Coming September 11th, Whiteout is based on the comic books by Greg Rucka and Steve Lieber.
No tie-ins have appeared yet. The collected edition of the original four comics that are the basis for the movie is still available.
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The trailer for director Mira Nair’s biopic about Amelia Earhart has just appeared on Yahoo. It stars Hilary Swank as Amelia Earhart and Richard Gere as her husband George Putnam.
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| The Sound of Wings: The Life of Amelia Earhart |
| Mary S. Lovell |
| Retail Price: | $17.99 |
| Paperback: | 464 pages |
| Publisher: | St. Martin’s Griffin – (2009-09-01) |
| ISBN / EAN: | 0312587333 / 9780312587338 |
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This seems to be movie day at EarlyWord. We’ve made several additions to our Upcoming Movies — with tie-ins.
Here’s what’s new:
The movie tie-in edition of The Time Traveler’s Wife.
Movie opens 8/14.
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Plus in children’s movies, tie-in information is now available for the following:
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs — 9/18
Astro Boy — 10/23
As well as both adult and children’s tie-ins to G.I. Joe: The Rise of the Cobra, opening 8/7.
Two movies based on books are opening tomorrow. Unfortunately they get tepid responses from the July 6 issue of People; 1.5 of a possible 4 stars each.
My Sister’s Keeper, opens wide — a “maudlin weepie” according to People. The Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer gives it a 69% approval from 13 published reviews. No matter, the tie-in editions are already bestsellers (#1 on the upcoming NYT Mass Market paperback list AND #2 on the Trade Paperback list).
Chéri, opens in a limited number of theaters — People says the “costumes are so sumptuous, multi-layered and colorful, they resemble walking parfaits.” How could that be bad? Unfortunately, “the movie in which they are worn is not nearly as delicious.” The Tomatometer gives it a 53% approval from 34 reviews.
For tie-ins, check our Upcoming Movies — with tie-ins listings.
For trailers, go to the “Books to Movies — Trailers” links at the right.
They must be dancing a jig at Variety; the Academy has doubled the number of Best Picture Nominees (from 5 to 10), meaning more “for your consideration” ads.
This undoubtedly makes predictions easier and the L.A. Times takes an early stab at it in Doing the new Oscar math. Four of their five leading contenders come from books; below are their picks, in order by release date:
The L.A. Times says, “Steven Soderbergh directs Matt Damon in a movie that has echoes of previous nominees Michael Clayton and The Insider.”
Based on:
| The Informant (Movie Tie-in Edition): A True Story |
| Kurt Eichenwald |
| Retail Price: | $17.00 |
| Paperback: | 656 pages |
| Publisher: | Broadway – (2009-08-11) |
| ISBN / EAN: | 0767931254 / 9780767931250 |
L.A. Times says, “Martin Scorsese re-teams with Departed star Leonardo DiCaprio. Need we say more?”
Based on:
| Shutter Island |
| Dennis Lehane |
| Retail Price: | $14.99 |
| Paperback: | 400 pages |
| Publisher: | Harper Perennial – (2009-09-01) |
| ISBN / EAN: | 0061898813 / 9780061898815 |
Also in mass market:
| Shutter Island |
| Dennis Lehane |
| Retail Price: | $7.99 |
| Mass Market Paperback: | 400 pages |
| Publisher: | Harper – (2009-09-01) |
| ISBN / EAN: | 0061703257 / 9780061703256 |
L.A. Times says, “The only thing academy members love more than director Clint Eastwood is an inspirational biopic, in this case about Nelson Mandela.”
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L.A. Times says, “Peter Jackson, best known for his The Lord of the Rings trilogy, takes a more traditionally academy-friendly turn with this adaptation of Alice Sebold’s huge bestseller.”
Based on: The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold (no tie-in listed yet).
Even the non-book-based leading contender has a literary background, however distant. It’s based on the musical which was based on the play that inspired movie 8 1/2; Nine, starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Judi Dench, Nicole Kidman and directed by Rob Marshall.
Other contenders include Amelia, Precious and Julie & Julia.
Tie-in information is available for those movies in our Upcoming Movies — with tie-ins listings.
A lot of swooning is going on over the New Moon tie-in cover (E Online calls it the “Hottest. Book Cover. Ever.“)
The tie-in will be available in two formats, mass market and trade paperback, on September 15. The movie arrives in theaters two months later; Nov. 20 (check out the trailer in our “Books to Movies — Trailers” section at the right).
Trade paperback, with poster:
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Mass market paperback (sorry, no poster!):
| New Moon (The Twilight Saga) |
| Stephenie Meyer |
| Retail Price: | $7.99 |
| Mass Market Paperback: | 576 pages |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Young Readers – (2009-11-01) |
| ISBN / EAN: | 0316075655 / 9780316075657 |
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And, as we mentioned earlier, Little Brown YR will also publish a movie companion (the art shown here is still TK):
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Just when the Twilight franchise seemed to be sagging slightly (meaning it no longer has a death grip on the top four spots of Amazon’s sales rankings), Little Brown YR unveils a tie-in edition to the upcoming movie of New Moon (scheduled for 11/20).
Entertainment Weekly (which has a Twilight Central site) was the first to get it. No bibliographic information yet, but we’ll keep our eyes out for it.
Little Brown YR will also publish a movie companion:
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It seems it’s never too early for Hollywood to begin promoting. Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland is not scheduled for the big screen until March 5, 2010, but promos will appear in theater lobbies this week.
USA Today has a first look at the concept art for the movie. This is definitely NOT Walt Disney’s Alice.
The second Transformer’s movie, Revenge of the Fallen opens in theaters on Wednesday.
The Transformers franchise began as Hasbro toys, morphed into a series of comics, a TV series and then to the big screen. The TV and movie versions in turn spawned books and graphic novels. This summer, yet another Hasbro toy will be featured in a movie, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. For more on Hasbro’s movie strategy, see the NYT story, The Movie Industry’s New Playthings.
(For a larger screen version of the trailer, click here).
The official movie adaptation graphic novel is on the NYT Graphic Books Best Seller list at #9.
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There is also an “Official Prequel” that bridges the two movies.
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A mass market paperback “official novel” is based on the screenplay
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Harper continues their Transformer’s “I Can Read” series.
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A junior novelization
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And a children’s title about the movie from DK.
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Last night, Jon Stewart bestowed the magic words, “This book is great” on Tom Folsom’s The Mad Ones, about mobster Joey Gallo in the early ’60’s. It rose to #69 (from #10,134 on Amazon).
No wonder; it’s a great interview. At the end, Stewart notes The Mad Ones would make a great movie and Folsom admits that he is working with Harvey Weinstein on that very thing (the book is published by Weinstein Books). Stewart tries to pitch himself for the lead, but an earlier story on the MTV site reports that Weinstein is considering Twilight star Rob Pattinson for the role (although Leo diCaprio is Folsom’s top choice). Weinstein also attended a star-studded reading from the book in NYC’s Soho a couple of weeks ago. That event was mobbed, according to the New York Observer. As further evidence of the book’s high profile, Womens Wear Daily interviewed the author prior to the reading.
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The trailer for Time Travelers Wife has appeared on line over the weekend.
The movie arrives in theaters on August 14.
To view a full-screen version of the trailer, go to the official movie site – TheTimeTravelersWifeMovie.com.
Entertainment Weekly’s PopWatch blog says it looks like The Notebook crossed with Benjamin Button.
No word on a tie-in yet.
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Also available in audio from HighBridge:
The Time Traveler’s Wife,
Unabridged Edition: 17¾ hours on 16 CDs
Read by William Hope and Laurel Lefkow
978-1-59887-737-3 (CD) * $39.95
AudioFile Earphones Award winner
Listen to a sound clip here
Just hitting the Web, is the trailer for Marting Scorsese’s film version of Dennis Lehane’s Shutter Island.
It’s even creepier in the larger version (link here).
Harper is releasing a mass market paperback tie-in edition in late August.
Shutter Island
Dennis Lehane
Mass Market Paperback: $7.99; 400 pages
Publisher: Harper (August 25, 2009)
ISBN-10: 0061703257
ISBN-13: 978-0061703256
Opening tomorrow in NYC, LA and San Francisco is the documentary, Food, Inc., featuring interviews with Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation) and Michael Pollan (The Omnivore’s Dilemma). It will be opening in about a dozen more cities in the following weeks, including Washington D.C., Atlanta, Chicago, Minneapolis, Philadelphia and Seattle.
The movie is receiving kudos from many media outlets, including this week’s Entertainment Weekly, which gives it an “A” rating and says it is “more than just a terrific documentary — it’s an important movie.”
Unsurprisingly, the National Corn Growers Association has issued a protest, saying, in part,
This film’s producers don’t like the steps government, the food industry and commodity groups like NCGA have taken to keep food prices low and help feed the world’s hungry. We have the least expensive food of any nation, and for that we’re grateful.
The tie-in book has been rising on Amazon (it went to #140 this week) and is owned in quantity by most libraries.
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Novelist and independent publisher Dave Eggers has been compared to P.T. Barnum more than once — and true to form, there’s a bit of a publishing circus springing around up his two recent forays into the world of film.
Eggers and wife Vendela Vida wrote the screenplay for Away We Go, a film about soon-to-be parents in search of a more meaningful life. Vintage Books has just released a paperback edition of the script for the movie, directed by Sam Mendes, which opens today. Early reviews have been mixed, with USA Today declaring that the screenplay is “sharply observed” and that the film “strikes an artful balance between satirical comedy and heart-wrenching drama,” while the Village Voice says that the social misfits visited by the couple add up to ”a gallery of grotesque family portraits” that the movie encourages us to sneer at. None of the libraries we checked had copies.
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Also coming from Eggers is The Wild Things, a book for adults that the publisher says is “based loosely on the storybook by Maurice Sendak (coming October 1), which ties into the movie of Where the Wild Things Are (coming Oct. 16), which Eggers cowrote with director Spike Jonze.
We’re trying to figure out how Eggers has expanded the original work for grown-up readers, but information is scant beyond the publisher’s description:
[The book] is about the confusions of a boy, Max, making his way in a world he can’t control. His father is gone, his mother is spending time with a younger boyfriend, his sister is becoming a teenager and no longer has interest in him. At the same time, Max finds himself capable of startling acts of wildness: he wears a wolf suit, bites his mom, and can’t always control his outbursts. During a fight at home, Max flees and runs away into the woods. He finds a boat there, jumps in, and ends up on the open sea, destination unknown. He lands on the island of the Wild Things, and soon he becomes their king. But things get complicated when Max realizes that the Wild Things want as much from him as he wants from them. Funny, dark, and alive, The Wild Things is a timeless and time-tested tale for all ages.
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Blackstone is publishing it in audio:
It will also be available on Playaway: 1-4332-9739-7; $59.99
Barnes and Noble lists a fur-covered edition of The Wild Things (we’re assuming it’s faux fur).
In childrens tie-ins, HarperFestival is publishing a coloring book and a puzzle book as well as:
Where the Wild Things Are: The Movie Storybook
Barb Bersche, Michelle Quint
The Pixar film UP is now an official hit (NYT; Pixar’s ‘Up’ Dominates Box Office). Random House/Disney has a slew of tie ins:
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UP moved the other big childrens movie success, Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian from the top spot to #2.
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Releasing today, are several tie-ins to the upcoming Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, including two I Can Read titles. The movie is scheduled to release July 4th.
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Here’s the trailer:
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