Stieg Larsson’s trilogy of Swedish crime novels are some of the best-selling and most recognizable books of the last 50 years. There’s isn’t a literate soul in America who isn’t… 6 / Read more »

The husband and wife owners of TYPE Books—the great Toronto indie—have been staying up nights after hours making this charming, whimsical, and delightful stop-action film of books at play. Enjoy!… Read more »

The moment we’ve all been waiting for… The 9/11 novel The New York Times called “irritating” and New York Press hailed as “incredibly false” has been made into a major feature… 6 / Read more »

We’re pleased to announce the winner of the Ultimate Duel Book Trailer Contest. The winning entry, by a landslide, was created by The Glossary, a start-up video production company that aims to… Read more »

Lionel Shriver’s deeply disturbing and bestselling 2003 novel We Need To Talk About Kevin has now been made into an “unrelentingly bleak film” starring Tilda Swinton and John C. Riley as… Read more »

In a slide show at Flavorwire, Jason Baily lists what he considers the ten worst adaptations of classic literature into film. Complete with trailers, it’s a dead-on, hilarious, and highly… Read more »

Charlotte Brontë died 156 years ago yesterday, prompting me to recall that last week I was in midtown when my girlfriend asked me whether I had a copy of her… Read more »

Sacha Baron Cohen has announced that his next film will be based on the Iraqi novel Zabibah and the King, written by Saddam Hussein. As noted in a Guardian report… Read more »

A recent article about Halloween movies by Dianna Dilworth in eBookNewser got me thinking about a subject we talk about on a pretty regular basis at MobyLives: movies based on… 6 / Read more »

The following post by Edward Jay Epstein, author of The Hollywood Economist: The Hidden Financial Reality Behind the Movies (available from Melville House, and reviewed in the Wall Street Journal… Read more »