August 23rd, 2010
Books to Movies — Upcoming
Movies are in order by release date. Links to movie trailers available on right-hand nav bar.
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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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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)
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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
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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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TBA, 2010
Has been shown at film festivals
Movie Title: Cracks
Director: Jordan Scott
Starring: Eva Green, Juno Temple, Maria Valverde
Trailer: YouTube
Based on: Cracks by Sheila Kohler
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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)
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TBA, OCT, 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
First 12 volumes:
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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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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 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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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 Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf
Director: Tyler Perry
Cast:
Janet Jackson
Whoopi Goldberg
Phylicia Rashad
Based on: Play by Ntozake Shange
Movie Tie-in:
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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 24, 2010
Movie Title: Love and Other Drugs
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
Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Jamie Campbell Bower, Ralph Fiennes, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman
Official Web Site: Disney.com/Tangled
Based on: Rapunzel, Grimm fairy tale
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Dec. 3, 2010 (limited)
Movie Title: Miral
Director: Julian Schnabel
Based on: Miral by Rula Jebreal, Penguin (Non-Classics) (October 26, 2010)
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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
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Dec. 10, 2010
Movie Title: The Tempest
Director: Julie Taymor
Based on: Play by William Shakespeare
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Dec. 22, 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
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Dec. 25, 2010
Movie Title: True Grit
Director: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Cast:
Matt Damon … La Boeuf
Jeff Bridges … Marshal Reuben J. Cogburn
Josh Brolin … Tom Chaney
Based on: True Gritby Charles Portis
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JAN 7, 2011
Movie Title: Unknown White Male, 2011
Director: Jaume Collet-Serra
Starring: Liam Neeson, Diane Kruger, January Jones, Frank Langella
Based on: Out of My Head, Didier van Cauwelaert, (Other Press, 2005)
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JAN 14, 2011
Movie Title: The Green Hornet
Director: Michael Gondry
Starring: Seth Rogen, Cameron Diaz, Jay Chou, Edward James Olmos, David Harbour, Tom Wilkinson, Christoph Waltz
Based on: Comic book series
Official Website: SonyPictures.com
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JAN 28, 2011
Movie Title: The Rite
Director: Mikael Hafstrom
Cast:
Alice Braga
Anthony Hopkins
Based on: The Rite: The Making of a Modern Exorcist, Matt Baglio (Doubleday Religion, 2009)
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FEB 16, 2011
Movie Title: I Am Number Four
Director: D.J. Caruso
Cast:
Timothy Olyphant … Henri
Dianna Agron … Sarah
Teresa Palmer … Number Six
Alex Pettyfer … Number Four
Based on: I Am Number Four by James Frey, writing as “Pittacus Lore”
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FEB 25, 2011
Movie Title: The Eagle, 2011
Director: Kevin Macdonald
Starring: Channing Tatum, Jamie Bell, Mark Strong, Donald Sutherland, Douglas Henshall, Denis O’Hare, Paul Ritter, Ben O’Brien
Based on: The Eagle of the Ninth, Rosemary Sutcliff
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SPRING, 2011
Movie Title: Game of Thrones, 2010, TV
HBO Films
Director: Thomas McCarthy
Starring: Sean Bean, Jennifer Ehle
Latest Update: To begin airing Spring, 2011, according to several sources, including USA Today and the LA Times.
Based on: George R. R. Martin’s fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire
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MAR 4, 2011
Movie title: The Adjustment Bureau (2010)
Director: George Nolfi
Starring: Matt Damon, Emily Blunt
Official Web Site: TheAdjustmentBureau.com
Based on: “The Adjustment Bureau,” short story by Philip K. Dick
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MAR 11, 2011
Movie Title: The Irishman, 2010
Director: Jonathan Hensleigh
Starring: Val Kilmer, Christopher Walken, Linda Cardellini, Vincent D’Onofrio
Baserd on: To Kill the Irishman: The War That Crippled the Mafiaby Rick Porrell
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MAR 11, 2011
Movie Title: Jane Eyre
Director: Cary Fukunaga
Cast:
Michael Fassbender … Edward Rochester
Mia Wasikowska … Jane Eyre
Jamie Bell … St. John
Imogen Poots … Blanche Ingram
Judi Dench … Mrs. Fairfax
Sally Hawkins … Mrs. Reed
Based on: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
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MAR 18, 2011
Movie Title: Beastly
Director: Daniel Barnz
Starring: Alex Pettyfer, Peter Krause, Dakota Johnson, Erik Knudsen, Mary-Kate Olsen
Based on: Beastly by Alex Flinn, (HarperTeen)
Official Web Site: BeastlyTheMovie.com
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MAR 18, 2011
Movie Title: The Dark Fields
Director: Neil Burger
Starring: Robert De Niro, Bradley Cooper, Abbie Cornish, Anna Friel
Based on: The Dark Fields by Alan Glynn, 2003, a techno-thriller debut
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MAR 18, 2011
Movie Title: The Lincoln Lawyer
Starring: Ryan Phillippe, Marisa Tomei, Matthew McConaughey. John Leguizamo, William H. Macy, Katherine Moennig
Based on: The Lincoln Lawyer, Michael Connelly
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MAR 25, 2011
Movie Title: Diary of a Wimpy Kid 2: Rodrick Rules
Director: David Bowers
Cast:
Steve Zahn … Frank Heffley
Rachael Harris … Susan Heffley
Zachary Gordon … Greg Heffley
Devon Bostick … Rodrick Heffley
Based on: Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules by Jeff Kinney
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APR 15, 2011
Movie Title: The Three Musketeers, 3-D
Status: Milla Jovovich has posted pictures of herself in costume; Warner Bros, which also had a Three Musketeers project in the works, with Doug Liman to direct, announced that it’s now on hold so Liman can direct All You Need is Kill, based on the graphic novel by Hiroshi Sakurazaka.
Director: Paul W.S. Anderson
Cast:
Milla Jovovich … Milady de Winter
Logan Lerman … D’Artagnan
Mads Mikkelsen … Rochefort
Orlando Bloom … Duke of Buckingham
Matthew Macfadyen … Athos
Christoph Waltz … Cardinal Richelieu
Based on: Book by Alexandre Dumas
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APR. 15, 2011
Movie Title: Water for Elephants, 2011
Director: Francis Lawrence
Cast:
Robert Pattinson … Jacob Jankowski
Reese Witherspoon … Marlena Rosenbluth
Christoph Waltz … August Rosenbluth
James Frain … Rosie’s Caretaker
Hal Holbrook … Jacob Jankowski – older
Based on: Water for Elephants by Sarah Gruen
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May 6, 2011
Movie Title: Thor
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Cast:
Natalie Portman … Jane Foster
Chris Hemsworth … Thor
Kat Dennings … Darcy
Stellan Skarsgård … Professor Andrews
Idris Elba … Heimdall
Anthony Hopkins … Odin
Based on: Marvel comic series by Stan Lee
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JUN 17, 2011
Movie Title: Green Lantern
Status: Originally announced for Fall, 2009, Warner pulled production from Australia because of the falling U.S. dollar
Director: Martin Campbell
Starring: Ryan Reynolds
Based on: DC Comics series, Green Lantern
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JUL 8, 2011
Movie Title: One for the Money, 2012
Director: Julie Ann Robinson
Cast:
Katherine Heigl … Stephanie Plum
Daniel Sunjata … Ranger
Jason O’Mara … Joe Morelli
Patrick Fischler … Vinnie Plum
Cristina Aloe … Connie
Based on: One for the Money, Janet Evanovich
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JUL 15, 2011
Movie Title: Winnie the Pooh
Directors: Stephen J. Anderson, Don Hall
Studio: Disney
Cast:
Craig Ferguson … Owl (voice)
Peter Cullen … Eeyore (voice)
Jim Cummings … Pooh / Tigger (voice)
Dee Bradley Baker … Piglet (voice)
Tom Kenny … Rabbit (voice)
Gilbert Gottfried … Marley (voice)
Based on: Books by A.A. Milne
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JUL 15, 2011
Movie Title: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
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
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JUL 22, 2011
Movie Title: The First Avenger: Captain America
Director: Joe Johnston
Starring:
Chris Evans … Steve Rogers / Captain America
Samuel L. Jackson … Nick Fury
Hugo Weaving … Johann Schmidt / The Red Skull
Tommy Lee Jones … Col. Chester Phillips
Based on: Marvel Comics Series
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JUL 29, 2011
Movie Title: Cowboys & Aliens
Director: Jon Favreau
Starring:
Daniel Craig … Jake Lonergan
Olivia Wilde … Ella
Harrison Ford … Col. Woodrow Dolarhyde
Noah Ringer … Emmett
Based on: comic book series, Cowboys & Aliens
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Aug. 10, 2011
Movie Title: War Horse
Director: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Jeremy Irvine, Emily Watson, Peter Mullan, Benedict Cumberbatch
Status: Filming began 8/2/10 (USA Today)
Based on: War Horse, by Michael Morpurgo (Scholastic, 2007)
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Nov 18, 2011
Movie Title: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1
Director: Bill Condon
Cast:
Kristen Stewart … Bella Swan
Robert Pattinson … Edward Cullen
Taylor Lautner … Jacob Black
Dakota Fanning … Jane
Based on: YA novel by Stephenie Meyer
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Dec. 9, 2011
Title: Hugo Cabret
Director: Martin Scorsese
Based on: The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
Format: Live action, 3-D
Starring: Jude Law, Chloe Moretz, Ben Kingsley, Sacha Baron Cohen, Emily Mortimer and Michael Stuhlbarg
Status: Chloe Moretz shown on set in Paris, 8/18/10
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Dec. 23, 2011
Movie Title: The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn
Director: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Daniel Craig, Simon Pegg, Jamie Bell, Cary Elwes
Planned as the first of three movies based on the Tintin series
Based on: Hergé Le secret de la licorne and Le trésor de Rackham Le Rouge
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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
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JUN 8, 2012
Movie Title: John Carter of Mars
Director: Andrew Stanton
Cast:
Mark Strong … Matai Shang
Willem Dafoe … Tars Tarkas
Taylor Kitsch … John Carter
Based on: The first of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Barsoom Series
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Nov 16, 2012
Movie Title: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2
Director: Bill Condon
Cast:
Kristen Stewart … Bella Swan
Robert Pattinson … Edward Cullen
Taylor Lautner … Jacob Black
Dakota Fanning … Jane
Based on: YA novel by Stephenie Meyer
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Dec. 2012
Movie Title: The Hobbit
Director: Peter Jackson (Deadline New York, 6/25/10)
Starring: Andy Serkis, Ian McKellen, Hugo Weaving
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