Is Salem’s Lot still coming out this September?

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I might see this as a curiosity, but the '79 version is a hard act to follow.

Still no word on the release. The actor says he thinks it's gonna be good, but Warners pulling it from the release slate certainly suggests otherwise. Then again, Warners doesn't seem to know what the fuck its doing these days.

Fangoria: The Case Of The Missing 'SALEM'S LOT Movie


Cinemacon has just ended, and Warner Bros has done their presentation, and still no word on this movie. They showed a trailer for it last year, and yet this time around it's entire absent.

It's looking like this could be another casualty of Warner Bros tax write-off scheme. If the movie sucks they could just bury it forever and recoup some of the budget that way. 

But they've at least announced that that was the case with some of those other titles, and those were all streaming movies and shows. This was intended, at least at one point, to be a big fall horror release for the studio. It's one of Stephen King's most famous titles and, much like It, has only gotten the TV miniseries treatment before. This was a big opportunity for a hit film. Even if it was terrible you'd think they'd try to cash in, especially since it's already been shot and at least completed enough that they had a trailer. 

The complete silence is the strangest part...

It does look that way. There's a good chance it just wasn't good and there were going to be reshoots, and then with all the turmoil at Warner's they just didn't want to pay for them. It's quite a surprise though that a 'major motion picture' (according to the tie-in book I saw in the store the other day) would just be buried without any word like this after it had already been shot. It's weird.

It's strange, but we are living in the age of the 'lost film' again for the first time since the silent era.

variety.com/2023/film/news/salems-lot-new-movie-warner-bros-max-streaming-debut-1235774431/



Variety reports that this new 'Salem's Lot maybe be headed to 'max' in lieu of theaters.

Warner Bros says that no decision has been made, and the insider source tells variety that the decision has nothing to do with its quality but rather is because the streaming platform needs more content because the writers and actors strikes meant other productions shut down. 

That of course doesn't explain why all of the previous delays occurred and why this is the first update in 2 years, but I suppose if you were looking forward to seeing this movie then this is some level of good news. At least it sounds like it will be released in some way at some point. It would have made more sense to have done that about a month ago, but oh well.

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A new poster image has leaked online recently, but one wonders if it's even real at all, and if it is when it was from because the logo on the poster says 'HBOmax' which would suggest that this decision came before the the rebranding to the current brand 'MAX.' It would mean that it was they intended to put this on the streamer well before this recent news came out, and since it still hasn't happened, that it was delayed yet again even since then. So they made a call that it would go straight to streaming, and then now they've said no decision has been made.

What a bizarre situation. Of all of the very public weirdness going on at Warner Bros. this under-the-radar one is maybe the strangest of all.

That's correct, it's going straight to streaming instead of being released in theaters. Apparently sometime in May.

By the way, it's good to see you back on the board Marv.