Stream your 2024 reading list with these five recent (and upcoming!) book to screen adaptations.
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Vicious and Delicious: The Best of Literature’s Foulest Characters
To be sure, some of the best characters in literature are the so-called "good guys," but let's face it: these goody-goodies are rarely the most interesting characters in the story. Most of us, most of the time, want to see good triumph over evil in the end, but we're really interested in what the villains are…
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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…
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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And the Oscar Goes To…
The books that were made into Oscar-nominated films of 2013. If you're following this year's awards season, you may have noticed that many of the movies receiving the highest accolades were adapted from novels. Some of the big winners at last night's Golden Globes made me want to compile a small list of the books…