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Program Festival de Cannes 2014 Best-seller to Box-office

The Literary Adaptation Pavillon Best-Seller to Box-office Village International Pantiero – Pavillon 212 From the 14th to the 23rd of May PROGRAM OPENING COCKTAIL! • Friday the 16th from 5pm to 7pm with our partner Ricard-Chivas BEST-SELLER TO BOX-OFFICE (BS2BO):What … Continue reading

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THE 2014 CANNES FESTIVAL : THE ADAPTATIONS

The official selection was announced last week and so it is time for Best-Seller to Box-Office to give you further information about the adaptations short-listed this year: – La Chambre Bleue – Coming Home – How to Train a Dragon … Continue reading

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MOVIES THAT WILL MAKE NOISE IN BOOK STORES THIS YEAR

PROMISED LAND Gus van Sant’s PROMISED LAND, which stars Matt Damon as a natural gas salesman looking to exploit the resources in a small American town, is heading to Berlin, where it will have its international premiere in competition at … Continue reading

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Disney Marvel pampers its superheroes

After The Avengers, it’s Spider Man’s turn to light up the screen! Whether you like it or not, ol’ Spidey belongs to the superhero film genre. At the global box office, the Spider Man franchise has raked in a mere … Continue reading

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The Waterstone selection

Have you had a look at Waterstone selection of the debut novels they consider the most interesting and also the most likely to scoop up the literay prizes and accolades in 2012? 5 of them are registered in Best-seller to … Continue reading

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The 28th German Crime Fiction Prize (Deutscher Krimipreis) was awarded to Mechthild Bormann (Wer das Schweigen bricht), Friedrich Ani (Süden), Elisabeth Hermann (Zeugin der Toten) this week.

International honourees were Peter Temple (Truth), Don Winslow (Savages) and Kate Atkinson (Started Early, Took my Dog). The award does not entail any prize money and is awarded for literary excellence and achievement of new impulses for the genre. None … Continue reading

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Francesca Melandri, an italian writer you should keep your eye on

Best-seller to Box-office recommends to have a look at her two novels. This is an interesting new author in Italy. Francesca Melandri worked for a while as a scriptwriter and now is a full time writer. A first novel Eva … Continue reading

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Here is a potential bestseller in the vein of The Historian : The Taker by Alma Katsu.

It was bought by this new imprint from Simon & Schuster called Gallery Books. There will be a sequel : The Reckoning. It is already sold to Longanesi in Italy, Proszynski Media in Poland, Novo Conceito in Brazil, Random House Mondadori in … Continue reading

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ARABIC FICTION : FOLLOW THESE NAMES

The names of the six shortlisted authors for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2012 were revealed at a press conference in Cairo, Egypt, the 11th of January. The six shortlisted titles were chosen from a longlist of 13, announced … Continue reading

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French cinema reawakens

There’s no doubt that the French film Intouchables, an incredible box office success in France with nearly 10 million spectators in three weeks, will rapidly find interest on the remakes market that the Americans are so hungry for. The Dinner, … Continue reading

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