The first official trailer has been released for Tim Burton's film adaptation of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs, Entertainment Weekly reported. Written by Jane Goldman, the movie stars Asa Butterfield, Eva Green, Ella Purnell, Allison Janney, Terence Stamp, Rupert Everett, Judi Dench and Samuel L. Jackson. It hits theaters on September 30.
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Lu Chuan (Chronicles of the Ghostly Tribe) will direct and produce River Town, the Tristine Skyler adaptation of Peter Hessler's bestselling memoir River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze, Deadline reported. Jamie Gordon and Courtney Potts of Fugitive Films are producing.
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Walden Media has preemptively acquired screen rights to ESPN producer Lisa Fenn's inspirational memoir Carry On, and hired Nate Parker (The Birth of a Nation) to adapt it, Deadline reported. The book, which "tells the true journey of Fenn, an Emmy-winning features producer for ESPN, and her 2009 return to her Cleveland hometown to chase a story on two disabled wrestlers who attended an impoverished public high school there," will be released by HarperCollins in August. Walden Media will produce, as well as develop and finance the picture.
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Lu Chuan (Chronicles of the Ghostly Tribe) will direct and produce River Town, the Tristine Skyler adaptation of Peter Hessler's bestselling memoir River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze, Deadline reported. Jamie Gordon and Courtney Potts of Fugitive Films are producing.
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Walden Media has preemptively acquired screen rights to ESPN producer Lisa Fenn's inspirational memoir Carry On, and hired Nate Parker (The Birth of a Nation) to adapt it, Deadline reported. The book, which "tells the true journey of Fenn, an Emmy-winning features producer for ESPN, and her 2009 return to her Cleveland hometown to chase a story on two disabled wrestlers who attended an impoverished public high school there," will be released by HarperCollins in August. Walden Media will produce, as well as develop and finance the picture.