February 18th, 2012
Books to Movies & TV — Upcoming
By scheduled release date.
March 2, 2012
Movie Title: Bel Ami
Directors: Declan Donnellan, Nick Ormerod
Starring: Robert Pattinson, Christina Ricci, Uma Thurman, Kristin Scott Thomas
Trailer: YouTube
Based on: novel by Guy de Maupassant; re-released by RH/Vintage Classics,
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March 2, 2012
Movie Title: The Lorax, 2012
3-D animated feature
Studio: Universal Pictures
Directors: Chris Renaud, Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio
Voices:
Zac Efron … Ted
Ed Helms … Once-ler
Taylor Swift … Audrey
Betty White …
Danny DeVito … The Lorax
Official Movie Site: TheLoraxMovie.com
Based on: The Lorax by Dr. Seuss (RH, 1971)
Tie-ins:
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Mar. 2, 2012 (limited)
Movie Title: Being Flynn
Director: Paul Weitz
Starring: Robert De Niro, Paul Dano, Julianne Moore, Lili Taylor
Based on: Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, memoir, by Nick Flynn (Norton, 2004)
Official Web Site: FocusFeatures
Tie-in:
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March 9, 2012
Movie Title: John Carter of Mars
Director: Andrew Stanton
Starring:
Taylor Kitsch … John Carter
Mark Strong … Matai Shang
Willem Dafoe … Tars Tarkas
Polly Walker … Sarkoja
Dominic West … Sab Than
Official Web Site: Disney.com/JohnCarter
Based on: A Princess of Mars, Edgar Rice Burroughs (first published as a book in 1917).
Tie-ins:
Edgar Rice Burroughs’ classic pulp fiction John Carter series, also referred to as the Barsoom series, predates his Tarzan series, and was the basis of several graphic novels.
There are numerous movie tie-ins (including coloring and activity books, indicating the movie is expected to attract kids).
Disney Book Group is releasing a novelization, which also includes original text of A Princess of Mars, for ages 13 and up.
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Marvel is releasing a “prequel” (ages “13 to 99″ — if you’re over 100, you’re out of luck)
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Plus a new graphic novel based on the original book (also ages “13 to 99″),
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Aimed at collectors, Marvel is also releasing a pricey omnibus of various classic 1970′s graphic novels based on the series, (ages “13 to 99″),
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Disney Book Group is releasing collections of the original novels (the series is in the public domain, so there are several other editions as well as audio versions available. Ebook versions are available from OverDrive.)
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Other volumes in the series are:
Collected John Carter of Mars, The (Swords of Mars, Synthetic Men of Mars, Llana
Collected John Carter of Mars, The (Thuvia, Maid of Mars; The Chessmen of Mars
Disney is also realeasing an “art of the movie” tie-in,
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Mar. 2, 2012
Movie Title: Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
Director: Lasse Hallstrom
Starring:
Ewan McGregor as a scientist who helps introduce salmon to the Highland waters in Yeman and falls in love with one of the sheik’s aides (Emily Blunt). Also starring Kristin Scott Thomas and Rachael Sterling
Based on: Satiric novel by Paul Torday (HMH, 2007), a best-seller in the U.K. Published here, to more modest sales.
Trailer: YouTube
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March 9, 2012
Movie Title: The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Director: John Madden
Starring:
Bill Nighy
Maggie Smith
Tom Wilkinson
Judi Dench
Dev Patel
Official Web Site: Fox Searchlight
Based on: These Foolish Things by Deborah Moggach (2004; Chatto & Windus, London)
The first U.S. publication is the tie-in:
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Mar 10, 2012
HBO Film: Game Change
Producer: Playtone (Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman)
Director: Jay Roach
Starring: Julianne Moore (Sarah Palin), Ed Haris (John McCain), Woody Harrelson (Steve Schmidt, McCain’s campaign strategist)
Based on: Book by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin about John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign (Harper, 2010).
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Mar. 23, 2012
Movie Title: The Hunger Games
Based on: The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins
Director: Gary Ross
Starring:
Jennifer Lawrence … Katniss Everdeen
Liam Hemsworth … Gale Hawthorne
Elizabeth Banks … Effie Trinket
Josh Hutcherson … Peeta Mellark
Stanley Tucci … Caesar Flickerman
Woody Harrelson … Haymitch
Willow Shields … Primrose Everdeen
Amandla Stenberg … Rue
Leven Rambin … Glimmer
Wes Bentley … Seneca Crane
Paula Malcomson … Mrs. Everdeen
Dayo Okeniyi … Thresh
Note: The second title in the series, Catching Fire, is scheduled for Nov. 22, 2013
Status: The first full-length trailer debuted on Good Morning America, 11/14/11
Tie-ins: an Official Illustrated Movie Companion as well as a regular tie-in edition. Both will be released by Scholastic on Feb. 7.
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Mar. 23, 2012
Title: The Trouble with Bliss (formerly East Fifth Bliss)
Director: Michael Knowles
Starring: Michael C. Hall, Brie Larson, Peter Fonda, Lucy Liu, Brad William Henke, Sarah Shahi, and Chris Messina
Web Site: EastFifthBliss.com
Based on: East Fifth Bliss, Douglas Light, Behler Publ., 2006
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Mar 30, 2012 (theatrical release; On Demand on 2/24)
Movie Title: Goon
Director: Michael Dowse
Starring: Seann William Scott, Liev Schreiber
Official Web Site: MagnetReleasing.com/Goon
Based on: Goon: The True Story of an Unlikely Journey into Minor League Hockey, by Adam Frattasio and Doug Smith, PublishAmerica, 2002, 9781591293026
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Mar. 30, 2012
Movie Title: Mirror, Mirror
Director: Tarsem Singh
Starring:
Julia Roberts …Evil Queen
Lily Collins …Snow White
Armie Hammer …Prince Andrew Alcott
Sean Bean …The King
Nathan Lane …Brighton
Official Web Site: MirrorMirrorFilm.com
Based on: Brothers Grimm tale
Ages 4 to 8:
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Mar 30, 2012
Movie Title: The Pirates! Band of Misfits
Director: Peter Lord and Jeff Newitt
Voices of :Hugh Grant, Salma Hayek, Jeremy Piven
Official Web site: ThePirates-Movie.com
Based on: The first two books from a series by Gideon Defoe
Tie-in:
| The Pirates! Band of Misfits (Movie Tie-in Edition): An Adventure with Scientists & An Adventure with Ahab |
| Gideon Defoe |
| Retail Price: | $14.95 |
| Paperback: | 240 pages |
| Publisher: | Vintage – (2012-02-28) |
| ISBN / EAN: | 0345802489 / 9780345802484 |
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April 1 & 8, 2012
Great Expectations — PBS Premiere — two-part series
Director: Brian Kirk
Starring: Gillian Anderson, Douglas Booth, Ray Winstone
Official Web Site: PBS
Trailer: YouTube
April 1, 2012 — HBO Series Begins
TV Series: Game of Thrones, Season Two
Teaser Trailer: YouTube
Based on: Series by George R.R. Martin
Tie-in editions in trade pbk (9780345535412), mass market (9780345535429) and audio (9780449011102) are scheduled for March 6.
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April 13, 2012
Movie Title: Bullet to the Head
Director: Walter Hill
Starring:
Sylvester Stallone … Jimmy Bobo
Sung Kang
Sarah Shahi … Sheyla
Jason Momoa … Keegan
Based on: Graphic Novel by Matz and Colin Wilson (Dynamite Entertainment, 2011)
Tie-in:
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April 15, 2012 — PBS premiere
Movie Title: Mystery of Edwin Drood
Director: Diarmuid Hughes
Starring:Matthew Rhys, Tamzin Merchant, Freddie Fox
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April 20, 2012
Movie Title: Think Like a Man
Director: Tim Story
Starring: Chris Brown (hip-hop star, on probation for assaulting his former girlfriend, singer Rihanna. Anderson Cooper blasted him for taking the part).
Official Web Site: ThinkLikeAMan-Movie.com
Based on: Self-help book by Steve Harvey, Act Like A Lady, Think Like A Man
Tie-in:
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APRIL 20, 2012
Movie Title: The Lucky One
Director: Scott Hicks
Starring:
Zac Efron … Logan Thibault
Blythe Danner
Taylor Schilling … Beth Clayton
Jay R. Ferguson … Keith Clayton
Riley Thomas Stewart … Ben Clayton
Official Movie Site: TheLuckyOneMovie.com
Based on: The Lucky One by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central, 2008)
Tie-in:
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APRIL 20, 2012 (Possibly NYC only)
Movie Title: The Moth Diaries
Director: Mary Harron
Starring:
Scott Speedman … Mr. Davies
Sarah Bolger … Rebecca
Sarah Gadon … Lucie
Lily Cole … Ernessa
Based on: YA novel by Rachel Klein
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April 22 & 29, 2012 — PBS
Series title: Birdsong
An adaptation of Sebastian Faulk’s novel about lovers torn apart by World War I. Eddie Redmayne (The Pillars of the Earth) plays Stephen Wrayford, whose pre-war affair with Isabelle Azaire (Clemence Poesy, Harry Potter films) has an enduring effect on him as he fights in the trenches.
Based on: book by Sebastian Faulks
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APRIL 27, 2012
Movie Title: The Raven
Director: James McTeigue
Starring: John Cusack as Edgar Allen Poe
Official Web Site: TheRavenMovie.com
Story: A serial killer bases his methods of killing on Poe’s stories ( beginning with The Murders in the Rue Morgue and The Pit and Pendulum and working his way through other stories). Poe is called in to help solve the crime.
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MAY (unspecified date) — HBO
Movie Title: Hemingway and Gellhorn
Director: Philip Kaufman
Cast:
Nicole Kidman … Martha Gellhorn
Clive Owen … Ernest Hemingway
Official Movie Site: HBO
Trailer: FilmoFilia
Not based on a particular book. Gellhorn was the inspiration for Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls
Norton is republishing Hemingway: The 1930s Through the Final Years by Michael Reynolds in trade pbk. to tie in with the film.
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May 4, 2012
Movie Title: The Avengers
Director: Josh Whedon
Starring: Robert Downey, Jr.; Chris Evans; Edward Norton; Samuel L. Jackson
Based on: Marvel comic series by Stan Lee
Tie-ins:
Marvel is releasing a three-issue limited series titled Marvel’s The Avengers: Black Widow Strikes (more info here)
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May 15, 2012
Movie Title: Trishna
Director: Michael Winterbottom
Starring: Freida Pinto, Riz Ahmed
Facebook page: TrishnaFilm
UK Trailer: The Guardian
Based on: Tess of the D’Ubervilles, Thomas Hardy — set in contemporary India
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May 18, 2012
Movie Title: What to Expect When You’re Expecting
Director: Kirk Jones
Starring: Elizabeth Banks, Cameron Diaz, Jennifer Lopez, Dennis Quaid, Chris Rock
Trailer: WhatToExpect.com/what-to-expect-movie/trailer.aspx
Based on: What to Expect When You’re Expecting, pregnancy manual by Heidi Murkoff, Sharon Mazel
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Jun 1, 2012
Movie Title: Snow White and the Huntsman
Director: Rupert Sanders
Starring:
Kristen Stewart … Snow White
Charlize Theron … The Evil Queen
Official Web Site: SnowWhiteAndTheHuntsman.com
Based on: Grimm fairy tale
Novelization:
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JUN 22, 2012
Movie Title: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
Director: Timur Bekmambetov
Producer: Tim Burton
Status: Wrapped (Collider, 8/2/11) Scheduled for release, 6/22/12
Based on: Book by Seth Grahame-Smith
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JUL 3 2012
Movie Title: The Amazing Spider-Man
Director: Marc Webb
Starring:
Andrew Garfield … Peter Parker / Spider-Man
Irrfan Khan … Nels Van Adder / Proto-Goblin
Denis Leary … George Stacy
Based on: Spiderman comics
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JULY 6, 2012
Movie Title: Savages
Director: Oliver Stone
Starring:
Blake Lively … O
Trevor Donovan … Matt
John Travolta … Dennis
Benicio Del Toro … Lado
Uma Thurman … Paqu
Based on: Novel by Don Winslow
Tie-ins: Trade Pbk, 6/5, (97814516671580); Mass Market Pbk, 5/29, (9781451672534)
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JULY 20, 2012
Movie Title: Dark Knight Rises
Director: Christopher Nolan
Starring:
Tom Hardy … Bane
Christian Bale … Bruce Wayne / Batman
Liam Neeson … Ra’s al Ghul
Anne Hathaway … Selina Kyle / Catwoman
Joseph Gordon-Levitt … John Blake
Gary Oldman … Jim Gordon
Based on: Batman comics
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AUG 3, 2012
Movie Title: Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days (aka, Diary of a Wimpy Kid 3)
Director: David Bowers
Starring:
Steve Zahn … Frank Heffley
Devon Bostick … Rodrick Heffley
Zachary Gordon … Greg Heffley
Rachael Harris … Susan Heffley
Based on: Book by Jeff Kinney
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AUG 3, 2012
Movie Title: Dorothy of Oz
Director: Dan St. Pierre
Starring:
Kelsey Grammer … Tin Man (voice)
Lea Michele … Dorothy (voice)
Patrick Stewart … Tugg (voice)
Hugh Dancy … Marshall Mallow (voice)
Dan Aykroyd … Scarecrow (voice)
Oliver Platt … Wiser the Owl (voice)
James Belushi … Lion (voice)
Martin Short … The Jester (voice)
Megan Hilty … China Princess (voice)
Betsy Roth … Glinda (voice)
Michael Krawic … Uncle Henry (voice)
Tacey Adams … Aunt Em (voice)
Status: Post-production
Based on: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Roger S. Baum
Official Web Site: DorothyOfOz.com
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AUG 3, 2012
Movie Title: Total Recall
Director: Len Wiseman
Starring:
Colin Farrell … Doug Quaid/Hauser
Based on: Philip K. Dick short story, “We Can Remember It For You Wholesale”; it was also made into an earlier film titled Total Recall, directed by Paul Verhoeven; this one is supposed to be closer to the original story (The Wrap, 3/30/11)
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AUG 3, 2012
Movie Title: The Bourne Legacy
Director: Tony Gilroy
Starring:
Jeremy Renner, Rachel Weisz, Edward Norton, Joan Allen
Based on: book by Eric Von Lustbader
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AUG 31, 2012
Movie Title: The Wettest County
Director: John Hillcoat
Starring:
Tom Hardy …Forrest
Jessica Chastain …Maggie
Gary Oldman …Floyd Banner
Shia LaBeouf …Jack
Mia Wasikowska …Bertha
One of The Playlist‘s 50 Most Anticipated Films of 2012
Based on: The Wettest County in the World: A Novel Based on a True Story by Matt Bondurant (Scribner, 2009)
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OCT 12, 2012
Movie Title: Parker
Director: Taylor Hackford
Starring:
Jason Statham …Parker
Jennifer Lopez …Leslie
Nick Nolte
Clifton Collins Jr. …Ross
Michael Chiklis …Melander
Wendell Pierce
Patti LuPone
Based on: Flashfire by Donald Westlake, (2000; recently reissued by the U. of Chicago Press), part of the Parker series, written under the name Richard Stark
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OCT 12, 2012
Movie Title: I, Alex Cross
Director: Rob Cohen
Starring:
Tyler Perry … Dr. Alex Cross
Rachel Nichols … Monica Ashe
Based on: Book by James Patterson
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NOV 16, 2012
Movie Title: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2
Director: Bill Condon
Starring:
Kristen Stewart …Bella
Robert Pattinson …Edward Cullen
Dakota Fanning …Jane
Taylor Lautner …Jacob Black
Based on: Final book in the Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer
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Nov. 21, 2012
Movie Title: The Silver Linings Playbook
Director: David O. Russell
Starring:
Jennifer Lawrence … Tiffany
Bradley Cooper … Pat Peoples
Robert De Niro
Julia Stiles
One of The Playlist‘s 50 Most Anticipated Films of 2012
Based on: The Silver Linings Playbook, first novel by Matthew Quick (FSG; Sep 2, 2008), Nancy Pearl selected as one of Summer’s Best Books, 2008, on NPR
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Nov. 21, 2012
Movie Title: Rise of the Guardians
Directors: Peter Ramsey, William Joyce
Voices of:
Hugh Jackman …Bunnymund / The Easter Bunny
Chris Pine …Jack Frost
Jude Law …Pitch
Isla Fisher …Tooth / The Tooth Fairy
Alec Baldwin …North / Santa Clause
Based on: the picture and chapter book series by William Joyce
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Dec. 7, 2012
Movie Title: Les Miserables
Director: Tom Hooper (The King’s Speech)
Starring:
Hugh Jackman … Jean Valjean
Anne Hathaway … Fantine
Emma Watson … Cosette (rumored)
Russell Crowe … Inspector Javert
Helena Bonham Carter … Madame Thenardier
Geoffrey Rush … Monsieur Thenardier
Status: May be shot in 3-D (MarketSaw, 9/12/11)
Based on: Musical which is based on the novel by Victor Hugo
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Dec. 14, 2012
Movie Title: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Director: Peter Jackson
Starring: Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen, Andy Serkis, Cate Blanchett
Official Site: TheHobbit.com
A second film, The Hobbit: There And Back Again will be released in December, 2013
Based on: Novel by J.R.R. Tolkien
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DEC 21, 2012
Movie Title: The Life of Pi
Director: Ang Lee
Starring:
Tobey Maguire
Irrfan Khan … Older Pi
Tabu … Pi’s mother
Sonu Sood
Suraj Sharma … Piscine Molitor ‘Pi’ Patel
Adil Hussain … Pi’s father
Based on: The Life of Pi, Yann Martel
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Dec. 21, 2012
Movie Title: World War Z , 2012
Director: Marc Forster (Quantum of Solace)
Starring:
Brad Pitt … Gerry Lane
Mireille Enos
James Badge Dale
Elyes Gabel … Fassbach
Julia Levy-Boeken
Based on: World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks (Crown, 2006)
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Dec. 21, 2012
Movie Title: Catching Fire (the second in the possible 4-film Hunger Games series –two films are planned for the third book)
Status: Date set, but no cast or director yet announced (Deadline, 8/8/11)
Based on: Second title in Suzanne Collins’s Hunger Games series
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Dec. 25, 2012
Movie Title: The Great Gatsby (in 3D)
Director: Baz Luhrmann
Starring:
Leonardo DiCaprio … Jay Gatsby
Carey Mulligan … Daisy Buchanan
Isla Fisher … Myrtle Wilson
Joel Edgerton … Tom Buchanan
Tobey Maguire … Nick Carraway
Gemma Ward … Catherine
Callan McAuliffe … Young Jay Gatsby
Amitabh Bachchan … Meyer Wolfsheim
Jason Clarke … George Wilson
Daniel Newman … Jeffery Wilson
Elizabeth Debicki … Jordan Baker
Status: Filming in Australia wrapped early for Christmas after director Baz Luhrmann was injured (Sydney Morning Herald, 12/24/11)
Based on: Novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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FEB 1, 2013
Movie Title: Beautiful Creatures
To begin filming in New Orleans, April, 2012
Starrring :
Viola Davis — seer Amma;
Alice Englert – Caster Lena
Jack O’Connell — Ethan
Emma Thompson
Based on: Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl (Little, Brown BYR 12/1/09)
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FEB 1, 2013
Movie Title: Warm Bodies
Director: Jonathan Levine
Starring:
Analeigh Tipton …Nora
Teresa Palmer …Julie
Nicholas Hoult …R
John Malkovich …General Grigio
Based on: novel by Isaac Marion
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FEB 14, 2013
Movie Title: Safe Haven
Director: Lasse Hallström
Status: No cast, was moved from 6/1/2012 to Valentine’s Day, 2013 (Collider.com, 12/21/11)
Based on: Safe Haven, Nicholas Sparks, 9/14/10, Grand Central
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Feb 15, 2013
Movie Title: The Seventh Son
Director: Sergey Bodrov
Starring: Julianne Moore and Jeff Bridges
Status: Production to begin in Feb, 2012, in Vancouver, with planned release date of Feb. 15, 2013 (The Hollywood Reporter, 2/16/2012)
Based on: Revenge of the Witch, Joseph Delaney, Greenwillow, 2005; first in the Last Apprentice series. The next volume, #8, Grimalkin the Witch Assassin, to be published in the US 4/17/2012.
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Feb 22, 2013
Movie Title: I, Frankenstein
Starring:
Aaron Eckhart … Adam
Based on: Comic by Kevin Grevioux
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March 8, 2013
Movie Title: Oz, The Great and Powerful
Director: Sam Raimi
Cast:
Mila Kunis … Theodora
James Franco … Oz
Status: Post-production; to be released in March 8, 2013 (Playlist, 1/11/12)
Prequel to: Frank Baum’s series
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Mar 15, 2013
Movie Title: Ender’s Game
Director: Gavin Hood
Based on: Sci Fi novel by Orson Scott Card
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Movie Title: The Host
Director: Andrew Niccol
Starring:
Saoirse Ronan … Melanie Stryder
William Hurt … Jeb Stryder
Max Irons …Jared HoweJake Abel …Ian O’Shea
Based on: novel by Stephenie Me
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Movie Title: The Wolverine
Director: James Mangold
Starring: Hugh Jackman
Based on: Comics by Frank Miller and Chris Claremont
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June 13, 2013
Movie Title: R.I.P.D.
Director: Robert Schwentke (RED, The Time Traveler’s Wife)
Starring:
Ryan Reynolds …Nick Walker
Jeff Bridges … Bo
Kevin Bacon
Mary-Louise Parker … Procter
Status: Wrapped (ComicBookMovie.com, 2/3/12)
Based on: Four-volume comic by Peter Lenkov and Lucas Maragon
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June 20, 2014
Movie Title: How to Train Your Dragon 2
Director: Dean DeBlois
Status: Full cast from the first movie are returning (Playlist, 2/15/10); scheduled for 6/20/14 release date (Box Office Mojo, 3/8/11)
Based on: novel by Cressida Crowell
