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Hollywood Wants To Scare Your Kids
Published 5/15/2008 at Cinema Blend News
Hollywood Wants To Scare Your Kids In a case of striking while the iron is hot, Columbia Pictures is planning on making a movie based on the “Goosebumps” series of books. Come to think of it, that is actually the opposite of hot iron striking. The children’s horror books, written by R.L. Stine, were the most popular books in America, of any genre, in the mid 1990’s and have sold 300 million copies worldwide. Unfortunately, as our caldendar’s note, we left the 1990’s some time ago. Variety reports that book publisher, Scholastic, and the filmmakers view “Goosebumps” as a ...

May 15, 2008
Published 5/15/2008 by findthefunnywire at findthefunnyWIRE.com
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Published 5/15/2008 by Franck Tabouring at The Screening Log
... • Variety reports Columbia Pictures has acquired the rights to adapt R.L. Stine’s “Goosebumps” series. Sold all over the world, the series includes more than 50 books. A videogame based on the international phenomenon will be released later this year. ...

Daniel Day-Lewis Is Ready for His Eleven O'Clock Number
Published 5/15/2008 at Vulture
... picked up the rights to R.L. Stine's Goosebumps, the second-best-selling young-adult series behind Harry Potter. According to Scholastic's Deborah Forte, "the first generation of Goosebumps' fans are in their early 20s now," which makes us feel stupid for being so old and having read every single one. The biggest challenge facing the adaptation will be re-creating those irksome chapter-break cliffhangers every five minutes. [Variety] ...

'Goosebumps' to Finally Hit the Silver Screen
Published 5/15/2008 by Scott Weinberg at Cinematical
Filed under: Horror, Sony, Family FilmsProlific producer Neal H. Moritz knows a whole lot about making patently un-scary horror flicks (his resumé is littered with two Urban Legends, three Skulls, a Soul Survivors, three people who Know What You Did Last Summer, and one Prom Night -- so far. Therefore simple logic dictates that, now that the mega-successful Goosebumps books are about to leap into the multiplexes, Mr. Moritz should be in charge of the operation. According to Variety, R.L. Stine's Goosebumps ...

The Producer Of I AM LEGEND, The FAST AND THE FURIOUS Films, xXx, And I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER Brings Us...GOOSEBUMPS??
Published 5/15/2008 by Merrick at Ain't It Cool News - The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news.
Merrick here... Neal Moritz, who produced the titles referenced in the headline as well as many other projects, has (naturally) joined with Scholastic Media to bring R.L. Stine's GOOSEBUMPS to the big screen for Columbia. Studio is fast-tracking the project and is focusing on finding a writer. Moritz said they likely will cast unknown child actors and then pepper the film with well-known thesps in supporting roles, much like Warner did with the "Harry Potter" franchise. ...says THIS ARTICLE in Variety. GOOSEBUMPS previously spawned a three-season television series out of Canada (in the late 90s), and various spin-off publications and ...

'Goosebumps' Coming to Big Screen, Scholastic Catalogs
Published 5/15/2008 at I Watch Stuff - The Best Movie News Ever
... equate to wanting to now see the tame, kiddy version of Tales from the Crypt in theaters. I can honestly tell you a live-action Night of the Living Dummy is in no way appealing to me. And how could they top the Fox Kids television version? The studio still has yet to announce which story will first be adapted, but with the series' propensity for long, mildly-scary buildups to laughable twist-endings, M. Night Shyamalan seems like the natural choice for directing. Stine gives Columbia 'Goosebumps' [Variety]

viewer's beware, you're in for a scare!!!
Published 6/11/2008 at OH NO!!
Stine gives Columbia 'Goosebumps' Studio acquires Scholastic's young-adult series Columbia Pictures has acquired rights from Scholastic Media to bring R.L. Stine's young-adult "Goosebumps" series to the bigscreen. "Goosebumps" has never been adapted for the bigscreen, despite ...