New on Blu-ray: ADAPTATION (2002) Starring Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep and Chris Cooper

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Product Description: "Two Very Enthusiastic Thumbs Up!" – Ebert & Roeper Director Spike Jonze delivers a stunningly original comedy that seamlessly blends fictional characters and situations with the lives of real people: obsessive orchid hunter John Laroche (Chris Cooper), journalist and author Susan Orlean (Meryl Streep), Hollywood screenwriter Charlie Kaufman (Nicolas Cage), and his twin brother Donald (also Cage). As Charlie struggles to adapt Orlean's best-selling book The Orchid Thief, he writes himself into his own movie. The various stories crash into one another, exploding into a wildly imaginative film. Adaptation, 2002's most-talked about movie, is at once a hilarious drama and a moving comedy.

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Paramount Abandons 'Dune' Adaptation

Yet another movie has ceased to exist. Paramount Pictures' adaptation of Frank Herbert's "Dune" has been derailed as the studio has lost the rights to the novel. Called in to direct was Pierre Morel ("Taken"), after Peter Berg had left the project to work on "Battleship". Even though Morel and screenwriter Chase Palmer had delivered a script that efficiently condensed Herbert's novel to feature length, it seems Paramount was still too scared to commit to a budget that could have very well exceeded $100M. The rights may still be acquired by some other studio, but as of now, the prospects of a fresh 'Dune' adaptation seem bleak.

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