The supernatural-themed, teen-targeted movie Beautiful Creatures is being marketed as the new Twilight. This is a mistake on multiple levels. First, for movie critics, this is like being told a new ...

The YA adaptation boom of the 2010s is a fascinating time, filled with potential franchises that never took off, some that lingered far beyond their expiration date, and others that remained ...

When classy, pedigreed British actors go hog-wild under the flowering dogwood trees of a Southern Gothic setting, often the results are good. Just as often they’re so bad they’re good. And sometimes, ...

The year is 2013. Everyone's hungry for the next Twilight – ravenous, in fact, for moody teenagers afflicted by supernatural conditions, falling wildly and madly in love while they battle generic ...

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Viola Davis is set to join the production of Beautiful Creatures, Alcon Entertainment announced today. By THR Staff VIola Davis in Herve L. Leroux. Beautiful Creatures follows the travails of two star ...

A supernatural love story set in the South, "Beautiful Creatures" tells the tale of two star-crossed lovers: Ethan (Alden Ehrenreich), a young man longing to escape his small town, and Lena (Alice ...

When writer-director Richard LaGravenese told the authors of the Beautiful Creatures series of young-adult novels that he wanted to make a movie of their books, they had one overriding concern. The ...

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Just six months after HBO bid farewell to Game of Thrones, the cable network has two new hits on its hands with superhero drama Watchmen and fantasy saga His Dark Materials. The latter adapts author ...

Just when you thought you were done with the perennial teenage supernatural romance, it’s back! Oh yes, and with many more yet to come. For those still in denial that the bookstores are crawling with ...

Here is the way that things work in "Beautiful Creatures": Mortals live in this world with witches, some of them good and some wicked, and they prefer to be called Casters.