Never judge a book by its movie.
With the film recently delayed by Fox, I am not sure what that means for this prequel novel. It will be interesting to see how this book will set up the motion picture. via amazon.com The official prequel leading directly into THE PREDATOR, available the film and introducing key concepts that then will explode onto…
Read more THE PREDATOR: HUNTERS AND HUNTED OFFICIAL MOVIE PREQUEL Releases June 5th, 2018
Initially, Ready Player One was set to hit theaters on Good Friday, March 30th. Now, Warner Bros. has movie its release up by one day to March 29th. That extra day could be a huge pay off for Warner Bros. The summer movie season seems to start earlier and earlier each year. This weekend is Easter weekend. It…
Read more Spielberg’s READY PLAYER ONE Hitting Theaters a Day Early
Adapting Valentine to film took a traditional novel thriller and turned it into a slasher film. The movie shares little with its source material. I’m not sure if this is a case of the movie studio buying the rights to the novel just to use the name with a movie they were going to make anyway.…
The new Ready Player One poster is gorgeous, but it confirmed a worry that I had since the adaptation was first announced. Based on the poster, they weren’t able to get all the licenses referenced in the novel including some that relate directly to the climax of the book. With any adaptation of a story,…
Read more New READY PLAYER ONE Poster Confirms One of My Fears
Recently, 20th Century Fox had announced they were delaying some of their movies that were set for 2018, but they also surprisingly announced that Death on the Nile will hit theaters on November 8th, 2019. Death on the Nile will be a sequel to 2017’s hit Murder on the Orient Express. Kenneth Branagh is set…
I’m really rooting for this movie to do well. Predator has been one of my favorite movie monsters since his debut in the 80’s. Shane Black and Fred Dekker are two of my favorite writers. Black has shown himself to be a great director with films like Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and Iron Man 3.…
Read more THE PREDATOR Novelization Releases August 7th, 2018
Manos: The Hands of Fate is a classic “so bad, it’s good” movie. It rivals the works of directors like Ed Wood and Tommy Wiseau. The legend behind this film was that Harold P. Warren had a bet against him that he couldn’t make a motion picture. So to win the bet, he wrote, produced,…
While standing in the lobby of a 100-year-old hotel, in San Antonio, recently, a woman and her husband approached me and asked: “Is it true that this hotel is haunted?” I gleefully replied “Well, most of the original staff knows about the 12th floor. The disturbances, I mean. But, it’s been quiet for years.”…
This is a fascinating article from the early 80’s capturing the uncertainty of the future of novelizations. Thirty-six years later, novelizations are still around, but not to the degree of what they were back then. The most exciting part, that stood out to me, was how it examined the boom in novelizations and how the apparent decline…
Read more PUBLISHERS TURNING COOL TO THE TIE-IN NOVELIZATION OF MOVIES – nytimes.com circa 1981
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