'Mystic Pizza' still winner for Roberts Sep 4, 2009
Ten years later -- after winning over audiences in "Sleeping with the Enemy," "My Best Friend's Wedding," "The Pelican Brief" and "Notting Hill" -- Roberts' price tag was $20 million when she took on the role of a lifetime in "Erin Brockovich." The result: a landslide win on Oscar night for best actress. Roberts, now 41, has continued to crank out good roles in great movies, from "Ocean's Eleven" and "Closer" to "Charlie Wilson's War" and now "Duplicity.". (Erie Times-News, PA)
821 Entertainment Group Enters Agreement With John Grisham to Adapt 'THE TESTAMENT' With Academy Award Winner Mark Johnson and Hunt Lowry to Develop and Produce the Feature Film Jun 24, 2009
" Johnson's impressive list of credits includes RAIN MAN, for which he won an Academy Award; BUGSY, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award, the CHRONICLES OF NARNIA franchise, THE NOTEBOOK and GOOD MORNING, VIETNAM.An international bestseller, THE TESTAMENT opens with an aged billionaire outsmarting his greedy heirs by signing a bombshell will and then jumping to his death. In a story that combines suspense with adventure, the novel takes readers on an adventure through the Brazilian... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
John Grisham marks 20th anniversary of 'A Time to Kill' Jun 22, 2009
Having The Firm, The Pelican Brief and The Client topping best-seller lists in consecutive years certainly raised his profile around town, but the release of the movie adaptations added a blockbuster layer of attention. "People from anywhere would start driving up to their house," Howorth says. (USA Today)
Sub-Genres of the Hollywood Thrille... May 31, 2009
The Pelican Brief (1993). A Time to Kill (1996). (Suite101.com)
Review: 'State Of Play' Takes Politics, Papers To Task Apr 18, 2009
Part "All The President's Men" with a dash of "The Pelican Brief," this political thriller is based on a BBC miniseries of the same name, which ran in 2003. Keeping to the same plot, a journalist gets too deeply enmeshed in problems of a politician: The problem, however, is that the politician is an old friend. (KFOXTV.com, TX)
John Grisham has 'the easiest life' Feb 8, 2009
With "The Associate," Grisham tries to recreate the suspense of older hits such as "The Firm," ''The Pelican Brief" and "The Client," without wrapping his plot around a weighty issue or social injustice. After writing books that veered into sports and coming of age, and a nonfiction account of a rape-murder, he returned to the familiar genre. The demands of fans for vintage Grisham began nagging at him. "Many times people say things like, 'I really like your books but I love your early stuff,'"... (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
BOOK BUZZ: New on the best-sellers list Feb 7, 2009
Third: 1993's Pelican Brief with Julia Roberts, $100. 8 million. (USA Today)
