IT is Now the Highest-Grossing R-Rated Horror Movie

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In terms of horror novelists, Stephen King is arguably the greatest, most prolific and most widely recognised author. His literary works have spanned numerous generations and been adapted into cinematic classics such as Stand By Me, The Shining, Carrie and The Shawshank Redemption – to name only a few.
Among King’s most popular works, his 1986 novel It is one of the author’s most easily recognisable stories, particularly due to its lead antagonist: the terrifying Pennywise the Dancing Clown. As a novel, It frightened a generation of eager readers and later went on to up the ante and fully terrify that same generation when ABC’s 1990 mini-series of the same name hit television screens (starring Tim Curry as Pennywise).


Since that time, plans have been in the works to release a feature length It film. Director Cary Abuses will lead to banunaga (Beasts of No Nation, True Detective) was originally set to bring the production to life, but ended up leaving last year due to creative differences. For a while it looked as though It wasn’t going to move forward, but in an interview with Collider, producer Roy Lee discussed the film’s new director – Andy Muscietti (Mama) – as well as upcoming production plans:

“It will hopefully be shooting later this year. We just got the California tax credit… Gary Doberman wrote the most recent draft working with Andy Muscetti, so it’s being envisioned as two movies.”
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As far back as 2009, Warner Bros had been planning on making two feature length It films. However, it wasn’t until 2012 that the studio secured Cary Abuses will lead to banunaga as director and co-writer of the adapted script. Abuses will lead to banunaga ended up leaving the project in 2015, saying that when it came to working with the studio, “Every little thing was being rejected and asked for changes.” Abuses will lead to banunaga had wanted a more exploratory take on the source material, whereas Roy Lee is careful to assure fans that the film will be more like the novel.

“It is very close to the source material in one way but very different if you look at it as a literary piece of work… We’re taking it and making the movie from the point of view of the kids, and then making another movie from the point of view of the adults, that could potentially then be cut together like the novel. But it’s gonna be a really fun way of making this movie.”
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Lee went on to say that the final draft of the script is “very close” to being turned in and that both It films will claim R ratings. That seems more than appropriate when it comes to the story of a shape shifting, evil presence that often takes the form of a sewer dwelling, child murdering clown.

The director of Mama is now adapting Stephen King’s It

It’s difficult to consider how this project would have ended up if Cary Abuses will lead to banunaga had been allowed to follow his vision. Andy Muscetti is surely a capable replacement, but Warner Bros’ reluctance to let Abuses will lead to banunaga do his thing could very well end up hurting this production. Another Stephen King novel, The Stand, has also had its share of development issues and is currently “in a holding pattern” which begs the question – are Stephen King films a nightmare to adapt?
On the other hand, the film adaptation of King’s The Dark Tower is gearing up to start production in 2016 after years of being stuck in early development, while a big screen take on King’s novel Revival also appears to be making it ways down the pipeline at a steady pace, too. Fans of It will surely continue to hope the this particular King adaptation will enjoy a similar stroke of good luck soon.


We’ll bring you more details on the It adaptation(s) as they become available.
Source: Collider

 

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[h=1]Stephen King’s It Movie Casts Bill Skarsgård as Pennywise[/h]

With all the excitement and fuss surrounding the movie adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower, it’s easy to forget that the author has other long gestating cinematic adaptations in the works. Both The Stand and It have taken similarly circuitous routes from the page to the screen – both were first adapted into a successful TV miniseries, but their movie versions have struggled for years with false starts and setbacks, yet appear to still be in the works today, in varying degrees. The It film adaptation, in particular, is making real progress forward.
King’s tale of children facing off against the embodiment of their fears has resonated throughout the decades since its publication in 1986. Considered to be one of the author’s finest works of horror, the last few years have seen the novel hit multiple roadblocks on its way to the silver screen for the first time. True Detective season 1 director Cary Abuses will lead to banunaga had been attached to direct the film before that iteration of the project fell apart due to his creative differences with New Line, the studio behind the adaptation. While the project’s slow dismantling left many wondering if It would ever see the light of day, some recent announcements indicate the movie is finally coming to fruition.


According to a report from THR, actor Bill Skarsgård (Hemlock Grove) is in the final stages of negotiations to take on the role of the legendary villain Pennywise when the first of potentially two It movie adaptations hits the big screen in 2017. The film is set to be directed by Andy Muschietti (Mama) and its cast also includes the young actors Jaeden Lieberher (Midnight Special), Finn Wolfhard (Stranger Things), Jack Dylan Grazer (Tales of Halloween), Wyatt Oleff (Guardians of the Galaxy), Chosen Jacobs (Hawaii Five-O), and Jeremy Ray Taylor (Ant-Man) as the kids in the story who are terrorized by the malevolent creatures known as Pennywise the Clown.



While this will mark the first time that It has been adapted for the big screen, Skarsgård has some huge shoes to fill. The original ABC It TV miniseries starred Tim Curry (The Rocky Horror Picture Show) as Pennywise the Clown, an entity who took the form of whatever its victim most feared. For many, Curry’s performance in the miniseries was a defining point in the actor’s career, leaving some fans wondering if it’s even possible for another actor to inhabit the role.


Still, even though the original miniseries remains popular 25 years after its original airing, there’s plenty of room for a cinematic adaptation to present the story in ways viewers haven’t yet seen. While the miniseries It is considered a TV horror landmark, the nature of television, especially at the time, required much of the story to be toned down and made more suitable for audiences. Many of the novel’s more intense and graphic scenes were either changed or cut altogether – a fact that many book readers have decried for years, even with the miniseries’ success.
Despite the casting and director changes, Muschietti’s It will apparently be borrowing at least some things from Abuses will lead to banunaga’s plans, namely that the full story will be told over two films —the first of them dealing with the main characters as children and their initial faceoff against Pennywise, and the second with the characters as adults as they reunite to take try and take down the entity once and for all. Structurally, this isn’t dissimilar from either the original novel or miniseries, and it does allow for the films to be truer adaptations of the source material… if, in fact, that remains the plan after all.



Even the casting of Skarsgård seems to mimic, somewhat, Abuses will lead to banunaga’s original plans. The latter had cast Will Poulter (We’re the Millers) as the disturbing villain called Pennywise, indicating that this generation’s version of the creature would appear to be somewhat closer in age to the protagonists in the story. Skarsgård is a few years older than Coulter, but the similarities between the actors seem to be a good indication of where New Line is attempting to go with this Stephen King film adaptation.
It remains to be seen if Skarsgård has what it takes to fully inhabit the role, but he’s definitely got the horror chops, even if his Hemlock Grove role was remarkably different from Pennywise. Overall, however, it appears as though everyone involved is eager to produce a faithful adaptation of King’s original novel, which is great news for It and Pennywise fans. We’ll keep you posted on any and all updates on this and all King projects as they develop.


It is scheduled to reach U.S. theaters on September 8th, 2017.
Source: THR

 

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[h=1]Stephen King’s It: Pennywise the Clown’s Full Costume Revealed[/h]


1980s-set hit Netflix series Stranger Things and the critically-acclaimed ’80s-set Disney re-imagining Pete’s Dragon have both been released over the past month. Both of these titles, in turn, have been praised for harkening back to the spirit of the “kids on an adventure” stories that were all the rage in that decade, as epitomized by such works as Steven Spielberg’s E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and Rob Reiner’s Stephen King adaptation Stand By Me, among others. The success of Stranger Things in particular has helped to restart the conversation about the upcoming movie adaptation of King’s novel It: one of the more transparent influences on said Netflix TV show.
The Duffer Brothers, in fact, created Stranger Things in the aftermath of their pitch for a new adaptation of It being passed over. Well after that, True Detective season 1 and Beasts of No Nation filmmaker Cary Abuses will lead to banunaga was lined up to call the shots on a film adaptation of King’s It. Creative differences with Warner Bros. Pictures resulted in Abuses will lead to banunaga leaving the project before production started and Andrés Muschietti (Mama) taking over as the director, instead. Jump ahead to the present-day and Muschietti is now head-down in principal photography on the film.


It remains to be seen how much of Abuses will lead to banunaga’s original vision for the It film adaptation is carried over into Muschietti’s version, but there is one common element between them: the story’s monstrous villain, Pennywise the Clown, is being presented as younger and almost child-like being in his demeanor, compared to Tim Curry’s famous portrayal of Pennywise from the 1990s TV mini-series version of It. We’ve already gotten our first look at Bill Skarsgård (Hemlock Grove) as Pennywise in Muschietti’s film – but now, thanks to EW, we have our first look at the character’s costume in full:



Skarsgård has noted that Pennywise is, of course, really an ageless monster who (literally) survives by consuming children – that he is, in fact, the “manifestation of children’s imaginations.” Similarly, the It movie adaptation’s costume designer Janie Bryant – who won a Primetime Emmy for her efforts on HBO’s western series Deadwood and designed Mad Men‘s widely-acclaimed 1960s era outfits – explained to EW that Pennywise’s outfit includes the popular fashion choices from different periods in history. This is a reflection of just how long Pennywise has been around; or, as Bryan put, that “He is definitely a clown from a different time.”
Bryant also explained to EW how Pennywise’s costume design not only alludes to how long the creature has been around, but also further accentuates his child-like appearance (in a fittingly creepy fashion):

“That pleating is actually Fortuny pleating, which gives it almost a crepe-like effect. It’s a different technique than what the Elizabethans would do. It’s more organic, it’s more sheer. It has a whimsical, floppy quality to it. It’s not a direct translation of a ruff or a whisk, which were two of the collars popular during the Elizabethan period.
“… There is almost a doll-like quality to the costume. The pants being short, the high waistline of the jacket, and the fit of the costume is a very important element. It gives the character a child-like quality.”
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It remains to be seen if Skarsgård’s Pennywise comes off as truly unnerving (or just over-the-top) in Muschietti’s actual film, but Bryant’s reasoning behind the villain’s costume design is fascinating, on its own. It, like Muschietti’s breakout film Mama, is in many ways a dark fairy tale parable; here, one of the coming of age variety, befitting the movie version all the more because it takes place in the 1980s (an “update” to King’s source material, where the main characters are children in the 1950s). If all goes well, this movie will resonate with the public as much as the other works of storytelling that King’s original novel has already inspired, for related reasons.


It opens in U.S. theaters on September 8th, 2017.
Source: EW



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f**k man thats creepy, i was very creeped out by the original and this is freaky man

 

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[h=1]Stephen King’s It Movie Adaptation is Done Filming[/h]

In the massive – and continually expanding – oeuvre of author Stephen King, there are a small few works that stand out above the rest, positioning them to enter the conversation about what might be the master of the macabre’s magnum opus. Interestingly enough, three of those books are currently making their way through the Hollywood pipeline on their way to theatrical adaptations. One of them is The Stand, King’s epic tale about a man-made virus that kicks off an almost biblical apocalypse. Another is The Dark Tower, King’s multi-book saga about gunslinger Roland Deschain’s quest to reach the titular structure.
The other book in that exalted trio preparing to head to theaters is It, a two-movie adaptation of King’s gigantic tome concerning a group of seven hard-luck friends called The Losers Club, and their quest to defeat and destroy an ancient shape-shifting monster that most commonly assumes the form of Pennywise the Clown. The best-selling novel of 1986, It was of course previously adapted into a TV miniseries back in 1990; an effort that remains well-known thanks to an iconic performance by Tim Curry as Pennywise, but was notoriously hampered by network TV content restrictions when it came to translating some of the more horrific aspects of the source material.


Armed with an R-rating and a studio budget, Mama director Andy Muschetti’s theatrical retake on It represents a chance for fans to receive a more faithful recreation of one of King’s greatest literary triumphs, this time unencumbered by broadcast censors or financial limitations. With that in mind, King devotees will be pleased to know that what is slated to be the first half of Warner Bros.’ It duology has officially finished production, as revealed by director Muschetti and his sister/producer Barbara’s Instagram accounts. The post in question – featuring an awesome Pennywise jack-in-the-box – is included below, along with a group photo of Muschetti alongside nearly all of the Losers.


Seemingly taking all of the fan support that his It re-adaptation has received to heart, Muschetti has been quite interactive with fans on Instagram throughout the entire filming process, regularly releasing neat easter eggs from the set designed to excite those familiar with King’s book. For his part, Muschetti often appears as excited about the film as anyone else, so it makes sense that he’d get a kick out of sharing his journey. For those wondering where young Mike Hanlon is in the above group shot, Muschetti later clarified that actor Chosen Jacobs had already wrapped filming prior to the photo being taken, although he is still linked to in the caption.
With the first half of Muschetti’s It now in the can, attention will soon go to the adult portion of the Losers’ story, which will presumably begin filming sometime next year. That second installment in the It tale still has yet to be assigned an official release date, although it’s hard to imagine that WB will wait too long, especially if part one cleans up at the box office next fall. In the meantime, visions of Pennywise will continue to dance in eager fans’ heads as the months tick by toward It’s arrival.


Stephen King’s It emerges from the sewer and into theaters on September 8, 2017.
Source: Andy Muschetti

 

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[h=1]IT: Pennywise Prefers the Sewer in New Image[/h]

 

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[h=1]IT Movie Will Be Rated R; Second Film Still Planned[/h]

For a long time, Warner Bros. adaptation of Stephen King’s IT looked doomed to languish in development hell. It was first announced in 2009 and True Detective‘s Cary Abuses will lead to banunaga was attached to the project for almost three years before the whole thing fell apart in 2015. However, things quickly righted themselves – Mama‘s Andrés Muschietti took over the director’s chair, Bill Skarsgård put on the clown shoes and the movie’s now on course for a September 2017 release.
Everything released so far has suggested the filmmakers are trying to make the best version of King’s story possible. Skarsgård’s take on Pennywise looks way more innately unsettling than Tim Curry’s more coiled take from the 1990 two-part TV movie and, based on recent comments, the movie is going all in on the horror.
Speaking to Collider for the release of The Lego Batman Movie, the film’s producer Dan Lin confirmed that IT would be rated R and elaborated on the film’s approach to the original book:



“It is a rated-R movie. If you’re going to make a “Rated-R movie”, you have to fully embrace what it is, and you have to embrace the source material. It is a scary clown that’s trying to kill kids. So of course that’s going to be a rated-R movie. The kids are amazing. You very much get a Stand by Me vibe as far as their camaraderie and the way they joke with each other and that they really care for each other. They do have a scary clown that’s taken over the town of Derry, so it’s going to be rated R.”

While the movie’s story is ostensibly about kids, IT is hardly a children’s film and the confirmation that the Warners isn’t holding back on the presumed intensity is good news for King fans; it’s not clear how far IT will go, but a PG-13 take would risk being too sanitized. The Stand By Me comparison is also a heartening one, suggesting that Muschietti hasn’t lost sight of the childhood friendship in the nastiness.
Of course, fans of the book (or the 1990s miniseries) will know that the children taking on Pennywise is only half of the story – the second part of King’s novel deals with the characters as adults finally vanquishing their evil tormentor once and for all. In the interview, Lin also commented on the long-stated intention to bring this to life:

“Naturally that’s the plan. If you look at the book, it’s the part of the book that we have not yet explored. The book we really broke down into two parts. The first part is this movie and if audiences react to this movie in the way we hope they will and I think they will, then we’ll be to tell the adult story as well.”
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IT was planned to first announced as a two-parter, with a similar structure to the 1990 version. While the project is now just one film initially, these comments confirm that telling King’s full book is still the full plan.
Source: Collider
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[h=1]Stephen King’s IT Trailer Teaser & Poster: You’ll Float Too[/h]

 

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It Trailer (2017)

 

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[h=1]Stephen King’s IT Movie Gets an Official R Rating[/h]

The upcoming IT film that hits theaters this fall has officially been rated R. As iconic as Tim Curry’s portrayal of Pennywise the Clown in the 1990 miniseries adaptation of Stephen King’s IT has become, it’s hard to deny that the overall product doesn’t have some problems. While the cast is quite talented and the score suitably creepy, two huge obstacles stood in the way of IT (1990) ever truly being a faithful adaptation of King’s massive novel.
The first of those obstacles was trying to tell such a sprawling story under the constraints of a small TV budget. While director Tommy Lee Wallace did his best, lack of money contributed to things like the horrific – in a bad way – stop motion spider puppet that served as IT’s final form. Secondly – and perhaps most notably – was the effect of network TV content restrictions. King’s book is very much not suitable for children, full of bad language, blood, gore, and sexual content. As one might imagine nearly all of that was removed before hitting the small screen.






While the budget of director Andy Muschetti’s upcoming theatrical adaptation of IT has yet to be reported, one presumes it was much, much more than what the TV miniseries had to work with nearly 30 years ago. That solves the first of the above problems. Now, Bloody Disgusting reports what should solve the second one: IT (2017) has officially been rated R by the MPAA.

Of course, IT obtaining an R rating is not exactly a shock, as Muschetti and producers have mentioned several times in the past that they were shooting for an R. Still, the fact that it’s now official will likely only increase the already high levels of anticipation for IT among both horror fans and King diehards. The trailers and clips released so far have already hinted at a much meaner and darker take on IT than fans got in 1990, so one wonders just how harsh things get in the actual film.
Even with the R rating though, there are certain scenes from King’s book that almost definitely won’t make it into this new movie version. Outside of the infamous scene where the Losers have sex in the sewers of Derry – a sequence that has always been controversial – the book also contained a lot of cosmic horror material, that would still probably be too difficult or expensive to try and realize on film. Still, one can bet that Muschetti’s effort will likely get to go to realms of terror that Curry and company could only dream of back in 1990.


Source: Bloody Disgusting

 

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[h=1]Stephen King’s IT SDCC Poster: We All Float Down Here[/h]

 

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[COLOR=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8)]UPDATE: The number has since grown to $123 million opening domestic, making a worldwide total of $185 million. The original article follows.[/COLOR]
[COLOR=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8)]IT has smashed even the most optimistic box office predictions, breaking records and netting in over $110 million in its opening weekend domestically. You could tell the readaptation of Stephen King’s novel was going to be a hit from the very first teaser, which not only promised a glossy prestige horror but easily smashed the record for most trailer views in the first 24 hours.[/COLOR]
[COLOR=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8)]Despite that, early box office predictions were rather conservative, with pundits originally expecting it to land around the $60 million mark. It wound up doing that amount in a single day, which launched the expectations up into nine digits. But even those, it seems, were on the safe side; the weekend’s total box office estimations are now in and IT’s a bigger success than anybody expected.


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[COLOR=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8)]According to Variety, the film is expected to make $117 million domestically over its opening weekend (including Thursday previews). Other sites report slightly higher numbers (The Wrap makes it $123 million) but all estimates have it over $115 million. The film also reportedly made an extra $62 million overseas, making a global opening of $179 million.[/COLOR]


[COLOR=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8)]IT‘s cume breaks a lot of records, perhaps most seismically the biggest opening for a horror movie ever. What held it before domestically depends on your definition of the genre (there’s debate over how the likes of I Am Legendand Hannibal count) but none of its competition at home or worldwide has even come close (the biggest previous out-and-out horror opening in the US was Paranormal Activity 3 with $52.6 million). It also stormed past the previous record for any September release (Hotel Transylvania 2 on $48.5 million) and also October for good measure.


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[COLOR=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8)]Some records remain unbeaten. The film fell just short of Deadpool‘s $132.4 million opening, the largest ever for an R-rated movie. This has been chalked up to a box office lull caused by the recent hurricanes in Houston and Florida. Still, it wasn’t far off, setting the stage for a lucrative box office run; this is the third highest first weekend of the year, behind only Beauty and the Beast andGuardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, both of which passed $800 million. How highIT can go depends on what impact fresh releases like mother! andKingsman: The Golden Circle have over the rest of the month, but its stellar reviews should give it legs.[/COLOR]
[COLOR=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8)]After all, IT hasn’t just beaten records – it’s doubled on them. There’s a lot of lessons to be learned here. For one, IT is a powerful property and Chapter 2 is going to be a major event when it arrives in 2019. But it also shows the benefits of a slow-burn marketing campaign heavy on tease and reaffirms that you don’t need A-list talent in a horror film to have it connect with mainstream audiences. Although perhaps the biggest lesson is budget. IT cost a mere $35 million – 17.5% of what Guardians 2 cost – meaning its profitability is through the roof; it’s already made back five times what it cost.[/COLOR]
[COLOR=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8)]This is good news for Warner Bros. and Andy Muschietti, but also the industry in general. Despite a range of good films, the 2017 box office has been seriously down – last Labor Day weekend was the worst since 1999 – so a mega hit like this (a genre one at that) shows there is still a way to get people out in droves.

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[h=1]IT is Now the Highest-Grossing R-Rated Horror Movie[/h]

The big screen adaptation of Stephen King’s IT is primed to become the highest-grossing R-rated horror movie of all time at the domestic box office, passing up The Exorcist. IT has been slaying records ever since it’s debut in theaters earlier this month, the biggest opener for a horror film ever. On top of that, it became the highest-grossing King movie of all time in less than a week, pushing The Green Mile out of the top slot of the 30-plus movies adapted from the author’s works to date.
Now, following its $60 million gross at the domestic box office last weekend, IT is on its way to setting its biggest record yet. According to Deadline, the film will surpass the 1973 horror film classic The Exorcist at the domestic box office on Thursday when its projected to pass the $233 million threshold. Combining its initial theatrical run and subsequent re-releases (including an extended direcotr’s cut in 2010), The Exorcist has made $232.9 million at the domestic box office. Adjusted for inflation the film would dwarf IT, however, with a staggering gross of $983.2 million (making it 9th place on the all-time list of all films), according to Box Office Mojo.


It’s important to point out that while IT has nabbed the top slot for R-Rated horror films, it’s not the top-grossing horror film of all time stateside considering all ratings. Stephen Spielberg’s 1975 juggernaut Jaws (shockingly rated PG at the time) has grossed $260 million domestically to date ($1.1 billion adjusted for inflation), while the PG-13-rated M. Night Shyamalan 1999 mind-bender The Sixth Sense, while supernatural in nature but still considered horror, grossed $293.5 million ($511.8 million adjusted).

No matter the case, IT’s domestic box office achievement is an amazing one, considering the heights its scaled in less than two weeks of release. And with Halloween less than six weeks away, the film should easily have enough legs to surpass the $300 domestic mark to take the modern-day top slot among all horror films, no matter the rating or the sub-genre. Deadline projects that IT will reach the $270 million mark by the end of this week.
The summer has been a very lucrative one for Warner Bros. which not only produced and distributed IT and the season’s top-grossing film Wonder Woman, but Annabelle: Creation, the latest film entry in The Conjuring Universe. The film was teetering on breaking the $100 million domestic barrier Monday with $99.8 million in ticket sales, so it should easily pass the benchmark once Tuesday’s numbers are released.
[h=2]Sources: Deadline, Box Office Mojo[/h]

 

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Guys, IT has a watchable print out, Incase if you interested :fp1:

Source: It - Available as a download or stream?