"and Amy Poehler. John Powell composed the film's music. The film was released on March 14, 2008, and grossed $297 million on a budget of $85 million. ""Horton Hears a Who!"" was the third Dr. Seuss feature film adaptation, the first adaptation to be fully animated, and the second Dr. Seuss film starring Jim Carrey after ""How the Grinch Stole Christmas"" (2000). A dust speck is dislodged from its obscure place and sent adrift through the Jungle of Nool. At the same time, Horton the Elephant, the jungle's eccentric nature teacher, takes a dip in the pool. The dust speck"
"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"
"be released in 2007. ""Alvin and the Chipmunks"" was released for DVD and Blu-ray on April 1, 2008. The DVD release is presented on a double-sided disc, featuring both full screen (1.33:1 aspect ratio) and widescreen formats (1.85:1 aspect ratio) with English 5.1 Dolby Surround, Spanish and French Dolby Surround with English and Spanish subtitles. Special features include a preview of ""Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who!"", a history of The Chipmunks, and an explanation of how the singing is created. The Wal-Mart edition includes a bonus exclusive music CD. The Kmart edition includes a free junior novel of the"
"made by Crash McCreery. It was released on the same day as the film, on July 21, 2006. The book describes the narf, scrunt, Tartutic, and Eatlon, in detail, their roles are identical to those in the film. The book includes details not present in the film and omits others: additional details include the description of the sensations experienced by a vessel upon its awakening and the suggestion that a narf's presence activates the lawn sprinklers. The roles of Madame Narf, Healer, Symbolist, Guild, and Guardian are only suggested and not stated openly. ""The Man Who Heard Voices"" (Gotham Books,"
"Billy is teaching his parents Spanish, a Bentley containing Dick's friend Garth (John Michael Higgins) approaches. Garth tells Dick he has a new job at a company called Enron. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Gerald Gaiser which was previously filmed in 1977. Peter Tolan wrote the first draft of the screenplay. In June 2003 it was announced that Jim Carrey would star in the film with Barry Sonnenfeld directing and Brian Grazer producing. On July 14, 2003 it was announced that Cameron Diaz would star opposite Carrey. The same day it was also"
"short of his 2003 film ""Bruce Almighty"". The DVD and Blu-ray were released on April 7, 2009. Customers have the option of the single-disc edition and the 2 disc edition titled the ""Ultimately Yes!"" edition. Yes Man (film) Yes Man is a 2008 comedy film directed by Peyton Reed, written by Nicholas Stoller, Jarrad Paul, and Andrew Mogel and starring Jim Carrey and co-starring Zooey Deschanel. The film is based loosely on the 2005 book of the same name by British humorist Danny Wallace, who also makes a cameo appearance in the film. Production for the film began in Los"
"rocks, until eventually hitting a large iceberg. The iceberg then carves out a u-shaped valley, which Sid later names the Grand Canyon. Afterwards the kids get so annoyed with Sid that it ends with them tying him up. 20,000 years later on present day, it shows a father and son beaver looking over the Grand Canyon with the son asking who made it. The father replies ""Nature or a being with infinite wisdom."" The short film was released with the ""Horton Hears a Who!"" Blu-ray and DVD, which was released in the United Kingdom on October 20, 2008, and in"
"The Grinch overlooks the city of Whoville with a lack of empathy for all Whos. He is known to be of a different species than the Whos, being stated as a What in the 2000 film. The Grinch is played by actor Jim Carrey in the 2000 production of ""How the Grinch Stole Christmas!"" In the book ""Horton Hears a Who!"", there is a mayor in Whoville. In the live-action film ""How the Grinch Stole Christmas,"" there is a mayor named Augustus Maywho, played by Jeffrey Tambor. Actor Steve Carell plays the Mayor of Whoville in the 2008 animated film"
"this novel were released. The first version was released in September 2003. It was read by Tim Curry and featured Daniel Handler, under the pseudonym Lemony Snicket, who read a portion, ""A Conversation Between the Author and Leonard S. Marcus"", which won an ""Earphones Award"" on ""AudioFile"", which described the audiobook as ""fabulously funny"" and complimented the conversation involving Handler. The second version was released in October 2004, after the release of the film, ""Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events"". This multi-voice cast audio book was narrated by Tim Curry and featured Jim Carrey, Meryl Streep, and Jude Law."
"released on March 5, 2021. Steve Martino Stephen Michael ""Steve"" Martino (born July 21, 1959) is an American director and designer, best known for directing the films ""Horton Hears a Who!"" (2008), """" (2012) and ""The Peanuts Movie"" (2015). Martino went to Ohio State University where he studied design. After graduation, he heard computer animation pioneer Chuck Csuri speak. ""I was absolutely blown away. No one was doing what he was showing us. I hadn't seen images like that anywhere before,"" Martino said. He returned to the university and earned in 1989 a master's degree, studying at the Computer Graphics"
"Steve Martino Stephen Michael ""Steve"" Martino (born July 21, 1959) is an American director and designer, best known for directing the films ""Horton Hears a Who!"" (2008), """" (2012) and ""The Peanuts Movie"" (2015). Martino went to Ohio State University where he studied design. After graduation, he heard computer animation pioneer Chuck Csuri speak. ""I was absolutely blown away. No one was doing what he was showing us. I hadn't seen images like that anywhere before,"" Martino said. He returned to the university and earned in 1989 a master's degree, studying at the Computer Graphics Research Group (later renamed to"
"well as the Prix Grand Public at the 2007 Paris Book Fair. It was voted winner of the Best Travel Read (Fiction) at the Heathrow Travel Product Award 2009. A BBC radio play based on the book won the Gold Award for Best Drama at the 2008 Sony Radio Academy Awards and the 2008 IVCA Clarion Award. Harper Collins brought out the audio book, read by Kerry Shale, which won the Audie for best fiction audio book of the year. Film4 of the UK had optioned the movie rights and the movie titled ""Slumdog Millionaire"", directed by Danny Boyle, was"
"and ""The Wall Street Journal"" named it to year-end ""Best"" lists. On 5 March 2014, Focus Features bought the film rights to the book and at the time committed $20 million in P&A (prints and advertising) to release the movie. On 9 April 2014, it was announced that a film based on the book would be released by Focus Features on 14 October 2016. The film was directed by Juan Antonio Bayona and written by the book's author Patrick Ness. On 23 April 2014, Felicity Jones joined the film to play the boy's mother. On 8 May, Liam Neeson joined"
"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."
"A Blu-ray was released in Hong Kong in 2010. City of Ember City of Ember is a 2008 American science fiction film based on the 2003 novel ""The City of Ember"" by Jeanne DuPrau. It was produced by Walden Media, Playtone, Seth Hanchett, Gary Goetzman, Tom Hanks and Steven Shareshian, directed by Gil Kenan, written by Caroline Thompson, distributed by 20th Century Fox, scored by Andrew Lockington, and stars Saoirse Ronan, Harry Treadaway, Bill Murray, Mackenzie Crook, Martin Landau, Mary Kay Place, Toby Jones, and Tim Robbins. It was theatrically released on 10 October 2008, just two months after the"
"movie was authored by John C. Kirkland and published on May 12, 2008, the same date the film premiered. The book was ranked among the top 250 Bestsellers in Books on Amazon.com, and was the #1 ranked Literature & Fiction book in both the Letters & Correspondence and Poetry categories in September 2008, the month the DVD of the film was released. On November 25, 2008, St. Martin's Press published a book entitled ""Love Letters of Great Men"" edited by Ursula Doyle, which it says was also inspired by the ""Sex and the City"" movie. Love Letters of Great Men"
"worldwide. Fisher also voiced a professor in a city of microscopic creatures in the computer-animated comedy hit ""Horton Hears a Who!"" (2008), featuring Jim Carrey, Steve Carell, Will Arnett, among others. Fisher obtained her first leading film role in the comedy ""Confessions of a Shopaholic"" (2009), where she played a college graduate who works as a financial journalist in New York City to support her shopping addiction. She felt ""apprehensive"" as she took on her first star vehicle, stating: ""I was gobsmacked that anyone would give me my own movie. I am eternally bewildered. Every time I see [producer] Jerry"
"2008 list by Empire Magazine. He was also voted one of the most annoying film characters ever in a British online poll. Ace Ventura Ace Ventura is a fictional character created by Vancouver-born screenwriter Jack Bernstein. Ace was played by Jim Carrey in the films """", released in 1994, and """", released in 1995, and was voiced by Michael Daingerfield (credited as Michael Hall) in the """". Ace is a Miami-based private detective specializing in the retrieval of missing animals, the son of Rex Ventura and descendant of such as ""Ernest Ventura Shackleton"" and ""Jacques Ventura Costeau"". It is not"
"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"
"happened to read Kevin Cook's Herbert Warren Wind Book Award–winning 2007 book ""Tommy's Honor: The Story of Old Tom Morris and Young Tom Morris, Golf's Founding Father and Son"", and immediately obtained the film rights for it. The project remained in development for several years, while Kreutzer did further research and interviewed people in Scotland who knew the story well. The author Cook's wife Pamela Marin, an accomplished journalist and memoirist, adapted the book into a screenplay along with Cook. In January 2014 Jason Connery, son of Sean Connery, was announced as the film's director. He stated: Connery also noted"
"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"
"in """". Curry also voices Dr. Frankenstein in . His audiobook work includes Lemony Snicket's ""A Series of Unfortunate Events"", Geraldine McCaughrean's ""Peter Pan in Scarlet"", Charles Dickens' ""A Christmas Carol"", Bram Stoker's ""Dracula"" and the ""Abhorsen"" trilogy by Garth Nix. Aside from his performances on various soundtrack records, Curry has had some success as a solo musical artist. Curry received classical vocal training as a boy. He has mentioned that his musical influences included jazz vocalists such as Billie Holiday and Louis Armstrong and idolised the Beatles and the Rolling Stones as a teenager. In 1978, A&M Records released"
"Tom Cruise, Helen Hunt, Heath Ledger, Cate Blanchett, Paul Newman, Martin Scorsese, Francis Coppola and Sofia Coppola, Nicolas Cage, Sean Penn, Bruce Willis, Robert Carlyle, Jessica Lange, George Clooney, Tom Hanks, Al Pacino, Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro, Holly Hunter, Donald Sutherland, Quentin Tarantino, Charlize Theron, Amy Adams, John Boorman, Peter Jackson, Mickey Rourke, Johnny Depp, and the Coen brothers to name a few. In 2007 he was contracted by the Greenwood Publishing Group in the United States to write a biography of director Clint Eastwood, ""Clint Eastwood: Evolution of a Filmmaker"", published in 2008. This was followed by a"
"According to an interview with director John Byrum published on August 8, 2006 in the ""San Francisco Bay Guardian"", he had wanted to film an adaptation of Maugham's book in the early 1980s. The director brought a copy of the book to his friend Margaret ""Mickey"" Kelley who was in the hospital after giving birth. Byrum remembers getting a call the next day at four AM, ""and it was Mickey's husband, Bill [Murray]. He said, 'This is Larry, Larry Darrell.'"" Byrum and Murray drove across America while writing the screenplay. What they had written did not resemble the previous film"
"foreign markets, for a total of $294,803,014, becoming Scorsese's highest-grossing film worldwide until ""The Wolf of Wall Street"". The HarperCollins audiobook version of the novel is read by David Strathairn. The Audible Audio Edition version of the novel is read by Tom Stechschulte. The story has also been reworked into a graphic novel published by William Morrow, with art by Christian de Metter (). Shutter Island Shutter Island is a novel by American writer Dennis Lehane, published by Harper Collins in April 2003. A film adaptation was released in February 2010. Lehane has said he sought to write a novel"
"for bankruptcy protection in 2010, the contract for a third book between the studio and Grams, ""Men Into Space,"" was voided. Beginning in 2008, Grams published a series of four books, the second and third deemed by ""The New York Times"" as ""raising the bar"" for reference guides. The first was ""The Twilight Zone: Unlocking the Door to a Television Classic"", which won Best Book of the Year at the Halloween Book Festival. His second reference book, ""The Green Hornet: A History of Radio, Motion-Pictures, Comics and Television"", was released in time for the major motion picture starring Seth Rogen."
"published in 2016; and a revised 2nd edition. It revealed hitherto unknown details about Saul's life before and after Cleveland Street. A musical of the same name based on the book, written by Chandler with lyrics by Charles Miller, premiered in London in May 2016, in which Jack McCann originated the role of Jack Saul. Saul has also featured prominently in a large number of academic studies, and histories, including Morris Kaplan's ""Who's Afraid of John Saul?"", Neil McKenna's ""The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde"" and ""Fanny and Stella: The Young Men Who Shocked England"", and three books on the"
"Yes Man (film) Yes Man is a 2008 comedy film directed by Peyton Reed, written by Nicholas Stoller, Jarrad Paul, and Andrew Mogel and starring Jim Carrey and co-starring Zooey Deschanel. The film is based loosely on the 2005 book of the same name by British humorist Danny Wallace, who also makes a cameo appearance in the film. Production for the film began in Los Angeles in October 2007. It was released on December 19, 2008 in the United States and was then released in the United Kingdom on December 26, 2008. It was a box office success, making $223"
"are: Jim Downey, Terry Jones, Diablo Cody, Paul F. Tompkins, Michael Schur, Henry Beard, Megan Amram, Carol Kolb, Dave Hill, James L. Brooks, Marc Maron, George Saunders, Alan Spencer, Amy Poehler, Adam McKay, Bill Hader, Mel Brooks, and Patton Oswalt. Mike Sacks is the publisher of the reported re-release of the 1977 trucking and CB movie, ""Stinker Lets Loose!"" He also wrote the foreword. In 2018 ""Stinker Lets Loose!"" was released as an audiobook via Audible. Sacks teamed up with director Eric Martin to adapt the novelization into a fully immersive cinematic audio experience starring Jon Hamm as Stinker, Rhea"
"the audiobook edition of the novel for ""Library Journal"", Scott R. DiMarco called the story a ""gripping, hauntingly told tale"" and recommended that libraries purchase the audiobook. The novel was optioned in 2006, but the project's initial financing was lost in early 2010. The project was revived later that year. A film adaptation of the book, entitled ""Lawless"" and directed by John Hillcoat, was released on 31 August 2012. The film stars Shia LaBeouf, Tom Hardy, and Jason Clarke as the three Bondurant brothers. Also in the film are Gary Oldman, Guy Pearce, Jessica Chastain, and Mia Wasikowska. The screenplay"
"William Makepeace Thackeray. Authors published originally by Collins include H. G. Wells, Agatha Christie and J. R. R. Tolkien. This is a list of some of the more noted books, and series, published by HarperCollins and their various imprints and merged publishing houses. Children's book editor Ursula Nordstrom was the director of Harper's Department of Books for Boys and Girls from 1940 to 1973, overseeing the publication of classics such as ""Goodnight Moon"", ""Where the Wild Things Are"", ""The Giving Tree"", ""Charlotte's Web"", Beverly Cleary's series starring Ramona Quimby, and ""Harold and the Purple Crayon"". They were the publishing home"
"create an intimate relationship with James as he works through his life and through the therapy sessions to which his parents have made him go. The reader learns about James’ present as he tells the events of his days, but the reader learns about his past when James reflects on his therapy sessions. In 2012, Jean Vigo Italia and Four of a Kind Productions released a film based on the book, directed by Roberto Faenza and starring Toby Regbo. Marcia Gay Harden stars as James' mother, Peter Gallagher plays his father and Ellen Burstyn plays his grandmother. The title alludes"
"and ""Dumb and Dumber To"". ""Horns,"" a supernatural thriller starring Daniel Radcliffe, Juno Temple, Max Minghella, Joe Anderson, Heather Graham and directed by Alexandre Aja, is based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Joe Hill. It was released October 31, 2014 by Dimension-RADiUS. ""Dumb and Dumber To"" is an American buddy comedy film co-written and directed by Bobby Farrelly and Peter Farrelly. It is a sequel to the 1994 film ""Dumb and Dumber"". The film stars Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels, Laurie Holden, Rob Riggle and Kathleen Turner. It was released on November 14, 2014 by Universal Pictures"