March 14th, 2011
Books to Movies & TV — 2010, with Tie-ins
By Movie Release Date
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Dec. 25, 2010
Movie Title: Gulliver’s Travels
Director: Rob Letterman
Starring: Jack Black, Emily Blunt, Jason Segel, Amanda Peet, Billy Connolly, James Gorden, Catherine Tate, Chris O’Dowd
Trailer: MoviePlayer
Based on: Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
Released in a new edition:
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Dec. 22, 2010
Movie Title: True Grit
Director: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Cast:
Jeff Bridges … Rooster Cogburn
Hailee Steinfeld … Mattie Ross
Matt Damon … LaBoeuf
Official Web Site: TrueGritMovie.com
Based on: True Grit by Charles Portis
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Dec. 10, 2010
Movie Title: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Director: Michael Apted
Official Web Site: Narnia.com
Based on: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia) by C.S. Lewis
Tie-ins: HarperCollins Childrens
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Dec. 10, 2010
Movie Title: The Tempest
Director: Julie Taymor
Cast:Helen Mirren, Russell Brand, Alfred Molina, Djimon Hounsou, David Strathairn, Chris Cooper, Alan Cumming, Ben Whishaw, Reeve Carney, Felicity Jones, Tom Conti
Official Web Site: Tempest-TheMovie.com
Based on: Play by William Shakespeare
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Dec. 10, 2010
Movie Title: Hemingway’s Garden of Eden
Director: John Irvin
Starring:
Jack Huston … David Bourne
Mena Suvari … Catherine Bourne
Richard E. Grant … Colonel Philip Boyle
Caterina Murino … Marita
Carmen Maura … Madame Aurol
Matthew Modine … David’s Father
Official Web Site: GardenofEdenMovie.com
Based on: Novel that Hemingway abandoned. It was edited and published in 1986. Available in pbk from Scribner (9780684804521) and S&S abridged Audio (9780743564489)
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Dec. 3, 2010
Movie Title: I Love You Phillip Morris
Directors: Glenn Ficarra, John Requa
Starring:
Jim Carrey … Steven Russell
Ewan McGregor … Phillip Morris
Leslie Mann … Debbie
Official Web Site: PhillipMorrisMovie.net
Based on: I Love You Phillip Morris, Steve Mcvicker, Miramax (June 25, 2003)
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NOV 24, 2010
Movie Title: Love and Other Drugs
Director: Edward Zwick
Starring: Anne Hathaway, Jake Gyllenhaal, Hank Azaria, Oliver Platt, Judy Greer, Gabriel Macht
Official Web site: LoveAndOtherDrugsTheMovie
Based on: Hard Sell: The Evolution of a Viagra Salesman by Jamie Reidy
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NOV 24, 2010
Movie Title: Tangled
Director: Byron Howard, Nathan Greno
Official Web Site: Disney.com/Tangled
Based on: Rapunzel, Grimm fairy tale
Tie-ins: Disney/Golden
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NOV 19, 2010
Movie Title: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Director: David Yates
Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Jamie Campbell Bower, Ralph Fiennes, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman
Based on: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
Official Web Site: HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows
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NOV 5, 2010
Movie Title: Fair Game
Director: Doug Liman
Cast:
Naomi Watts … Valerie Plame
Sean Penn … Joseph Wilson
Satya Bhabha … Jason Neal
Bruce McGill … Jim Pavitt
Sam Shepard … Sam Plame
Official Web Site: Fairgame-movie
Tie-in:
| Fair Game: How a Top CIA Agent Was Betrayed by Her Own Government |
| Valerie Plame Wilson |
| Retail Price: | $15.00 |
| Paperback: | 432 pages |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster – (2010-10-19) |
| ISBN / EAN: | 1451623879 / 9781451623871 |
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NOV 5, 2011
Movie Title: For Colored Girls
Director: Tyler Perry
Cast:
Janet Jackson
Whoopi Goldberg
Phylicia Rashad
Based on: Play by Ntozake Shange
Official Web Site: ForColoredGirlsMovie.com
Movie Tie-in:
The movie was moved up from it’s original Jan. release date. The tie-in, originally scheduled for Dec. has been moved up to Nov. 2nd.
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OCT 29, 2010
Movie Title: Luftslottet som sprängdes (The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest)
Director: Daniel Alfredson
Cast:
Michael Nyqvist … Mikael Blomkvist
Noomi Rapace … Lisbeth Salander
Official Web Site: GirlWhoKickedTheHornetsNest.com
Based on: Book by Stieg Larsson
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OCT 31, 2010 — series on AMC
Title: The Walking Dead
Pilot Director: Frank Darabont
Based on: The Walking Dead graphic novels by Robert Kirkman and artist Tony Moore
Official Web site: The-Walking-Dead
First 12 volumes:
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OCT 15, 2010
Movie Title: Red
Director: Robert Schwentke
Cast:
Bruce Willis … Frank Moses
Morgan Freeman … Joe Matheson
Mary-Louise Parker … Sarah
John Malkovich … Marvin Boggs
Helen Mirren … Victoria
Official Web Site: Red-themovie.com
Based on: Graphic novel by Warren Ellis and Cully Hammer
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OCT 8, 2010
Movie Title: Secretariat
Director: Randall Wallace
Cast:
Diane Lane … Penny Chenery
John Malkovich … Lucien Laurin
Scott Glenn … Ogden Phipps
Official Web Site: Disney.com/Secretariat
Suggested by the book Secretariat: The Making of a Champion, by William Nack (DaCapo, 1988)
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OCT 8, 2010
Movie Title: It’s Kind of a Funny Story
Directors: Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck
Starring: Zach Galifianakis, Emma Roberts, and Keir Gilchrist
Official Web Site: ItsKindOfaFunnyStoryMovie
Based on: YA novel It’s Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini
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OCT 8, 2010, NYC & LA
Movie Title: Tamara Drewe
Director: Stephen Frears
Cast:
Gemma Arterton … Tamara Drewe
Roger Allam … Nicholas Hardiment
Bill Camp … Glen McCreavy
Dominic Cooper … Ben Sergeant
Luke Evans … Andy Cobb
Based on: Graphic novel by Posy Simmonds
Official Web site: TamaraDrewMovie.com
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OCT 1, 2010
Movie Title: Freakonomics
Directors: Heidi Ewing, Alex Gibney, Seth Gordon, Rachel Grady, Eugene Jarecki, Morgan Spurlock
Based on: Book by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
Offcial Web Site: FreakonomicsMovie
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OCT 1, 2010
Movie Title: Let Me In
Director: Matt Reeves
Cast:
Chloe Moretz … Abby
Kodi Smit-McPhee … Owen
Richard Jenkins … The Father
Based on: Swedish horror debut by John Ajvide Lindqvist
Offcial Web Site: LetMeIn-Movie
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OCT 1, 2010
Movie Title: The Social Network
Director: David Fincher
Starring: Joseph Mazzello, Rooney Mara, Rashida Jones, Jesse Eisenberg, Malese Jow, Justin Timberlake
Official Web Site: TheSocialNetwork-Movie
Based on: The Accidental Billionaires, Ben Mezrich
Tie-in:
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SEPT 24, 2010
Movie Title: HOWL
Directors: Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman
Cast:
James Franco … Allen Ginsberg
Mary-Louise Parker … Gail Potter
Jon Hamm … Jake Ehrlich
Jeff Daniels … Professor David Kirk
David Strathairn … Ralph McIntosh
Official Web Site: HOWLTheMovie
Based on: Allen Ginsberg’s obscenity trial for the publication of the poem, HOWL
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SEPT 24, 2010
Movie Title: Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole
Director: Zack Snyder
Starring the voices of: Emilie de Ravin, Hugo Weaving, Ryan Kwanten, Helen Mirren, Geoffrey Rush
Official Web Site: LegendofTheGuardians.com
Based on: The Guardians of Ga’Hoole series by Kathryn Lasky (Scholastic)
Tie-in:
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Sept 19, 2010; series begins
Movie Title: Boardwalk Empire
Studio: HBO
Producer: Martin Scorsese
Official Web site: HBO.com/Boardwalk-Empire
Based on: Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times, and Corruption of Atlantic City, Nelson Johnson
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SEPT 17, 2010
Movie Title: The Town
Director: Ben Affleck
Starring: Ben Affleck, Jon Hamm, Blake Lively, Jeremy Renner
Official Web Site: TheTownMovie
Based on: The Town by Chuck Hogan
Tie-in:
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SEPT 15, 2010, Limited
Movie Title: Never Let Me Go
Director: Mark Romanek
Starring: Keira Knightley, Carey Mulligan, Charlotte Rampling, Sally Hawkins
Official Web Site: FoxSearchlight
Based on: Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro, (Knopf)
Tie-in:
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SEPT 13, 2010, Lifetime TV
Title: The 19th Wife
Director: Rod Holcomb
Starring:
Matt Czuchry … Jordan
Chyler Leigh … Queenie
Patricia Wettig … BeckyLyn
Jeff Hephner … Hiram
Official Web Site: FoxSearchlight
Based on: The 19th Wife, David Ebershoff (Random House, 2008)
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SEPT 1, 2010
Director: Anton Corbijn
Starring: George Clooney, Bruce Altman, Thekla Reuten, Irina Björklund
Based on: A Very Private Gentleman by Martin Booth (St. Martin’s, 2004)
Official Movie Site: The American
Tie-in:
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AUG 27; Wide (AUG 6, 2010, limited)
Movie Title: Flipped
Director: Rob Reiner
Starring: Rebecca De Mornay, Aidan Quinn, Anthony Edwards, Penelope Ann Miller
Official Movie Site: Flipped-Movie
Based on: Flipped by Wendelin Van Draanen, (Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2001)
L.A. Times story on the marketing of Flipped: Rob Reiner’s ‘Flipped’ is getting careful handling from Warner Bros.
Tie-in:
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AUG 20, 2010
Movie Title: Mao’s Last Dancer (limited)
Director: Bruce Beresford
Cast:
Bruce Greenwood … Ben Stevenson
Kyle MacLachlan … Charles Foster
Joan Chen … Niang
Chi Cao … Li Cunxin – as an adult
Based on: Autobiography by Cunxin Li
Official Website: MaosLastDancer-movie
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AUG 20, 2010
Movie Title: Nanny McPhee Returns
Director: Susanna White
Starring:
Ralph Fiennes … Lord Gray
Ewan McGregor … Mr. Green
Maggie Gyllenhaal … Mrs. Green
Emma Thompson … Nanny McPhee
Based on: Books by Christianna Brand
Official Website: NannyMcPhee.com
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AUG 20, 2010
Movie Title: The Switch
Directors: Josh Gordon and Will Speck
Starring:
Jennifer Aniston … Kassie Larson
Patrick Wilson … Roland
Jason Bateman … Wally
Based on: Short story “The Baster,” by Jeffrey Eugenides (in Wonderful Town, Remnick ed., Random House 2000, p. 426)
Trailer: TheSwitch
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AUG 13, 2010
Movie Title: Eat, Pray, Love
Director: Ryan Murphy
Starring: Julia Roberts, Richard Jenkins, Javier Bardem, Viola Davis, Billy Crudup
Based on: Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Official Website: EatPrayLove-themovie.com
Tie-in:
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AUG 13, 2010
Movie Title: Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
Director: Edgar Wright
Starring:
Michael Cera … Scott Pilgrim
Mary Elizabeth Winstead … Ramona V. Flowers
Kieran Culkin … Wallace Wells
Based on: Oni Press graphic novel series by Bryan Lee O’Malley
Official Website: ScottPilgrimTheMovie.com
Tie-in: no specific tie-in. Below is the first in the series:
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AUG 6, 2010 (limited)
Movie Title: Twelve, 2010
Director: Joel Schumacher
Starring: Emma Roberts, Chace Crawford, Kiefer Sutherland, Ellen Barkin, 50 Cent
Official Web site: 12-themovie.com
Based On: Twelve by Nick McDonell
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JULY 30, 2010
Movie Title: Charlie St. Cloud
Director: Burr Steers
Cast:
Zac Efron … Charlie St. Cloud
Amanda Crew … Tess Carroll
Ray Liotta … Florio Ferrente
Kim Basinger … Louise St. Cloud
Chris Massoglia … Sam St. Cloud (older)
Charlie Tahan … Sam St. Cloud
Based on: The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud: A Novel by Ben Sherwood
Official Web Site: CharlieStCloud.com
Tie-in:
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JUL 30, 2010
Movie Title: The Extra Man
Directors: Sharon Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini
Starring: Katie Holmes, John C. Reilly, Paul Dano, Kevin Kline
Official Web Site: TheExtraManMove.com
Based on: The Extra Man, by Jonathan Ames
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JULY 23, 2010 — Starz TV Series
Title: Pillars of the Earth
Director: Sergio Mimica-Gezzan
Cast: Ian McShane, Donald Sutherland, Eddie Redmayne, Hayley Atwell
Official Web Site: Starz.com.Pillars
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JULY 23, 2010
Movie Title: Romana and Beezus
Director: Elizabeth Allen
Starring: Joey King, Selena Gomez, John Corbett, Bridget Moynahan, Ginnifer Goodwin, Hutch Dano
Based on: Ramona novels by Beverly Cleary
Official Web Site: ramonaandbeezus.com
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JUL 9, 2010
Movie Title: The Girl Who Played with Fire (Flickan som lekte med elden)
Director: Daniel Alfredson
Starring:
Noomi Rapace … Lisbeth Salander
Michael Nyqvist … Mikael Blomkvist
Based on: The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson
Official Website: DragonTattooFilm.com
Trailer: YouTube
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JUN 30, 2010
Movie Title: Twilight Saga: Eclipse
Director: David Slade
Starring: Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart
Based on: Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
Official Move Site: World of Twilight
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JUN 18, 2010
Movie Title: The Killer Inside Me
Director: Michael Winterbottom
Starring:
Casey Affleck … Lou Ford
Kate Hudson … Amy Stanton
Jessica Alba … Joyce Lakeland
Ned Beatty … Chester Conway
Based on: Killer Inside Me, Jim Thompson
Official Website: TheKillerInsideMe
Tie-in: In the UK, but not in the US
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JUN 11, 2010
Movie Title: Winter’s Bone
Director: Tom Dey
Cast:
Jennifer Lawrence … Ree Dolly
John Hawkes … Teardrop
Kevin Breznahan … Little Arthur
Based on: Winter’s Bone, Daniel Woodrell (Little, Brown, 2006)
Official Website: WintersBoneMovie.com
Tie-in:
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JUN 4, 2010
Movie Title: Marmaduke
Director: Tom Dey
Starring: Owen Wilson, Emma Stone, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Ron Perlman, Judy Greer, Anjelah Johnson, Lee Pace, Steve Coogan, William H. Macy, George Lopez, Stacy Ferguson, Damon Wayans Jr., David Walliams,Amanda Seyfried, Jeremy Piven
Based on: Marmaduke comic strips by Brad Anderson
Official Website: TheMarmadukemovie.com
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MAY 28, 2010
Movie Title: Sex and the City 2
Director: Michael Patrick King
Starring: Sarah Jessica Parker, Kin Cattrall, Kristin Davis, Chris Noth, Cynthia Nixon
Based on: Sex and the City, Candace Bushnell
Tie-in:
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MAY 7, 2010
Movie Title: Iron Man 2
Director: Michael Patrick King
Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle, Jon Favreau,Mickey Rourke, Sam Rockwell, Samuel L. Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, Garry Shandling, John Slattery, Kate Mara, Clark Gregg, Olivia Munn
Based on: Iron Man comic series
Tie-ins:
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MAY 14, 2010
Movie Title: Robin Hood
Director: Ridley Scott
Starring: Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett, William Hurt, Matthew Macfadyen, Mark Strong, Oscar Isaac, Lea Seydoux, Scott Grimes, Kevin Durand, Alan Doyle, Danny Huston, Max von Sydow
Based on: The Robin Hood legend
Official Website: RobinHoodthemovie.com
Tie-ins:
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Audio CD: UNABR
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.; Unabridged edition (April 27, 2010)
ISBN-13: 978-1441755964
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MAY 14, 2010
Movie Title: Letters to Juliet
Director: Gary Winick
Starring: Amanda Seyfried, Christopher Egan, Vanessa Redgrave
Based on: Letters to Juliet: Celebrating Shakespeare’s Greatest Heroine, the Magical City of Verona, and the Power of Love by Lise Friedman and Ceil Friedman (Stewart, Tabori and Chang, 2003)
Official Website: LetterstoJuliet-movie.com
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NOV 2, 2010
HBO Series: The Pacific
Official Web Site: HBO.com/The-Pacific
Based on: Robert Leckie’s Helmet for My Pillow and Eugene B. Sledge’s With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa.
Tie-ins:
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Trade; 9781400110506; 9 Audio CD; $34.99Library; 9781400140503; 9 Audio CD; $69.99MP3; 9781400160501; 1 MP3-CD; $24.99
eBook available from OverDrive
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An earlier paperback edition notes in a burst on the cover that it was “used by Ken Burns for The Waron PBS.”
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The following is a companion book to the series:
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The following are not official tie-ins, but are being released to coincide with the movie.
Two are biographies of John Basilone. He is one of the three main characters portrayed in the series.
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Oasis Audio; UNABR; 9781598595970; $29.99
Audio and ebook available from OverDrive
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Two other titles about the Pacific war by Robert Leckie are also being released:
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Newmarket is re-releasing a book about one of the final battles in the Pacific, the sinking of the Japanese battleship, the Yamamato, told from both the American and the Japanese points of view
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A new memoir by a Marine who is featured in an episode of the series, was recently released.
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Tantor Audio:Library; 9781400140503; 9 Audio CD; $69.99MP3; 9781400160501; 1 MP3-CD; $24.99
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OCT 26, 2010
Movie Title: The Girl Who Played with Fire (Flickan som lekte med elden)
Director: Daniel Alfredson
Starring:
Noomi Rapace … Lisbeth Salander
Michael Nyqvist … Mikael Blomkvist
Based on: The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson
Official Website: DragonTattooFilm.com
Trailer: YouTube
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OCT 12, 2010
Movie Title: Jonah Hex
Director: Jimmy Hayward
Starring: Megan Fox, John Malkovich, Josh Brolin, Will Arnett
Based on: DC Comics series
Official Website: Jonah-Hex.com
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OCT 26, 2010
Movie Title: Sex and the City 2
Director: Michael Patrick King
Starring: Sarah Jessica Parker, Kin Cattrall, Kristin Davis, Chris Noth, Cynthia Nixon
Based on: Sex and the City, Candace Bushnell
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OCT 15, 2010
Movie Title: How to Train Your Dragon
Directors: Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders
Voices of: Gerard Butler, Johan Hill, America Ferrera
Based on: How to Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell
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SEPT 28, 2010
Movie Title: Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky (French)
Director: Jan Kounen
Cast:
Anna Mouglalis … Coco Chanel
Mads Mikkelsen … Igor Stravinsky
Official Web Site: CocoChanelandIgorStravinsky
Based on: Novel by Chris Greenhalgh, Riverhead
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SEPT 28, 2010
Movie Title: Iron Man 2
Director: Michael Patrick King
Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle, Jon Favreau,Mickey Rourke, Sam Rockwell, Samuel L. Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, Garry Shandling, John Slattery, Kate Mara, Clark Gregg, Olivia Munn
Based on: Iron Man comic series
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SEPT 28, 2010
Movie Title: The Killer Inside Me
Director: Michael Winterbottom
Starring:
Casey Affleck … Lou Ford
Kate Hudson … Amy Stanton
Jessica Alba … Joyce Lakeland
Ned Beatty … Chester Conway
Based on: Killer Inside Me, Jim Thompson
Official Website: TheKillerInsideMe
Tie-in: In the UK, but not in the US
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SEPT 21, 2010
Movie Title: Robin Hood
Director: Ridley Scott
Starring: Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett, William Hurt, Matthew Macfadyen, Mark Strong, Oscar Isaac, Lea Seydoux, Scott Grimes, Kevin Durand, Alan Doyle, Danny Huston, Max von Sydow
Based on: The Robin Hood legend
Official Website: RobinHoodthemovie.com
Tie-ins:
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Audio CD: UNABR
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.; Unabridged edition (April 27, 2010)
ISBN-13: 978-1441755964
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August 31, 2010
Movie Title: Marmaduke
Director: Tom Dey
Starring: Owen Wilson, Emma Stone, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Ron Perlman, Judy Greer, Anjelah Johnson, Lee Pace, Steve Coogan, William H. Macy, George Lopez, Stacy Ferguson, Damon Wayans Jr., David Walliams,Amanda Seyfried, Jeremy Piven
Based on: Marmaduke comic strips by Brad Anderson
Official Website: TheMarmadukemovie.com
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AVAILABLE NOW — Back to Fall ’09 Theatrical Releases
Movie Title: The Losers
Director: Sylvain White
Starring: Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Zoe Saldana, Chris Evans, Idris Elba,Columbus Short, Holt McCallany, Oscar Jaenada, Jason Patric, Peter Macdissi
Based on: Comic book series by Andy Diggle
Official Web site: the-losers.com
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Movie Title: The City of Your Final Destination
Director: James Ivory
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Omar Metwally, Laura Linney, Charlotte Gainsbourg
Based on: The City of Your Final Destination by Peter Cameron
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Movie Title: The Last Song
Director: Julie Anne Robinson
Starring: Miley Cyrus, Kelly Preston, Greg Kinnear
Based on: The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks
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Movie Title: Kick-Ass
Director: Matthew Vaughn
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Aaron Johnson, Lyndsy Fonseca, Mark Strong, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Chloe Moretz
Based on: Comic books by Mark Millar
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Movie Title: The Ghost Writer
Director: Roman Polanski
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Pierce Brosnan, Kim Cattrall. Olivia Williams
Based on: The Ghost Writer by Robert Harris
Official Web Site: TheGhostWriter-movie.com
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Movie Title: The Runaways
Director: Floria Sigismondi
Starring:
Kristen Stewart … Joan Jett
Dakota Fanning … Cherie Currie
Stella Maeve … Sandy West
Scout Taylor-Compton … Lita Ford
Official Web site: RunawaysMovie.com
Based on: Neon Angel by Cherie Currie
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Movie Title: Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Director: Thor Freudenthal
Starring:
Wimpy Kid (Greg) — Zachary Gordon
Parents — Steve Zahn, Rachel Harris
Official Web Site: diaryofawimpykidmovie.com
Based on: Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney
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Movie Title: Män som hatar kvinnor, 2009
Director: Niels Arden Oplev
Based On: Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson
Official UK Web site: TheGirl.co.uk
Swedish trailer (with subtitles): on YouTube
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Movie Title: Repo Men
Director: Miguel Sapochnik
Starring: Jude Law, Forest Whitaker, Liev Schreiber, RZA, Alice Braga, Carice van Houten
Based on: The Reposession Mambo, Eric Garcia,
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Movie Title: Green Zone
Director: Paul Greengrass
Starring: Matt Damon, Jason Isaacs, Greg Kinnear
Based on: Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq’s Green Zone, by Rajiv Chandrasekaran
Tie-ins:
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Movie Title: Alice in Wonderland
Director: Tim Burton
Starring:
Alice – Mia Wasikowska
Mad Hatter – Johnny Depp
The Red Queen – Helena Bonham Carter
The White Queen – Anne Hathaway
Based On: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, by Lewis Carroll. The movie is about Alice returning to to Wonderland when she is nineteen.
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FEB 19, 2010
Movie Title: Shutter Island
Director: Martin Scorsese
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kindsley, Emily Mortimer
Based On: Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane
Tie-ins:
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Movie Title: Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
Director: Chris Columbus
Starring:
Kevin McKidd — Poseidon
Pierce Brosnan — Chiron
Uma Thurman — Medusa
Sean Bean — Zeus
Logan Lerman — Percy Jackson
Melina Kanakaredes — Athena
Based On: Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief, Rick Riordan, (Hyperion Books for Children, 2005)
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Movie Title: Dear John
Director: Lasse Hallström
Starring:
Channing Tatum …J ohn Tyree
Amanda Seyfried … Savannah Lynn Curtis
Richard Jenkins
Scott Porter Randy
Based On: Dear John, by Nicholas Sparks (Warner Books, 2006)
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Movie Title: Extraordinary Measures
Director: Tom Vaughan
Starring: Harrison Ford, Brendan Fraser, Keri Russell
Based on: The Cure: How a Father Raised $100 Million–and Bucked the Medical Establishment–in a Quest to Save His Children, by Geeta Anand
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Movie Title: Creation
Director: Jon Amiel
Starring: Jennifer Connelly, Paul Bettany, Jeremy Northam
Based on: Darwin, His Daughter and Human Evolution by Randal Keynes
Official Web Site: CreationTheMovie.com
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Movie Title: Youth in Revolt
Director: Miguel Arteta
Starring: Michael Cera, Justin Long, Steve Buscemi, Jean Smart, Ray Liotta
Based on: Youth in Revolt by C.D. Payne
Status: Trailer is on the Web
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Movie Title: A Single Man
Director: Tom Ford
Starring: Colin Firth, Julianne Moore
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Movie Title: Sherlock Holmes
Director: Guy Richie
Starring: Robert Downey, Jr. (Holmes), Rachel MacAdams, Jude Law (Watson)
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| Retail Price: | $14.00 |
| Paperback: | 336 pages |
| Publisher: | Penguin (Non-Classics) – (2009-09-29) |
| ISBN / EAN: | 0143117025 / 9780143117025 |
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Movie title: Crazy Heart, 2010
Director: Scott Cooper
Starring: Jeff Bridges, Colin Farrell, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Robert Duvall
Official Movie Site: CrazyheartMovie.com
Based on: Crazy Heart, Thomas Cobb
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Movie Title: Up in the Air
Director: Jason Reitman
Starring: George Clooney, Jason Bateman, Vera Farmiga
Based on: Up in the Air by Jason Reitman
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Movie Title: The Lovely Bones
Director: Peter Jackson
Starring: Mark Wahlberg (Jack Salmon), Rachel Weisz (Abigail Salmon), Susan Sarandon (Grandma Lynn), Saoirse Ronan (Susie Salmon)
Based on: The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
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| Alice Sebold |
| Retail Price: | $14.99 |
| Paperback: | 368 pages |
| Publisher: | Back Bay Books – (2009-10-12) |
| ISBN / EAN: | 0316044938 / 9780316044936 |
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Movie Title: The Princess and the Frog
Director: Ron Clements, John Musker
Starring the voices of: John Goodman, Terence Howard, Keith David, Oprah Winfre
Based on: The Frog Princess, (Tales of the Frog Princess), E.D. Baker
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Movie Title: Invictus
Director: Clint Eastwood
Starring: Matt Damon, Morgan Freeman
Based on: Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation
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Movie Title:The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
Director: Rebecca Miller
Starring: Robin Wright Penn, Keanu Reeves, Blake Lively, Alan Arkin
Based on: The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, Rebecca Miller (FSG, 2008)
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Movie Title: New Moon
Director: Chris Weitz
Starring: Robert Pattinson (Edward), Kristen Stewart (Bella)
Based on: New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
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| 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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Movie Title: The Blind Side
Director: John Lee Hancock
Starring: Sandra Bullock, Kathy Bates, Rhoda Griffis, Tim McGraw
Based on: The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game, Michael Lewis
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Movie Title: Me and Orson Welles
Director: Richard Linklater
Starring: Zac Efron, Claire Danes
Based on: Novel of same title by Robert Kaplow (MacAdam/Cage, 2003)
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Movie Title: The Road
Director: John Hilcoat
Starring: Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Charlize Theron, Guy Pearce, Robert Duvall, Garret Billahunt
Based on: The Road by Cormac McCarthy
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Movie Title: The Fantastic Mr. Fox
Director: Wes Anderson
Starring the voices of: George Clooney, Cate Blanchett, Bill Murray, Jason Schwartzman, Meryl Streep
Based on: The Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl
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Movie Title: Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
Director: Lee Daniels
Starring: Gabourey “Gabby” Sidibe, Paula Patton, Mo’Nique, Mariah Carey, Sherri Shepherd, Lenny Kravitz
Won Grand Jury and Audience Drama prizes at Sundance, January ’09
Based on: Push by Sapphire (Knopf, 1996) — title changed to avoid confusion with the Feb. ’09 sci-fi thriller, Push.
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Movie Title: A Christmas Carol
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Starring: Jim Carrey, Cary Elwes, Bob Hoskins, Colin Firth, Gary Oldman, Robin Wright Penn
Based on: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
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Movie Title: The Box
Director: Richard Kelly
Starring: Cameron Diaz, James Marsden, Frank Langella
Based on: Button, Button; short story by Richard Matheson
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Movie Title: The Men Who Stare at Goats
Director: Grant Heslof
Starring: Jeff Bridges, George Clooney, Kevin Spacey, Ewan McGregor
Based on: The Men Who Stare at Goats (2004) by Jon Ronson
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Movie title: Amelia
Director: Mira Nair
Starring: Ewan McGegor — Gene Vidal
Hilary Swank — Amelia Earhart
Richard Gere — George Putnam
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Movie title: Astro Boy
Director: David Bowers
Starring: Nicholas Cage, Kristen Bell, Donald Sutherland, Nathan Lance
Based on: The Manga series Astro Boy by Osamu Tezuka
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Movie Title: Where the Wild Things Are
Director: Spike Jonze
Starring: Catherine Keener, Benicio Del Toro, Forrest Whitaker, Lauren Ambrose
Based on: Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
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Movie Title: Whip It
Director: Drew Barrymore
Starring: Ellen Page, Drew Barrymore, Zoe Bell, Alia Shawkat
Based on: Derby Girl by Shauna Cross
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Movie Title: Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Directors: Chris Miller, Phil Lord
Starring: Bill Hader, Anna Faris, James Caan
Based on: Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett
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Movie Title: The Informant
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Starring: Matt Damon, Melanie Lynskey
Based on: The Informant by Kurt Eichenwald
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