December 21st, 2010
Movies Based on Books (Jan thru April ’10)
Listed by release date, most recent first.
April 23, 2010
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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April 16, 2010
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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April 16, 2010
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
Official Web site
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March 31, 2010
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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MAR 26, 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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| Retail Price: | $3.99 |
| Paperback: | 24 pages |
| Publisher: | HarperFestival – (2010-02-01) |
| ISBN / EAN: | 0061567353 / 9780061567353 |
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MARCH 19, 2010
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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March 19 (limited); 4/11 (wide)
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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March 19, 2010
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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March 19, 2010
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
Two other Swedish-language films based on the series have been produced; the distributor is waiting to see how the first one does before deciding on releasing the other three.
Separately, Sony Pictures and Scott Rudin are negotiating for rights to do English-language versions of the entire Millenium series.
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March 19, 2010
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,
Official Web Site
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March 14 through May 16
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.
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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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eBook available from OverDrive
An earlier paperback edition notes in a burst on the cover that it was “used by Ken Burns for The War on 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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MAR 12, 2010
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
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MAR 5, 2010
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
Official Movie Site
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FEB 12, 2010
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
Official Movie site
Based On: Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief, Rick Riordan, (Hyperion Books for Children, 2005)
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FEB 5, 2010
Movie Title: Dear John
Director: Lasse Hallström
Starring:
Channing Tatum … John Tyree
Amanda Seyfried … Savannah Lynn Curtis
Richard Jenkins
Scott Porter … Randy
Official Movie Site
Based On: Dear John, by Nicholas Sparks (Warner Books, 2006)
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JAN 22, 2010
Movie Title: Extraordinary Measures
Director: Tom Vaughan
Starring: Harrison Ford, Brendan Fraser, Keri Russell
Official Movie Site
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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The real-life father has published his own book about the story:
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JAN 22, 2010
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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JAN 8, 2010
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
Official Web site
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