Exclusive: Adaptive Studios announced today that they have purchased Zane Grey’s complete literary estate, which includes a massive catalog of intellectual property from one of the most iconic storytellers of the American West.
Founded by Perrin Chiles, Tj Barrack, and Marc Joubert, Adaptative Studios now has over 133 titles from Zane Grey under its belt. Grey is a pioneer of modern-day western storytelling, becoming one of the first millionaire authors in literary history. His foray into Hollywood began in 1916 when the rights to his best-selling novel Riders of the Purple Sage, purchased by William Fox. Adaptive Studios hopes to breathe new life into Grey’s classic western stories for modern audiences to be distributed across digital, TV, film and publishing.
Grey’s works have been adapted into over 112 feature films, primarily in the first half of the 20th century. The 1950s TV series Dick Powell’s Zane Grey Theater was...
Founded by Perrin Chiles, Tj Barrack, and Marc Joubert, Adaptative Studios now has over 133 titles from Zane Grey under its belt. Grey is a pioneer of modern-day western storytelling, becoming one of the first millionaire authors in literary history. His foray into Hollywood began in 1916 when the rights to his best-selling novel Riders of the Purple Sage, purchased by William Fox. Adaptive Studios hopes to breathe new life into Grey’s classic western stories for modern audiences to be distributed across digital, TV, film and publishing.
Grey’s works have been adapted into over 112 feature films, primarily in the first half of the 20th century. The 1950s TV series Dick Powell’s Zane Grey Theater was...
- 4/18/2018
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Gill Dennis, co-writer of the film “Walk the Line,” died in his Portland, Oregon, home on Thursday, TheWrap has confirmed. He was 74 years old. Born in 1941 in Charlottesville, Virginia, Dennis earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from The American Film Institute Conservatory, where he later returned as a Master Filmmaker-in-Residence. The cause of death was not immediately known. Dennis wrote “Return to Oz,” “Riders of the Purple Sage” and “On My Own,” as well as contributed to scripts for “Apocalypse Now,” “Pollock” and “The Black Stallion.” His most notable credit is the 2005 Johnny Cash biopic “Walk the Line,” which...
- 5/15/2015
- by Jordan Burchette
- The Wrap
Gill Dennis, who co-wrote the screenplay for the acclaimed 2005 Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line, has died. He was 74. Dennis, who also penned Walter Murch's Return to Oz (1985) and did the teleplay for the 1996 TNT Western Riders of the Purple Sage, starring Ed Harris and Amy Madigan, died Wednesday night of an apparent heart attack at his home in Portland, Ore., his wife, Kristen, told The Hollywood Reporter. Dennis was among the 18 young filmmakers — Terrence Malick, David Lynch and Caleb Deschanel among them — who were selected for the inaugural class of the AFI Center
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- 5/15/2015
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
By Fred Blosser
Many books have been written about Hollywood Westerns. After 45 years, the late William K. Everson’s “A Pictorial History of the Western Film” (The Citadel Press, 1969) remains one of the best: a coffee-table book with substance. Everson appropriately tips his sombrero to John Ford, John Wayne, Henry Hathaway, and Howard Hawks (with measured praise for “Red River”), and his comments on films spanning the history of the genre up to the end of the 1960s, from “The Great Train Robbery” (1903) to “The Wild Bunch” (1969), are incisive and thought-provoking. As a film scholar and preservationist, Everson was particularly knowledgeable about older and often obscure movies from the silent and early sound eras. Three of the classic titles he highlights are worthy of his approval and deserve to be better known than they are.
King Vidor’s “Billy the Kid” (1930) is slow going at times, particularly if you’re...
Many books have been written about Hollywood Westerns. After 45 years, the late William K. Everson’s “A Pictorial History of the Western Film” (The Citadel Press, 1969) remains one of the best: a coffee-table book with substance. Everson appropriately tips his sombrero to John Ford, John Wayne, Henry Hathaway, and Howard Hawks (with measured praise for “Red River”), and his comments on films spanning the history of the genre up to the end of the 1960s, from “The Great Train Robbery” (1903) to “The Wild Bunch” (1969), are incisive and thought-provoking. As a film scholar and preservationist, Everson was particularly knowledgeable about older and often obscure movies from the silent and early sound eras. Three of the classic titles he highlights are worthy of his approval and deserve to be better known than they are.
King Vidor’s “Billy the Kid” (1930) is slow going at times, particularly if you’re...
- 9/13/2014
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
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