When news broke that Brad Pitt had told "60 Minutes Australia" he would like to retire in three years, most people justifiably took it as the actor speaking in the hypothetical, with no serious threat of him leaving business behind. Pitt is only the most recent of many actors and directors who have come out to declare their plans for retirement, few of which—if any—have actually followed through.
But let's assume for a second that Pitt is serious, and that in three year's time, he will say goodbye to acting forever. With 26 films listed as "in development" on his IMDb profile, three years doesn't leave time for much. Even though most of those credits are projects he hopes to produce one day with his company Plan B, it would be safe to say that Pitt's final acting credits are listed there and that he won't get to everything.
If...
But let's assume for a second that Pitt is serious, and that in three year's time, he will say goodbye to acting forever. With 26 films listed as "in development" on his IMDb profile, three years doesn't leave time for much. Even though most of those credits are projects he hopes to produce one day with his company Plan B, it would be safe to say that Pitt's final acting credits are listed there and that he won't get to everything.
If...
- 11/14/2011
- by Kevin P. Sullivan
- MTV Movies Blog
When I left my job, one of my bosses (I had probably 3 bosses, which did not make life easy) handed me The Imperfectionists as a gift at my office's going-away party. Since I don't really read book reviews and therefore knew nothing about Tom Rachman's novel, my first thought was quite defensive: What are you trying to tell me here, huh?? Then my co-workers told me that this book is actually pretty perfect for me since it chronicles the lives of the staff members of an English-language daily newspaper in Rome. After devouring the pages (figuratively, not literally - I read it in a day and a half), I can only hope that the fates of the book's characters is not what I have to look forward to.
Tucked in between the chapters of The Imperfectionist is the origins story of the paper, of how it was conceived by...
Tucked in between the chapters of The Imperfectionist is the origins story of the paper, of how it was conceived by...
- 7/11/2011
- by Tamatha Uhmelmahaye
A couple of weeks ago, I sent the following message to this year's Cannonballers:
Now that summer is here (yes, I know not technically, but as far as I'm concerned summer begins when June does), I am thinking that it would be good to have a theme for some of the Cbr posts this summer: Summer Reads. I don't know about you, but summer vacations-especially when I go to the beach-are when I have some of my best opportunities to finally make a dent in my reading list. And I often make a trip to the library before heading out on vacation. I'd like to be able to give the Pajibans a bunch of recommendations as they may be looking to add to their summer reading lists.
Of course to do this, I need your help. I would like you to send me links to any reviews you've written for...
Now that summer is here (yes, I know not technically, but as far as I'm concerned summer begins when June does), I am thinking that it would be good to have a theme for some of the Cbr posts this summer: Summer Reads. I don't know about you, but summer vacations-especially when I go to the beach-are when I have some of my best opportunities to finally make a dent in my reading list. And I often make a trip to the library before heading out on vacation. I'd like to be able to give the Pajibans a bunch of recommendations as they may be looking to add to their summer reading lists.
Of course to do this, I need your help. I would like you to send me links to any reviews you've written for...
- 6/27/2011
- by Tamatha Uhmelmahaye
The Daily Beast went through the top 10 lists of the best books of the year and tallied up the results to come up with the ultimate ranking for 2010's best fiction and nonfiction. Plus, our ultimate book gift guide.
Top 5 Fiction Books of the Year
Related story on The Daily Beast: This Week's Hot Reads
1.Room By Emma Donoghue
Yes, the most-recommended novel of 2010 is a story of imprisonment and sex-slavery seen through the eyes of a 5-year-old boy. But once you get past the subject matter, it's a wildly original tour de force that will amaze and move you.
2.Freedom By Jonathan Franzen
No surprise here: Jonathan Franzen's much-hyped, debated, and discussed great American novel captures the zeitgeist of our decade while also delivering a gripping and moving family drama couldn't-shouldn't-be absent from any list of the best fiction this year.
3.A Visit From the Goon Squad By Jennifer Egan
A virtuosic novel,...
Top 5 Fiction Books of the Year
Related story on The Daily Beast: This Week's Hot Reads
1.Room By Emma Donoghue
Yes, the most-recommended novel of 2010 is a story of imprisonment and sex-slavery seen through the eyes of a 5-year-old boy. But once you get past the subject matter, it's a wildly original tour de force that will amaze and move you.
2.Freedom By Jonathan Franzen
No surprise here: Jonathan Franzen's much-hyped, debated, and discussed great American novel captures the zeitgeist of our decade while also delivering a gripping and moving family drama couldn't-shouldn't-be absent from any list of the best fiction this year.
3.A Visit From the Goon Squad By Jennifer Egan
A virtuosic novel,...
- 12/11/2010
- by The Daily Beast
- The Daily Beast
Brad Pitt remains a very busy guy between that family, shouldering more than his share in New Orleans over the past half-decade, and branching out from just starring in films to producing or starring and producing through his Plan B shingle. This year, Pitt's company has had a hand in making Kick-Ass and Eat Pray Love and he recently announced his intention to star in the adaptation of World War Z he's producing.
Plan B has also just picked up the rights to Tom Rachman's book, The Imperfectionists and Jonathan Lethem's Fortress of Solitude. The first, according to The Playlist, "focuses on the eccentric staff of an international newspaper based in Rome, including a lazy obituaries writer, an egotistical war reporter and a publisher more interested in his dog than in his paper."
Sounds like a blast, and I'm sure Pitt could get his usual crew together for that,...
Plan B has also just picked up the rights to Tom Rachman's book, The Imperfectionists and Jonathan Lethem's Fortress of Solitude. The first, according to The Playlist, "focuses on the eccentric staff of an international newspaper based in Rome, including a lazy obituaries writer, an egotistical war reporter and a publisher more interested in his dog than in his paper."
Sounds like a blast, and I'm sure Pitt could get his usual crew together for that,...
- 8/22/2010
- by Colin
- GetTheBigPicture.net
Update: Random House Publishing Group head Gina Centrello just announced Susan Kamil's and other promotions. See memo below: Exclusive: Susan Kamil, who has been editor-in-chief of the Random House imprint as well as the Dial Press imprints, will be elevated to publisher of both imprints by Random House Publishing Group head Gina Centrello. The post had been vacant and Centrello had handled the publisher duties. I’m told Random House will make it official sometime today and she starts that job later this week. Kamil will continue as editor-in-chief of Random House and Dial, where she has edited such recent successes as The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows, as well as Tom Rachman’s The Imperfectionists, Helen Simonson’s Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand and Sophie Kinsella’s Shopaholic novel series. She also oversees two successful imprints. Random House just scored...
- 7/27/2010
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
June 19, 2010: Hollywood actor and producer Brad Pitt has joined hands with Reliance Big Entertainment to get the screen rights to Tom Rachman’s bestseller ‘The Imperfectionists’. The novel was published this spring by Dial Press.
Pitt’s company Plan B Entertainment will make a commercial and extremely relevant film on this novel with its partnership company, stated Amit Khanna, Chairman of Reliance Big Entertainment.
The novel is based on the experience of Rachman at the Associated Press bureau in Rome as a wire service reporter. The story revolves around the maddening, quirky.
Pitt’s company Plan B Entertainment will make a commercial and extremely relevant film on this novel with its partnership company, stated Amit Khanna, Chairman of Reliance Big Entertainment.
The novel is based on the experience of Rachman at the Associated Press bureau in Rome as a wire service reporter. The story revolves around the maddening, quirky.
- 6/19/2010
- by News
- RealBollywood.com
Last year, Anil Ambani’s Reliance Big Entertainment (Rbe), and Brad Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment, acquired the rights to turn Capcom’s video game Dark Void into a film. Now they have bought the rights to Tom Rachman’s best-seller, The Imperfectionists. Published this year, the novel is about quirky characters working for a newspaper in Rome. There’s the obit reporter who hates to work, a freelancer being manipulated by a war correspondent and a dog-obsessed publisher. Rachman himself was a reporter with the Associated Press’s (AP) Rome bureau. Says Amit Khanna, chairman, Rbe, “The Imperfectionists will make for ...
- 6/18/2010
- Hindustan Times - Cinema
Hollywood superstar Brad Pitt’s production company Plan B Entertainment along with Reliance Big Entertainment have acquired the screen rights to Tom Rachman’s bestseller The Imperfectionists. The Imperfectionists is a compliment to our slate with Plan B Entertainment. It will make a commercial and extremely relevant film which will play well to an international audience," Reliance Big Entertainment Chairman Amit Khanna said in a statement. Published this spring by Dial Press, the novel is based on Rachman's experience as a wire service reporter at the Associated Press bureau in Rome. It centres around the quirky, maddening, endearing people who write and read an international ...
- 6/17/2010
- Hindustan Times - Cinema
Brad Pitt's production company Plan B Entertainment, under its Creative Partnership with Reliance Big Entertainment, have acquired the screen rights to Tom Rachman's novel, The Imperfectionists, which was published this spring by Dial Press. The Imperfectionists centres on the quirky, maddening, endearing people who write and read an international newspaper based in Rome: from the obituary reporter who will do anything to avoid work, to the young freelancer who is manipulated by an egocentric war correspondent, to the dog-obsessed publisher who seems less interested in his struggling newspaper than in his magnificent basset hound. Rachman drew from his experience as a former wire service reporter at the Associated Press (AP) office in Rome to set the stage for The Imperfectionists. Reliance Big Entertainment, the flagship media and entertainment arm of Indian conglomerate, Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (R-adag), first introduced its innovative development/ production financing deal, termed a Creative Partnership,...
- 6/17/2010
- by Bollywood Hungama News Network
- BollywoodHungama
Brad Pitt’s production company Plan B Entertainment, under its creative partnership with Reliance Big Entertainment have acquired the screen rights to Tom Rachman’s novel, The Imperfectionists, which was published this spring by Dial Press. The Imperfectionists centers on the quirky, maddening, endearing people who write and read an international newspaper based in Rome: from the obituary reporter who will do anything to avoid work, to the young freelancer who is manipulated by an egocentric war correspondent, to the dog-obsessed publisher who seems less ...
- 6/17/2010
- BusinessofCinema
Los Angeles, June 16 – Reliance Big Entertainment and Hollywood superstar Brad Pitt’s production company Plan B Entertainment, under their Creative Partnership deal, have acquired the screen rights to Tom Rachman’s bestseller ‘The Imperfectionists’, it was announced here Wednesday.
”The Imperfectionists’ is a compliment to our slate with Plan B Entertainment. It will make a commercial and extremely relevant film which will play well to an international audience,’ said Reliance Big Entertainment Chairman Amit Khanna, in a statement.
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- 6/16/2010
- by realbollywood
- RealBollywood.com
Through his deal at Reliance, Brad Pitt's Plan B has scored the film rights to Tom Rachman's journalism-themed novel "The Imperfectionists" reports Deadline New York.
Set around an English-language newspaper in Rome, the novel explores the professional and personal lives of a group of oddball journos working against the odds and without modern technology.
Rachman, a former Associated Press writer in Rome, based the book off his own experiences and covers the topics of both the collision of professional and personal lives, and the decline in daily print publications.
Plan B's also hired Alfonso Gomez-Rejon to both adapt and direct a film version of the Jonathan Lethem novel "The Fortress Of Solitude" about two teenage friends, one black and one white, who discover a magic ring. Spanning the 70's to the 90's, it explores issues of race, gentrification, self-discovery, and music.
Gomez-Rejon has served as second unit director...
Set around an English-language newspaper in Rome, the novel explores the professional and personal lives of a group of oddball journos working against the odds and without modern technology.
Rachman, a former Associated Press writer in Rome, based the book off his own experiences and covers the topics of both the collision of professional and personal lives, and the decline in daily print publications.
Plan B's also hired Alfonso Gomez-Rejon to both adapt and direct a film version of the Jonathan Lethem novel "The Fortress Of Solitude" about two teenage friends, one black and one white, who discover a magic ring. Spanning the 70's to the 90's, it explores issues of race, gentrification, self-discovery, and music.
Gomez-Rejon has served as second unit director...
- 6/2/2010
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
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