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Lifestyle FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 2014

Bradley Cooper’s ‘’ gets release date merican Sniper,” the -directed action film starring Bradley Cooper, will be ‘Areleased on a limited basis on Christmas Day and will go wide on Jan 16 of next year, Warner Bros said Tuesday. Jason Dean Hall wrote the adaptation of ’s autobiography of the same name. Sienna Miller, Max Charles, Luke Grimes, Kyle Chris Brown Gallner, Cory Hardrict and Sam Jaeger co-star. Kyle was a heav- appears with his ily decorated Navy SEAL who attorney Setara claimed more than 255 kills Qassim at a during four tours in the Iraq probation War. progress hearing The studio also pushed in “Man From U.N.C.L.E.” from Jan Superior Court 16, 2015 to Aug 14 of next after he pleaded year, and moved the release of guilty to “Point Break” up a week, from assaulting his Aug 7 of next year to July 31, then-girlfriend, 2015. The limited opening will Rihanna, qualify “American Sniper” for Wednesday, Aug. Oscar consideration, but 13, 2014. —AP Christmas is crowded. Also debuting on that day are Universal’s Angelina Jolie-directed biopic “Unbroken,” Disney’s musical “Into the Woods,” Sony’s - comedy “The Interview,” Judge: Chris Brown doing the Weinstein Company’s family film “Paddington” and the Paramount comedy “Hot Tub Time Machine 2.” The wide release date will pit “American Sniper” against Universal’s thriller “Blackhat,” Sony’s Kevin Hart comedy well since jail release “The Wedding Ringer” and TWC’s animated soccer film “Underdogs.” judge says Chris Brown has ment from three times to twice a week Brown was jailed from mid-March until “Man From U.N.C.L.E.” is directed by Guy Ritchie and been doing well and following and said he’s been in compliance with early June for violating his probation stars and Armie Hammer. On its new date, it his probation rules since his his probation officer and cooperating by getting into an altercation outside will will go up against Universal’s drama “Straight Outta A release from jail in June. The Grammy- with his therapist. a Washington, DC, hotel last year. He Compton” and Relativity’s untitled armored car comedy. Point Break” will face off against the winning R&B appeared in a Los The probation department asked was on probation after he attacked comedy “Grimsby” from Sony and the Fox drama “Paper Angeles court Wednesday for a that his community labor requirement pop singer Rihanna, his then-girl- Towns.” — Reuters progress report. Judge James Brandlin be bumped from three days a week to friend, before the 2009 Grammy reduced Brown’s drug test require- four, but Brandlin denied the request. Awards. — AP ‘The Giver’ arrives, after a two-decade journey

t was almost 20 years ago, and actor Years went by. And Bridges and author blunted with daily medication. Most Jeff Bridges was searching for a movie Lowry watched as young-adult dystopian important, there are no memories of earli- Iproject that would be a family affair - fiction became the next big thing in er times, for that would cause suffering. one in which he could direct his father, Hollywood. “The Hunger Games” debuted But Jonas is chosen to be the community’s Lloyd, and that his children, then around in 2012 to huge box office, elevating one Receiver of Memories, and as he middle-school age, would want to see. An to a mega-star; the learns about the world outside - called entry in a children’s book catalog caught sequel followed, with two more to come. Elsewhere - it throws his own world into his eye. “It had a picture of this old grizzled The “Divergent” franchise launched earlier chaos. In the book, Jonas is 12. In the guy on the cover. And I said, ‘Oh, Dad this year. “It was kind of unnerving,” said movie, his age isn’t clear, but he’s played could do that!’” Lowry, sipping tea in a Manhattan hotel by Australian heartthrob Brenton That book was “The Giver,” by Lois this week. And yet, both Lowry and Thwaites, who’s 25. This was done partly Lowry, which won the prestigious Bridges agree, maybe it’s good that it took to create a teen romance, a change that Newberry Medal in 1994 and has sold so long. “At first I was saying, Oh darn,” initially deeply concerned both Bridges over 10 million copies worldwide. He read Bridges said, using a saltier term. “We and Lowry. Now that they’ve seen the it, then mentioned it to his kids. “They missed the boat! But really, our movie actors, they say, they’re happy with it. said, ‘Oh, we know that, we read it in wouldn’t have gotten made without Lowry sounds happier about another school,’” he said in an interview this week. those movies leading the way.” (His father key change, one that gives , This image released by The Weinstein Company shows Jeff Bridges, “It turned out there were whole curricu- died in 1998; now Bridges, a co-producer, as the stern Chief Elder, a substantial role. left, and Brenton Thwaites in a scene from ‘The Giver’. — AP lums based on it.” Indeed. There’s hardly a himself plays the character of The Giver.) middle-schooler who hasn’t been Lowry, who ranks third among Amazon’s “I wish I could go back to the book and fill assigned “The Giver” at some point. And top 100 authors, hopes the existence of out that character now,” Lowry said. But so the film version, opening this week, the other films will increase the audience to many fans of the book, it’s perfect the isn’t exactly riding the coattails of book-to- for “The Giver” - adding people as yet way it is. Lowry learned of the book’s pow- film franchises like “The Hunger Games” unfamiliar with the book. World outside - er during a recent appearance at Comic- and “Divergent.” You might actually say it called ‘Elsewhere’ Con, where she, and not the stars, proved started the whole craze. “And as for fans of the book,” she adds, the major attraction. But why did it take so long to get “we all so hope they won’t be outraged by “Here I was with all these movie stars, made? “I thought, ‘It’s gonna be a cinch,’” the changes that were necessary. I’ve and all the audience questions were for Bridges chuckled. “And that was 18 years been trying to reassure them!” Ah, the me,” she marveled. But there’s a flip side ago.” There were problems. The book, changes - always a balancing act. The sto- to that reader passion: Some fans got which depicts euthanasia, for one thing, ry focuses on a boy, Jonas, who lives in a angry when the first trailer came out in was banned in some places. And because Community ruled by a Committee of color (in the book, only Jonas can see col- so much of the action took place inside Elders. All is based on the concept of or.) “There was outrage,” Lowry said. the mind of its main character, it was hard Sameness. Ultimately, a new trailer was released to capture in a screenplay. At least five or There’s no color, only black and white. This image released by The Weinstein Company shows Meryl Streep, showing that much of the film is shot in six were written. Financing proved elusive. There’s no emotion; sexual “stirrings” are left, and Jeff Bridges in a scene from ‘The Giver’. — AP black and white. —AP