Did you see the movie Holes? How about Because of Winn Dixie? The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe?
My family has enjoyed all of these. What I did not know was how they came to appear on the big screen.
Michael Flaherty is a man on a mission - a mission to stop the decline in reading that, in his words, that will cause literary reading to disappear as a leisure activity in a half a century.
Here is an excerpt about his mission:
Walden Media was started several years ago by myself, Cary Granat, and Phil Anschutz. We wanted to create a company dedicated to recapturing imagination, rekindling curiosity, and demonstrating the rewards of knowledge and virtue. All of our films would be based on great books, great people, and great historical events. They would be made by the best talent in entertainment and they would all be linked to educational materials developed by some of the best talent in education. We were taking Henry David Thoreau’s famous advice—to march to the beat of a different drummer—to Hollywood, which is why we decided to name our company after Thoreau’s most famous book, Walden.
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Click on the title to read more about Walden Media and the two films they have coming out this month. I guess we will have to make a couple of trips to the movies this month.
----Katie
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