My goodness, another good looking movie trailer for a film version of a book!  This time it’s for Flipped by Wendelin Vaan Draanen.  It’s directed by Rob Reiner and has another great cast.

 

Thanks to Frenetic Reader for the link.

A charmer of a trailer for the movie version of It’s Kind of a Funny Story.  The casting choices are excellent, so my hopes are high!

According to /Film, two new names have been mentioned with Fox’s adaptation of Mr. Popper’s Penguins.  Director Mark Waters of Freaky Friday is a possible director.  Jim Carrey, Owen Wilson and Jack Black’s names have been mentioned as possible stars.

Sigh.

Really?

Sigh.

I was hoping for a quirky interesting film because it’s such a cool book.  Now it looks like star-power, big-budget, CGI-animals type movie.  Let’s hope that I’m wrong since the book deserves better.

Cinematical has the news that Lisa McMann’s YA novel Wake will be made into a film.  Wake will be adapted by Christopher Landon who co-wrote Disturbia.

But the biggest news is that Miley Cyrus is going to star in the film.  Sigh.  Why?  Why? Why?

Cinematical reports that Breaking Dawn will definitely be two films.  Bill Condon will direct both films.  Production begins this fall with the first of the two scheduled to be released on November 18, 2011. 

Variety reports that McG and his Wonderland  Sound and Vision is optioning film rights to The DUFF (Designated Ugly Fat Friend), a teen novel by Kody Keplinger.  This is the 20-year-old’s debut novel that is due to be released this September.

 

In the same article, Variety mentions that Wonderland is also producing a film version of I Am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to Be Your Class President, adapted by the author Josh Lieb.

/Film has the news that Adam Green will direct the film adaptation of Greg Taylor’s young adult novel Killer Pizza.  Christopher Columbus will produce.

Frank Cottrell Boyce’s teen book Cosmic will be turned into a film by Walden Media.  In great news, Cottrell Boyce will be adapting the book into a screenplay himself.  As well as being a successful author for youth, he is a veteran screenwriter.

Here’s to a great book being made into a great film!

Thanks to Cinematical for the news.

Candlewick Press has announced that Smokewood Entertainment will be producing a Judy Moody movie. 

John Schultz will direct the film.  The screenplay was written by Kathy Waugh and Megan McDonald. 

Production starts in August.