I just read this info and had to start this thread over here because I'm excited (though a bit nervous). It's actually TV series news rather than movie.

HBO Acquires "A Song of Ice and Fire"

According to Variety, HBO has acquired the rights to George R.R. Martin's bestselling fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire.

The series will be turned into a dramatic series to be written and executive produced by David Benioff (Troy) and D.B. Weiss (Halo). Benioff and Weiss will write all episodes but one, which will be written by Martin.

HBO plans to dedicate a season to the plot of each book and there are currently 4 books in print with a 5th expected in 2007. Martin will co-executive produce the series.

I don't know this series, but it is usually a good thing when the author is involved in the production. I hope this is a wonderful tv creation of a series!

I saw an ad on tv last night for a movie of Bridge to Terebithia. This book by Katherine Paterson was one of my favorites growing up. I probably read it at least once a year. However, the movie version looks like it focuses on the fantasy world of Terebithia that the kids create rather than the relationship the two have. Hmmm... Not sure if I am going to see this one or not.

Wow, I can't believe someone is going to do a show out of these books. There are so many characters and stories going on at once. I don't get HBO so I'll have to wait until they come out on DVD. I just hope they don't take as long to get the tv series done as it takes Martin to get one of these books published. Awesome books though. I highly recommend them to anyone who enjoys fantasy. Martin is an author who's not afraid to push the envelop with his characters...or his readers.

Early stages, but looking forward to see how it compares to the book.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0435628/

This Sunday (Jan 21) CBC is airing their adaptation of Margaret Atwood's The Robber Bride:

http://www.cbc.ca/arts/tv/the_robber_bride.html

I'm looking forward to this; I really liked the book.

I believe it's also airing on the Oxygen network in the US but I don't know when.

Opal Dream is coming out soon. It's adapted from the Ben Rice novel Pobby and Dingan

Also, the Sci-fi Channel is going to be making a miniseries of The Diamind Age by Neil Stephenson

I have recently begun seeing trailer ads for Blood and Chocolate

the book · the movie

(I know this was brought up in the old forum, but I hadn't yet seen it mentioned here in the new)

Additional info on Blood & Chocolate, the movie:

In theaters January 26th. More details, including trailers, can be found at The Unofficial Annette Curtis Klause Site, the director's web site, and the official MGM web site.

I've been finding stuff while randomly surfing on IMDB...

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer, Sean Penn writes and directs

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand with Angelina Jolie attached as the main character

The Starter Wife by Gigi Levangie will be a TV mini-series with Debra Messing, I've already started seeing ads for this on TV

I want to see Into the Wild. I loved the book!!

There is going to be a series called "Blood Ties" starting on Lifetime March 11th based on Tanya Huff's Victoria Nelson series. Here are some helpful links:

Huff on Fantastic Fiction so that you can figure out what books I'm talking about if you don't know.

Tanya Huff's Blog

IMDB listing of series

First 2 eps summaries on TV.com

Trailer on YouTube

ETA: Guess I've got something else to bump up Mt. TBR :bash:

Heh, that's funny... I only just this past Friday got my Victoria Nelson books back from bookrabbit, who had them since 05 (with my permission, just taking her time with them as I said she could while they were languishing on my own Mt. TBR).

But as you said, it's time to move 'em up and get em read. I figured getting them back after nearly 2 years was hint enough, but now that mention the series Sand... well, I don't need to be hit in the head yet again to get the hint. :bash:

Thanks for the news!

Stephen King movies coming out this year:

1408 based on a short story in Everything's Eventual

The Mist based on a short story in Skeleton Crew, and one of my all-time favorites of his stories. It will star Thomas Jane, who was also in Dreamcatcher. Frank Darabont is doing it, so I am hopeful, but because it is a favorite story of mine I am also nervous that it will just stink. One of the things I like about the story is the open ending, and I read an article that says the ending of the movie will go beyond that. I know movies have to have a different type of ending--a more satisfying story arc, I guess, to draw a greater audience, but I will still be disappointed if there is any kind of "explanation" for the mist.

Has it been mentioned already? The Golden Compass is currently being filmed. This is the set that Nicole Kidman recently had an accident on?

December 2007

IDMB (with photos)

I thought she was hurt while filming The Invasion, during a getaway scene in a car. Let me go look it up...yup: Nicole Kidman In Accident On Film Set

I've been anticipating The Golden Compass film for quite some time as it's part of one of my favorite trilogies. (And I got to see the stage play when I was in London several years ago - very well done.) But I'm a bit worried about how it will turn out on the big screen as there are parts that could make people very upset (regarding religion especially), but if those parts are toned down to make it more appealing to audiences (which wouldn't surprise me much), much of the impact of the books will be lost. (And I personally don't see the books as anti-God as some people have claimed - just a different perspective regarding religion.)

Cecelia Ahern's novel, PS, I Love You is due in 2008, with James Marsters of Buffy/Angel as a secondary character (Hilary Swank stars.)

The Jane Austen Book Club looks like they're changing it up--everyone in the cast looks far younger than I remember the characters being.

here's a new/longer trailer:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=antAC4Z8kjs

Gregory Smith and Christopher Eccleston join "The Dark is Rising"

According to the Hollywood Reporter, Gregory Smith and Christopher Eccleston have signed onto the cast of the upcoming 20th Century Fox and Walden Media adaptation of The Dark Is Rising. They will join Alexander Ludwig, Amelia Warner, Emma Lockhart, Gary Entin, Edmund Entin, Jonathan Jackson and John Benjamin Hickey in the cast.

The book, adapted from Susan Cooper's best selling series, tells the story of a teenager (Alexander Ludwig) who learns that he is the last of a group of warriors who have dedicated their lives to fighting the forces of the Dark. Traveling back and forth through time, he hunts for clues while encountering the forces of evil and discovers that the future of the world rests in his hands.

Smith is playing the teen's older brother, an edgy young man with piercings and tattoos who questions their father's authority, while Eccleston is playing the movie's villain, the Rider.

Filming is set to begin Feb 26.

I saw this trailer this weekend...

Penelope (2007)
Genres: Art/Foreign, Comedy, Drama and Science Fiction/Fantasy
Running Time: 1 hr. 41 min.
Release Date: April 6th, 2007
Distributors:
IFC Films
Starring: Christina Ricci, Reese Witherspoon, James McAvoy, Catherine O'Hara, Peter Dinklage

The trailer said it was based off a book, it went way too fast and I didn't remember the author.

It looked really cute!

Penelope The Movie - Site (It says offical site comming soon)

Anyone know what book this is from?

Also, I saw a preview for Nancy Drew: The Mystery in Hollywood Hills

Odly enough it was during the movie Bridge to Teribitha (also a book)

Found this info...

Penelope
Marilyn Kaye
Introduction by Reese Witherspoon

St. Martin's Press
240 pages
Size: 5 1/2 x 8 1/4
$6.99
Young Readers

St. Martin's Griffin
Pub Date: 03/2007
ISBN: 0-312-37559-X

A modern-day fairytale--a major motion picture starring Christina Ricci, Catherine O'Hara, James McAvoy, and Reese Witherspoon.

Penelope Wilhern has everything a girl could want: A wealthy, socialite family, an enchanted bedroom and some of the coolest clothes around. There is only one problem: She was born into a cursed family and has the face of a pig.
Hidden away from the world, Penelope now finds herself subjected to a string of snobby, blue-blooded bachelors in a desperate attempt to find her a husband in order to break the curse. Though she yearns for something greater, what’s a girl to do when faced with a determined mother and her matchmaking sidekick? Hoping to snap a photo of the mysterious girl, mischievous tabloid reporter Lemon hires down-on-his-luck Max to pose as a prospective suitor and infiltrate the family. But when Max finds himself truly drawn to Penelope, he can’t bring himself to expose and disappoint her, so he just disappears. Fed up with this latest betrayal and determined to live life on her own terms, Penelope decides to break free from her family and go out into the world in search of adventure. Hiding her true identity with a scarf, Penelope discovers a wondrous world where freedom opens her eyes to possibilities she never knew existed. Making new friends along the way, she discovers happiness in the most unexpected places.




Marilyn Kaye lives in Paris, France. She taught children’s and teen literature at St. John’s University in New York and has written over 100 books for young readers.


Looks like this may be one of those that is a movie that they wrote a book to go along with. :whip:

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Based on the book by Dee Brown. Which I've had in my TBR mountain for at least 2 years. I guess I'd better bump it up. ;)
My copy

Another site talking about it

I also saw the Nancy Drew Preview during Bridge to Tarabithia! I was wondering if anyone else saw either the movie or the preview.

Is the book for Bridge to Tarabithia any good? I saw a wall of copies at Waldenbooks, and was tempted to buy one!

I love the book of Bridge to Teribithia. It was a favorite of mine when I was younger and one that is still on my keeper shelf. I haven't seen the movie (have been afraid to, honestly) and so don't know how closely it follows the book (I just want to know mostly if the endings are the same - if they are, then I might go ahead and watch the movie). It's a powerful book about friendship.

Inkheart by Cornelia Funke is being made into a movie.

http://www.corneliafunke.de/en/film/film-82.html

The author is involved... so hopefully it'll be good. I love that book.

I second this! It is one of my favorite books of all time. It is definitely one of the books I read many times as a youth and a couple of times as a grown up too! I have been afraid to see the movie too, since the previews seem to focus so much on the fantasy part when that is not really the focus of the book at all...

Well.... lets just say Disney embellished.. A LOT on the movie.

I really liked the book, and the basics of the movie are the same as in the book... but well, the movie (IMHO) sucked. (my mom hated it too)

To me, it was just one of those books that was good, but nothing to really make a movie of.

When the characters go into the woods and talk in the book, they don't really do that in the movie... that's where it gets embellished... it turns it into 100% fantasy, which I didn't really get the feeling of in the book. That ruined it for me.

The ending is the same as in the book, pretty much. It is changed a bit, but not much.

Don't let my opinon stop you tho... I just would see the movie at a cheaper theatre or time or wait to rent it.

Stardust by Neil Gaimain is being filmed.

According to a recent blog update by Neil, the US release date will be in early August, with worldwide release dATE being sometime in October.

(link is to the IMDB page for the film)

Ohhh... Neil Gaiman....

Though, I do have to say that Stardust is among my least favorite of his books... still. yay!

I remembered that when I saw John Grogan speak at Wordstock last year he had mentioned that Marley & Me was optioned for a movie.

I checked IDMB, and it's scheduled to start filming next month, to come out sometime in 2008.

Woo Hoo! :woot: Now, if we could only convince someone to make a faithful film adaptation of Neverwhere..

OMG!!!!!!!! That is one of my favorite books. I've often wondered what form my daemon would take... :)

I'm going to have a long list of movies to watch! :bananadance: I really like Susan Cooper, and The Dark is Rising is another one of my favorites. Of course, I'm drawn to almost anything with even a small reference to horses in it - metaphysical or otherwise..

I saw the BBC version of Neverwhere and it was pretty good I thought.

It's very good, but heartbreaking. It's right up there with A Separate Peace on the heart-wrenching scale, in my opinion.

?!?!?!?!!? :blink: I didn't even know a BBC version existed! When was it released? Maybe I can get it via my Blockbuster-By-Mail membership... :please:

It came out a while ago, and was domestically released on dvd a couple of years ago...

(it's on my list of movies to own someday after seeing a little bit at a friends)

Nan, here's a link to it at Netflix, where I have a membership: Neverwhere

Hopefully there's enough info in the listing to allow you to find it at Blockbuster too, or at least ask them to locate it for you or whatever additional service they may offer in that regard.

Note it's a 2 disc-er so it'll probably use up 2 rentals instead of just one.

Was this mentioned before? The Kite Runner scheduled to be released in fall 2007.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0419887/

I didn't realize that Children of Men was adapted from a P. D. James novel--HOLY CRAPY was it a good movie!!!

The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri is now a film, and was released last week.