HBO's name stands for Home Box Office, and in the channel's early years, it took the title literally, not just with its extensive movie collection, but its library of other special events — boxing, music, com...
In Contention readers are generally a hawk-eyed bunch, quick to leap in with corrections when Kris or I make an honest error or suffer an accidental brain-fade, particularly on matters of Oscar trivia -- collectively,...
Sometimes an A-list cast and a famous literary pedigree just aren't enough.
"The Corrections" pilot won't be picked up as a series by HBO.
The pilot, based on the epic novel of the same title by Jonat...
Who doesn’t love watching a great fairy tale on screen? But how often do new ones arise that make us think “Wow, that’s something new,” while also being deep, funny, engaging and gorgeous to wa...
HBO's ambitious adaptation of Jonathan Franzen's best-selling novel "The Corrections" has just landed its biggest name yet.
Ewan McGregor has signed on to join Chris Cooper and Dianne Wiest in the drama pilot for t...
Since I first read Jonathan Franzen's National Book Award-winning novel nearly a full decade ago, "The Corrections" has been simultaneously my most anticipated and most dreaded of all mooted Hollywood presti...
Fans of the bestselling 2001 Jonathan Franzen novel "The Corrections" have been teased with feature-film talk endlessly over the years - at different points both Stephen Daldry and Robert Zemeckis were attac...
This is the extraordinary story of Becca and Howie. Eight months ago, they had a picture-perfect life with their young son. Now, they are posing as normal in the wake of an enormous loss; blindly looking for footing i...
This is the extraordinary story of Becca and Howie. Eight months ago, they had a picture-perfect life with their young son. Now, they are posing as normal in the wake of an enormous loss; blindly looking for footing i...
Like Baseball, trends and statistics actually mean something in Oscar voting. In the best supporting actress category, first time winners dominate. You rarely ever see a former Academy Award winner repeat ...
