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  • THE PARABLE. Stephen King’s ‘It’: Pennywise vs. ‘The Losers’ Is a Parable for a Tormented Nation

    THE PARABLE. Stephen King’s ‘It’: Pennywise vs. ‘The Losers’ Is a Parable for a Tormented Nation

    THE PARABLE. Stephen King’s ‘It’: Pennywise vs. ‘The Losers’ Is a Parable for a Tormented Nation:

    The movie is a surprise blockbuster at $123 million. Here’s one reason why.

    “Everyone needs reassurance that it’s good to be part of a group, and it’s great to come together against division and fear,” Andy Muschietti told EW on Monday morning. “Fear is used as a tool these days to divide and control and conquer. And hate is a tool. And that’s something Pennywise does, so that’s something resonating in our society right now.”

    One things that contributes to the frustration are those under the sway of the monster, who refuse to see the reality of what’s happening — much like the adults in It, all of them grotesques whose darkest sides are activated by the monster lurking below.

    King himself hit this comparison right on the red nose, joking in a speech at the Women’s March in Sarasota, Fla., last January: “We just elected Pennywise as president.”

    That is an observation I can believe in.. I just wrote about PENNYWISE’S HURRICANE WEEKEND at box offices … how we are ALL members of the losers club.. and how we are actually potentially united more if we unite against fear, whether it is a clown or a natural disaster. Nice to see that Muschietti agrees..

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  • HURRICANE PENNYWISE AT BOX OFFICES

    HURRICANE PENNYWISE AT BOX OFFICES

    I have a few ‘floating’ observations to make about this past weekend. Initially I fell victim to the hype..the overkill..the horror–from the news media!

    I have been in touch with some family and friends–a few haven’t responded yet–who live in the hurricane zone in Florida.. So far fine. Power is out for them, about over 3 million people. News media reports this morning indicate that about 5 so far have been confirmed dead because of the storm–a few from car wrecks while trying to evacuate..

    But last night while trying to sleep through some anxiety that has been increasing with recent weather conditions worldwide, I tuned in to hear Chris Jericho from the WWE during the initial minutes of Coast to Coast AM hosted night by Richard Syrett. I needed to hear it.. Jericho was in the Tampa area–the location where most damage was said to be coming. The eye wall..the horror! The misery! Jericho said he was busy watching Game of Thrones and, if he didn’t know Hurricane Irma was outside, may have just thought it was a rainstorm with wind. I was thankful to have heard this…

    I saw a few articles this week of people planning hurricane parties.. people saying ‘F IRMA’ online. Even a few that would have taken a really bad road and shot guns into the storm. Bad, bad idea people.

    There has been looting, yes. There is flooding.Some locations may be without power for days, weeks..or months. All of those dire warnings have come true for some. The storm surge isn’t done ravaging.. and yes, low line areas like Miama have been dealt a warning shot that, in case climate change continues to march ahead, they will have to deal with being at sea level. Maybe one day below.. All of these things are true…

    ….fear.

    With fear comes violence..with fear comes people making really awful choices. Distraught souls wandering in the land of fright .. their plight.. without might.. no fight.

    Fear takes away so much potential from people. Fear, heralded by the media so often as they hype storms for ratings, forces the human condition into a less than desirable state.

    Fear.

    It’s interesting that Pennywise the Dancing Clown made his presence known in movie theaters across America the same weekend we dealt with IRMA. The film adaptation of Stephen King’s IT was a remarkable success! $110 million domestically and the biggest horror release ever. A record setting film. Biggest R rates release .. the global box office has been rocked by a clown and the Loser’s Club facing their fears just enough to fight off the enemy.

    He thrusts his fists against the post but still insists he sees the ghost.

    Pennywise is a bit like Irma, isn’t he? The fear… so many are placed into a ‘holding’ position by fear..they get locked in the ‘dead lights’ of the media. We are rampaged mentally by media outlets showcasing the doom and gloom of the planet. Just as Derry is damaged permanently by a killer shapeshifter who utilizes the deepest fears of its prey in order to defeat them quickly.

    We cannot allow fear to overcome us.

    So often I think we have turned into a circus of ourselves. Social media is amazing..You can literally watch someone Periscope live from a hurricane half a globe away and chat. Amazing. The speed at which information is disseminated is unbelievable .. But so often we overhype things that shouldn’t be and marginalized amazing things that need to be known. The goodness of the world is sidelined … blistering headlines this morning showcase that: DOOM! HORROR! IRMA! MISERY! DESTRUCTION! And a sale on meat at the local grocery store. Sports in section b.

    Yes..Pennywise is the darkest horror figure in box offices perhaps ever. The remarkable film actually deserves an Oscar, and whether it’s the first to get one in the genre since SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, I don’t know.

    Pennywise is also a lot like the media tycoons that promulgate misery and fear.. Sex doesn’t sell nearly as much as blood. If it bleeds it leads baby. Pennywise is similar.. he will lurk in shadows and sewers and wait until the moment when your’e most afraid.

    When the Loser’s Club faces their fears, thrusts their fists against the post and stop seeing ghosts, they can overcome not only an outside presence of evil but also the darkest demons within themselves. We all should be a little more like the Loser’s Club from IT.

    We are all messed up. We are people. People filled with histories that keep us down and nostalgia that removes the darkest days from our past. Mixed up people who so often cannot express ourselves without medication or alcohol. We have fright when we look in the mirror, but only because we see what’s inside.

    So on this September 11–an anniversary of a day that also fills us with heartbreak and fear, I sa this: F Irma. And Jose too.

    F Pennywise, or whatever incarnation he takes on in the madness of your mind.

    Bravo Loser’s Club. We are ALL members, if we want to be..

  • Early Reactions to ‘It’ Praise Stephen King Film: ‘Totally Terrifying,’ ‘Scary as S—t’

    Early Reactions to ‘It’ Praise Stephen King Film: ‘Totally Terrifying,’ ‘Scary as S—t’

    Early Reactions to ‘It’ Praise Stephen King Film: ‘Totally Terrifying,’ ‘Scary as S—t’:

    Journalists who saw an early screening of It are writing their early, spoiler-free reactions on social media — and they are overwhelmingly positive.

    “I think it’s one of the finest Stephen King adaptations ever made,” EW’s Anthony Breznican wrote. “Beyond killer clowns, It also delves into the grief & anger kids feel when they realize those who should love & protect them do the opposite. These are themes in King’s stories that filmmakers often ignore. But the best adaptations figure out they’re the most vital part.”

    Fandango’s Erik Davis described it as “creepy, bloody, super funny, adorably romantic and hands down among my favorite movies of the year.” Phil Nobile Jr. of Birth.Movies.Death called it “a very handsome, polished execution of a story you know inside out,” while Collider’s Haleigh Foutch answered the question on every fan’s mind: yes, it’s “scary as sh–.”

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  • IT director Andy Muschietti says IT2 will finish filming in 2018

    IT director Andy Muschietti says IT2 will finish filming in 2018

    Here’s what he had to say in a recent interview with Variety. “We are doing [two films],” said Muschietti. “We’ll probably have a script for the second part in January. Ideally, we would start prep in March. Part one is only about the kids. Part two is about these characters 30 years later as adults, with flashbacks to 1989 when they were kids.” Muschietti also commented on what fan’s expectations are for the new film, and what they want to see. “Most of the people are excited about seeing a good adaptation. There are naysayers. Those tend to be the people who are fans of the miniseries rather than the fans of the book. People who read the book and got the book, they’re not crazy about the miniseries. It was a very watered-down version. It didn’t contain the darkness that the book had. They couldn’t make something for TV about a clown who eats children,” Muschietti added.
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  • NEW IT IMAGE REVEALED

    NEW IT IMAGE REVEALED

    With IT being released September 8 (two months) another image of ‘Pennywise’ has been released.. A press release with the photo: The kids in peril, the Losers’ Club, include Jaeden Lieberher, Finn Wolfhard, Jack Dylan Grazer, Wyatt Oleff, Chosen Jacobs and Jeremy Ray Taylor. Javier Botet will play The Leper, and Nicholas Hamilton plays Henry Bowers. The cast also includes Owen Teague, who plays bully Patrick Hocksetter. Bill Skarsgard is our new Pennywise.

  • PENNYWISE TO ARRIVE

    PENNYWISE TO ARRIVE

    ‘IT’ is going to begin shooting later this month..  

    The “working title” for part two of the Stephen King adaptation will be “Accordion.”..

    In theaters September 8, 2017, part one is set “in a small town in Maine, where seven children known as The Losers’ Club come face to face with life problems, bullies, and a monster that takes the shape of a clown called Pennywise.“

    Bill Skarsgard stars as Pennywise, the sewer-dwelling monster.

    Jaeden Lieberher, Finn Wolfhard, Nicholas Hamilton, Jack Dylan Grazer, Wyatt Oleff, Chosen Jacobs, and Jeremy Ray Taylor are the modern Losers’ Club.

    Creature performer Javier Botet will play The Leper, and Owen Teague plays Patrick Hocksetter, a bully who torment the Losers’ Club.

    Dan Lin, Roy Lee, Seth Grahame-Smith, David Katzenberg, and Barbara Muschietti produce.

  • ‘IT’ follows: Entertainment Weekly reveals new Pennywise the Dancing Clown image

    ‘IT’ follows: Entertainment Weekly reveals new Pennywise the Dancing Clown image

    Pennywise set to dance again.. The clown of nightmares from Stephen King’s imagination last century is finally becoming the feature film that has been dreamed up for years..

    ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY went in depth with an exclusive story about the newest film.. Anthony Brezican was the main reporter for the article..  From the report:

    Look below and you’ll lay eyes on the first look at Pennywise the Dancing Clown from next year’s film adaptation of Stephen King’s It, with Bill Skarsgård taking on the role of the most fearsome creature to ever clutch a bouquet of balloons.

    “It’s such an extreme character. Inhumane,” Skarsgård says. “It’s beyond even a sociopath, because he’s not even human. He’s not even a clown. I’m playing just one of the beings It creates.”

    The image is certainly scarier than the original 1990s made for TV version — but Tim Curry as Pennywise is not forgettable at all.. The new clown could at least make that version become a part of memory.

    The report gives little information on what types of twists and turns the newest IT could take …  But the clown– those eyes– is the scariest of all so far.

    I have amazingly good memories as a pre-teen in the 1990s watching IT on television.. I saw the movie before I read the book, and that film alone propelled my interest in the horror genre beyond any point it had been at before.. Stephen King’s masterful storytelling from 1986 is timeless..  The movie, if it sticks to the King model, will be just fine. And the 25-year-old actor will be equally fine. He should just give a study to the Curry version from the 90s..

    More from the story:

     

    One thing is certain – this isn’t going to help the reputations of clowns. “I’ve been doing some clown research,” Skarsgård says. “I’m not sure if there was so much clown phobia before the novel. There’s obviously been this thing where people find clowns are unsettling, but nobody explored it the way Stephen King did.”

    Speaking of, EW reached out to the master himself for comment on the new look of one of his most iconic creations. He was suitably unsettled.

    “It’s a scary clown,” King said. “But to me they’re all scary.”

  • Recorded Future, a social media data mining firm backed by the CIA’s venture capital arm, has found logins and passwords for 47 government agencies strewn across the Web – available for hackers, spies and thieves.

    Recorded Future, a social media data mining firm backed by the CIA’s venture capital arm, has found logins and passwords for 47 government agencies strewn across the Web – available for hackers, spies and thieves.

    Recorded Future, a social media data mining firm backed by the CIA’s venture capital arm, has found logins and passwords for 47 government agencies strewn across the Web – available for hackers, spies and thieves.

    Yes, the CIA has a venture capital arm..
    And yes, all of the passwords were compromised.
    And yes…….32 million are now affected.

    That would be almost 10% of the nation. At this time. The number keeps growing. Expect more.. 
    This isn’t over…