This Week’s Movie Tie-ins
Several tie-ins to upcoming movies, and a heavily-promoted HBO series, are being released this week (See below, in order by movie release date). For more upcoming movies with tie-ins, check out Upcoming — with Tie-ins listings.
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SEPT 15, 2010, Limited
Movie Title: Never Let Me Go
Director: Mark Romanek
Starring: Keira Knightley, Carey Mulligan, Charlotte Rampling, Sally Hawkins
Official Web Site: FoxSearchlight
Based on: Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro, (Knopf)
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Sept 19, 2010; series begins on HBO
Movie Title: Boardwalk Empire
Studio: HBO
Producer: Martin Scorsese
Official Web site: HBO.com/Boardwalk-Empire
Based on: Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times, and Corruption of Atlantic City, Nelson Johnson
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SEPT 24, 2010
Movie Title: HOWL
Directors: Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman
Cast:
James Franco … Allen Ginsberg
Mary-Louise Parker … Gail Potter
Jon Hamm … Jake Ehrlich
Jeff Daniels … Professor David Kirk
David Strathairn … Ralph McIntosh
Official Web Site: HOWLTheMovie
Based on: Allen Ginsberg’s obscenity trial for the publication of the poem, HOWL
Tie-in:
Harper Perennial is releasing Howl in graphic novel format, including art from the film.
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OCT 1, 2010
Movie Title: Let Me In
Director: Matt Reeves
Cast:
Chloe Moretz … Abby
Kodi Smit-McPhee … Owen
Richard Jenkins … The Father
Based on: Swedish horror debut by John Ajvide Lindqvist
Offcial Web Site: LetMeIn-Movie
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OCT 8, 2010
Movie Title: It’s Kind of a Funny Story
Directors: Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck
Starring: Zach Galifianakis, Emma Roberts, and Keir Gilchrist
Official Web Site: ItsKindOfaFunnyStoryMovie
Based on: YA novel It’s Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini
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August 30th, 2010 at 12:35 pm
Don’t forget “My Dog Tulip”! ‘Twas covered today in the Times, with the book coming out from NYRB. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/movies/29tulip.html?partner=rss&emc=rss