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According to this story at Cinema Blend, there’s going to be a remake of the 1984 Drew Barrymore movie Firestarter. Firestarter is a fair-to-middlin’ (mostly middlin’) adaptation of one of my favorite early Stephen King novels. The book, published in 1980, concerns a young girl who can set fires just by thinking about it. It’s [...]

Unless you’ve been dead the last few months, you probably know that Max Brooks’ rather brilliant novel World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (2006) is being made into a movie. Directed by Marc Forster (Finding Neverland, Stranger than Fiction, and the unfairly maligned Quantum of Solace), the movie stars Brad Pitt [...]

Over at Deadline, there’s an interesting story that says Robert Zemeckis, director of such films as Back to the Future, What Lies Beneath, Cast Away, and Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, is in “early talks” to remake The Wizard of Oz (1939) using the original screenplay. The movie would be live action, not motion-capture animation, which [...]

It’s probably safe to assume you’re aware of the myriad Sherlock Holmes stories written by people who are not, strictly speaking, Arthur Conan Doyle. Or the James Bond novels by writers who bear not even a passing resemblance to Ian Fleming.   Those are probably the most famous literary spin-offs, but they’re  hardly the only ones. From time to [...]

If you’re a fan of science fiction movies, you probably already know that a prequel to John Carpenter’s The Thing (1982) is being filmed. It promises to explain just what went on at the Norwegian base prior to the events we saw in the movie. A lot of people consider The Thing to be a [...]

Back in March, I talked about the upcoming movie version of The Hobbit.  Since then there have been some setbacks — the original director left the project, for example — but, according to this article at comingsoon.net, the movie’s back on, with Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson behind the camera. A good and [...]

According to this article at Cinematical, it looks like the awesome Sam Raimi will be directing a prequel to The Wizard of Oz, with — get ready to be excited — Robert Downey Jr., as the Wizard. (That guy there, to the left, is Frank Morgan in the 1939 film.) According to the article, the [...]

According to this story at Ain’t It Cool News, Gavin Hood, director of X-Men Origins: Wolverine, is taking a stab at adapting Orson Scott Card’s classic novel Ender’s Game (1985).   This isn’t the first time somebody’s tried to make a movie out of the book. It’s been tried, or suggested, a handful of times, [...]

Have you seen The Box, writer-director Richard Kelly’s adaptation of Richard Matheson’s short story “Button, Button”? You should. It’s brilliant. It’s set in 1976 – the story was published in ’70 — and it’s so well done that it actually looks like it was made thirty-five years ago. The colors are washed out, like they would be [...]

Surprise! It’s a tie for best novel. This time the awards were presented at Aussiecon 4 (sounds awfully close to “Awesomecon,” but I digress). Here are the big winners: Best Novel  The City & The City, by China Miéville The Windup Girl, by Paolo Bacigalupi Best Novella “Palimpsest,” (Wireless) by Charles Stross Best Novelette “The [...]