12 hours left to enter the contest for a signed King book! The photos are coming in and I’m (happily) surprised to see that so many of you have my book! I hope you all enjoy it.
12 hours left to enter and remember, it doesn’t matter who you are, everyone can enter. Man, Woman, Child, Boy, Girl and you can be from everywhere. So, there is no excuse for you to miss out on this chance.
Then sometime tomorrow, September 1st, I will reveal the lucky winner!
Thank you for all the photos you send in to the contest. There are still today and tomorrow left to send in photos but even if you for some reason don’t want to enter or if you have already sent in photos I recommend that you head over to the pages and check out all the gorgeous King fans that have sent it their photos! They are all amazing!
Joining us this week is fellow Stephen King Podcaster and writer - Cooper O'Conner, host of The Stephen King Cast.
He is with us for the entire episode as we cover the latest Stephen King news and review King's concluding book to the Bill Hodges trilogy - End of Watch as well as a Review of the short story - Cookie Jar.
We hope you enjoy this episode and, as usual, we want to hear from you.
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In this podcast:
1) 00:00 - Intro
2) 00:30 - Podcast Setup
3) 07:02 - News From The DeathRoom
4) 41:07 - Review - Cookie Jar
5) 52:46 - Review - End of Watch
6) 1:20:24 - Podcast Signoff
7) 1:21:34 - Outro
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Deadline reports that David Boyd has been hired as producer/director for The Mist.
David Boyd (The Walking Dead) has been hired as producer/director on Spike and TWC-Dimension TV’s straight-to-series drama The Mist, based on the Stephen King novella. The series will premiere on Spike in 2017.
Boyd transitioned as a prominent Director of Photography to a sought-after director. He just helmed his eighth episode of The Walking Dead and has directed shows such as Friday Night Lights, Longmire, Sleepy Hollow, Queen of the South and Aquarius.
Here in an interview with Nicholas Hamilton who plays Henry Bowers in IT.
Earlier this month, actor Nicholas Hamilton talked to Variety about his experience playing the psychopathic bully Henry Bowers in the upcoming movie adaptation of Stephen King’s 1986 horror epic It. Award-winning actor Hamilton revealed that playing the horrifically over-the-top Stephen King villain took him to places he never thought he would get to go as an actor, and it is understandable why when one looks at the maniac Stephen King penned over two decades ago.
Only two days left on the contest where you can win a SIGNED Stephen King book!!!
How? Head over here to find out and so far, there are only 76 entries. Check out the numbers below and you'll see that since you need one photo in every category to enter the contest the lowest number is the number of possible entries. It could be fewer but not more.
This means that a lot of you that have photos on…say the Mr Mercedes page won’t be entered since you are missing photos in others. So, SEND IN THOSE MISSING PHOTOS, TIME IS RUNNING OUT
In other words, if you haven't sent in photos in all categories, DO IT! If you haven't sent in any photos at all, DO IT!. There is a SIGNED Stephen King book to be won and if you still need a reason to do it...today is actually my birthday and you could see it as a birthday gift to me
- Mr Mercedes (304)
- Revival (150)
- Finders Keepers (104)
- You & Lilja's Library (83)
- The Bazaar of Bad Dreams (81)
- End of Watch (76)
Looks like there will be some time before we see Grand Central (based on The New York Times at a Special Bargain Rates according to this post on twitter.
Today 14 years ago I did my very first interview about King. It was with BBC radio and a lot of it was about King’s claims that he would retire from publishing. I guess we know now that I was right when I said I thought he would keep publishing books for many years to come…
Did you know that King’s books has been released in 54 different languages? Well they have and I actually have one in each language. BUT, there might still be more languages out there that has books translated. After all back in 2009 there were 6,909 distinct languages spoken on earth. So, take a look at the list of books here and let me know if you know of any other language that there are King books translated into.
Can you see something different in Pennywise? I would guess so. This is Tatum Lee who plays Judith, one of Pennywise’s creations in IT. Rumor says she’ll be horrifying!
Here are some beautiful photos of the IT house (the one on 29 Neibolt Street) taken by Paul Mitchell. Word is that the house will come down tomorrow so if you want to have a look at it you should go there today.
Here is a clip of The Loser's Club riding their bikes on the set of IT.
Richie Tozier (Finn Wolfhard), Bill Denbrough (Jaeden Lieberher), Mike Hanlon (Chosen Jacobs), Ben Hanscom (Jeremy Ray Taylor), Stanley Uris (Wyatt Oleff) and Eddie Kaspbrak (Jack Grazer).
Here are 6 of the 7 members from The Loser's Club on the set of IT along with Leper and Silver.
Richie Tozier - Finn Wolfhard
Bill Denbrough - Jaeden Lieberher
Mike Hanlon - Chosen Jacobs
Ben Hanscom - Jeremy Ray Taylor
Stanley Uris - Wyatt Oleff
Eddie Kaspbrak - Jack Grazer
Leper - Javier Botet
After getting the first photo of Leper yesterday Amy Wilson went back to the set of IT and returned with even more photos from the filming. This time it was of “The Loser’s Club”.
The Loser’s Club…oh, no it’s their stand-ins…
Here we have The Loser’s Club
Mike
Bill
Richie
Silver
The back of the chairs each of the Loser's Club had with their characters' names on them
I don’t know about you but I think this looks very promising. No sign on Pennywise on the set yet but we have more photos comic so check back often!
Here is a little reminder where you can follow Lilja’s Library – The World of Stephen King for the latest King news. A lot is happening and you don’t want to miss out…trust me.
Amy Wilson has been back on the set of IT and returned with a lot of interesting photos. Unfortunately she couldn't get too close, but with a zoom lens she was able to snap a few photos of IT as the Leper and (what looks like) a young Eddie going up to the house on Neibolt Street!
Here is the Leper...before he's too monstrous sitting on the ground.
And here in makeup...
Eddie going up to the house.
Here they're raising a yellow and white checkered backdrop...
It’s with pride I can tell you that The Stephen King Podcast has now been downloaded over 100,000 times. Since we started back in 2012 Lou and I have done 62 episodes that have now been downloaded 100,000 times.
For that we both want to thank you!
If you haven’t listen to all the episodes you can find them here.
Here you can listen to Stephen Lang reading Batman and Robin Have an Altercation as well as an interview with Stu Tinker.
In this episode actor Stephen Lang reads, “Batman and Robin Have an Altercation”, a -shall we say- intense story about family, love, and dying by Stephen King (yes, THAT Stephen King, need we say more?). Host Aparna Nancherla talks to Stu Tinker, a Stephen King superfan from King’s hometown of Bangor, Maine (get ready for that accent!). For nearly 20 years he’s been giving tours the spots that have inspired so many of author’s stories.
First footage from The Dark Tower will be shown at Entertainment Weekly's POPFEST.
Entertainment Weekly is proud to present POPFEST – the ultimate pop culture event of the year!
From October 29-30, 2016, The Reef in Downtown LA will come to life with our first-ever festival showcasing the biggest names and most exciting acts in entertainment – including a very special screening of the very first footage from the film adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower.
I just want to remind everyone about the contest where you can win a signed King book. What you have to do is send in a photo of you with some specific King books. One photo of you and “Mr Mercedes”, one with you and “Finders Keepers”, one with you and “End of Watch”, one with you and “The Bazaar of Bad Dreams”, one with you and “Revival” and one with you and something connected to Lilja’s Library. You can read all about the contest here .
A lot of you have sent in just a few photos but not all six and I’d hate to see you lose out on this contest because you’re missing one photo. Imagine being one photo away from a signed King book? Scary I know. And based on the number of photos in each section a lot of you might be in this position. So, make sure you send in all six photos and then keep your fingers crossed.
Mr Mercedes = 289 photos
Revival = 135 photos
Finders Keepers = 88 photos
Lilja’s Library = 67 photos
The Bazaar of Bad Dreams = 65 photos
End of Watch = 60 photos
Director Andy Muschietti posted this first official look at Richie Tozier on his Instagram. If this is going to be in the movie or just done for fun remains to bee seen...
Here are a few more photos from the set of IT by Amy Wilson. That house is looking really scary now. The house next door has some boards up (though they need to edit out their solar panels), there are old cars all over the Place and if there was any doubt left that it was the house on Neibolt Street, the 29 on the rusty gate puts that to rest.
On October 18, 2016 the paperback edition of The Bazaar of Bad Dreams is released in paperback and on the back cover it's now revealed that it will also contain King's shortstory Cookie Jar.
Here are some great photos from the set of IT by Don Cavaliere. Apparently they are shooting from the 10th through to the 12th so if you happen to see Pennywise around...take a photo!
Amy Wilson visited the set of IT today and got some info for us.
They are supposed to be filming this Thursday and Friday.
They've started building the front porch steps, they've added the basement windows, which look amazingly creepy. There's another section of roof to go up, and the front door is waiting to be installed as well.
Earlier this summer, Stephen King undertook a hectic multi-city tour of America in support of his latest book, End of Watch. But rather than hit the standard, book-tour metropoles, King chose to visit smaller cities offering, in some small way, tribute to the places and characters that make up his impressive oeuvre. Traveling along with King was Scribner’s Katie Monaghan, an “entourage of one,” who offers here her reports from the road, as sent to the mothership in New York.
Here is a report from the set of The Mist from Mark Andrew Perry.
These are for the Bedford PlaceMall in Bedford, Nova Scotia. Filming inside the mall, with regular shopping happening! over 60 extras ! The pharmacy is for the show in the old Target location! Filming expected to go till November!