Source: The Beautiful Creatures Movies

Looks like Summit is selling Beautiful Creatures everywhere. They are selling out everywhere. Variety posted an article about where the movie has been selling worldwide…

“Beautiful Creatures,” based on the bestseller by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, went gangbusters, selling to Australia and New Zealand (Roadshow), France (SND/M6 Group), Italy (Eagle Pictures), Latin America (Sun Distribution) and Spain (Aurum).

The Richard Lagravenese-helmed teen witch pic, which toplines Emma Thompson, Viola Davis, Jack O’Connell and Alice Englert, sold early on in the market to Germany’s Tele Muenchen for a reported $8 million while Entertainment Film Distributors snapped up U.K. rights. (The price paid for Blighty is unknown but the pic’s asking price sat at $5 million for the country.)

Additional sales on the estimated $50 million Alcon-produced pic include Baltic states (ACME UAB), Russia and the CIS (West Video), Croatia and Slovenia (Blitz Film), Czech Republic, Slovakia and Romania (Media Pro), Hong Kong (Golden Scene), Iceland (Sam Film), India (Tanweer), Indonesia (P.T. Camila), Israel (United King), Malaysia (Golden Screen), Middle East (Jaguar Films), Philippines (Pioneer Films), Poland (Monolith) and Portugal (Zon Lusomundo).

And it sold to Scandinavia (Nordisk Group), Turkey (Fida Film), Thailand (Mongkol), Switzerland (Ascot Elite), Taiwan (Long Shong), South Korea (Daisy Entertainment), South Africa (Nu Metro) and Serbia (Mirius Tuck).

We have a premiere date People! February 1, 2013 is when we will be seeing Beautiful Creatures.

Warner Bros just updated its release calender with a pair of additions. The horror movie Chernobyl Diaries is slated to open May 25, 2012. Diaries, from Alcon Entertainment, is set in Prypiat, the city that housed workers at the Chernobyl nuclear reactor. A group of friends vacationing in Europe become stranded in the abandoned city and discover they are not alone. Alcon has an output deal with WB. The supernatural love story Beautiful Creatures, also from Alcon, is scheduled to open February 1, 2013. Directed by Richard LaGravenese, the movie stars Viola Davis, Emma Thompson, Jack O’Connell and Alice Englert. LaGravenese is also adapting the novel by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl. Filming is expected to begin in April in and around New Orleans.

Source: Deadline

Source: Novel Thoughts Blog

EMMA THOMPSON.

Okay Casters, pick yourselves up off the floor, EMMA THOMPSON is cast to play the duel role of Seraphine and Mrs. Lincoln.

Yes, I am dead.

Emma Thompson!

As soon as we find more news on this we will keep you updated.

For now, we want you to head on over to beautifulcreaturesnovels.com and see who they are! Congratulations to Kami and Margie, we are so thrilled.

Leave us your thoughts!

We’ll dig up info, and you can find the latest on Jack and Alice right here on Castergirls.com!

Source: Beautiful Creatures Novels

Well, well it seems that we are getting closer to what we have been waiting for, because there was an official announcement for casting in the big screen adaptation of ‘The Beautiful Creatures’ novel, with the casting of Viola Davis! VIOLA DAVIS!!! Yes, the Viola Davis from ‘The Help’. Variety reported on her casting today…

With an Oscar nomination and SAG award in hand, Viola Davis has now found her next two projects, landing a supporting role in OddLot Entertainment’s “Ender’s Game” and the female lead in Warner Bros. and Alcon’s “Beautiful Creatures.”

“Beautiful Creatures” will be helmed by Richard LaGravenese with Erwin Stoff producing.

Pic is an adaptation of the Margaret Stohl and Kami Garcia tome and follows two teens who must confront a curse that has haunted the girl’s family for generations.

Davis plays a librarian and friend of the teenage boy’s deceased mother who loves the boy like a son and will do whatever in her power to protect him.

LaGravenese penned the adaptation.

Gavin Hood is helming “Ender’s Game,” starring Asa Butterfield, Hailee Steinfeld, Abigail Breslin and Harrison Ford.

Hood also penned the adaptation based on Orson Scott Card’s novel. Set in Earth’s utopian future, story follows a genius strategist recruited by the government to help destroy an insect-like alien race.

Davis will play a military psychologist who oversees the emotional welfare of the young trainees in Colonel Graff’s military program. She also helps design the games that test their skills and resilience.

OddLot, K/O Paper Products and Digital Domain are production partners on “Ender’s Game.” OddLot’s Gigi Pritzker and Linda McDonough are producing with Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman via their K/O Paper Products banner, as well as Lynn Hendee, Robert Chartoff and Card. OddLot’s Bill Lischak and K/O’s Mandy Safavi will exec produce with Digital Domain’s Cliff Plumer and Ed Ulbrich.

The plan is for Davis to shoot “Ender’s Game” first and follow with “Beautiful Creatures” later in the year.

Fantasy, she feels, is a way of exploring dangerous and powerful emotions and topics. “When you’re writing about supernatural powers you’re writing about emotional power.”

Stohl has just finished the revision for the final book of the Caster series, which will be published in October next year. The book, she says, is so closely connected to the third book that they are almost two halves of one book. And the stakes are very, very high for Lena and Ethan.

“The feeling of writing the last book is like a cross between a funeral, a wedding and a graduation. When I finished writing the draft I cried and when Kami finished writing her part of the draft she cried, and when the editor finished reading it she cried. It’s just so emotional to finally have this world closing,” she says.

After she closes the chapter on the Caster series, Stohl will be working on the Icon series alone without Garcia, which she admits is a scary endeavour.

“Not so much about the writing but about having to leave a successful franchise. It’s scary. What if the readers do not come? What if it doesn’t become an NYT bestseller?” she muses.

While Stohl says there’s a possibility of revisiting Gatlin once more, especially since there’s a movie coming out, she would like to focus on the Icon series now.

“Right now I think it’s important for both Kami and me to explore our own voices. We are going to do that, but we’ll always be friends and the possibility will always remain. I will never say never,” she says with a laugh.

What book can’t you wait to read in 2012? Well, even though we will be sad to see it end, we have to agree with the great folks over at Hollywood Crush put out their list of books to read in 2012, and the yet Untitled 4th Beautiful Creatures book has made the list.

Here’s what they had to say:

8. “Caster Chronicles No. 4″ by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl (Fall 2012)
How will it all end for Lena and Ethan? Yeah, we have no idea either.