Aiming for a horror boom: The producers of the blockbuster film 'It' ponder the genre's future in Hollywood
LOS ANGELES - The Beverly Hills offices of KatzSmith Productions are filled with the kind of treasures one would expect from the company that helped create "It," currently the highest-grossing horror film of all time at the global box office.
Haunting the conference room is an immense cineplex standee for "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter," the 2012 film made from the mash-up novel by Seth Grahame-Smith, who partnered with David Katzenberg to form KatzSmith.
The S.S. Georgie, the paper boat whose maiden voyage into a sewer led to the gruesome death of the tiny owner in "It," is perched atop a first edition of the Stephen King book that inspired it all. A "Keep Calm and Carry On" sign, among the "E.T." and "MacGruber" posters, is marred with blood splatters so it just says "Keep Calm."
But perhaps the most intriguing
