Movie Adaptation

Transforming Harry: The Adaptation of Harry Potter in the Transmedia Age is an edited volume of eight essays that look at how the cinematic versions of the seven Harry Potter novels represent an unprecedented cultural event in the history of cinematic adaptation.

Anna Shepherd is a straight-A student with a lot going on under the surface: She’s struggling with her mom’s death, total friend drama, and the fallout from wasting her time on a very attractive boy. She’s looking forward to skipping town after graduation - but then a zombie apocalypse majorly disrupts the holidays season. It’s going to be very hard to graduate high school without a brain. To save the day, Anna, her friends, and her frenemies will have to journey straight to the heart of one of the most dangerous places ever known: high school.

In 1972, at the age of 21, John Callahan was involved in a car crash that severed his spine and made him a quadriplegic. A heavy drinker since the age of 12, the accident could have been the beginning of a downward spiral. Instead, it sparked a personal transformation. After extensive physical therapy, he was eventually able to grasp a pen in his right hand and make rudimentary drawings. By 1978, Callahan had sworn off drinking for good and begun to draw cartoons. Over the next three decades, Callahan would become one of the nation's most beloved cartoonists.

On June 3, 2017, as seen in the Oscar-winning documentary Free Solo, Alex Honnold achieved what most had written off as unattainable: a 3,000-foot vertical climb of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, without a rope or harness. Now adapted for a younger audience, The Impossible Climb tells the gripping story of how a quiet kid from Sacramento, California, grew up to capture the attention of the entire globe by redefining the limits of human potential through hard work, discipline, and a deep respect for the natural world.

How can a high school girl deal with a megalomaniac? What would you do if Richard III manipulated your thoughts and took you places you didn’t want to go? Would that be any easier to take if you had a chance to meet Romeo and Juliet and Mercutio? Beth has magical powers, but will she learn how to use them in time? The immortal wizard Merlin transports high school actor Beth Owens to Shakespeare's London and the world of Shakespeare's characters in search of a missing play about King Arthur.

Lucien moves to Los Angeles to be with his grandmother as she undergoes an experimental treatment for Alzheimer’s using the new drug, Memoroxin. An emerging photographer, he’s also running from the sudden death of his mother, a well-known artist whose legacy haunts him. Sophie has just landed the lead in the upcoming performance of La Sylphide with the Los Angeles Ballet Company. She still waitresses at the Chateau Marmont during her off-hours, witnessing the recreational use of Memoroxin - or Mem - among the Hollywood elite.

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Winner of the 2022 Colorado Book Award for General Nonfiction Winner of the 2022 High Plains Book Award for Creative Nonfiction Now the basis for an investigative documentary of the same name, award-winning journalist Julian Rubinstein's The Holly...

Donna VanLiere's Christmas books have enthralled millions of readers. Now she delivers another inspirational novel about an unlikely friendship between two women—a friendship that will change each of their lives forever. The Christmas Note is now a Hallmark TV movie! Gretchen Daniels has...

The annals of movie history are full of lost treasures - spectacular scripts from world-renowned writers that could have been classics, had they only been made. Now, for the first time, some of these forgotten gems have been brought to life, fully realised as vivid, cinematic radio productions. Scripted by major 20th-century writers, including Harold Pinter, Arthur Miller, Alfred Hitchcock and Dennis Potter, they star a host of A-list actors and feature richly evocative, atmospheric soundtracks.

The annals of movie history are full of lost treasures - spectacular scripts from world-renowned writers that could have been classics, had they only been made. Now, for the first time, some of these forgotten gems have been brought to life, fully realised as vivid, cinematic radio productions. Scripted by major 20th-century writers, including Harold Pinter, Arthur Miller, Alfred Hitchcock and Dennis Potter, they star a host of A-list actors and feature richly evocative, atmospheric soundtracks.

One of seven 'unmade movies' available on audio, The Blind Man is set in 1961 and features a famous blind jazz pianist, Larry Keating, who agrees to a pioneering surgical procedure: an eye transplant. The operation is a success, but his new eyes are those of a murdered man - and burned onto their retina is the image of his killer. Can Larry track him down before he strikes again?

Belle leger gemmeleg med den lille kop, Chip, men da han pludselig forsvinder sporløst, må Belle i gang med den store eftersøgning. Hvor kan han være blevet af? Lyt til magiske historier med Disneys vidunderlige prinsesser Jasmin, Rapunzel, Snehvide, Mulan, Vaiana, Tornerose, Askepot, Pocahontas, Tiana, Belle, Ariel og Merida. Tag med på skattejagt med Ariel, kom til bal med Askepot, opklar mysterier med Snehvide og hold månenytår med Mulan. Find din smukkeste kjole frem og puds dine glassko – nu skal du på eventyr, som kun er en prinsesse værdig.

Ariel är en sjöjungfru som älskar att ha roligt och drömmer om att upptäcka världen ovanför havsytan. I hemlighet besöker hon förlista skepp för hitta människosaker till sin samling, men när hennes pappa Kung Triton upptäcker hennes skattgömma blir han ursinnig och förbjuder henne att närma sig människor igen. Den hemska häxan Ursula erbjuder sig att hjälpa Ariel att bli människa – men hennes hjälp är inte gratis! Nu behöver Ariel allt sitt mod och all sin beslutsamhet för att få sin dröm att gå i uppfyllelse.

The labyrinth of tunnels beneath Corvis is home to some of the city’s worst criminals, but now even these hardened thugs have reason to watch their step in the dark, shadowy undercity. Death moves in that darkness, leaving behind a trail of horribly mangled bodies. The identity of the killer is a mystery, although his calling cards - brutally savaged corpses and a distinct, repulsive odor - are constants at each bloody murder scene.

Sometimes the Dashwood girls do not seem like sisters. Elinor is all calmness and reason, and can be relied upon for practical, common sense opinions. Marianne, on the other hand, is all sensibility, full of passionate and romantic feeling. She has no time for dull common sense - or for middle-aged men of 35, long past the age of marriage. True love can only be felt by the young, of course. And if your heart is broken at the age of 17, how can you ever expect to recover from the passionate misery that fills your life, waking and sleeping?

Hans bekommt als Lohn für die sieben Jahre, die er bei einem Müller als Lehrling gearbeitet hat, einen großen Goldklumpen. Sein größter Wunsch ist es, so schnell wie möglich nach Hause zu seiner Mutter zurück zu kehren. Doch die lange Reise, auf der ihn Doc Croc und Yoyo begleiten, gestaltet sich schwierig, denn der Goldklumpen wiegt schwer. So tauscht Hans ihn bedenkenlos gegen ein Pferd ein, um schneller voran zu kommen und fühlt sich erleichtert, obwohl der Händler ihn natürlich übers Ohr gehauen hat. Und das ist erst der Anfang einer verrückten Tauschgeschichte.

Die beiden mutigen Abenteurer und zugleich besten Freunde Yoyo und Doc Croc sind bei ihrer abenteuerlichen Reise durch die verzauberte Welt von Simsala mitten in der Wüste auf einem Bazar gelandet, auf dem sie dem aufgeweckten Nachtwächter Salim begegnen, der dort für Recht und Ordnung sorgt. Eine spannende Geschichte verbunden mit dem Rätsel nach einem ominösen Diebstahl wartet auf die beiden gewitzten Helden, den Nachtwächter Salim und Jalina, die rechtschaffende Besitzerin eines Tuchladens. Werden die vier dem dreisten Dieb auf die Schliche kommen?

Askungens muskompis Gus ger henne en bukett med vackra rosor. Men Askungen hamnar i knipa eftersom den lilla musen av misstag har plockat blommorna från Lady Tremaines trädgård. Askungen tar med sig Gus in till byn för att köpa en ny rosenbuske, utan att veta att den årliga marknaden hålls i byn just den dagen. Mitt i alla festligheter råkar Gus välta en gigantisk tårta som byns bästa bagare har bakat åt kungafamiljen! Som tur är kan Jack, Luke, Perla och resten av mössen hjälpa Askungen att baka en ny, mumsig dessert. Men är den lika god som den ser ut?