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Well, it’s only taken nearly three decades for the bad taste of one of Stephen King’s worst film adaptations to fade. While Pet Sematary remains one of King’s great underappreciated novels, its original 1989 film entirely excised vast chunks of the book — unfortunately, they were the parts that contained the connective threads. Variety is […]

Southern California is dealing with a massive fire in the middle of Ventura County. Being called the Thomas Fire, as of noon PST today, none of the fire had been contained. It has grown to 45,500 acres in just 13 hours. That’s twice the size of the island of Manhattan, folks. Thousands are being evacuated. […]

Liz Smith, arguably one of the most famous gossip columnists for more than two generations, has passed away at the age of 94. Joni Evans, the literary agent for Smith confirmed her passing of natural causes to the Associated Press. Beginning her career covering the New York social scene for the New York Daily News […]

Stephen King continues to have a bumper year, with no less than four films based on his stories coming out in 2017 alone. Now Variety is reporting that another property is being queued up over at Paramount to come back out of the grave for another go-around: Pet Sematary. The directing duo of Dennis Widmyer and […]

Two-time Academy Award recipient for best costume design, John Mollo, passed away on October 25th at the age of 86 from complications of vascular dementia. John was known for some of cinemas most iconic costumes, including those for Star Wars, Alien, Empire Strikes Back, and Ghandi. He received his Oscars in 1978 for Star Wars, […]

Even before it’s arrived in North America by way of HBO, Strike, the BBC series based on author J.K. Rowling’s series of books following the adventures of private investigator Cormoran Strike has been given the go-ahead for a third series. HBO has signed on for the North American broadcast sometime later in 2017, however the […]

During a Quantum Leap reunion Q&A panel at the Los Angeles Comic Con, series creator Donald Bellisario revealed that he has completed a script for a rebooted feature film. It’s hardly anything particularly new, because there’s been toying around about a feature length film ever since the early 2000s, when the news arm for the […]