RIP Joe Turkel
Joe Turkel, who played critical roles in Stanley Kubrick’s movie of The Shining and Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner, has died aged 94. Turkel played Lloyd, the bartender at the Overlook […]
Stiller for a staged Shining
Stephen King’s epic tale The Shining might be heading to the stage – with Ben Stiller set to play Jack Torrance, the role made (in)famous by Jack Nicholson. The play […]
HBO Max no longer visiting the Overlook
HBO Max has passed on Overlook, the Bad Robot prequel to the Stephen King story The Shining. Written by Dustin Thomason and Scott Brown, the story returned to the hotel […]
Shining spin-off coming from Bad Robot
We’re heading back to the Overlook Hotel in the company of JJ Abrams’ Bad Robot, one of three projects ordered for HBO Max. The new streaming service has given production […]
Jurassic Park and The Shining join US National Film Registry
The original Jurassic Park and Stanley Kubrick’s version of The Shining are two of the films chosen to join the US National Film Registry in the 30th annual list. These […]
The Shining – The Opera arrives in 2016
With fans’ attention on Doctor Sleep, Stephen King’s sequel to his acclaimed horror thriller The Shining, which is published next week, Minnesota Opera has announced that they will be premiering an opera based on The Shining as part of their 2016 programme. Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Paul Moravec and librettist Mark Campbell are collaborating on the project, which will be directed […]
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