The Lovely Bones

...almost surely make even more on both fronts. Falling somewhere in between are Jackson's new adaptation of Alice Sebold's bestseller The Lovely Bones and Jason Reitman's take on the Walter Kirn novel Up in the Air both conventional Oscar bait...

In this article: Academy Awards, New Moon, Hollywood, Literature, Dave Eggers, Maurice Sendak, Nick Hornby, Peter Jackson, and Larry McMurtry

...special", combining Cormac McCarthy's powerful depiction of a parent's love for a child in 'The Road' with the compelling storytelling of 'The Lovely Bones' by Alice Sebold. Originally from Dublin but now living in Canada, Donoghue is...

In this article: Emma Donoghue, Dublin, UK, US, HarperCollins, Denis Donoghue, and Alice Sebold

...told Reuters. Oscar winner Peter Jackson ("The Lord of the Rings" films) is back with a big screen adaptation of Alice Sebold's novel "The Lovely Bones," starring Mark Wahlberg, Rachel Weisz and Susan Sarandon. The film is about a...

In this article: George Clooney, Oscar, New Moon, Colin Firth, A Christmas Carol, Tom Ford, Disney, Old Dogs, and Jason Reitman

...Air. The Oscar-prognosticating Gurus of Gold returned this week and have his Air in the lead for Best Pic. DOWN: Peter Jackson, The Lovely Bones. Is he suited for the material? asks the Times: "[Alice Sebold's] book is soothing and rather...

In this article: Peter Jackson, Alice Sebold, and Clint Eastwood

...a 19-year-old community college student in New Port Richey, Fla., borrowed volumes in the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series, "The Lovely Bones" by Alice Sebold and a vampire novel by Laurell K. Hamilton, without ever visiting...

In this article: John Sargent, E mail, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Alice Sebold, Augusten Burroughs, Janet Evanovich, and Laurell K. Hamilton

...epic genealogical history definitely fulfills that requirement, since it's the magical realist forebear to books like Life of Pi, The Lovely Bones, and pretty much anything by Haruki Murakami. Two writers have two different titles on the...

In this article: Cormac McCarthy, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Literature, Linguistics, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Midnight's Children, Anil's Ghost, Philosophical Investigations, Dreams from My Father, and John Grisham

..."The Road" stars Viggo Mortensen and Charlize Theron. And "Lord of the Rings" director Peter Jackson tackles Alice Sebold's novel "The Lovely Bones," about a murdered girl who isn't exactly dead. "Peter Jackson is really good with special...

In this article: Kenneth Turan, Sherlock Holmes, John Keats, Los Angeles Times, Peter Jackson, Guy Ritchie, Ricky Gervais, Jane Campion, Michael Moore, and Lord of the Rings

...to hit the bookshelves -- and this fall gives us adaptations of Cormac McCarthy's The Road, Walter Kirn's Up in the Air, Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones, Stephenie Meyer's Twilight sequel New Moon and Darren Shan's Cirque du Freak...

In this article: Ebenezer Scrooge, Oscar, Harry Potter, A Christmas Carol, Darren Shan, Stephenie Meyer, Fantastic Mr. Fox, and New Moon

...published Sept. 8. Other novels heading for the big screen this fall include Cormac McCarthy's The Road (Oct. 16) and Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones (Dec. 11). Thanks to the current movie, the book The Time Traveler's Wife is No. 1 for a...

In this article: Maurice Sendak, Ted Kennedy, USA Today, Dave Eggers, Barack Obama, University of Virginia, Ron Powers, and James Bradley

...for which the trio won an Oscar in 2004. She also worked on the screenplay for King Kong and the adaptation of Alice Sebold's novel The Lovely Bones, and is collaborating on The Hobbit. More >> Bob Gregory thinks its time to remove the...

In this article: Philippa Boyens, Oscar, Victoria University of Wellington, Lord of the Rings trilogy, Alice Sebold, Peter Jackson, and Fran Walsh