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Paper to Film

By • Mar 1st, 2010 • Category: Books, Features, Movies & TV, Television, Upcoming

Nowadays, you can find many books in hardcover, paperback, and DVD..? Turning books into film and TV shows have become the newest thing in Hollywood, and some of these best sellers have become hits once they leapt off the page.

Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Saga: Although, the New Moon movie didn’t live up to Twilight this book turned movie was a winner. Many young girls; who are more into reading Seventeen magazines than a five-hundred page book first heard of this vampire love story when they saw the trailer for the live action movie released in 2008, and then set out to read the book. Twilight brought back the vampire franchises that Buffy the Vampire Slayer started, and has paved the way for other blood sucking shows.

gg_opt Cecily von Ziegesar’s Gossip Girl: Gossip Girl takes us into a different side of high society while the super secret high school blogger Gossip Girl; who follows the every move of privileged teenagers that attend an elite private school in New York City. The CW series Gossip Girl based off the books became a hit once it aired and has marked the rise in Hollywood for many of the shows stars.

Nicholas Sparks’s The Last Song: Sparks has had many of his stories turned into films through out the years most, however seem to be loved story this tale will be bit different it shows the journey that a teenage girl takes when she and her brother visits their father for the summer, and how you don’t know what you have until it is gone. This is a powerful book and hopeful the movie will do it justice. The feature film will star Disney’s Miley Cyrus, Greg Kinnear, and Kelly Preston.

L.J. Smith’s The Vampire Diaries: With the success of Twilight the CW jumped on the vampire bandwagon by bring The Vampire Diaries books series to life; which follows a teenage girl who get caught in the middle of two vampire brothers who have some issues to workout. The show started off slow but has gained a fateful following and has become one of the stations top rated shows.

untitled-1_optBeverly Cleary’s Ramona and Beezus: This book is a bit different then the others hitting theater it is a children’s book that tell the story of Bezus who has her handful dealing with her younger sister Ramona, it is a funny narration that lets very kid know it is fine to be different. The film stars many famous stars like Joey King, John Corbett, Sandra Oh, Josh Duhamel, and another Disney starlet Selena Gomez.

But, these art the only novels being going from paper to live action there are tons more; from Percy Jackson & the Olympians to The Hobbit, and LA Candy to Something Borrowed you will be seeing a lot more of your favorite books come to live on not only the big screen but small scene as well.

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