Shaun and his best mate Ed are in trouble. They’ve discovered two zombies in their garden, and the lumbering flesh-eaters show no signs of stopping. However, Shaun and Ed have found one way of slowing the approach: throwing records.
And so, as the two zombies grow closer, Ed and Shaun rustle through the latter’s collection. “Sign o’ the Times … Purple Rain,” Ed suggests as projectiles, only to have Shaun tell him no. That is until Ed reaches a low point in Prince’s discography, the Batman soundtrack. “Throw it,” Shaun commands, striking a blow against the living dead.
The above scene is just one instance of the humor and horror that director Edgar Wright and his co-writer Simon Pegg bring to the RomZomCom Shaun of the Dead, released twenty years ago. Shaun (Pegg) and Ed (Nick Frost) spend a lot of time discussing their pop-cultural interests, even in the most dire situations.
And so, as the two zombies grow closer, Ed and Shaun rustle through the latter’s collection. “Sign o’ the Times … Purple Rain,” Ed suggests as projectiles, only to have Shaun tell him no. That is until Ed reaches a low point in Prince’s discography, the Batman soundtrack. “Throw it,” Shaun commands, striking a blow against the living dead.
The above scene is just one instance of the humor and horror that director Edgar Wright and his co-writer Simon Pegg bring to the RomZomCom Shaun of the Dead, released twenty years ago. Shaun (Pegg) and Ed (Nick Frost) spend a lot of time discussing their pop-cultural interests, even in the most dire situations.
- 3/15/2024
- by Joe George
- Den of Geek
Ready Player One was a great hit with the movie adaptation, but the book was a worldwide bestseller that still holds up. Ernest Cline wrote it, and a sequel to the book has already been launched, which will also be adapted for film.
The author of Ready Player One will materialize the idea of the book in a metaverse experience called Open. This new project has the support of many brands and has already been developed with Unreal Engine 5 for PC and the current generation of platforms.
Open Will Finally be the Definitive Ready Player One Experience that the Book Describes Open, the new project from the creator of Ready Player One
Ready Player One was a great deal when it was released back in 2018, with more than $600 million in the box office. There is even a new book that continues the journey of the protagonist after winning the rights to the company.
The author of Ready Player One will materialize the idea of the book in a metaverse experience called Open. This new project has the support of many brands and has already been developed with Unreal Engine 5 for PC and the current generation of platforms.
Open Will Finally be the Definitive Ready Player One Experience that the Book Describes Open, the new project from the creator of Ready Player One
Ready Player One was a great deal when it was released back in 2018, with more than $600 million in the box office. There is even a new book that continues the journey of the protagonist after winning the rights to the company.
- 3/14/2024
- by Lucas Lapetina
- FandomWire
Ready Player One‘s sequel, Ready Player Two, was officially confirmed yesterday by Steven Spielberg to be in development. The iconic filmmaker won’t be directing the movie as he takes on a producer role, and said that the team is currently in the “discovery phase,” which suggests the release is a ways off.
However, that’s not the only Ready Player One-related announcement we got in the past week. Publisher Readyverse Studios has announced a Aaa metaverse battle royale game that features the dystopian futuristic franchise.
Open Brings Ready Player One To Gaming
Readyverse Studios was co-founded by Ready Player One author Ernest Cline. Image credit: Readyverse Studios
In a recent press release, Readyverse Studios announced Open, a revolutionary Aaa metaverse game spearheaded by Walker Labs, a game development studio comprising talent previously at studios like Epic Games, Dice, and Microsoft.
SUGGESTEDReady Player Two: Everything To Know About...
However, that’s not the only Ready Player One-related announcement we got in the past week. Publisher Readyverse Studios has announced a Aaa metaverse battle royale game that features the dystopian futuristic franchise.
Open Brings Ready Player One To Gaming
Readyverse Studios was co-founded by Ready Player One author Ernest Cline. Image credit: Readyverse Studios
In a recent press release, Readyverse Studios announced Open, a revolutionary Aaa metaverse game spearheaded by Walker Labs, a game development studio comprising talent previously at studios like Epic Games, Dice, and Microsoft.
SUGGESTEDReady Player Two: Everything To Know About...
- 3/13/2024
- by Viraaj Bhatnagar
- FandomWire
Steven Spielberg will put his quarters up for the Ready Player One sequel, but not in the way some fans would hope. The legendary filmmaker recently confirmed he’ll serve as a producer on Ready Player Two but has no plans to direct the anticipated sequel. Speaking with Showbiz 411, Spielberg said the project is in its “discovery phase,” and the team is “trying to figure out what’s next” for the high-concept sci-fi sequel.
It’s easy to see why Warner Bros. Discovery would want a follow-up to Spielberg’s 2018 fantasy-action film. In addition to pressing Start on $579,055,653 at the box office, the effects-driven cinematic roller coaster featured countless characters from WB’s IP library. Among the film’s many cameos, Batman, Freddy Krueger, King Kong, The Iron Giant, the twins from The Shining, Beetlejuice, and more join the extensive cast.
Related Movie Poll: What Is Your Favorite Steven Spielberg Film?...
It’s easy to see why Warner Bros. Discovery would want a follow-up to Spielberg’s 2018 fantasy-action film. In addition to pressing Start on $579,055,653 at the box office, the effects-driven cinematic roller coaster featured countless characters from WB’s IP library. Among the film’s many cameos, Batman, Freddy Krueger, King Kong, The Iron Giant, the twins from The Shining, Beetlejuice, and more join the extensive cast.
Related Movie Poll: What Is Your Favorite Steven Spielberg Film?...
- 3/13/2024
- by Steve Seigh
- JoBlo.com
The Academy Awards have been given out, but aside from a list of winners, the ceremony also provided us with a series of new information about some upcoming projects. In a short discussion with Steven Spielberg, Roger Friedman received an official confirmation that Ready Player Two, the sequel to Spielberg’s Oscar-nominated 2018 hit film Ready Player One, is in the works, but that he won’t be directing it.
This is an exciting update that confirms what the author of both books, Austin-based writer Ernest Cline, said earlier this year. When asked about the sequel movie, which would be based on Cline’s 2020 sequel novel, he said the following:
“It’s in the early stages right now, especially since Hollywood is in limbo right now. But I can tell from the experience of making the first movie that everybody had a lot of fun.”
Source: Inverse
The first movie was...
This is an exciting update that confirms what the author of both books, Austin-based writer Ernest Cline, said earlier this year. When asked about the sequel movie, which would be based on Cline’s 2020 sequel novel, he said the following:
“It’s in the early stages right now, especially since Hollywood is in limbo right now. But I can tell from the experience of making the first movie that everybody had a lot of fun.”
Source: Inverse
The first movie was...
- 3/13/2024
- by Arthur S. Poe
- Fiction Horizon
Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One paid homage to some of the world’s most iconic pop culture IPs. The action-adventure film was set in a future where the population lives vicariously in a virtual reality called the Oasis and is on an ‘Easter Egg’ hunt to find the clues left by the billionaire founder of the program.
Based on the book by Ernest Cline, the film had some key changes, inculcating several IPs that were not present in the novel. The film earned $607 million at the box office and was a commercial success. While the novel received a critically panned sequel, Spielberg recently mentioned that a Ready Player Two film was in development, although, he would not be directing it.
Steven Spielberg Will Be Producing Ready Player Two A still from Ready Player One
The novel Ready Player One by Ernest Cline explored the pop culture that defined a...
Based on the book by Ernest Cline, the film had some key changes, inculcating several IPs that were not present in the novel. The film earned $607 million at the box office and was a commercial success. While the novel received a critically panned sequel, Spielberg recently mentioned that a Ready Player Two film was in development, although, he would not be directing it.
Steven Spielberg Will Be Producing Ready Player Two A still from Ready Player One
The novel Ready Player One by Ernest Cline explored the pop culture that defined a...
- 3/13/2024
- by Nishanth A
- FandomWire
Ready Player Two is still going ahead as a movie, but Steven Spielberg will be changing roles on the new movie.
After steering Ready Player One to a global box office take of over half a billion dollars, it was inevitable that when the potential of a movie based on Ready Player Two came along, Steven Spielberg would get first dibs on it.
Ready Player Two is – yeah, you probably guessed this – the sequel book to Ernest Cline’s original hit. It came out in 2020 and didn’t, er, get the most positive of reviews. Still, it was little secret that Warner Bros wants to do a sequel to the original movie and it soon snapped up the rights to do so.
News that a film adaptation was on the way first arose in 2020, with conversations originally taking place during the lengthy production of Ready Player One. Steven Spielberg remains...
After steering Ready Player One to a global box office take of over half a billion dollars, it was inevitable that when the potential of a movie based on Ready Player Two came along, Steven Spielberg would get first dibs on it.
Ready Player Two is – yeah, you probably guessed this – the sequel book to Ernest Cline’s original hit. It came out in 2020 and didn’t, er, get the most positive of reviews. Still, it was little secret that Warner Bros wants to do a sequel to the original movie and it soon snapped up the rights to do so.
News that a film adaptation was on the way first arose in 2020, with conversations originally taking place during the lengthy production of Ready Player One. Steven Spielberg remains...
- 3/13/2024
- by Simon Brew
- Film Stories
A huge virtual world based on “Ready Player One,” a story set in a future where people enter into a virtual-reality simulation to escape the real world, is coming soon to a real platform near you.
Futureverse, an AI and metaverse technology and content company, announced the formation of Readyverse Studios, a studio co-founded with Ernest Cline, the novelist and creator of “Ready Player One,” and Dan Farah, producer of the 2018 Warner Bros. film adaptation of the novel.
In its first major rights deal, Readyverse Studios partnered with Warner Bros. Discovery to exclusively bring the Ready Player One franchise to the metaverse across web3. In addition, Readyverse Studios maintains exclusive web3 rights to all future intellectual property created by Cline.
Details on what the Ready Player One metaverse will be are sparse for now, but the company says it expects to launch sometime in 2024. “Readyverse Studios is laying the groundwork...
Futureverse, an AI and metaverse technology and content company, announced the formation of Readyverse Studios, a studio co-founded with Ernest Cline, the novelist and creator of “Ready Player One,” and Dan Farah, producer of the 2018 Warner Bros. film adaptation of the novel.
In its first major rights deal, Readyverse Studios partnered with Warner Bros. Discovery to exclusively bring the Ready Player One franchise to the metaverse across web3. In addition, Readyverse Studios maintains exclusive web3 rights to all future intellectual property created by Cline.
Details on what the Ready Player One metaverse will be are sparse for now, but the company says it expects to launch sometime in 2024. “Readyverse Studios is laying the groundwork...
- 1/4/2024
- by Todd Spangler
- Variety Film + TV
In Steven Spielberg's 2018 film "Ready Player One," characters log in to the Oasis, a sprawling virtual reality world in which they can exist as avatars decked out in digital clothing, hairstyles, and accessories that reflect their favorite pieces of popular culture. One could model themselves to look like The Iron Giant, drive the DeLorean from "Back to the Future," or literally step into scenes from their favorite movies.
Now Ernest Cline, who wrote the novel on which the film was based, seems to be trying to create a real-world analogue for the Oasis.
Deadline reports that Cline and "Ready Player One" producer Dan Farah are teaming up with a company called Futureverse to launch Readyverse Studios, which aims to "build a destination for fans to explore their favorite stories and IP in the metaverse, leveraging web3, metaverse games and experiences, augmented reality, and virtual reality technologies." The new platform...
Now Ernest Cline, who wrote the novel on which the film was based, seems to be trying to create a real-world analogue for the Oasis.
Deadline reports that Cline and "Ready Player One" producer Dan Farah are teaming up with a company called Futureverse to launch Readyverse Studios, which aims to "build a destination for fans to explore their favorite stories and IP in the metaverse, leveraging web3, metaverse games and experiences, augmented reality, and virtual reality technologies." The new platform...
- 1/4/2024
- by Ben Pearson
- Slash Film
Ernest Cline has signed a deal that will bring Ready Player One to the metaverse, meaning we’re in for a virtual reality web3 gaming experience of some sort. It won’t be dystopian, though.
If you’ve dreamed of entering the virtual world woven by Ernest Cline in his 2011 novel Ready Player One – or Steven Spielberg’s busy 2018 film adaptation – there’s good news. Cline has, along with producer Dan Farah and the tech company Futureverse, launched a new studio that aims to make Ready Player One’s digital realm a (virtual) reality.
Called Readyverse Studios, the new venture is in the process of “building the definitive destination for fans to explore their favourite stories and IP in the metaverse.”
This virtual destination, based on the pop culture-encrusted one outlined in Cline’s book and film, will be entered via “augmented reality and virtual reality technologies” – so presumably it...
If you’ve dreamed of entering the virtual world woven by Ernest Cline in his 2011 novel Ready Player One – or Steven Spielberg’s busy 2018 film adaptation – there’s good news. Cline has, along with producer Dan Farah and the tech company Futureverse, launched a new studio that aims to make Ready Player One’s digital realm a (virtual) reality.
Called Readyverse Studios, the new venture is in the process of “building the definitive destination for fans to explore their favourite stories and IP in the metaverse.”
This virtual destination, based on the pop culture-encrusted one outlined in Cline’s book and film, will be entered via “augmented reality and virtual reality technologies” – so presumably it...
- 1/4/2024
- by Ryan Lambie
- Film Stories
In the 2011 novel Ready Player One and its 2018 feature film adaptation, citizens of a dystopian world escape to a virtual universe populated by avatars and filled with games, puzzles and settings featuring cultural references (including Pac-Man, Blade Runner and The Shining).
Now the author of the book, Ernest Cline, and the producer of the film, Dan Farah, are partnering with the AI and metaverse company Futureverse to bring Ready Player One to its own digital universe.
Futureverse, Cline and Farah are launching a new company called Readyverse Studios, which will seek to bring IP to the metaverse … and they’ve secured the rights from Warner Bros. to make Ready Player One the first piece of that puzzle.
And while Cline’s novel and Steven Spielberg’s film adaptation were set in a dystopian world, the founders are banking on a more optimistic vision.
“Ernie in the wildest way, I mean,...
Now the author of the book, Ernest Cline, and the producer of the film, Dan Farah, are partnering with the AI and metaverse company Futureverse to bring Ready Player One to its own digital universe.
Futureverse, Cline and Farah are launching a new company called Readyverse Studios, which will seek to bring IP to the metaverse … and they’ve secured the rights from Warner Bros. to make Ready Player One the first piece of that puzzle.
And while Cline’s novel and Steven Spielberg’s film adaptation were set in a dystopian world, the founders are banking on a more optimistic vision.
“Ernie in the wildest way, I mean,...
- 1/4/2024
- by Alex Weprin
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The AI metaverse technology and content company Futureverse has launched Readyverse Studios. Co-founded by Shara Senderoff and Aaron McDonald, as well as novelist Ernest Cline and Dan Farah, the venture will get underway with a partnership with WarnerBros Discovery to bring the Ready Player One franchise to the metaverse across web3.
Readyverse Studios’ goal is to build a destination for fans to explore their favorite stories and IP in the metaverse, leveraging web3, metaverse games and experiences, augmented reality, and virtual reality technologies. They’ll launch The Readyverse, a dynamic interactive platform of interconnected digital experiences, that starts with Ready Player One.
The Readyverse will champion the principles of the open metaverse, which are provable digital ownership, community-owned infrastructure, decentralization, security, and interoperability. The Readyverse will be built utilizing Futureverse’s extensive technology platform.
“The future has arrived even more quickly than I imagined,” said Cline. “With Readyverse Studios, we...
Readyverse Studios’ goal is to build a destination for fans to explore their favorite stories and IP in the metaverse, leveraging web3, metaverse games and experiences, augmented reality, and virtual reality technologies. They’ll launch The Readyverse, a dynamic interactive platform of interconnected digital experiences, that starts with Ready Player One.
The Readyverse will champion the principles of the open metaverse, which are provable digital ownership, community-owned infrastructure, decentralization, security, and interoperability. The Readyverse will be built utilizing Futureverse’s extensive technology platform.
“The future has arrived even more quickly than I imagined,” said Cline. “With Readyverse Studios, we...
- 1/4/2024
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Paramount Television Studios has acquired the rights to Jakob Kerr’s upcoming debut novel “Dead Money,” Variety has learned exclusively.
The rights for the book were sold to the studio in a seven-figure deal following a bidding war. The book will be published by Ballantine, an imprint of Penguin Random House, in summer 2024.
Beth Schacter, previously the co-showrunner on “Billions” and the showrunner of “Super Pumped, will serve as showrunner and executive producer on “Dead Money.” Kerr will also executive produce along with Allie Goss of Brillstein.
According to the official description, the book “follows Mackenzie Clyde, an ‘investigator’ (some may call her a fixer) for San Francisco’s preeminent venture capital firm. When the controversial founder of tech’s hottest startup, Journy, is found murdered in his office, Mackenzie’s boss attaches her to the case. Her directive: hunt down the founder’s killer and—more importantly—free up...
The rights for the book were sold to the studio in a seven-figure deal following a bidding war. The book will be published by Ballantine, an imprint of Penguin Random House, in summer 2024.
Beth Schacter, previously the co-showrunner on “Billions” and the showrunner of “Super Pumped, will serve as showrunner and executive producer on “Dead Money.” Kerr will also executive produce along with Allie Goss of Brillstein.
According to the official description, the book “follows Mackenzie Clyde, an ‘investigator’ (some may call her a fixer) for San Francisco’s preeminent venture capital firm. When the controversial founder of tech’s hottest startup, Journy, is found murdered in his office, Mackenzie’s boss attaches her to the case. Her directive: hunt down the founder’s killer and—more importantly—free up...
- 12/5/2023
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
Clockwise from top left: The Banshees Of Inisherin (Fox Searchlight), Sanctuary (Neon), Mad Max: Fury Road (Warner Bros.), Ready Player One (Warner Bros.)Image: The A.V. Club
It’s back-to-school time, but for Hulu it’s business as usual as more classics make their way to the streaming service. That...
It’s back-to-school time, but for Hulu it’s business as usual as more classics make their way to the streaming service. That...
- 8/28/2023
- by Robert DeSalvo
- avclub.com
Film adaptations of popular novels are a Hollywood tradition — especially when the novel is part of a series, making its financial prospects even more lucrative. So, where's the movie adaptation of "Ready Player Two"?
Steven Spielberg directed "Ready Player One," the 2018 film version of the 2011 novel of the same name by Ernest Cline. The movie raked in a worldwide box office total of nearly $600 million and earned decent Rotten Tomatoes scores. Such numbers seemed more than enough to move forward with follow-up installments based on sequel novels covering earlier eras. "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets," its series' sophomore outing, debuted in theaters just one year after the first film. The same was true for the film sequels to "Twilight" and "The Hunger Games." More than five years after "Ready Player One" debuted in theaters, Wade Watts and his fellow High Five friends haven't returned to cineplexes, despite the existence of a sequel novel,...
Steven Spielberg directed "Ready Player One," the 2018 film version of the 2011 novel of the same name by Ernest Cline. The movie raked in a worldwide box office total of nearly $600 million and earned decent Rotten Tomatoes scores. Such numbers seemed more than enough to move forward with follow-up installments based on sequel novels covering earlier eras. "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets," its series' sophomore outing, debuted in theaters just one year after the first film. The same was true for the film sequels to "Twilight" and "The Hunger Games." More than five years after "Ready Player One" debuted in theaters, Wade Watts and his fellow High Five friends haven't returned to cineplexes, despite the existence of a sequel novel,...
- 8/19/2023
- by Blake Taylor
- Slash Film
Denis Villeneuve has directed the upcoming American epic science fiction movie ‘Dune: Part 2’ which is the sequel to the 2021 movie ‘Dune’ and is adapted from Frank Herbert’s same-named 1965 novel.
The plot follows Paul Atreides, played by Timothee Chalamet, uniting the Fremen people to fight against House Harkonnen.
Other cast members include Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Austin Butler, Josh Brolin, Florence Pugh, Dave Bautista, Christopher Walken, etc. Dune: Part 2 is set to be released on November 3, 2023.
Following is a list of other science fiction films that you might follow while waiting for the upcoming Dune: Part 2.
Top 10 Films Like Dune: Part 2. Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015)- Variety
This American dystopian science fiction movie is adapted from the 2010 novel by James Dashner– ‘The Scorch Trials‘. The movie is a direct sequel to The Maze Runner movie series’ 2014 installment ‘The Maze Runner’.
The plot revolves around Thomas and his friends...
The plot follows Paul Atreides, played by Timothee Chalamet, uniting the Fremen people to fight against House Harkonnen.
Other cast members include Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Austin Butler, Josh Brolin, Florence Pugh, Dave Bautista, Christopher Walken, etc. Dune: Part 2 is set to be released on November 3, 2023.
Following is a list of other science fiction films that you might follow while waiting for the upcoming Dune: Part 2.
Top 10 Films Like Dune: Part 2. Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015)- Variety
This American dystopian science fiction movie is adapted from the 2010 novel by James Dashner– ‘The Scorch Trials‘. The movie is a direct sequel to The Maze Runner movie series’ 2014 installment ‘The Maze Runner’.
The plot revolves around Thomas and his friends...
- 6/30/2023
- by Suvechchha Saha
- https://dailyresearchplot.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/new-sam
Ernest Cline, the best-selling novelist who saw his popular first published book, Ready Player One, adapted by Steven Spielberg into a tentpole movie, has unveiled his debut kids novel, Bridge to Bat City.
The kids book is described as a “mostly true tall tale” about a recently orphaned young girl named Opal B Flats who forms an unexpected friendship with a music-loving colony of bats and helps them find a new home against all odds.
Bridge to Bat City will publish in April 2024, released by Little, Brown Books. “In Bridge to Bat City, inspired by stories he would tell his kids at bedtime, Ernie Cline has crafted an enchanting tale that weaves together fact and fiction set against the incredible backdrop of 1980s Austin, filled with a vibrant cast of characters, rich music history, activism and environmentalism, and bats!” Alvina Ling of Little, Brown Books said in a statement.
Cline...
The kids book is described as a “mostly true tall tale” about a recently orphaned young girl named Opal B Flats who forms an unexpected friendship with a music-loving colony of bats and helps them find a new home against all odds.
Bridge to Bat City will publish in April 2024, released by Little, Brown Books. “In Bridge to Bat City, inspired by stories he would tell his kids at bedtime, Ernie Cline has crafted an enchanting tale that weaves together fact and fiction set against the incredible backdrop of 1980s Austin, filled with a vibrant cast of characters, rich music history, activism and environmentalism, and bats!” Alvina Ling of Little, Brown Books said in a statement.
Cline...
- 6/13/2023
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers has snapped up North American publishing rights to Bridge to Bat City, the debut children’s novel from #1 Nyt bestselling author Ernest Cline (Ready Player One).
Set for publication in April 2024, the book is described as a “mostly true tall tale” about a recently orphaned young girl named Opal B Flats, who forms an unexpected friendship with a music-loving colony of bats and helps them find a new home against all odds. (View new cover art for the title above.)
After losing her mother, 13-year-old Opal moves in with her uncle Roscoe on the family farm, and it’s there that she befriends a group of orphaned bats. But just as the farm is starting to feel like home, the bats’ cave is destroyed by a big mining company that has its sights on the family’s land, as well. If Opal and the bats can fit in anywhere,...
Set for publication in April 2024, the book is described as a “mostly true tall tale” about a recently orphaned young girl named Opal B Flats, who forms an unexpected friendship with a music-loving colony of bats and helps them find a new home against all odds. (View new cover art for the title above.)
After losing her mother, 13-year-old Opal moves in with her uncle Roscoe on the family farm, and it’s there that she befriends a group of orphaned bats. But just as the farm is starting to feel like home, the bats’ cave is destroyed by a big mining company that has its sights on the family’s land, as well. If Opal and the bats can fit in anywhere,...
- 6/13/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
If character X and character Y had a fight, who would win? Such is the question posed every day on the playground, yet rarely do competing movie franchises oblige childlike desires to see separate franchises go one on one. Until recently, anyway. With massive corporate control over huge studios with lots of IP under the corporate umbrella, movies in which properties cross over are more common nowadays. Think the droogs from "A Clockwork Orange" could never encounter "King Kong"? "Space Jam: A New Legacy" proves you wrong.
But which corporate synergy crossovers are actually the best? In putting together the all-time greats in that category, there had to be some ground rules. Mainly, the movie has to include at least two pre-existing properties that are sci-fi. Abbott and Costello don't count as sci-fi, for instance, while J.J. Abrams' first "Star Trek" reboot with Leonard Nimoy doesn't count because the...
But which corporate synergy crossovers are actually the best? In putting together the all-time greats in that category, there had to be some ground rules. Mainly, the movie has to include at least two pre-existing properties that are sci-fi. Abbott and Costello don't count as sci-fi, for instance, while J.J. Abrams' first "Star Trek" reboot with Leonard Nimoy doesn't count because the...
- 12/9/2022
- by Luke Y. Thompson
- Slash Film
When Steven Spielberg decided to adapt Ernest Cline's sci-fi fantasy novel, "Ready Player One," the book underwent critical reappraisal and the reception to the adaptation was mixed. There were good reasons for this to happen: Cline's novel, which was hailed as a heartfelt trip down nostalgia lane when it was first released, was now re-evaluated through the lens of toxic nerd culture that catered predominantly to straight, white males. Moreover, with the advent of Gamergate in early 2014, it became impossible to view Cline's vision as a harmless, escapist fantasy — instead, it read as an exhausting, hollow catalog of '80s pop culture trivia that promotes problematic gatekeeping. More importantly, it props up an escapist fantasy that is exclusionary, misogynistic, and deeply toxic.
Does Spielberg manage to improve upon these aspects in Cline's novel? For the most part, yes. Spielberg is the kind of director who rarely misses: while...
Does Spielberg manage to improve upon these aspects in Cline's novel? For the most part, yes. Spielberg is the kind of director who rarely misses: while...
- 11/26/2022
- by Debopriyaa Dutta
- Slash Film
Exclusive: On the heels of the recent historic UFO Congressional hearing, Legendary Television has acquired the rights to A.J. Hartley and Tom DeLonge’s Sekret Machines sci-fi thriller novels for television series development. Dan Farah, who brought the project to Legendary, and founding Blink 182 member-turned-ufo researcher DeLonge, will executive produce the adaptation of the the popular books, which include Sekret Machines: Chasing Shadows and its sequel Sekret Machines: A Fire Within.
Sekret Machines is a gripping thriller that tells the story of a U.S. Air Force pilot, a British heiress, a New York journalist, and a former WWII prisoner of war, whose lives intersect as they each discover dangerous information about a global cover-up of advanced UFO technology used to create unstoppable next generation fighter aircrafts, and 80-years of secret history, all of which has profound implications for humanity. The truth they uncover...
Sekret Machines is a gripping thriller that tells the story of a U.S. Air Force pilot, a British heiress, a New York journalist, and a former WWII prisoner of war, whose lives intersect as they each discover dangerous information about a global cover-up of advanced UFO technology used to create unstoppable next generation fighter aircrafts, and 80-years of secret history, all of which has profound implications for humanity. The truth they uncover...
- 6/9/2022
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
“Did you catch that easter egg?” “No, but I read about all these in an easter egg guide.” “Have you heard? Morbius has the greatest easter egg of all-time!” These are (mostly) things you’ll hear in everyday life when folks discuss their favorite movies, TV shows, or video games. Once a jargon-y phrase used almost exclusively in online circles and by the nerdier writers within the greater media industry, the term “easter egg” has become ubiquitous when talking about modern pop culture.
Heck, Marvel Studios has based a sizable portion of its winning formula on the prospect of teasing their next 15 projects through a sprinkling of “easter eggs” in each new movie. This is done, in part, on the assumption that media outlets will write ad nauseam about them. And you know what? Guilty as charged.
Yet with the term’s emerging popularity, it becomes a curiosity, then, where...
Heck, Marvel Studios has based a sizable portion of its winning formula on the prospect of teasing their next 15 projects through a sprinkling of “easter eggs” in each new movie. This is done, in part, on the assumption that media outlets will write ad nauseam about them. And you know what? Guilty as charged.
Yet with the term’s emerging popularity, it becomes a curiosity, then, where...
- 4/15/2022
- by David Crow
- Den of Geek
Photo: 'Dune' The 2010s: A Great Decade for Science Fiction There’s a very old and very tired question that nevertheless raises its head among genre fans: What was the golden age of science fiction? It’s a loaded question for several reasons, but for a movie-centric audience, it can be best answered with “now.” The 2010s are not exactly “now,” but they’re practically yesterday for most of us — and the 2010s were a very good time for science fiction, whether it be in Cinema, TV, literature, or video games. During this period, we saw a major resurgence in both ‘Star Wars’ and ‘Star Trek’, a revival of ‘The Twilight Zone’, a decade-defining anthology series with ‘Black Mirror’, original sci-fi epics by Christopher Nolan with ‘Inception’ and ‘Interstellar’, and the list just keeps going. We got two mega-bestsellers with Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (ditto its...
- 3/12/2022
- by Brian Collins
- Hollywood Insider - Substance & Meaningful Entertainment
Ready Player Two is coming to paperback, with Ballantine Books Trade Paperback publishing the new edition of Ernest Cline’s novel on Nov. 9.
The paperback edition includes new cover art conceptualized by Cline and inked by Paul Shipper, whose credits include the poster for the Steven Spielberg-directed Ready Player One film (2018) as well as posters for Avengers: Infinity War, Star Wars: The Last Jedi and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.
Ready Player Two follows 2011’s Ready Player One, which takes place in 2045, a time in which climate change, overpopulation and poverty have swept the Earth. In the first book, much of humanity ...
The paperback edition includes new cover art conceptualized by Cline and inked by Paul Shipper, whose credits include the poster for the Steven Spielberg-directed Ready Player One film (2018) as well as posters for Avengers: Infinity War, Star Wars: The Last Jedi and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.
Ready Player Two follows 2011’s Ready Player One, which takes place in 2045, a time in which climate change, overpopulation and poverty have swept the Earth. In the first book, much of humanity ...
- 9/14/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Ready Player Two is coming to paperback, with Ballantine Books Trade Paperback publishing the new edition of Ernest Cline’s novel on Nov. 9.
The paperback edition includes new cover art conceptualized by Cline and inked by Paul Shipper, whose credits include the poster for the Steven Spielberg-directed Ready Player One film (2018) as well as posters for Avengers: Infinity War, Star Wars: The Last Jedi and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.
Ready Player Two follows 2011’s Ready Player One, which takes place in 2045, a time in which climate change, overpopulation and poverty have swept the Earth. In the first book, much of humanity ...
The paperback edition includes new cover art conceptualized by Cline and inked by Paul Shipper, whose credits include the poster for the Steven Spielberg-directed Ready Player One film (2018) as well as posters for Avengers: Infinity War, Star Wars: The Last Jedi and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.
Ready Player Two follows 2011’s Ready Player One, which takes place in 2045, a time in which climate change, overpopulation and poverty have swept the Earth. In the first book, much of humanity ...
- 9/14/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
We all have come to know and love the world of Tron, but unfortunately it seemed as though the days of games like Tron were over…until Narita Boy came along! Narita Boy is developed by Studio Koba and published by Team17, and allows you to fight and explore in a retro-futuristic world. “Swim deep into a oneiric, poetic and unique experience across dimensional planes.” Narita Boy seems to capture the same sort of tone that Ernest Cline captured in Ready Player One, but how exactly does it do just that? What is Narita
Studio Koba Brings Players Back to the 80s with Narita Boy...
Studio Koba Brings Players Back to the 80s with Narita Boy...
- 4/19/2021
- by Ben Hestad
- TVovermind.com
Tye Sheridan has joined the cast of George Clooney’s next film, “The Tender Bar,” which is set up at Amazon and will star alongside Ben Affleck.
Clooney is directing the film from a screenplay by “The Departed” writer William Monahan, and he’s also producing under his Smokehouse Pictures banner with Grant Heslov, as will Ted Hope under his first-look deal with Amazon Studios.
“The Tender Bar” is based off a memoir by Pulitzer Prize-winning author J.R. Moehringer, who is also the film’s subject and who will also serve as an executive producer on the film. The memoir recounts Moehringer’s adolescent years as he grows up on Long Island in search of a father figure among the patrons at his uncle’s bar.
It’s unclear who Sheridan or Affleck will play in the film.
Sheridan is known for his role as Cyclops in the X-Men franchise...
Clooney is directing the film from a screenplay by “The Departed” writer William Monahan, and he’s also producing under his Smokehouse Pictures banner with Grant Heslov, as will Ted Hope under his first-look deal with Amazon Studios.
“The Tender Bar” is based off a memoir by Pulitzer Prize-winning author J.R. Moehringer, who is also the film’s subject and who will also serve as an executive producer on the film. The memoir recounts Moehringer’s adolescent years as he grows up on Long Island in search of a father figure among the patrons at his uncle’s bar.
It’s unclear who Sheridan or Affleck will play in the film.
Sheridan is known for his role as Cyclops in the X-Men franchise...
- 2/10/2021
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Ready Player Two Film in Development — Ready Player One-author Ernest Cline has indicated that a sequel film to Ready Player One is in development. The sequel book to the Ready Player One novel, Ready Player Two, was released last month and has received mixed reviews (like the film adaptation for the [...]
Continue reading: Ready Player Two: Author Ernest Cline Says Sequel Film is in the Early Stages of Development...
Continue reading: Ready Player Two: Author Ernest Cline Says Sequel Film is in the Early Stages of Development...
- 12/30/2020
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
The inevitable has happened: A Ready Player Two movie is in the works. The sequel novel recently arrive nine years after Ernest Cline‘s original pop culture-obsessed sci-fi novel Ready Player One, but appears to be fast-tracked to the screen after Steven Spielberg‘s adaptation of the book became a box office hit in 2018. If nostalgia is currency […]
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The post Inevitably, The ‘Ready Player Two’ Movie is Already in the Works appeared first on /Film.
- 12/28/2020
- by Hoai-Tran Bui
- Slash Film
There are fewer sure things in Hollywood than that there’s an interest in making a sequel to Ready Player One. After all, the Steven Spielberg film is based on a best selling novel by Ernest Cline, did well at the box office, got nominated for an Academy Award, and now has a sequel in book form. With Ready Player Two having hit shelves recently, the chatter about a Ready Player Two movie is ramping up. It’s still the early days, but it sure does sound like plans are in motion. Read on for a bit more about this brewing early news… According to The Playlist, author Ernest Cline has spoken about the flick being in early development over at Warner Bros.. Nothing yet on the screenwriter or director, but my guess is that Spielberg doesn’t return. Maybe Cline co-writes the script, but I think WB will look...
- 12/26/2020
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
Are you ready to get smacked in the face with another barrage of nostalgia and random pop culture references? A sequel to Steven Spielberg‘s “Ready Player One” could already be in the works thanks to the pandemic. “Ready Player One” author Ernest Cline has revealed during a chat with Inverse that his follow-up novel “Ready Player Two” is now in the gestation phase of development at Warner Bros.
Continue reading ‘Ready Player Two’ Movie In Early Stages According To Author Ernest Cline at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘Ready Player Two’ Movie In Early Stages According To Author Ernest Cline at The Playlist.
- 12/26/2020
- by Christopher Marc
- The Playlist
Features: Paul W.S Anderson, Ernest Cline, Warren Davis, Eugene Jarvis | Written by Andrew Hayward (story editor) | Directed by Joshua Y. Tsui
As somewhat of a gamer I often take for granted the pioneers of the genre… Case in point, here is a documentary about some guys that helped shape my love of gaming! And they didn’t even know…
When I came across Insert Coin online I saw the tagline “inside Midway’s 90s revolution” and that gave me massive flashbacks to my youth. I instantly started to think of the many Midway games I, and every other kid like me, used to play. Either at home on cartridge or in the glorious amusement arcades (shout out Johnny Bingos)… Personally I was obsessed with games like Mortal Kombat and NBA Jam.
There have been some truly great video game documentaries over the last few years; covering the rise and...
As somewhat of a gamer I often take for granted the pioneers of the genre… Case in point, here is a documentary about some guys that helped shape my love of gaming! And they didn’t even know…
When I came across Insert Coin online I saw the tagline “inside Midway’s 90s revolution” and that gave me massive flashbacks to my youth. I instantly started to think of the many Midway games I, and every other kid like me, used to play. Either at home on cartridge or in the glorious amusement arcades (shout out Johnny Bingos)… Personally I was obsessed with games like Mortal Kombat and NBA Jam.
There have been some truly great video game documentaries over the last few years; covering the rise and...
- 12/23/2020
- by Kevin Haldon
- Nerdly
On a purely commercial level, Steven Spielberg is the single most successful director of all-time, and the only filmmaker to have seen their back catalogue earn a combined total of over $10 billion at the box office. The bearded one’s last movie was hardly among his very best, but it was nonetheless a massive success that already feels as though it’s been completely forgotten about, despite only being released two years ago.
Ready Player One was a lavish $175 million adaptation of Ernest Cline’s novel, which was itself a love letter to pop culture. Spielberg always seemed like an unusual choice to helm the big screen version given that the source material was so heavily indebted to his own work, but the Jaws and Jurassic Park director jettisoned most of the references to his past movies and focused on delivering a stylish and propulsive adventure instead.
Ready Player One...
Ready Player One was a lavish $175 million adaptation of Ernest Cline’s novel, which was itself a love letter to pop culture. Spielberg always seemed like an unusual choice to helm the big screen version given that the source material was so heavily indebted to his own work, but the Jaws and Jurassic Park director jettisoned most of the references to his past movies and focused on delivering a stylish and propulsive adventure instead.
Ready Player One...
- 12/22/2020
- by Scott Campbell
- We Got This Covered
This article contains Major spoilers for Ready Player Two. You can read our spoiler-free review of the sequel here.
At the end of Ernest Cline’s 2011 novel Ready Player One, Wade Watts a.k.a. Parzival inherits everything he set out to win in James Donovan Halliday’s Easter egg hunt: the Oasis creator’s massive fortune, as well as control over the digital world itself. So how could Cline, and Halliday, top that with Ready Player Two?
By helping humanity level up.
The sequel’s ending definitely goes in a very different direction than how Ready Player One ended, both relating to the book’s central quest and in how it opens up the world of Cline’s future-Earth. Read on as we trace the path from the Seven Shards for the Siren’s Soul to the posthumous gift that allows Wade to finally achieve some level of closure...
At the end of Ernest Cline’s 2011 novel Ready Player One, Wade Watts a.k.a. Parzival inherits everything he set out to win in James Donovan Halliday’s Easter egg hunt: the Oasis creator’s massive fortune, as well as control over the digital world itself. So how could Cline, and Halliday, top that with Ready Player Two?
By helping humanity level up.
The sequel’s ending definitely goes in a very different direction than how Ready Player One ended, both relating to the book’s central quest and in how it opens up the world of Cline’s future-Earth. Read on as we trace the path from the Seven Shards for the Siren’s Soul to the posthumous gift that allows Wade to finally achieve some level of closure...
- 11/30/2020
- by Kayti Burt
- Den of Geek
This piece contains spoilers for Ready Player Two.
When Ernest Cline published Ready Player One in 2011, its exhaustive array of Easter eggs were literally built into the worldbuilding—seemingly one pop culture name-drop per pixel that made up the digital Oasis, per the fierce 1980s nostalgia that creator James Donovan Halliday possessed for the most formative decade of his adolescence. And once the billionaire inventor revealed the Easter egg hunt for his fortune, it made perfect sense that the 2040s generation of gunters would immerse themselves in the same references, placing themselves into Halliday’s mindset to inherit his treasure.
Almost a decade later, those ’80s references are more exhausting in Ready Player Two—like when Wade rattles off his vintage morning routine basically cosplaying as Marty McFly, down to getting woken up by Huey Lewis and the News’ “Back in Time” via a Panasonic Rc-6015 flip-clock radio. Whereas the...
When Ernest Cline published Ready Player One in 2011, its exhaustive array of Easter eggs were literally built into the worldbuilding—seemingly one pop culture name-drop per pixel that made up the digital Oasis, per the fierce 1980s nostalgia that creator James Donovan Halliday possessed for the most formative decade of his adolescence. And once the billionaire inventor revealed the Easter egg hunt for his fortune, it made perfect sense that the 2040s generation of gunters would immerse themselves in the same references, placing themselves into Halliday’s mindset to inherit his treasure.
Almost a decade later, those ’80s references are more exhausting in Ready Player Two—like when Wade rattles off his vintage morning routine basically cosplaying as Marty McFly, down to getting woken up by Huey Lewis and the News’ “Back in Time” via a Panasonic Rc-6015 flip-clock radio. Whereas the...
- 11/25/2020
- by Kayti Burt
- Den of Geek
It doesn’t take long for Ernest Cline’s Ready Player Two to reunite gunter-turned-billionaire Wade Owen Watts with a vintage video game that holds a clue to a virtual scavenger hunt that will forever change the future of the digital, escapist Oasis. But after winning this particular game, Parzival (Wade’s Oasis alter ego) finds that he automatically starts over. Because of an extra life, he is given the option of playing through the game again, even though there are no surprises, simply to rack up extra points and because he can.
Reading Ready Player Two feels a lot like that. Ready Player One, Cline’s 2011 debut novel, delighted readers with its futuristic generation of gunters who had taken on all things 1980s with religious fervor in search of the Easter egg that would bequeath the Oasis, Willy Wonka-style, to one lucky player. The book also made some incisive...
Reading Ready Player Two feels a lot like that. Ready Player One, Cline’s 2011 debut novel, delighted readers with its futuristic generation of gunters who had taken on all things 1980s with religious fervor in search of the Easter egg that would bequeath the Oasis, Willy Wonka-style, to one lucky player. The book also made some incisive...
- 11/24/2020
- by Kayti Burt
- Den of Geek
Ernest Cline’s Ready Player Two sequel novel launches November 24 in the U.S. and UK. To stoke sales, the author and Roblox have launched a virtual Ready Player Two-themed treasure hunt that takes place inside seven experiences on the Roblox platform. Players who complete the treasure hunt will be awarded virtual goods designed specifically for the Ready Player Two/Roblox event. The event headlines a virtual Q&a with Cline and Dave Baszucki, the founder and CEO of Roblox, which will stream inside the Ready Player Two Event beginning December 1st at 10 a.m. Pst. It will include clues for navigating the treasure hunt.
In 2018, Roblox and Warner Bros. collaborated on an event around the release of Steven Spielberg’s blockbuster adaptation of Ready Player One, and over 13 million people actively engaged with event on the Roblox platform. Baszucki said, “The event we did on Roblox in 2018 for the...
In 2018, Roblox and Warner Bros. collaborated on an event around the release of Steven Spielberg’s blockbuster adaptation of Ready Player One, and over 13 million people actively engaged with event on the Roblox platform. Baszucki said, “The event we did on Roblox in 2018 for the...
- 11/23/2020
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
To mark the release of Ready Player Two, Ernest Cline’s eagerly anticipated follow-up to the 2011 novel centering around a virtual world called the Oasis where visitors could lose themselves among familiar pop culture icons, the author has teamed with gaming platform Roblox for a special virtual event launching next week.
The Ready Player Two/Roblox Event will launch with a virtual Q&a session between Cline and Roblox founder and CEO Dave Baszucki, which will include clues to a special Ready Player Two treasure hunt across seven experiences inside Roblox; players who complete the hunt will receive virtual rewards created specifically for ...
The Ready Player Two/Roblox Event will launch with a virtual Q&a session between Cline and Roblox founder and CEO Dave Baszucki, which will include clues to a special Ready Player Two treasure hunt across seven experiences inside Roblox; players who complete the hunt will receive virtual rewards created specifically for ...
- 11/23/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
To mark the release of Ready Player Two, Ernest Cline’s eagerly anticipated follow-up to the 2011 novel centering around a virtual world called the Oasis where visitors could lose themselves amongst familiar pop culture icons, the author has teamed with gaming platform Roblox for a special virtual event launching next week.
The Ready Player Two/Roblox Event will launch with a virtual Q&a session between Cline and Roblox founder and CEO Dave Baszucki, which will include clues to a special Ready Player Two treasure hunt across seven experiences inside Roblox; players who complete the hunt will receive virtual rewards created specifically for the ...
The Ready Player Two/Roblox Event will launch with a virtual Q&a session between Cline and Roblox founder and CEO Dave Baszucki, which will include clues to a special Ready Player Two treasure hunt across seven experiences inside Roblox; players who complete the hunt will receive virtual rewards created specifically for the ...
- 11/23/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Several years after the release of "Ready Player One," it was reported that author Ernest Cline was hard at work on a sequel. Details about the follow-up novel were being kept tightly under wraps, but during a panel at New York Comic-Con earlier today, Cline revealed the first synopsis for "Ready Player Two," which sounds like an over-charged version of…...
- 10/9/2020
- by Kevin Fraser
- JoBlo.com
Ernest Cline, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Ready Player One and the highly anticipated sequel, Ready Player Two, participated in this year’s New York Comic Con via a Zoom! The virtual panel was one of many highlights from Day Two at this year’s New York Comic Con x McM Comic Con Metaverse weekend. Hosted by friend and fellow geek Wil […]
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- 10/9/2020
- by SteveDunk
- Cinelinx
Nine years after author Ernest Cline‘s nostalgia-drenched, pop culture-obsessed sci-fi novel Ready Player One novel debuted, a sequel is about to arrive. Plot details about the aptly-named Ready Player Two have been kept under lock and key so far, but Cline appeared on a virtual New York Comic Con panel today and finally pulled back the […]
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- 10/9/2020
- by Ben Pearson
- Slash Film
The plot details of Ernest Cline’s Ready Player Two have been carefully under wraps, until now.
The author, co-producer and co-screenwriter of Ready Player One revealed the details Friday morning at New York Comic Con in a panel moderated by Wil Wheaton; the details of which you can read below. The long-awaited sequel comes out in hardcover, ebook and audio editions from Penguin Random House on November 24 in the U.S. and UK followed by publication in more than 50 countries.
The first novel follows a young boy Wade, who lives in a trailer park in the future. However, most of his days he’s plugged into the virtual reality gaming world of the Oasis where he has many friends. When the creator the Oasis dies, he makes a posthumous challenge to the world’s users to find his Easter Egg, which will give the finder his fortune and control of his world.
The author, co-producer and co-screenwriter of Ready Player One revealed the details Friday morning at New York Comic Con in a panel moderated by Wil Wheaton; the details of which you can read below. The long-awaited sequel comes out in hardcover, ebook and audio editions from Penguin Random House on November 24 in the U.S. and UK followed by publication in more than 50 countries.
The first novel follows a young boy Wade, who lives in a trailer park in the future. However, most of his days he’s plugged into the virtual reality gaming world of the Oasis where he has many friends. When the creator the Oasis dies, he makes a posthumous challenge to the world’s users to find his Easter Egg, which will give the finder his fortune and control of his world.
- 10/9/2020
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Author Ernest Cline is preparing to log back in to the Oasis for Ready Player Two. He revealed the synopsis to his anticipated Ready Player One followup during a virtual panel for New York Comic Con Friday, sharing that the new book begins just days after Ready Player One ends, and sees Wade Watts discover a technological advancement that makes Oasis “a thousand times more wondrous — and addictive” than Wade ever imaged.
Here’s the synopsis Cline revealed to host Wil Wheaton Friday:...
Here’s the synopsis Cline revealed to host Wil Wheaton Friday:...
- 10/9/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Author Ernest Cline is preparing to log back in to the Oasis for Ready Player Two. He revealed the synopsis to his anticipated Ready Player One followup during a virtual panel for New York Comic Con Friday, sharing that the new book begins just days after Ready Player One ends, and sees Wade Watts discover a technological advancement that makes Oasis “a thousand times more wondrous — and addictive” than Wade ever imaged.
Here’s the synopsis Cline revealed to host Wil Wheaton Friday:...
Here’s the synopsis Cline revealed to host Wil Wheaton Friday:...
- 10/9/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Foundry Literary + Media co-founder Yfat Reiss Gendell has left the New York book agency to form Yrg Partners. She leaves with agents Tanusri Prasanna, Peter Steinberg and Adriann Ranta Zurhellen to launch an agency that will focus on representing publishing rights for writers and consumer brands.
Gendell said the agency will partner with a series of existing and new private equity firm relationships, each active in intellectual property and consumer brand development, to match-make between clients and the investment community, and to create unconventional opportunities that work alongside or independent of existing publishing models. Gendell has represented clients’ publishing rights, typically along with managers, and often as the agency of record for writers who are also represented at other agencies for screenwriting. Gendell will bring that formula to the new agency.
Gendell, Prasanna, Steinberg and Zurhellen will take all of their publishing clients with them. Those include the joint...
Gendell said the agency will partner with a series of existing and new private equity firm relationships, each active in intellectual property and consumer brand development, to match-make between clients and the investment community, and to create unconventional opportunities that work alongside or independent of existing publishing models. Gendell has represented clients’ publishing rights, typically along with managers, and often as the agency of record for writers who are also represented at other agencies for screenwriting. Gendell will bring that formula to the new agency.
Gendell, Prasanna, Steinberg and Zurhellen will take all of their publishing clients with them. Those include the joint...
- 9/17/2020
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
In Ready Player Two fanboy news, Penguin Random House Audio has set Wil Wheaton to narrate the sequel novel by Ernest Cline. The first of which Steven Spielberg turned into a Warner Bros film. Wheaton’s the Star Trek: Next Generation and Big Bang Theory actor. The audiobook will publish simultaneously with the hardcover and ebook editions on November 24, 2020. The audiobook for Ready Player One was the inaugural #1 New York Times audio fiction best seller when that list launched in March 2018, and was the first book to ever hit #1 in print, ebook, and audio formats. The book went on to spend seven months on the audio bestsellers list in addition to over 100 weeks on New York Times print bestsellers lists.
Wheaton narrated that first audiobook and has done Cline’s Armada and books by John Green and Randall Munroe.
Wheaton narrated that first audiobook and has done Cline’s Armada and books by John Green and Randall Munroe.
- 8/17/2020
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Wil Wheaton is strapping on his VR goggles and haptic suit. The Star Trek: The Next Generation and Big Bang Theory alum is set to narrate the audiobook for Ready Player Two, author Ernest Cline’s follow-up to Ready Player One. Penguin Random House Audio will debut the audiobook on Nov. 24, the same day Ready Player Two hits print via Penguin.
The Ready Player One audiobook debuted at No. 1 on the New York Times audio fiction bestsellers list when the list launched in March 2018 and spent seven months there. Ready Player One was also the first book to reach No. 1 in print, ebook ...
The Ready Player One audiobook debuted at No. 1 on the New York Times audio fiction bestsellers list when the list launched in March 2018 and spent seven months there. Ready Player One was also the first book to reach No. 1 in print, ebook ...
- 8/17/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Wil Wheaton is strapping on his VR goggles and haptic suit. The Star Trek: The Next Generation and Big Bang Theory alum is set to narrate the audiobook for Ready Player Two, author Ernest Cline’s follow-up to Ready Player One. Penguin Random House Audio will debut the audiobook on Nov. 24, the same day Ready Player Two hits print via Penguin.
The Ready Player One audiobook debuted at No. 1 on the New York Times audio fiction bestsellers list when the list launched in March 2018 and spent seven months there. Ready Player One was also the first book to reach No. 1 in print, ebook ...
The Ready Player One audiobook debuted at No. 1 on the New York Times audio fiction bestsellers list when the list launched in March 2018 and spent seven months there. Ready Player One was also the first book to reach No. 1 in print, ebook ...
- 8/17/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Exclusive: HBO has closed a deal to develop a drama series from The Hater, the acclaimed Polish film directed by Jan Komasa and written by Mateusz Pacewicz, the team behind last year’s Best Foreign Language Oscar nominee Corpus Christi.
The film won Best Feature in the International Narrative Competition at Tribeca’s 2020 Online Festival Program. Netflix bought world-wide streaming rights, and premiered it July 29th. In the wheelhouse of films like Parasite and The Talented Mr. Ripley, The Hater is a timely, elevated thriller that deals with class, politics, social media, disinformation, identity and the pursuit of happiness at all costs.
The series adaptation will be Exec Produced by Farah Films’ Dan Farah and Vertigo’s Roy Lee. Komasa and Pacewicz will serve as Co-Exec Producers along with Wojciech Kabarowski and Jerzy Kapuściński of Naima Film, producers of the film. Andrew Farah will also serve as a Co-Exec Producer.
The film won Best Feature in the International Narrative Competition at Tribeca’s 2020 Online Festival Program. Netflix bought world-wide streaming rights, and premiered it July 29th. In the wheelhouse of films like Parasite and The Talented Mr. Ripley, The Hater is a timely, elevated thriller that deals with class, politics, social media, disinformation, identity and the pursuit of happiness at all costs.
The series adaptation will be Exec Produced by Farah Films’ Dan Farah and Vertigo’s Roy Lee. Komasa and Pacewicz will serve as Co-Exec Producers along with Wojciech Kabarowski and Jerzy Kapuściński of Naima Film, producers of the film. Andrew Farah will also serve as a Co-Exec Producer.
- 8/11/2020
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
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