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The Film That Lit My Fuse is a Deadline video series that aims to provide an antidote to headlines about industry uncertainty by swinging the conversation back to the creative ambitions, formative influences and inspirations of some of today's great screen artists. Every installment asks the same five questions…

EXCLUSIVE: Recent The Inheritance Tony nominee John Benjamin Hickey is set to play Father Callahan in New Line’s big feature adaptation of Stephen King's bestselling novel Salem's Lot which is hitting theaters in the Warner Bros. post Labor Day holiday corridor of Sept. 9, 2022. Hickey joins previously announced Lewis…

EXCLUSIVE: Rand Holston is leaving Paradigm to form his own management company. All of his clients are coming with him to Rand Holston Management. The exit is amicable. Holston spent 10 years at Paradigm, this after spending 28 years at CAA. Holston’s last day will be September 30. Holston’s client list includes the…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-nominated actress Alfre Woodard is joining New Line’s Salem’s Lot bunch in the big-screen take of the 1975 Stephen King vampire novel, we can tell you first. She’ll play Dr. Cody, who in the novel is a guy, Dr. Jimmy Cody. Cody assists Ben Mears (Lewis Pullman in the film), Susan Norton (Makenzie…

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures and Blumhouse are revving back up Christine, a new version of the Stephen King novel that Bryan Fuller is writing to direct. Jason Blum is producing for Blumhouse, and Vincenzo Natali and Steven Hoban are also producing. The 1983 original was directed by John Carpenter about a shy teen who…

EXCLUSIVE: American Horror Story and The Tomorrow War actress Ryan Kiera Armstrong has landed the lead role of Charlie in Blumhouse, Weed Road Pictures and Universal’s update of Stephen King’s Firestarter. She is pictured above in what is the first look from the movie. The role was made famous by Drew Barrymore in the…

UPDATE MAY 11: Apple TV+ today unveiled the trailer for its upcoming limited series Lisey's Story, based on the best-selling novel, and adapted and written by author Stephen King. Starring Julianne Moore and Clive Owen, the eight-episode Apple Original series will premiere globally on June 4, 2021, with the first two…

Stephen King’s The Talisman is in the works for the small screen. Stranger Things creators the Duffer Brothers, Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Television and Paramount Television Studios are adapting the book as a series for Netflix, sources close to the project confirmed to Deadline. The Talisman, co-written by King and…

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures is making a deal with Edgar Wright to develop to direct a new adaptation of The Running Man, the futuristic novel by Stephen King that the author first published under the pseudonym Richard Bachman. This won’t be a remake of the 1987 film that starred Arnold Schwarzenegger; the Baby Driver…

Scottish filmmaker Lynne Ramsay has been tapped to direct The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, the film adaptation to the 1999 psychological horror novel by Stephen King, which is set up at Village Roadshow Pictures. Ramsay, who wrote and directed the Joaquin Phoenix-starring drama, You Were Never Really Here, also penned…

EXCLUSIVE: After relaunching its podcast network last month, horror outfit Fangoria has brought Stephen King podcast The Kingcast into the fold as one of its flagship shows. The pod was started in May has featured guests including Elijah Wood, Kumail Nanjiani, Karyn Kusama, Bryan Fuller and Mike Flanagan. It is hosted…

The first look at the trailer and key art for the CBS All Access limited-event series The Stand was unveiled Friday at the virtual New York Comic Con. A panel devoted to the series brought together cast members Whoopi Goldberg, James Marsden, Greg Kinnear, Odessa Young, Jovan Adepo, Amber Heard, and Owen Teague, as…