Tag: James Patterson

MIDDLE SCHOOL: THE WORST YEARS OF MY LIFE Arrives on Blu-ray, DVD, and On Demand January 3

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Based on The New York Times best-selling book series by James Patterson, the hilarious family-friendly film, MIDDLE SCHOOL: THE WORST YEARS OF MY LIFE, arrives on Digital HD December 20 and Blu-ray (plus Digital HD), DVD, and On Demand January 3 from Lionsgate Home Entertainment and CBS Films.

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The New York Times best-selling series by James Patterson breaks all the rules when Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life arrives on Digital HD December 20 and Blu-ray (plus Digital HD), DVD, and On Demand January 3 from Lionsgate and CBS Films. This hilarious, family-friendly leap from the page to the big screen stars Griffin Gluck (Batman vs. Robin) alongside Lauren Graham (TV’s “Gilmore Girls”), Rob Riggle (The Hangover), Thomas Barbusca (TV’s “Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp”), Andy Daly (Semi-Pro), Adam Pally (Dirty Grandpa), Isabela Moner (TV’s “100 Things to Do Before High School”), Isabella Amara (The Boss) and Alexa Nisenson (TV’s “Constantine”.)

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Rafe has an epic imagination…and a slight problem with authority. Both collide when he transfers to a rule-crazy middle school. Drowning in do’s and don’ts, Rafe and his best friend Leo hatch a plan to expose the principal by breaking every rule in the school’s Code of Conduct. As the principal strikes back, Rafe’s world, at home and at school, explodes into hilarious chaos (both real and imagined) in this laugh-filled family comedy based on James Patterson’s best-selling book series.

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The Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life home entertainment release special features include four behind-the-scenes featurettes, a hilarious gag reel plus four deleted scenes, including one hilarious animated sequence. Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life will be available on Blu-ray and DVD for the suggested retail price of $39.99 and $29.95, respectively.

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Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life is directed by Steve Carr with screenplay by Chris Bowman & Hubbel Palmer and Kara Holden. Executive produced by James Patterson and Steve Bowen. Produced by Leopoldo Gout and Bill Robinson.

BLU-RAY/DVD/DIGITAL HD SPECIAL FEATURES

  • “That Middle School Life” Featurette
  • “Middle School = The Worst / Making Movies = The Best” Featurette
  • “The Wedgie Wheel” Featurette
  • “Yolo: Behind Operation Rafe” Featurette
  • Gag Reel
  • Deleted Scenes

Lauren Graham And Rob Riggle Starring In CBS Films’ MIDDLE SCHOOL

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CBS Films announced today the cast for the theatrical motion picture adaptation of James Patterson’s award-winning, bestselling series MIDDLE SCHOOL, arriving in theaters October 2016.

The cast will include Lauren Graham (“Parenthood,” “Gilmore Girls”), Rob Riggle (“22 Jump Street,” “Hotel Transylvania 2”), Thomas Barbusca (“Preacher,” “Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp”), Andrew Daly (“Review,” “Black-ish”), Adam Pally (“The Mindy Project,” “The To Do List”), Efren Ramirez (“Constantine,” “Napoleon Dynamite”), Isabela Moner (“100 Things to Do Before High School,” “Dora and Friends: Into the City!”) and Alexa Nisenson (“Constantine”) are joining Griffin Gluck (“About a Boy,” “Red Band Society”).

Steve Carr is set to direct the film from a screenplay by Chris Bowman, Hubbel Palmer and Kara Holden. Leopoldo Gout and Bill Robinson are producing and James Patterson and Steve Bowen are executive producing for James Patterson Entertainment. Jeff Skoll and Jonathan King of Participant Media are also serving as executive producers along with Michael Flynn.

The first entry in the series, MIDDLE SCHOOL: THE WORST YEARS OF MY LIFE, chronicles the trials and triumphs of Rafe Khatchadorian (Griffin Gluck) as he uses all of his wits to battle bullies, hormones and the tyrannical, test-obsessed Principal Dwight (Daly).  Graham co-stars as Rafe’s mother Jules, along with Riggle as her boyfriend Bear, Nisenson as Rafe’s sister Georgia, Barbusca as Rafe’s best friend Leo, Moner as Rafe’s first crush Jeanne, Ramirez as Gus and Pally as his favorite teacher, Mr. Teller.

James Patterson is one of the most successful authors of all time, with more than 300 million books sold, ranging from Alex Cross toZoo, the basis for the hit CBS series. To date, the six-book MIDDLE SCHOOL series has sold nearly seven million copies worldwide and ranked on The New York Times bestsellers list for a combined 68 weeks, including seven weeks at #1.  The series has received countless awards and accolades including recognition from the Children’s Choice Book Awards, National Parenting Publication Honors and Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards.

“Over the years, I have had the privilege to meet countless MIDDLE SCHOOL fans, and I know that today they are just as excited as I am by this incredible cast,” said Patterson. “Speaking for everyone involved in this project, we are going to give those fans the movie that they deserve.”

In addition to producing, James Patterson will co-finance the film with Participant Media and CBS Films.  Robert Kessel is overseeing the title for Participant.  Scott Shooman is overseeing the project for CBS Films.

MIDDLE SCHOOL begins production in Atlanta later this month and will be distributed in partnership with Lionsgate on October 7, 2016.

HEY, BOO: HARPER LEE AND TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD Opens In NY & LA May 13


Opens at New York’s Quad Cinema & Los Angeles’ Laemmle Theatres on May 13

First Run Features will release Hey, Boo: Harper Lee and To Kill a Mockingbird fifty years after the novel was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction on May 4, 1961.This documentary film by Mary McDonagh Murphy explores the phenomenon To Kill a Mockingbird became and unravels some of the mysteries around the novelist’s life, including why she never published again.

Harper Lee’s first and only novel, To Kill a Mockingbird was instantly a beloved classic. The film version, starring Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch, won a trio of Academy Awards. Luminaries like Tom Brokaw list the novel among their all-time favorite books, and Oprah Winfrey calls it “our national novel.” It is still required reading in most classrooms and sells nearly a million copies every year—many more than The Catcher in the Rye, The Great Gatsby or Of Mice and Men.

This month President Obama presented the National Medal of Arts, the nation’s highest honor for artistic excellence, to ten recipients for their outstanding achievements and support of the arts. Among those honored was author Harper Lee. In characteristic fashion, Lee did not attend the ceremony.

On April 28th, 2011, the US Postal Service will issue a stamp in the ‘Legends of Hollywood’ series honoring Gregory Peck. At the request of Peck’s family, he is being depicted wearing glasses, as Atticus Finch.

Hey, Boo: Harper Lee and To Kill a Mockingbird chronicles how Lee was able to write such a work, the context and history of the Deep South where it is set, Lee’s family background and the social change the novel inspired after its publication.

Anna Quindlen, Tom Brokaw, James McBride, James Patterson, Wally Lamb, Oprah Winfrey, and others interviewed by Murphy reflect on the novel’s power, influence, and popularity and the many ways it has shaped their lives and careers.

Although Lee has not given an interview since 1964, Murphy’s reporting, research and rare interviews with the author’s friends and 99-year-old sister, Alice, add new details and never-before-seen documents and photos to the remarkable story of the Mockingbird phenomenon. Many speak on the record for the first time ever, sharing intimate recollections, anecdotes, and biographical details, including new information about Lee’s tumultuous friendship with Truman Capote.

Mary McDonagh Murphy is an independent filmmaker and the author of Scout, Atticus & Boo: A Celebration of To Kill a Mockingbird, published by Harper Collins. Murphy was a producer for CBS News for twenty years where she won six Emmy Awards. Her other documentaries include Cry for Help, about adolescent suicide and depression, which aired nationally on PBS in 2009 and Digital Days, narrated by Tom Brokaw, about the Internet’s impact on the newspaper industry for the Associated Press.

HEY, BOO: HARPER LEE AND TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD Opens in LA and NY on May 13
The DVD will be released on July 19, 2011


Hardwicke considering ‘Maximum Ride’

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From one pre-teen/young-adult fantasy adaptation to another, director Catherine Hardwicke is considering an offer from Sony’s Columbia Pictures to develop and direct ‘Maximum Ride’.

The five-volume series by James Patterson chronicles six teens, known as the Flock, who are genetically altered so that they are part human and part bird. Learning to fly, they escape the laboratory where they have been housed and are pursued by a pack of creatures called the Erasers that are part human and part wolf. — HR

The screenplay is being penned by Don Payne (Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer) and Patterson himself is serving as an executive producer. The series was popular enough to spawn a Manga version, but it’s my personal opinion that they would benefit more from a different choice at the wheel, so to speak. The “success” of ‘Twilight’ was not due to the director, but solely due to the mass following of the series of books.

[source: Hollywood Reporter]