Hollywood vs The Book

Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw (remake of My Fair Lady) (movie news)
Nights in Rodanthe by Nicholas Sparks (movie news)
He’s Just Not That Into You by Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo (movie news)
The Tourist (not yet published) by Olen Steinhauer (movie news)
John Carter of Mars (graphic novel) by Edgar Rice Burroughs (movie news)
Miracle at St. Anna by James McBride (movie news)
Angels and Demons by Dan Brown (movie news)
Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon And the Journey of a Generation by Sheila Weller (movie news)
What Just Happened?: Bitter Hollywoods Tales From the Frontline by Art Linson (movie news)
The Three Musketeers (another remake) by Alexandre Dumas (movie news)
Escape by Carolyn Jessop (movie news)
The Prince of Providence by Michael Stanton (movie news)
The Dragonology Handbook (movie news)
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs by Judi and Rob Barrett (movie news)
The Deep Blue Good-By by John D. MacDonald (movie news)
The Witch of Portobello by Paul Coelho (movie news)
Robotech (Japanese anime) (movie news)
The Given Day (to be published September 23, 2008) by Denis Lehane (movie news)
Throttle (to be published in He Is Legend: An Anthology Celebrating Richard Matheson in February 2009) by Joe Hill and Stephen King (movie news)
Mystery on Fifth Avenue (New York Times article) by Penelope Green (movie news)
Time Traveler: A Scientist’s Personal Mission To Make Time Travel a Reality by Ronald Mallett (movie news)
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (movie news)
Brick Lane by Monica Ali (movie news)
Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane (film title changed to Ashecliffe)

Happy Reading!

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Hollywood News!

Queen of the South by Arturo Perez Reverte (movie news)
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (movie news)
William Tell (play) by Friedrich von Schiller (movie news)
The Informant by Kurt Eichenwald (movie news)
City of Ember (young adult novel) by Jeanne DuPrau (movie news) (more movie news)
Snuff by Chuck Palahniuk (movie news)
The Increment (not yet published) by David Ignatius (movie news)
Islands in the Stream by Ernest Hemingway (movie news)
Goosebumps (young adult series) by R.L. Stine (movie news)
The Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa Gregory (movie news)
The Sigma Protocol by Robert Ludlum (movie news)
The Second Summer of the Sisterhood (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series) by Ann Brasheares (movie news)
Ligeia by Edgar Allan Poe (movie news)
Eleven Minutes by Paulo Coelho (movie news)
Marley & Me by John Grogan (movie news)
The Boston Stranglers by Susan Kelly (movie news)
An unnamed book (!!!) AND Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian (movie news)
The Road by Cormac McCarthy (!!!)(movie news)

Happy Reading (and viewing)!

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Hollywood News!

Here are my latest finds of books being adapted to the big screen!

Cirque du Freak by Darren Shan (movie news)
I am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe (movie news)
An Invisible Sign of My Own by Aimee Bender (movie news)
The Lovely Bones by Alice Seabold (movie news update)
The Last Mistress by Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly (movie news)
The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznik (movie news)
Birds in Fall by Brad Kessler (movie news)

Happy Reading!

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Hollywood News!

Sea Wolf by Jack London (movie news)

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (movie news)
Hick by Andrea Portes (movie news)
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (movie news)
Ghost in the Shell (graphic novel) by Shirow Masamune (movie news)
Money for Nothing: One Man's Journey Through the Dark Side of Lottery Millions by Edward Ugel (movie news)
The Surrogate by Kathryn Mackel (movie news)
The Kind One by Tom Epperson (movie news)
The Heart Has Its Reasons (Wall Street Journal article) by Kevin Helliker (movie news)
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card (movie news)
Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis (movie news)
Black Comedians on Black Comedy: How African Americans Taught Us To Laugh by Darryl Littleton (movie news)
Angels and Demons by Dan Brown (movie news) (more movie news)
The Fury by John Farris (movie news)
Eloise in Paris by Kay Thompson (movie news)
Dolan’s Cadillac by Stephen King (movie news)

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling (movie news)

Happy Reading (and viewing)!

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More Books-to-Movies!

Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen: How One Girl Risked Her Marriage, Her Job, and Her Sanity To Master the Art of Living by Julie Powell (movie news)

8 Simple Rules For Marrying My Daughter (4/8/08 publication date) by W. Bruce Cameron (movie news)

Bone comic books by Jeff Smith (movie news)

The Blade Itself by Marcus Sakey (movie news)

The Shopaholic series by Sophie Kinsella (Madeleine Wickham is listed as the author in the "movie news" but it is Kinsella's series)(movie news)(more movie news)

The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series by Alexander McCall Smith (okay, so this one is headed to HBO instead of the big screen but we had an author event with him here! He must be mentioned!) (HBO news)

My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult (movie news)

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince (movie news) and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (movie news) by J.K. Rowling

The Wishbones by Tom Perrotta (movie news)

Veronika Decides to Die by Paul Coelho (movie news)

The Amulet (young adult graphic novel series) by Kibuishi Kazu (movie news)

The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe (movie news)

Lush Life by Richard Price (movie news)

Dune by Frank Herbert (movie news)

Rigged: The True Story of an Ivy League Kid Who Changed the World of Oil, from Wall Street to Dubai by Ben Mezrich (movie news)

The Last Apprentice: Revenge of the Witch by Joseph Delaney (movie news)

Drive by James Sallis (movie news)

Ronin (graphic novel) by Frank Miller (movie news)

The Witness by Sandra Brown (movie news)

Happy Reading (and viewing!)
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Reel Good Books!

Here are some of the movies-from-books I've come across lately. Some are in talks, in production, coming soon to a theater near you or in theaters now!

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks (movie news)
Coraline by Neil Gaiman (movie news)
The Ruins by Scott Smith (movie news)
Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane (movie news)
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer (movie news)
Downers' Grove by Michael Hornburg (movie news)
The Stolen Child by Keith Donohue (movie news)
Locke & Key (comic book) by Joe Hill (movie news)
Bringing Down the House by Ben Mezrich (movie news)
Horton Hears a Who by Theodore Geisel (movie news)
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak (movie news)
The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory (movie news)
The Lovely Bones by Alice Seabold (movie news)
Marley & Me by John Grogan (movie news)
Imperial Life in the Emerald City by Rajiv Chandrasekaran (movie news)
The Life Before Her Eyes by Laura Kasischke (movie news)
Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin (movie news)
Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis (movie news)
No Woman No Cry: My Life with Bob Marley by Rita Marley (movie news)
Beautiful Children by Charles Bock (movie news)
Teacher Man by Frank McCourt (movie news)

Cinematical has thrown the question out to their readers and I'm now issuing the challenge!

What great books have you read that would be perfect for the big screen?

Happy Reading!

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Reel Good Books!

...and there is definitely a pun intended with that title :)

Cinematical reports that Dennis Lehane's Shutter Island is coming to the big screen in 2009. Production is scheduled to begin in March and they are changing the name to Asheville after the asylum in the book.

Via Amazon:
From Publishers Weekly Know this: Lehane's new novel, his first since the highly praised and bestselling Mystic River, carries an ending so shocking yet so faithful to what has come before, that it will go down as one of the most aesthetically right resolutions ever written. But as anyone who has read him knows, Lehane, despite his mastery of the mechanics of suspense, is about much more than twists; here, he's in pursuit of the nature of self-knowledge and self-deception, and the ways in which both can be warped by violence and evil. In summer 1954, two U.S. marshals, protagonist Teddy Daniels and his new partner, Chuck Aule, arrive on Shutter Island, not far from Boston, to investigate the disappearance of patient Rachel Solando from the prison/hospital for the criminally insane that dominates the island. The marshals' digging gets them nowhere fast as they learn of Rachel's apparently miraculous escape past locked doors and myriad guards, and as they encounter roadblocks and lies strewn across their path-most notably by the hospital's chief physician, the enigmatic J. Cawley-and pick up hints of illegal brain surgery performed at the hospital. Then, as a major hurricane bears down on the island, inciting a riot among the insane and cutting off all access to the mainland, they begin to fear for their lives. All of the characters-particularly Teddy, haunted by the tragic death of his wife-are wonderful creations, but no more wonderful than the spot-on dialogue with which Lehane brings them to life and the marvelous prose that enriches the narrative. There are mysteries within mysteries in this novel, some as obvious as the numerical codes that the missing patient leaves behind and which Teddy, a code breaker in WWII, must solve; some as deep as the most profound fears of the human heart. There is no mystery, however, about how good this book is; like Mystic River, it's a tour de force.

This book elicited a huge rush of popularity a few years ago and Lehane's books in general continue to enjoy a healthy fanbase. We have reordered copies several times in the past few years as faithful readers flat-out read them into oblivion. If you like a suspenseful, well-crafted tale with elements of mystery and intrigue, come on in and see what's on the shelf!

Happy Reading!

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