Movie Fanatic: Summer Reading

10 Books Turning Into Movies

June 29th, 2011 by Alyssa Caverley

If you love to read books before going to see how it turns out on the big screen - you're in luck this summer.  There are so many books to catch up on this summer getting the movie treatment.

The Harry Potter series is coming to an end, with the second installment of the final book hitting theaters on July 15.  So what can we look forward to in the next coming months?  Get your sunglasses (or reading glasses) on and take some of these bestsellers along to the beach.

Here are our top 10 summer movie books you need to get your hands on.

20 Times a Lady - The freshmen novel from Karyn Bosnak follows Ally Darling as she looks back on the past twenty men that she has had relationships.  She wonders if she missed out on any of them and potentially lost her true love.  The novel is currently being turned into a film called What's Your Number?, starring Anna Faris and Chris Evans.  It is expected to hit theaters on September 30...

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LA Times: Swearing by 'Bridesmaids' Success

Female filmmakers hope the R-rated comedy has proved to Hollywood that girls can be raunchy and funny — and make money at the box office.

June 23, 2011 by Nicole Sperling

Hollywood's a notoriously cutthroat place, but the all-girl ensemble film "Bridesmaids" has cast a mysterious, uniting spell over women in show biz who might otherwise see one another as rivals.

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Hutch Parker, chairman of New Regency, which is behind "What's Your Number?," immediately sparked to the screenplay by Jen Crittenden and Gabrielle Allan (the script is based on the book "20 Times a Lady" by Karyn Bosnak). But he says it's one of only a handful over the last five years in this genre that have intrigued him.

"People are not writing this type of material in general," he said. "It may be because the cultural engineering of the town has long believed that there isn't a market for this kind of strong, liberated, but real female character..."

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Story also appeared in...

• 6/23/11 The Baltimore Sun
• 6/23/11 The Republic
• 6/26/11 My West Texas

Chicago Now: Number of Sex Partners

 

Do You Fret About It, or Forget About It?

June 22, 2011 by Gina B.

Since it's humpday, I'm just going to jump right in with a barrage of questions about sex. 

Do you know how many sex partners you've had?   And if so, what do you think of your number?  Do you think you need more experience?  Or do you shudder when you think of the staggering amount of notches in your bedpost?  Hell . . . do you even care?

I was thinking of this topic when I recently revisited a novel written by my friend Karyn Bosnak. 20 Times a Lady (soon to be a motion picture titled "What's Your Number?" starring  Anna Faris) is about a woman whose 20th sexual encounter was a heinous entanglement with a former boss...

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Oh No They Didn't!: Poster and US Trailer for 'What's Your Number?'

 

May 10, 2011

A low quality version of the international trailer for the Anna Faris/Chris Evans starrer "What's Your Number?" was posted a couple of weeks ago, but now the official US version has made its way online.

In the R-rated romantic comedy, based on Karyn Bosnak's novel "Twenty Times a Lady," Faris plays Ally, a woman looks back at the past twenty men she's had relationships with in her life and wonders if one of them might be her one true love...

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/Film: ‘What’s Your Number?’ Trailer

Anna Faris Gets Friendly with Captain America

April 26th, 2011 by Angie Han

Like her House Bunny co-star Emma Stone, Anna Faris is one of those actresses who has enough charm and verve to brighten up even the most lackluster material. And it’s mostly for that reason that I’m actually looking forward to What’s Your Number? The upcoming romcom features Faris as a woman who, upon realizing that she has slept with 20 men, revisits her former flames to see if "the one" might’ve been among them. Watch the trailer after the jump.

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What’s Your Number? is being directed by Mark Mylod (Ali G Indahouse, The United States of Tara) from a 2008 Black List script by Gabrielle Allan and Jennifer Crittenden, which in turn was based on a novel by Karyn Bosnak. The film was originally slated for an April release, but has since been pushed back to September 30...

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