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EXCLUSIVE: Jonathan Fuhrman has joined Castle Rock Entertainment as EVP and Head of Business Affairs.   The Shawshank Redemption and Seinfeld producer Castle Rock relaunched its film division in October with a $175MM film fund and multiple hires. Fuhrman will report to Castle Rock CEO Rob Reiner, and Co-Presidents…

Castle Rock Entertainment, which was co-founded by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Rob Reiner, is relaunching its feature division with a $175M film fund under which the studio will develop, produce and finance quality movies for global audiences. Reiner will continue on as Castle Rock CEO, with Michele Reiner and Matthew Ge…

It’s official. Castle Rock will not be returning for a third season. Hulu has canceled the psychological horror series starring Lizzy Caplan after two seasons, Deadline has confirmed. Season 2 of the anthology series premiered more than a year ago. There were no expectations for a third installment, and the decision…

EXCLUSIVE: Rob and Michele Reiner have signed a multi-year overall production and directing deal with Warner Bros Television via their newly formed production company as the duo is reviving the Castle Rock banner. Reiner co-founded indie production company Castle Rock Entertainment in 1987. The company’s more than 125…

Hulu content boss Craig Erwich has opened up about the future of three dramas – Reprisal, Light As A Feather and Castle Rock. Erwich, who was speaking at his exec session at the Winter TCA panel, told Deadline it was "continuing to evaluate" whether to hand Abigail Spencer-fronted Reprisal a second season, "has not…

Stephen King’s shelf of horrors meet in the Hulu original series Castle Rock and in the just-released teaser for Season 2 it’s clear that Misery comes to town in Season 2, which premieres Oct. 23 only on Hulu. Lizzy Caplan portrays budding psychopath Annie Wilkes, the nurse from Misery, who has a prescription for…

Deadwood alum Robin Weigert, Sarah Gadon (Alias Grace, True Detective), Alison Wright (The Americans) and Greg Grunberg (Heroes, Alias) are set as guest stars for the second season of Hulu’s Castle Rock, the psychological horror series from J.J. Abrams and Stephen King. In Season 2 of Castle Rock, a feud between…

John Hoogenakker (Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan) has been added to the recurring cast for Season 2 of Hulu's psychological horror series Castle Rock, from J.J. Abrams and Stephen King. Set in the Stephen King universe, the series is named after the fictional town in King's native Maine and combines the mythological scale and…

EXCLUSIVE: Hulu is recasting one of the leads opposite Lizzy Caplan in the second season of Castle Rock. Paul Sparks (Boardwalk Empire, House of Cards) has been tapped to play John "Ace" Merrill, Castle Rock’s legendary bully, in the psychological horror series from J.J. Abrams and Stephen King. Sparks replaces…

Masters of Sex alumna Lizzy Caplan, Tim Robbins (Here and Now), Garrett Hedlund (Mosaic) and Eighth Grade star Elsie Fisher are set to lead the Season 2 cast of Hulu’s psychological horror series Castle Rock, from J.J. Abrams and Stephen King. Also set as series regulars are Yusra Warsama (Assassin’s Creed: Origins), B…

Hulu has renewed the psychological horror series Castle Rock for a second season. The series, from J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot Productions and novelist Stephen King, enjoyed one of the most successful launches for a Hulu Original, in terms of reach and consumption. The sixth episode of the series premieres on Wednesday. Cas…

Comic-Con is getting a preview today of the July 25-debuting Castle Rock when the Hulu series inspired by Stephen King's work has its world premiere in Ballroom 20 of the San Diego Convention Center. If you are a devoted fan of the Carrie author's canon, then the 10-episode series executive produced by J.J. Abrams may…