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08 Sep

Can Salem’s Lot and Firestarter Reignite Stephen King at the Box Office?

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It was almost exactly four years ago when It: Chapter One (as it came to be called), the first of two movies based on Stephen King’s classic 1986 novel, opened in theaters to a record-shattering $124 million in its first weekend. Adjusted for inflation, the film went on to become the highest grossing horror movie (and King adaptation) of all time, earning $701 million worldwide. Not even the vampires of ‘Salem’s Lot multiplied at that rate! It’s explosive and unprecedented opening coincided (and perhaps helped drive) a new wave of Stephen King adaptations, both as movies and TV productions, and…
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27 Jul

Motherland: Fort Salem’s Witches are Superheroes in All But Name

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Witchcraft on television has a longer history than most of its sister genres and has so far shown no sign of going away. In any given year there is at least one series exploring the pros and cons of the craft, whether it’s sisters who happen to be witches (Charmed), sidekicks coming up with a world-saving spell at just the right moment (The Vampire Diaries) or, as with new addition to the canon Motherland: Fort Salem, witches as a coordinated, terrorist-fighting machine. The show, now available to stream in the UK on BBC iPlayer, comes out of the gate hard…
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11 Apr

Stephen King’s ‘Salem’s Lot Finds Its Director

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A director has been announced for New Line’s upcoming film version of Stephen King’s classic novel, ‘Salem’s Lot, and it seems the search did not have to go too far or wide: Gary Dauberman, who’s already writing the screenplay, will now get behind the camera as well for the James Wan-produced project, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Dauberman made his directorial debut last year on Annabelle Comes Home, easily the best of the three Annabelle movies and a genuinely creepy exercise in its own right. Dauberman has also written the Annabelle trilogy, as well as The Nun, and also co-wrote…
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