PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST-SELLERS Nov 20, 2009
"The Road" by Cormac McCarthy (Vintage). 14. (Honolulu Advertiser)
All-star community service Nov 19, 2009
The premiere was attended by stars Viggo Mortensen and Charlize Theron, media types Dan Abrams, Jeff Greenfield, and Bryant Gumbel, and reclusive author Cormac McCarthy, who wrote the book on which the film is based. In addition to producing movies, the Schwartzes own the Waltham-based PR firm Schwartz Communications. (Boston Globe)
But seriously... Nov 18, 2009
In recent years, though, they have taken to adapting pre-existing properties, like classic Ealing comedy The Ladykillers and No Country for Old Men, based on the Cormac McCarthy book. That trend continues with their next project, True Grit - a new version of the Charles Portis novel that was famously filmed in 1969 with John Wayne. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
interview with Cormac McCarthy Nov 17, 2009
Cormac McCarthy on The Road - WSJ.com ... Author Cormac McCarthy, 76, talked about love, religion, his 11-year-old son, the end of the world and the movie based on his novel 'The Road ... Cormac McCarthy, above in 2007, drew on his own relationship with his son for his novel 'The Road. (Harper's Magazine)
Apocalypse Soon: End Days at the Multiplex Nov 16, 2009
" Project on it what you will: The world that's left is all browns and grays - the color green is history. (Dimension Films )The road of "The Road" is paved with cannibals. It's the mission of Viggo Mortensen as a character called "The Man" to keep his son (called "The Boy") eating, and uneaten. (Left: Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee.) The movie is based on a novel by Cormac McCarthy, who writes about the age of good men and heroes, now passed. All that's left is blind forward motion on a... (CBS News)
End of the world and Hollywood feels fine Nov 13, 2009
"The big difference now is it's multiple things," said John Hillcoat, director of The Road, opening Nov. 25 and starring Viggo Mortensen in an adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's novel about a father and son trekking across a decimated America ... Viggo Mortensen stars in this adaptation of the Cormac McCarthy novel about a son and his father trying to survive after a terrible catastrophe. (MSNBC -- News)
Apocalypse now and then: Tracing disaster films from ‘2012’ to ‘When Worlds Collide’ Nov 8, 2009
As for The Road, which opens later this month, presumably only Cormac McCarthy, author of the novel on which it s based, knows the cause of the apocalyptic landscape Viggo Mortensen and son have to negotiate. Easily the most in-your-face (in-your-planet. (Boston Globe)
Holiday films roll out some heavy subjects Oct 30, 2009
Cast: Charlize Theron, Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit-McPhee Produced by: Nick Wechsler, Paula Mae Schwartz, Steve Schwartz Directed by: John Hillcoat Written by: Cormac McCarthy, Joe Penhall. Armored. (Fresno Bee)
Ghost Stories by Reactionaries Oct 28, 2009
(When our infant daughter came home from the hospital two winters later, I walked her to sleep to Cormac McCarthy s All the Pretty Horses. Okay, so it s not Goodnight, Moon, but at least it ain t Blood Meridian. (The American Conservative)
Video games as couples therapy Oct 27, 2009
(Well, except for , a Cormac McCarthy novel-turned-movie that doesnt make the apocalypse look like any fun whatsoever. . (MSNBC -- Technology)
Charles Betts Oct 21, 2009
The last one I really enjoyed was All The Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy. What s your worst habit. (Austin Business Journal, TX)
Joel and Ethan Coen’s complex, mysterious, darkly comic ‘A Serious Man’ Oct 9, 2009
The brothers art took a quantum leap with No Country, in which they brilliantly mimicked another man s nihilism, that of author Cormac McCarthy. With this film they bring it all back home. (Boston Globe)
Fall Film Releases 2009 Oct 9, 2009
Synopsis: Based on Cormac McCarthy s best-selling novel, a father (Viggo Mortensen) and his young son (Kodi Smit-McPhee struggle to survive after Earth and most of civilization has been destroyed. Trailer. (Carroll County Times, MD)
Fall films 2009: From sci-fi to horror to family-friendly, Hollywood promises something for everyone this autumn Oct 9, 2009
Why I want to see it: This one is based on the novel of the same name by Cormac McCarthy, who also wrote No Country for Old Men. If the screen adaptation of The Road is even half as good as the adaptation of No Country, it will be worth a look. (Carroll County Times, MD)
A woman’s journey through ‘Far North’ Oct 2, 2009
Such a bleak outlook won t inspire confidence in the protagonist s prospects, but Theroux inhabits his scarred world with the deft assurance of Cormac McCarthy - it s the post-apocalyptic territory of The Road, with the heartlessness of Blood Meridian, all transplanted to Siberia in the near future. The narrator, a hard-bitten pioneer woman named Esperanza Makepeace, navigates the frozen wasteland with the knowledge that mankind has demolished the planet beyond immediate repair. (Boston Globe)
Creating a scene Sep 24, 2009
Producers focus on 'Host' of possibilities You might expect Steve and Paula Mae Schwartz to have their eyes on The Road, the movie they produced based on Cormac McCarthy s novel. (The film starring Viggo Mortensen hits theaters Nov. 25. (Boston Globe)
more. Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2009 Sep 23, 2009
"The Road" Redolent of artistic seriousness, this post-apocalyptic fable from Aussie director John Hillcoat ("The Proposition") is adapted from a Cormac McCarthy novel and stars Viggo Mortensen and Charlize Theron as its protagonists, dubbed only "Man" and "Wife." (Guy Pearce and Robert Duvall also star. Film-festival response has been superlative, and Mortensen and Theron have established themselves as beloved stalwarts of the Hollywood left. (Salon)
Producers acquire Stephenie Meyer's 'Host' Sep 23, 2009
Wechsler and the Schwartz are separately teamed on The Road, the John Hillcoat-directed adaptation of the Cormac McCarthy novel that will be released November 25 by The Weinstein Company. They are also producing the Paul Schrader-scripted The Dying of the Light, and an adaptation of the Pete Takada book An Eye at the Top of the World, which is being adapted by Ryne Douglas Pearson. (Variety)
Must-see movies: We're still looking for blue skies through those falling leaves Sep 15, 2009
Recession-weary movie audiences are looking for a laugh right about now, which may explain why the postapocalyptic Cormac McCarthy drama "The Road" recently pushed back its opening date a little closer to the end of the year. What am I looking forward to. (Herald Online, SC -- Lifestyles)
Mortensen not quitting Sep 15, 2009
Based on the Pulitzer prize-winning novel by Cormac McCarthy, author of 'No Country for Old Men', it also stars Robert Duval and Charlize Theron. In Toronto, Smit-McPhee of Australia said he discovered something magical during filming in Pennsylvania, Louisiana, and Oregon: snow falling. (iAfrica.com)
Clooney is the buzz, not any blockbusters, at Toronto Film Festival Sep 14, 2009
The Road is the highly anticipated post-apocalypse film based on Cormac McCarthy s novel and starring Viggo Mortensen as one of the few survivors, along with his son. It s harrowing. (Boston Globe)
A look at this fall’s movies Sep 13, 2009
The Road Why has this long-awaited adaptation of the Cormac McCarthy novel, directed by Australia s John Hillcoat ( The Proposition ) and starring Viggo Mortensen, been on ice for over a year. Because it s a dark, harrowingly realistic vision of post-apocalypse America, and because Hollywood doesn t know how to sell feel-bad. (Boston Globe)
London festival offers Clooney fix Sep 10, 2009
Others include Campion's Bright Star, about the poet John Keats, and The Road, an adaptation of the Cormac McCarthy novel that had its world premiere last week at the Venice Film Festival. London will also celebrate the 20th anniversary of Wallace and Gromit with a career interview with their creator, animator Nick Park. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Toronto's buzz-worthy films Sep 10, 2009
and an adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's' 'The Road ... Director 00004000 John Hillcoat, whose "The Proposition" was a riveting post-colonial Australian western, has his work cut out for him as this adaptation of the novel by Cormac McCarthy (who also wrote the source material for "No Country for Old Men") was pulled out of release last year and now arrives with both high expectations and question marks. (FOX59, IN)
My Mom and I share a B'day on 9/11 and I hear it all the time. Oh gee that's your birthday....... Sep 6, 2009
When I told my dental hygienist the book I was reading, The Road by Cormac McCarthy, was about a father and son trying to survive in a post-apocalyptic world, she asked if it was a true story. Score: 7. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Metro)
Former First Lady Laura Bush Announces the Blockbuster Author Line-Up for the 2009 Texas Book Festival Sep 4, 2009
Past recipients include Cormac McCarthy, Sandra Cisneros, and Horton Foote, among others. Others topping the list of children's authors are Jon Scieszka, Rosemary Wells, Libba Bray, and Judy Schachner. (PR Newswire)
Young singer's in 'Twilight' of his career Sep 4, 2009
Road begins its long journey The bleak film The Road, which is based on Cormac McCarthy s novel about a man and his son who wander a post-apocalyptic world, premiered at the Venice Film Festival yesterday. So far, the movie - which was produced by Gloucester couple Steve and Paula Mae Schwartz - is receiving mixed reviews, though Variety panned it. (Boston Globe)
Variety pans ‘The Road' after film festival debut Sep 4, 2009
"The Road," adapted from Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, was originally scheduled for a theatrical release in November 2008, but was delayed twice ... "No Country for Old Men," an earlier Cormac McCarthy novel, was adapted into a movie by brothers Ethan and Joel Coen in 2007 ... "If you're going to adapt a book like Cormac McCarthy's best-seller, you're pretty much obliged to make a terrific film or it's not worth doing," Todd McCarthy wrote. (Erie Times-News, PA)
The PG's Fall Movie Preview Sep 3, 2009
" Oct. 9 "Couples Retreat": Comedy about Midwesterners who head for a tropical island resort so one pair can work on their marriage and the others vacation but they learn participation in couples therapy is not optional. Oct. 16 "The Road": Esquire magazine called it "the most important movie of the year," and Western Pennsylvania residents are certainly looking forward to it. Based on the Cormac McCarthy novel of the same name, it features Viggo Mortensen and young Kodi Smit-McPhee as father... (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Good Books Dont Have to Be Hard, Lev Grossman, The Wall Street Journal Sep 1, 2009
Good Novels Don t Have to Be Hard Work - WSJ.com. WSJ.com is available in the following editions and languages. (Harper's Magazine)
Blarney Castle, Ireland Aug 26, 2009
The castle, located in southwest Ireland 5 miles from Cork city, was originally built out of wood and replaced by a stone structure in 1210 A.D. The present structure was built over half a century ago by Munster King Cormac McCarthy. The castle was designed to provide the King McCarthy and his clan with maximum safety until Oliver Cromwell s 1649 attack on Ireland tested the castle s safety. (Suite101.com)
Jones, Jackson team for HBO's 'Sunset Limited' Aug 21, 2009
HBO has set Tommy Lee Jones and Samuel L. Jackson to star in The Sunset Limited, an adaptation of the Cormac McCarthy play. Jones will direct. (Variety)
Lights, Camera, Klamath Aug 12, 2009
The Road by Cormac McCarthy. I know it s already been filmed, but the descriptions of small ghost towns with wide gaps of uneven terrain between them could be easily mimicked here. (Klamath Falls Herald & News, OR)
Hollywood Destroys the World; New wave of disaster movies, TV shows... Aug 1, 2009
Strong buzz has been building since last year for The Road, this October s film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy s best-selling novel, about a boy and his father trudging through the scorched remnants of an unspecified cataclysm ... Director John Hillcoat says he pressed author Cormac McCarthy for an answer about what happened. (The Drudge Report)
Oscars in the wings: Nerves, tears and cheers just offstage Jul 5, 2009
When No Country for Old Men collected the evening's ultimate prize, Cormac McCarthy, who wrote the novel on which the movie is based, was the first out of his seat to give directors and producers Joel Coen and Ethan Coen a standing ovation. Hours earlier, while the Kodak Theatre lobby bustled with stars, the famously reclusive author quietly slipped into the theater and sat alone with young son John. (Yahoo News -- Academy Awards)
Summer Reading 2009 Jun 19, 2009
READING FOR PLEASURE: Child of God by Cormac McCarthy; Eichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah Arndt, The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene and Gallatin Canyon: Stories by Thomas McGuane. UNEXPECTED DISCOVERY: While researching Savages and Scoundrels The Lousiana Purchase wasn t a purchase at all. (Albany Democrat-Herald, OR)
Why Bill Kauffman Is Not a Conservative Jun 16, 2009
Our country is Wendell Berry, Townes Van Zandt, Mavis Staples, Ken Kesey, Cormac McCarthy, Levon Helm; How can one despair with these by our sides, at our backs, in our heads. Editorialists in the New York Times and Washington Post, shouters on the television, sallow callow master bloggers who jerk out their vitriol over dissenters: they aren t worth the scorn in a thumbnail vial. (The American Conservative)
Stay cool and delve into a good book this summer Jun 4, 2009
Carlson ("Five Skies") evokes the rugged solace of nature with grace and simplicity, his unadorned prose reminiscent of Cormac McCarthy s. He s as adept at describing the stark beauty of the wild as he is at reflecting the contradictory nature of human interaction. And on the treacherous ground between passion and sentimentality, he never loses his footing. (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
Writer list for WOW is notable May 29, 2009
She is a member of Western Writers of America and the Texas Philosophical Society, and was selected the honored writer for 2006 Texas Writers Month, joining previous honorees O. Henry, J. Frank Dobie, John Graves, Larry McMurtry, Cormac McCarthy, Katherine Anne Porter, Elmer Kelton, Liz Carpenter, Sarah Bird, James Michener and Horton Foote. Her first novel, The Raven s Bride, was the 2006 Texas Reads: One Book One Texas selection. (Alpine Avalanche, TX)
Weeks from retirement, library director shares her memories May 29, 2009
Those are largely the American writers like Philip Roth and Cormac McCarthy, Toni Morrison and John Updike and I haven t really gone on to the next generation, because I haven t really had time. Frankly, I also think some of the mystery writers deserve more credit than they re given. (Concord Journal, MA)
On Demand picks May 20, 2009
Based on a Cormac McCarthy novel, it involves a bag of drug money, the small-time hunter (Josh Brolin) who finds it, the hired killer on his trail (Javier Bardem, unforgettable), and the sheriff (Tommy Lee Jones) following them both. At its frequent best, it's a mystical, nearly biblical eulogy for a vanished American West. (Boston Globe)
Transcending the sport May 8, 2009
"I really enjoyed The Life of Pi and The Road by Cormac McCarthy, although it was different," Hasay said. "I also enjoy doing calculus problems and writing essays.". (Prep Sports Sports -- Rivals.com)
The Wire gives a lift to many gifted black actors Apr 28, 2009
Michael K. Williams, who dazzled as the sinister Omar Little, has roles in the upcoming films The Road (based on the Cormac McCarthy novel) and Life During Wartime (from director Todd Solondz). And Jamie Hector, so chilling as the amoral kingpin Marlo Stanfield, appeared in Max Payne and Heroes. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
IN MY LIBRARY: BRIAN DENNEHY Apr 19, 2009
"I've written some screenplays, but I'm more of a farm worker than an architect. When I read Cormac McCarthy or Eugene O'Neill or even great nonfiction writers, I realize they do something I could never do.". What this hard-working actor does do, he tells The Post's Barbara Hoffman, is read. (New York Post -- Opinions)
On The Road’ again Apr 16, 2009
The Cohen Brothers reset the bar for such work with there rendition of Cormac McCarthy s No Country for Old Men. In fact, they set the thing, electrified it, put a pit bull on the other side and laughed about it. (McKinney Courier-Gazette, TX)
Help! I’m trapped in long, obligatory read! Apr 2, 2009
HillBilly-for some real Texas History, read Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy. Jay- when your stuck in some obligatory dry but interesting reading, supliment it with some Tim Dorsey. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
Finding material from New Mexico idyll - Antonya Nelson says teaching full-time is best remove to create her art Mar 14, 2009
Students seem to be reading more for plot than they used to; male students used to like Raymond Carver; now they read Cormac McCarthy. We are so attached, as Americans, to the idea of family. (Missoulian, MT)
Plot a book club success Mar 3, 2009
The Road, by Cormac McCarthy. Three Cups of Tea, by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Living)
Student takes 'road' trip; appears in upcoming film Feb 10, 2009
Goga (freshman-division of undergraduate studies) will play a small role in The Road, scheduled to be released sometime in 2009 by The Weinstein Co. The movie is a post-apocalyptic film based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same title by Cormac McCarthy, who also authored No Country for Old Men. The story follows a man and his son traveling across the country, trying to survive in the now barren landscape. (Daily Collegian, PA)
Neverlands made real Feb 8, 2009
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