August 7, 2011 – 12:56 pm
So what goes into bringing a number one best seller like Kathryn Stockett‘s The Help to the big screen? A good script is essential but set design is certainly the biggest component to transporting an audience back in time to the deep south of the sixties. According to Cinema Style, the inspiration for many of [...]
Shop Indie Bookstores Summer is here and one book to movie I am most looking forward to is Kathryn Stockett’s The Help due in theaters August 12th. Here is some behind the scene footage just to get you primed.
Well everyone who is anyone in book world is probably in New York this week attending Book Expo America (BEA), the book industry’s premier trade show. It used to be de rigueur to attend in order to get the inside scoop on upcoming titles, but now that a number of the author events and business panels can be [...]
October 8, 2010 – 5:32 pm
The fall book season is well under way and the following newsy book items caught my eye. What books are the librarians loving this season? Emma Donoghue‘s The Room, Susan Henderson’s Up From The Blue and Tom Franklin‘s Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter. Already on the NY Times bestseller list coupled with a stellar audio version, [...]
Shop Indie Bookstores Here are some great shots of Reese Witherspoon playing the part of avid horsewoman, Marlena Rosenbluth, in the film adaptation of Sara Gruen‘s very popular novel ‘Water For Elephants’. Film production began last month. Other cast members are: Robert Pattinson as Jacob Jankowski, Christoph Waltz as August, Mark Povinelli as Kinko/Walter, Jim [...]
Shop Indie Bookstores ‘Winter’s Bone’ is a new art-house movie that is getting rave reviews. It is adapted from Daniel Woodrell’s eighth novel of the same name. Set in the Missouri Osarks, ‘Winter’s Bone’ tells a grim tale of a daughter’s search for her meth- cookin’ dad who has missed his court appearance thus [...]
Hurrah! Two wonderful books have been adapted into two wonderful foreign films that I can only hope will get wider distribution in this country after they make the rounds of all the international film festivals. Mao’s Last Dancer (Australian) is based on the autobiography of Li Cunxin 5 star reader review and The Elegance Of [...]
The following video has been making the rounds on Face Book. Who knew it would be a ‘portent of things to come’. Hollywood is apparently embracing all books Brontë after nearly two decades of all films Jane Austen. USA Today reports that new versions of Wurthering Heights and Jane Eyre are in the works [...]
August 10, 2009 – 4:13 pm
Ang Lee’s newest movie, Taking Woodstock, (based on Elliot Tiber’s memoir) is set to be released later this month in conjunction with the 40th anniversary of upstate New York’s most infamous music festival. To get yourself in the right 60′s frame of mind, go to the FilmInFocus website and transform a photo of yourself into [...]
Audrey Niffenegger’s The Time Traveler’s Wife movie trailer was released this past weekend and is set to hit the big screen later this summer. Click here to purchase this book from your favorite Indie Bookseller A surprise best seller when it was first released in 2003, this novel is a love story about a man [...]
