Books Turning Into Movies
Blake Lively, Jude Law, Sterling K. Brown, and more
Cate Blanchett, Emma Nelson, Kristen Wiig, and Judy Greer.
Joel Kinnaman, Rosamund Pike, and Clive Owen.
Tom Hanks, Elisabeth Shue, and more.
Armie Hammer, Dakota Johnson, and Zazie Beetz.
: Jessica Chastain, James McAvoy, Bill Hader, Jay Ryan, James Ransone, Isaiah Mustafa, and Bill Skarsgård.
Ferdia Shaw, Judi Dench, Josh Gad, and more.
Amy Adams stars as Anna Fox. The cast also includes Julianne Moore, Gary Oldman, and Wyatt Russell.
Ansel Elgort, Sarah Paulson, Nicole Kidman, Luke Wilson, and more.
Emma Watson, Saoirse Ronan, Florence Pugh, Meryl Streep, Laura Dern, and Timothée Chalamet.
Karen Gillan, Dan Stevens, and Harrison Ford.
Black Panther has T’Challa returning home to Wakanda after the events of Captain America: Civil War to take his place on the powerful nation’s throne. His return is met with trouble, however, in the form of competing factions challenging his rule and a dangerous enemy from his past. He must prove that he has the wisdom and strength to serve as both the king of Wakanda and its protector, the Black Panther.
Black Panther is scheduled to hit theaters February 16, 2018
After his smartphone was stolen, a film student allowed his smartphone to get stolen again. This time it was filled with spyware to keep tabs on the thief.
An iPhone was not used to lure the thief. You can’t run spyware apps on the iPhone, and you don’t have the same level of control you do with Android.
The filmmaker used an HTC One preloaded with a special type of app that would give him total remote control of the phone. He could also use it to spy on everything the thief did, provided there was an active internet connection at the time. He could take photos and record videos, enable the microphone of the device to snoop in on conversations, collect all location data, read all the text messages, access call history, check contacts, and see all the contents of the phone.
It all happened thanks to a spyware app installed on the device that the thief didn’t even know was there. van der Meer also blocked the phone’s ability to receive Android updates in order to make sure his malware app wasn’t wiped out by a knowledgeable thief.
Hidden Figures, a biographical film about the African-American women who worked at NASA in the 1950s and 60s.
The actress claims her mom was arrested for a $10 library balance.
Actress Tika Sumpter says her mother was arrested Monday because of a $10 late fee at her local library in North Carolina. The arrest took place in Johnston County, N.C., where the Public Library of Johnston County & Smithfield calls home. According to the library’s website, overdue books elicit a 25-cent fine per day, while audio books, movies and CDs run an offender 50 cents every 24 hours. Sumpter’s mother is also a retired corrections officer named Janice Acquista who Sumpter said had no previous rap sheet — actually returned the book that prompted the fine a long time ago.
Netflix ordered a 10-episode series of She’s Gotta Have It, which the company is a “contemporary update” to the original film. Lee will direct every episode, and executive produce alongside his wife, Tonya Lewis Lee.
As Deadline notes, the series was originally in development at Showtime in 2014, but never came to fruition. She’s Gotta Have It follows Nola Darling, a 20-something Brooklynite navigating the pitfalls of dating a trio of men. The original was shot in just 12 days on a very limited budget. Although details on the series version are scarce, one assumes it will be made with fewer restrictions. The project will be Lee’s first TV series.
Thirty years ago, Spike Lee released his first feature film, She’s Gotta Have It, in 1986, and it’s on its way to a revival. Netflix has just ordered a 10-episode series of She’s Gotta Have It, which the company is framing as a “contemporary update” to the original film. Lee will direct every episode, and executive produce alongside his wife, Tonya Lewis Lee. The project will be Lee’s first TV series.
The American Black Film Festival (ABFF) was founded in 1997,and a yearly event dedicated to showcasing entertainment content made by and about people of African descent to a worldwide audience. Today it is recognized as the premier pipeline for Black talent in front of and behind the camera.
Disney studio will use the new Nokia OZO VR camera to create movie-related VR experiences, which could include Marvel, Pixar, and Lucas film titles. The camera will be used for creating a growing amount of Disney narrative VR experiences, as well as behind-the-scenes content, cast interviews and movie premiere coverage for studio films, which encompasses its Lucasfilm, Marvel, and Pixar properties. It also will be used for co-branding content with Nokia, according to Ramzi Haidamus, president at Nokia Technologies. Disney recently used an OZO to create 360-degree video content from the red carpet at its premiere of The Jungle Book, which was available in 360-degrees on Facebook and could also be viewed with Google Cardboard and Samsung VR Gear systems.
YouTube has funded a global production program at YouTube Spaces showcasing talented female creators both in front of and behind the camera.
Cue the Women’s Program: 51 channels from 6 cities around the world with a combined subscriber reach of over 43 million subscribers produced content as part of a special YouTube initiative to spotlight and empower female creators in 2016. Their goal is to support the creation of female-driven content and inspire women to make more videos for YouTube – ultimately, to help create a world where everyone’s voice can be heard.
Nate Parker, is the director/actor/writer/producer behind the slavery drama The Birth of Nation. The story of how literate slave and preacher Nat Turner ultimately orchestrated a rebellion in 1831 set a new festival record when it sold to Fox Searchlight for $17.5 million.
The rights to the slave rebellion drama The Birth of a Nation, which premiered Monday afternoon in Park City to multiple standing ovations, have been picked up by Fox Searchlight at the Sundance Film Festival for $17.5 million, The Hollywood Reporter confirmed.
Searchlight beat escalating bids from Weinstein Co., Netflix (which insisted on a day-and-date theatrical and streaming debut), Paramount and other suitors. Nate Parker wrote, directed and stars in the project, which is based on the story Nat Turner, an American-born slave who led the most successful slave rebellion in American history.
Parker said, “You can watch this film and see there are systems that were in place that were corrupt and corrupted people. And the legacy of that still lives with us.”
Oculus Touch devices are used here
This illustrative look and feel, was created by the Story Studio team that built an internal production tool allowing the film’s illustrators to paint entire scenes in VR using Oculus Touch,
Screenwriter, Kelly Marcel will next focus on Cruella, Disney’s live-action film based 101 Dalmatians‘ evil Cruella de Vil. Marcel is working with Steve Zissis, co-creator of Togetherness, on a family-friendly Disney movie. She’s been outspoken about her disappointment in how the movie 50 Shades of Grey turned out.
The 53rd New York Film Festival Convergence will run September 26-27 and delve into the world of immersive storytelling with a mix of unique films, panels, and live interactive experiences.
The (Dis)Honesty Project Presents The Truth Box
Tell The Truth About A Lie—- The Truth Box is a traveling story booth and part of the larger (Dis)Honesty Project, a collaboration between behavioral scientist Dan Ariely and filmmaker Yael Melamede that aims to improve our behavior and ethics. The Truth Box explores the complex impact dishonesty has on our lives, asking participants to sit inside and come clean, on camera, about a lie they have told.
The Doghouse
A table is set for five, and on each plate rests a virtual-reality headset. Slipping them on plunges the viewer into a fully immersive experience—one of five unique points of view within the same film. Mom and Dad are meeting the older brother’s new girlfriend for the first time while the younger brother just tries to avoid an inevitable disaster. A 360 degree experience
Gamescape
Some of the most compelling stories being told today are coming from game designers blending sharp narrative and gameplay in new and exciting ways. This selection of gripping, engaging, storytelling games was co-curated by the NYU Game Center and is free and open to the public. Presented with Support from the NYU Game Center.
Sherlock Holmes & the Internet of Things
Participants attempt to solve a string of crimes unfolding throughout Lincoln Center. Do you have what it takes to become a 21st-century Sherlock Holmes? A prototype developed and run by the Columbia Digital Storytelling Lab, Sherlock Holmes & the Internet of Things is part of a massive connected crime scene taking place in over 20 countries this fall. For more information, visit sherlockholmes.io. Presented in partnership with the Columbia Digital Storytelling Lab.
The 72nd annual Venice Film Festival announced its lineup on Wednesday, with a mixture of international auteurs and big Hollywood stars.
Films booked for the festival include Tom Hooper’s “The Danish Girl,” starring Eddie Redmayne as an early subject of male-to-female gender reassignment surgery; Italian director Luca Guadagnino’s “A Bigger Splash,” with Tilda Swinton and Dakota Johnson and Atom Egoyan’s “Remember,” with Christopher Plummer as a Holocaust survivor looking to track down the guard who killed his family.
Main competition includes Venice with Drake Doremus’ Kristen Stewart and Nicholas Hoult in Equals ; Tom McCarthy’s “Spotlight,” with Michael Keaton and Mark Ruffalo; Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson’s stop-motion “Anomalisa” and Cary Fukanaga’s “Beasts of No Nation,” with Idris Elba.
A Chinese film, Hu Guan’s “Mr. Six,” will serve as the closing-night attraction. A Martin Scorsese film, “The Audition,” is listed on the lineup but is a short made to promote a movie-themed resort.
The 72nd edition of Venice will run from Sept. 2 through Sept. 12, overlapping both the Telluride and Toronto Film Festivals.
The lineup:
IN COMPETITION
“Frenzy,” (“Abluka”), Emin Alper (Turkey, France, Qatar)
“Heart of a Dog,” Laurie Anderson (U.S.)
“Blood of My Blood” (“Sangue Del Mio Sangue”), Marco Bellocchio (Italy, France, Switzerland)
“Looking for Grace,” Sue Brooks (Australia)
“Equals,” Drake Doremus (U.S.)
“Remember,” Atom Egoyan (Canada, Germany)
“Beasts of No Nation,” Cary Fukanaga (U.S.)
“Per Amor Vostro,” Giuseppe M. Gaudino (Italy, France)
“Marguerite,” Xavier Giannoli (France, Czech Republic, Belgium)
“Rabin, the Last Day,” Amos Gitai (Israel, France)
“A Bigger Splash,” Luca Guadagnino (Italy, France)
“The Endless River,” Oliver Hermanus (South Africa, France)
“The Danish Girl,” Tom Hooper (U.K., U.S.)
“Anomalisa,” Charlie Kaufman, Duke Johnson (U.S.)
“L’Attesa,” Piero Messina (Italy)
“11 minutes,” Jerzy Skolimowski (Poland)
“Francofonia,” Aleksander Sokurov (France, Germany, Netherlands)
“The Clan,” Pablo Trapero (Argentina, Spain)
“Desde alla,” Lorenzo Vigas (Venezuela, Mexico)
“L’hermine,” Christian Vincent (France)
“Behemoth,” Zhao Liang (China, France)
OUT OF COMPETITION
“Everest,” Baltasar Kormakur (U.S., U.K.) – Opening Night
“Mr. Six,” (“Lao pao er”), Hu Guan (China) – Closing Night
“Go With Me,” Daniel Alfredson (U.S., Canada, Sweden)
“Non essere cattivo,” Claudio Caligari (Italy)
“Black Mass,” Scott Cooper (U.S.)
“Spotlight,” Thomas McCarthy (U.S.)
“La calle de la Amargura,” Mexico, Spain
“The Audition,” Martin Scorsese (U.S.)
“Winter on Fire,” Evgeny Afineevsky (Ukraine)
“De Palma,” Noah Baumbach, Jake Paltrow (U.S.)
“Janis,” Amy Berg (U.S.)
“The Event,” Sergei Loznitsa (Netherlands, Belgium)
“Gli uomini di questa città io non li conosco,” Franco Maresco (Italy)
“L’esercito piu piccolo del mondo,” Gianfranco Pannone (Vatican City State)
“Afternoon,” (“Na ri xiawu”), Tsai Ming-liang (Chinese Taipei)
“In Jackson Heights,” Frederick Wiseman (U.S.)
SPECIAL SCREENING
“Human,” Yann Arthus-Bertrand (France)
HORIZONS
“Madame Courage,” Merzak Allouache (Algeria, France, U.A.E.)
“A Copy of My Mind,” Joko Anwar (Indonesia, South Korea)
“Pecore in erba,” Alberto Caviglia (Italy)
“Tempete,” Samuel Collardey (France)
“The Childhood of a Leader,” Brady Corbet (U.K., Hungary, Belgium, France)
“Italian Gangster,” Renato De Maria (Italy)
“Wednesday, May 9,” Vahid Jalilvand, Iran
“Mountain,” Yaelle Kayam (Israel)
“A War,” Tobias Lindholm (Denmark)
“Interrogation,” Vetri Maaran (India)
“Free in Deed,” Jake Mahaffy (U.S., New Zealand)
“Boi Neon,” Gabriel Mascaro (Brazil, Uruguay, Netherlands)
“Man Down,” Dito Montiel (U.S.)
“Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?,” Hadar Morag (Israel, France)
“Un monstruo de mil cabezas,” Rodrigo Pla (Mexico)
“Mate-me por favor,” Anita Rocha Da Silveira (Brazil, Argentina)
“Taj Mahal,” Nicolas Saada (France, Belgium)
“Interruption,” Yorgos Zois (Greece, France, Croatia)
The legendary tales of Star Wars are being released in a new, kid-friendly format: In print form. Star Wars retellings will be available as Little Golden Books from Random House,EW reports exclusively.
The first six books in this series will be released on July 28: The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, Revenge of the Sith, A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. Each book will feature a custom gold spine, showing popular characters from the Star Wars galaxy. A boxed set of these first six Star Wars Little Golden Books will be available on September 1, 2015.
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Paper Towns by John Green
Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials
Black Mass
Dark Places
Mockingjay
In the Heart of the Sea
The Revenant: A Novel of Revenge
Far From the Madding Crowd
Frankenstein
A Hologram For the King
The Price of Salt
Anthony Horowitz, is the author of the bestselling young adult series about a teenage spy, Alex Rider. This September Horowitz will bring back a James Bond Book “Trigger Mortis”. Trigger Mortis will be set in 1957, two weeks after the events of Goldfinger, placing Bond in the middle of the Soviet-American Space Race as the US prepares for a critical rocket launch. The plot also includes Fleming’s own treatment for an unfilmed episode of a television series, Murder on Wheels, in which Bond gets involved in a Formula One race in Nürburgring in Germany. This will kick off the action in Trigger Mortis. Horowitz the author of the best selling book Alex Rider who is a teenage spy said it had always been his intention “to go back to the true Bond.
Fleming’s niece Lucy Fleming, said “it was almost as if Ian had written [Trigger Mortis] himself”. Although novelists such as Jeffrey Deaver, Sebastian Faulks and William Boyd have all written authorised new Bond novels, Horowitz is the first to place his work directly within Fleming’s original work, and continue the adventures of one of the Bond girls created by the novelist, and to work with previously unpublished Fleming material. Lucy Fleming also said that Horowitz’s style is the closet to Ian’s style.
The film, which is reportedly titled “Chiraq”has created a lot of controversy because it compares the city’s violence to the war zones of Iraq. Mayor Rahm Emanuel reportedly expressed his disdain for the title to Lee himself. According to NBC Chicago, Alderman Will Burns also called for the city council to cut Lee’s tax break unless he changes the film’s title. Chiraq was popularized by Chicago rappers Chief Keef and later used by stars like Kanye West, who was also raised Chi Town.
Spike Lee says “Wait until the movie comes out. You don’t like it, you don’t like, but wait, see it first.” The film is about “Truth,” “justice” and “peace.” Gang violence.
Lee reminded his audience that one of his earliest movies, “Do The Right Thing,” also generated criticism before its 1989 release.
“There were people who said this film is going to cause riots all across America, that black people are going to run amok,” Lee said.
Sony Pictures Entertainment announced a limited theatrical release for the comedy “The Interview”, on Christmas day that provoked an international incident with North Korea and outrage over its cancelled release. For Sony, the decision was the culmination of a gradual about-face: After initially saying it had no plans to release the movie, the company began softening its position after it was broadly criticized. The film stands to open in as many as a few hundred theaters on Thursday, the day it was originally set for wide release. President Barack Obama — hailed Sony’s reversal. President Obama made clear,” we are a country that believes in free speech, and the right of artistic expression. The decision made by Sony and participating theaters allows people to make their own choices about the film, and we welcome that outcome.”
The FBI has said North Korea was behind the hacking attacks. North Korea’s Internet was shut down in an apparent attack Monday, and continued to be roiled by intermittent outages Tuesday. That followed President Barack Obama’s vow of a response to what he called North Korea’s “cyber vandalism” of Sony. The White House and State Department have declined to say whether the U.S. government was responsible for North Korea’s outages.
After hackers last Wednesday threatened terrorist attacks against theaters showing the film, the nation’s major multiplex chains dropped “The Interview.” Sony soon thereafter canceled the film’s release altogether and removed mention of it from its websites.
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Sony Pictures documents by data security consultancy Identity Finder found personal information, including salaries and home addresses, posted online for staff who stopped working for Sony Pictures as far back as 2000 and one person who began working there in 1955.
The hack, by a group calling itself Guardians of Peace, illustrates the risks large companies such as Sony Pictures take by accumalting years of digital records on employees and customers on machines connected to the internet. Much of the data analyzed by Identity Finder was stored in Microsoft Excel files without password protection.
The documents also contain the social security numbers, or taxpayer-identification numbers, of thousands of freelancers, including actors who appeared in movies and television shows produced by the Sony-owned studio, one of Hollywood’s largest. Among them are Stallone, The 40-Year-Old Virgin director Judd Apatow and Australian actor Rebel Wilson.
The personal data and other sensitive documents in files now being traded on file-sharing networks such as BitTorrent. Investigators, including teams from Sony Pictures, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and computer-security firm FireEye, say the hackers used methods similar to ones previously attributed to North Korea. The malware was made on a machine with Korean language settings during Korean peninsula working hours and appears very similar to a tool used last year against South Korea banks and television stations.
A Russian cybersecurity company named Kaspersky Lab has released a report noting the similarities between the Sony hack and last year’s attacks on South Korea, although it could not identify who was behind the incident.
The studio is offering a year of free credit monitoring and fraud protection to current and former employees. Its lawyers are also trying to force websites to remove the data or links to it. But once data is out there it and becomes available on file-sharing networks, it is almost impossible to remove. Current and former Sony Pictures employees are infuriated at the leak and fear what else may appear online.
—New York on Location. It’s going to happen on the Kaufman Astoria Studios backlot on Sunday, September 21, 2014 (rain date: Sunday, September 28, 2014) from
11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.—yes, right in the middle of the Kaufman Arts District. It will be a wonderful opportunity to learn about and celebrate film production in New York. All Free
Gone Girl is the third novel from author Gillian Flynn and to call it thrilling would be a massive understatement. The story digs deep into the psychology behind long-term relationships, exploring the difficulties within a failing marriage and a wife’s disappearance.
Programmer spots codes used in TV & Film where coding is taken from elsewhere
Mr Graham-Cumming’s site – Source Code in TV and Films – has had over 10,000 hits since its launch on 3 January and people from around the world are now submitting their own observations about coding they have spotted on screen.
“Fruitvale Station,about the 2009 shooting of an unarmed black man,
“Lee Daniels’ The Butler” revisits the civil-rights era,-Forest Whitaker plays a fictionalized version of real White House butler Eugene Allen, who served during eight presidential terms from 1952 to 1986. Oprah Winfrey plays his wife. Liev Schreiber, John Cusack, Jane Fonda and Mariah Carey also star. Co-written and directed by Daniels (2009’s Oscar-winning “Precious”
”Winnie Mandela”Jennifer Hudson stars as the wife of anti-apartheid revolutionary Nelson Mandela, played by Terrence Howard. Directed and co-written by South African filmmaker Darrell J. Roodt (“Sarafina!”) from Anne Marie du Preez Bezdrob’s biography, “Winnie Mandela: A Life.”
”Baggage Claim- A romantic comedy starring Paula Patton as Montana Moore, a single airline stewardess looking for a man. Directed and written by David E. Talbert (the Ice Cube comedy “First Sunday”) from his novel. With Djimon Hounsou, Derek Luke and Jill Scott.
“Black Nativity” adapts the work of Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes-THE DEAL: A young boy, Langston (Jacob Latimore), is sent to live with his grandfather (Forest Whitaker), who is staging a production of the Langston Hughes musical, “Black Nativity.” With Angela Bassett, Mary J. Blige, Jennifer Hudson and Tyrese Gibson. Written and directed by Kasi Lemmons (2007’s “Talk to Me”)
‘‘Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom” (Nov. 29)- Idris Elba (“Pacific Rim”) plays the former South African President Nelson Mandela, whose autobiography, “Long Walk to Freedom,” is the basis for the movie. Naomie Harris (“Skyfall”) plays his wife.
“Veronica Mars” creator Rob Thomas and Alloy Entertainment received a two-book deal with Vintage Books to publish a new series based on the adult life of the popular titular character. The books will feature an original mystery series and will pick up where events from the forthcoming Veronica Mars movie ends. The book could also help promote the movie and serve as a bridge to a potential film sequel. The film is slated to be released in 2014, and publication for the book will be timed to the release of the film, and will most likely arrive in spring 2014.
A tiny one-screen, 250-car drive-in is faced with its latest — and potentially most daunting fear, film distributors’ switching to digital. Drive-ins have survived 20-screen mammoths that rose like fortresses, Internet TV, which has allowed consumers to stream movies and cable series from their televisions, computers and smartphones. While saving distributors a considerable sum of money, going digital requires theaters to purchase new projectors at a cost of up to $100,000 per screen. It’s the most recent hit to an industry that has endured plenty of them since its 1950s and ’60s heyday. According to the United Drive-In Theatre Owners Association, the number of operating drive-in movie theaters in America has dwindled to 357, down from more than 4,000 in the late 1950s. In Missouri, just 13 drive-in theaters remain, with a total of 19 screens; Kansas features seven theaters and eight working screens. Drive-ins are a part of America just like any other working collectable, vintage and so on. Many Americans still enjoy sitting in their cars under the stars the thick breeze of fresh air enjoying a movie. It’s an American thing. If its still up running then use it and enjoy.
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