Rachel Weisz to adapt Jennifer Gilmore’s The Mothers
A feature on Rachel Weisz in last week’s New York Magazine contained a short mention of the Academy Award-winning actress “putting a film together based on Jennifer Gilmore’s novel The Mothers.” The Mothers, praised… Read more »
Novel-to-Screen Film Festival comes to New York in April
If you’re looking for a literary event that will also appeal to film buffs, next month the National Book Foundation is teaming up with the Pratt Institute for the Novel-to-Screen… Read more »
Etgar Keret, author of “What Do We Have in Our Pockets,” has a short film up his sleeve
The above short, directed by Goran Dukić and based on Etgar Keret’s story of the same name, premieres this week at the Sundance Film Festival. Dukić is also the director of… Read more »
Life of Graham
Next month, A Liar’s Autobiography, the fictionalized memoirs of Graham Chapman (of the comedy group Monty Python), will be released as an animated 3D film that—despite the irritating ubiquity of the mostly… Read more »
Slideshow: TV’s top bookstores & libraries
The nominations for the 2012 Emmy Awards were announced on Thursday morning, with literary adaptations such as Game of Thrones, Game Change, and Sherlock in the mix for the top… Read more »
Could Peter Jackson turn The Hobbit into a trilogy?
Peter Jackson—Oscar-winning director of the Lord of the Rings film trilogy—recently completed filming his follow-up project, the film adaptation of The Hobbit. His plan is to split the book into… Read more »
Baz Luhrmann releases decadent new trailer for upcoming Gatsby film
The first trailer for director Baz Luhrmann’s film adaptation of The Great Gatsby was released this week, and it certainly looks intriguing. The parties at Gatsby’s mansion, described in such… Read more »
Classic movies on your e-reader
Film aficionados who want the movie experience to be as complete as possible–and who aren’t satisfied with DVDs featuring directors’ cuts, extended scenes, and commentary–will be happy to hear that Warner Brothers… Read more »
Edward Jay Epstein: “The Oscars are What Hollywood Pretends It Does”
On the occasion of a new edition of Edward Jay Epstein’s The Hollywood Economist, Publishers Weekly’s Marc Schultz spoke to Epstein on the state of the industry. What major… 1 / Read more »
Bernard Schlink sues the Weinsteins: There is no gross
Swiss publisher Diogenes and author Bernard Schlink are suing The Weinstein Company, claiming that the studio is fraudulently overstating production costs for The Reader and thereby avoiding paying “2.5%-5% of… Read more »