An “It” Prequel Series May Haunt HBO Max

Pennywise the Clown may be coming into your living room. Variety has confirmed that an It prequel series is in the works at HBO Max, currently titled Welcome to Derry. The series will be set in the 1960s and lead up to the events in director Andy Muschietti’s 2017 film It: Part One, which itself was based on Stephen King’s sprawling, massively influential horror novel.

Listen to The Lonely Island’s Scrapped Oscars Song About the Films That Never Win

The Lonely Island had a song about all the movies that people love, yet that never win an Oscar, all prepared for this past Sunday’s Academy Awards, and all we can imagine now having heard it is, “what if?” The producers of the show ultimately cut the song due to it being “financially and logistically impossible.” This is assessment was accurate, considering The Lonely Island themselves (which consists of Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone) envisioned their song “Why Not Me”

Jessica Chastain is Totally Getting Our Hopes Up She’ll Appear in IT Chapter 2

After decades of horror, there is some good news coming to Derry, Maine. Variety reports that Jessica Chastain is in talks to star in the IT sequel as adult Beverly Marsh.

We’ve been hoping for this news ever since director Andy Muschietti expressed interest last fall and Chastain confirmed she was open to the idea. Muschietti directed Chastain in the 2013 horror flick, Mama.

IT Actor Bill Skarsgård Admits To Being Haunted by Pennywise

Here’s one thing we guarantee would keep anyone from sleeping – having Pennywise the clown haunt your dreams. Such is the curse for IT actor, Bill Skarsgård, who says he’s had difficulty letting go of the role. Months after the film was released, the actor is still getting nocturnal visits from the bloodthirsty monster.

“I was home, done with the movie, and I started having very strange and vivid Pennywise dreams,” Skarsgård told EW.

Will the It Director’s Cut Include That Insane (Rumored) Scene?

Andy Muschietti’s sensational adaptation of Stephen King’s It, one of this year’s surprise blockbusters, arrived in Digital HD today yesterday, with the Blu-ray coming on January 9, 2018. For serious film fans, the digital and Blu-ray releases are manna from heaven, considering they pack a ton of special features, including an alternate ending. Now, Bloody Disgusting has learned that there’s a director’s cut in the offing that will arrive in 2018,

The IT Special Features Promise More Substance and Scares

Stephen King’s IT runs more than 1,000 pages, and although Andy Muschetti and the rest of the filmmaking team split it into 2 films, that’s still a lot of ground to cover.  The film does a masterful job of capturing the evil spirit of King’s work, but some things were added, changed, and even deleted. EW posted a hilarious alternate opening scene and Bloody Disgusting has now shared the featurettes and deleted scenes that will accompany the home video release.

It & Avengers: Infinity War Directors Teaming up for Apocalyptic Sci-Fi

If you were going to make an apocalyptic sci-fi film based on a fantastic illustrated novel, you couldn’t ask for a better pairing of talents then the super siblings behind Avengers: Infinity War (the Russo Brothers) and It (Andy and Barbara Muschietti). The two teams seem to be on track to adapt Simon Stålenhag’s novel The Electric State, with Andy Muschietti directing and producing alongside his sister and the Russos.

Jessica Chastain Confirms She’s Interested in Playing IT‘s Beverly Marsh

Jessica Chastain is getting everyone’s hopes up that she’ll appear in the It sequel. The casting is so perfect that we couldn’t stand being let down at this point.

With the spectacular success of It this year, there was never any doubt that Part 2 would come soon after. Stephen King’s massive story follows the Loser’s Club into adulthood and the final battle with the evil alien entity that feeds on fear.

From Alien to It: The Science Behind our Love of Horror via 9 Iconic Scenes

A clown’s eyes peering back at us when we look into the storm drain. An unsuspecting man enjoying a meal with colleagues when a baby alien decides to explode out of his chest. A fairy-eating and eyeless pale man stalking a little girl through subterranean chambers. What is it about these skin-crawling scenes that compel so many of us to sit at the edge of our seats for the next good movie fright?

Neuroscientist Christian Jarrett says we crave this kind of entertainment because it triggers so many of the cognitive buttons evolution has left us with.

It Scares its Way to Biggest Domestic Horror Movie Opening in History

Andres Muschietti‘s It has made history. The adaptation of Stephen King‘s iconic epic of childhood fears run amok in Derry, Maine has just had the biggest opening for a horror movie in box office history, the biggest September opening in history, and the third biggest box office debut of 2017, beating out Spider-Man: Homecoming. Muschietti’s film is buoyed by a fantastic young cast, a strong script, and a truly terrifying central monster in Bill Skarsgård’s Pennywise the clown. 

IT Reviews Suggest This is the Horror Film of the Year

IT reviews are out and they all indicate that this is a must-see Stephen King adaptation. A major draw will be the scares and seeing a new actor as Pennywise the clown, but the real satisfaction of the film promises to be the comprehensive way in which the story is told. Horror movies often bring in audiences by raising the death toll, but IT dives deeper. The collective memory of coming of age a la 

Fall Read/Watch List: Check out These Books Before Their Cinematic Adaptations Arrive

Each year, there are a wide variety of new films that have been adapted from novels, biographies and memoirs. In 2017 alone, disparate movies like Fifty Shades Darker, The Shack, A Dog’s Purpose, The Zookeeper’s Wife and The Dark Tower were adapted from books. These films had little in common other than the commonality of being adapted from literary source material.

As the fall movie season gets underway,

First Tweeted Reviews of IT Suggest Film Lives up to Stephen King’s Masterpiece

Stephen King’s twisted tales of horror have captivated fans for decades spawning commercially successful hits like Carrie and The Shining. A fan favorite among the horror author’s extensive canon is 1986’s IT. Andres Muschetti’s new adaptation hits theaters in less than two weeks and promises to deliver the magic and terror of the book. The 1990 ABC version tried to tackle the entire story which comes from King’s more than 1000 page tome,

Go Inside It‘s House of Horror at 29 Neibolt Street

While you await the September 8 premiere of Andy Muschietti’s It, fans of Stephen King’s iconic horror classic who live in Los Angeles have a special, creepy opportunity on their hands—they can tour the house on 29 Neibolt Street, where so many of the terrifying moments in It occur.  In King’s novel, the Losers Club, our teenage heroes, find themselves at 29 Neibolt Street, a crumbling, abandoned house near the trainyard. It’s beneath the front porch that Eddie Kaspbrak first encounters the shape-shifting It,

Float Through the Sewers With Pennywise in It‘s new VR Experience

If you’re like us and have been waiting for Andy Muschietti‘s IT for what seems like a lifetime, than you’re no doubt enjoying the fresh deluge of materials Warner Bros. has been steadily releasing as we near the film’s September 8 release date. For those of you who didn’t catch the four-minute scene that screened before Annabelle: Creation this past weekend, you can make do with this, a virtual reality experience in which you can float through the Derry sewers,

Pennywise Would Like to see you now in two new It Teasers

All indications point to Andy Muschietti’s It being one of the year’s scariest films. Written by Chase Palmer, writer/director extraordinaire Cary Fukunaga, and Gary Dauberman, the trailer and teasers we’ve seen thus far hint at perhaps the most terrifying Stephen King adaptation in years, with an R rating to prove it. 

It follows a group of teenagers in Derry Main who are assaulted by It, a malevolent force whose favorite form is that of Pennywise the Dancing Clown (Bill Skarsgard).

What to Know About This new Adaptation of Stephen King’s It

Between Stephen King’s hefty novel – the thing that started it all – and the 1990 television miniseries, audiences might think they know everything about It. They should think again. New details about the upcoming feature film, due out on September 8, indicate that this latest iteration of the story will be doing everything but treading old ground. Collider recently gathered an extensive list of things to know about the film,

The Losers’ Club Clowns Around in the Worst Way in new IT Trailer

A sneak preview of Andres Muschietti’s It premiered on Sunday night at the MTV Movie and TV awards, following a few creepy teasers and photos we've seen over the past few weeks. The newest film adaptation of the Stephen King novel is not clowning around (apologies for that pun) as Pennywise the clown is one of the horror master's most iconic, unsettling monsters.

Taking place in the small town of Derry,

Pennywise the Clown Terrifies in new It Trailer

Remember yesterday when we shared photos and the new teaser for director Andy Muschietti’s It, an adaptation Stephen King’s iconic novel?  And we warned those of you who are too young to remember the pretty solidly terrifying It TV series in the 90s, let alone King’s source material, that once you allowed Pennywise the Clown into your life, there was no turning back? Well, the official teaser trailer for the Warner Bros.

Pennywise is Back: New Photos From the set of It

Director Andy Muschietti’s Instagram page has kept fans in the loop on his progress on It, his adaptation of Stephen King’s seminal horror novel starring Pennywise the Clown, the child-eating monster that is one of King’s most grotesque, and compelling, villains. Per usual in a King story, the action takes place in small town Maine (Derry, to be precise), where every 30 years a nameless monster appears in the sewer system and,