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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…
Ross Dinerstein (1922, The Divide) and the guys from Campfire Entertainment, who once upon a time delivered The Blair Witch Project, have secured the rights to The Most Dangerous Animal of All (Harper), the 2014 New York Times bestseller by Gary L….
We loved The Passage by Justin Cronin when it debuted in 2010. “There is a great deal here that’s captivating,” wrote January Magazine contributing editor Tony Buschsbaum at the time. “Intense characters whose emotional volume is always dialed up to 11. Set…
Kyra Sedgwick has been nominated for the award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Movies for Television and Miniseries for her work on Lifetime’s Story of a Girl, based on the novel by Sara Zarr. From Deadline Hollywood: …Lifetime’s Story of a Girl…