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Filming Of His Dark Materials TV Adaptation Has Begun

September 15, 2018 By achuka Leave a Comment

MailOnline has released photos from Media Wales showing pictures of the set in Llangynidr Quarry in Crickhowell. The TV series of His Dark Materials is set to air on the BBC in 2019, starring James McAvoy and Ruth Wilson.

The series is filming in Wales, Oxford and Bristol, with a script by Jack Thorne – who collaborated with J. K. Rowling on the staging of Harry Potter And The Cursed Child . The director is Tom Hooper.

The Welsh set images are well worth a look, so click on over to >>>
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6168651/His-Dark-Materials-TV-series-LOOK.html

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Movie Adaptation Of Children’s Book ‘Yes Day’ To Netflix

September 14, 2018 By achuka Leave a Comment

Yes Day, a comedy based on the children’s book of the same name that Garner is set to star in and produce, has been picked up by the streamer.Miguel Arteta, who worked with Garner on Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, will direct from a script by Justin Malen (Father Figures), who adapted the New York Times best-seller from author Amy Krouse Rosenthal and illustrator Tom Lichtenheld.

via Netflix Lands Jennifer Garner Comedy ‘Yes Day’ (Exclusive) | Hollywood Reporter.

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The Hate U Give Book [US] Cover Vs the Movie Poster

August 2, 2018 By achuka Leave a Comment

Really interesting interview with the illustrator of the US cover for The Hate U Give and the way the original concept has been adapted for the movie poster:

The cover for Angie Thomas’s acclaimed Black Lives Matter–inspired novel, The Hate U Give, began, fittingly, as a piece of protest art. Back in 2015, Debra Cartwright, the artist who made the illustration, was sitting at her desk at People magazine in Times Square while a protest over the death of Freddie Gray took place on the street below. Unable to knock off work to join in, Cartwright did the next best thing: She sketched an illustration on Photoshop of a woman holding up a protest sign. Only her puff of curly hair is visible above the edge of a poster with the words “End Police Terror.” The piece went viral, and eventually, Angie Thomas saw it on Instagram and suggested it to her publisher as cover material. Last week, the official poster for the movie adaptation, due out in October, was released online; the poster is closely modeled on Cartwright’s work.

via The Hate U Give Book Cover Vs the Movie Poster.

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Peter Rabbit review – unfunny bunny | 1 Star Observer Review

March 19, 2018 By achuka Leave a Comment

Beatrix Potter’s children’s books may have been out of copyright since 2014, but that’s no excuse for this manure-scented take on her best-known tale. Using a crass mix of CGI and live action, this version bastardises her trickster bunny, reimagining him as a smirking “young rabbit in a blue coat, with no pants”.

Peter (James Corden) seems to take his cues from The Inbetweeners Movie, shoving a carrot into Old Mr McGregor’s bum and staging a vegetable garden heist set to Yolanda Be Cool & DCUP’s We No Speak Americano.

via Peter Rabbit review – unfunny bunny | Film | The Guardian.

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Guardian Review of Ferdinand

December 18, 2017 By achuka Leave a Comment

Based on Munro Leaf and Robert Lawson’s 1936 children’s book The Story of Ferdinand, this gently subversive Madrid-set feature from animation studio Blue Sky and frequent collaborator Carlos Saldanha (the Ice Agefilms, Rio) follows an adorable, flower-sniffing bull named Ferdinand. “Is it OK if that’s not my dream?” the baby bull asks his father of fighting. When he discovers that he has no choice, Ferdinand scarpers, hoofing it to a flower farm, where he befriends a human girl and her shaggy sheepdog. Ferdinand’s passivity (and flower obsession) isn’t explicitly coded as queer, though the film hints that this might be the case.

Either way, Ferdinand celebrates his mild temperament and non-confrontational masculinity, which remain unchanged as his bull’s body grows resplendently large. The adult Ferdinand (voiced by WWE superstar John Cena) ends up causing a ruckus at a local flower fair (and offers viewers a very funny scene in a china shop) and so is carted back to the ranch he came from. Other fun characters include a neurotic, calming goat voiced by Kate McKinnon, a trio of bitchy German horses with swishy pastel manes, and mischievous, pilfering hedgehogs Uno, Dos and Cuatro (“We do not speak of Tres”).

>>> https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/dec/17/ferdinand-review-kate-mckinnon

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A Writer Hired For Pax Adaptation

October 26, 2017 By achuka Leave a Comment


John Fusco has been hired by Sidney Kimmel Entertainment to adapt the popular children’s book PAX which the production company wrangled away after winning a bidding war last year.  The book was No. 1 on The New York Times best-selling children’s book Pax from author Sara Pennypacker. It will be produced as a live-action feature through SKE with Carla Hacken.

John Fusco To Pen Feature Adaptation Of Popular Children’s Book ‘PAX’

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Wonderstruck Movie Review

October 21, 2017 By achuka Leave a Comment

Based on Brian Selznick’s 2011 children’s book of the same name, Wonderstruck tells the story of two children separated by time and, initially, by space—but brought together by a history of feeling.

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It’s simply not the kind of movie we typically give to children—primarily because we underestimate their intelligence. Brian Selznick also wrote the book that became the basis for Martin Scorsese’s Hugo, which is a good movie (especially for film history nerds) but not, to my mind, a satisfying children’s feature. Something about it feels too anchored to the real world—Scorsese flirts with fantasy and the fanciful, but the movie doesn’t really fly off the rails.

Wonderstruck, by contrast, seems to play by its own rules. Its high emotional stakes make sense, in the end, but it’s Haynes’s wide-eyed filmmaking that makes the job of guiding these young adventurers through a vast, complicated world feel like an adventure in itself.

https://www.theringer.com/movies/2017/10/20/16510452/wonderstruck-film-review-todd-haynes-julianne-moore

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Ten things Anne of Green Gables taught me

May 22, 2017 By achuka Leave a Comment

Samantha Ellis, author of How To Be A heroine, lists 10 Things reading the Annde of Green Gables series taught her:

I read LM Montgomery’s 1908 novel and its seven sequels over and over as a girl. I’d get to the end of book eight and start again, with plucky red-headed orphan Anne Shirley waiting at a train station for her new life to begin. She taught me things I still think about every day.

via Ten things Anne of Green Gables taught me | Books | The Guardian.

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Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie trailer

March 22, 2017 By achuka Leave a Comment

http://fansided.com/2017/03/22/captain-underpants-the-first-epic-movie-trailer-watch/

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Adventure Time and the appeal of the strange

March 10, 2017 By achuka Leave a Comment

Hynden Walch from Adventure Time and Shaun Tan consider the adult appeal of children’s entertainment.

A radio broadcast from ABC Australia

via Adventure Time and the appeal of the strange – The Drawing Room – ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation).

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