‘The Last Song’ opens this week, ready to wreak emotional devastation on viewers with a dramatic story, gilded summer romance and a heartbreaking plot twist that won’t leave a dry eye in the theater.
Miley Cyrus stars as Ronnie Miller, a rage-filled teen sent from New York to spend the summer with her estranged father on the North [...]

On hearing of JD Salinger’s recent death, most fans probably experienced a single emotion: sadness. Over in Hollywood, however, the hills shook with the cackling of a hundred avaricious studio execs. Finally, someone will get to make The Catcher in the Rye film.
Salinger never wanted one when he was alive. A letter to a Hollywood producer [...]

Is it a book? Is it a movie? Is it a website?Actually it’s all three. Anthony Zuiker, creator of the “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” U.S. television series, is releasing what he calls a “digi-novel” combining all three media — and giving a jolt to traditional book publishing.
 
Zuiker has created “Level 26,” a crime novel that [...]

For 40 minutes last month he held them spellbound, reading about America in 1898. John Sayles didn’t just give the crowd a taste of his new novel, “Some Time in the Sun” — he performed a comedy about tabloid newsboys in New York, playing 26 characters with thick, period accents.
“WAR!” Sayles boomed in the voice [...]

A book packager, Alloy Media and Marketing, has proved adept at turning its young-adult book series into successful movies and television shows. “Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants” was a 2005Warner Brothers movie that spawned a 2008 sequel. “Gossip Girl” is in its second season on the CW network, and a spinoff is a possibility for the network’s fall [...]

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s magical short story “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” was a hard sell during the early days of the Roaring ’20s, when magazines were hungering for one of the author’s more down-to-earth flapper stories.
“Benjamin Button” was a rare foray for Fitzgerald into the fantasy genre — a quixotic tale of a man [...]

A maniacal villain seeking immortality, a bevy of deadly beauties and snowy streetscapes under the watchful eye of a shadowy, masked hero: this must be a job for — Frank Miller.
Miller, 51, an icon of the comic book world credited with bringing the genre to a wider audience, has returned to the big screen with [...]

Deepa Mehta first met Salman Rushdie three years ago when friends of hers invited the author to an advance screening in New York of her film Water, the film that went on to an Oscar nomination.
The avid reader (Mehta) and the exuberant cinephile (Rushdie) immediately hit it off, and over subsequent months, the two became fast [...]

Michael Crichton, the million-selling author who made scientific research terrifying and irresistible in such thrillers as “Jurassic Park,” “Timeline” and “The Andromeda Strain,” has died of cancer, his family said. Crichton died Tuesday in Los Angeles at age 66 after privately battling cancer.
“Through his books, Michael Crichton served as an inspiration to students of all [...]

Although only one book has been written (and not yet published), The 39 Clues is already mapped out to include a ten book series, as well as a set of collectable cards and an online adventure game set up to give participants a shot at a $10,000 prize. It only makes sense, then, to adapt [...]