Stephen King

With independent bookstores shut down nationwide, a new online seller is offering help

“The Shining” writer took to Twitter early Tuesday to weigh in on the controversy that ensued after the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominated a nearly all-white slate for acting Oscars.

Harold Bloom, the eminent critic and Yale professor whose seminal “The Anxiety of Influence” and melancholy regard for literature’s old masters made him a popular author and standard-bearer of Western civilization amid modern trends, died Monday at age 89. Bloom’s wife, Jeanne, said that he had been failing health, although he continued to write books and was teaching as recently...

Brett Gelman, your favorite “Strangers Things” conspiracy theorist, is back to talk about his character in the Stephen King thriller “Mr. Mercedes.” And can he actually speak Russian? Watch to find out on California Live Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2019.

Old Spice Guy Isaiah Mustafa talks the transition from playing in the NFL to becoming the Old Spice Guy to now staring in It: Chapter Two. As seen on California Live Friday, Sept. 6, 2019.

Though Jeremy Ray Taylor’s characters may be portrayed as afraid and anxious in scary movies like ‘It’ and ‘Are You Afraid of the Dark?’, the actor spends his real life talking to people on how to prevent negative emotions by building a more positive and safe climate in their schools and communities. Working with the organization Safe and Sound Schools,...

Collapsing social structures haven’t been great for, well, the world. But they have been a boon to the horror film.

The Writers Guild of America sued the entertainment industry’s four biggest talent agencies Wednesday in the latest and boldest move in an increasingly bitter and protracted fight between the two sides over the way Hollywood does business. The lawsuit filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court claims agents’ use of so-called packaging fees is illegal under California law because they...

Ben Affleck was previously set to star in the film following his performances in “Justice League” and “Batman v. Superman,” but a new Caped Crusader is to be cast.

The prequel opens Fourth of July to essentially ask: How did we get to this point?

Harlan Ellison, the prolific, pugnacious author of “A Boy and His Dog,” and countless other stories that blasted society with their nightmarish, sometimes darkly humorous scenarios, has died at age 84. Ellison’s death was confirmed Thursday to The Associated Press by Bill Schafer, an editor with Subterranean Press, the author’s publisher. A woman who answered the phone at Ellison’s office,...

A Temple University fraternity has been suspended after allegations of underage drinking and sexual misconduct. The investigation is ongoing.

John Krasinski talks about what drew him to working on “A Quiet Place,” casting the movie’s child actors and some of the best celebrity reactions to the film.

“Stranger Things,” the hit sci-fi series on Netflix, pays homage to pop culture of the past, from Steven Spielberg movies and Stephen King novels to Japanese anime and vintage video games. But a filmmaker claims the co-creators of the show flat-out stole his ideas, and now he is taking his complaints to court, reports NBC News. Charlie Kessler filed a...

Stephen King says he was horrified to hear what happened to Gerald Winters’ bookstore in Bangor, Maine

A man claiming to be a professional clown who planned to rally outside a New York City movie theater, complaining his business suffered because of marketing around the horror clown movie “It,” admitted Thursday the protest was a sham — a publicity stunt designed to promote the very movie he said cost him cash.

Movie fans attending a special screening of the movie “It” in Bangor, Maine, got a bonus: Author and local resident Stephen King joined them.