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Columbia Pictures has acquired rights from Scholastic Media to bring R.L. Stine’s young-adult “Goosebumps” series to the bigscreen.
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Scholastic’s Deborah Forte is producing alongside Neal Moritz via his Sony-based Original Film banner.“Numerous people have tried to bring ‘Goosebumps’ to the bigscreen, but luckily Scholastic never found the right fit,” said Moritz … “I’ve been a huge fan of the property for a long time. I met with Deborah several times and convinced her that Original and Sony were the best place to take it.”
Hey, Hollywood, all of America and anyone else willing to listen, can we please put our heads together and come up with a way to stop giving lots of power and money to assholes who call children’s books “properties”?
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My thoughts exactly, Cord. Not that Goosebumps were fine literature, but Jesus Christ, “property”?
And what do all of us in our early 20’s love more than a “family-friendly” horror movie?
God help me, I can’t think of a single thing.
man, when I was in elementary school, I read those things almost as much as Sweet Valley High and Babysitter’s Club. I’m not ashamed of being in my twenties, I’m going to that.
When will they learn, the Goosebumps t.v. show sucked and this will too. I admit to having an extensive Goosebumps collection as a kid and it definitely got more kids in my class reading. But even as a 10 year old I was totally surprised when our teachers starting suggesting we read Goosebumps instead of versions of Tom Sawyer and Black Beauty made specifically for my grade which had previously been part of the curriculum. I know that was off topic but that’s all I think about when I hear the word Goosebumps.