Focus Features to Acquire Film Rights to Neil Gaiman's New Book
Focus Features and Playtone Partners, the production company of actor/producer Tom Hanks and producer Gary Goetzman, are currently hammering out a deal to acquire the rights to Neil Gaiman’s upcoming novel The Ocean At The End Of The Lane. read more
Found in: Movies, NewsAnna Karenina
Did we really need another Anna Karenina? Leo Tolstoy’s 1870s epic romance has been adapted for film and television a couple dozen times. Greta Garbo has played the title role. So has Vivien Leigh. And Sophie Marceau. And Jacqueline Bisset. It’s been made in Germany and Italy and Hungary and Argentina and India and the Philippines and, of course, Russia. There’s even an Arabic version.... read more
Found in: Movies, ReviewsWatch a Trailer for Anna Karenina, Starring Keira Knightley
If you’ve been anxiously waiting for Russian writer Leo Tolstoy’s classic novel Anna Karenina to be adapted into a major motion picture, you’re in luck. Filmmaker Joe Wright (Atonement, Hanna) is directing Tom Stoppard’s adapted screenplay of the classic piece of literature, and Keira Knightley will star in the title role. Jude Law will star as Karenina’s cuckolded husband, Alexi Karenin.... read more
Found in: Movies, News15 Novels You Should Read Before the Film Adaptation Comes Out
With The Help reigning supreme at the box office, there’s no wonder why studios want to adapt best-selling novels for the big screen. From now until the end of 2012, there are over two dozen films coming out based on novels. read more
Found in: Blogs, List of the DayA Dozen of Literature's Greatest Jerks
The other day, while listening to LCD Soundsystem’s “Dance Yrself Clean” the line, “Talking like a jerk / Except you are an actual jerk / And living proof that sometimes friends are mean” started knocking around in our heads, and it got us to thinking about all the jerks we’ve met in our lifetimes. From there, we started thinking about all the jerks we’ve read about in our lifetimes—there are plenty of literary characters we’ve encountered that almost make the real-life jerks seem tolerable. Below are a dozen that particularly stand out.... read more
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