"Yes Man (book) Yes Man is a memoir written by Danny Wallace based upon a year of the author's life, in which he chose to say ""Yes"" to any offers that came his way. It was also loosely adapted into the 2008 film ""Yes Man"" starring Jim Carrey. Danny Wallace, a freelance radio producer for the BBC in London, takes three simple words uttered by a stranger on a bus—""Say yes more""—as a challenge and says ""yes"" to everything for a year. He says ""yes"" to pamphleteers on the street, the credit card offers stuffing his mailbox and solicitations on"
"books that actually has the potential to change your life"" by the San Francisco Bay Guardian and as ""a fascinating book and a fascinating experiment"" by David Letterman. A film adaptation of ""Yes Man"" was developed with Warner Bros. and stars Jim Carrey and Zooey Deschanel. It was released on 19 December 2008 in the US and 26 December 2008 in the UK. Wallace appeared on screen in a cameo in a bar scene in the last ten minutes of the film, holding a British pint glass. The film made almost $100 million at the US Box Office. The critical"
"he signs up for a self-help program that teaches him the power of saying yes. Despite reviews being mixed, Rene Rodriquez of ""The Miami Herald"" stated, """"Yes Man"" is fine as far as Jim Carrey comedies go, but it's even better as a love story that just happens to make you laugh."" The film had a decent performance at the box office, earning $225 million worldwide. Since 2009, Carrey's work has included a leading role in Glenn Ficarra and John Requa's ""I Love You Phillip Morris"", premiering in January 2009 at the Sundance Film Festival before receiving a wide release"
"anyway."" Matthew Bruccoli calls it ""the book that is and may always be Le Carré's masterpiece"". Philip Roth said it was ""the best English novel since the war"". David Denby, writing in 2014, agreed with Roth's view. A 1987 TV adaptation of the same name was produced by the BBC starring Peter Egan. In 2017, a radio adaptation of the same name was produced by BBC Scotland, directed by Bruce Young, starring Julian Rhind-Tutt, Bill Paterson and Michael Maloney. In an audiobook recording of John le Carré reading aloud an abridged version of this book, he introduces the work as"
"May 2013. The video of the event is offered for sale by le Carré to raise money to keep Hay Library open. Le Carre appeared on 60 Minutes with Steve Kroftin in September, 2017. John le Carré David John Moore Cornwell (born 19 October 1931), better known by the pen name John le Carré (), is a British author of espionage novels. During the 1950s and 1960s, he worked for both the Security Service (MI5) and the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). His third novel, ""The Spy Who Came in from the Cold"" (1963), became an international best-seller and remains one"
"including his own and has written a few original songs for his soundtracks. He has also produced a few music videos. Reed directed the 2008 film ""Yes Man"", starring Jim Carrey. ""Yes Man"" is an adaptation of Danny Wallace's autobiography about his decision to say ""yes"" to whatever offer, invitation, challenge, or opportunity that is presented to him. Reed replaced Edgar Wright as the director of ""Ant-Man"". Prior to joining the production of ""Ant-Man"", Reed was slated to direct a Brian Epstein biopic, titled ""The Fifth Beatle"". However, his commitment to the superhero film required him to part ways with"
"John Irving John Winslow Irving (born John Wallace Blunt Jr.; March 2, 1942) is an American novelist and screenwriter. Irving achieved critical and popular acclaim after the international success of ""The World According to Garp"" in 1978. Many of Irving's novels, including ""The Cider House Rules"" (1985), ""A Prayer for Owen Meany"" (1989), and ""A Widow for One Year"" (1998) have been bestsellers. He won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay in the 72nd Academy Awards (1999) for his script of ""The Cider House Rules"". Five of his novels have been adapted into films (""Garp, Hotel, Meany, Cider, Widow"")."
"70th birthday, and is written as a ""flashback"" by the old author. In 1946 the novel was adapted into a film ""Caravan"" by Gainsborough Pictures as part of the Gainsborough melodramas sequence of films. The film was directed by Arthur Crabtree and starred Stewart Granger, Jean Kent, Anne Crawford and Dennis Price. Caravan (novel) Caravan is a melodramatic novel by the British writer Lady Eleanor Smith first published in 1942. A young Englishman James Darrell goes on the road living with the Romany people in England while trying to make enough money as a writer to marry his sweetheart Oriana."
"Yes (film) Yes is a 2004 film written and directed by Sally Potter. It stars Joan Allen, Simon Abkarian, Samantha Bond, Sam Neill, Shirley Henderson, Raymond Waring, Stephanie Leonidas, and Sheila Hancock. The film's dialogue is almost entirely in iambic pentameter and usually rhymes. This artistic choice polarized film critics. The film opens as an unnamed Irish-American microbiologist (Allen) discovers her English businessman husband Anthony (Neill) is having an affair with their goddaughter's mother. Feeling fragile and alone at an elegant London dinner party, she meets a Lebanese Muslim chef (Abkarian) who immediately begins seducing her. They soon begin a"
"Elaine Cameron, a producer and script editor, and they have two children. Jed Mercurio Jed Mercurio (born 1966) is a British television writer, producer, director and novelist. A former hospital doctor and Royal Air Force officer, Mercurio has been ranked among UK television’s leading writers. In 2017, Mercurio was awarded a Fellowship of the Royal Television Society and the Baird Medal by RTS Midlands. His works for television include the series ""Line of Duty"", ""Bodyguard"", ""Bodies"" (based on his 2002 novel), ""The Grimleys"" and ""Cardiac Arrest"". His books are ""Bodies"" (2002), ""Ascent"" (2007), ""American Adulterer"" (2009) and, for children, ""The"
"The Last Man The Last Man is a post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by Mary Shelley, which was first published in 1826. The book tells of a future world that has been ravaged by a plague. The novel was harshly reviewed at the time, and, except for a 1924 silent film based on it, was virtually unknown – having been eclipsed by Shelley's more popular works – until a scholarly revival in the 1960s. It is notable in part for its semi-biographical portraits of Romantic figures in Shelley's circle, particularly Shelley's late husband Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron. Lionel Verney"
"Yes (novel) Yes is a novel by Thomas Bernhard, originally published in German in 1978 and translated into English by Ewald Osers in 1992. This novel is about suicide, a topic that permeates overtly or covertly all of Bernhard’s work. A Persian woman is the central character of narration, and the narrator prepares for her suicide by his own preoccupation with suicide. This motif of the surrogate victim is clearly established in the novel's opening sentence , where the narrator describes himself as in the process of ""dumping"" his problems on his friend Moritz. Later, he will persist in making"
"John le Carré David John Moore Cornwell (born 19 October 1931), better known by the pen name John le Carré (), is a British author of espionage novels. During the 1950s and 1960s, he worked for both the Security Service (MI5) and the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). His third novel, ""The Spy Who Came in from the Cold"" (1963), became an international best-seller and remains one of his best-known works. Following the success of this novel, he left MI6 to become a full-time author. Several of his books have been adapted for film and television. In 2011, he was awarded"
"Avery Corman Avery Corman (born November 28, 1935) is an American novelist. He is known for the books ""Oh, God!"" (1971) and ""Kramer vs. Kramer"" (1977) both adapted into successful films of the same names. Corman is the author of the novels ""Oh, God!"" (1971), the basis for the 1977 film; ""The Bust-Out King"" (1977); ""Kramer vs. Kramer"" (1977), which was adapted into the Academy Award-winning 1979 film of the same name; ""The Old Neighborhood"" (1980); ""50"" (1987); ""Prized Possessions"" (1991); ""The Big Hype"" (1992); ""A Perfect Divorce"" (2004); and ""The Boyfriend from Hell"" (2006). And he is the author"
"Philip Pullman Philip Pullman CBE, FRSL (born 19 October 1946) is an English novelist. He is the author of several best-selling books, including the fantasy trilogy ""His Dark Materials"" and the fictionalised biography of Jesus, ""The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ"". In 2008, ""The Times"" named Pullman one of the ""50 greatest British writers since 1945"". In a 2004 poll for the BBC, Pullman was named the eleventh most influential person in British culture. The first book of Pullman's ""His Dark Materials"" trilogy, ""Northern Lights"", won the 1995 Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's outstanding"
"critical and commercial success. Produced and written by Alex Garland, the science fiction films ""Dredd"" (2012) and ""Ex Machina"" (2015) have both met critical acclaim. Asif Kapadia's documentary film ""Amy"" (2015) — based on the life of Amy Winehouse — broke UK box office records, and also became the highest grossing British documentary. The five most commercially successful British directors in recent years are David Yates, Christopher Nolan, Mike Newell, Ridley Scott and Paul Greengrass. Other contemporary British film directors include Guy Ritchie, Joe Wright, Alan Parker, Tony Scott, Terry Gilliam, Kenneth Branagh, Paul W. S. Anderson, Tom Hooper, Stephen"
"adaptation was directed by Alfonso Cuarón, starring Julianne Moore and Clive Owen. The film was well received, and, according to Cuarón, P.D. James was said to have been pleased with it despite the alterations. The Children of Men The Children of Men is a dystopian novel by English writer P. D. James, published in 1992. Set in England in 2021, it centres on the results of mass infertility. James describes a United Kingdom that is steadily depopulating and focuses on a small group of resisters who do not share the disillusionment of the masses. The book received very positive reviews"
"on the feature-length follow-up, ""Horror Europa"". Jonathan Rigby Jonathan Rigby (born 1963) is an English actor and film historian who has written the following books - ""English Gothic: A Century of Horror Cinema"" (2000), ""Christopher Lee: The Authorised Screen History"" (2001), ""Roxy Music: Both Ends Burning"" (2005), ""American Gothic: Sixty Years of Horror Cinema"" (2007), ""Studies in Terror: Landmarks of Horror Cinema"" (2011) and ""Euro Gothic: Classics of Continental Horror Cinema"" (2016). An expanded version of ""English Gothic"" was issued in 2015 with a different subtitle, ""Classic Horror Cinema 1897-2015"". He has been described in ""Video Watchdog"" magazine as occupying"
"adaptations of the novels ""A Passage to India"" by E.M. Forster and ""The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone"" by Tennessee Williams. He also found success as a screenwriter in the 1990s. Sherman adapted ""Bent"" for the big screen in 1997 with the help of director Sean Mathias and starring such actors as Clive Owen, Ian McKellen, and Mick Jagger. Other film titles include ""Clothes in the Wardrobe"" in 1992 (released in the US as ""The Summer House"", 1993), an adaptation Alice Thomas Ellis's novel, with Jeanne Moreau, Joan Plowright, Julie Waters and Lena Headey, ""Alive and Kicking"" (1996), directed by"
"audiobook, read by the actor Björn Granath, won the ""Iris Ljudbokspris"" award in 2010. The book was published in the United Kingdom by Hesperus Press on 12 July 2012 and in the United States by Hyperion Books on 11 September 2012. In 2013, it was adapted into a film of the same name. On August 23, 2017, it was announced that CBS Films will collaborate with Gary Sanchez Productions in order to produce an American adaptation of the book. Will Ferrell will star in the film, and it will be produced by Ferrell along with Adam McKay and Jessica Elbaum."
"which include Suspiria, Inferno, and The Mother of Tears. This influence carried over into Luca Guadagnino's 2018 version of the film. Thomas De Quincey Thomas Penson De Quincey (; 15 August 17858 December 1859) was an English essayist, best known for his ""Confessions of an English Opium-Eater"" (1821). Many scholars suggest that in publishing this work De Quincey inaugurated the tradition of addiction literature in the West. Thomas Quincey was born at 86 Cross Street, Manchester, Lancashire. His father, a successful merchant with an interest in literature, died when De Quincey was quite young. Soon after his birth the family"
"semi-autobiographical work, this time set in the American film industry. William Boyd said the novel is ""A very funny, shrewd and horribly accurate novel about the movie business, Hollywood-style, written with sustained brio and mordant intelligence."" Christopher Wood (writer) Christopher Hovelle Wood (5 November 1935 – 9 May 2015) was an English screenwriter and novelist best known for the ""Confessions"" series of novels and films which he wrote as Timothy Lea. Under his own name, he adapted two James Bond novels for the screen: ""The Spy Who Loved Me"" (1977, with Richard Maibaum) and ""Moonraker"" (1979). Wood's many novels divide"
"that evokes with gothic menace the anxieties, lusts, and fears of adolescence. At the center of the diary is the question that haunts all who read it, ""Is Ernessa really a vampire?"" or has the narrator trapped herself in the fevered world of her own imagining? The book was adapted into a movie released in 2011, one of the major changes was naming the narrator Rebecca despite her being unnamed in the novel. It was directed by Mary Harron. Lily Cole stars as Ernessa, Scott Speedman as Mr. Davies and Sarah Bolger as Rebecca. Commenting on the film, director Harron"
"Michael Eaton Michael Eaton (born 1954) is an English playwright and scriptwriter. He is best known for his television docudrama scripts, including ""Shipman"", ""Why Lockerbie"" and ""Shoot to Kill"", and for writing the feature film ""Fellow Traveller"" (1989), which won best screenplay in the British Film Awards. In recent years, he has become known for stage plays and his radio dramas for the BBC. Eaton was born in Sherwood, Nottingham and educated at The Nottingham High School, before going on to read Social Anthropology at King's College, Cambridge, where, in 1976, he was awarded a double first. After a period"
"his actions during the war by speaking out against militarism. Lomax eventually goes back to Thailand to visit the area of the camps where he was a prisoner and meets his interrogator. Lomax is able to forgive him, and both men find the experience extremely moving. The book was made into a BBC television drama ""Prisoners in Time"" (1995), starring John Hurt as Lomax. It was later adapted into a film, ""The Railway Man"" (2013), directed by Jonathan Teplitzky, and starring Colin Firth (as Lomax), Nicole Kidman (as Patti), Hiroyuki Sanada, Jeremy Irvine, and Stellan Skarsgård. The Railway Man (book)"
"accepted by both the 7th and 8th publishers at the same time. The eventual publisher paid an advance of £50 for the novel. A film version of the novel was made in 1989, directed by Bob Mahoney (director) with screenplay by Alan Plater and starring Peter Egan, Jack Shepherd, John Sessions, Jill Bennett, Ian Carmichael and Daragh O'Malley. The novel is now published by The Quince Tree Press, the publishing house established by Carr to publish his maps and small books. A Day in Summer A Day in Summer is the first novel by J. L. Carr, published in 1963."
"but that no one notices. The Judas Window The Judas Window (also published as ""The Crossbow Murder"") is a famous locked room mystery novel by the American writer John Dickson Carr (1906–1977), writing under the name of Carter Dickson, published in 1938 and featuring detective Sir Henry Merrivale. In a poll of 17 mystery writers and reviewers, this novel was voted as the fifth best locked room mystery of all time. ""The Hollow Man"" also by John Dickson Carr was voted the best. James Caplon Answell arranges to visit his future father-in-law, Avory Hume, at his house in London. Hume"
"to alter people's lives. She thinks the people she loves are better than they really are, and so then she starts changing things around to suit her point of view of them."" In 1994, a television movie based on the book was made for the Hallmark Hall of Fame. It was directed by John Erman, and starred James Garner and Joanne Woodward as Ira and Maggie Moran. It was filmed in the Pittsburgh PA area. Joanne Woodward won a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award for her performance. Kevin McKeon also adapted the novel into a stage"
"also is considered to be ""strong, intelligent, heart-breaking and realistic. The author said that principally, the novel is about the feelings of a mother for its children and the aftermath of a terrorist attack. The film, loosely based in the book, was released on October 24th on 2008. It was directed by Sharon Maguire and starring Michelle Williams in the main role, supported by Ewan McGregor as Jasper Black, and Matthew MacFadyen as Terrence Butcher. Unlike the book, the film received poor reviews, receiving 23% of approval in the site Rotten Tomatoes. Incendiary (novel) Incendiary is a novel by British"
"back of an Italian version of ""Starlight"", a book in the second series of ""Warriors,"" that it could be released in 2018. This is very doubtful though, due to the fact that there are no trailers, or a cast that has been announced. Heyman lives in Pimlico, London, and is married to interior designer Rose (Batstone) Uniacke. They have one son. David Heyman David Jonathan Heyman (born 26 July 1961) is an English film producer and the founder of Heyday Films. In 1999, he secured the film rights to the ""Harry Potter"" film series and went on to produce all"
"the first full-frontal male nude on the British stage at the Almost Free Theatre, London. He has acted in film, television and on London's West End stage. He is the author of seven published books, most notably ""Taping Whores"" (2004). Bill Bailey (American actor) Bill Bailey (born 1938), is an American actor and author, primarily providing supporting roles in film and television throughout the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. He appeared in ""Superman"" (1978), ""Superman II"" (1980), and ""Haunted Honeymoon"" (1986), as well as a number of British television programs including ""Yes, Prime Minister"" (1987), ""Jeeves and Wooster"" (1992), and ""Agatha"
"man with the same obsession. The film was panned by critics. The following year Carrey provided his voice for Dr. Seuss' ""Horton Hears a Who!"" (2008). Carrey voiced the beloved elephant for the CGI-animated feature, which received overwhelmingly positive reviews and delivered family crowds en masse. The film was also a box office success, raking in over $290 million worldwide. Later that same year, Carrey returned to live-action comedy, starring opposite Zooey Deschanel and Bradley Cooper in ""Yes Man"" (2008). Carrey played down-and-out man, Carl Allen, who had gone nowhere in life, thanks to always saying no to everything, until"
"100 British films includes ""Monty Python's Life of Brian"" (1979), a film regularly voted the funniest of all time by the UK public. English producers are also active in international co-productions and English actors, directors and crew feature regularly in American films. The UK film council ranked David Yates, Christopher Nolan, Mike Newell, Ridley Scott and Paul Greengrass the five most commercially successful English directors since 2001. Other contemporary English directors include Sam Mendes, Guy Ritchie and Steve McQueen. Current actors include Tom Hardy, Daniel Craig, Benedict Cumberbatch and Emma Watson. Acclaimed for his motion capture work, Andy Serkis opened"