Books, Movies, and, Rock and Roll!

             In the article, "From Page to Screen: Hollywood Targets YA Fiction," talks about how the Hunger Games recently came out and was a big hit and how there has been a lot of movies within the past years that came from a book. Other great movies that came out that were based off a book and good or even great were Twilight and Harry Potter. Since movies like these were successes they are planning to and did make sequels with the final book split into two movies. People in this industry decided to make movies like this because it would hopefully make a lot more money and to attract mainly a teen audience to them.

             These movies weren't even big that far back and now they are normally a big hit that teens and many other people love to see. An example is, "It wasn't until the 1950s and '60s, when such stars as James Dean and Annette Funicello began being marketed to younger audiences." This is around when people started making movies more generalized to age and specifications were made. Awhile after this was when the "books to movies" movies started to rise into a roaring industry. If a movie was a big hit and the creators got a good profit then there would be question about a sequel based on a book they made. The Hunger Games was a very successful movie and now as it is written in the article they are planning on making sequels in the same way that Harry Potter and Twilight did.

            When I saw The Hunger Games I also thought it was very good though there may have been a lot of parts that were changed quite a bit and parts that were removed to shorten the movie. I like the idea of making books come out on the big screen because then a fan really gets to enjoy it visually and gets a much better picture. I hope as time goes on society finds even better ways to enhance our ways of enjoying entertainment.