Video: Watch Stephenie Meyer and the Austenland Cast and Creative Team at Sundance

Here is the video that is the Q & A that took place after the screening of the movie Austenland. Great news of today is that the film has been picked up by Sony Classic Pictures for distribution, date TBA.

Stephenie Meyer’s Production Company to Produce Anna Dressed in Blood

According to the LA Times

And Meyer has a juicy new project, The Times has learned: “Anna Dressed in Blood,” a young-adult ghost story from the acclaimed author Kendare Blake.

Blake’s book is a supernatural tale about a man named Cas who travels the world killing the dead — he’s a ghost hunter, essentially — but runs up against a vexing case in the ghost of Anna, a woman who was brutally murdered in 1958 and who continues to haunt a small-town home.

The book generated hugely positive reviews when it came out last summer. And wouldn’t you know it: Critics are already comparing it to a certain blockbuster franchise. “Cinematic and compelling. Blake’s smooth combination of gore and romance should have little problem attracting the Twilight crowd,” wrote Booklist.

This is the the second book that is loosely in this genre that Stephenie’s company has optioned. The other is the Lois Duncan classic, Down a Dark Hall.

Video: Stephenie Meyer’s Austenland is a Hot Commodity at Sundance

According to Deadline. Austenland is one of the hottest properties at Sundance this year.

EW has another video that we can’t embed here.

Viedo: Meet Jared Howe from The Host

Here’s a new video focusing on the character of Jared Howe from Stephenie Meyer’s The Host with behind the scene footage and an interview with Max Irons.

Video: Stephenie Meyer Talks the Joys of Austenland

Hollywire caught a quick interview with Stephenie Meyer at the Sundance Film Festival and asked her how producing Austenland compared to producing Twilight.

Video: First Austenland Clip

With all the news coming from Sundance that Austenland is just as delightful as we had hoped it would be, we were happy to find a clip of the film!  For those who have yet to read the book by Shannon Hale, the story focuses on Jane Hayes, a Jane Austen lover, who gets to spend a few weeks at a retreat in England where all the guests are treated to the lifestyle of characters from Jane Austen’s stories.  In the clip, Jane, played by Kari Russel, tries shooting for the first time.

 

Stephenie Meyer to Produce Anna Dressed in Blood

Stephenie Meyer’s production company, Fickle Fish, is taking on another horror/YA romance book and bringing it to the big screen. Anna Dressed in Blood is about a Ghost hunter, Cas, who comes up against Anna, the ghost of a woman who was brutally killed in 1958. According the the LA Times:

The book generated hugely positive reviews when it came out last summer. And wouldn’t you know it: Critics are already comparing it to a certain blockbuster franchise. “Cinematic and compelling. Blake’s smooth combination of gore and romance should have little problem attracting the Twilight crowd,” wrote Booklist.

Fickle Fish’s list of films include Austenland, which is getting great reviews from Sundance, The Host, which will be in theatres in March, as well as another ghost story based on the book Down a Dark Hall. What are your thoughts? Have you read Anna Dressed in Blood? What are your hopes for the movie?

Read more at LA Times.  

Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson Top Forbes Romantic Couples List

According to Forbes

Valentine’s Day is just around the corner, when movie lovers’ thoughts turn to romance films. Older folks might think of putting on Casablanca; Gen X’ers, Say Anything. What does it say about the millennial generation that the most popular love story of their time involves a young lady, a vampire and a werewolf?

That’s why Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson land at the top of our list of Hollywood’s Highest-Grossing Romantic Couples. We looked at the top-grossing romantic movies of the last three years. Twilight was by far the biggest box office winner over that period, earning $1.17 billion.

New The Host Stills

Several new The Host Stills are online. TY to The Host Movie News

Vote for The Host in MTV’s Movie Brawl!

The Host currently has a slight edge over Beautiful Creatures in the MTV movie brawl. Get over to MTV and vote!