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Wondering what you’ll watch when The Hunger Games franchise is over? We’ve got some ideas…
As well as sequels, remakes, and comic book adaptations, there’s one kind of movie you can feel fairly sure is going to keep popping up at a cinema near you: young adult adaptations. Stories about teenagers are still doing big business in the book trade, and thanks to Harry Potter, Twilight, and The Hunger Games, Hollywood is convinced of the genre’s appeal, too.
A couple of new franchises have already been kicked off – there’s still at least another Divergent sequel on the way, and another Maze Runner sequel – but what’s more interesting is the list of Ya novels that have been optioned and may soon be taking over the box office. Now, not all of the adaptations on this list will see the light of day,...
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Wondering what you’ll watch when The Hunger Games franchise is over? We’ve got some ideas…
As well as sequels, remakes, and comic book adaptations, there’s one kind of movie you can feel fairly sure is going to keep popping up at a cinema near you: young adult adaptations. Stories about teenagers are still doing big business in the book trade, and thanks to Harry Potter, Twilight, and The Hunger Games, Hollywood is convinced of the genre’s appeal, too.
A couple of new franchises have already been kicked off – there’s still at least another Divergent sequel on the way, and another Maze Runner sequel – but what’s more interesting is the list of Ya novels that have been optioned and may soon be taking over the box office. Now, not all of the adaptations on this list will see the light of day,...
- 10/14/2015
- by simonbrew
- Den of Geek
Illumination Entertaiment and Universal Pictures, the entities behind Despicable Me, will make a movie from the book "Lockwood & Co: The Screaming Staircase." The book from Jonathan Stroud is about three young operatives of Psychic Detection Agency who battle an epidemic of ghosts in London known as "The Problem." Random House Children's Books will release the novel in the U.K. Aug. 1, 2013; Disney/Hyperion will release the books in the U.S.
Universal Studios is making no secret that it is looking for the next Harry Potter film series and it's hoping the fantasy and supernatural elements of The Screaming Staircase will get kids interested.
Unlike Illumination's previous films Dr. Seuss' The Lorax and Hop, Lockwood & Co. will be a live-action film. Illumination is currently readying for next year's release of Despicable Me 2 (July 3) and 2014's Minions, the Despicable Me spinoff.
Source: Variety...
Universal Studios is making no secret that it is looking for the next Harry Potter film series and it's hoping the fantasy and supernatural elements of The Screaming Staircase will get kids interested.
Unlike Illumination's previous films Dr. Seuss' The Lorax and Hop, Lockwood & Co. will be a live-action film. Illumination is currently readying for next year's release of Despicable Me 2 (July 3) and 2014's Minions, the Despicable Me spinoff.
Source: Variety...
- 10/26/2012
- by tara@kidspickflicks.com (Tara the Mom)
- kidspickflicks
The Weinstein Co. has renewed its exclusive first-look deal with Mirage Prods., the production company run by Sydney Pollack and Anthony Minghella. The first new project under the pact, which has been extended for three years, will be an English-language remake of The Lives of Others, the German film by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck that won the Oscar for best foreign-language film Sunday.
Mirage has had a long-standing relationship with Weinstein Co. co-heads Bob and Harvey Weinstein. Most recently, the Weinstein Co., Mirage and Miramax Films produced Minghella's Breaking and Entering, a drama in release starring Jude Law, Juliette Binoche and Robin Wright Penn.
Other Mirage projects included in the renewed deal are I Don't Know How She Does It, a comedy based on Allison Pearson's best-selling novel, which will reunite The Devil Wears Prada screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna and director David Frankel; The Amulet of Samarkand, based on the first novel in Jonathan Stroud's Bartimaeus Trilogy, which screenwriter Hossein Amini is adapting; The Ninth Life of Louis Drax, based on a novel by Liz Jensen, which Minghella will write and direct; The Reader, a love story based on the Bernard Schlink novel; and a potential TV series.
Mirage has had a long-standing relationship with Weinstein Co. co-heads Bob and Harvey Weinstein. Most recently, the Weinstein Co., Mirage and Miramax Films produced Minghella's Breaking and Entering, a drama in release starring Jude Law, Juliette Binoche and Robin Wright Penn.
Other Mirage projects included in the renewed deal are I Don't Know How She Does It, a comedy based on Allison Pearson's best-selling novel, which will reunite The Devil Wears Prada screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna and director David Frankel; The Amulet of Samarkand, based on the first novel in Jonathan Stroud's Bartimaeus Trilogy, which screenwriter Hossein Amini is adapting; The Ninth Life of Louis Drax, based on a novel by Liz Jensen, which Minghella will write and direct; The Reader, a love story based on the Bernard Schlink novel; and a potential TV series.
Whatever the fate of Cold Mountain, scheduled for release on Christmas Day, Miramax Films will remain in business with the creative partnership behind the film, producer Sydney Pollack and director Anthony Minghella and their Mirage Enterprises Production Co. Miramax and Mirage announced Sunday that they have entered into a three-year, first look deal, encompassing all of Pollack and Minghella's film production related activities. Mirage has been without a home base since its last first-look deal, with Intermedia Films, ended in October 2002. Mirage already has several projects in development at Miramax. They include I Don't Know How She Does It, an adaptation by Kevin Wade of Allison Pearson's comic novel about an investment banker who must juggle her responsibilities as a mother; The Amulet of Samarkand, an adaptation of the first novel in Jonathan Stroud's Bartimaeus Trilogy, which follows the adventures of a trainee magician and his genie of a sidekick, which Hossein Amini is writing; and The Marrying Game, screenwriter Lucinda Cox's adaptation of Kate Saunders' novel The Marrying Kind, which concerns an impoverished English family trying to save its ancestral home.
- 12/15/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Whatever the fate of Cold Mountain, scheduled for release on Christmas Day, Miramax Films will remain in business with the creative partnership behind the film, producer Sydney Pollack and director Anthony Minghella and their Mirage Enterprises Production Co. Miramax and Mirage announced Sunday that they have entered into a three-year, first look deal, encompassing all of Pollack and Minghella's film production related activities. Mirage has been without a home base since its last first-look deal, with Intermedia Films, ended in October 2002. Mirage already has several projects in development at Miramax. They include I Don't Know How She Does It, an adaptation by Kevin Wade of Allison Pearson's comic novel about an investment banker who must juggle her responsibilities as a mother; The Amulet of Samarkand, an adaptation of the first novel in Jonathan Stroud's Bartimaeus Trilogy, which follows the adventures of a trainee magician and his genie of a sidekick, which Hossein Amini is writing; and The Marrying Game, screenwriter Lucinda Cox's adaptation of Kate Saunders' novel The Marrying Kind, which concerns an impoverished English family trying to save its ancestral home.
- 12/14/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
NEW YORK -- Miramax is showing off its Bling. The mini-major's book division, Miramax Books, has inked a deal to acquire English-language publishing rights to Bling by first-time novelist Erica Kennedy, while Miramax Films has secured film rights to the property. Kennedy's book follows a larger-than-life hip-hop mogul who sets out to turn a small-town singer into a crossover megastar. Kennedy is a freelance reporter who has contributed to such magazines as Vibe, US Weekly and In Style. The deal follows in the footsteps of other Miramax Books projects headed to the big screen through the mini-major, including Eoin Colfer's Artemis Fowl trilogy, Jonathan Stroud's forthcoming The Bartimaeus Trilogy and Scott Mebus' debut, Booty Nomad.
- 8/12/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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