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Charlotte Brontë’s best-known work, the moody, broody Jane Eyre, is no stranger to the screen. In fact, that may actually be an understatement. A quick glance at IMDB shows over 20 film projects of that name, and never mind entries that might…
With The Lincoln Lawyer, the film based on Michael Connelly’s award-winning 2005 novel of the same name, opening at a big screen near you tomorrow, reviews are appearing from various sources. Not the least of these is the one over at our…
Former fatwa-plagued author, one-time husband of a Food Network star and international literary icon. Those hats might be enough for a lot of people, but it seems that Salman Rushdie is ready for a new role. Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses…
Almost 30 years after its initial release, a sequel to the cult classic film Blade Runner may finally be on its way. Released in 1982, the Harrison Ford vehicle was based on a 1968 novel by Philip K. Dick called Do Androids…
Adapting great novels into great movies sounds easy — but it isn’t. Filmmakers constantly bump up against the movie our minds produce as we read … and seldom is the film as good. While there are plenty of exceptions, sometimes filmmakers just…
I’m a little bit sad today. January Magazine’s stats pages are set up in such a way that if there’s a significant bump on one page, I notice fairly quickly. And so here is something I noticed today: in the last month…
Dennis Lehane fans who were apprehensive about the film adaptation of the writer’s 2003 book can once again draw breath: the movie opened Friday to critical applause and box office records. By all accounts, Shutter Island will be an even bigger hit…
DreamWorks Entertainment has plans to make a feature-length comedy out of a witty work of non-fiction by a Beverly Hills pediatrician. Scott W. Cohen’s Eat, Sleep, Poop: A Common Sense Guide to Your Baby’s First Year will be published by Scribner at…
The January offices were closed for summer fun last week when the story broke that Pulitzer prize-winning playwright David Mamet (Glengarry Glen Ross, Speed-the-Plow) had been annointed by Disney (of all outfits) to write and direct The Diary of Anne Frank. The…
David Cronenberg (Eastern Promises, History of Violence) will adapt Don DeLillo’s 2003 novel, Cosmopolis, for the big screen. Paulo Branco’s Alfama Films will co-produce with Cronenberg’s Toronto-based Antenna. From CBC Arts: Cosmopolis, which received mixed reviews for DeLillo upon its release in…