George R.R. Martin, author of the bestselling A Song of Ice and Fire series, has announced a publication date for his latest book. A Dance With Dragons is scheduled to be published by Bantam on July 12, 2011.
The image above is the first look at the book’s cover art. Head on over to The […]
Tim Burton (“Alice in Wonderland”) and Timur Bekmambetov (“9”) are working together to produce a movie adaptation of the Seth Grahame-Smith novel Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.
Graham-Smith kicks off with the revelation that Lincoln’s mother was killed by a supernatural creature, which fueled his passion to crush vampires and their slave-owning helpers. […]
Director James Cameron (Avatar) has optioned the rights to Charles Pellegrino’s upcoming nonfiction book The Last Train From Hiroshima: The Survivors Look Back. Cameron took time off from promoting Avatar while in Japan this past December to visit one of the last survivors of the U.S. bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Tsutomu […]
Universal Pictures is working on a reboot of a film adaptation of Anne Rice’s novel series The Vampire Chronicles and BloodyDisgusting is reporting that Robert Downey Jr. is in “close talks” to play the vampire Lestat Du Lioncourt. The Vampire Chronicles is a series of 10 novels from writer Anne Rice about the fictional […]
Director Peter Berg discussed his in development film based on Frank Herbert’s classic sci-fi novel Dune
“I think I had a much more different experience, I think, with the book than David Lynch did,” Berg told SCI FI Wire in an interview at last week’s Television Critics Association summer press tour in […]
Grady Twin Productions, a new production company formed earlier this year by TV vets Marti Noxon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) and Dawn Parouse Olmstead (Prison Break) are working with Guillermo del Toro and author Chuck Hogan to develop a smallscreen adaptation of their vampire book trilogy The Strain. They’re planning on shopping the TV […]
Warner Bros. has acquired the film rights Primeval, the ITV series that also airs in the U.S. on BBC America and the SCI FI Channel. The deal is said to be in the high-six-figure range. [Variety]
Halcyon Co. co-founders and co-CEOs Victor Kubicek and Derek Anderson will adapt Philip K. Dick’s 1974 novel Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said. [FirstShowing.net]
Star Trek writers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman reveal what they say are their most controversial script decisions and why they made them in a new interview with MTV.
20th Century Fox has chosen McDonald’s as their major promotional partner for several of the studios films on tap through 2010. The promotion begins with Night at the Museum (May, 22, 2009) and Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (July 1, 2009). [Variety]
Stan Bush, who created the song “The Touch” for the original animated Transformers movie, has remade the song in hopes of getting on the soundtrack for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. Watch the video below: [TFW2005]
You can now get your favorite J.R.R. Tolkien novels in digital form. E-versions of the late author’s mega popular books The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogy were released today.
The publisher, HarperCollins, says that another of the author’s novels, The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun, will be released next month followed […]
We’re just under a month away from the release of the Ron Howard-directed/Tom Hanks-starring Angels & Demons, and Columbia Pictures is already moving quickly with the third film in the franchise.
The third film will be based on author Dan Brown’s next book The Lost Symbol, which will be published in the U.S. and […]
HBO Films has optioned the in-the-works Harper Collins book Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime from political writers Mark Halperin and John Heilemann.
Charles Leavitt (Blood Diamond) has been hired to adapt the book (which will be released in 2010). The novel will take a […]
Ang Lee is in talks to direct 20th Century Fox’s adaptation of Yann Martel’s coming-of-age survival tale Life of Pi. The novel of which the project is based on revolves around a youth who is the lone survivor of a sunken freighter and winds up sharing a lifeboat with a hyena, an injured zebra, […]
Sony Pictures Entertainment on Friday night won the rights for a book adaptation to Danielle Trussoni’s first novel, Angelology. According to Variety, the novel is about a 23-year old nun who teams with an angelologist named Verlaine as they race to thwart a group that tries to corral the destructive powers of a race […]