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IT: Welcome to Derry Episode 2 dives deeper into Stephen King's Shining transplant - Here's what's next for Dick Hallorann [Lore Corner]
Famously psychic Dick Hallorann (played by Chris Chalk) has a long road ahead before he nabs the job at the Overlook Hotel. We're investigating what his arc on the King-inspired IT: Welcome to Derry might be ahead of that
November 01, 2025
Ashley V. Robinson
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Spoilers!Shocked by the end of IT: Welcome to Derry episode 1? The show's creators explained why they had to do it (and how HBO execs reacted)
We've got spoilers incoming, as producer Barbara Muschietti and writer Jason Fuchs describe what led to IT: Welcome to Derry's bloody and beguiling pilot ending
October 27, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Spoilers!Batman, Flash, and DC Studios Easter Eggs are all over IT: Welcome to Derry season premiere - Here's why they weren't just throwaways [Lore Corner]
A certain Scarlet Speedster and Dark Knight Detective are visible briefly in the prequel to Andy Muschietti's IT adaptation, Welcome to Derry. And if you know that filmmaker, you already know why these DCU references matter
October 27, 2025
Ashley V. Robinson
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HBO wants to scare you into watching the new IT: Welcome to Derry show
Pennywise the Dancing Clown is the latest horror monster to headline a viral marketing campaign - to advertise IT: Welcome to Derry of course - that Warner Bros. is running from Paris to Madrid to NYC
October 24, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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IT: Welcome to Derry's Andy Muschietti & Brad Caleb Kane tease a Dark Tower connection - but not a Stephen King multiverse show
IT: Welcome to Derry has turtles, just not all the way down. Director Muschietti and Kane definitely want you to know about Stephen King's Dark Tower, but don't want you to think this is Castle Rock 2
October 20, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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The opening of IT: Chapter Two makes Derry itself worse than Pennywise [The Coldest Open]
Or I don't know, maybe Pennywise IS Derry. Either way, the opening moments of Andy Muschietti's IT sequel make one thing clear - both of 'em suck
September 26, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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The Conjuring: Last Rites officially surpasses IT as the biggest horror movie opening weekend ever - and underscores a thriving appetite for horror in 2025
Michael Chaves's wrap-up to the blockbuster Conjuring saga scored a wild $194M at the global box office, floating just above the 2017 adaptation of Stephen King's beloved tale of Pennywise the Dancing Clown
September 08, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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With IT: Chapter One's opening scene, Andy Muschietti proves you can be scared even if you know where this is going [The Coldest Open]
Director Andy Muschietti, who is returning to Pennywise's realm for IT: Welcome to Derry on HBO, knows that you know your Stephen King. And that's not gonna stop him
August 22, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Before Pennywise comes to HBO in IT: Welcome to Derry, he’s coming to your gaming table in a Betrayal at House on the Hill expansion pack
Betrayal at the Neibolt House: The Evil of Pennywise weds a classic Stephen King villain to Hasbro's megahit horror boardgame in time to kick halloween off early
August 16, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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San Diego Comic-Con is where I can be who I am - an adult who brings their toddler to the It: Welcome to Derry screening
He is screaming and begging to leave because he is having a good time at the It prequel series screening
July 27, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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The HBO It: Welcome to Derry trailer is either teasing a huge piece of the Stephen King universe... or just reminding us of the 1950s
It's turtles all the way down in Stephen Kings's books, but is that the case in HBO's It prequel series?
May 20, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Popverse Picks: The best Stephen King movie & TV (and more) adaptations, from one King fan to another
It's maybe the greatest horror movie of all time, but King himself doesn't like it - so let's just skip Stanley Kubrick's The Shining altogether and get into some other things based on Stephen's works, yeah?
May 12, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Sinners box office barely drops for second weekend, the second best for a horror film after 2017's It
Between its first and second weekend in theaters, Ryan Coogler's vampire hit Sinners only dropped 6% in sales - an incredible achievement for a theatrical horror run
April 28, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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How to watch Stephen King's It and spinoffs in release and chronological order before Welcome to Derry comes out
From the original 1990 miniseries to the upcoming It: Welcome to Derry HBO series, let's hop into the sewers of Stephen King's nightmares
December 03, 2024
Jules Chin Greene
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HBO's It: Welcome to Derry release date is here, Stephen King lovers
We all floated to HBO Max's socials and found out when Pennywise the Dancing Clown is coming back to your screens
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Grant DeArmitt