Coming Soon! Books into Films!

Here's a short list of movies you may see this spring/summer that were derived from books:

"Invisible Sign" (Jessica Alba) --- based on An Invisible Sign of My Own by Aimee Bender

"Something Borrowed" (Kate Hudson, Ginnifer Goodwin, John Krasinski) --- based on the book of the same title by Emily Giffen

"Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides" (Johnny Depp, of course)--- based on On Stranger Tides by Tim Powers

"Too Big to Fail" (William Hurt, Ed Asner, Paul Giamatti) --- based on the book of the same title by Andrew Ross Sorkin

"Mr. Popper's Penguins" (Jim Carrey, Angela Lansbury) --- based on the classic 1938 children's story by Richard Atwater

"Project Nim" --- based on Nim Chimpsky by Elizabeth Hess

"One Day" (Anne Hathaway) --- based on the book of the same title by David Nicholls

"Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows, Part II" --- based on the 2nd half of the last book by J.K. Rowling

"Snow Flower and the Secret Fan" (Hugh Jackman) --- based on the book of the same title by Lisa See

"Winnie the Pooh" (voices of Craig Ferguson, John Cleese) --- based on the original stories of A.A. Milne

"Sarah's Key" (Kristin Scott Thomas, Aidan Quinn) --- based on the book of the same title by Tatiana de Rosnay

"Zen" --- in July on PBS Masterpiece Theatre --- based on the 10 Aurelio Zen mysteries by Michael Dibdin

"The Help" (Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Sissy Spacek) --- perhaps the most-awaited film of the summer, based on the book of the same title by Kathryn Stockett

But remember, the movie is NEVER as good as the book!