Adaptation Archives

Roku Acquires Spiderwick Chronicles TV Series

virginiakublawi | Oct 11, 2023 | 0

After news of Disney+ dropping their adaptation of The Spiderwick Chronicles, Roku has acquired the series. Based on the book series by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black, the series will run for eight episodes in early 2024. The Spiderwick Chronicles is the story of the Grace family, who move from Ne...

New Miyazaki Film Featured at NYFF

virginiakublawi | Aug 17, 2023 | 0

Hayao Miyazaki‘s new anime film, The Boy and the Heron/How Do You Live has been selected to screen at 2023’s New York Film Festival for its American premiere. The latest Studio Ghibli release follows in the footsteps of Miyazaki’s last feature-length film, The Wind Rises, from a de...

REVIEW: Haunted Mansion (2023)

virginiakublawi | Jul 29, 2023 | 0

I saw Haunted Mansion this weekend. Coming out a week after “Barbenheimer,” I didn’t expect anything from this film, and I don’t think anyone else did, either. Pirates of the Caribbean notwithstanding, Disney’s theme park adaptations don’t tend to do well finan...

Netflix Teases Live-Action Avatar

virginiakublawi | Jun 18, 2023 | 0

Netflix has revealed the first images of the live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender main cast in character. Check out the first look at Aang (Gordon Cormier), Katara (Kiawentiio), Sokka (Ian Ousley), and Zuko (Dallas Liu) in live-action here: And here’s the first teaser for the series: The t...

Phoebe Waller-Bridge to Helm an Amazon Tomb Raider TV Series

Jed | Hollywood Scholar | Jan 28, 2023 | 0

Many modern-day filmmakers and creatives can be characterized as franchise destroyers, creative cancer, or utter frauds, such as anyone out of Bad Reboot. However, few individuals are more deserving of these titles than Phoebe Waller-Bridge, destroyer of James Bond and the soon-to-be destroyer of I...

Percy Jackson And The Not So Physically Correct Casting

BlabberingCollector | Jun 21, 2022 | 0

It seems Disney and Rick Riordan are on their way to butchering the Percy Jackson series AGAIN because the 2010 and 2014 films were so critically acclaimed that Disney felt they needed a do-over and a second chance to flop. As previously reported, Riordan and Disney decided to race-swap a very blo...