I am also looking forward to the movie.
I remember reading It when I was in high school; I couldn't put the book down, and that was my introduction to Stephen King. I was disappointed in the ABC mini-series. For whatever reason, King's work has often been reproduced on network television, and I'm not sure why. When he has gone to the big screen, we have some of the better (or at least memorable) films of the last 30 years: The Shawshank Redemption, The Shining, Carrie, The Green Mile, etc. I also liked Apt Pupil. I've stopped following the King films a while back, so there may be some other good ones since then that I am forgetting.