Irish-Canadian author Emma Donoghue has been nominated for an Academy Award for her screenplay adaptation of her 2010 novel, Room. The film's star, Brie Larson, won a Golden Globe earlier this week for her performance. ... Read More »
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It should come as no surprise to anyone who has read Emma Donoghue’s international bestselling novel Room that it would eventually find its way to the big screen. What’s particularly exciting about the movie version ... Read More »
September 15, 2015 | Filed under: Book culture
Toronto filmmaker and social-rights activist Michelle Latimer has undertaken the challenge of distilling Rawi Hage’s 2008 novel Cockroach (House of Anansi Press) into a 13-minute film. The Underground premieres at the Toronto International Film Festival ... Read More »
September 11, 2014 | Filed under: Book culture
A television adaptation of Scotiabank Giller Prize–winning author David Adams Richards’ latest novel, Crimes Against My Brother, is in the works. The series, based on the Miramichi, New Brunswick–set novel, is in development with former Alliance ... Read More »
September 10, 2014 | Filed under: Book culture
George Clooney is directing an adaptation of Nick Davies' book Hack Attack: The Inside Story of How the Truth Caught Up with Rupert Murdoch (House of Anansi Press). For more than six years, the U.K. ... Read More »
September 4, 2014 | Filed under: Book culture
This Sunday, the box office opens for nearly 400 films set to screen at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, which takes place on Sept. 4–14. From author biopics to novel adaptations, this year’s festival is ... Read More »
August 26, 2014 | Filed under: Book culture
The Halifax-based Atlantic Film Festival has released its lineup for this year's event, which includes the Sept. 13 premiere of Relative Happiness, adapted from Lesley Crewe's 2005 novel. Published by Nimbus Publishing imprint Vagrant Press, ... Read More »
August 7, 2014 | Filed under: Book culture, Book news
Deadline Hollywood reported on Monday that YA author Lesley Livingston's Wondrous Strange trilogy has been optioned for TV by Shaftesbury Films. The Canadian production company, which opened a Los Angeles branch in 2011, is behind ... Read More »
July 16, 2014 | Filed under: Children's publishing, Deals
Sarah Polley has been tapped to write and direct Looking for Alaska, an adaptation of the 2005 YA novel by John Green, reigning king of the teen-tearjerker and author of The Fault in Our Stars. ... Read More »
June 26, 2014 | Filed under: Book culture
Is it just a matter of time before Craig Davidson sees another one of his works adapted for film? A month ago, New York magazine ran a transcription of a conversation with actress Margarita Levieva and ... Read More »
October 15, 2013 | Filed under: Book news
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