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Myriad Pictures announced today that Academy Award winner Morgan Freeman ( The Shawshank Redemption , The Dark Knight Rises , Driving Miss Daisy , The Bucket List ) and Academy Award winner Diane Keaton ( Something's Gotta Give , The Big Wedding , "The Godfather" trilogy, Annie Hall ) will star together for the first time in the heartwarming comedy Life Itself . The film will be directed by award-winning director Richard Loncraine ( The Gathering Storm , My One and Only , Firewall , Wimbledon and Richard III ), and is based on the acclaimed novel "Heroic Measures" by Jill Ciment, from a screenplay written by Charlie Peters. In the film, Keaton and Freeman play a long-married New York City couple who find themselves swept into an emotional and »
2 January 2013 12:12 PM, PST | doorQ.com | See recent doorQ.com news »
Back in late 1989, Tor Books began a huge promotion for Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series. Contracted as far back as 1984 to write a traditional trilogy, publisher Tom Doherty already knew Jordan –based on previous novels Tor had published with the author- that he had a tendency to go long. So they signed him to a six volume deal instead. It was Doherty who deemed the series the next Lord of the Rings, and pushed the book hard, mostly by sending out Advanced Readers Copies to almost every bookstore on the planet. But the strategy succeeded and on January 15, 1990, Eye of the World was released. It quickly became a best seller, with fans asking when the next book was coming out. And Jordan did keep a great pace, writing as fast as he could, releasing the second book only eight months later. Books three through six were released roughly a year apart after that. »
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