Miramax & Disney reunite to develop ARTEMIS FOWL

The young adult fantasy book series ARTEMIS FOWL is about the adventures of a 12-year-old criminal mastermind who kidnaps a fairy in order to harness its magic to save his family. This book series currently spans eight novels. Miramax has since been trying to develop it into a film ever since the company has acquired rights for the book back in 2001. Now, Miramax has reunited with Disney to bring ARTEMIS FOWL to the big screen, hoping it could spawn a new fantasy movie franchise the way Harry Potter did.
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Hanks and Howard brings Robert Langdon back in INFERNO Adaptation

Tom Hanks and Ron Howard are not yet done with the mysteries of Robert Langdon. After The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons, Sony has set their sights on Dan Brown's INFERNO with Ron Howard as director, and Tom Hanks reprising his role as Harvard professor of symbology, Robert Langdon. Sony has set INFERNO's release date on December 18, 2015. [read the full article after the jump]

John Le Carré novels 'A Most Wanted Man' and 'A Delicate Truth' movie adaptations

John Le Carré is one of the most respected novelists who wrote many of the very popular espionage novels such as The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, The Tailor of Panama, The Constant Gardener, and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. His latest novel entitled A DELICATE TRUTH will come out this May, and has been immediately targeted for a film adaptation. The production company The Ink Factory has acquired the film rights to A Delicate Truth. Likewise, The Ink Factory has also recently finished work on shooting another Le Carré novel-turned-movie; A MOST WANTED MAN. [click the link below to read the full story]

Tom Cruise attached to upcoming adaptation of Japanese novel, anime Yukikaze

Fresh off the recent release of Oblivion and has also recently finished in the shooting of Doug Liman’s sci-fi thriller All You Need Is Kill, Tom Cruise has recently been attached to star in an adaptation of author Chōhei Kambayashi’s sci-fi novel series "Yukikaze". Yukikaze was also adapted into a five-episode Japanese Original Video Animation (OVA) wch was release in 2002 till 2005.

The book series takes place on an Earth ravaged by war, where a hyper-dimensional passageway opened up over Antarctica thirty years previously, setting into motion events that would find the human race uniting to fight off the mysterious alien force known as JAM. Cruise would play a second lieutenant who is tasked with heading into enemy territory—the alien home planet Fairy—and gathering information that can bring an end to the war once and for all. [click the link below to read more]