Chiwetel Ejiofor stars as Bishop Carlton Pearson, a beloved preacher who gets labeled a heretic after he stops believing in hell, in Joshua Marston's film adaptation of the This American Life story.
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Will there ever be a Serial podcast movie or TV adaptation? Serial co-creator Julie Snyder says she has "no interest" in a screen adaptation of the story.
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Any pop culture writer today worth a scan online has a unique opinion on Chuck Klosterman. The renown American author and journalist made a name for himself in the aughts with witty, hyper-informed contributions as a former senior writer and columnist at SPIN. In 2003, he released a bestselling book of essays about "low culture"…
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Paramount Pictures has hired School of Rock screenwriter Mike White to script Santa Wars, a comedy based on the true story which appeared on This American Life in December 2008. The story, written by Joshuah Bearman, told of two rival factions that developed within a union of professional Santa Clauses, which resulted in a "Santa…
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Update: I have been quickly corrected. This is not Errol's first non documentary film. He directed a mystery film called The Dark Wind in 1991. One of the best documentarians in the history of cinema has announced that he will be making his first second fictional feature film, kinda. Errol Morris, who won an Academy…
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After several years of the best radio show ever produced, a none-too-shabby TV variant and a good handful of live engagements, Ira Glass and This American Life are finally getting into the movie business. Inevitable, perhaps. Somewhat surprisingly, though, the screenwriters lined up for their first picture are the guys behind the script for Joe…
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Carts of Darkness, a 59-minute documentary on homeless guys in Canada who get their thrills by gunning stolen shopping carts down steep hills (and gunning plenty of beers), is online for our viewing pleasure. Directed in high def by Murray Siple, the film offers a window into this fringe microcosm set deep within the beautiful…
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