I love Christmas. I love New York. And I love love. Is Dash & Lily, a Christmas rom-com series set in New York, the perfect show for me? Unclear at this time. But what I do know is that I watched the trailer and literally bobbed my head to the Christmas music as I watched these younguns get into shenanigans, so you can't be too much of a Scrooge about the Netflix series. Based on the acclaimed YA book Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan, Dash & Lily stars Austin Abrams (…
Tomorrow Disney releases Disney Chills: Friends from the Other Side, the latest in the company’s new line of Goosebumps-y Y.A. books that focus on a single villain from the company’s long line of memorable baddies (this one is about the great voodoo practitioner Dr. Facilier, memorably voiced by Keith David in 2009’s The Princess and the Frog), placing them in a contemporary setting and interacting with real-world kids. Written by the great Jennifer Brody (under pen name Vera Strange), it gives new dimension to one of Disney’s all-time great villains and makes …
Fans of the books have been waiting for a film version of the series for 15 years.
Back in my day, high school movies based on Shakespeare were all the rage, from 10 Things I Hate About You to the controversial drama O. The Bard's work indeed offers fertile ground for modern adaptations, including those told through a YA lens, and to that end, Amazon Studios is mounting a teenage Lady Macbeth musical that will be produced by Channing Tatum and Scooter Braun. Anna and the Apocalypse helmer John McPhail will direct from a script by up-and-coming writer S.J. Inwards. According to the Hollywood Reporter, the untitled film will follow a teenage girl …
Magic and romance can't fix everything, folks.
Filmmaker and close personal Zoom friend of the site Paul Feig is taking his talents to Netflix. The A Simple Favor director will helm The School for Good and Evil, based on the best-selling YA novel—part one of a six-part series—by author Soman Chainani. David Magee (Mary Poppins Returns) and Laura Solon (Office Christmas Party) are on script duties. Here is the official synopsis for The School for Good and Evil [via The Wrap]: “The School for Good and Evil” will follow best friends Sophie and Agatha, who are about to discover where fairytale legacies go …
Y'know what we could all use during these troubled times? Some light, easy, feel-good entertainment. What's that? Per Deadline, HBO is developing a Hellraiser TV series based on Clive Barker's notorious, graphically violent, gothically vulgar horror property? Hmm. Well. I guess that works, too. Best known from Barker's 1987 horror classic, based on his own 1986 novella The Hellbound Heart, Hellraiser has since spawned a multiple feature-film franchise, and embedded Pinhead, the leading monstrous Cenobite who's got, well, pins in his head into our cultural consciousness alongside luminaries like Jason and Michael Myers. …
AMC has released a new teaser video, images, and a new poster for the upcoming limited series The Walking Dead: World Beyond. Initially announced as the second spinoff series from the wildly popular The Walking Dead TV show, World Beyond was subsequently revealed to be a two-season limited series event. Meaning fans can rest assured they’re not signing up for a lengthy, meandering slog (ahem ahem). Co-created by The Walking Dead franchise overseer Scott M. Gimple and World Beyond showrunner Matt Negrete, this new series is a younger-skewing take on the post-apocalyptic world as it …
Jon M. Chu is a hot property on the Warner Bros. lot thanks to Crazy Rich Asians and his upcoming adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical In the Heights. This week brought word of a new project that Chu is developing at the studio, as he's set to produce and possibly direct a feature adaptation of Mary H.K. Choi's bestselling YA romance novel Permanent Record. The novel explores how social media can influence relationships, as it follows star-crossed lovers Pablo Rind and Leanna Smart, who meet one chilly night/morning at 5 a.m. at …
Emmy-winner and multi-hyphenate Kevin Shinick is bringing a brand new, original story to the official Star Wars canon with his new YA novel, Star Wars: Force Collector. The story arrives tomorrow, but it's already a #1 bestseller as a pre-order, so if it's not on your radar just yet, it definitely should be now. It's our pleasure to bring you an exclusive early look at the new story before its official release! Star Wars: Force Collector is part of the official "Journey to Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker" initiative. Set just before Star …
At this time of year, there’s no lack of Christmas movies vying for your attention. Aside from the star-studded theatrical features, the Hallmark Channel has kind of cornered the market on making relatively cheap, incredibly familiar, yet still super popular Christmas movies. They’ve got the formula down pat: Easy-to-follow plot, Christmas setting, tons of Christmas activities, romance that doesn’t get too steamy, and a gentle kiss at the end during some major Christmas event. They have a very specific audience, and that audience eats. these. up. In recent years, however, streaming services have attempted …
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Netflix has released the first trailer for the upcoming Let It Snow movie, based on the best-selling YA anthology novel of the same name. The book was penned by John Green, Maureen Johnson, and Lauren Myracle and presented three different romance stories set during the holiday season that intertwined with one another. That’s the basic plot of the movie here, which takes place in a small Midwestern town on Christmas Eve and revolves around a group of high school seniors. We’ve got Chilling Adventures of Sabrina star Kiernan Shipka caught up in what looks to be a …
Netflix releases the Let It Snow movie trailer, teasing the YA rom-com based on the novel by John Green, Maureen Johnson, and Lauren Myracle
Lore Olympus, Rachel Smythe's Eisner Award nominated webcomic, is being adapted to an animated TV series by Webtoon and The Jim Henson Company.
The Walking Dead is introducing a new generation. AMC debuted the first trailer for the upcoming third series in The Walking Dead universe (after The Walking Dead and Fear The Walking Dead) and it's probably not what you were expecting! Featuring an uplifting guitar riff and well-dressed teens with obvious access to showers, the as-yet-untitled series looks to launch the TWD universe in a new direction that seems distinctly YA-centric. And I'm into it! The zombie effects are still looking stellar and outside the walls of their compound, it's very obviously the world …
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