Goosebumps eyeing first, Spielberg and Hanks team up for fourth movie

“Those aren't kids books,” a character insists early into Goosebumps, after his new companion shrugs off the YA source material of the film itself. “Those are the books that keep you up at night.” Anyone who cut their teeth on 

We had just seen the new Goosebumps movie together and couldn't wait to hunker down with our staff list. Nothing about the night hinted at the strange events to come. We sat around our conference table, chattering away 

Who is the new Goosebumps movie for? The new adaptation of R.L. Stine's popular series of children's horror novels doesn't want to decide. On the one hand, it makes sense that Sony Pictures and publisher Scholastic would 

Keeping the creepy/kooky mix entertainingly intact, Goosebumps translates R.L. Stine's frighteningly successful young adult horror fiction series to the big screen with lively, teen Ghostbusters-type results.

In this photo provided by Columbia Pictures, Jack Black who stars as R.L. Stine, Slappy, and Invisible Boy, appears in a scene in Columbia Pictures' "Goosebumps." (Hopper Stone, SMPSP/Columbia Pictures via AP)