Release: The Stand

The Stand
Genre: Fantasy/Horror
Director: J.J. Abrams
Writer: Matt Parker
Based on the novel by Stephen King
Cast: Taylor Kitsch, Emma Roberts, Eric Bana, Christopher Abbott, Adam Driver, Angela Bassett, Taran Killam, Michael Caine, Alice Eve, Jason Lee, Owen Teague, Jackie Earle Hayley




Budget: $80,000,000
Domestic Box Office: $101,445,382
Foreign Box Office: $104,110,323
Total Profit: $52,888,239

Reaction: A very nice way to start the season. The third Stephen King adaptation from writer Matt Parker is the highest grossing of the the three, grossing more than Salem's Lot and The Dead Zone, although the film was night quite as profitable as The Dead Zone.

"Some Stephen King fans may get annoyed by the amount of content from the massive novel left out of the film, I think that the changes have made for a crisper, more focused narrative. All of King's filler material is gone, with just the important characters and their journeys remaining. The result is a strong film with solid work from JJ Abrams and the impressive ensemble cast he has assembled." - Clark Haverford, Nerdist

"King's novel may get a lot of love from his fans, but the story really lacks the thrills and scares of works like It. Kitsch and Bana give especially strong performances, but it all adds up to an unfulfilling conclusion." - Josh Manning, NY Daily News

"Much like Dwight Gallo showed us with his adaptation of Atlas Shrugged, it is entirely possible to take an epic tome of a novel and condense it down to its important parts, making it into one strong story. I preferred this much more than the Peter Jackson approach where he took one novel in The Hobbit and made three incomplete films based on it." - Dave Vrosky, Den of Geek

Rated R for language, frightening images, sexuality, nudity, some graphic violence and drug use.