Stephen King News

Time and again, he's brought adaptations of interesting and compelling novels to TV, only to wind up with stuff that is too uninspired too boring or too dumb Still, I have high hopes for the latest attempt to turn King's quality pages into quality television, CBS' Under the Dome .

So you guys remember the Truman show? Or Edtv? Cute little dark comedies about people with their lives under the public eye? What if you never asked to be under the public eye? What if you never asked to be sectioned off from the rest of the world? What if you don't even have a choice? Such is the case with the new television series from Stephen ... (more)

In 2001, When Jack Skillingstead entered Stephen King's "On Writing" competition, King selected Jack's entry as one of five winners.

A theatrical concert version of the Stephen King -John Mellencamp musical Ghost Brothers of Darkland County , which had a 2012 world premiere at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, will launch a tour this fall in Bloomington, IN.

With CBS airing Under the Dome this summer, and Kimberly Peirce's Carrie remake coming in October, it will already be a good year for Stephen King fans.

"The Mist" writer-director Frank Darabont is seen at work on "The Walking Dead" in September 2010.

Just in time for Mother's Day, MGM and Screen Gems have released a rather disturbing cinematic mosaic from the upcoming movie, " Carrie ." According to a May 11 post from We Got This Covered , this is just one of the many different and unique marketing campaigns for the upcoming horror remake, which is based on the popular Stephen King novel.

The World Premiere of "Kurt Vonnegut's Make Up Your Mind," the acclaimed Off-Broadway drama "Tribes," and the soul-stirring Broadway musical "The Color Purple" are among the five premiere productions that SpeakEasy Stage will present in its 2013-2014 Season, the company's Producing Artistic Director Paul Daigneault announced today.

A top novelist has asked her fans to redesign classic novels as if they were being marketed at women in protest at the 'girly' imagery publishers use on book covers for women authors.

Room 237 fuses fact and fiction through interviews with ardent fans convinced they have decoded Stanley Kubrick's The Shining's secret messages regarding genocide, government conspiracy and the nightmare that we call history.

As a struggling writer, Joe Hill knew there was an easier way to get his career off the ground.

Though his larger body of work has been ridiculed and embraced in equal measure, Stanley Kubrick's The Shining has scaled the steep walls of genre and navigated a labyrinth of critical revisionism to emerge an uncontested classic.

Baz Luhrmann is the latest to try translating a celebrated book to the big screen, but there's danger in being too faithful to the text Daisy and Tom Buchanan meet each other in a scene of Baz Luhrmann's film the Great Gatsby Photograph: Allstar/WARNER BROS.

So awhile back Stephen King wrote a book series called The Dark Tower . It was unlike his previous works in that it was an epic, expansive fantasy story.

When last we heard about Ron Howard 's ambitious plans to adapt "The Dark Tower," it wasn't good news.

Ansel Elgort , who has now begun filming his portions of " Divergent " in Chicago and may be one of the top five contenders testing for the leading male role in Shailene Woodley's other YA-to-big screen adaptation "The Fault In Our Stars," has joined in on the set sneak peek-sharing game! Elgort also tweeted about his nervousness over working on a ... (more)

You don't have to be an obsessive fan of "The Shining" to enjoy "Room 237," whose title will be recognizable immediately to those who fit that description.

It's a risk to option a book that hasn't even hit shelves yet, but it's one that paid off for The Help director Tate Taylor, who picked up the option for Kathryn Stockett's book before it became a hit.

Occasionally taking a meeting really does lead to something taking off - maybe even something eerie and special.

Director Ron Howard 's adaptation of the Stephen King book series The Dark Tower has had an incredibly rough development process.