Here’s a new list to watch on Netflix streaming that originated as a book, short story, or comic. READ: 60 Bookish Films Streaming on Netflix | BookRiot.
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10 #Books To Read Before You See The #Movies This Summer | HuffPo #adaptations
We all love a few hours at the movie theater, but there’s just no substitute for curling up with a few hundred pages of printed magic. READ MORE: 10 Books To Read Before You See The Movies This Summer | Huffington Post
▶ MACBETH – OFFICIAL TEASER TRAILER | YouTube #film #Shakespeare
▶ Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell: Launch #Trailer | BBC One | YouTube #adaptations
Exciting! I’m at a halt halfway through the book…watching the trailer has given me new motivation to finish it. More information at the BBC One Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell website. The series will air on Space in Canada and on BBC America in the United States.
via ▶ Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell: Launch Trailer | BBC One | YouTube.
Books Becoming Movies in 2015 | POPSUGAR #books #adaptations #film
We’re always looking for a good book to read, and Hollywood has a pretty good line into the next hot novels, since they’re always in the process of adapting so many books for the big screen. There are a lot of books becoming movies right now, and a lot of them will finally hit the movie theater next year. Check out this list for the hot adaptations being released in 2015, and add some new titles to your bookshelf too! READ: Books Becoming Movies in 2015 | POPSUGAR Entertainment
Shakespeare’s Sonnets, All 154, Reimagined Through a New York Lens | NYTimes.com #Shakespeare
The endeavor, called the Sonnet Project, grew from the work of the New York Shakespeare Exchange, a local theater group. The group, which started the project in 2013, just completed its 100th film: Sonnet 27, starring Carrie Preston, an Emmy award-winning actress, and filmed on the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, It will premiere April 8 on the Sonnet Project website and app. (Sonnet 108 will appear on April 22.) MORE: Shakespeare’s Sonnets, All 154, Reimagined Through a New York Lens | NYTimes.com
Edgar Allan Poe Animated: Watch Four Animations of Classic Poe Stories | Open Culture
I can well imagine that the insertion of modern technology into many of Edgar Allan Poe’s stories would have a tremendous benefit for those stories’ victims, and a deleterious effect on their monomaniacal plots. In one of the ironies of cultural transmission, the timeless quality of Poe’s work seems to depend upon its use of deliberately ancient methods of surveillance and torture. In a further paradox of sorts, Poe’s work never suffers, but only seems to shine, when technology is applied to it.
MORE: Edgar Allan Poe Animated: Watch Four Animations of Classic Poe Stories | Open Culture
▶ Madame Bovary – Official Trailer | YouTube
Mia Wasikowska is beyond amazing! If I could only ever watch her and Keira Knightley’s movies, I would still die happy. The upcoming gothic horror film she is cast in, Crimson Peak by Guillermo del Toro, sounds creepy and intriguing…to be released October 2015 and also stars Chastain, Hiddleston and Hunnan.
Readers of new book The Endgame trilogy by James Frey can win $1.8m in gold coins | Mail Online
After looking for £500 gold bars on a Kent beach now comes the real treasure hunt: Readers of new book trilogy can win $1.8m in gold coins
- Trilogy of books give away $1.8m: $500,000 in gold coins in the first book, $1m in the second and $1.5m for the third
- Author James Frey was inspired by Kit Williamss 1979 book Masquerade
- Publishing rights have been sold to 27 countries and there will be 3 films
READ MORE: Readers of new book The Endgame trilogy by James Frey can win $1.8m in gold coins | Mail Online.
Lifetime Sets ‘The Red Tent’ Mini Starring Rebecca Ferguson, Minnie Driver & Morena Baccarin | Deadline.com
Another bible-themed longform project is heading to the small screen. Lifetime is going into production with The Red Tent, a two-night miniseries adaptation of the best-selling novel by Anita Diamant published in 1997. Read More: Lifetime Sets ‘The Red Tent’ Mini Starring Rebecca Ferguson, Minnie Driver & Morena Baccarin | Deadline.com
I highly recommend the book and think the the TV production is well-casted!
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