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#film-adaptation

A previous passenger had abandoned a day-old copy of the Miami Herald between the evacuation-procedure card and the air-sickness bag. As I idly flipped through it, I noticed a story about a local nurseryman named John Laroche and three Seminole men who had been arrested for stealing rare orchids from a Florida swamp. It was a sliver of a story, but I was intrigued by it, by seeing the words "swamp" and "orchids" and "Seminoles" and "plant cloning" and "criminal" together in one place.

In both versions, a journalist named Lo is invited on the maiden voyage of a yacht owned by the megarich Richard and Anne Bullmer, the latter of whom has become a recluse as she's battled cancer. While onboard the Aurora Borealis, Lo becomes convinced that the mysterious woman she met in the cabin next to hers was murdered and thrown overboard. But no one believes her, because everyone on the Aurora Borealis is accounted for.

TORONTO - There's no criminal quite like the Roofman. The Sacramento-born burglar Jeffrey Manchester began his crime spree in Northern California in the late 1990s by cutting holes into the roofs of McDonald's franchises, robbing the safes while being shockingly polite to employees in the process. After hitting 40 stores across the country, he was caught and sent to jail in North Carolina, until he escaped and took up secret residence inside a Toys R Us, and then a Circuit City.

Was there really a North Carolina man named Jeffrey Manchester who was convicted of robbing 42 fast-food joints by tunneling into their rooftops overnight and sticking up the minimum-wage workers in the morning? Yes, that's entirely true. The crime spree lasted two years and ended (temporarily) when the then 28-year-old was convicted in November 2000. And yes, he really did endear himself to his victims by being apologetic and friendly while holding them at gunpointwhich made the witnesses remember more about him.

At the time, he indicated that he'd been "writing a lot of music and writing this movie with my dad, which has been really amazing." However, he couldn't "talk about the actual band because I don't have the rights officially yet." Still, he once again echoed a personal connection with The Replacements, adding, "It's about a band that I think weirdly I have a lot in common with, a lot of the members."

The latest adaptation of Frankenstein, directed by Guillermo del Toro for Netflix, appears to be recentering the story on the creature (Jacob Elordi) and his perspective on his creator (Oscar Isaac). After being kept in the shadows, the creature takes center stage in the latest trailer, and we even get to hear his (surprisingly articulate) voice. Check out the trailer below: "My maker told his tale," the creature says, "And I... will tell you mine." This trailer positions the creature as the hero, with the doctor shown as an angry villain. "If you are not to award me love," the creature warns, "then I will indulge in rage."

Her classic story The Birds opens with this: On December the third the wind changed overnight and it was winter. Short, chilly and to the point. It could almost be a weather report. It works so well at the outset of the gripping tale that follows, in which every species of bird attacks humankind, because it's flat, declarative and realistic.

Silent Hill f won't officially launch until tomorrow, September 25, but PC users with early access have already released a handful of mods for the game. One of the mods even removes the franchise's signature fog from the Japanese town of Ebisugaoka. And suddenly it's a much nicer day for high school student Hinako Shimizu, at least until something tries to kill her.

Maggie O'Farrell's lauded 2020 novel Hamnet is a dense and lyrical imagining of the lives of William Shakespeare's family, full of interior thought and lush descriptions of the physical world. It would seem, upon reading, near impossible to adapt into a film. Or, at least, a film worthy of O'Farrell's so finely woven sensory spell. Film-maker Chloe Zhao has attempted to do so anyway, and the result is a stately, occasionally lugubrious drama whose closing minutes are among the most poignant in recent memory.

The new Street Fighter movie has been given a release date of October 16, 2026. Kitao Sakurai is directing the project and a few generic plot details have been disclosed. The story will be set in 1993, a nod to the year Street Fighter II was released in arcades, and will have familiar characters from the game uncovering "a deadly conspiracy" in the midst of all their street fighting.

The plot centres around an English couple grappling with their relationship while their professional trajectories head in opposing directions. The pair meet in London, in one of London's best restaurants, Hide in Mayfair, where (co-founder of the Michelin-starred spot, Ollie Dabbous, makes a cameo about half way through the movie), where Theo (Cumberbatch), who plays a high-flying architecture about to make it big, is having a business meeting

Meier informs Saxberger that he read his slim collection of poetry, written and forgotten 30 years prior, and shared it with his "Enthusiasm Society" of ambitious writers. Meier encourages Saxberger to join the group, who are in the midst of organizing a reading that will debut their talents to Vienna. Flattered and reinvigorated by their admiration, Saxberger hangs around the young crowd and lets himself believe that he finally might be on the brink of recognition.

For a man who wrote an entire movie about how awful adapting a book into a movie can be, Charlie Kaufman has really developed it into a unique skill. The Oscar-winning screenwriter is best known for original stories like Being John Malkovich and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, but he's recently branched out and adapted a children's book into the surprisingly cerebral animated movie Orion and the Dark.

They play Ivy and Theo, two high-achieving professionals whose marriage becomes a black-comic Chornobyl of toxic hate; it is adapted from the 1981 novel The War of the Roses by Warren Adler, which was previously filmed in 1989 with Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas. Tony McNamara writes this new version and the director is Jay Roach, known for Austin Powers and Meet the Parents.

The early 20th century saw the debut of darker fairy tale tellings like Jean Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast and Powell and Pressburger's The Red Shoes, but many of the timeless stories they drew inspiration from became synonymous with the Walt Disney Company's animated films. Even if the original fairy tales contained dark, provocative material, more mature film adaptations had to contend with family-friendly expectations tied to Disney classics like Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, and Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.

Pierce Brosnan plays a retired trade unionist and his London accent keeps going on strike in sloppy and complacent attempt at bringing bestselling book to the screen

The new film is based on Richard Osman's bestseller about four unlikely friends in a retirement home who meet weekly to solve cold cases. But when an unexplained death happens on their own doorstep, the fun and games become all too real. Dame Helen, 80, Brosnan, 72, Imrie, 73, and Gandhi star Sir Ben, 81, lead a stellar cast in the Steven Spielberg-produced whodunnit.