A new "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" movie will star an all-Black cast

Posted on 04/26/2021 at 04:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

A 2008 Broadway performance of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof with an all-Black cast was a smash hit. So...

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Tagged As: Classic literature, Movie adaptation

Dakota Johnson will star in a modern version of "Persuasion"

Posted on 04/21/2021 at 08:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Actress Dakota Johnson will headline the movie adaptation of another well-known novel … but one you can talk about at...

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Cast members are revealed for "Where The Crawdads Sing" movie

Posted on 04/20/2021 at 10:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

More cast members for the movie adaptation of Where The Crawdads Sing have been revealed. Deadline reports that Garret Dillahunt,...

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Natalie Portman will star in an Elena Ferrante book adaptation

Posted on 04/15/2021 at 10:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Another Elena Ferrante book is coming to the screen. Deadline reports that Oscar winner Natalie Portman will play the main...

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Watch the 1991 Soviet movie adaptation of "Lord of the Rings"

Posted on 04/12/2021 at 02:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

A low-budget movie adaptation of The Lord of the Rings made at the end of the Soviet Union has not...

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Tagged As: Classic literature, Fantasy, Movie adaptation, The New York Times

Author Larry McMurtry has died

Posted on 03/26/2021 at 11:03 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Award-winning author Larry McMurtry died Thursday night at age eighty-four. Among his nearly fifty books were the Pulitzer-Prize winning Lonesome...

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"The Yellow Wallpaper" has been adapted into a full-length movie

Posted on 03/18/2021 at 02:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Those of you who don’t mind your fiction mirroring reality, for better and for worse, may enjoy this classic-lit adaptation....

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The literary influences on this year's Oscar-nominated movies

Posted on 03/16/2021 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

We bookworms may bemoan how often the adaptation of our favorite stories “ruins” them, but sometimes the screen crews know...

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Toni Collette will adapt "Writers & Lovers" into a movie

Posted on 03/12/2021 at 02:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Lily King’s bestselling novel Writers & Lovers is coming to the big screen, reports Variety. Actress Toni Collette will co-write...

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Bret Easton Ellis movies, from best to worst

Posted on 03/05/2021 at 02:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

We suspect few bookworms wish to mark an author’s birthday by watching film adaptations of said author’s books. That said,...

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