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The Shining Haunted House

Posted: May 23, 2017, 08:27
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Universal has announced that a house of horrors based on King’s The Shining and the movie adaptation from Stanley Kubrick will be coming to this year’s edition of “Halloween Horror Nights,” a series of huge haunted houses and other big-budget horror-themed attractions in Universal Studios Hollywood and Universal Orlando Resort every October.

A press release from Universal states that visitors to the Shining maze will get to find their way through the Overlook Hotel and its grounds, “bearing witness to caretaker Jack Torrance’s spiraling descent into insanity.” The release promises that “nightmarish visions will come to life in this macabre maze, overwhelming guests with the ‘shine’ of the murderous, ghostly entities that lurk around every turn.” It even promises that those same guests will “relive some of the film’s most iconic, and sinister, moments.”



Source: Inquisitr.

Thanks to Lou Sytsma

Cover For The Dark Tower: The Art of the Film

Posted: May 22, 2017, 09:32
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Here is the cover for The Dark Tower: The Art of the Film by Daniel Wallace.


The Dark Tower: The Art of the Film
(Part of The Dark Tower)
By Daniel Wallace
This deluxe, illustrated official companion to the Dark Tower movie—based on Stephen King’s bestselling seven volume series—explores the art and creation of this extraordinary film, starring Idris Elba as The Gunslinger and Matthew McConaughey as his nemesis, The Man in Black.

A gorgeous celebration of the art and creation of the Dark Tower movie, The Making of the Dark Tower includes interviews with actors and the director, the costume designer, and the set designer. From revealing how casting found the stars and the photography team scouted key locations, thoughts on where the Dark Tower can go from here, the book is organized into five parts.

Part I: The Path to the Tower discusses the origins of the saga and its thematic and cultural influences. Part II: The Gunslinger and the Man in Black profiles the two characters as two opposing forces. Part III: Mid-World is a journey through the bizarre wasteland of interdimensional detritus that is Mid-World. Part IV: Keystone World might be our Earth, but the Keystone World of the Dark Tower universe is also rocked by quakes and stretched thin by interdimensional stress. Part V: The Dark Tower is the wrap-up section collecting insights from the film’s major players, sharing their favorite memories and looking back on the journey that led them to this point.

Over three decades ago Stephen King introduced readers to Roland Deschain, the last Gunslinger. In 2003 King wrote the last of seven novels in the Dark Tower series. Now fans of the book and of the movie will welcome this big, beautiful, full-color book that they’ll need for their collections.

Ep. 73 - News & Dark Tower Trailer Thoughts

Posted: May 20, 2017, 23:16
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Welcome to the Stephen King Podcast Constant and New Listeners!

Join your hosts - longtime Constant Readers - Hans Lilja of Lilja's Library and writer/podcaster - Lou W. Sytsma.

Welcome to Episode 73 of The Stephen King Podcast!

As always we bring you all the latest Stephen King news.

Plus this episode, we take a look at the Dark Tower Trailer.

Check out our accompanying video chat where we take a deeper dive with the second Lilja Look At - The Dark Tower Trailer.

We hope you enjoy this episode and, as usual, we want to hear from you.
Good or bad, we want it all!

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2) 00:30 - Podcast Setup
3) 00:55 - News From The DeathRoom
4) 29:39 - Podcast Signoff
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Gwendy’s Button Box Contest Winners

Posted: May 17, 2017, 15:18
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The Gwendy’s Button Box contest is over and we have three lucky winners but first, here are the correct answers.

Question 1 In what town do Gwendy live?
Answer 1 Castle Rock

Question 2 Finish King’s comment about the book: “It was a good time, and I think readers will have a good time reading it. If they are left with questions, and maybe have a few arguments, xxx xxx xxxxxr.”
Answer 2 All the better

Question 3 Who illustrated the cover for Gwendy’s Button Box?
Answer 3 Ben Baldwin

And the three lucky winners who will each get a signed (by Richard) copy of the book is: Frank Willson, Sue Anderson and Linn Dunn. Congratulations!

Is IT A Loooooong Movie? Hopefully!

Posted: May 17, 2017, 01:02
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Here is a photo that Barbara Muschietti shared on Instagram. It shows the editing room with a scene from the IT movie that we recognize from the second trailer. What's interesting with this photo is up in the left corner. There you can see the numbers 2:17:16:13. If this is what I think it is, it's the running time for the movie and would mean that this scene (which is probably not at the end of the movie) happen about 2 hours and 17 minutes into the movie and that tells me the movie will be very looooooong. Or the numbers could mean something totally different but let’s hope it’s the running time.

You can also see that this is from May 1st so there might have been other cuts done that would affect the running time…if that is what those numbers are…


Thanks to Giorgia Camilla Stella

Stephen And Owen's Book Tour

Posted: May 16, 2017, 17:36
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Here is a list of cities that Stephen and Owen will visit on their Sleeping Beauties book tour.

September 26th, 2017: New York City
September 27th, 2017: Hudson Valley, NY Area
September 28th, 2017: Boston, MA Area
September 29th, 2017: Chicago, IL
September 30th, 2017: Milwaukee, WI
October 1st, 2017: St. Louis, MO
October 2nd, 2017: Missoula, MT
October 3rd, 2017: Portland, OR
October 5th, 2017: Toronto, ON, Canada
October 6th, 2017: Sarasota, FL

André Holland Cast In Castle Rock

Posted: May 11, 2017, 19:19
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Variety reports that Moonlight star André Holland has been cast as the lead in Hulu’s upcoming original series Castle Rock. Holland will play Henry, a death row attorney with a unique and complicated history in the town.


Castle Rock has landed a 10-episode first season order, with Hulu describing the project as an “ongoing series,” meaning it’s not intended to be a 10-episode limited run. Sam Shaw and Dustin Thomason are co-writers and executive producers with J.J. Abrams, Ben Stephenson and Liz Glotzer also executive producing. Warner Bros. Television is the studio, along with Bad Robot Productions.

Thanks to Maurizio Ragusa

Want To Buy An Expensive Plant?

Posted: May 10, 2017, 12:57
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For those of you that have some extra money tucked away that you feel the urge to spend. Check this out!

Gerald Winters And Son has not one but two lettered copies of The Plant for sale. These were done as Christmas cards by King in the early 80’s and not many of them exists. The lettered was only done in 26 copies (of each part). Gerald have letter “C” of part one and letter “G” of part three.

If you’re interested (even if you just want to check it out he has some cool photos of it), head over to their site and read more.

David Palladini Biography From Suntup Editions

Posted: May 10, 2017, 11:57
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As a bonus to The Eyes of the Dragon Art Portfolio Suntrup Editions will also publish a biography of the artist David Palladini.

From the Press Release:

As a bonus addition to The Eyes of the Dragon Art Portfolio featuring the artwork of David Palladini, Suntup Editions in collaboration with Mark Strong of Meibohm Fine Arts, Inc., is proud to announce the inclusion of a separate biographical book to both editions of the art portfolios.

The concise biography was written as a ‘fan tribute’ to the artist by Mark Strong, from almost nine years of compiled information about David Palladini’s personal life and career as an artist up to the present-day. The introduction, written by Mark, speaks of the serendipitous beginning of their friendship in 2008 with a simple phone call from David, which became his sole inspiration for writing the biography. The book, aptly titled Palladini, will include a 70-page biography, as well as over 60 full-color reproductions of artwork by David Palladini, including some of his best-known illustrations and never-before-published fine art. The perfect addition to the portfolios for Stephen King collectors and Palladini fans alike. Included free with all Portfolio orders.

Synopsis For Children of the Corn: Runaway

Posted: May 7, 2017, 02:55
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Here is the official synopsis for Children of the Corn: Runaway that will be released straight to DVD later this year.

Official Synopsis: The plot of Children of the Corn: Runaway follows a young pregnant Ruth who escapes a murderous child cult in a small Midwestern town. She spends the next decade living anonymously in an attempt to spare her son the horrors that she experienced as a child. She lands in the small Oklahoma town, but something is following her. Now, she must confront this evil or lose her child.

Dark Tower Figures And What They Will Cost

Posted: May 6, 2017, 15:00
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Here are some better images of The Dark Tower figures will be released later this year and their price. The first two figures are of the "statue" type that you can't move and the last two have moving joints.

The Dark Tower Gallery Gunslinger (Roland Deschain) $39.99

The Dark Tower Gallery Man in Black $39.99

The Dark Tower Select Gunslinger (Roland Deschain) $22.99

The Dark Tower Select Man in Black $22.99

Mike Patton Composing Score For 1922

Posted: May 6, 2017, 01:54
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Mike Patton has announced that he's working on a score for the Netflix adaptation of the King's 1922. Mike Patton, who is probably best known as the lead singer of Faith No More, recently spoke to Rolling Stone and casually mentioned that he has composed the score for 1922. Here's how the music legend described the impending soundtrack.

"It's more haunting and Hitchcock-y than you might think."

Movie Poster Edition Of Dark Tower & IT

Posted: May 5, 2017, 22:14
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A new paperback edition of The Dark Tower 1: The Gunslinger with a movie poster cover will be released on June 13. There will also be a new hardcover edition of The Dark Tower 1: The Gunslinger and IT (pre-order here). Both hardcovers will be released on July 11 and even though it's not confirmed that they will have movie poster covers it's a good guess that they will.

Idris Elba Talks The Dark Tower

Posted: May 4, 2017, 06:31
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Here is an interview with Idris Elba about The Dark Tower.

Yes, I want the fans to be satisfied by the character I portray especially since the characters are so well written in the book. However the wonderful thing with being an actor in film is that I am able to interpret the character and I hope the fans are proud of our interpretation.

Matthew McConaughey Talks The Dark Tower

Posted: May 4, 2017, 04:22
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Here is an interview with Matthew McConaughey about The Dark Tower.

“He and I spoke quite lyrically,” McConaughey said when we asked what he took from those conversations with King. “[We spoke] about how Walter has the world by a string and he always has a half-cocked smile on his face about it. There’s an enjoyment that comes with his puppeteering. He sees himself as the minister of truth.”

And it looks like the plans for a TV show is moving on. When asked if he would be involved with the planned Dark Tower TV show this is what he said:

Yes, I am somewhat involved, but to what extent we’re still figuring that out.


Shining & IT Nods in The Dark Tower Trailer

Posted: May 3, 2017, 16:01
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I heard this from a lot of fans who watched the trailer for The Dark Tower today and Dread Central posted the photos...

Did you catch the nods to The Shining and IT? Did you find others?


A framed photo of the Overlook Hotel from Jake's therapist’s office.


A weathered, broken down, dilapidated wagon that bears the name “Pennywise” and what looks like a few balloons.

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