Harry Potter alert: The LA Times reported that the 7th and final Harry Potter film will actually be split into 2 films. Because there is too much to capture in one film, Part 1 will be released in November 2010 and Part 2 will be released in May 2o11. The 6th movie, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is due to be released this November 21st!
Last summer I posted an article from the Washington Post about Alexander McCall Smith's popular series The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency being adapted for the big screen and in theaters by Christmas. Obviously that didn't happen. Variety recently reported that HBO has picked this up as a series. A 2 hour pilot has already been filmed and 13 more episodes are planned. Not sure when we can expect to see it. I may have to start subscribing to HBO again.
Speaking of HBO...Paul Giamatti and Laura Linney will star in a 7 part mini-series based on David McCullough's Pulitzer prize winning book, John Adams, which will debut on HBO on March 16th at 8pm. Aarrgghh! Why did I cancel HBO??
J. R. R. Tolkien's grandson Simon Tolkien will be publishing a book titled The Inheritance about an aging police inspector who travels from England to France to delve into a possible WWII crime, hoping to save an upper-class student who is set to hand for murdering his father. A far cry from Middle Earth, but it sounds like a good story.
Publisher's Weekly reports that Jenna Blum has a deal for her second novel, The Stormchasers. "Set against a lonely, majestic Midwestern backdrop, the book follows twins whose genetic double helix includes a love of big weather. As Charles, a professional stormchaser, and Katrina, a weathergirl, also struggle with a shared secret—a terrible event caused by Charles’s bipolarity—Blum explores the issue of how much we owe our siblings, and at what cost to ourselves." Blum's first novel, Those Who Save Us, was wonderful and made for a great book discussion at the library, so I'm looking forward to her next story.
John Le Carre's next novel, A Most Wanted Man, about intelligence agencies operating in the war on terror, will be published in October.
Keep your ears open for what is being called the "Israeli Kite Runner." Every Home Needs a Balcony by Rina Frank has sold over 100,000 copies in Israel and will be published soon in the U. S. The novel tells the story of a Jewish girl who grows up poor in Haifa in the 1950's, then her life as an adult living in Spain after the tragic loss of her sister.
USA Today is reporting that Amazon's Kindle is temporarily sold-out due to heavy demand. Now, I suppose it's entirely possible that they did not anticipate how many people would want the Kindle (although Amazon won't reveal how many have already been sold) and just didn't make enough. Or, they could be pulling an evil trick like Ninetendo is doing with the Wii: make only a few so they sell out quickly, which creates hype and everyone goes crazy to get one. I do not believe for one second that Nintendo still can't keep up with the demand for the Wii. It's just a scheme to make us all want one. (Albeit a good scheme-I really want that Wii.) So, maybe Amazon is taking a lesson from Nintendo here.
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