5/29/2023 0 Comments A headful of ghosts![]() Cross Creek’s other forays in the psychological thriller space include Black Swan and Woman in Black. The film marks the second collaboration for Cooper and Cross Creek, after the 2015 Johnny Depp-starrer Black Mass for Warner Bros that grossed $99M million worldwide. Cooper most recently directed the Keri Russell-Jessie Plemons movie Antlers.Ī Head Full of Ghosts is being produced by Daniel Dubiecki and Lara Alameddine of the Allegiance Theater, Susan Downey of Team Downey, Tyler Thompson of Cross Creek, Cooper and David Gambino. ![]() Qualley is also coming off Fosse/Verdon, The Leftovers and Berlin opener My Salinger Year. The hope has been that Cannes could follow suit. Between Netflix’s splash for The Good Nurse, Searchlight grabbing Perfect, AGC’s sell-out on Little America, STX’s deals for this film and Gunpowder Milkshake and multiple eye-catching deals on its sales slate, it was a better than average EFM. Additional casting is underway.īerlin turned out to be a buoyant market in the end. The film sees a young woman recount to a journalist the terrifying story of how her family was publicly ripped apart 20 years prior by her teenage sister’s mysterious affliction. ![]() ![]() Pic is an adaptation of Paul Tremblay’s popular horror novel, and Cooper is revising the current draft. ![]() Searchlight Pictures Closes Big World Rights Deal For Olivia Wilde's Olympic Gymnast Pic 'Perfect' ![]()
0 Comments
![]() ![]() ![]() Why Didn't They Ask Evans? stars Will Poulter (The Revenant, Detroit, Dopesick) as Bobby Jones, a young naval officer, and Lucy Boynton (Sing Street, Murder On The Orient Express, Bohemian Rhapsody) as Frankie Derwent, a prototype It Girl with a taste for adventure and good hats. ![]() In so doing, they hit upon a dark conspiracy of deceit, betrayal and - perhaps unsurprisingly - murder. The story then follows Bobby Jones and his childhood friend, Lady Frances “Frankie” Derwent, who resolve to honour the dead man by deciphering, and then answering, his final question. The three-part adaptation of the 1934 novel is about a mysterious death (of course) with a man lying dying at the foot of a cliff, apparently the victim of an accidental fall with his final breath, he utters the mysterious question of the title and promptly expires. Why Didn't They Ask Evans? is the latest Agatha Christie novel to be adapted for primetime TV, airing on ITV this spring after first streaming on BritBox UK in 2022 and it was shot around the UK, including Wales. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Torment lauren kate film![]() Her standalone novel, The Betrayal of Natalie Hargrove, was released on November 12, 2009, and her second work, Fallen (the first in the Fallen series), was released that same year. Kate married Jason Morphew, a poet and singer-songwriter, in 2009. ![]() Kate has stated that experience of the " Old South" in the Atlanta area (she went to college at Emory) inspired her to set Fallen in a Civil War era academy. Kate was raised in Dallas, Texas, and has a Master's degree in fiction from the University of California, Davis. The sequels Passion and Rapture also reached the spot of NYT Best Seller #1. Fallen 's sequel Torment entered the NYT Best Seller list at number 1. Her titles include The Betrayal of Natalie Hargrove and Fallen, which reached number 1 on the New York Times Best Seller List for children's chapter books. ![]() Her books have been translated into over thirty languages, have sold more than eleven million copies worldwide, and have spent combined months on the New York Times Best Seller list. Lauren Kate (born March 21, 1981) is an American author of adult and young adult fiction.
5/29/2023 0 Comments The space between worlds summary![]() As new friends help her to translate the archaic French, they uncover the story of Adeline Baillard, a young woman who lived centuries before-her faith condemned, her life endangered, her community decimated by the Huguenot persecution. “Now you need to figure out what they’re trying to say.”ĭuring a stop at a country flea market, Jessica finds a faded document concealed in an antique. “The pages found you,” Patrick whispered. Worn down by his insistence, she reluctantly agrees to follow through with the trip they’d planned before the tragedy. But Patrick, the steadfast friend who hasn’t left her side, urges her to reconsider her decision. ![]() ![]() When Jessica regains consciousness in a French hospital on the day after the Paris attacks, all she can think of is fleeing the site of the horror she survived. "There were seconds, when I woke, when the world felt unshrouded. Then memory returned." ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Gateway sci fi novel![]() ![]() Kalfař says that as he was writing the book, he kept thinking about a significant event in his early childhood. ![]() ![]() Kalfař describes how Jakub's grandfather in the book resembles his own grandfather, to whom the book is dedicated. He was the recipient of the 2018 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, which granted him $25,000 in order for him to write, research, and travel. ![]() He graduated from the University of Central Florida and then went on to earn an MFA from New York University. He spoke very little English at the time, and learned by watching Cartoon Network. Jaroslav Kalfař ( Czech: ) was born on in Prague, Bohemia, one year before the Velvet Revolution, and emigrated to the United States in 2003 at the age of fifteen. Jakub wants to escape his past so desperately that he is willing to travel hundreds of millions of miles to be free from it. While alone, he meets a giant arachnid named Hanuš and becomes friends with him. He leaves behind his wife for this 8-month mission. He is sent on a solo mission in space to a cloud of "intergalactic dust" near the planet Venus that no other country is willing to risk sending their citizens to inspect. There are two parts of the story, and it is written from the point of view of Jakub Procházka, the first independent Czech Republic's astronaut. Spaceman of Bohemia is a sci-fi novel written by Jaroslav Kalfař in 2017. ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments Surrender your sons adam sass![]() ![]() But first, he’s exposing the camp’s horrible truths for what they are-and taking this place down. Connor plans to escape and bring the other kidnapped teens with him. At Nightlight, everyone has something to hide-from the campers to the “converted” staff and cagey camp director-and it quickly becomes clear that no one is safe. His final destination: Nightlight Ministries, a conversion therapy camp that will be his new home until he “changes.”īut Connor’s troubles are only beginning. His SAT scores bombed, the old man he delivers meals to died, and when he came out to his religious zealot mother, she had him kidnapped and shipped off to a secluded island. A blend of Lost and Lord of the Flies … just with gay teenagers taking the horrors of the world head on.Ī 2020 Booklist Top 10 First Novels for Youth selectionĪ 2020 Kirkus Reviews Best Young Adult Books selectionĪ 2020 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards Bronze Winner, Young Adult FictionĬonnor Major’s summer break is turning into a nightmare. Surrender Your Sons is an LGBTQ+ YA mystery / thriller that expertly blends together humor, horror, and heart, in a wholly unique read like no other. ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments Aza turtles all the way down![]() ![]() “Okay, so there’s this scientist, and he’s giving a lecture to a huge audience about the history of the Earth, and he explains that the Earth was formed billions of years ago from a cloud of cosmic dust, and then for a while the Earth was very hot, but then it cooled enough for the oceans to form. You will, most likely, feel exactly the same. You will probably not feel better after reading this book. If you have lost a parent, to death or disappearance, the book says: life goes on. If you have a mental illness, the book says: life goes on. This is not a story about a girl with a mental illness solving a mystery. Aza and her best friend Sy are initially in it for the $100,000 reward, but the money becomes irrelevant pretty quickly. Aza just so happens to know his son Davis from Sad Camp, a place for kids with a dead parent. This time, the teens casually investigate the disappearance of a corrupt billionaire. Turtles All The Way Down features John Green’s usual cast of existential, well- read teenagers. Protagonist Aza Holmes constantly obsesses over her internal bacteria and wonders who she really is amidst so many factors she can’t control. I enjoyed John Green’s honest portrayal of a girl with mental illness in Turtles All The Way Down. ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments War horse hardback book![]() ![]() Look out for Morpurgo's other war fiction including Friend or Foe, Waiting for Anya, King of the Cloud Forests and An Eagle in the Snow. A great way of introducing young readers to the realities of WWI. The National Theatre production opened in 2007 and has enjoyed successful runs in the West End and on Broadway. ![]() War Horse was adapted by Steven Spielberg as a major motion picture with Jeremy Irvine, Emily Watson, and Benedict Cumberbatch. The power of war and the beauty of peace. One horse has the seen the best and the worst of humanity. Bombarded by artillery, with bullets knocking riders from his back, Joey tells a powerful story of the truest friendships surviving in terrible times. In the deadly chaos of the First World War, one horse witnesses the reality of battle from both sides of the trenches. Before the Steven Spielberg film, before the National Theatre production, there was the classic children's novel. ![]() ![]() ![]() After years of success, Taylor purchased his ranch near Abbott in Hall County in 1890. Sheep King: The Story of Robert Taylor by Robert PerryĪround the turn of the 20th century, Robert Taylor was one of the wealthiest and most affluent sheep ranchers in the U.S. Army to protect and rescue Overland Trail travelers, settlers, soldiers, and Union Pacific railroad workers during the Plains Indian Wars and the building of the Transcontinental Railroad LukeshĪ quick reading biography of brothers Frank and Luther North and their Pawnee Scouts who worked with the U.S. Wolves in Blue: Stories of the North Brothers and Their Pawnee Scouts by Jean A. They then returned home to plan a robbery of the First National Bank for the following day. Robert Hendricks" and three others tied up fourteen employees at the Hastings National Bank and Walked away with over $27,000 from the vault. ![]() The 1931 Hastings Bank Job & The Bloody Bandit Trail by Monty McCord ![]() The state’s first processing facility opened in Grand Island in 1890, boasting the largest mill in the world. Sugar beets are as tenaciously rooted in Nebraska’s history as they are in its soil. Nebraska Sweet Beets: A History of Sugar Valley by Lawrence Gibbs ![]() ![]() ![]() This is the classic - standard - book on investing. ![]() If I had to pick/summarize his negative thesis, it would be, "Be an investor don't be a trader."Īlso, interesting comments in the last 1/3 (and particularly in the last section, which is actually titled "Is The Market Efficient?") on his (very dim) view of Efficient Market Theory as it was coming into vogue but before its heyday. That right there is the thesis of "growth investing." Which is usually take as one camp sort-of-in-opposition to "value investing." But I have a strong feeling Fisher would argue that true growth investing is (future) value investing. The fundamental message: choose a few stocks, choose them wisely after much investigation and comparison, with all your research and evaluation aimed at owning great companies that will perform outstandingly for the long haul (at least 3 years, minimum left open-ended so as to be "forever" elsewhere in one or two places put as "3 to 5 years".) And that's it. ![]() A classic that is a few spots is definitely showing its age (other than talking about prices in 1/8's). ![]() |