It's been quite some time since I last read Robert Munsch, but I absolutely remember "The Paper Bag Princess", and perhaps sometime in the future, I'll be fortunate enough to witness it play out on the big-screen. Universal Pictures has come out on top in a bidding war for the rights to Munsch's book, which Elizabeth Banks is attached to... Read More...
- 11/1/2017
- by Kevin Fraser
- JoBlo.com
Universal has optioned the rights to the bestselling children’s book “The Paper Bag Princess,” which will be produced by Elizabeth Banks and Margot Robbie, the studio announced Tuesday. The project is intended to be a directing vehicle for Banks. The book, which was written by Robert Munsch and illustrated by Michael Martchenko, turns the damsel-in-distress trope on its head with a princess whose castle is destroyed by a dragon who kidnaps her fiancee. Wearing nothing but a paper bag, she runs off to rescue the prince. Katie Silberman (“Set It Up”) is attached to write the screenplay. Also Read: NBC Announces 'Female.
- 10/31/2017
- by Jeremy Fuster
- The Wrap
Universal Pictures has optioned rights to The Paper Bag Princess, the 1980s children’s book written by Robert Munsch and illustrated by Michael Martchenko that has sold more than 10 million copies. The planned live-action movie adaptation will be penned by Katie Silberman and is set to serve as a directing vehicle for Elizabeth Banks. The book is a female-empowerment tale of sorts that follows a princess who loses her worldly possessions to a dragon, including her beloved…...
- 10/31/2017
- Deadline
Elizabeth Banks and Margot Robbie are teaming to tackle the modern children’s book classic The Paper Bag Princess.
Universal has won a bidding war to pick up the rights to the book by Robert Munsch, with Banks attached to direct the project. Banks and Robbie will produce via their respective shingles, Brownstone Productions and LuckyChap Entertainment. Also producing will be Brownstone's Max Handelman as well as LuckyChap's Tom Ackerley along with Bryan Unkeless Clubhouse Pictures and Dan Krech.
Katie Silberman is attached to write the screenplay.
The aim is for Robbie to star, but that will depend on several factors, including...
Universal has won a bidding war to pick up the rights to the book by Robert Munsch, with Banks attached to direct the project. Banks and Robbie will produce via their respective shingles, Brownstone Productions and LuckyChap Entertainment. Also producing will be Brownstone's Max Handelman as well as LuckyChap's Tom Ackerley along with Bryan Unkeless Clubhouse Pictures and Dan Krech.
Katie Silberman is attached to write the screenplay.
The aim is for Robbie to star, but that will depend on several factors, including...
- 10/31/2017
- by Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
At least once a day, Pamela Cohen goes into her son Perry's bedroom, seeking an ever-elusive moment of solace. "I lay in his bed, talk to him, look at his picture every day," she tells People. Perry, along with his best friend Austin Stephanos, vanished at sea last July while on a fishing excursion. The tragedy ripped a void in the lives of two families and an entire coastal South Florida community. For Cohen and husband Nick Korniloff, the grief is compounded by not knowing just what happened to the 14-year-old boys, Cohen says. "It's a constant. There is no relief from it.
- 5/4/2016
- by Devan Stuart Lesley, @devanslesley
- PEOPLE.com
At least once a day, Pamela Cohen goes into her son Perry's bedroom, seeking an ever-elusive moment of solace. "I lay in his bed, talk to him, look at his picture every day," she tells People. Perry, along with his best friend Austin Stephanos, vanished at sea last July while on a fishing excursion. The tragedy ripped a void in the lives of two families and an entire coastal South Florida community. For Cohen and husband Nick Korniloff, the grief is compounded by not knowing just what happened to the 14-year-old boys, Cohen says. "It's a constant. There is no relief from it.
- 5/4/2016
- by Devan Stuart Lesley, @devanslesley
- PEOPLE.com
The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones is loose in the Big Apple and the Sony Pictures movie brings to the big screen an amazing supernatural world filled with angels, demons and tough as nails Shadowhunters, oh my. Young actors Lily Collins and Jamie Campbell Bower scorch up the screen, kick some demon ass and display some pretty deft rune magic. It's a quest for Mortal Instruments and it's a summer film defintely set to entertain audiences and make them ponder the otherwordly possibilities of an unseen world. There's not a whole lot of spoilers but there are a few. Come on in and read the Cinelinx review of The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones.
The Basics
Set in contemporary New York City, a seemingly ordinary teenager, Clary Fray (Lily Collins), discovers she is the descendant of a line of Shadowhunters, a secret cadre of young half-angel warriors locked in an...
The Basics
Set in contemporary New York City, a seemingly ordinary teenager, Clary Fray (Lily Collins), discovers she is the descendant of a line of Shadowhunters, a secret cadre of young half-angel warriors locked in an...
- 8/22/2013
- by feeds@cinelinx.com (Kyra Dawson)
- Cinelinx
You'd think, with the way that Hollywood takes every fucking thing with a whiff of success attached to it and turns it into a movie (board games, children's toys, cartoons, bubble gum mascots) that they'd have already pillaged every successful book in the history of mankind. And you would be mostly right. In fact, in coming up with the list below, I discovered that all but 13 novels that have sold over 10 million copies have been turned into a feature motion picture at some point. Can you believe that? All but 13. And of those 13, several of them are practically unadaptable (though, Hollywood tends to find ways -- see the upcoming Monopoly or Battleship movies), or are way too short or way too long for a feature length film (again, not that it's stopped Hollywood in the past -- see Where the Wild Things Are and the Dr. Seuss movies). In fact,...
- 4/14/2010
- by Dustin Rowles
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