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Horror maestro Stephen King, clarifying his recent remarks that judging creative excellence should be blind to issues of diversity, writes in today’s Washington Post that whatever progress has been made in expanding the demographic makeup of Oscar voters is “not good enough.” “Not even within shouting distance of good…

AMC has unveiled a slew of developments including scripted projects from Katie Couric, The Report's Scott Z. Burns, Broad City's Ilana Glazer and Owen and Stephen King. The majority of the projects are being developed for its networks but there are also projects set up for AMC Studios to sell to third party…

Authors Don Winslow and Stephen King pledged to donate a total of $200,000 to St. Jude’s charity if White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham holds a one-hour press briefing in the White House briefing room. The last formal press briefing was on March 11, almost a year ago, all but ending what was once a daily…

EXCLUSIVE: MGM has set Alex Ross Perry to adapt and direct The Dark Half, a new adaptation of the 1989 Stephen King bestseller. Perry popped after writing, directing and producing Her Smell, the drama that premiered at the 2018 Toronto Film Festival, and for which Elisabeth Moss is Spirit Awards-nominated for her…

EXCLUSIVE: Actor Thomas Jane (The Predator) and producer Courtney Lauren Penn (Altitude) are teaming up to form LA-based content company Renegade Entertainment with Stephen King novel adaptation From A Buick 8 their first movie project on the docket. Renegade, which will develop and produce film, TV, games and…

One of my favorite horror movies ever is Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 screen adaptation of Stephen King’s The Shining. The author himself famously didn’t share my enthusiasm, endorsing instead the idea of the inferior 1997 ABC miniseries based on the book. But King, still gold these days at the box office after the success…

HBO has set a January premiere date for drama series The Outsider, based on Stephen King's bestselling novel. The 10-episode series will debut with back-to-back episodes at 9 and 10 PM, Sunday, January 12. It hails from The Night Of co-creator/executive producer Richard Price, director-executive producer Andrew…

Oscar nominee Clive Owen (Children of Men, Closer, The Knick) is set to star opposite Julianne Moore in Lisey's Story, Apple’s eight-hour limited series written and executive produced by Stephen King, from J.J. Abrams' Bad Robot Productions and Warner Bros. Television. Lisey's Story is a deeply personal thriller that…

An all-Stephen King edition of the Hero Nation this week… It’s good to be the King. The human content machine that is Stephen King continues to churn out stories and characters that scare up huge success as screen entertainment. In fact, King is casting a bigger shadow than ever (check out the long list of upcoming…

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…

Alexander Skarsgård is to star in The Stand, an adaptation of Stephen King's novel at CBS All Access. The Big Little Lies star joins James Marsden, Amber Heard, Odessa Young, Jovan Adepo, Owen Teague, Henry Zaga, Brad William Henke and Whoopi Goldberg in the drama, which has kicked off filming in Vancouver. Skarsgård…

In a competitive situation, Spyglass Media Group’s TV division has optioned Stephen King’s latest novel The Institute to develop as a limited series, with David E. Kelley (Big Little Lies) and Jack Bender (Lost), the same creative team behind the critically acclaimed Mr. Mercedes, also based on a King novel, attached…