It premieres Sept. 29 on Netflix. The first King book I read wasIt. I was in sixth grade, and it absolutely traumatized me. John Lamparski/WireImage; Smallz & Raskind/Getty Images I began devouring Kings books after that. I was always amazed by his characters. The Stand, The ShiningandPet Sematarywere the books dearest to me growing up. Pocket Books But the book I wanted to adapt more than any other wasGeralds Game....

Part IV of EW’s weeklong birthday tribute to the horror scribe. I still write REDRUM with backward Rs like Danny Torrance on every steamy hotel bathroom mirror. My love affair with Kings work didnt stop there. Courtesy Tananarive Due I was sick in bed when I readThe Stand, and I felt every symptom of Captain Trips. I gave my cat the side-eye the whole time I readPet Sematary. King scared me time after time by creating characters I believed in....

Stephen King celebrates his 70th birthday on Sept. 21. King praisedYouas: Totally original. Never read anything quite like it. Credit: KENZO TRIBOUILLARD/AFP/Getty Images/Dowling Pugliese/ Ace Photography … Hypnotic and scary. A little Ira Levin, a little Patricia Highsmith, and plenty of serious snark. I connected with his voice because he was writing like the people I knew and overheard in my life. Knopf He hears people, the relationship between interior life and speech pattern....

If you hit links we provide, we may receive compensation. His dark new collaboration with author Richard Chizmar hits stores Tuesday One should never take candy from strangers. Especially if it comes in a container that may have apocalyptic powers. Credit: Cemetery Dance It makes her stronger. More beautiful and brave. But the buttons … those have a much darker purpose. This is a gift fraught with both responsibility and menace....

If you hit links we provide, we may receive compensation. I thinkThe Black Bookis my best work in 20 years. Better thanAlong Came a SpiderandKiss the Girls, the blurb reads. Credit: Lou Rocco/Getty Images; Taylor Jewell/Invision/AP After Kings slightly snarky tweet, a mini-flurry of additional tweets from writers and screenwriters came down the pike. See the flier and the tweets below. Representatives for Patterson did not immediately respond to EWs request for comment....

There, he joked that he predicted the current political climate: I foresaw Donald Trump. I wrote a book calledThe Dead Zone. He linked the rise in Trumps popularity to a decrease in everyday recreational reading. Credit: John Lamparski/WireImage; MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images Without these analytical skills, King says politicians can slide by with generalities rather than specifics. But King isnt pleased with Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton either.

The movie is a surprise blockbuster at $123 million. Here’s one reason why. What accounts for this (literal) monstrous opening? Ittouched a frazzled nerve no one expected. At one point, one of the Losers in the film even warns: It wants to divide us! They cant and dont let It accomplish that goal. But moviegoers also may have come back again and again for the inspiring story of outcasts joining forces....

Things are simply wrong here. It looks like a nice place to live. People are going about their daily business. Warner Bros. Pictures/New Line Cinema The storefronts and homes are clean and neat. Children run and play. But theres something rotten beneath this veneer of normalcy. Brooke Palmer/Warner Bros. There are decent people here, but they may be the most troubling of all. Theyre the ones pretending none of it is happening....

It takes years to make a film, so its difficult for movies to comment on current events. Most recently, she served as an associate producer onThe BFG. The views expressed by Becker below are her own. Credit: Warner Bros. Pictures The first time I saw a dead body was when I was 4 years old. And the only person who ever made me feel better about that was Stephen King....

The book was adapted into a little-seen2004 filmstarring Daniel Craig and Rhys Ifans. The man claims Rainey plagiarized his manuscript and demands retribution, with threats that grow increasingly violent. Is the man telling the truth? Credit: Viking Penguin, Inc Is he a raving loony? Could he perhaps be a character fromwithinthe novel in question? 8.Travels in the Scriptorium,New York Trilogy, etc.

(Normal work problems, right?) Oh, and she just might be falling for the wrong guy. He wasnt dangerous to her, she knew that. That realization startled her. It startled her a lot. And when she was startled, she had ingrained reactions that manifested without her conscious approval. She ducked under his arm, spinning free. Her hands were automatically at her waist, looking for the belt she wasnt wearing. She straightened up and dropped her hands, her face burning....

To my fellow nominees, Im a fan. This one right here? (Braugher was the last black actor to win the award before Brown.) Lester Cohen/WireImage When I think about it, Walter White held this joint. Dick Whitman held this joint. And 19 years ago, Detective Frank Pembleton held this joint. GALLERY:The Best and Worst Dressed Stars at the Emmys I wanna thank my cast. you might play, you might play....

Sterling K. Brown is gung-ho about enlisting in the Green Lantern Corps. On Thursday thePeople v. O.J. SimpsonandThis Is Usstar volunteered on Twitter to play the soldier-turned-superhero John Stewart, a.k.a. Credit: Jason LaVeris/FilmMagic; DC Comics Green Lantern, in Warner Bros.' shared movie universe based on DC Comics characters. He signed off with the valediction “Namaste” and the hashtag “#GreenLanternCorps.” Introduced in 1971, the character is notable for being one of the first black superheroes in mainstream comics....