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A new image from the upcoming film version of Stephen King’s horror novel It has come online–and it’s scary. We see Pennywise the clown emerging from a sewer pipe, lurking like the terror he is.

Hemlock Grove‘s Bill Skarsgard plays the murderous clown in It. It is an adaptation of the 1986 King novel of the same name. There was a previous TV adaptation which featured Tim Curry as the diabolical clown Pennywise. Skarsgard told Entertainment Weekly that he’s going to take a different route with the character.

“Tim Curry’s performance was truly great, but it’s important for me to do something different because of that,” he said. “I’ll never be able to make a Tim Curry performance as good as Tim Curry.”

You can check out Skarsgard as Pennywise in full costume and makeup here. Directing the movie is Andres Muschietti, who was previously announced as the director of the Shadow of the Colossus video game adaptation. However, that project has apparently not moved forward since its announcement.

Regarding Pennywise, Muschietti told Entertainment Weekly, “Pennywise shows up, he’s front and center, and he does his show. He has an act. So it’s weird all the time, and every little thing implies a further threat.”

It opens in theaters on September 8, 2017. In addition to Skarsgard, it features Steven Williams (X-Files), Javier Botet (The Revenant), Finn Wolfhard (Stranger Things), Megan Charpentier (Resident Evil: Retribution), and Jaeden Lieberher (Midnight Special).

The clown horror story isn’t the only Stephen King novel getting adapted for film. Idris Elba (Pacific Rim) is starring as the Gunslinger in the upcoming movie The Dark Tower, opposite Matthew McConaughey (Interstellar) as the Man in Black.

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Netflix has renewed Fuller House for a third season. As announced on Twitter, Season 3 will debut on the streaming site sometime in 2017.

Here’s the announcement video, featuring the show’s major characters:

The Fuller House renewal order from Netflix comes just weeks after Season 2 debut on December 9. The first season of Fuller House debuted in late February this year, with the Season 2 announcement coming in early March. A premiere date for Season 3 has not been announced.

Fuller House is a spinoff from the beloved ’80s and ’90s family show. The new show follows the widowed D.J. Tanner-Fuller (played by Candace Cameron Bure) as she raises her three children. Sister Stephanie Tanner (Jodie Sweetin) and the former-neighbor Kimmy Gibler (Andrea Barber) move in with DJ at the Tanner home in San Francisco to help raise her children.

Reactions were mixed for the first two seasons, from critics and fans alike. Netflix has not shared any viewership numbers for the show, but they were apparently good enough, as the show continues on.

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Xbox executive Phil Spencer has spoken out to clarify some comments he made earlier about how the video game industry can grow in the future.

In 2015, Spencer said he wanted that year’s E3 show to focus more on Microsoft’s own franchises and expanding them. Asked on Twitter recently if this is still Microsoft’s directive, Spencer said it is. He cited things like EA Access, Fallout mods, the Game Preview program, and cross-play between Xbox One and PC that are things that “move gaming forward,” and in some cases are only available on Xbox.

“Our [first-party] IP should do the same,” Spencer said, referencing efforts that push gaming forward.

He went on to say the continued support for Halo 5, particularly its Forge mode, is an example of Microsoft continuing to invest in and grow its own franchises.

As for what Spencer doesn’t want to do, he said, “Paying marketing funds so another console’s base can’t play a piece of content doesn’t feel like growth.”

This might sound like a dig at Sony’s timed-exclusivity deal with Activision for Call of Duty and Destiny DLC, but Spencer doesn’t see it that way. “People getting worked up on this,” he said when someone suggested he was being hypocritical. “Never said Xbox has never done this, not calling out others, just not practice I like, that’s it.”

Microsoft has its own co-marketing deals, too, one of which is with Ubisoft for The Division DLC.

What do you make of Spence’s comments? Let us know in the comments below!

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