Three decades and change after publishing his 1977 classic The Shining (which made its way into horror movie history a few years later courtesy of Stanley Kubrick), Stephen King has set a release date for his Shining sequel, Doctor Sleep. "Scribner and Hodder & Stoughton have established September 24, 2013 as the official first publication date," King's official website announced today.
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Oscar-nominated director Guillermo del Toro has been in the craft of filmmaking since he was 16, filling roles as diverse as P.A., assistant director and makeup effects. He made his first film Cronos at 28 and received his Academy Award-nomination in 2007 for Pan's Labyrinth, making him one of the most prominent filmmakers to emerge from his native Mexico. In a candid interview, he explains how he learned filmmaking in author Mike Goodridge's new book, FilmCraft: Directing.
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From Movieline's 2010 Gift Guide
The final push of the holiday season -- a time for last-minute shopping, family squabbles, exhausting travel and Fox News' annual update on the War on Christmas. In honor of this precious slot on the calendar, 826LA is auctioning off ten different children's books signed by individual cast members from Glee to raise money for their free writing programs. Great and good, but what everyone really want to know is which Glee stars are soldiers-in-arms against Christmas-hating Progressives.
How can 35 years pass before a photographer's voluminous archive of pictures and other historic data from one of the greatest American films ever made finds its way to the public? Why were you holding out on us, Steve Schapiro? And why does your damn Taxi Driver compendium -- featuring vintage snapshots and recollections of Robert De Niro, Martin Scorsese, Jodie Foster and the rest on the set -- gotta have me robbing houses and turning tricks just to have its expensive hide under the tree by Christmas?
From Movieline's 2010 Gift Guide
This fall The Adderall Diaries, Stephen Elliott's brilliant, propulsive mixture of memoir, manifesto and true crime was released in paperback just as James Franco bought the film rights, promising to write, direct, and star in the film himself.
There are any number of reasons to dislike Simon Rich: At 26, he's a published author, writer for Saturday Night Live and The New Yorker and can call famed New York Times columnist Frank Rich "dad." Oh, there's also the fact that his first novel, Elliot Allagash, hasn't even been out for a year and is already earmarked for big-screen glory thanks to Academy Award nominee Jason Reitman. Ugh! There's just one reason to not want to smack Rich upside the head: He's really, really talented.
From Movieline's 2010 Holiday Gift Guide:
It's an understatement to call Keith Richards' Life one of the most charming memoirs of the year. This could be one of the most charming memoirs ever written: a book that's frank, affectionate, sharply observed (especially for a guy who spent the good part of a decade in a cocaine-and-heroin whirlwind) and, best of all, outlandishly, wickedly funny.
The autobiographies of Samuel Fuller and Nicholas Ray are two of the most passionate, heartbreaking and instructive books about filmmaking ever written. Ray is best known for directing James Dean's iconic performance in Rebel Without a Cause. Fuller made some of the greatest genre movies of the '50s and '60s including The Naked Kiss and Shock Corridor. Both novels are compulsively readable, with enough filmmaking advice to replace an entire year of film school and enough insight into both filmmakers' lives and struggles to captivate even the most casual cinephile.
Judging from the paltry box office performance of Edgar Wright's sure-to-be cult classic Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, the fan base for the original graphic novel series isn't as big as Universal executives were hoping. That's too bad really; not because it was part of the reason why Wright's film fizzled at the box office, but because it means there are too many people walking around without an in-depth knowledge of Bryan Lee O'Malley's casual brilliance.
Movie-star style is an enduring source of fascination, though today it seems to find its greatest expression in mostly run-of-the-mill (if jaw-droppingly expensive) red-carpet gowns: When you've seen one exquisitely draped Marchesa confection, you've seen them all. If you're as sick of stupid gowns as I am, you'll love Greta Garbo: The Mystery of Style, a coffee-table extravaganza filled with pictures of a woman who, off-duty and on-, really knew how to dress -- and there's not an overpriced, overdesigned Louboutin in sight.
If you have a friend who is poor, bored, crafty, and/or appreciative of subversive humor, he/she will benefit from Simple Times: Crafts For Poor People, Amy Sedaris' new hardback featuring lessons on making crab-claw roach clips, tinfoil balls, and crepe-paper moccasins.
An anthology whose proceeds benefit 826 National, the tutoring, writing, and publishing organization founded and run by Dave Eggers, I Found This Funny is a compilation of humor and fiction curated by noted literati Judd Apatow.
Say what you will about the Harry Potter franchise -- and believe me, we have said plenty -- but one thing is undeniable: The films look great. Even though directors Chris Columbus, Alfonso Cuaron, Mike Newell and David Yates have fallen short of successfully translating J.K. Rowling's dense narrative to the big screen, they've certainly captured the imagination of her universe. It's with that in mind that fans both young and old will delight in Brian Sibley's ultimate Potter coffee table book: Harry Potter Film Wizardry.
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