On August 11, 2014, thousands of teens and their parents eagerly purchased tickets for the long-awaited film adaptation of Lois Lowry's 1994 Newbery Award-winning novel The Giver. My teenaged son read it in junior high and loved it. I loved it too. Like Madelyn L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time, Lowry's The Giver has a subterranean…
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The New Harry Potter Story from J.K. Rowling
Hear more about the latest update on The Boy Who Lived, published on Rowling's Pottermore website yesterday. HP superfans will be delighted to hear that author JK Rowling, despite insisting that she won't return to write another addition to her popular series, has released a short update on the adult lives of her beloved characters. The…
First Look at the New Mac… Scottish Play Adaptation
Mere hours ago the world got its first look at the latest feature film to be adapted from Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Macbeth. And oh what a first look it was... That's right, peel your eyes away from that murderous gaze and you'll find that it belongs to none other than the current Hollywood darling Michael…
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Have You Seen the Gone Girl Trailer Yet?
Most readers would agree that adapted films are almost never as good as the books that inspire them. But with David Fincher casting his creepy spell over Gillian Flynn's breakaway thriller, it looks like Gone Girl might just defy the odds. Check it out below:
The cast includes Ben Affleck as Nick Dunne, Rosamund…
Happy Birthday, Shakespeare! 4 Ways to Celebrate the Bard
Today is the anniversary of the Bard's birth. Check out ways to commemorate the day below, complete with cakes, quizzes, quotes and more. 1. Bake a Shakespeare-inspired birthday cake Introducing... Cakespeare! To celebrate Shakespeare's b-day, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London invited bakers to design cakes inspired by the Bard's prose. See a few…
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The Giver Trailer is Here and It Looks Awesomely Creepy
Lois Lowry's Newbery Award-winning novel The Giver is coming to the big screen, and the first official trailer is out. Take a peek!
The film will star big names Jeff Bridges (as the Giver), Meryl Streep, and Katie Holmes. Newcomer Brenton Thwaites will play the lead role of Jonas, the new Receiver of…
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2013 National Book Award Winners
Is your Kindle finger itching? Do you have a yearning to go to the bookstore or library but don't know what sounds good? Well, maybe this will help. Last night, this year's National Book Awards were announced. Here is the complete list of winners and finalists. James McBride took the fiction prize for his novel…
Double, Double, Toil and Trouble: Branagh’s Macbeth is a Wonderfully Tempestuous Production
For a brief week, the Seattle International Film Festival was able to bring Manchester International Festival’s production of Macbeth to the Uptown Theater in Seattle. As a part of a series called National Theater Live (which includes Othello with Adrian Lester and Frankenstein with Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller), this production stars the illustrious…