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Movie Alert: 'Ender's Game'
Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game series makes the leap to the big screen with a new film out November 1.
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Filmmakers Hit Kickstarter for Funding of Documentary On Books
Filmmaking husband-and-wife team Sara Ossana and Mathew Provost have turned to crowdfunding Web site Kickstarter to raise money to finish their film, Books: A Documentary.
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Counting Down to 'The 100'
Alloy Entertainment's latest book-and-TV project, The 100, adapted from the debut sci-fi novel by Kass Morgan, was ready to air before the book had even been published.
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Movie Alert: 'The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones'
The clock is ticking down to the August 21 release of City of Bones, adapted from the first book in Cassandra Clare's Mortal Instruments series.
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Movie Alert: 'Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters'
A mythical battle resumes at the movie theater on August 7 with the release of Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters.
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Sony Pictures Launches 'Breaking Bad' Book
Sony has partnered with the creators of Breaking Bad to produce Breaking Bad: Alchemy.
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Movie Alert: 'The Spectacular Now'
A film version of Tim Tharp's The Spectacular Now, starring Shailene Woodley, Miles Teller, and Jennifer Jason Leigh and directed by James Ponsoldt, releases on August 2.
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Movie Alert: 'Tiger Eyes'
Tiger Eyes, originally published in 1981 by Bradbury Press, is the first of Judy Blume's books to be adapted into a feature-length movie.
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'American Dream Machine' Gets Showtime Series
Matthew Spektor's American Dream Machine (Tin House) is being adapted for a Showtime series by Dexter star Michael C. Hall. Spektor will write the script; Dexter showrunner Scott Buck will supervise. The project is set in Hollywood in the 1970s and centers on the titular talent agency.
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'Tiger Eyes': A Family Film
Judy Blume's son, Lawrence, has directed a feature film version of her novel Tiger Eyes, to be released June 7.
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Movie Alert: 'Epic'
Loosely based on William Joyce's 1996 picture book The Leaf Men and the Brave Good Bugs, the 3D animated film premieres May 24.
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Movie Alert: 'Oz the Great and Powerful'
Oz the Great and Powerful, a new adaptation based on L. Frank Baum's universe, premieres on March 8 and stars James Franco as Oscar Diggs, a Kansas magician with questionable morals who is whisked away to Oz when his hot air balloon is sucked into a cyclone.
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Delirium Trilogy Heads to the Small Screen
The Fox Network has ordered a pilot based on Lauren Oliver's popular Delirium trilogy, just ahead of the release of book three, Requiem (Harper, March).
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TCG Doing 'Lincoln' Screenplay in Print
Publishing a book that was a hallmark what Newmarket Press used to do, Theatre Communications Groups is releasing a standalone edition of Tony Kushner's screenplay for Lincoln.
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Movie Alert: 'Beautiful Creatures'
A love story set in an enigmatic Southern town, warring magical sects, and a powerful legacy that will determine a teen's destiny: could Beautiful Creatures hold the recipe for the next YA series-turned-movie blockbuster?
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Promotional Power
Fourteen of the 50 movies with the all-time largest U.S. box office totals are based on high-profile books from four series.
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Movie Alert: 'The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey'
On December 14, everyone's favorite Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, will embark on his first live action cinematic adventure in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, and buzz has been building in the Tolkien-sphere for some time.
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Movie Alert: 'Rise of the Guardians'
An elated William Joyce spoke with PW about the upcoming film, Rise of the Guardians, a DreamWorks Animation 3D production based on his Guardians of Childhood series of picture and chapter books.
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Movie Alert: 'Breaking Dawn Part 2'
As the box office opens on November 16, the sun sets on the Twilight series – or does it? Though the highly anticipated Breaking Dawn Part 2 will likely deliver the closure that viewers are hoping for, rumors have been circulating through the Twilight-sphere: more movies or a television series might be in the works.