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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…
Think 50 First Dates without all the zany antics or Memento without the buckets of blood and you have the central conceit of The Housekeeper and the Professor (Picador) the latest translation from contemporary Japanese literary icon Yoko Ogawa. The title’s Professor…
Is it just me or does it seem like there are more big, big, big book-to-film adaptations being talked about right now than is usually the case? The latest: Canadian novelist Yann Martel’s “unfilmable” Man Booker Award-winning novel Life of Pi. From…
Protothriller writer Robert Ludlum died in 2001. Eight years on, he’s never been more popular as news of possibly four more of his blockbusters head for the big screen. According to 411mania, this is likely due in part to the fact that…
It seems likely that January Magazine’s readers won’t really care that Dan Brown, author of The Da Vinci Code, has written a follow-up Robert Langdon novel. Especially when you consider the source: Entertainment Tonight Online. We’re going to repeat it anyway. Even…
Ever since the Madoff incident erupted late last year, I’ve been wondering about the term “Ponzi scheme.” In The New York Times yesterday, Patrick Healy explains it, while also letting us know about a musical retelling of the story heading to a…
Though authors get notoriously little say about who gets cast in movies made from their books, Cornelia Funke put her foot down when the time came to cast the film version of Inkheart. From the Arkansas Democrat Gazette: A film studio, says…
Young fans of Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight series (Little, Brown Young Readers) will be unsurprised to hear that the first movie based on one of Meyer’s books is expected to be an unqualified hit with its target audience. From Newsday: The love-after-death movie…
Though Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie’s Booker-winning 1981 novel has been called “unfilmable,” the author has recently hatched a new plan to change that. According to The Guardian, he will work with Canadian filmmaker Deepa Mehta to co-write a film adaptation for a…
There aren’t a lot of big laughs in the only mildly funny The Tall Guy (1989) starring Jeff Goldblum and Emma Thompson. Some of the biggest ones come when the film spoofs what was then a new trend of turning unlikely books…