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Emma Watson loves to read.
The actress has that in common with her brainy Harry Potter character Hermione as well as bookish Belle, who she plays in the much-anticipated film Beauty and the Beast, out March 17. In addition to being a bookworm, Watson is also an outspoken feminist and as well as a Un Women Goodwill Ambassador and promoter of the organization’s HeForShe movement, which is dedicated to recruiting men into the movement for gender equality. As a response to her work with the Un, she launched the feminist...
Emma Watson loves to read.
The actress has that in common with her brainy Harry Potter character Hermione as well as bookish Belle, who she plays in the much-anticipated film Beauty and the Beast, out March 17. In addition to being a bookworm, Watson is also an outspoken feminist and as well as a Un Women Goodwill Ambassador and promoter of the organization’s HeForShe movement, which is dedicated to recruiting men into the movement for gender equality. As a response to her work with the Un, she launched the feminist...
- 2/21/2017
- by Madeline Raynor
- PEOPLE.com
Special effects legend Rick Baker formally announced his retirement this week. Baker cited a “cheap and fast” philosophy in the movie industry that was at odds with his desire to ensure things got done right as the catalyst for his retirement. Baker’s work stretches across several prominent films, from An American Werewolf in London to Videodrome to The Rocketeer to Ed Wood to Tim Burton’s Planet of the Apes and Tropic Thunder. Baker also worked on the Men in Black films and Michael Jackson’s famous “Thriller” music video. The 2014 feature Maleficent will now stand as his last work.
Baker will, however, be auctioning off his famous work via The Prop Store, beginning today.
Jessica Chastain and Amy Schumer are poised to work together on a new comedy. The Tracking Board has reported that Chastain, known mostly for her dramatic work in features such as The Tree of Life and Zero Dark Thirty,...
Baker will, however, be auctioning off his famous work via The Prop Store, beginning today.
Jessica Chastain and Amy Schumer are poised to work together on a new comedy. The Tracking Board has reported that Chastain, known mostly for her dramatic work in features such as The Tree of Life and Zero Dark Thirty,...
- 5/30/2015
- by Deepayan Sengupta
- SoundOnSight
It took eight long years between Hou Hsiao-hsien's "Flight Of The Red Ballon" and his latest, Cannes Best Director prize winning "The Assassin." And the good news for fans of the filmmaker is that he's already brewing his next picture and hopefully it won't take so long to get it made. His next project is about "a waterway enthusiast who encounters a river goddess while studying the city’s waterway system," and it will be set in the modern era. Shu Qi will return to star, with Chu Tien-wen ("The Assassin," "Millennium Mambo") penning the script. No word yet on when production starts. [Taipei Times] Read More: Cannes Review: Hou Hsiao-hsien's 'The Assassin' Is An Epic Visual Poem Catherine Hardwicke will tackle another tale about young people, signing up to helm "Love Letters To The Dead." An adaptation of the book by Ava Dellaira (who will also write the script...
- 5/29/2015
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Chances are you may not know what Love Letters to the Dead is, but odds are you’re going to love the idea. The book, written by Ava Dellaira, is about a young girl who is given an assignment to write a letter to someone dead. She chooses Kurt Cobain and, in the process, becomes fascinated with […]
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- 5/29/2015
- by Germain Lussier
- Slash Film
A couple of projects scored impressive directors today.
First up, James Ponsoldt ("The Spectacular Now") is negotiating to adapt and direct an adaptation of the Stewart O'Nan novel "West Of Sunset" for Sidney Kimmel Entertainment.
The story follows "The Great Gatsby" author F. Scott Fitzgerald in the last years of his life when he came to Hollywood to start anew as a screenwriter in 1937. Troubled with poor health, finances, and a wife committed to an asylum, his time in Los Angeles did not go well. This is juxtaposed with flashbacks to his early days as a literary king.
Next up, "Annie" and "Easy A" director Will Gluck has signed on to helm Disney's untitled lottery movie previously known as "Lucky Guy". Dan Lin is attached to produce.
The lead character has also changed gender, with the story now following a consistently unlucky woman whose streak of bad luck continues when...
First up, James Ponsoldt ("The Spectacular Now") is negotiating to adapt and direct an adaptation of the Stewart O'Nan novel "West Of Sunset" for Sidney Kimmel Entertainment.
The story follows "The Great Gatsby" author F. Scott Fitzgerald in the last years of his life when he came to Hollywood to start anew as a screenwriter in 1937. Troubled with poor health, finances, and a wife committed to an asylum, his time in Los Angeles did not go well. This is juxtaposed with flashbacks to his early days as a literary king.
Next up, "Annie" and "Easy A" director Will Gluck has signed on to helm Disney's untitled lottery movie previously known as "Lucky Guy". Dan Lin is attached to produce.
The lead character has also changed gender, with the story now following a consistently unlucky woman whose streak of bad luck continues when...
- 5/29/2015
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Seven years after directing the first film in the billion-dollar-grossing “Twilight” franchise, Catherine Hardwicke is in talks to direct another Ya phenomenon, Ava Dellaira’s “Love Letters to the Dead” for Fox 2000 and Temple Hill Entertainment, an individual with knowledge of the deal told TheWrap. Dellaira adapted her own debut novel, which was published in April 2014 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Young Readers. The story follows a teenage girl named Laurel who’s assigned to write a letter to a dead person for her English class. She chooses her late sister’s favorite musician, Kurt Cobain, who also died.
- 5/29/2015
- by Jeff Sneider
- The Wrap
There's a Twilight reunion brewing. Catherine Hardwicke, who directed the first teen vampire film, is in early talks to direct Love Letters to the Dead, a book adaptation being produced by Twilight producers Temple Hill Entertainment. The Fox 2000 project is an adaptation of Ava Dellaira’s Love Letters to the Dead, which was published in April 2014. The hot book centers on a character named Laurel who for an English class assignment writes a letter to a dead person, Kurt Cobain. Soon, she has a notebook full of letters to famous dead people including Janis Joplin, Amy Winehouse, Amelia Earhart and
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- 5/29/2015
- by Rebecca Ford and Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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"The Fault in Our Stars" writer John Green is the latest best-selling Ya author to have his novel adapted from page to screen, and the results are overwhelmingly positive. Although not all of his peers have have been quite as lucky, the Ya community is filled with writers hoping their work -- which has been optioned, is in development, or is just a month or so away from hitting the big screen -- will manage to satisfy both existing fans of the book and moviegoers who've never heard of the book.
We caught up with several young adult authors at the annual Book Expo America, and found out which adaptations are their personal favorites, and the results range from childhood classics ("A Christmas Carol") to newer, trippier fare ("Adaptation"). Here are 11 Ya authors' picks for best adaptation.
1. Gayle Forman, author of "If I Stay" (in theaters Aug. 19)
That is a tough one,...
"The Fault in Our Stars" writer John Green is the latest best-selling Ya author to have his novel adapted from page to screen, and the results are overwhelmingly positive. Although not all of his peers have have been quite as lucky, the Ya community is filled with writers hoping their work -- which has been optioned, is in development, or is just a month or so away from hitting the big screen -- will manage to satisfy both existing fans of the book and moviegoers who've never heard of the book.
We caught up with several young adult authors at the annual Book Expo America, and found out which adaptations are their personal favorites, and the results range from childhood classics ("A Christmas Carol") to newer, trippier fare ("Adaptation"). Here are 11 Ya authors' picks for best adaptation.
1. Gayle Forman, author of "If I Stay" (in theaters Aug. 19)
That is a tough one,...
- 6/11/2014
- by Sandie Angulo Chen
- Moviefone
The Book of Life
The first photos are out from Jorge Gutierrez's stylized 3-D animated feature "The Book of Life" which deals with the Mexican Day of the Dead holiday.
Guillermo del Toro produced the story about love triangle among three childhood friends Manolo (Diego Luna), Maria (Zoe Saldana) and Joaquin (Channing Tatum) who are stirred up after the unpredictable gods wager on which man will win Maria's heart. [Source: USA Today]
The Good Luck Of Right Now
"Little Miss Sunshine" directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris have dropped out of directing the film adaptation of "Silver Linings Playbook" author Matthew Quick's "The Good Luck Of Right Now" at DreamWorks.
Currently in pre-production, the departure is said to be due to creative disagreements over the ensembles casting process. Mike White penned the script of the adaptation. [Source: Deadline]
Dracula Untold
Giant screen exhibitor IMAX have announced that they will digitally re-master and release...
The first photos are out from Jorge Gutierrez's stylized 3-D animated feature "The Book of Life" which deals with the Mexican Day of the Dead holiday.
Guillermo del Toro produced the story about love triangle among three childhood friends Manolo (Diego Luna), Maria (Zoe Saldana) and Joaquin (Channing Tatum) who are stirred up after the unpredictable gods wager on which man will win Maria's heart. [Source: USA Today]
The Good Luck Of Right Now
"Little Miss Sunshine" directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris have dropped out of directing the film adaptation of "Silver Linings Playbook" author Matthew Quick's "The Good Luck Of Right Now" at DreamWorks.
Currently in pre-production, the departure is said to be due to creative disagreements over the ensembles casting process. Mike White penned the script of the adaptation. [Source: Deadline]
Dracula Untold
Giant screen exhibitor IMAX have announced that they will digitally re-master and release...
- 5/28/2014
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Exclusive: Fox 2000 has optioned Ava Dellaira’s debut novel Love Letters to the Dead. Producing are Temple Hill‘s Wyck Godfrey and Marty Bowen, who produced the upcoming The Fault in Our Stars. The author will write the script, under the supervision of Fox 2000 execs Elizabeth Gabler and Erin Siminoff will oversee for Fox 2000. The book was published in April by Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Young Readers, to much acclaim. The story follows Laurel, a high school student whose beloved older sister has died under mysterious circumstances. Emotionally frayed by the loss, she unexpectedly finds catharsis in an assignment from her English teacher: write a letter to a dead person. Instead of handing in the assignment, though, she begins an ongoing series of letters to an eclectic group of rock stars, poets, and popular icons such as Kurt Cobain, Judy Garland, Amelia Earhart, and Amy Winehouse. She writes...
- 5/27/2014
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
For a novel that takes the form of letters to dead celebrities, the best compliment for Ava Dellaira's "Love Letters to the Dead" came last week from one famous lady who's still in the land of the living. Dear Ava, I loved your book. Xxx http://t.co/Ouw0vc2GjU @avadellaira pic.twitter.com/qLDuXjFcDD— Emma Watson (@EmWatson) March 18, 2014 And it's no surprise that Emma Watson, one of the most discerning members of the celeb literati, loves this book: a ...
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- 3/27/2014
- MTV Movie News
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