Browsing: Books

Author JK Rowling really did change the world with her young witches and wizards novels, an impact we’re still feeling 20+ years later.  Aside from being hugely successful books on their own, the Harry Potter film universe remains as popular as ever. May 2nd marks the anniversary of the Battle of Hogwarts, when Voldemort’s Deatheaters attacked […]

In another example of perfect decisions to breathe a modern life into an existing property, Oscar winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro has co-written and will produce a film based on the “Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark” book series by Alvin Schwartz. Entertainment One and CBS Films are financing the project, which will start filming in Toronto […]

Author George R. R. Martin WILL be publishing a new tome in 2018, despite reports to the contrary.  True, it’s not the Song of Ice And Fire installment fans were hoping for, it *is* a story set in Westeros. Announced today on Martin’s not-a-blog blog (which he actually said he was going to STOP using earlier this year, […]

Margaret Atwood as earned the right to some strong opinions in her rather successful career as an author.  Perhaps you’re familiar with one of her works in particular, “The Handmaid’s Tale”, which Hulu adapted into an award-winning tv drama series. In a recent interview Variety did with the 78 year old icon ahead of their […]

With the number one film at the world box office based on his first book Ready Player One, author Ernie Cline is riding high right now. Also, he just celebrated his birthday on Sunday — happiest of natal days, buddy! Perhaps you’ve heard the chatter about a RP1 sequel being in the works — this isn’t news, […]

With the number one film at the world box office based on his first book Ready Player One, author Ernie Cline is riding high right now. Also, he just celebrated his birthday on Sunday — happiest of natal days, buddy! Perhaps you’ve heard the chatter about a RP1 sequel being in the works — this isn’t news, […]

[Editor’s Note: This ‘Ready Player One’ piece comes to us from Bleeding Cool contributor Dana Han-Klein of The DHK who takes a look at the pre-theatrical release hype at WonderCon and how it showed at the weekend box office results.] Well the world has now seen Steven Spielberg’s interpretation of Ready Player One and the big question is did […]

We’re going to take a minute here to talk about the various clues, keys, gates, and challenges in Ernie Cline’s book, which was the source material for Steven Spielberg’s film version of Ready Player One. If you haven’t read the book yet, be advised there will be spoilers from here on out.  There are different challenges […]

We’re going to take a minute here to talk about the various clues, keys, gates, and challenges in Ernie Cline’s book, which was the source material for Steven Spielberg’s film version of Ready Player One. If you haven’t read the book yet, be advised there will be spoilers from here on out.  There are different challenges […]

Maybe you didn’t know (I didn’t) that The Tommyknockers is Stephen King’s second best selling work in his career thus far. Considering how many mini series and films there have been of his lesser selling stories, this is surprising, because as it stands, we’ve only gotten one version of ‘Tommyknockers’ thus far. That’s gonna change, as today veteran […]