What came first: the book or the movie? You might think that’s an easy question. The book, obviously. Right? Well, not necessarily. While it’s true...
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Novelists spend a lot of time by themselves, in front of a word processor, furiously slapping their fingers against a keyboard. Sometimes they get lucky and spell out coherent words, other times they “accidentally” download internet pornography. It’s a tricky balancing act, and only the most talented writers are able to figure out a method that allows them to do both. Sometimes novelists need a break from the written word AND pornography, however, which I admit does sound bizarre, but it’s true. Which is how, once in a while, we end up witnessing a novelist venture out into the world of filmmaking—specifically, in the examples presented in this article, directing. Novelists such as…
Showtime’s Shameless team John Wells and Molly Smith Metzler are linking up with actress/ producer Margot Robbie to bring us the screen adaptation of Stephanie Land’s memoir Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive.
Revered as one of the all-time greats of classic Hollywood cinema, Chinatown has enjoyed a life of its own for decades. Take, for instance, the maligned 1990 follow-up film, The Two Jakes. The future of Chinatown’s legacy is in these two projects that are currently in development.
This October, my novella, WE NEED TO DO SOMETHING, was adapted into a film. I also wrote the screenplay and served as an executive producer. Here’s the Hollywood Reporter press release. To quickly summarize, WE NEED TO DO SOMETHING is set almost entirely in a residential bathroom.
Get ready Ally Carter fans, because the writer behind I’d Tell You I Love You, But Then I’d Have to Kill You has written a Christmas rom-com movie for Netflix called A Castle for Christmas!
It’s the most wonderful time of the year—holiday movie season! There’s nothing better than snuggling up with some blankets, hot cocoa, and a wonderfully sappy...
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Knockemstiff is such an amazing name for a town, you’d have a hard time believing it’s authentic. But, residing in the area of Ross County, Ohio, with an estimated population of 56,753 people, it is very much a real town. Back in the 1950s, the population was only about 450, and—according to author Donald Ray Pollock—the majority of its residents were “connected by blood through one godforsaken calamity or another.”
File this under “most anticipated”: Kiera Cass’s novel ‘The Selection’ is finally getting the Netflix film adaptation fans have been begging for! Haifaa Al-Mansour will direct the movie based on the first book in the popular young adult series.
Everyone knows that Disney favorites like Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Beauty and the Beast, and Frozen were inspired by fairy tales, but did you know that many other Disney films were based on books? Let’s see if you know the books that inspired these Disney films.
