Good news for fans of Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day: a rep for Disney confirms to EW that the studio is now developing an adaptation of Judith Viorst’s classic picture book. Previously, the project was being overseen by 20th Century Fox.
The story, first published in 1972, follows ginger-haired Alexander, a five-year-old who trips on a skateboard when he’s getting out of bed one morning — and things only get worse from there. Two sequels followed: Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday and Alexander, Who’s Not (Do You Hear Me? I Mean It!) Going to Move. READ FULL STORY »
I’ll start with my favorite U.S. drama with movie stars: The Kids Are All Right, directed by Lisa Cholodenko from a screenplay she cowrote with Stuart Blumberg, stars Annette Bening and Julianne Moore as a long-time married lesbian couple in California, mothers, via sperm donor, of an academically gifted 18-year-old daughter (Mia Wasikowska) and an athletic 15-year-old son (Josh Hutcherson) on a quest to find their biological father. The kids don’t have to look far: Open records lead sister and brother to Mark Ruffalo as a free-wheeling, peace-and-love-style bachelor restaurant entrepreneur whose charm enchants his chromosomal offspring — and challenges their mothers.
