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Guillermo Del Toro Once Again Determined to Drive Us to ‘Madness’
Halfway through the week, and we’re keeping our eyes on the still-coming reviews of ‘Django Unchained,’ Ryan Gosling’s still-present humility, and Charles Addams’ still-twisted ideas.
Team Jodie: Foster Offers Support to Kristen Stewart During Media Frenzy
Also in the news today: Raiders of the Lost Ark in IMAX, a sexy Lovecraftian horror spoof, and modeling your diet after your favorite authors!
‘Prometheus’ Cancels Out Lovecraft Adaptation, Says Guillermo Del Toro
Also in our wrap-up, Andre 3000 as Jimi Hendrix, a web obsession with Wuthering Heights, and the Pentagon’s near-miss with The Avengers.
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Lovecraft Mythos Inspires New Wave of Cultists
H.P. Lovecraft superfans welcome a new dark age of mythos-inspired cinema.
Is Charlie Brown’s Christmas Special Appropriate for Public Schools?
Local church in Arkansas has canceled a public school production of “Merry Christmas, Charlie Brown!,” the cast of “The Hobbit” has put together a Naught Dwarf calendar for director Peter Jackson, “Pan’s Labyrinth” will soon be coming to the stage, and The A.V. Club has compiled a list of the top 10 film flops headlined by doomed couples.
NYFCC Awards ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ Same Prizes as 2009′s ‘Hurt Locker’
‘Zero Dark Thirty’ Snatches Up Same NYFCC Awards as 2009′s ‘Hurt Locker,’ Ethel Merman visits Sesame Street, Guillermo Del Toro flirts with an adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s ‘At the Mountains of Madness,’ and “The Neverending Story” is all grown up.
The Temptation of the Unfilmable: 7 Books That Should Never Hit the Silver Screen
Considering today’s technology paired with large studio budgets, a case can be made that with the right director and actors, there is no longer such thing as an ‘unfilmable book.’ However, though both of these elements can help a movie get made, they do not ensure a film’s success. And sure, Hollywood likes a challenge, but even the most fortuitous and creative minds in the business would have serious reservations about adapting these seven books to the big screen.
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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Begins with a Trailer
Today in film and lit news: H.P. Lovecraft puts the “sci” in sci-fi, “Monster” director Patty Jenkins bids adieu to “Thor 2,” and we take a second look at 2011′s rejected scripts.
Reading Tarot: A Brand-New Kind of Adaptation for Books
A successful film adaptation can be tricky enough, but it’s nothing like the leap from book to Tarot deck.
The Dark Tower Collapses: Rebuild or Move On?
What’s most fascinating about this story is not why or how the project went south but the unalloyed grandiosity from which it sprung.
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