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Joe Wright and Tom Stoppard's adaptation of the Tolstoy classic, starring Keira Knightley, Jude Law, and Aaron Johnson, will be released in November.
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Joe Wright and Tom Stoppard's adaptation of the Tolstoy classic, starring Keira Knightley, Jude Law, and Aaron Johnson, will be released in November.
What would happen if you took Baz Luhrmann's trailer for The Great Gatsby and combined it with clips from the animated My Little Pony series? Thanks to YouTube we need wonder no longer. Enjoy Jay Gatsby (Leonardo DiCaprio) as Pinky Pie and Nick Carraway (Tobey Maguire) as Rainbow Dash.
Can Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, Joel Edgerton, Carey Mulligan, Isla Fisher, and Jason Clarke do justice to one of the greatest American novels of all time? We'll find out this Christmas when Baz Luhrmann's eagerly anticipated The Great Gatsby arrives in theaters.
The highly anticipated film adaptation of Jack Kerouac's On the Road finally has a trailer. Set to premiere in the U.K. on September 21, director Walter Salles's movie stars Sam Riley as Sal Paradise, Garrett Hedlund as Dean Moriarity, and Kristen Stewart as Dean's wife Marylou. A release date for the U.S. has not been set.
Her Majesty's Secret Players present "Pulp Shakespeare," an Elizabethan take on Quentin Tarantino's 1994 movie, now playing at Theatre Asylum on Santa Monica Boulevard in Los Angeles.
This feature-length documentary, directed and produced by Doug Wilson, explores how the Linotype type casting machine (called the "Eighth Wonder of the World" by Thomas Edison) revolutionized printing and society and had a suprisingly powerful impact on people's lives.
The Broken Tower, the Hart Crane biopic writen, directed, and starring James Franco, was released this week and can now be downloaded or viewed on demand. There's been a lot of speculation about the film ever since Franco aquired the rights to Paul Mariani's biography of the same title, but at least one critic isn't impressed. Writing in Slate, Evan Hughes called the film "incredibly dull."
American audiences will have a chance to read Geling Yan's novel, originally published in China as The 13 Women of Nanjing, when Other Press publishes The Flowers of War, Nicky Harman's translation, in January 2012. Meanwhile, a film adaptation of The Flowers of War, directed by Zhang Yimou and starring Christian Bale, is set for a December 16 release in China; it will open in U.S. theaters later this month.
John Cusack plays Edgar Allan Poe in James McTeigue's fictionalized account of the author's pursuit of a serial killer whose murders mirror those in his stories. The movie is slated for release next March.
Adapted from Hunter S. Thompson's early novel, written in the early sixties but not published until 1998, Bruce Robinson's The Rum Diary, starring Johnny Depp, opens in theaters on October 28. In the meantime, check out Terry Gilliam's adaptation of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, also starring Depp.