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Some very exciting news for horror fans this evening, as Mike Flanagan is re-teaming with Stephen King for a new small-screen adaptation of the legendary's author's first novel, Carrie.

Deadline reports that the pair - who recently collaborated on the upcoming The Life of Chuck - are developing the supernatural coming-of-rage tale as an eight-episode series for Amazon, with Flanagan on board as showrunner and exec producer.

Brian De Palma's 1976 take on the book is widely viewed as one of the better King adaptations, with Sissy Spacek delivering a terrifying and tragic turn as the title character, who begins to manifest destructive telekinetic abilities after being relentlessly bullied by her classmates and tormented by her domineering religious fanatic mother. John Travolta, Piper Laurie, Amy Irving, Nancy Allen, Betty Buckley and William Katt also starred.

The movie's climactic bloodbath is often hailed as one of the most iconic scenes in cinema history.

Believe it or not, there was a time when studio executives were worried that John Travolta didn't have enough of the "it factor" to make it as a Hollywood leading man. He had a background in theater and was doing well on television, but in the 1970s, television and cinema were two entirely different worlds and actors didn't often jump between the mediums the way they do now. There were TV stars and there were movie stars, and never the twain shall meet. Well, maybe not never but it certainly wasn't common. And yet it was his TV star status that helped him land one of his breakout film roles.

During an interview with Journey To The Center Of The Cinema, casting director Harriet B. Helberg found it hilarious that Travolta arrived for his audition during his lunch break working on the TV comedy "Welcome Back, Kotter," still in his...

With the previous episode of the Wtf Happened to This Horror Movie? video series, we looked back at the 1982 Stephen King / George A. Romero classic Creepshow. With the new episode, we’re staying in King territory to dig into the making of the very first King adaptation, Brian De Palma’s 1976 classic Carrie (watch it Here). To find out what it took to bring King to the screen for the first time, check out the video embedded above!

Directed by De Palma from a screenplay by Lawrence D. Cohen, Carrie has the following synopsis:

Withdrawn and sensitive teen Carrie White faces taunting from classmates at school and abuse from her fanatically pious mother at home. When strange occurrences start happening around Carrie, she begins to suspect that she has supernatural powers. Invited to the prom by the empathetic Tommy Ross, Carrie tries to let her guard down, but things eventually...

Before he succumbed to Thanos’ finger snap and crumbled into dust, Samuel L. Jackson’s Nick Fury was able to send one last-minute distress signal into the cosmos.

Its target? Captain Marvel, the god-like heroine who’s about to headline her own standalone movie in 2019. It’ll open just a few short weeks before the untitled Avengers 4, which has since been described as a timely finale for this current iteration of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

This, coupled with the fact that Captain Marvel is being championed as the new face of the McU going forward, leads us to believe that Carol Danvers will not only lend a helping hand to Earth’s Mightiest Heroes when they need her most, but she’ll also be the bridge between two Marvel eras, as the Powers That Be brace for Phase 4 of this most lucrative franchise.

Suffice it to say, Captain Marvel is a pretty huge character,...

The goal of “Riverdale,” according to creator and showrunner Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, is always to push boundaries. After a second season that saw episodes take on the tone of “Zodiac” in a small town, “Tales From The Darkside,” and “The Godfather,” the CW’s dramatic adaptation of classic Archie Comics characters is getting musical.

“[Our characters] are kids who, even though they get involved in crime and stuff, are still high school kids — and high school kids do musicals every year,” Aguirre-Sacasa tells Variety. “So it feels like, on a show with high school kids, it’s easy to get to [a story where] we’re doing a musical. It’s one of the kind of classic coming-of-age rites of passage.”

Airing April 18, the episode entitled “Chapter Thirty-One: A Night To Remember” sees the students at Riverdale High — including Archie (Kj Apa), Betty (Lili Reinhart), Veronica (Camila Mendes), Kevin (Casey Cott) and Cheryl (Madelaine Petsch) — mounting...

The CW has released two music videos from Wednesday’s musical episode of “Riverdale.”

In the episode, titled “A Night to Remember,” Kevin (Casey Cott) stages a production of “Carrie: The Musical” starring Cheryl (Madelaine Petsch) in the title role. The episode will feature a whopping 11 songs from the off-Broadway musical, including the opening number “In” (above) and “A Night We’ll Never Forget,” (below) featuring the cast preparing for the show backstage.

The two videos see the “Riverdale” teens bright-eyed and excited for their show, but the episode promises to take an ominous turn — as “Riverdale” tends to do — when Cheryl finds herself under threat via an anonymous letter and it becomes clear that their roles are eerily intersecting with their personal lives.

Also Read: 14 Musical TV Episodes Ranked From Showstopping to Show-Stopped (Photos)

As previously announced, Kevin will direct the show, and Fangs Fogarty (Drew Ray Tanner) will assistant direct. Archie Andrews (K.J. Apa) will play Tommy Ross, Betty Cooper (Lili Reinhart) will play Sue Snell, and Veronica Lodge (Camila Mendes) will play Chris Hargensen.

Veronica’s parents are producing the play, and Jughead Jones (Cole Sprouse) will shoot a behind-the-scenes documentary of it all. But Jughead isn’t the only Serpent to have a role in the production: Toni Topaz (Vanessa Morgan) will play Norma.

The soundtrack to the episode will be made available to purchase after the episode.

“Riverdale” airs Wednesdays at 8/7c on The CW.



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I've got eleven new movie posters to share with you from a wide range of upcoming movies including a second poster for The Butler starring Forrest Whitaker, an international poster for Carrie (10/18) with Chloe Moretz, a Hungarian poster for Despicable Me 2 (7/3), Escape Plan (previously known as The Tomb) starring Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger, the first domestic poster for Wong Kar Wai's The Grandmaster and two new posters for Machete Kills, one featuring Michelle Rodriguez and the other being a second poster featuring Sofia Vergara. I've also got a Mexican poster for World War Z, the doemstic poster for The Heat (6/28) with Melissa McCarthy and Sandra Bullock, a new character poster for Only God Forgives (7/19) featuring Kristin Scott Thomas and then the cream of the crop, the poster for the direct-to-video title Killing Season starring John Travolta and Robert De Niro along with the trailer or the film.