Topic: Adaptations

Why J.K. Rowling's New Book Won't Be Coming to a Theater Near You

AP

J.K. Rowling released her first novel for adults in September, and it's already slated to be filmed. But The Casual Vacancy won't be turned into a Harry Potter-sized blockbuster — it's going straight to the small screen as a BBC series.

By David Wagner

Nov 12, 2012

Comment of the Day

Let's Cast Hollywood's Adaptation of the Petraeus Affair

A four-star general, his eager biographer, an FBI probe, another "other woman," a disgraced resignation—as one commenter notes, General Petraeus' affair is a Hollywood blockbuster that practically writes itself.

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By Richard Lawson

Nov 7, 2011

How to Make a Where's Waldo Movie

MGM has bought the rights to Where's Waldo?, the illustrated kids book series in which the goal is to find the striped shirt-sporting hero in a crowd, and we have some suggestions on how to adapt.

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