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15 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

Awesome of the Day: On the Bro'd

So, like, back in the 1950s, when everything was, like, in black and white and stuff, this dude named Jack Kerouac went on an epic road trip, fratting hard and smoking some primo bud, and then he wrote a book about it, which was also, like, totally awesome....  read more

Amy Adams, Viggo Mortensen Join On The Road Adaptation

Maybe Viggo Mortensen is only going to act in movies with “road” in the title from here on out....  read more

Kristen Stewart Cast in Movie Version of Keruoac's On The Road

Jack Kerouac’s 1957 autobiographical masterpiece, On The Road, has topped the reading lists of countless Americans. (Time magazine even named it among its 100 best English-language novels from 1923-2005.) And now the much-loved book is crossing into cinematic territory, thanks to Brazilian director Walter Salles and Puerto Rican screenwriter Jose Rivera (The Motorcycle Diaries)....  read more

Walter Salles talks about his On the Road adaptation

Although it was stuck in development for three decades (with Francis Ford Coppola owning the rights at one point), the film adaptation of iconic Jack Kerouac novel On the Road is finally inching toward the big screen....  read more