Book Watching Archive

  • From DHD – Warner Bros and Anonymous Content have acquired the rights to Fletch, the classic Gregory Mcdonald series that spans eleven books and spawned two Chevy Chase movies. Anonymous Content’s […]

    Warner Bros to reboot Fletch

    From DHD – Warner Bros and Anonymous Content have acquired the rights to Fletch, the classic Gregory Mcdonald series that spans eleven books and spawned two Chevy Chase movies. Anonymous Content’s […]

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  • From DHD – Following in the wake of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, another hugely popular Sweedish crime novel is heading for the big screen. New Regency has acquired Three […]

    New Regency up for Three Seconds

    From DHD – Following in the wake of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, another hugely popular Sweedish crime novel is heading for the big screen. New Regency has acquired Three […]

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  • From DHD – Summit Entertainment has snapped up the rights to Kenneth Oppel’s upcoming novel, This Dark Endeavor: The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein, and attached Karen Rosenfelt (Twilight) to produce. Teeming […]

    Summit acquires This Dark Endeavor

    From DHD – Summit Entertainment has snapped up the rights to Kenneth Oppel’s upcoming novel, This Dark Endeavor: The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein, and attached Karen Rosenfelt (Twilight) to produce. Teeming […]

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  • From THR – Stephen King’s classic novel, The Stand, is finally heading for the big screen. The long-time rights holder, CBS, has at last decided to take on a partner […]

    The Stand is heading for the big screen

    From THR – Stephen King’s classic novel, The Stand, is finally heading for the big screen. The long-time rights holder, CBS, has at last decided to take on a partner […]

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  • The man in the hat is back, drawl and all, and Boyd (Walter Goggins) continues to steal the show. And now Elmore Leonard says he’s working on a new Raylan […]

    Justified, season 2 – trailers

    The man in the hat is back, drawl and all, and Boyd (Walter Goggins) continues to steal the show. And now Elmore Leonard says he’s working on a new Raylan […]

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  • From The Live Feed – The Bones spin-off has found it’s leading man, and his name is Geoff Stults (Happy Town, She’s Out of My League). Stults will play Walter Sherman, a former […]

    Bones spin-off casts its leading man

    From The Live Feed – The Bones spin-off has found it’s leading man, and his name is Geoff Stults (Happy Town, She’s Out of My League). Stults will play Walter Sherman, a former […]

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  • A true story, a killer cast (James McAvoy, Robin  Wright, Kevin Kline, Evan Rachel Wood, Tom Wilkinson, and more), and Robert Redford behind the camera – color me intrigued. The Conspirator […]

    The Conspirator – trailer

    A true story, a killer cast (James McAvoy, Robin  Wright, Kevin Kline, Evan Rachel Wood, Tom Wilkinson, and more), and Robert Redford behind the camera – color me intrigued. The Conspirator […]

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  • Who isn’t a sucker for sword and sandal? Movie Description: In 140 AD, two men – master and slave – venture beyond the edge of the known world on a […]

    The Eagle – featurette

    Who isn’t a sucker for sword and sandal? Movie Description: In 140 AD, two men – master and slave – venture beyond the edge of the known world on a […]

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  • From DHD – In a surprisingly bold move, ABC has picked up Poe, a crime procedural that follows Edgar Allan Poe, the world’s very first detective, in 1840’s Boston as he […]

    ABC orders Edgar Allan Poe pilot

    From DHD – In a surprisingly bold move, ABC has picked up Poe, a crime procedural that follows Edgar Allan Poe, the world’s very first detective, in 1840’s Boston as he […]

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  • From THR – And the paranormal teen romance deluge continues. This time it’s Mandalay moving forward on a Twilight to call their own – the studio acquired the rights to Firelight, […]

    Mandalay sets writer for Firelight

    From THR – And the paranormal teen romance deluge continues. This time it’s Mandalay moving forward on a Twilight to call their own – the studio acquired the rights to Firelight, […]

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