1.
Rep: Macaulay Culkin is in good health
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 18 (UPI) -- Taiwanese-born filmmaker Ang Lee is in talks to direct the big-screen adaptation of Yann Martel's popular novel "Life of Pi," Variety.com reported.
Lee won an Oscar for directing "Brokeback Mountain." His other movies include "The Ice Storm," "Sense and Sensibility," "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and "Lust, Caution."
"Pi," a Man Booker Prize winner, is about the lone survivor of a sunken freighter who finds himself sharing a lifeboat with a hyena, an injured zebra, an orangutan and a hungry Bengal tiger.
Fox 2000 is expected to hire a new writer to pen a "Pi" script, which Lee would oversee should he take the directing job, Variety.com said.
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Additional Entertainment News Stories | |
NEWARK, N.J., Feb. 13 (UPI) --
A funeral is being planned for songstress Whitney Houston in her hometown of Newark, N.J., later this week, sources close to her family told NBC New York.
|
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica, Feb. 13 (UPI) --
A 6.1-magnitude earthquake shook Costa Rica Monday and could be felt as far away as Panama, officials said.
|
PORTLAND, Maine, Feb. 13 (UPI) --
So-called tar sands oil from Canada is "much, much worse" for the environment than conventional crude oil, a Maine environmental advocate said.
|
NEWPORT, R.I., Feb. 13 (UPI) --
Lottery officials said Monday the winning $336.4 million Powerball ticket was sold at a Rhode Island convenience store, but the winner had yet to come forward.
|
| Stories | Photos | People | Comments |
View Caption
