What financial success, grossing $204.6 million worldwide against a $60 million budget, is about the author's trip around the world after her divorce and what she discovered during her travels?
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Eat Pray Love Eat Pray Love is a 2010 American biographical romantic comedy-drama film starring Julia Roberts as Elizabeth Gilbert, based on Gilbert's best-selling memoir "Eat, Pray, Love". Ryan Murphy co-wrote and directed the film, which opened in the United States on August 13, 2010. It received mixed to negative reviews from critics, but was a financial success, grossing $204.6 million worldwide against a $60 million budget.
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Eat, Pray, Love Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia is a 2006 memoir by American author Elizabeth Gilbert. The memoir chronicles the author's trip around the world after her divorce and what she discovered during her travels. The book remained on "The New York Times" Best Seller list for 187 weeks. The movie rights for the memoir were purchased by Columbia Pictures. The film version, which stars Julia Roberts and Javier Bardem, was released in theaters on August 13, 2010.
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Flicka Flicka is a 2006 British-American family adventure drama film loosely based on the 1941 children's novel "My Friend Flicka" by Mary O'Hara. The film is directed by Michael Mayer and written by Mark Rosenthal and Lawrence Konner. The novel had previously been made into a film in 1943, and served as the inspiration for a 39-episode TV series in 1956–1957. In this version, set in the 21st century, the protagonist is a girl, played by Alison Lohman. The film also features Maria Bello, Ryan Kwanten and country singer Tim McGraw, who also served as executive producer of the soundtrack album. This USD15 million-budgeted film grossed $21 million in the United States theaters, and then it went on to become a surprise hit in DVD market in the United States; it made more than $48 million on DVD sales and more than $19 million on DVD/Home Video rental. The film was theatrically released on October 20, 2006 by 20th Century Fox. A sequel "Flicka 2" was released direct to DVD on May 4, 2010, and another sequel "" was released on May 1, 2012.
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Ramona and Beezus Ramona and Beezus is a 2010 American family adventure comedy film adaptation based on the Ramona series of novels written by Beverly Cleary. It was directed by Elizabeth Allen, co-produced by Dune Entertainment, Di Novi Pictures, and Walden Media, written by Laurie Craig and Nick Pustay, and produced by Denise Di Novi and Alison Greenspan with music by Mark Mothersbaugh. The film stars Joey King, Selena Gomez, Hutch Dano, Ginnifer Goodwin, John Corbett, Bridget Moynahan, Josh Duhamel, Jason Spevack, Sandra Oh, Sierra McCormick, Patti Allan, Lynda Boyd, and Aila and Zanti McCubbing. Though the film's title is derived from "Beezus and Ramona", the first of Cleary's Ramona books, the plot is mostly based on the sequels "Ramona Forever" and "Ramona's World". Fox 2000 Pictures released the film on July 23, 2010. "Ramona and Beezus" earned generally positive reviews from critics and grossed $27,293,743.
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Around the World in 80 Days (2004 film) Around the World in 80 Days is a 2004 American action-adventure comedy family film based on Jules Verne's novel of the same name. It stars Jackie Chan, Steve Coogan and Cécile de France. The film is set in 19th-century Britain and centers on Phileas Fogg (Steve Coogan), here reimagined as an eccentric inventor, and his efforts to circumnavigate the globe in 80 days. During the trip, he is accompanied by his Chinese valet, Passepartout (Jackie Chan). For comedic reasons, the film intentionally deviated wildly from the novel and included a number of anachronistic elements. With production costs of about $110 million and estimated marketing costs of $30 million, it earned $24 million at the U.S. box office and $72 million worldwide, making it a box office flop. It was Arnold Schwarzenegger's last film before he took a hiatus from acting to become Governor of California until 2010's "The Expendables".
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Husbands and Wives Husbands and Wives is a 1992 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Woody Allen. The film stars Allen, Mia Farrow, Sydney Pollack, Judy Davis, Juliette Lewis, and Liam Neeson. It was nominated for two Academy Awards, Best Supporting Actress (Judy Davis) and Best Original Screenplay (Woody Allen). The film debuted shortly after the end of Allen and Farrow's romantic and professional partnership, and was their final of 13 films together. The movie is filmed by Carlo Di Palma with a handheld camera style and features documentary-like one-on-one interviews with the characters interspersed with the story.
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The Great Fortune The Great Fortune is a novel by English writer Olivia Manning first published in 1960. It forms the opening part of a six part novel series called the Fortunes Of War. The Fortunes Of War itself is split in two trilogies consisting of The Balkan Trilogy and The Levant Trilogy. All the novels tell an unfolding story of how the Second World War impacts on the lives of a group of British expatriates.
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Charity Gaye Finnestad Charity Gaye Finnestad (born June 30, 1973) is an American author known for the blog she kept from April 2007 to April 2008, which documented her adventures living and dating in Hollywood, called "Hollywood in Heels". The blog was subsequently turned into a book by the same name. "Hollywood in Heels" was released digitally in April 2012 and published in hardcover on September 13, 2013.
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Maura Stone Maura Stone (born 1955) is a contemporary American author. With the publication of her first novel, "Five-Star FLEECING" in December 2009, she was described as a "promising new star in the literary world" by the "Queens Gazette" on 6/2/2010. The book was reviewed on 2/8/2010 by renowned literary critic Harriet Klausner who labeled it as a "superb scathing satire of the hospitality business." It was also reviewed by the Midwest Book Review on 4/3/2010 as a "humorous delve into the underworld of class, highly recommended." Five-Star FLEECING is the winner of the 2011 National Indie Excellence Award in the category of comedy.
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The Total Woman The Total Woman is a self-help book for married women by Marabel Morgan published in 1973. The book sold over 500,000 copies within the first year, making it the most successful non-fiction book in the USA in 1974. Overall, it sold more than ten million copies. Grounded in evangelical Christianity, it taught that ""A Total Woman" caters to her man's special quirks, whether it be in salads, sex or sports," and is perhaps best remembered for instructing wives to greet their man at the front door wearing sexy outfits; suggestions included "a cowgirl or a showgirl." "It's only when a woman surrenders her life to her husband, reveres and worships him and is willing to serve him, that she becomes really beautiful to him," Morgan wrote.
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Dirty Love (film) Dirty Love is a 2005 American romantic comedy film written by and starring Jenny McCarthy and directed by John Mallory Asher. At the time of filming, McCarthy and Asher were married; they divorced the month the film was released. Playing heavily off McCarthy's reputation for toilet humor, the film was critically panned and was a box office bomb; it also received the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Picture.
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Carole Matthews Carole Matthews is a successful and popular British author, famous for her sense of humour and her romantic comedy novels. Her books have sold over 4.8 million books worldwide and have been published in more than 31 countries. In 2011, Matthews was inducted into the Festival of Romance Hall of Fame for her outstanding contribution to romance writing.
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Drive Me Crazy Drive Me Crazy is a 1999 teen romantic comedy based on the novel "How I Created My Perfect Prom Date" by Todd Strasser. Originally entitled "Next to You", the movie's title was changed to "Drive Me Crazy" after the song from its soundtrack, Britney Spears's song, "(You Drive Me) Crazy". The movie grossed $22,593,409 worldwide, against an $8 million budget, making it a moderate box office success. The soundtrack featured The Donnas, who also appeared in the movie.
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Lost in Shangri-La Lost in Shangri-La (2011) is a non-fiction book by American author Mitchell Zuckoff about a US military airplane called "The Gremlin Special", which crashed on May 13, 1945 in New Guinea, and the subsequent rescue of the survivors. Because it involved a female WAC Corporal lost in the jungle with "savages", the public became keenly interested in following the story. It was written about in the November 1945 issue of "Reader's Digest" magazine, and many other press channels. In 2011 Zuckoff published a modern retelling based on interviews with surviving Americans and New Guineans, and other previously unpublished information.
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My Life Without Me My Life Without Me is a 2003 Canadian drama film directed by Isabel Coixet and starring Sarah Polley, Mark Ruffalo, Scott Speedman, and Leonor Watling. Based on the book "Pretending the Bed Is a Raft" by Nanci Kincaid, it tells a story of a 23-year-old woman, with a husband and two daughters, who finds out she is going to die soon. The film was produced by Pedro Almodóvar's production company, El Deseo.
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At the End of the Rainbow At the End of the Rainbow (also known as The Princess and the Magic Frog) is a 1965 American children's fantasy adventure film, originally released by . Written by , and produced and directed by , the film stars David Bailey as a boy who finds himself lost in an enchanted forest, encountering an assortment of fanciful characters and navigating a series of fantastical (mis)adventures as he attempts to find his way home. Originally released as a weekend "kiddie matinee" feature, the film was rediscovered and re-released on DVD in 2004 by Something Weird Video, and has subsequently gained something of a cult following for its low budget production values, as well as for the unintentionally camp performances by the adult character actors.
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The Ambassador's Wife The Ambassador's Wife is a novel by American author Jennifer Steil about the kidnapping of an American woman in the Middle East. The story was inspired by the author's personal experiences as the wife of the British Ambassador to Yemen.
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Kristine Carlson Kristine Carlson (born July 5, 1963, Portland, Oregon) is an American author living in California. A graduate of Pepperdine University, she is known as the wife of, and co-author with the late Dr. Richard Carlson of the "Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff…and it’s all Small Stuff" series, and author of National Bestsellers, "Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff in Love" and "Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff for Women." She served on the Board of Directors and the Global Leadership Council for Challenge Day.
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China Rich Girlfriend China Rich Girlfriend is the 2015 sequel to Kevin Kwan's "Crazy Rich Asians", a novel about the wealthy Singapore elite. Kwan was urged to write the sequel by his publishers after the initial success of "Crazy Rich Asians".
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Kathy Ireland Kathleen Marie Ireland (born March 20, 1963) is an American model and actress, turned author and entrepreneur.
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My Bollywood Wedding My Bollywood Wedding is a 2010 romantic comedy novel written by Rekha Waheed about a British Asian women's attempt to plan the perfect wedding.
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Ferenc Máté Ferenc Máté (born 1945 in Hungary) escaped Hungary after the revolution with his mother to Vancouver, British Columbia. He has lived in British Columbia, California, New York City, Paris, and Rome, and now resides on a wine estate in Tuscany with his wife, painter and winemaker Candace Máté, and their son, Peter. For much of their first twenty years together, Máté and his wife lived on sailboats, traveling the world, photographing and occasionally publishing books and calendars on sailboats. His first book, "From a Bare Hull", 1970, is still considered one of the best books on boat-building ever written. In addition to sailing books, Máté has written a memoir about adjusting to Italian life, an international bestseller "The Hills of Tuscany", and a book-length essay on the environmental impact of the excesses of modern lifestyles, "A Reasonable Life". His first novel, "Ghost Sea" (W. W. Norton, 2006) is the first of a series of anthropological thrillers involving an outlaw sea captain, Dugger. He is now writing the next volume, "Sea of Lost Dreams", set in Tahiti. In 2007, he published "A Vineyard in Tuscany", which tells the Máté's story of renovating a 13th-century house and starting a now world-renowned winery.