New York, NY—July 14, 2016—Scholastic, the global children’s publishing, education and media company, will publish Philip Pullman’s first original graphic novel, illustrated by Fred Fordham in 2017. The full-color graphic novel, The Adventures of John Blake: Mystery of the Ghost Ship, for ages 8-12 will be published jointly by David Fickling Books and Graphix, both imprints of Scholastic, in North America in June 2017.
World rights for the book were acquired earlier this year by David Fickling Books in the UK, which currently is serializing the story in The Phoenix, a weekly children’s publication available in the UK via newsstands and by subscription. The serialized comic will be collected into the full-color graphic novel, to be published simultaneously in the UK, Us, and Canada in June 2017.
“John Blake is a story that’s close to my heart,” said Philip Pullman. “In Fred Fordham, John and the crew of the...
World rights for the book were acquired earlier this year by David Fickling Books in the UK, which currently is serializing the story in The Phoenix, a weekly children’s publication available in the UK via newsstands and by subscription. The serialized comic will be collected into the full-color graphic novel, to be published simultaneously in the UK, Us, and Canada in June 2017.
“John Blake is a story that’s close to my heart,” said Philip Pullman. “In Fred Fordham, John and the crew of the...
- 7/19/2016
- by ComicMix Staff
- Comicmix.com
Alternating between indie-circuit hits (Young Ones) and blockbuster hits (Maleficent), Elle Fanning has worked steadily to emerge out of older sister Dakota’s Hollywood shadow, and she’ll be aiming squarely for the hearts and minds of the Ya crowd in upcoming project All the Bright Places. This morning, producers have announced that Fanning will team with Youth in Revolt director Miguel Arteta for the pic, an adaptation of Jennifer Niven’s novel.
Fanning has been attached to the lead role of Violet since last year. Niven herself is penning the script for the adaptation, which is a priority for financiers Demarest Media and Mazur/Kaplan.
Said Arteta:
“Violet and Finch’s achingly heartfelt and authentic story is the most convincing portrayal of teenage life I have ever come across. It’s such a privilege to bring it to the screen with the help of its engaging author and the...
Fanning has been attached to the lead role of Violet since last year. Niven herself is penning the script for the adaptation, which is a priority for financiers Demarest Media and Mazur/Kaplan.
Said Arteta:
“Violet and Finch’s achingly heartfelt and authentic story is the most convincing portrayal of teenage life I have ever come across. It’s such a privilege to bring it to the screen with the help of its engaging author and the...
- 7/27/2015
- by Isaac Feldberg
- We Got This Covered
For the past decade, Anthony Mackie has been quietly working hard in supporting roles that have steadily grown in size, within increasingly more prestigious projects. He appeared in no less than six films released in 2013 – including The Fifth Estate, Runner Runner and Gangster Squad – and has kicked off 2014 with Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Things are about to go very loud, very fast, for the talented young actor, however, as he takes the lead role in Jimi.
Originally titled Crosstown Traffic, the film was firmly on the slate of Paul Greengrass (Captain Phillips) until problems arose regarding approval from the Hendrix estate. Such approval is vital to the authenticity of projects such as these, as the use of the artist’s back catalogue hangs in the balance. A rival Hendrix project – John Ridley’s All By My Side, starring Andre 3000 – seems to be proceeding without that all-important approval, which may...
Originally titled Crosstown Traffic, the film was firmly on the slate of Paul Greengrass (Captain Phillips) until problems arose regarding approval from the Hendrix estate. Such approval is vital to the authenticity of projects such as these, as the use of the artist’s back catalogue hangs in the balance. A rival Hendrix project – John Ridley’s All By My Side, starring Andre 3000 – seems to be proceeding without that all-important approval, which may...
- 5/19/2014
- by Sarah Myles
- We Got This Covered
After a quiet period at the box office, Britain's favourite movie remains unchanged for the first time since July
• Read Mark Kermode's review of Prisoners
• Read the archive of Charles Gant's UK box office reports
The winner
After a pretty dismal frame at the UK box office, Prisoners, starring Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal, retained the top spot, with a 17% decline from the previous weekend. It marks the end of a long run where fresh titles conquered the chart summit each week – The Wolverine, The Smurfs 2, Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa, Kick-Ass 2, Elysium, One Direction: This Is Us, About Time, Insidious Chapter 2 and Rush. Prisoners is the first film to land consecutive number one chart placements since Monsters University back in July.
Jackman has now spent seven weeks at the UK chart summit, with Prisoners, The Wolverine and Les Miserables.
The runner-up
Following its very strong opening in Scotland the previous weekend,...
• Read Mark Kermode's review of Prisoners
• Read the archive of Charles Gant's UK box office reports
The winner
After a pretty dismal frame at the UK box office, Prisoners, starring Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal, retained the top spot, with a 17% decline from the previous weekend. It marks the end of a long run where fresh titles conquered the chart summit each week – The Wolverine, The Smurfs 2, Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa, Kick-Ass 2, Elysium, One Direction: This Is Us, About Time, Insidious Chapter 2 and Rush. Prisoners is the first film to land consecutive number one chart placements since Monsters University back in July.
Jackman has now spent seven weeks at the UK chart summit, with Prisoners, The Wolverine and Les Miserables.
The runner-up
Following its very strong opening in Scotland the previous weekend,...
- 10/9/2013
- by Charles Gant
- The Guardian - Film News
Holy Motors; Looper; ParaNorman; House at the End of the Street; Now is Good
What the hell is Holy Motors (2012, Artificial Eye, 18) all about? Leos Carax's first feature film for more than a decade (following the commercial failure of Pola X) is a breathtakingly barking affair involving chimpanzees, aliens, computer graphics, talking limousines, false noses, Kylie Minogue channelling Jean Seberg and Eva Mendes being kidnapped by a familiar troll named Merde. "It's so weird!" breathes an incidental character ecstatically, and he's not kidding.
At the centre of it all is the mesmerising Denis Lavant, a fiery angel and existential artist who travels from location to location adopting quixotic personas (twisted beggar woman, scarred hitman, dying uncle, angry father) and performing real-life vignettes amid the great circus of screen life. From the earliest chronophotographic images of bodies in motion to virtual sex in mo-cap suits, Carax hurtles helter skelter through an urgent history of cinema,...
What the hell is Holy Motors (2012, Artificial Eye, 18) all about? Leos Carax's first feature film for more than a decade (following the commercial failure of Pola X) is a breathtakingly barking affair involving chimpanzees, aliens, computer graphics, talking limousines, false noses, Kylie Minogue channelling Jean Seberg and Eva Mendes being kidnapped by a familiar troll named Merde. "It's so weird!" breathes an incidental character ecstatically, and he's not kidding.
At the centre of it all is the mesmerising Denis Lavant, a fiery angel and existential artist who travels from location to location adopting quixotic personas (twisted beggar woman, scarred hitman, dying uncle, angry father) and performing real-life vignettes amid the great circus of screen life. From the earliest chronophotographic images of bodies in motion to virtual sex in mo-cap suits, Carax hurtles helter skelter through an urgent history of cinema,...
- 1/27/2013
- by Mark Kermode
- The Guardian - Film News
DVD & Digital Release Date: Jan. 8, 2013
Price: DVD $22.99
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Drama movie Now Is Good screams tear-jerker, so be prepared with tissues.
The film stars Dakota Fanning (The Runaways) as Tessa who’s dying of leukemia. In her final days, she compiles a list of all the things she’d like to do before she passes away, including acting like a rebellious teenage and losing her virginity. Her actions lead her to being arrested and help her find love with Adam, played by Jeremy Irvine in his second starring role after his introduction in War Horse.
See, told you. Lots of tissues.
Directed and written by Ol Parker (Imagine Me & You and writer of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel), Now Is Good is based on the award-winning and best-selling novel Before I Die by Jenny Downham.
Olivia Williams (Anna Karenina) and Paddy Considine (Blitz) also star in the...
Price: DVD $22.99
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Drama movie Now Is Good screams tear-jerker, so be prepared with tissues.
The film stars Dakota Fanning (The Runaways) as Tessa who’s dying of leukemia. In her final days, she compiles a list of all the things she’d like to do before she passes away, including acting like a rebellious teenage and losing her virginity. Her actions lead her to being arrested and help her find love with Adam, played by Jeremy Irvine in his second starring role after his introduction in War Horse.
See, told you. Lots of tissues.
Directed and written by Ol Parker (Imagine Me & You and writer of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel), Now Is Good is based on the award-winning and best-selling novel Before I Die by Jenny Downham.
Olivia Williams (Anna Karenina) and Paddy Considine (Blitz) also star in the...
- 11/14/2012
- by Sam
- Disc Dish
Is a lower 12A certificate responsible for Taken 2 grossing more in the UK in a weekend than the entire run of its predecessor?
The winner
When Taken debuted in the UK in September 2008 with £1.17m, the Liam Neeson action film proved a surprise word-of-mouth hit with audiences, its box office dropping just 6% the following weekend, and eventually achieving a healthy total of 5.5 times its opening number (£6.39m). The film went on to be a robust performer on DVD. In other words, all the planets looked felicitously aligned for the sequel, and industry expectations for commercial performance were appropriately high.
Even so, the success of Taken 2 has caught commentators by surprise. With £6.19m over the three-day weekend, and £7.38m including Thursday previews, the Istanbul-set film has already grossed more than the entire UK run of the original Taken. If previews are discounted from opening weekend figures (as they should...
The winner
When Taken debuted in the UK in September 2008 with £1.17m, the Liam Neeson action film proved a surprise word-of-mouth hit with audiences, its box office dropping just 6% the following weekend, and eventually achieving a healthy total of 5.5 times its opening number (£6.39m). The film went on to be a robust performer on DVD. In other words, all the planets looked felicitously aligned for the sequel, and industry expectations for commercial performance were appropriately high.
Even so, the success of Taken 2 has caught commentators by surprise. With £6.19m over the three-day weekend, and £7.38m including Thursday previews, the Istanbul-set film has already grossed more than the entire UK run of the original Taken. If previews are discounted from opening weekend figures (as they should...
- 10/9/2012
- by Charles Gant
- The Guardian - Film News
But takings weren't just modest for this charming animation as a batch of medium-sized movies all competed for attention
The winner
It was the unsung hero the previous weekend, knocked into second place thanks to The Sweeney having its tally inflated by two days of preview takings, and now it's enjoying its moment in the spotlight: ParaNorman is the UK's top box-office hit.
The stop-motion animation does so, however, with a relatively lacklustre number: £1.22m. Only three films so far this year have topped the chart with lower weekend takings. ParaNorman fell just 12% from the previous weekend, the smallest dip of any title in the top 10. It was the only picture in the market to clear £1m.
The chasing pack
Not exactly untypically for this point in the film calendar, there's a large number of medium-sized movies vying for cinemagoers' attention, but little in the way of breakout hits. Only...
The winner
It was the unsung hero the previous weekend, knocked into second place thanks to The Sweeney having its tally inflated by two days of preview takings, and now it's enjoying its moment in the spotlight: ParaNorman is the UK's top box-office hit.
The stop-motion animation does so, however, with a relatively lacklustre number: £1.22m. Only three films so far this year have topped the chart with lower weekend takings. ParaNorman fell just 12% from the previous weekend, the smallest dip of any title in the top 10. It was the only picture in the market to clear £1m.
The chasing pack
Not exactly untypically for this point in the film calendar, there's a large number of medium-sized movies vying for cinemagoers' attention, but little in the way of breakout hits. Only...
- 9/25/2012
- by Charles Gant
- The Guardian - Film News
Ol Parker – he of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel notoriety – is fast becoming the director of choice for sanitising death for those who fear its onset most. As with his last film about a bunch of OAPs on a latter-years, lifetime’s trip to India, he takes the subject and makes it not only palatable for a wider audience, but also amusingly ironic. In this respect, his latest film, Now Is Good, based on a youth novel by Jenny Downham, is a celebration of a young human being’s will to live as Death calls, and is both upbeat and uplifting to watch, as it is tragic in consequence.
American star Dakota Fanning plays 17-year-old Brit Tessa who, like most adolescents, is full of life and lip. Diagnosed with a terminal cancer, she is determined to live every last second to the full, working her way through her ‘bucket list’ – losing her virginity,...
American star Dakota Fanning plays 17-year-old Brit Tessa who, like most adolescents, is full of life and lip. Diagnosed with a terminal cancer, she is determined to live every last second to the full, working her way through her ‘bucket list’ – losing her virginity,...
- 9/24/2012
- by Lisa Giles-Keddie
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
This teen cancer drama never really rises above being a collection of cliches
Based on Jenny Downham's novel, which has the more appropriate title Before I Die, this teen cancer drama never really rises above being a collection of cliches, despite some decent performances. Fanning, with a perfect English accent, plays Tessa, a Brighton teenager trying to tick things off her quite reasonable bucket list as time runs out. She's stricken with some sort of movie cancer that makes her the most attractive and interesting person in any room, treatment that has given her a stylish short hair do, and symptoms that include behaviour straight from the Manic Pixie Dream Girl playbook. The direction is flat and obvious, and so fails to elevate things above movie-of-the-week status. Fanning, with her cheeky smirk, carries the film well, but it's Paddy Considine, as usual, who wrests some reality and emotion from trite,...
Based on Jenny Downham's novel, which has the more appropriate title Before I Die, this teen cancer drama never really rises above being a collection of cliches, despite some decent performances. Fanning, with a perfect English accent, plays Tessa, a Brighton teenager trying to tick things off her quite reasonable bucket list as time runs out. She's stricken with some sort of movie cancer that makes her the most attractive and interesting person in any room, treatment that has given her a stylish short hair do, and symptoms that include behaviour straight from the Manic Pixie Dream Girl playbook. The direction is flat and obvious, and so fails to elevate things above movie-of-the-week status. Fanning, with her cheeky smirk, carries the film well, but it's Paddy Considine, as usual, who wrests some reality and emotion from trite,...
- 9/20/2012
- by Phelim O'Neill
- The Guardian - Film News
"I don't know if I want a bucket list," exclaims Dakota Fanning.
"I think making this movie makes you realise you can't make anything like that, because it's the small things that become important, and the things you think are important really aren't, so I don't have one."
The reason I ask is because Fanning - known to audiences for her roles in a catalogue of films from Dr Seuss: Cat in the Hat to War of the Worlds - stars in Now is Good, the big screen adaptation of Jenny Downham's novel, Before I Die. It tells the story of Tessa, a truculent teenager told she has a terminal illness, who decides to get started on her list of to-dos. The list includes losing her virginity, something she has to run past the boy next door Adam, played by Jeremy Irvine.
Dakota Fanning and Jeremy Irvine in Now Is Good...
"I think making this movie makes you realise you can't make anything like that, because it's the small things that become important, and the things you think are important really aren't, so I don't have one."
The reason I ask is because Fanning - known to audiences for her roles in a catalogue of films from Dr Seuss: Cat in the Hat to War of the Worlds - stars in Now is Good, the big screen adaptation of Jenny Downham's novel, Before I Die. It tells the story of Tessa, a truculent teenager told she has a terminal illness, who decides to get started on her list of to-dos. The list includes losing her virginity, something she has to run past the boy next door Adam, played by Jeremy Irvine.
Dakota Fanning and Jeremy Irvine in Now Is Good...
- 9/18/2012
- by The Huffington Post UK
- Huffington Post
Dakota Fanning's Now Is Good has premiered a new preview clip exclusively through Digital Spy. The drama, based on the novel Before I Die by Jenny Downham, sees Fanning play Tessa Scott, a Brighton girl who is diagnosed with terminal leukaemia. She compiles a list of things she wants to do before she dies, with losing her virginity at the top of the list.
In the one-minute video (more)...
In the one-minute video (more)...
- 9/17/2012
- by By Simon Reynolds
- Digital Spy
Dakota Fanning was a vision in a sequined Stella McCartney gown at last night's London premiere of Now Is Good. While chatting with press, Dakota shared a story about how she selected the dress, saying, "I picked this dress because I thought I should wear a British designer, since this is a British film and I'm here in London." She was joined on the red carpet by costars Jeremy Irvine, Kaya Scodelario, and Olivia Williams. Based on Jenny Downham's novel Before I Die, Now Is Good features Dakota as a young cancer patient determined to live her life to the fullest. Up next, Dakota is sharing the big screen with Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, and Taylor Lautner in the Twilight franchise's final installment, Breaking Dawn Part 2, due out Nov. 16. View Slideshow ›...
- 9/14/2012
- by Katie Henry
- Popsugar.com
Ol Parker, writer of this year’s sensationally successful The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, returns to the big screen next month with his sophomore feature behind the camera, Now Is Good.
We got the first trailer for the film, starring Dakota Fanning in the lead, back in March, and now Sugarscape have debuted the new UK poster ahead of its release next month.
“Tessa is seventeen and passionate about life. Diagnosed with a terminal illness, she determines to use every moment, compiling a catalogue of what a normal teenager would experience, including losing her virginity and taking drugs. With the help of her friend Zoey, she sets the list in motion. While her family deals with fear and grief, each in their own way, Tessa explores a whole new world. Falling in love with Adam, her new neighbour, wasn’t on the list, but it proves to be the most exhilarating experience of them all.
We got the first trailer for the film, starring Dakota Fanning in the lead, back in March, and now Sugarscape have debuted the new UK poster ahead of its release next month.
“Tessa is seventeen and passionate about life. Diagnosed with a terminal illness, she determines to use every moment, compiling a catalogue of what a normal teenager would experience, including losing her virginity and taking drugs. With the help of her friend Zoey, she sets the list in motion. While her family deals with fear and grief, each in their own way, Tessa explores a whole new world. Falling in love with Adam, her new neighbour, wasn’t on the list, but it proves to be the most exhilarating experience of them all.
- 8/23/2012
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Sony Worldwide Acquisitions picks up North American rights to Oi Parker's Now Is Good Dakota Fanning stars in Now Is Good as a dying girl who falls in love. The film based on the Jenny Downham novel "Before I Die," started shooting in July on location in London and Brighton, reports Variety. Fanning plays a teen with a terminal illness who decides to live her life quickly, in fast-forward. Also in the cast are Jeremy Irvine, Paddy Considine and Olivia Williams. Peter Czernin and Graham Broadbent of Blueprint Pictures produce with financing by BBC Films, Rising Star Films, the UK Film Council and Lipsync.
- 8/1/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
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