“Movies are dreams,” young Sammy Fabelman’s mother explains to him in the first few moments of The Fabelmans, “that you never forget.” But movies are also memories, and this is a different thing. The Fabelmans, Steven Spielberg’s cinematic memoir about the childhood and adolescence he spent... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-11-23 09:57:44 UTC ]
We look back on a November 1974 cover ad from Doubleday for Peter Benchley’s hit Jaws, which Steven Spielberg would adapt into a blockbuster movie released the following summer. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-11-18 05:00:00 UTC ]
Halo’s TV adaptation doesn't waste any time differentiating itself from the popular game franchise. We open in a rebel village bar, where patrons are discussing the evil UNSC (United Nations Space Command) and boogey-man like Spartans. It could easily be a scene from Firefly, the short-lived... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2022-03-25 17:17:05 UTC ]
When DreamWorks founder Jeffrey Katzenberg and former Hewlett-Packard and eBay CEO Meg Whitman announced the idea for Quibi last year, there was debate over whether millennials and Gen Zers would cash in on a mobile-only platform streaming shows lasting for 10 minutes or less. One thing is for... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2019-10-11 22:09:18 UTC ]
The mother-daughter pair follow the Obamas into content creation, focusing on stories about womenHillary and Chelsea Clinton are to form a film and TV company to produce female-centric content. Bloomberg and the Hollywood Reporter have confirmed that the pair are in talks with studios about “a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2019-05-31 11:14:17 UTC ]
Virago has pre-empted an "extraordinary" story of Jewish women resistance fighters that has already been preemptively optioned for film by Steven Spielberg's agency for DreamWorks Pictures. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-02-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Steven Spielberg’s new film adaptation of a Roald Dahl story has Dahl being remembered as a children's book author with a dark sense of humor. But his stories for adults are typically more macabre. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2016-08-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Virgin Books has acquired the UK and Commonwealth rights to Wildflower, a collection of autobiographical essays by actress and producer Drew Barrymore. In the essays Barrymore, who shot to fame as a child actress when she played Gertie in Steven Spielberg’s "E.T.", writes about incidents from... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publisher and writer with an instinctive eye for a literary hit, he was key to the success of the Booker prizeIf asked in a quiz for the link between Julie Andrews and Alan Clark, Julian Fellowes and Edna O’Brien, you could give only one correct answer: Ion Trewin, publisher. Trewin, who has... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-04-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Photographer Lynsey Addario's memoir will reportedly be adapted as a film that will be directed by Steven Spielberg. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2015-03-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Actor Mark Rylance will play the title role in The BFG, Steven Spielberg's film of Roald Dahl's much-loved children's book about a "Big Friendly Giant". Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2014-10-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Steven Spielberg will direct a film version of Roald Dahl’s The BFG for DreamWorks,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-04-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Doris Kearns Goodwin talks about her book 'Team of Rivals,' and what it was like to see her work come to life in Steven Spielberg's 'Lincoln.' Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Benedicte Page Publication Date: Wed, 20/04/2011 - 15:13 Palazzo Editions will publish a "major" retrospective of the work of Steven Spielberg in August 2012, written in co-operation with the director. Steven Spielberg: A Retrospective will be written by film critic and documentary... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-04-20 00:00:00 UTC ]