Book Adaptations

'The Marriage Plot' To Be Adapted For Film

| Posted 05.18.2012

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From World & Film Hollywood seems to be getting serious in its on-again, off-again romance with the nineteenth-century novel. Things started heatin...

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Warner Brothers Sells 'Ben Hur,' 'Casablanca' As E-Books

Posted 04.30.2012

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Classic movie fans, rejoice! If you've enjoyed watching Charlton Heston star in the nativity saga "Ben Hur," or sat on the edge of your seat as Cary G...

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WATCH: The Best Book-To-Film Adaptations Ever

| Posted 04.11.2012

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By Luke Dempsey for Bookish In a world, where almost every book ever published becomes a movie... In a world, where Atticus Finch is considered eve...

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The Best Book-To-Film Adaptations

Joseph McBride | Posted 04.29.2012

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I've come to admire films that have managed to take a book or short story and turn it into a first-rate screen story.

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Movie Versus Book: Oscar Nominee 'Moneyball'

Posted 02.21.2012

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The rivalry between books and movie adaptations is as hotly disputed and long-standing as that of the Yankees and the Red Sox. Enraged fans hoot and h...

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Our Favorite Bookish Love Scenes From Films

Posted 02.13.2012

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In an essay about the idiosyncrasies of new relationships, humor writer Sloane Crosley reflects on her past lovers' too-avid desire to create intimate...

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6 Books We Wish Were Musicals

| Posted 02.06.2012

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By Margaret Bristol and Robbie Olson for Bookish: The upcoming premiere of NBC's "Smash" got us thinking: With all the books finding their way to t...

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Most Anticipated Book Adaptations Of 2012

| Posted 01.21.2012

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By Gabe Habash for PWxyz: 2011 was a mixed year for adaptations, ranging from bad ("One Day") to okay ("The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo") to great ...

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Book Adaptations At Sundance 2012

| Posted 01.19.2012

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By Kristin Fritz via Word & Film: With so much ongoing overlap among books and movies, it’s no wonder that the annual wintertime Sundance Film Fe...

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PHOTOS: Helena Bonham Carter Plays Literary Villain

Madeleine Crum | Posted 01.04.2012

Read More: Great Expectations, Great Expectation Photos, Miss-Havisham, Charles Dickens, Helena Bonham Carter, Great Expectations Film, Book Adaptations, Great Expectations Movie, Books News

The sweetheart (or miscreant, depending on the flick) of period piece films, Helena Bonham Carter is making a silver-haired return to the silver scree...

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WATCH: Bestselling Board Game Adapted Into Book

Posted 12.27.2011

Read More: Settlers of Catan Board Game, Rebecca Gablé, Book Adaptations, Settlers of Catan, Settlers of Catan Book, Board Games, Video, Books News

The Settlers of Catan is one of the most popular board games of recent times. It's a kind of trading and resource allocation game where each player tr...

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Movies Totally Different From The Books They Were Based On

Posted 12.10.2011

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From Flavorwire: With a few rare exceptions, most people tend to agree that the book version of a story is always better than the movie. But what a...

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New TV Adaptation Of 'Moby-Dick': Should You Watch It?

The Washington Post | Hide This | Posted 10.01.2011

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High school English teachers, your attention please! I have wonderful and terrible news. Encore, that glorious waster of weekend afternoons on cabl...

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10 Creepy, Sexy Fairy Tales That Should Be Films

io9.com | Oldwookiee | Posted 09.24.2011

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If there's one thing we learned this past week at Comic-Con, it's that Hollywood is obsessed with fairy tales. They're magical, they've got instant re...

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10 Unrealized Book Adaptations That We'd Like To Have Seen

Posted 09.20.2011

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From Flavorwire: When Universal announced last year that an epic adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower was in the works, which would includ...

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PHOTOS: America's Favorite British Authors And Jane Austen Wasn't On The List!

Posted 09.03.2011

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America has an enduring love affair with British literature--we may have won the War of Independence but we are forever indebted to our island ancesto...

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Drew Barrymore To Produce And Direct Young-Adult Thriller

The Hollywood Reporter | Posted 08.31.2011

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Drew Barrymore is attached to produce with an eye to direct Heist Society, a young adult thriller being made by Warner Bros....

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James Frey's Bisexual, Alcholic Jesus Will Ascend To Silver Screen

The New York Observer | Posted 08.30.2011

Read More: The Final Testament of the Holy Bible, Book Adaptations, Jesus Christ, Film Adaptations, James Frey, Christine Vachon, Ebooks, Books News

Christine Vachon’s Killer Films will produce a film adaptation of James Frey’s The Final Testament of the Holy Bible. In the book, which was relea...

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Margaret Mitchell's 'Gone With The Wind' Turns 75

npr.org | Maureen Corrigan | Posted 08.30.2011

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In June 1936, a blockbuster of a book was published; it gave the world a sense of the Old South, an unforgettable heroine and (in the movie version) t...

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What YA Book Should Be Made Into A Movie Next?

Vulture | By: | Posted 08.29.2011

Read More: HUnger Games, The Giver, A Wrinkle in Time, Book Adaptations, Ya Book Adaptiations, Film Adaptations, Hatchet, Deenie, Books News

Now that The Giver film adaptation is moving forward, and the known universe is in the throes of Hunger Games fever, it's inevitable that there are mo...

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Which Book Adaptation Attracted The Most Complaints In 2010?

guardian.co.uk | Ben Child | Posted 08.14.2011

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Peter Jackson's The Lovely Bones was last year's most complained about movie, according to the British Board of Film Classification, the body which cl...

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Best Film Adaptations Of Books

The Daily Beast | Posted 07.25.2011

Read More: Lionel Shriver, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The English Patient, Legends of the Fall, Best Film Adaptations, Atonement, Mrs. Bridge, Book Adaptations, Mr. Bridge, Film Adaptations, We Need to Talk About Kevin, Books News

One of the hot properties at Cannes was the film version of Lionel Shriver's bestselling We Need to Talk About Kevin, but it's the rare book that make...

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Stephen King Sounds Off On "Carrie" Remake

ew.com | Posted 07.20.2011

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Thirty-five years after Stephen King’s first best-seller roared into theaters and scared a generation of prom-going teens, MGM and Screen Gems have ...

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Author's Widow Sues Film Professor

The Boston Globe | Posted 07.17.2011

Read More: Boston University, Copyright Infringement, Robert Patton-Spruill, The Rat on Fire, Loretta Cubberly, Book Adaptations, George v. Higgins, Jan Egleson, Film Adaptations, Books News

Not surprisingly, a dispute over film rights to the late George V. Higgins’s novel “The Rat on Fire’’ has ended up in court. Loretta Cubberley...

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Child's Vision Of Heaven To Be Adapted For Film

deadline.com | Posted 07.10.2011

Read More: Colton Burpo, Heaven Is for Real, Lynn Vincent, New York Times Bestseller List, Todd Burpo, Sony Pictures, Book Adaptations, Film Adaptations, The Sixth Sense, Joe Roth, Books News

Sony Pictures has acquired screen rights to the book Heaven Is For Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip To Heaven And Back, written by To...

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