Deadpool’s Great, But Guess Who Rob Liefeld Thinks Is Up Next For a Movie?

The comic book vet created dozens of characters, but he's pretty sure one of them is destined for the big-screen treatment. The post Deadpool’s Great, But Guess Who Rob Liefeld Thinks Is Up Next For a Movie? appeared first on WIRED. Continue reading at 'Wired'

[ Wired | 2015-07-10 00:00:00 UTC ]

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'Japan is great' genre booms in bookshops

Exceeding even recent American triumphalism, a spate of bestsellers in Japan is reflecting a new national bent for self-congratulation. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-04-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Thinking outside the books – how to get ahead in publishing

Sarah Minty, vice chair of SYP London, says future publishers need to do more than just love books. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-04-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Teenagers think Google is cool, study by Google finds

The company funded ‘It’s Lit: A guide to what teens think is cool’, which found that it was more cool than Vice, Nike and FacebookToday’s teenagers think Google and Google brands are cool, research funded by Google has found.Google published “It’s Lit: A guide to what teens think is cool”, a... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2017-04-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Wimpy Kid 'movie diary' out in May

Puffin has announced the latest in Jeff Kinney’s Wimpy Kid series as a “behind-the-scenes look” of the upcoming film. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-03-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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JK Rowling fan guesses latest Cormoran Strike book title

The author promised to send a signed copy to the fan when the book is published. Continue reading at BBC News

[ BBC News | 2017-03-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Movie Alert: ‘Boss Baby’

Back in 2010, when the picture book 'The Boss Baby' was published, author-illustrator Marla Frazee had no inclination that Alec Baldwin would one day voice her character on the big screen. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-03-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Rejoice in Logan’s Success. It Means Grittier Comic Book Movies Are Coming

Comic book movies now have another "hard-R" hit. And it won't be the last. The post Rejoice in Logan’s Success. It Means Grittier Comic Book Movies Are Coming appeared first on WIRED. Continue reading at Wired

[ Wired | 2017-03-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Mohsin Hamid | 'It is impossible for me to think of myself any more as a person of just one place'

The author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist returns with his fourth novel Exit West, which has migrations of both geography and emotion at its heart.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-02-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Kate Hamer | 'I was brought up on fairytales and I think that informs a lot of what I do'

The author’s follow-up to her unusual and striking début is set in the ancient Forest of Dean. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-02-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Fay Weldon | 'We think we are women, but are we women?'

Feminist classic The Life and Loves of a She Devil finally has its sequel and, as Benedicte Page discovers, its outspoken author Fay Weldon is taking on new terrain in the story of the sexes. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-02-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Making ALA Great Again

Librarians are standing up to Trump, and they want the American Library Association to follow suit. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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10 Great Westerns You've Never Read

Andrew Hilleman, author of the thrilling new western "World, Chase Me Down," picks 10 diamonds in the rough. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-01-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Scale-hungry Facebook video publishers are in trouble if they don’t think long term

It’s getting easier to get to a billion views on Facebook. But publishers that are only chasing scale, and not thinking about video as a long-term business, are in trouble. Take, for instance, TV, which can monetize the same piece of content through advertising, licensing, syndication,... Continue reading at Digiday

[ Digiday | 2016-11-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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I Can’t Stand to Think About Donald Trump

I’m terrified by Twitter. Facebook freaks me out. Every time I check my phone, the appalling facts from yesterday have devolved into today’s even more atrocious news. A climate-change denier may be in line to run the Environmental Protection Agency. A soft-drink lobbyist has the inside track for... Continue reading at Slate

[ Slate | 2016-11-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hodder blown away by Great Storm acquisition

Hodder and Stoughton has acquired Windblown after a "keenly contested" auction, a narrative non-fiction title written to mark the 30th anniversary of 1987's Great Storm. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-11-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Movie Alert: 'A Monster Calls'

A monster is calling. YA author Patrick Ness's story of a boy named Conor who is visited after midnight by an ancient monster stalks into theaters on December 23. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-11-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Helena Kelly | 'Almost everything we think we know about Jane Austen is wrong'

Think you know everything about Jane Austen? Helena Kelly invites you to think again about one of the nation’s favourite authors in Jane Austen, The Secret Radical.   Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-11-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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To Think That It Happened at Bank Street: Bank Street Book Fest 2016

On a blustery fall day, members of the children's book community gathered for BookFest at Bank Street on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-10-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Gollancz grabs late SFF great Gemmell

Orion imprint Gollancz has acquired a newly discovered crime novel by the late fantasy novelist David Gemmell. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-10-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Think Creepy Clowns Are Scary? Check Out This Bloomberg Businessweek (Middle East) Cover

Think creepy clowns are scary? Check out the nightmare-inducing new cover of the Middle East edition of Bloomberg Businessweek, titled "President Whoever" and subtitled "For the Middle East, does the result of the US presidential election even matter?"The cover mashup of Donald Trump and Hillary... Continue reading at Advertising Age

[ Advertising Age | 2016-10-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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