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The film version of The Time Traveler’s Wife will hit a big screen near you on August 14th. Audrey Niffenegger’s novel was beloved by fans and reviewers alike when it was first published in 2003. At that time, January Magazine contributing editor…
Author Cory Doctorow has announced that his vastly entertaining young adult novel Little Brother (Tor Teen) has been optioned for film. Early this morning, Doctorow blogged that “Don Murphy, producer of such films as Natural Born Killers and From Hell, has bought…
It’s Margaret Atwood all the time this week at the National Film Board of Canada. The NFB announced yesterday that it would play an important role in bringing Atwood’s most recent book to the screen: The National Film Board of Canada has…
This is just annoying: Seth Graham-Smith, the author of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (Quirk Books) has inked a six figure two-book deal with Grand Central.According to EW, “The author’s first book with the publisher will be Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, a…
Nobel prize-winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez (100 Years of Solitude, Memories of my Melancholy Whores) is denying reports — broadcast widely earlier this year — that he has put down his pen. From The Independent: “Not only is that not true, but…
The Proposal, a new Sandra Bullock date movie, is set to open early this summer. The Guardian book blog’s Alison Flood and Lindesay Irvine want to know, “Why does Hollywood love working in publishing so much?” Why is it, exactly, that the…
The Hollywood Reporter’s Risky Business Blog says it’s possible Anthony Hopkins will play Ernest Hemingway in Hemingway & Fuentes, an upcoming indie film to be directed and co-written by Andy Garcia. Garcia, who also will produce via his CineSon Entertainment banner, is…
The film version of Maurice Sendak’s children’s classic, Where the Wild Things Are, will fill a screen near you this fall. The screenplay was written by Spike Jonze and Dave Eggers, with Jonze directing Forest Whitaker, Katherine Keener, Paul Dano and James…
Eighty years on, an iconic Belgian character is getting ready for his close up. The Los Angeles Times’ Henry Chu reports: He turns 80 this year but still looks 18, with the same fair-haired quiff. Like Madonna and Sting, two other famous…
Are you still sad about the cancellation of Jericho, the nuclear disaster-themed nighttime soap? If so, help is definitely on the way. You might have already heard about the feature film version that is planned but there’s even better news yet: your…