Roald Dahl holds a special place in my childhood. I still have vivid memories of reading Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Matilda in school (we even read his rather unsavory memoir Boy; his accounts of boarding school bullying haunt me to this day!) and of watching the delightful early ’90s film adaptations of some […] The post A Definitive Ranking of Roald Dahl Film Adaptations appeared first on Electric Literature. Continue reading at 'Electric Literature'
[ Electric Literature | 2020-11-20 12:00:50 UTC ]
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Adam Kay’s This is Going to Hurt fell from its plinth at the top of the Weekly E-Book Ranking top 20 after a 13-week reign, with Liane Moriarty’s Nine Perfect Strangers rushing in to fill the void. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-04-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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This week's Apple Books store bestseller list again shows the power the screen has over the page. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-04-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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This is Going to Hurt for The Tattooist of Auschwitz: Adam Kay’s junior doctor memoir’s haul of Weekly E-Book Ranking number ones has surpassed that of the Holocaust-set love story. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-04-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Cara Hunter's No Way Out (Viking) has defeated Adam Kay's This is Going to Hurt (Picador) at the top of the Weekly E-Book Ranking, after the junior doctor memoir's 12-week reign. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-04-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sitting down in a back room at a Dave & Buster’s restaurant in Hollywood, actors Zachary Levi, Asher Angel and Jack Dylan Grazer are amped-up — and not just because they’ve been playing Tomb Raider and Space Invaders arcade games for 20 minutes. In recent days, the three have been watching... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2019-04-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Starring Jared Leto and Matt Smith, Morbius - based on a comic book - is set for release next summer. Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2019-03-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Ink Factory has snapped up film and television rights to The Plotters (Fourth Estate) by Un Su Kim. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-03-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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British musician Stormzy is joining the cast of the BBC One adaptation of Malorie Blackman’s YA novel Noughts & Crosses (Penguin Random House Children's). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-03-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Tiger Aspect has signed TV rights to Caroline Hulse’s début The Adults (Orion), a novel about a divorced couple’s attempt to create the perfect Christmas getaway for their daughter and their new partners. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-03-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Faber editorial director Laura Hassan has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights to Miss Dior, the “moving and powerful” story of Catherine Dior, from The Wylie Agency’s Sarah Chalfant. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-03-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Adam Kay’s This is Going to Hurt is the Weekly E-Book Ranking number one for a ninth time. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-03-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Streaming giant buys rights to create first ever screen adaptation of Colombian author’s seminal 1967 magical realist novel Netflix has acquired the rights to Gabriel García Márquez’s seminal One Hundred Years of Solitude to create the first screen adaptation of the author’s 1967 masterpiece.The... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2019-03-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In a script-worthy twist, Oscar-winning writer Aaron Sorkin’s stage adaptation of Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” will receive its West Coast premiere at Azusa Pacific College, a private Christian college in Azusa. The news follows a rollercoaster week in which small theater companies around... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2019-03-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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As one comedian-turned-author soars to the top of the print charts, another makes himself comfortable in the Weekly E-Book Ranking, for an eighth non-consecutive week. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-03-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amblin Partners has acquired the film rights to award-winning writer and journalist Simon Parkin’s forthcoming non-fiction book A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Secret Game That Won The War (Sceptre). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-02-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Octopus imprint Cassell has bagged rights for One Young World’s “definitive guide to activism” featuring advice from Sir Bob Geldof, Black Lives Matter and author Fatima Bhutto. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-02-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The upcoming movie Yesterday bears resemblance to Nick Milligan’s novel EnormityWhen Nick Milligan decided to self-publish his speculative fiction novel, Enormity, he knew it was going to be a hard slog to find an audience. But seeing a similar plot play out in the trailer for Danny Boyle’s new... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2019-02-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Michael B. Jordan’s Outlier Society and Warner Bros. have acquired the film rights to the epic fantasy novel “Black Leopard, Red Wolf” by Marlon James. The first novel of the Dark Star trilogy, “Black Leopard, Red Wolf” is based on African mythology. Set in a world of competing kingdoms and... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2019-02-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Lime Pictures, the TV production company behind Hollyoaks and the Netflix children’s hit Free Rein, is to adapt James Nicol’s ‘The Apprentice Witch’ trilogy. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-02-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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FX announced a series order for the new drama “Y” — a television adaptation of the graphic novel “Y: The Last Man” — at the Television Critics Assn. presentation in Pasadena on Monday. Written by Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra, “Y: The Last Man” is set in a post-apocalyptic world where all men... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2019-02-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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