes.
- Season 5 will be filmed at the same time as season 4 and will probably have 12 or 13 episodes as well.
- Kristen Dalton will be back as Dana for one episode in season 4.

The first copy of the limited edition of Transgressions has now surfaced. It's a copy that is for sale over at eBay.

Thanks to John.

The Colorado Kid in Germany

Posted: June 1, 2005, 00:00

Ullstein in Germany will is the first non-US publisher that is known to be releasing King's The Colorado Kid. It will be released in either December 2005 or January 2006 depending on what source your listening to.

Some new clips of King can now be found over at Stephen King Short Movies: Stephen King on Good Morning America (2003), Stephen King on the Late Night with Conan O'Brian (1999), Stephen King on The Whoopi Goldberg Show (1992), Stephen King Library Ad (this is not a show)

Assorted information and My Summer Hit List

Posted: May 27, 2005, 00:00

Today I spoke with the nice people over at Maple Street School where An Evening with Stephen King will take place on June 24. They told me that it hasn't been decided what King will read yet and unfortunately there is no plans to record the event. They also told me that since it is a community event and they want to be sure local fans can attend, they are selling tickets on a first-come, first-served basis at the school and at the Northshire Bookstore. If they have any tickets left 48 hours before the performance they will contact anyone who showed interest from afar and allow them to purchase tickets with a credit card.

King will be available for Q&A but will be leaving immediately following the reading.

King's latest column is now online. It's called My Summer Hit List and you can read it here.

Thanks to Bev Vincent and Paul Poroshin.

Many of you have been asking me if I know anything about the limited edition of Transgressions and I have been sending mail after mail to the publisher to find out what's up with it. Then today I finally got a reply. It's not much but the told me that the orders for the book has outnumbered the actual number of copies done and that the decision about which stores that will get the book will be made high up in their sales department shortly.

I hope to get more info soon and when I do I'm putting it right here on the site for you to read.

It has been reported earlier that a second sequel to Creepshow was going to be done. Now it seems that it has already been shoot. This is from a press release.

Taurus recently completed principal photography on a sequel to "CREEP SHOW," based on a short story by Stephen King. The original "CREEP SHOW" was directed by George A. Romero.

Thanks to Bev Vincent.

The Dead Zone news

Posted: May 25, 2005, 00:00

Today there are a lot of The Dead Zone news. The fourth season will premier on June 12 and here are the descriptions of some of the episodes:

BROKEN CIRCLE (a.k.a. TIPPING POINT PART 2) -- The conclusion to last year's cliffhanger.
THE COLLECTOR -- Johnny searches for a serial kidnapper and unwittingly delivers a previous victim.
DOUBLE VISION -- Johnny encounters a young woman with similar psychic abilities.
GRAINS OF SAND -- Johnny becomes a surrogate father while he searches for the people responsible for the death of an illegal immigrant.
STILL LIFE -- A missing person's case becomes a murder investigation involving an eccentric artist and his daughter.
THE LAST GOODBYE -- Johnny and Sarah go on a road trip in search of a dead rock star.
HEROES & DEMONS -- A young autistic boy leads Johnny through a murder mystery in order to save his father from death by lethal injection.

Season 3 will be out on DVD on June 7. You can pre-order it here.

There is also a lot of official items (stuff like crew jackets, cast & crew gifts, etc.) being sold on eBay this summer. Right now there is a Dead Zone crew jacket on auction. To find the stuff just need to go the eBay and "Search by Seller." for TREXPERT47.

Stephen King's Gotham Café has been invited to screen at the 2005 Northeastern Writers Conference held in Rhode Island July 14-17. The top horror writers historically attend this conference as a retreat with their peers. This years attendees include Peter Straub, Douglas Clegg, Jack Ketchum, F. Paul Wilson and Douglas E. Winter.

Dark Forces: The 25th Anniversary Special with King's The Mist is almost sold out. So if you're interested in a copy of it, go here NOW!

King's Ransom Raffle

Posted: May 23, 2005, 00:00

King will appear at a reading in Vermont on June 24. No news on what he will read has been released yet.

King's Ransom' tickets on sale now

May 21, 2005

MANCHESTER. Maple Street School's tickets for its "King's Ransom Raffle" are now on sale.

Prizes to be raffled off include a two-night stay at the Auberge du Vieux-Port in Old Montreal, drop earrings donated by jeweler Phillip Burnham, a kayak, and local gift certificates.

Tickets are $10 apiece or three tickets for $25 with proceeds benefiting the Maple Street School's Scholarship Fund, and are on sale June 4 and June 5 at Shaw's, and on Friday afternoons at Factory Point Bank in Equinox Square, or at the school.

The winner will be chosen June 24 at the School's Scholarship Fund event, "An Evening with Stephen King." The event will offer a reading and cocktails in Hunter Hall with the author.

For more information or for tickets, call 362-7137.

Thanks to Rocky Wood.

Bev Vincent is selling a signed Song of Susannah poster that you don't want to miss out on if you have an extra $ to spare. Check it out here. It ends on Wednesday.

Children of the Corn and Creepshow 2 DVD reviews

Posted: May 22, 2005, 00:00

I have taken a look at the DVD releases of Children of the Corn and Creepshow 2 and here you can see what I think about them.

You can order Children of the Corn here and Creepshow 2 here.

Here is an interview with Mick Garris from Really Scary.

Dark Tower covers

Posted: May 17, 2005, 00:00

To the right is the cover for the UK paperback edition of The Dark Tower 7. It's being released on November 7 and you can pre-order your copy here.

Hodder & Stoughton will also release new paperback editions of the first four books at that time and the covers for those is the ones bellow.

Quicksilver Highway DVD review

Posted: May 16, 2005, 00:00

Tomorrow Anchor Bay Entertainment releases Quicksilver Highway on DVD and you can see my thoughts about it in my review. You can order your copy here.

Brian Freeman, author of The Illustrated Stephen King Trivia Book has founded his own publishing company, Lonely Road Books, and one of their fist books will be a limited edition of Dark Forces that King's story The Mist. You can find more info here.

Lighthouse IV and V information

Posted: May 15, 2005, 00:00

Here is some info about the Lighthouse special King editions:

Lighthouse IV - Stephen King Special Edition I
The Lighthouse IV paperbacks have arrived. We start shipping next week. Note: There are only 10 paperbacks, and 10 hardbacks left. Be sure to place your order if you want a copy as these are not going to last long.

Lighthouse V - Stephen King Special Edition II

Lighthouse V goes to press in July/August 2005. Pre-orders can be placed in our store. If you've ordered Lighthouse IV, we will match the numbers.

More info here.

Bag of Bones cover and Trivia review

Posted: May 12, 2005, 00:00

Here is the cover for the re-release of Bag of Bones on audio. It's the same edition as the previous one but if you haven't heard King reading the book you should definitely get this one.

My review of The Illustrated Stephen King Trivia Book is now online.

The Night Country review

Posted: May 10, 2005, 00:00

Today I have a new review for my Almost King in the review section. This time it's The Night Country by Stewart O'Nan who King co-authored Faithful with.

A second Dollar Baby festival will be held in October, read more here.

Now you can buy J.R.Flynn's The Gunslinger inspired CD online.

The Colorado Kid cover and description

Posted: May 9, 2005, 00:00

Here is the cover of the audio edition of The Colorado Kid as well as a description of the story:

Stephanie McCann is a journalism student at the University of Ohio. Her summer internship brings her to Moose-Lookit Island, Maine, where she tags along after Vince Teague and David Bowie-two salty newsmen who've been running The Weekly Islander together for forty years.

Over those decades, the old guys have seen it all. With Stephanie's help, they review a cold case involving "The Colorado Kid "-an anonymous tourist visiting the island who turned up dead in the spring of 1980.

The Colorado Kid is classic King. He deftly weaves a charming and funny New England yarn featuring good old-fashioned Island storytelling.

You can pre-order you copy of the book here or the audio edition here.

Here is another article about King's speech at UMO. On the official site it's posted that they will be posting the text of King's speech in the next couple of days.

Thanks to Bev Vincent.

Here is a review of The Hot Kid By Elmore Leonard written by King.

Thanks to Bev Vincent.

Yesterday King spoke at the UMO

Posted: May 8, 2005, 00:00

Yesterday King spoke at the UMO and while delivering the commencement speech at his alma mater he told University of Maine graduates to be voracious readers, donate a tenth of their earnings to worthy causes and carve out their careers in Maine more...

Here is a first look at the poster for Stephen King's Gotham Cafe painted by artist Steve Wedemeyer.

Riding the Bullet DVD review

Posted: May 5, 2005, 00:00

Here is my review of Riding the Bullet on DVD if you want to check it out.

Mixed news and Mangler Reborn images

Posted: May 4, 2005, 00:00

Really Scary has the following report from Mick Garris:

"We just completed our first week of shooting on Masters of Horror with John Landis directing in Vancouver, so it is a hectic time," said Garris. "I'm doing looping and visual FX and color timing and sound mixing in LA on Desperation, shooting MOH in Vancouver, so I spend a lot of time in little rooms and on airplanes...Hope all is well in the Really Scary world."

Entertainment Weekly has put some of King's columns online. Check them out here.

Transgression is out. Order your copy here. It also seems like Amazon.com won't get any copies of the limited edition. Mail has been sent out to people that ordered saying that they won't get a copy...

Here are two now images from Mangler Reborn. Personally I think they look pretty cool.

Walpuski's Typewriter and PalaverCon

Posted: April 29, 2005, 00:00

I have added a new section under the review section in which I review stuff by people that has in some way been involved with King. First out is the excellent book Walpuski's Typewriter by Frank Darabont. The book will be out next month an d you can pre-order you copy here.

PalaverCon 2005, a Dark Tower convention with guests Michael Whelan (artist of The Gunslinger and The Dark Tower), Phil Hale (artist of The Drawing of the Three), Darrel Anderson (artist of Song of Susannah), Rick Berry (artist for The Talisman and Black House), Robert Wiener (President of Donald M. Grant Publisher) and more, will be held July 22-24 in Durham, New Hampshire. Events include games, an art show, an auction, panels, movies, parties and a dealers room to spend all your cash. Registration is limited to 150 attandees and can be done so through www.palavercon.com.

Lisey's Story to me 5 or 600 pages long

Posted: April 27, 2005, 23:22

Here is a comment from the moderator of the message board on King's official site about the length of the upcoming book Lisey’s Story:

The working title at this time is Lisey’s Story and isn’t expected to change. It will probably be approximately in the 5 or 600 page length when it’s typeset.

Thanks to Bev Vincent.

The Eyes of the Dragon dead

Posted: April 26, 2005, 23:05

According to the moderator of King's message board, the option for the animated version of The Eyes of the Dragon has lapsed.

Thanks to Bev Vincent.

King co-wrote The Night Flier 2

Posted: April 26, 2005, 00:00

In this Friday's issue (April 29) of Entertainment Weekly you will find King's latest column Prime Downloads. You can also read it online.

Thanks to Paul Poroshin.

King has apparently co-written the script for The Night Flier 2.

Producer Richard P. Rubinstein, best-known for his collaborations with George Romero on MARTIN, DAWN OF THE DEAD and others, gave Fango the scoop on his upcoming genre projects.

Rubinstein is also still involved in a follow-up to the 1997 Stephen King adaptation THE NIGHT FLIER. "Mark Pavia, director of the original, came to me with a screenplay for the sequel," the producer reports. "I don't usually like sequels, but I thought the script was good and gave it to Stephen to see what he thought." Not only did King enjoy the screenplay, he decided to get directly involved. "I thought the script would sit on his shelf for a while," Rubinstein says, "but suddenly, Steve came to me with a corrected and rewritten screenplay by himself. When I told Mark, I thought he was going to have a heart attack. There were some things he would miss from his original version, but now he had an improved one co-written by Stephen King himself!"

La Femme dans la chambre

Posted: April 24, 2005, 00:00

Here is a sneak peek at the new artwork for Stephen King's Gotham Café painted by Steve Wedemeyer. The finished artwork will be revealed by the end of this month.

The Dollar Baby La Femme dans la chambre is now available for download over at Stephen King Short Movies. They have also created subtitles in English and French. So far the subtitles isn't in the movie but they tell me it will in a few days.

Thanks to Stephen King Short Movies.

Cover for The Colorado Kid and Dollar Baby news

Posted: April 23, 2005, 00:00

Here is a cover for The Colorado Kid that is used by sales force to carry around when they visit bookstores to solicit orders for forthcoming titles. This one sold on eBay for $23.00.

Here is a whole bunch of Dollar Baby news:

Gail Morris sent me this link to a trailer for Stephen King's Gotham Cafe.

The new version of Sorry Right Number is going to be premiering at Loews Theater at 34th St. and 8th Avenue in Manhattan. More info to come...

The Road Virus Heads North won the first round of regional judging (Region II) in the Narrative category for the Student Academy Awards! It's supposed to screen at the Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago on Wednesday, April 27 at 6:30pm, and will then be sent to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Los Angeles for further judging!

The Library Policeman as a Dollar Baby

Posted: April 20, 2005, 00:00

Here's an essay by King about HP Lovecraft from the LA Times.

Thanks to Bev Vincent.

As reported earlier Dave Brock (who did The Road Virus Head North) is turning The Library Policeman into a Dollar Baby. Dave and his sister Rebecca is currently working on the second draft of the script which is going to be extremely faithful to the original novella and if all goes well it may even be a feature-length film. Hopefully production starts in 2006.

Tom Gordon being filmed in Boston

Posted: April 19, 2005, 23:26

The Boston Herald reports that director George Romero's big-screen adaptation of Stephen King's The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon will film in Boston for a few days this summer before moving on to Maine.

Thanks to Anders Jakobson.

King revisited Blaze

Posted: April 19, 2005, 00:00

Now you can pre-order season 3 of The Dead Zone on DVD.

Fun Fact for today:

On King's message board someone asked if the book Blaze was ever published. The boards moderator then answered that King tried going back to work on Blaze again a few years ago (it hasn't been completely written), but it still wasn't working for him. That is quite interesting, don't you think?

French Woman in the Room and more

Posted: April 18, 2005, 00:00

Yet another Dollar Baby was revealed today. It's a French version of Woman in the Room with the title La Femme dans la chambre. You can visit the official site here: www.wipstudio.fr/king.

Thanks to Stephen King Short Movies.

King playing rhythm guitar with John Mellencamp this Sunday night at Freedom Hall. King was on stage playing the song Pink Houses. Read more here.

Thanks to Bev Vincent.

Peter Straub did it, and now King writes his thoughts about HP Lovecraft in H. P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life, by Michel Houellebecq, translated by Dorna Khazeni. Published by McSweeney's. Order your copy here.

Thanks to Bev Vincent.

Here is the covers for both the hardback (new cover) and audio editions of Transgressions that's being released on May 1. You can order your copies here: Hardback or Audio

www.skfakes.co.uk, the place to go if your buying signed King items, is now back up and running after a 3 week break, check them out.

Nightmares scripts by...

Posted: April 17, 2005, 11:20

Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories by Stephen King will contain eight one-hour episodes. The scripts will be written by Richard Christian Matheson, Mike Robe, April Smith, Larry Cohen (Return to Salem's Lot), Peter Filardi ('Salem's Lot 2004), Alan Sharp, Kim LeMasters and Mick Garris.

Thanks to Bev Vincent.

Dollar Baby and Riding the Bullet DVD news

Posted: April 17, 2005, 00:00

Info about a new Dollar Baby has just been released. This time it's a re-make of King's Sorry, Right Number. It's done by Brian Berkowitz who also did The Secret Transit Codes of America's Highways, also a Dollar Baby. Read more at www.sorryrightnumber.com.

Thanks to Stephen King Short Movies.

I just got an e-mail from Mick Garris in which he told me what extra material there is on the Riding the Bullet DVD.

There is a commentary track by myself, and another with cast and crew. There are 7 mini-documentaries, a look at Bernie Wrightson's artwork, a trailer, and a storyboard comparison. It is enhanced for 16:9, and there are multiple language tracks.

You can order you copy here.

Official word on Nightmares & Dreamscapes

Posted: April 13, 2005, 11:19

On Tuesday TNT made it official that they will make the limited series Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories by Stephen King. The series is set to premiere on TNT in summer 2006.

Mick Garris told the people at World Horror that he's inserted a scene in Home Delivery where George W. Bush gets attacked by a zombie!

Thanks to Bev Vincent.

Lighthouse V

Posted: April 13, 2005, 00:00

Lighthouse Media One are currently working on LIGHTHOUSE V, their second Stephen King Special Edition which is scheduled to go to press in July/August 2005.

They are seeking non-fiction articles/essays, concerning any aspect of the legend that is Stephen King, be it the books, the short stories, or the movies, for inclusion in the book.

Lighthouse V will be issued as:
A HARDBACK - 119 copies to pre-order.
PAPERBACK - 500 copies to pre-order.

More details can be found at www.lighthousemediaone.co.uk.

The Ghosts of Darkland County

Posted: April 11, 2005, 14:45

Here is more info about King and Mellencamp's collaboration, The Ghosts of Darkland County.

Once his mostly-Midwestern tour is done in mid-April, Mellencamp will be making a trip to a different center stage. For the past several years, he’s been collaborating with horror author Stephen King on a stage musical, “The Ghosts of Darkland County.”

Mellencamp has 17 songs

written for the show. King has a 110-page script penned.

Combine, he said, it should come out to be about a 5 1/2-hour show.

“No matter how damn entertaining you think Steve is or I am, that’s long,” he said with a laugh, realizing second and third drafts and edits are in order. “Steve and I are making this up as we go along. Neither of us have done anything like this before.”

Mellencamp’s written songs styles for the musical in styles ranging from jazz to blues to bluegrass to country to zydeco, many of which he thinks are out of character for him.

“I’m able to write songs that wouldn’t be expected of me if I put it on one of my records,” he said. “In a musical, it’s a whole different base, different situation. They aren’t rock songs, they aren’t pop songs.”

Thanks to Rocky Wood.

WKIT merch, King in a new movie and Dutch news

Posted: April 11, 2005, 00:00

New WKIT (King's radio station) merchandise is now available. Now you can get a t-shirt, mouse pad, Coffey mug or a bag through his radio station. The new merchandise features the artwork of Maine artist Glenn Chadbourne (a regular contributor to Cemetery Dance magazine and artist for The Stephen King Trivia Book, with much more to come!). You can order here.

King will appear as himself in a movie called Fever Pitch. The movie stars Drew Barrymore and Jimmy Fallon.

Good news for all Dutch King fans. The Stephen King Fan club in Netherlands is presenting a Fan club-day on Saturday April 16th. That event will also mark the world premier for The Road Virus Heads North.

Thanks to Chrissy.

Sneak peek at Desperation

Posted: April 10, 2005, 23:07

Really Scary has a report from the exclusive sneak peek at the first 15 minutes of Desperation that was shown at the World Horror Con in NYC. And judging from their description of the 15 minutes it seams to be very true to the book.

My Fever Pitch Obsession and reviews

Posted: April 7, 2005, 00:00

King's latest column My Fever Pitch Obsession is out in the April 8 issue of Entertainment Weekly and you can also read it online.

Thanks to Paul Poroshin.

I have two new reviews online. One is for the newly released book The Dark Tower Concordance and the other is for a new Dollar Baby, The Road Virus Heads North.

Mangler Reborn images

Posted: April 6, 2005, 00:00

Here are some images from the upcoming Mangler Reborn.

R-L Directors Erik and Matt

Ghost Brothers of Darkland County is the latest title

Posted: April 5, 2005, 17:01

Some info about King and Mellencamp's collaboration has been released. The projects last title is Ghost Brothers of Darkland County but it seams to change quite a lot...

The rocker's next project is a theater piece, "Ghost Brothers of Darkland County," with novelist and screenwriter King.

"It's our dramatic play with music; I don't want to call it a musical," he said of the vehicle that has been four years in the making. "He's got a hundred pages of dialogue, and I've got 15 songs. Add all that up and, 'So far, Steve, we've got about five hours worth of play.' We have to figure how to cut it all down. We're having our first run-through in New York with actors and actresses to see what the hell it looks like."

Much of the play takes place in the 1940s in Louisiana and Mississippi, so Mellencamp has been writing blues, Cajun, zydeco and jazz tunes -- but no rock.

"If anyone's got the crazy idea that this is 'Jack and Diane' meets 'Cujo,' they're nuts," the Indiana rocker said.

Thanks to Bev Vincent.

Favorite music, baseball and nominations

Posted: April 5, 2005, 00:00

The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah is now out. Order your copy here.

Steve Earle's The Revolution Starts Now program on Air America aired on April 3rd and King presented his favorite music (30 minutes, mp3 file). Download it here.

Thanks to Bev Vincent.

Stephen King had a new article in the April 3rd issue of New York Times. Read it here.

Thanks to Juan.

The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower, Lisey and the Madman, The Road to the Dark Tower and The Devil's Wine have all been nominated for this year's Bram Stoker Awards.

Thanks to Dohi.

The Dead Zone season 3 and Quicksilver Highway DVD content

Posted: March 31, 2005, 00:00

The third season of The Dead Zone will be released on June 7th and here is a list of the extra material you will find on it:

* Audio commentary on all 12 episodes by the cast, the crew, and even guest stars Richard Lewis and Greg Grunberg.
* Gag Reel
* Deleted Scenes
* Three exclusive behind-the-scenes featurettes:
- Making the Leap to HD: shows the artistic and technical struggle the Dead Zone team faced when deciding to switch from shooting 35mm film to Hi-Def camera technology.
- Cooking Verite: Takes fans into the Dead Zone traveling kitchen and exposes the secrets of cooking for an entire film crew.
- Quiet Confidence: Shows how actor Chris Bruno stays in shape.
* Five Minutes 'Til Mitch (a five-minute comedic short that was written and directed by actor John L. Adams).

The video is Anamorphic Widescreen and audio is English 5.1 Dolby Surround. Below is the art:

Thanks to DVD-Guru Terry Warrick.

Here is the cover for Quicksilver Highway (that is being released on DVD on May 17) and a list of the extra material:

* Original Full-Frame Presentation
* Matt Frewer Interview
* Audio Commentary with Producer/Director Mick Garris and Actress Cynthia Garris
* Trailer
* Storyboard Gallery
* Teleplay (DVD-ROM)

Thanks to DVD-Guru Terry Warrick.

Children Of The Corn was read aloud on the digital radio channel BBC Radio 7 in three parts during this month. If you see this before Sunday, you can listen to the last part here. It was produced by Gemma Jenkins and read by Brian Lavelle.

Thanks to James Flower.

Assassination Vacation and clips

Posted: March 30, 2005, 00:00

King reads the word of Abraham Lincoln on the audio version of Sarah Vowell's new book Assassination Vacation that's being released by Simon & Schuster Audio on April 4. You can order you copy here.

Thanks to Frederick Holliday.

Clips from Prime Time LIVE(8/23/1990), Larry King LIVE(1994) and Jeopardy Games Show(11/6/1995) is now online at Stephen King Short Movies.

A new replica of Christine is in the making. This one seams to be quite similar to the one I reviewed but bigger. This one is in the scale 1:24;8 3/4" in length. More info to come.

Thanks to Cheryl-Ann.

Here are two pictures from the set of Manger Reborn, the second sequel to
The Mangler.

In the first pic, is Reggie Bannister (from Phantasm) on the stairs with the director Matt Cunningham also in the pic at the bottom left hand corner. The second one is a shot of Weston Blakesly getting makeup applied for a scene.

Here are the five different covers for the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly with a King column (No Stars, Sorry) in it.

Thanks to Paul Poroshin.

The Talisman back later this year?

Posted: March 21, 2005, 23:28

Ehren Kruger hopes that The Talisman will get back underway later this year. Here is what he said in an interview:

"It looked like it was going to happen with a couple different directors, but creative differences intervened for the moment," says Kruger. "Hopefully, it will get back underway later this year. It was quite difficult to adapt as my mandate was to craft a two-hour movie from an 800-page book. A miniseries might be more faithful, but you’d miss the feature-film scale. So there was a constant struggle to determine what could be kept and what had to go. Some other writers have since worked on it and hopefully it’ll all get solved. There’s a wonderful story and characters at its core."

Thanks to Anders Jakobson.

Lighthouse IV info

Posted: March 17, 2005, 00:00

Here you can listen to NPR's interview with King.

Thanks to Bev Vincent.

Lighthouse IV goes to the presses at the end of March and this issue is a Stephen King special edition paperback. There will only be 300 numbered copies of the book and they are available to pre-order now. Read more and place your order at www.lighthousemediaone.co.uk.

Here is King's latest Entertainment Weekly column entitled No Stars, Sorry.

Thanks to Paul Poroshin.

King will be interviewed about the Red Sox

Posted: March 16, 2005, 00:00

The following was reported in the message board on King's official site:

King will be doing a limited amount of publicity in the next couple of months before the paperback of Faithful is released. We'll put a notice on the website of those when we have more concrete information.

Thanks to Bev Vincent.

King will be interviewed about the Red Sox on NPR shortly:

Quote: Michele Norris talks with author and lifelong Red Sox fan Stephen King about spring training. King joins us from Fort Myers, Fla., to discuss the special joys of pre-season baseball and being a Sox fan. King and writer Stewart O'Nan chronicled the 2004 Red Sox season in the book Faithful.

Thanks to Bev Vincent.

Quicksilver Highway will be released on DVD in May and here is a list of extra material that will be on the DVD:

- A commentary track with Mick Garris and Cynthia Garris.
- An on-camera interview with Matt Frewer.
- Storyboards
- Garris script.

There will also be a few changes in the DVD from the original version, which was broadcast on the Fox network in 1997. In the early days of the director's cut, before the extensive special effects required for the Clive Barker story, the network insisted that they changed the order of the stories. For the DVD, it's in the order Garris intended, and there are a few language issues that were uncensored.

More comments on The Mist

Posted: March 14, 2005, 14:00

THE MIST is a very scary and memorable story, one of Steve's best "muscular" short pieces, with characters in the kind of pressure-cooker environment that nobody writes as well as King. I intend to be faithful to the material, so I think the movie will be good.

"Whether it's a studio picture or not, I want to go with a very gritty, low-budget indie approach. Big-budget gloss would work against the material, plus I'm excited about trying my hand at a more seat-of-the-pants filmmaking approach on this one than I've used in the past...I'll use whatever approach works best, I want to go as old-school as possible with the effects. It's a rather old-school story anyway; it feels like a movie that might have been made in the '50s. The thing to bear in mind about THE MIST is that you don't actually see that much as King wrote it; it's the stuff you don't see that scares you, sort of like in JAWS. I want to maintain the tension of King's story rather than overload the screen with CGI monsters".

Thanks to VertigoSpiral.

Bad and good UK news

Posted: March 11, 2005, 00:00

King's UK publisher Hodder & Stoughton informed me today that at the moment there are no plans to release The Colorado Kid in the UK. It may change later on tough but that it the status today.

Hodder & Stoughton will release a CD with In the Deathroom and Lunch at the Gotham Café in August. Both will be read by King himself.

Review of Carrie

Posted: March 10, 2005, 00:00

I have listen to the audio edition of Carrie and to sum it up, I was blown away! You can see what I think about it here and you can order the CD here.

Riding the Bullet screenings

Posted: March 9, 2005, 00:00

Mick Garris sent me an email today in witch he told me that he will be at the Brussels International Festival of Fantastic Film for the screening of Riding the Bullet 24 March.

He also told me that he would be the Filmmaker Guest of Honor at the World Horror Convention in New York City from 7-10 April. There he will be screening Riding the Bullet as well as showing a teaser for Master of Horrors and the opening several minutes of Desperation in rough-cut form.

How about that? You can also pre-order the DVD of Riding the Bullet if you can't be there.

Amazon is now shipping The Dark Tower concordance vol. 2 by Robin Furth.

The 2nd Annual Dollar Baby Fest will be held in Orono, Maine, October 2005 and they open the submissions in April. The plan at the moment is to divide the Dollar Babies into two screenings so they can show them all. Again, the money would be going to the Wavedancer Foundation. More news to come...

Thanks to Stephen King Short Movies.

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