Harper Lee not only dramatically altered the conversation on race in America with her book “To Kill a Mockingbird,” but she also wholeheartedly approved of the 1962 film adaptation. Jeff Pirtle, the director of NBCUniversal archives and collections, cracked open the studio vault to share stories about Lee’s visit to the set during production. “She was just glowing about everything that had to do with the production,” Pirtle said. “She loved the script…She loved the casting of the two children, who were not professionals.

Even the best video game movie comes with the qualifier that it’s good “for a video game movie.” Adapting video games into movies has confounded Hollywood for some two decades. Perhaps the solution isn’t to adapt the game itself, but to tell the story of video games themselves. Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg have optioned the rights to Blake J. Harris’s new book Console Wars, which tells the story of Sega of America CEO Tom Kalinske and how he made Sonic the Hedgehog a household name and briefly dethroned Nintendo as the king of video games. read more