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Charlie Kaufman to Adapt The Knife of Never Letting Go
23 April 2012 7:45 PM, PDT | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
Screenwriter Charlie Kaufman has signed on to adapt The Knife of Never Letting Go for Lionsgate. The book is the first in author Patrick Ness' Chaos Walking trilogy, which the studio is eyeing as a possible franchise.
The story is set in a future where humans are trying to colonize a planet similar to Earth. A bizarre infection known as The Noise spreads throughout the planet, which makes all human thought audible. When a corrupt dictator threatens to take control of civilization, a young boy named Todd Hewitt is the only one who can prevent the planet's complete devastation.
Doug Davison will produce the adaptation for Quadrant Pictures, with Alli Shearmur expected to produce as well. No production schedule was given for this adaptation.
Charlie Kaufman previously adapted the books Confessions of a Dangerous Mind by Chuck Barris and Susan Orlean's The Orchid Thief, which became the Oscar-nominated »
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Lionsgate Selects Charlie Kaufman to Adapt Book 1 of Chaos Walking Series
23 April 2012 5:37 PM, PDT | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
Early last October we got word that Lionsgate had secured film rights to the Chaos Walking trilogy of young-adult novels by Patrick Ness, and now today we've learned who will be writing the first installment in the series based on The Knife of Never Letting Go.
Per Deadline, Lionsgate has picked the super imaginative Charlie Kaufman for the project, and we agree he is an inspired choice. His previous adaptations of the Chuck Barris memoir Confessions of a Dangerous Mind and the Susan Orlean book The Orchid Thief (which became the Nicolas Cage/Meryl Streep-starrer Adaptation) took the subject matter into all kinds of imaginative directions not found in the pages of those books.
The Carnegie Medal winning Chaos Walking series is set in a dystopian future with humans colonizing a distant earth-like planet. When an infection called the Noise suddenly makes all thought audible, privacy vanishes, chaos ensues, »
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Charlie Kaufman To Adapt ‘Chaos Walking,’ Lionsgate’s Next Franchise Play
23 April 2012 4:34 PM, PDT | Deadline New York | See recent Deadline New York news »
Exclusive: Lionsgate has high hopes that the Patrick Ness young adult novel series Chaos Walking has the potential to become another futuristic Hunger Games-esque franchise. While the mission on most of those book to movie sensations is to stick close to the books, Lionsgate has done an intriguing thing on Chaos Walking: they’ve set Charlie Kaufman to adapt the first book in the series. The Carnegie Medal winning book is set in a dystopian future with humans colonizing a distant earth-like planet. When an infection called the Noise suddenly makes all thought audible, privacy vanishes, chaos ensues, and a corrupt autocrat threatens to take control of the human settlements and wage war with the indigenous alien race. Only young Todd Hewitt holds the key to stopping planet wide-destruction. Doug Davison’s Quadrant Pictures is producing and I heard that Alli Shearmur will likely board the project as producer as well. »
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Dick Clark: A Big-Screen Tribute
18 April 2012 3:46 AM, PDT | MTV Movie News | See recent MTV Movie News news »
The television pioneer's legacy was honored in several films, including 'Grease' and 'Hairspray.'
By Kevin P. Sullivan
Dick Clark at the 1999 Golden Globe Awards
Photo: Chris Haston/ Getty Images
Dick Clark, who died early Wednesday morning (April 18) from a heart attack at the age of 82, was a television pioneer. But Clark's influence reached far beyond "American Bandstand" and onto the silver screen as well. His legacy was honored, imitated and questioned in many films throughout his lifetime.
Here are five of Dick Clark's most memorable movie moments.
The Golden Globe Awards
For years, Dick Clark Productions produced the yearly awards show for film and television. The Globes, awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, were seen as the earliest indication of which films would win at the Academy Awards. Clark worked as an announcer for the ceremony and would occasionally appear backstage.
"Confessions of a Dangerous Mind »
Wamg Interview: Kitten Natividad – Russ Meyer’s Ultra Vixen!
12 April 2012 6:35 PM, PDT | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
Buxom beauty Kitten Natividad is known to movie buffs as the last of Russ Meyer’s busty starlets, having starred in the cult director’s final two films. Kitten’s untamed beauty, personal charm, sex appeal , and cartoonish 44-25-35 dimensions has left her image imprinted on the mind of many a young man who saw her in the Meyer films or her cameos in such mainstream fare as My Tutor (1983) and The Wild Life (1984). Kitten was also Meyer’s girlfriend the last fifteen years of his life and she appeared as a stripper at the bachelor party held by Sean Penn to celebrate his 1985 marriage to Madonna.
Francesca Natividad was born in 1948 in Juarez, Mexico, one of nine children. Her family moved to El Paso, Texas, when Kitten was 10 after her mom married a man from there. In 1969 she began stripping and got her first breast implants in Mexico »
- Tom Stockman
Top 10 Gonzo Characters
23 January 2012 7:19 AM, PST | Movie Cultists | See recent Movie Cultists news »
What defines a ‘gonzo’ character? Recklessness. Fly by the seat of your pants attitude. They are troublemakers and pranksters. When they enter frame things are ratcheted up on the crazy scale. And, maybe most importantly, they represent an element of danger (to themselves or those around them). However, to make this list, they cannot be mentally disturbed.
My list is definitely thin on women, but not for lack of trying. If you have some good ones that slipped through my cracks, let me know.
Tyler Durden – Fight Club Willy Wonka – Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory Al Czervik – Caddyshack Joker – Batman and The Dark Knight Walter Sobchak – Big Lebowski Alex DeLarge – A Clockwork Orange Johnny Boy – Mean Streets Borat – Borat Colonel Kilgore – Apocalypse Now Rick Vaughn – Major League
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Doc Brown – Back to the Future Lil’ Ze – City of God Mark Brandon ‘Chopper’ Read – Chopper Ace Venture »
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Top 7 Films Based on Memoirs
2 January 2012 8:00 AM, PST | The Scorecard Review | See recent Scorecard Review news »
We start the Top 7. You finish the Top 10.
When a famous person writes about her life it’s an autobiography, when a normal person does, it’s a memoir. Last weekend saw the release of Cameron Crowe’s We Bought a Zoo based on Benjamin Mee’s beautiful memoir. Here are seven other films, based on memoirs from normal folks with interesting stories in the hands of good filmmakers.
7. Cheaper By the Dozen (1950)
Recap: Unlike the 2003 remake, the original Cheaper By the Dozen film follows the Gilbreth family of New Jersey which had 12 children. Their efficiency expert father, Frank (Clifton Webb) attempts to raise his family as he would run a factory, with mixed results. As one would expect, things break down when it comes to teenagers.
Reason: Frank Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth wrote this memoir of their childhood as two of a dozen children which I had the fortune »
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