Every year, as the Academy Awards announce their Oscar nominees, The Razzie Awards follow suit with their awards for the past year’s worst films and performances. But the Razzies may have taken their schtick too far for their 2023 ballot. Variety reports that The Razzies face backlash after nominating 12-year-old actress Ryan Kiera Armstrong for Worst Actress for her performance in “Firestarter.” To smooth things over, Razzies founder John Wilson rescinded Armstrong’s nomination and said no performances by actors under 18 would be eligible for awards in the future.

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Director Keith Thomas’ “Firestarter” is simply a substandard movie. What more can be said that wouldn’t belabor the point? A remake of Mark L. Lester’s kitschy film adaptation of Stephen King’s same-titled sci-fi horror novel; Thomas’ version, heading straight to Peacock, doesn’t have Drew Barrymore or Martin Sheen or even Tangerine Dream’s music.

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Are we even surprised nowadays when a trailer for a new Stephen King adaptation arrives? Since the massive success of the two “It” films, studios have been snatching up the rights to various King novels over the past several years. But what makes this new one a little more intriguing is that the new “Firestarter,” produced by the horror studio, Blumhouse, is the second try at a beloved King classic.

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By and large, Zac Efron has really focused on making people laugh in his roles on the big screen. Outside of his recent feature film, “Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil And Vile,” where he played a serial killer, most people know Efron for films such as “Neighbors,” “Baywatch,” and even “The Beach Bum.” But it appears that he’s going to venture further into the realm of drama, going all the way into horror for an upcoming project, a remake of the film “Firestarter.”

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According to Deadline, Efron has signed on to star in the upcoming remake of “Firestarter” from Universal and Blumhouse.

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Stephen King’s “IT” is the new “Iron Man,” right? When “Iron Man” reignited the superhero genre in 2008, studios quickly snatched up the rights to almost everything that was related to superheroes. And after last year’s “IT” took off and became a worldwide phenomenon, studios are snatching up everything and anything related to King. The latest Stephen King property to get the big screen treatment is “Firestarter.”

Yes, “Firestarter” is technically going to be a remake of the 1984 film starring a very young Drew Barrymore as a little girl who, you guessed it, starts fires…with her mind!

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To say that veteran horror author Stephen King is having a moment is probably a bit simplistic — he’s one of the most popular and successful authors of all time, and his work has been the source material for classics including “The Shining” and “The Shawshank Redemption,” so it’s pretty rare that he hasn’t been having a moment. But King looks to be more present on screen than ever across 2017 and 2018, even by his prolific standards.

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