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  • Madonna to direct her third project

    Madonna to direct her third project

    MUMBAI: According to the Hollywood Reporter, Madonna is set to helm the big screen adaptation of Ade: A Love Story, the debut novel of Rebecca Walker, daughter of Pulitzer Prize winning author Alice Walker (The Color Purple).

     

    Rebecca Walker will co-produce the film, along with Bruce Cohen, who produced Silver Linings Playbook and American Beauty. Adé: A Love Story holds a 3.67/5 ratings based on 179 ratings on Goodreads. In this stunning debut novella, Rebecca Walker turns her attention to the power of love and the limitations of the human heart.

     

    When Farida, a sophisticated college student, falls in love with Adé, a young Swahili man living on an idyllic island off the coast of Kenya, the two plan to marry and envision a simple life together – free of worldly possessions and concerns. But when Farida contracts malaria and finds herself caught in the middle of a civil war, reality crashes in around them. The lovers’ solitude is interrupted by a world in the throes of massive upheaval that threatens to tear them apart, along with all they cherish.

     

    Madonna evidently loved the book when it was published last year. She posted a picture of the cover on her Google+ account and quoted, “Read this Book! An incredible journey! A Beautiful LOVE story!”

     

    This film will be Madonna’s third outing in the director’s chair. Her last film was W.E., in 2011, a period retelling of the dire straits of Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson, while her directorial debut, 2008’s Filth and Wisdom was a comedy centered on roommates living desperate lives in London.

     

    Madonna was on a huge world tour last year, and was named the world’s top-earning celebrity by Forbes in 2013 with gross earnings of about $125 million.

     

  • Peyton Reed to adapt The Fifth Beatle

    Peyton Reed to adapt The Fifth Beatle

    Peyton Reed, who directed Bring it On will adapt the best-selling graphic novel, The Fifth Beatle that chronicles the final years of Beatles manager Brian Epstein.

    The graphic novel that released recently has been on the New York Times best-selling list and recounts the story of Epstein, the visionary who discovered The Beatles and helped guide the band to international stardom. Epstein also secured the band’s first record deal at a time when no one else was interested.

    The movie will be produced by Oscar winner Bruce Cohen and Vivek J. Tiwary, who has written the graphic novel. Tiwary is also writing the screenplay. The production of the film is slated to begin in 2014.

  • Silver Linings Playbook producer boards Brian Epstein biopic The Fifth Beatle

    Silver Linings Playbook producer boards Brian Epstein biopic The Fifth Beatle

    MUMBAI: Academy Award-winning producer Bruce Cohen (American Beauty, Milk, Silver Linings Playbook) is set to produce The Fifth Beatle, about the life of Beatles manager Brian Epstein.

     

    The English entrepreneur Paul McCartney dubbed “the fifth Beatle” helped launch the career of the Fab Five and managed them until his death by accidental overdose in 1967. He was also a closeted gay man whose close relationship with John Lennon was the subject of the 1991 Sundance entry The Hours and Times.

     

    The Fifth Beatle will be the first feature film about the Beatles to obtain the rights to use their original songs. Pic is scripted by Tony-winning producer Vivek J. Tiwary (Green Day’s American Idiot, Mel Brooks’ The Producers) from his own forthcoming graphic novel with art by Andrew C.

     

    Robinson and cartoonist Kyle Baker, which Dark Horse releases 19 November. Tiwary will produce alongside Cohen, who won the Oscar in 2000 for American Beauty. Production is set to begin in 2014.