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  • Farrah Abraham Details Film Adaptation Of Her Novel

    Farrah Abraham released her erotic novel Celebrity Sex Tape In the Making earlier this month and is already thinking about creating a film adaptation of the novel.

    The novel, the first in the Celebrity Sex Tape trilogy, centers around the main character Fallon Opal. Although Farrah posed for the cover of the book, she says that she would not want to play the part herself in a film.

    “I’m not going to do a movie with this, so many people are obsessed with that idea, I think I’ve done, myself, enough TV, and me, obviously I would never be in a video or a movie of my book because that would be crazy,” Abraham told Us Weekly. “I mean, I guess I could—didn’t the Wolf On Wall Street guy kind of do it? Even though, it was such a different story and it was kind of absurd when like the plane goes down in the ocean, and I was like what?”

    It seems as though Farrah will be very picky when it comes to picking the actresses for her film. She doesn’t want just anyone, and has suggested some big name actresses including Jessica Alba and Sandra Bullock. “I want to have like other awesome actresses and actors [in the film]” she explained. “Jessica Alba…Or like, who knows? Sandra Bullock is like really good, too. When you’re an actress you can play any age.”

    Below is the description of the first installment of Farrah’s trilogy:

    The journey…

    Hot sex. A few thrills. A lot of tips and tricks. There has to be more to life than this, and I’m going to find it.

    The woman…

    I’m like every other person out there: I want to be loved and I want to be happy. But in the words of my best friend, I have to kiss a few frogs along the way. That’s okay, I know what I want and I’m not afraid to go after it, to hell with what other people think. My name is Fallon Opal, and I’m not who everyone thinks I am.

    The star…

    To the world I’m another starlet gone crazy: always traveling, clubbing non-stop, and juggling drug problems and alcohol issues. The truth couldn’t be further from that. I’m on a journey to find myself and I’m going to do it without shame—my way. Sometimes it feels like the world is against me but that won’t stop me from getting mine.

    We first came to know Farrah when she appeared on MTV’s reality show Teen Mom. However, Farrah wasn’t known in the adult industry until she released a sex tape titled Farrah Superstar: Backdoor Teen Mom with porn star James Deen last April. She received tons of backlash for her decision to take part in the tape, and insists that she will not be making any more.

    “I think the healthiest way for me to continue being Farrah and who I am is to continue writing erotic novels,” Farrah said. “Being so sexy, I think that’s for when I get married. And if I ever do another sex tape, I’m probably going to do it with my husband, and you can just celebrate marriage with me.”

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  • Mark Helprin’s Novel Is Now A Colin Farrell Film

    “If it weren’t for music, I would think that love is mortal.”

    This prosaic musing about music might seem like words written by a romance novelist. Indeed, it’s a quote from one of Mark Helprin’s novels. However, the 66-year-old author has created far more than mere love stories and his work covers various subjects. As he has jumped across genres and breathed life into everything from periodicals and short story collections to animated fantasy narratives, his style is best described by another quote on his own website – that he “belongs to no literary school, movement, tendency, or trend” and “lights his own way”.

    Such an eclectic collection of creations makes perfect sense for someone with Mark Helprin’s history and experiences. An author with his academic training, military service, decades of journalism, and involvement in politics and statesmanship likely has a great deal from which to draw and share in written form. Some of his popular works include “A Soldier of the Great War,” ”Refiner’s Fire”, and the aforementioned “Winter’s Tale” – a romantic historical fantasy. In fact, the latter of those three has been recently adapted into a Hollywood film which will be released this coming Valentine’s Day.

    The movie version of “Winter’s Tale” stars a noteworthy cast including Colin Farrell, Jessica Brown Findlay, Jennifer Connelly, and other celebrated actors.

    Yet, like any writer driven by genuine passion (and an understanding that one is only as good as their latest work), Helprin isn’t resting on his current success. In fact, by spring of 2015, he’ll have ready a new literary world into which his fans can escape via his current project, “Avocado”. The novel (which will be released through the John Macrae Books imprint) is described by the publisher as being a “lyrical, romantic and madcap novel set in post-World War I that follows a married couple in search of success from Brooklyn to the California avocado groves and then to Hollywood at the twilight of the silent film era.”

    There’s no way of knowing yet whether this upcoming novel will also make it to the silver screen; but as it already has a Hollywood theme to it, perhaps such is Mark’s intention and inspiration as he constructs it.

    If “Avocado” were adapted to film, which A-listers might you cast for a 1920’s couple making a cross country road trip?

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  • ‘Flowers in the Attic’ Receives Highly Lauded Reviews, EP Michele Weiss Weighs In

    It looks like the Lifetime network has done great justice with its film adaptation of the perversely creepy 1979 novel Flowers in the Attic.

    According to People Magazine, the film adaptation and the novel are equally absurd, yet “psychologically coherent,” as both versions of the dark fairy tale contain the same substance and storyline.

    The story is narrated by the character Cathy Dollanganger who is portrayed by Mad Men’s Kiernan Shipka. The narrative starts with Cathy, her brother, Christopher (Mason Dye), and their younger twin siblings, Cory and Carrie living a life of suburban contentment.

    The children have a wonderful childhood with their strikingly attractive parents Christopher Sr. and Corrine, portrayed by Heather Graham.

    However, the family’s life of happiness takes a devastating turn when their father is killed in a car accident. The bizarre turn of events happens so fast, it gives the illusion as though they’ve fallen under a curse.

    Without the income of their father, their mother falls on financially hard times, as their lifestyle was secured with an installment plan. With no other choice, she turns to her estranged mother Olivia Foxworth, portrayed by Ellen Burstyn.

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    As a last resort, she and her children relocate to the Foxworth mansion in Virginia. The children immediately grasp that they’re “not in Kansas anymore,” as their grandmother blatantly expresses her disdain from the moment they come in contact with her. They are immediately shipped off to an isolated wing of the house to live in the attic, and are ordered to follow a “Don’t List” that only allows breathing.

    The children are left in isolation without their mother. Corrine spends the majority of her time under the stairs with her ailing father begging his forgiveness. However, you’ll have to watch the film to know what she seeks his reprieve for. The “why” factor, on the other hand, is relatively simple. She wants to be reinstated in his will, as a means of taking care of her children away from the clutches of her family. 

    Although she assures the children their stay will only last a few days. Unfortunately, days roll into years and the children are trapped in their desolate dwelling. As Cathy and Chris reach their teenage years, the tale which started out as a tale of a destroyed childhood, transforms into a whirlwind that tips the edge of insanity.

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    While the Lifetime visual is far less explicit than the original accounts of Andrews’ novel, it still maintains that eerie delusional fairy-tale enamor with a glint of evil, “doll-like” imagery.

    The film’s executive producer Michele Weiss recently sat down in an exclusive interview with Hollywood Reporter to share her sentiments of the tale. As an avid lover of the Andrews’ Dollanganger Series, Weiss expressed the importance of “staying true to the book” with the film adaptation. “We tried to be very true to the plot of the book although we had to add some stuff in because it’s a movie, it’s all about action,” Weiss explained.

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    The world premiere of Flowers in the Attic is tonight at 8:00 p.m. ET on Lifetime.

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  • Meryl Streep is the Witch in Into the Woods

    Meryl Streep is the Witch in Into the Woods

    Disney has released the first image of Academy Award winning-actress Meryl Streep as the witch in its upcoming film adaptation of the Broadway musical Into the Woods.

    Into the Woods started shooting in September in the UK, and according to Disney’s blog, will arrive in theaters on December 25, 2014.

    The movie is a modern twist on several Grimm Brothers fairytales, and will be directed by Rob Marshall. Marshall is best known as director of 2002’s multiple Academy Award-winning musical film Chicago.

    Into the Woods will combine story lines from beloved fairytales such as Cinderella, Jack and the Beanstalk, Little Red Riding Hood, and Rapunzel. Streep will be joined by other big name stars: Johnny Depp as The Wolf, Anna Kendrick as Cinderella, and Chris Pine as Cinderella’s Prince.

    Tying the various fairytales together is an interweaving story line about a childless baker and his wife (played by James Corden and Emily Blunt) who set out to end a curse placed on them by Streep’s witch.

    Sophia Grace Brownlee was originally cast to play Little Red Riding Hood, but dropped out over concerns that she was too young for the role. As Esther Zuckerman pointed out in the Atlantic Wire, the Broadway version of Into the Woods features some degree of sexual undertones between Red Riding Hood and the Wolf.

    Dominic Brownlee addressed the decision regarding his daughter on Twitter earlier in September.

    Brownlee was replaced by Lilla Crawford.

    The Broadway version of Into the Woods features music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. The musical premiered in 1987, and Sondheim and James Lapine followed it up with a picture book adaptation in 1993. Lapine wrote the screen play for the upcoming film production.

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