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André Holland Cast In Castle Rock

Posted: May 11, 2017, 19:19
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Variety reports that Moonlight star André Holland has been cast as the lead in Hulu’s upcoming original series Castle Rock. Holland will play Henry, a death row attorney with a unique and complicated history in the town.


Castle Rock has landed a 10-episode first season order, with Hulu describing the project as an “ongoing series,” meaning it’s not intended to be a 10-episode limited run. Sam Shaw and Dustin Thomason are co-writers and executive producers with J.J. Abrams, Ben Stephenson and Liz Glotzer also executive producing. Warner Bros. Television is the studio, along with Bad Robot Productions.

Thanks to Maurizio Ragusa

Want To Buy An Expensive Plant?

Posted: May 10, 2017, 12:57
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For those of you that have some extra money tucked away that you feel the urge to spend. Check this out!

Gerald Winters And Son has not one but two lettered copies of The Plant for sale. These were done as Christmas cards by King in the early 80’s and not many of them exists. The lettered was only done in 26 copies (of each part). Gerald have letter “C” of part one and letter “G” of part three.

If you’re interested (even if you just want to check it out he has some cool photos of it), head over to their site and read more.

David Palladini Biography From Suntup Editions

Posted: May 10, 2017, 11:57
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As a bonus to The Eyes of the Dragon Art Portfolio Suntrup Editions will also publish a biography of the artist David Palladini.

From the Press Release:

As a bonus addition to The Eyes of the Dragon Art Portfolio featuring the artwork of David Palladini, Suntup Editions in collaboration with Mark Strong of Meibohm Fine Arts, Inc., is proud to announce the inclusion of a separate biographical book to both editions of the art portfolios.

The concise biography was written as a ‘fan tribute’ to the artist by Mark Strong, from almost nine years of compiled information about David Palladini’s personal life and career as an artist up to the present-day. The introduction, written by Mark, speaks of the serendipitous beginning of their friendship in 2008 with a simple phone call from David, which became his sole inspiration for writing the biography. The book, aptly titled Palladini, will include a 70-page biography, as well as over 60 full-color reproductions of artwork by David Palladini, including some of his best-known illustrations and never-before-published fine art. The perfect addition to the portfolios for Stephen King collectors and Palladini fans alike. Included free with all Portfolio orders.

Synopsis For Children of the Corn: Runaway

Posted: May 7, 2017, 02:55
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Here is the official synopsis for Children of the Corn: Runaway that will be released straight to DVD later this year.

Official Synopsis: The plot of Children of the Corn: Runaway follows a young pregnant Ruth who escapes a murderous child cult in a small Midwestern town. She spends the next decade living anonymously in an attempt to spare her son the horrors that she experienced as a child. She lands in the small Oklahoma town, but something is following her. Now, she must confront this evil or lose her child.

Dark Tower Figures And What They Will Cost

Posted: May 6, 2017, 15:00
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Here are some better images of The Dark Tower figures will be released later this year and their price. The first two figures are of the "statue" type that you can't move and the last two have moving joints.

The Dark Tower Gallery Gunslinger (Roland Deschain) $39.99

The Dark Tower Gallery Man in Black $39.99

The Dark Tower Select Gunslinger (Roland Deschain) $22.99

The Dark Tower Select Man in Black $22.99

Mike Patton Composing Score For 1922

Posted: May 6, 2017, 01:54
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Mike Patton has announced that he's working on a score for the Netflix adaptation of the King's 1922. Mike Patton, who is probably best known as the lead singer of Faith No More, recently spoke to Rolling Stone and casually mentioned that he has composed the score for 1922. Here's how the music legend described the impending soundtrack.

"It's more haunting and Hitchcock-y than you might think."

Movie Poster Edition Of Dark Tower & IT

Posted: May 5, 2017, 22:14
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A new paperback edition of The Dark Tower 1: The Gunslinger with a movie poster cover will be released on June 13. There will also be a new hardcover edition of The Dark Tower 1: The Gunslinger and IT (pre-order here). Both hardcovers will be released on July 11 and even though it's not confirmed that they will have movie poster covers it's a good guess that they will.

Idris Elba Talks The Dark Tower

Posted: May 4, 2017, 06:31
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Here is an interview with Idris Elba about The Dark Tower.

Yes, I want the fans to be satisfied by the character I portray especially since the characters are so well written in the book. However the wonderful thing with being an actor in film is that I am able to interpret the character and I hope the fans are proud of our interpretation.

Matthew McConaughey Talks The Dark Tower

Posted: May 4, 2017, 04:22
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Here is an interview with Matthew McConaughey about The Dark Tower.

“He and I spoke quite lyrically,” McConaughey said when we asked what he took from those conversations with King. “[We spoke] about how Walter has the world by a string and he always has a half-cocked smile on his face about it. There’s an enjoyment that comes with his puppeteering. He sees himself as the minister of truth.”

And it looks like the plans for a TV show is moving on. When asked if he would be involved with the planned Dark Tower TV show this is what he said:

Yes, I am somewhat involved, but to what extent we’re still figuring that out.


Shining & IT Nods in The Dark Tower Trailer

Posted: May 3, 2017, 16:01
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I heard this from a lot of fans who watched the trailer for The Dark Tower today and Dread Central posted the photos...

Did you catch the nods to The Shining and IT? Did you find others?


A framed photo of the Overlook Hotel from Jake's therapist’s office.


A weathered, broken down, dilapidated wagon that bears the name “Pennywise” and what looks like a few balloons.

Get Your The Nocturnal Reader's Box Now!

Posted: May 3, 2017, 07:23
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Have you ordered you The Nocturnal Reader's Box yet? Well it will be packed with King stuff including exclusive items from The Dark Tower, Creepshow, Gwendy's Button Box, IT, and a few others Everything in this box is limited to this box and will not be sold anywhere else.! Here is the limited cover for Gwendy's Button Box.


Order here.

Proof of Eyes Of The Dragon Art Portfolio

Posted: May 3, 2017, 06:15
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Here is a really cool galley. It's a galley for something as unusual as art portfolio

I couldn't resist doing a proof for the portfolio. I had some fun with this. The proof is designed to look like the old-style proofs from back in the day. Right down to the stapled publisher slip, and spiral bound pages. And of course, the covers were made to look like they were all beat up with stains and folds.

At first I thought, how can you do a proof for an art portfolio, but there was a need for some sort of rough mockup so we could determine the best order for the content, and have something I could actually look at prior to publication. Aside from that, there was a need for what advance review copies are traditionally used for, to send to media/reviewers, etc. And of course, proofing.


I decided to also include swatches of the materials used in both editions. Right down to the paper, and the covering materials for the boxes. It also has some of the special translucent/vellum paper being used in the actual portfolios.


Place your order while ther eare stil som left.

The Dark Tower Trailer Confirmed For Tomorrow

Posted: May 2, 2017, 14:57
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Sony Philippines has announced that The Dark Tower trailer is set to be released tomorrow and instead of the usual trailer tease they have released three motion posters featuring Idris Elba (Roland Deschain), Matthew McConaughey (The Man in Black) and Tom Taylor (Jake Chambers).






Thanks to Lou Sytsma

Limited Signed Sleeping Beauties Announced

Posted: May 2, 2017, 09:13
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Cemetery Dance Publications has announced a Deluxe Special Limited Edition of Stephen King and Owen King’s first collaborative novel, Sleeping Beauties

A Traycased Oversized Hardcover Signed Limited Edition will be printed in two colors with two-color hot foil stamping, a satin ribbon page marker and embossed endpapers, epic wrap-around cover artwork, nearly a dozen interior color paintings by Jana Heidersdorf, a signature sheet signed by Stephen King, Owen King, and Jana Heidersdorf, and the book will be housed in a custom-made traycase exclusive to this edition.

There is also an unsigned Oversized Slipcased Hardcover Gift Edition of only 1,750 illustrated copies that will be printed in two colors with two-color hot foil stamping, a fine binding, epic wrap-around cover artwork, nearly a dozen interior color paintings by Jana Heidersdorf, and it will be housed in a custom-made slipcase.

Order here but hurry, they will go fast.




Ep. 72 - Lee Gambin Chases Cujo Tales

Posted: May 2, 2017, 09:12
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Welcome to the Stephen King Podcast Constant and New Listeners!

Join your hosts - longtime Constant Readers - Hans Lilja of Lilja's Library and writer/podcaster - Lou W. Sytsma.

Welcome to Episode 72 of The Stephen King Podcast!

As always we bring you all the latest Stephen King news.

Plus this episode, Hans did an interview with Australia based Fangoria writer - Lee Gambin. Lee has written an in-depth history about the making of the Cujo movie titled - Nope, Nothing Wrong Here. As Hans discovered talking with Lee, the Cujo movie had a lot of problems.

Lee Gambin Facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/lee.gambin.98
Cujo Movie Book can be found for preorder:
Bear Manor Mania - Nope, Nothing Wrong Here.

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2) 00:30 - Podcast Setup
3) 01:48 - News From The DeathRoom
4) 40:10 - NightShift Interview - Lee Gambin's Making Of Cujo
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The Dark Tower Trailer

Posted: May 2, 2017, 08:44
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According to a document sent out to movie theatres Sony didn't direct theaters to attach the The Dark Tower trailer to anything specific movie so keep your eyes open when you go to the movies this weekend.

Firestarter Remake Announced

Posted: April 28, 2017, 11:18
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The fire will burn again. Jason Blum and Akiva Goldsman will do a remake of King's Firestarter.

After the opening night screening at the Overlook Film Festival tonight, Akiva Goldsman and Jason Blum announced that they would be teaming up once again to bring Stephen King’s classic pyrokinetic tale back to the big screen.

Scott Teems (Rectify) will co-write the new adaptation with the Academy Award-winning Goldsman. Blum will produce under Blumhouse, and Martha de Laurentiis, an associate produce from the original, will executive produce.

Thanks to Anders Jakobson

The Dark Tower Movie Figures

Posted: April 24, 2017, 16:26
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Here are some photos from the Diamond Select Toys booth at this weekend's C2E2 convention which is taking place in Chicago. It seems they are developing a few 7” figures for The Dark Tower movie. Please note that these figures are pending licensor approval so they could be changed in time for their release but should give you an idea of what to expect.





And here are more photos of the figures we saw earlier.



Thanks to Lou Sytsma

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