Scaling back to a $100 million budget and going for the lighter, comic tone, Shazam! Paramount Pictures’ remake of the original 1989 Stephen King adaptation opened in a distant second with $25 million. It’s a solid start for Pet Sematary, though far from the haul that the last big-screen adaptation of King’s conjured up: It opened with $123.4 million in …
LOS ANGELES — The new “Pet Sematary " has familiar elements of Stephen King’s classic 1983 novel and previous film, namely the haunted graveyard where the dead are buried but return as murderous incarnations of their former selves. “You can’t protect your kids from everything,” said Amy Seimetz, who plays Creed’s wife, Rachel. “Her performance really brought this movie together.” …
Based on the seminal horror novel by Stephen King, Pet Sematary is slated to release on 5 April Pet Sematary ’s premiered at SXSW on Saturday, 16 March, and the film has garnered positive reviews across the board. While most remakes are often considered a lesser film compared to the original, Pet Sematary’s 2019 adaptation may well stand as an …
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