Stephen King recently revisited the world of The Shining with a semi-sequel novel, Doctor Sleep. It’s not surprising that Hollywood has reignited interest in the world of Stephen King’s book.
However as the new novel is only tangentially connected to the events and places of The Shining, Warner Bros has been working on a more straightforward prequel, Overlook Hotel.
Glenn Mazzara (The Walking Dead) has already been set to write the script. Now they may have found a director, as Variety reports Mark Romanek (One Hour Photo, Never Let Me Go).
Overlook Hotel is an original tale, but one based on a prologue Stephen King originally wrote for The Shining, but eventually ended up deleting. The script follows, ‘the origin story of the Overlook Hotel through the eyes of its first owner, Bob T. Watson. A robber baron at the turn of the 20th century, Watson scaled the remote peaks of the Colorado Rockies to build the grandest resort in America, and a place he and his family would also call home’.
However, it’s safe to say things didn’t go completely to plan, with the strangeness eventually leading Jack Torrance and his family to the hotel many decades later – even if he may have been there all along.
Twenty years ago if you went into porn, you’d have to give up the idea that you could ever be taken seriously in mainstream cinema – at best you might be able to become a Traci Lords of Ron Jeremy type cult figure. However times have changed.
Although most people were supportive when Anna Paquin revealed a few years ago that she is bisexual, there was a firm and vociferous minority who weren’t impressed and were unfraid to show it. Particularly as she was talking about bisexuality (and while in a relationship with a man at the time), the backlash and bitchiness came from both homophobes and bi-phobic gay people.
Wentworth Miller has been opening up about his decision to come out as a gay man to 
Back in May Canadian wunderkind Xavier Dolan – he’s directed five movies and he’s still only 25 – picked up and Cannes Jury Prize for his latest film, Mommy (although he missed out on the Queer Palm for the best LGBT-themed movie at the festival).
When a live action/CG version of the classic character Paddington was announced, Colin Firth was due to voice the bear. He stuck with the project right up until last month, when just five months before release he dropped out, suggesting he didn’t think he could do the bear justice.
After quite a while in development where moviemakers were trying to work out how to translate the massive success of RL Stine’s books onto the screen, despite the fact it’s essentially an anthology with all sorts of different stories.
For many years Universal has been trying to work out what to do with its classic monsters, but despite attempts such as The Wolfman and Van Helsing, nothing has really worked. Now they’re hoping to create something much bigger, as Alex Kurtzman (Star Trek, Transformers, The Amazing Spider-Man 2) and Chris Morgan (Fast & Furious franchise) have signed up to develop an entire cinematic universe involving characters such as Frankenstein, Dracula, The Mummy, The Invisible Man, The Wolf Man and more, according to 
