‘Salem’s Lot’ Skipping Theaters, Headed Straight to Streaming
Stephen King fans hoping to see the new Salem’s Lotfilm on a big screen better hope they own a large television. The movie, which was first announced way back in 2019 and has remained unreleased until now, is going to bypass theaters entirely and go straight to streaming. King’s seminal vampire book has been adapted once before, as a television miniseries in the late 1970s. Years later there was also a sequel, A Return to Salem’s Lot, with only loose connections to the original. In the 2000s there was a new TV adaptation, that one starring Rob Lowe. This was supposed to be the first full-fledg...