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Fox Options John Green's 'Fault in Our Stars'
After switching his representation in Hollywood, author John Green has closed a deal with Fox 2000 for his new YA novel, The Fault in Our Stars.
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Children's Books Get 21 Oscar Nominations
Tuesday morning’s announcement of the 84th annual Academy Award nominations, had a whopping 21 films based on kids’ books.
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Hungry for More About the Hunger Games? A Q&A with Amandla Stenberg (aka Rue)
Suzanne Collins's Hunger Games trilogy ended in 2010, but it gets a new lease on life with the release of the big-screen version of the first novel on March 23. Eighth-grader Amandla Stenberg, 13, who portrays Rue, talked with PW about her role in the movie.
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John Green Moves to UTA for Film
YA novelist John Green, whose latest effort, The Fault in Our Stars, hit shelves on hit shelves on January 10, has moved from William Morris Endeavor to UTA for his Hollywood business.
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E.L. James and the Case of Fan Fiction
After running a piece earlier this week about a British author whose erotica series sparked interest in Hollywood, a number of readers commented that the series, Fifty Shades of Grey, began as Twilight fan fiction.
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British Erotica Series Catches Hollywood's Eye
One of the things Hollywood scouts are buzzing about coming off the holidays is, surprisingly, an erotica series by a British TV executive which has garnered strong word-of-mouth via GoodReads and other fan sites.
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PW at the Movies: 'We Need to Talk About Kevin'
Two of PW's resident movie critics--and recurring contributors to PW at the Movies--Mike Harvkey and Rachel Deahl discuss Lynne Ramsay's new adaptation of Lionel Shriver's Orange Prize-winning 2003 novel, We Need to Talk About Kevin (Counterpoint).
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Movie Alert: 'War Horse'
From page to stage, and now to screen, it’s been a long, storied journey for British author Michael Morpurgo and his epic novel, War Horse,first published in 1982.
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Cinema for Spring: 2012 Movie Tie-Ins
Spring is full of tie-ins with book-to-film projects featuring claymation, chimpanzees, Coriolanus, Close (Glenn), comedy (lots), and classics (happy 200th birthday, Mr. Dickens).
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On Adapting le Carre: 'PW' Talks with Filmmaker Tomas Alfredson
After breaking out with the startlingly poetic vampire film, Let the Right One In, Swedish auteur Tomas Alfredson shifted gears and embraced English to adapt John le Carré’s canonical novel, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, to the screen. PW talks with Alfredson about the experience.
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Movie Alert: 'The Adventures of Tintin'
The journey is just beginning for a precocious world traveler with a trademark hairdo and his loyal canine companion: The Adventures of Tintin hits U.S. theatres on December 21.
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Braided River Has ‘To the Arctic’ Tie-in
After working for two years with Warner Bros. Pictures, MacGillivray Freeman Films, and IMAX Corp., Braided River, an imprint of nonprofit Mountaineers Books, in Seattle, has produced To the Arctic, the official companion book to the 3D film of the same name set to release next fall.
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Movie Alert: 'Hugo'
As Brian Selznick continues to stir up excitement in the book world for Wonderstruck, another high-voltage event is on the horizon" Hugo, the film adaptation of Selznick's Caldecott-winning The Invention of Hugo Cabret, opens in theatres on November 23.
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Authors on the Air October 29, 2011: Jackie Collins
Jackie Collins, author of Goddess of Vengeance (St. Martin's Press, 978-0312567460), will be appearing on Tavis Smiley.
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‘Kill Shakespeare’ Invited To Sundance
In July 2009, PW met two former film producers at the San Diego Comic-Con to hear about a comics project with the provocative title of Kill Shakespeare. Kill Shakespeare—a comics/graphic novel series from IDW that cleverly reshuffles characters from across the plays of the Bard into one big swashbuckling adventure tale—has found an audience.
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Movie Alert: 'Breaking Dawn—Part 1'
The on-screen Twilight saga continues with the November 18 premiere of Breaking Dawn—Part 1, the first of two films based upon Stephenie Meyer's fourth book in her paranormal romance series-turned-phenomenon.
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Movie Alert: 'Dolphin Tale'
On September 23, Winter, a bottlenose dolphin that many readers know from a photographic picture book Winter’s Tail: How One Little Dolphin Learned to Swim Again, will make her big-screen debut in Dolphin Tale, from Warner Bros. Pictures and Alcon Entertainment.
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Dennis Lehane Talks Noir, Politics and How Clint Eastwood Sounds on the Phone
Litquake, San Francisco’s literary festival, brought Dennis Lehane, author of Mystic River and Shutter Island, and Eddie Muller, the "Czar of Noir," to the stage at the Herbst Theater for their annual event.
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Debut Novelist Could Hit Theaters Before Bookstores
New York Magazine's pop culture blog, Vulture, reported Thursday about Rebecca Serle, a debut novelist who might see the film adaptation of her book out before the book itself.
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'Romeo and Juliet' Spin-Off Book Already Made into Film
The upcoming Shakespeare spin-off, When You Were Mine by Rebecca Serle, which reimagines Romeo and Juliet from the perspective of Rosaline, won't be published by Simon & Schuster until May. But a film adaptation is already in the works, with Keira Knightly possibly in the lead. The film will likely be done by the time the book hits shelves.
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