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Gil Adamson’s The Outlander lands film deal

Gil Adamson's first novel, The Outlander (published by House of Anansi Press in 2007), has been optioned for the big screen by a trio of production companies from Canada and the U.K. The production companies ... Read More »

July 20, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Paul Quarrington diagnosed with lung cancer

By Steven W. Beattie

Paul Quarrington, the Governor General's Award-winning author of Whale Music, has been diagnosed with Stage 4 lung cancer. In today's Globe and Mail, Quarrington is quoted as saying that the diagnosis is "surreal." From the ... Read More »

June 2, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Tintin, The Hobbit and Goosebumps: coming soon to a theatre near you: UPDATED

By Steven W. Beattie

The imminent end of the Harry Potter film franchise “ the final film, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part II is scheduled for release in 2011 “ has Hollywood types scurrying to secure other ... Read More »

May 25, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

The gospel according to Dan Brown

By Nathan Whitlock

New York Times columnist Ross Douhat (who does not look at all like David Brent ... well, maybe just a little) believes that Dan Brown's novels are successful not just because the books are cheesy ... Read More »

May 20, 2009 | Filed under: Book culture, Opinion

Twilight sequel script found in trash

By Steven W. Beattie

It was a blunder worthy of CSIS. In 1999, Canada's spy agency had egg on its face after top-secret documents were stolen off the back seat of a parked car while the car's owner attended ... Read More »

May 12, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Watchmen and Canadian zombies at the box office

By Steven W. Beattie

To no one's surprise, Watchmen, Zack Snyder's noisy, bloated, and obnoxious adaptation of the graphic novel co-written by Dave Gibbons (according to the film's credits; writer Alan Moore's name doesn't appear anywhere in relation to ... Read More »

March 9, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Movies made from books suck: Salman Rushdie

By Steven W. Beattie

"Adaptation, the process by which one thing develops into another thing, by which one shape or form changes into a different form, is a commonplace artistic activity." That helpful declarative statement opens Salman Rushdie's recent ... Read More »

March 2, 2009 | Filed under: Authors

Interview: Tony Burgess talks about Pontypool

By Eric Emin Wood

Open Book Toronto has posted this video interview with Ontario author Tony Burgess, whose 1998 novel, Pontypool Changes Everything, was recently turned into a movie. Look for a story on Pontypool director Bruce McDonald - and his love ... Read More »

February 17, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

CTV adapts Spalding’s Who Named the Knife?

By Danielle Ng-See-Quan

On Jan. 7, CTV will air Of Murder and Memory, a fictionalized adaptation of Linda Spalding's 2006 true crime memoir Who Named the Knife? Spalding's book centres on the trial of Maryann Acker, who was ... Read More »

January 6, 2009 | Filed under: Authors

EU digital library off to a shaky start

By Stuart Woods

It was supposed to be a new library for a new millennium, but within 24 hours of the launch of Europeana, an EU initiative to store millions of documents in a searchable online repository, the ... Read More »

November 21, 2008 | Filed under: Book news, Libraries

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Search Results by tag: film

Gil Adamson’s The Outlander lands film deal

Paul Quarrington diagnosed with lung cancer

Tintin, The Hobbit and Goosebumps: coming soon to a theatre near you: UPDATED

The gospel according to Dan Brown

Twilight sequel script found in trash

Watchmen and Canadian zombies at the box office

Movies made from books suck: Salman Rushdie

Interview: Tony Burgess talks about Pontypool

CTV adapts Spalding’s Who Named the Knife?

EU digital library off to a shaky start

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