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“No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.” — Colette Keira Knightley finds herself in a very different kind of period piece in Colette, directed by Wash Westmoreland (Still Alice, The Last of Robin Hood) and based on the…
A stage production of Harper Lee’s beloved American classic novel To Kill A Mockingbird opened recently on Broadway and, according to Playbill, the show is a hit: After a strong showing in its first few performances in the week ending November 4,…
Two very different film versions of the children’s novel by Carlo Collodi first published in 1883 are about to go into production. And neither of them will look even a bit like the animated 1940 Disney version that generations of children have…
The next Kenneth Branagh-directed adaptation of an Agatha Christie novel will be 1937’s Death on the Nile. Gal Gadot (Wonder Woman, Justice League) has been tapped to star and the project is moving full steam ahead with release planned for late 2019….
Overall, fans report, the film version of Crazy Rich Asians was very faithful to the book. And, in spirit at least, the recently released movie based on Kevin Kwan’s 2013 debut novel stays very true to the book. But there are significant…
Another novel by dark master Stephen King will soon be heading to the big screen. King’s 2002 novel, From A Buck 8, has been optioned by Hyde Park Entertainment (Prey, Antitrust). From Deadline Hollywood: Stephen King’s bestselling novel From A Buick 8…
Netflix and Mark Wahlberg have made a deal based on the character of Spenser by the “dean of American crime fiction” Robert B. Parker, who died in 2011. Deadline Hollywood carries news of the deal here: Netflix has made a deal with…
The book is always better than the movie, right? I mean, it seems that way, but can it possibly true? Well, we’ve always thought so, but now, thanks to a platoon of psychologists at University College in London, we know it’s true….
Sad that the amazingly successful Game of Thrones is barreling towards its inevitable conclusion? Well, cheer up, final episode or no, the best might be yet to come: a Game of Thrones prequel, to be co-produced by series author George R.R. Martin,…
Though Jonathan Lethem’s hotly anticipated 11th novel, The Feral Detective, won’t be out until November, film rights have been acquired by Sue Kroll’s Kroll & Co. through her exclusive deal with Warner Bros. Pictures. The Feral Detective is Lethem’s first detective story…