Here is what the moderator of King's board answered to when the next book will be announced.
When we have something official to announce, it will be added to the News but at the moment there is nothing official to pass along even though Stephen is busy writing.
Next Sunday at 4:00 PM Eastern Time come Zoom with Hans & Lou!
What is Zoom, you ask? It's a videochat app that will allow everyone
to hang out together and talk about Stephen King.
Hans & Lou will be video-hosting the chat and you can join us to chat either
via message, audio, or video and audio. Pretty cool!
You can log in using the Zoom App via your PC, Mac or mobile device.
Check out the link here - https://zoom.us/download - and grab the app that
matches your platform of choice.
The chat will be a free-for-all so anything Stephen King related you want to
talk about is fair game. There's lots to talk about from the upcoming movies -
IT and The Dark Tower, to TV - The Mist, and the books - what've you recently
read, your favorite/least favorite books, to when is King's next book coming out?
So mark next Sunday, Sept 18th, 2016 @ North America 4:00 PM Eastern Time,
down on your calendar and we will see you then!
Here is an interview I did with my partner in crime (we run a Swedish King site) for a Swedish website you might want to check out. It's in Swedish but hey, you got Google Translate right?
Creepshow 2 will be released on Blu-Ray on December 13th and it has a lot of nice extra…
It will be released in two versions:
LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS:
•Brand new 2K restoration from original film elements
•High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation
•Original stereo audio
•Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
•Creepshow 2: Pinfall – limited edition booklet featuring the never-before-seen comic adaptation of this unfilmed Creepshow 2 segment by artist Jason Mayoh
•Audio Commentary with director Michael Gornick, moderated by Perry Martin
•Nightmares in Foam Rubber – featurette with special make-up effects artists Howard Berger and Greg Nicotero
•My Friend Rick – Berger on working with make-up legend Rick Baker
•Behind-the-Scenes Footage
•Trailers and TV Spots
•Collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film by Michael Blyth
•Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Mike Saputo
SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS:
•Brand new 2K restoration from original film elements
•High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation
•Original stereo audio
•Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
•Audio Commentary with director Michael Gornick, moderated by Perry Martin
•Nightmares in Foam Rubber – featurette with special make-up effects artists Howard Berger and Greg Nicotero
•My Friend Rick – Berger on working with make-up legend Rick Baker
•Behind-the-Scenes Footage
•Trailers and TV Spots
•Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Mike Saputo
Here is the trailer. Interesting to see how they reveal the ending of The Raft in it…
From www.StephenKing.com:
Bookfest 2016 Ticket Update
September 7th, 2016 10:00:00 am
The Library of Congress has posted an update regarding how to acquire tickets for Bookfest 2016. Free tickets will become available on September 14th 2016 at 10am EDT. See the link below for all the details.
It’s been a while since we heard anything about an Gerald’s Game adaptation (back in 2014 to be more exact) but Mike Flanagan is still determine to make it happen. Rue Morgue recently spoke to Mike…
With OUIJA: ORIGIN OF EVIL ready for its October release, director Mike Flanagan is confident that his long-mooted adaptation of Stephen King’s novel GERALD’S GAME will get off the ground next. And he’s committed to doing right by the book—about a woman left handcuffed to a bed in a remote cabin after a sex romp with her husband goes awry—knowing that the track record of King movies has been the definition of uneven.
The new IT is about a year away and a lot of people have been comparing it to the original miniseries from 1990. Well, I got in touch with Brandon Crane who plays young Ben in the miniseries and we talked about the new movie, his experience with IT and what he’s up to now. Check out the full interview here.
I can’t get enough of contest here at Lilja’s Library and since 2016 is the year Lilja’s Library turns 20 I guess it’s OK to run a lot of contests right?
So, if you want to get the chance to win a really cool prize (for now a secret prize) you should check out this contest. To enter you need to send in a photo of you and something connected to Lilja’s Library (if you have already have you are automatically entered in the contest). Here is an example of how a photo could look (Marv is not allowed to enter though) and you can also check out the real competition here.
I will then pick the photo I like the best (what I like is for me to know and you to find out) as the winner. If you have already sent a photo and think: “darn I should have been more creative”, then just send another one.
The Folio Society Shining Contest is over. You all know by now that the prize is a signed copy of The Folio Society’s beautiful edition of The Shining. A lot of you sent in the six photos that you had to send in to enter and first I want to thank you all for that. I love seeing King fans and their collections.
Secondly I would like to bring you attention to the fact that if you didn’t win this time, you should check out this contest. It’s almost the same. Here you only need to send in a photo of you and something connected to Lilja’s Library though and the good thing is that if you have already sent in a photo you have already entered. But now you have to be creative. The Folio contest winner was selected randomly but in this one I will pick the photo I like the best. And if you have already sent a photo and think: “darn I should have been more creative”, then just send another one. BTW, the prize for this one is still a secret.
OK, and now over to what you have all been waiting for…the winner is…
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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2) 00:30 - Podcast Setup
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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.