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On Adapting le Carre: 'PW' Talks with Filmmaker Tomas Alfredson
After breaking out with the startlingly poetic vampire film, Let the Right One In, Swedish auteur Tomas Alfredson shifted gears and embraced English to adapt John le Carré’s canonical novel, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, to the screen. PW talks with Alfredson about the experience.
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Movie Alert: 'The Adventures of Tintin'
The journey is just beginning for a precocious world traveler with a trademark hairdo and his loyal canine companion: The Adventures of Tintin hits U.S. theatres on December 21.
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Braided River Has ‘To the Arctic’ Tie-in
After working for two years with Warner Bros. Pictures, MacGillivray Freeman Films, and IMAX Corp., Braided River, an imprint of nonprofit Mountaineers Books, in Seattle, has produced To the Arctic, the official companion book to the 3D film of the same name set to release next fall.
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Movie Alert: 'Hugo'
As Brian Selznick continues to stir up excitement in the book world for Wonderstruck, another high-voltage event is on the horizon" Hugo, the film adaptation of Selznick's Caldecott-winning The Invention of Hugo Cabret, opens in theatres on November 23.
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Authors on the Air October 29, 2011: Jackie Collins
Jackie Collins, author of Goddess of Vengeance (St. Martin's Press, 978-0312567460), will be appearing on Tavis Smiley.
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‘Kill Shakespeare’ Invited To Sundance
In July 2009, PW met two former film producers at the San Diego Comic-Con to hear about a comics project with the provocative title of Kill Shakespeare. Kill Shakespeare—a comics/graphic novel series from IDW that cleverly reshuffles characters from across the plays of the Bard into one big swashbuckling adventure tale—has found an audience.
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Movie Alert: 'Breaking Dawn—Part 1'
The on-screen Twilight saga continues with the November 18 premiere of Breaking Dawn—Part 1, the first of two films based upon Stephenie Meyer's fourth book in her paranormal romance series-turned-phenomenon.
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Movie Alert: 'Dolphin Tale'
On September 23, Winter, a bottlenose dolphin that many readers know from a photographic picture book Winter’s Tail: How One Little Dolphin Learned to Swim Again, will make her big-screen debut in Dolphin Tale, from Warner Bros. Pictures and Alcon Entertainment.
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Dennis Lehane Talks Noir, Politics and How Clint Eastwood Sounds on the Phone
Litquake, San Francisco’s literary festival, brought Dennis Lehane, author of Mystic River and Shutter Island, and Eddie Muller, the "Czar of Noir," to the stage at the Herbst Theater for their annual event.
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Debut Novelist Could Hit Theaters Before Bookstores
New York Magazine's pop culture blog, Vulture, reported Thursday about Rebecca Serle, a debut novelist who might see the film adaptation of her book out before the book itself.
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'Romeo and Juliet' Spin-Off Book Already Made into Film
The upcoming Shakespeare spin-off, When You Were Mine by Rebecca Serle, which reimagines Romeo and Juliet from the perspective of Rosaline, won't be published by Simon & Schuster until May. But a film adaptation is already in the works, with Keira Knightly possibly in the lead. The film will likely be done by the time the book hits shelves.
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Random House Readies for 'One Day' Premiere
Back in 2007, Random House Films released its first feature, Reservation Road. The film only grossed a modest amount, but RH Films is now looking ahead to its second release, One Day.
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Harry Potter Breaks Box Office Records
The final chapter in the Harry Potter film franchise took in a record $168.5 million over the weekend, setting the bar for opening weekend box office and midnight opening box office.
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Movie Alert: 'Winnie the Pooh'
Winnie the Pooh, an animated feature-length film from Disney, arrives in U.S. theaters on July 15, the first big-screen Pooh story since Pooh’s Heffalump Movie in 2005.
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Authors on the Air June 20, 2011: Kissinger, Former Mayor Nagin, LouAnn Lofton
Henry Kissinger will talk with Tavis Smiley about his new text, On China.
The Daily Show will feature former mayor of New Orleans, Ray Nagin, in support of his new memoir, Katrina's Secrets: Storms After the Storm. -
Authors on the Air: ‘Mr. Popper’s Penguins’; ‘Green Lantern’; Robert Jay Lifton
Movies opening today include Mr. Popper’s Penguins, directed by Mark Waters and starring Jim Carrey and Carla Gugino. It’s based on Richard Atwater and Florence Atwater’s 1938 novel Mr. Popper’s Penguins (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers mti, 978-0316186469).
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Movie Alert: 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part Two'
While Harry Potter fans digest the news about J.K. Rowling's newly unveiled "Pottermore" Web sit, another, long-anticipated event looms on the horizon: the film release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part Two.
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Authors on the Air: ‘Miss New India’; Mara Hvistendahl; Jim Leyritz
Today on NPR’s Talk of the Nation, Bharati Mukherjee described Miss New India (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 978-0618646531).
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Authors on the Air: Tatum O'Neal; Jennifer Grant; Pico Iyer
Today on Good Morning America: actress Tatum O'Neal, whose Found: A Daughter's Journey Home (William Morrow, 978-0062066565) pubbed yesterday.
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Michael Koryta's 'Cypress House' Heads to Hollywood
Director Chris Columbus (Home Alone) has nabbed the film rights to Michael Koryta's thriller The Cypress House. Columbus, whose production company 1492 Pictures recently wrapped the movie adaptation of The Help (which will be out in August), plans to adapt Koryta's novel set in Florida during the 1935 Labor Day hurricane.
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