Movie adaptations from classic books have been a feature of the film industry pretty much since the beginning (George Du Maurier's Trilby, for example...
Hollywood loves using books as source material - this year's Best Picture category at the Oscars features "Life of Pi," "Lincoln," "Argo," "Silver Lin...
Oscar nominations for 2013 were announced this morning, and this is clearly a great year for book adaptations. Five of the nine Best Picture nomina...
The film rights to Maria Semple's summer book hit Where'd You Go Bernadette were acquired by Annapurna Pictures and Color Force on Tuesday. Scott ...
David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas, is apparently happy with how the movie turned out. He should be. The movie -- faithful in spirit but unfaithful in many details -- does something I would have sworn was impossible: it soars like the book.
Take one look at this fall's most highly anticipated movies, and you'll find a ton of exciting book adaptations: Leo Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina," Yann M...
Written for Word & Film by Christine Spines: Can your television set be trusted with two American literature’s most iconic kids? We’d argue tha...
Originally posted on Word & Film: Word & Film: There is something about good thrillers — your latest bestselling novel "Gone Girl" included — ...
It's finally, really happening. Philip Roth's 1997 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "American Pastoral," often considered the 79-year-old legend's mast...
From World & Film Hollywood seems to be getting serious in its on-again, off-again romance with the nineteenth-century novel. Things started heatin...
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...
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...
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.
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...
In an essay about the idiosyncrasies of new relationships, humor writer Sloane Crosley reflects on her past lovers' too-avid desire to create intimate...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
High school English teachers, your attention please! I have wonderful and terrible news. Encore, that glorious waster of weekend afternoons on cabl...
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...
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...
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...
