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This is my last installment for the movies adapted from comic books and this time I shall be listing the best villains in movies adapted from comic books. It cannot be doubted that the antagonists in comic books are as significant as the heroes themselves as they help define the character of the hero. They also help in forming the image of milieu of the story.

There have been numerous superhero movies adapted from comic books since I was a child. I mean, superheroes are almost in the same mainstream level as fairy tales. Girls had their princesses while we boys had their superheroes.

The misguided ''Golden Compass'' has found its way to DVD -- but it's not the first book-to-big-screen project to veer off course, as fans of ''Da Vinci Code,'' ''Memoirs of a Geisha,'' ''Eyes Wide Shut,'' and%

I thought the Quills were the worst book awards ever, but I have been suitably chastened. Ladies and gentlemen, the International Association of Media Tie-In Writers will present the second annual Scribe Awards this summer. These awards will go to the best novelization of a movie, tv show or video game of the past year.

A review of the hit face Death at a Funeral, that successfully taps into classic British comedy. But not all is perfect in this script.

Indie film producer Jeff Sharp has just announced five new pending projects for Sharp Independent at Harper Collins, the recently launched film division of the publishing house. See what book-to-film projects are in the pipeline.

Quite a good article covering the adaptation of books to film. Screenwriters talk about how they achieve the necessary balance between the two media that allows respect for the original work but still allows the story to work as a movie.

Mike Brotherton of the Hard SF Writer blog riffs about the differences between keeping a written SF story believable in print and in movie format. As with all fiction, quality can be judged by the ability of the story to sustain the reader’s suspension of disbelief, but in the SF world it seems books do it better.

LOTR fans are hysterical at the news that Peter Jackson, director of The Lord of the Rings trilogy, has signed up to produce two films based on The Hobbit. They’re expected to go into production in 2009.

When do books get confused with animiation junkies who feel no compulsion to even give the book's owner a buzz that her book is now wonderfully animated and not copyright infringement at all cause after all you simple book seller how would they have access to your book even if it's being sold by Barnes and Noble, Amazon, Seinfel's bee sounds familiarly like The Wasp That Wanted To Be A Bee. Book