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Check Out These Must-See Adaptations Coming Out April 2026!

Check Out These Must-See Adaptations Coming Out April 2026!

Published by Jenni Sidey

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. April is a fun month for page-to-screen adaptations, especially if you prefer to stay cozy at home and watch things from the comfort of your couch (or in bed on your laptop… no judgment here). All the adaptations coming out this April are heading straight to streaming! So make sure your Netflix, Hulu, Prime Video, Peacock, and AppleTV+ subscriptions are all up and running, because we’ve got a lot to look forward to watching this month! XO, Kitty (Netflix, April 2) Agent from Above (Netflix, April 2) This Taiwanese fantasy series is based on The Oracle Comes books by Xing Zi. Blending Taoist folklore with modern urban fantasy, the series follows Han Chieh (Kai Ko), a former drug addict who becomes a spirit medium who makes a divine pact to help maintain the balance between the spirit realm and the human world. Principal photography for this series actually began in November 2022, but an on-set injury set production …

April’s New Mystery & Thriller Adaptations (You Can Now Stream The Housemaid)

April’s New Mystery & Thriller Adaptations (You Can Now Stream The Housemaid)

Published by Jenni Sidey

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. It’s clear that studios and streamers are focused on adaptations and trying to make everything old new again. I’m bored with the latter but always here for adaptations. Outside of the crime genre, I’m excited for the release of Margo’s Got Money Troubles on Apple TV+ on April 15th. But since you are here for the mystery and thriller releases, I’ve got five coming out this month that range from manga adaptations to a crime thriller that was first adapted into an early aughts film starring Denzel Washington. The Housemaid (STARZ) Image courtesy of STARZ The Housemaid by Freida McFadden In December 2025’s adaptation roundup, I talked about thriller author Freida McFadden and her new adaptation when it was premiering in theaters. Now you can stream the twisty thriller, starring Amanda Seyfried and Sydney Sweeney, on STARZ. You can watch The Housemaid trailer here. Sins of Kujo (Netflix) Image courtesy of Netflix Sins of Kujo by Shohei Manabe …

Pop Stars in Upcoming Classic Book Adaptations

Pop Stars in Upcoming Classic Book Adaptations

Published by Jenni Sidey

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. We love reading the classics, and we love listening to music from our favorite pop stars. But what happens when those worlds collide? Pop stars have been making the crossover into acting forever, and sometimes they have made appearances in classic adaptations. Brandy and Whitney Houston’s iconic roles in the 1997 Cinderella comes to mind. But in recent bookish news, it seems like we’re seeing more and more pop stars attached to upcoming classic adaptations. Here’s all the recent news coming out about pop stars who have been considered for roles in classic adaptations! Sabrina Carpenter in Alice in Wonderland Pop singer Sabrina Carpenter has long been a fan of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, and now the pop star is producing and starring in her own Alice adaptation. Carpenter is producing the project alongside Marc Platt through the Universal-based Marc Platt Productions. Leslie Morgenstein and Elysa Koplovitz Dutton will also produce through Alloy Entertainment. According to sources, …

Awards, Adaptations, and More News for Library Workers

Awards, Adaptations, and More News for Library Workers

Published by José Betancourt

Katie’s parents never told her “no” when she asked for a book, which was the start of most of her problems. She has an MLIS from the University of Illinois and works full time as a Circulation & Reference Manager in Illinois. She has a deep-rooted love of all things disturbing, twisted, and terrifying and takes enormous pleasure in creeping out her coworkers. When she’s not at work, she’s at home watching the Cubs with her cats and her cardigan collection. Other hobbies include scrapbooking, introducing more readers to the Church of Tana French, and convincing her husband that she can, in fact, fit more books onto her shelves. Twitter: @kt_librarylady View All posts by Katie McLain Horner Source link

6 live-action anime adaptations that actually weren’t terrible

6 live-action anime adaptations that actually weren’t terrible

Published by skeptic

Anime has been popular around the world for decades, and is only getting more buzz in recent years. There’s an anime series for everyone out there, whether you’re brand new to the genre or an old hand who wants something strange and challenging. But there are still many people out there who just aren’t interested in watching animation, for whatever reason. In that case, I’d be tempted to recommend some live-action remakes of anime movies and shows…if they weren’t so reliably terrible. There are near-universally celebrated anime series like Cowboy Bebop and Attack on Titan that have gotten dreadful live-action remakes. Ghost in the Shell is a classic anime sci-fi movie (that got a great animated side series), but the 2017 live-action movie with Scarlett Johansson is wretched. Dragon Ball is one of the most popular anime series ever produced, but the 2009 live-action movie Dragonball Evolution is famously awful. There are many more examples like that. It seems like anime and live-action just don’t go together, but there are a few live-action remakes that …

Sleuth Into March’s New Mystery & Thriller Adaptations

Sleuth Into March’s New Mystery & Thriller Adaptations

Published by José Betancourt

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Mystery readers and adaptation fans have a great month of choices this March. From deep backlist series that are still ongoing to recent thrillers getting the adaptation treatment, there’s a range of tropes and mood for the many different tastes of mystery fans. You can watch a hot mess PI in Florida, a Sherlock origin story by Guy Ritchie (action guaranteed), Nicole Kidman and Jamie Lee Curtis as sisters in a medical thriller, Kerry Washington, Elisabeth Moss, and Kate Mara as “imperfect women,” an accidental murder cover-up, and an anti-hero detective after a serial killer and a dirty cop. There’s so much to choose from—I say sample them all. And be sure to check out my bonus book recommendations! RJ Decker (ABC/Hulu) Courtesy of ABC/Hulu Double Whammy by Carl Hiaasen Known for his comedic, Florida-set mystery novels, Carl Hiaasen already has an Apple TV+ adaptation series of his Andrew Yance (Bad Monkey) books. Now, his 1980 series starter …

March Page-to-Screen Adaptations to Add to Your Watch List

March Page-to-Screen Adaptations to Add to Your Watch List

Published by José Betancourt

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. It’s a new month, which means we’ve got a new batch of page-to-screen adaptations to get excited about. We’ve got brand new series coming up on Prime Video, Netflix, and PBS. And one of your favorite Starz TV shows is coming back for its final season (yes, you probably know which one we’re talking about). There are also some highly anticipated film adaptations hitting theaters in the next few weeks. So let’s get right into everything coming up so that you can add them to your must-watch list! Young Sherlock (Prime Video, March 4) This upcoming British series is based on Andrew Lane’s young adult thriller novels of the same name. Young Sherlock is directed by Guy Ritchie. Hero Fiennes Tiffin will step into the role of Sherlock Holmes, a character originally created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Here, Sherlock is 19 years old and studying at Oxford University when he sets out to solve his first murder …

11 Criminally Good Adaptations To Travel the World With

11 Criminally Good Adaptations To Travel the World With

Published by Jenni Sidey

US: Scam Goddess (Hulu) courtesy of Hulu Scam Goddess: Lessons from a Life of Cons, Grifts, and Schemes by Laci Mosley (aoc) While readers living in the US may not think this counts as armchair travel, I’m including this series because it’s part travelog and focuses on the locations the crimes were committed: Dixon, Illinois; Miami, Florida; Opelika, Alabama; Washington; NYC; and Ohio. Laci Mosley turned her very popular podcast about scammers and con artists into a true crime memoir, which then got a six-episode docu-series adaptation where Laci traveled to the communities impacted by six scammers. Watch the Scam Goddess trailer. India: Black Warrant (Netflix) courtesy of Netflix Black Warrant: Confessions of a Tihar Jailer by Sunil Gupta, Sunetra Choudhury (aoc) Set in Tihar Jail, one of India’s largest prison complexes, this seven-episode series is based on a nonfiction book co-authored by Sunil Gupta, who worked in the prison for 35 years and oversaw eight hangings, and journalist Sunetra Choudhury. Zahan Kapoor (the character of Sunil Gupta) is a rookie discovering the deep corruption …

Netflix’s 2026 Book-to-Screen Adaptations Are Seeing Book, Audiobook Sales Grow

Netflix’s 2026 Book-to-Screen Adaptations Are Seeing Book, Audiobook Sales Grow

Published by José Betancourt

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. While some people firmly believe that no adaptation of a beloved book can ever live up to the book itself, one increasingly true thing is that adaptations boost the book’s visibility and sales. Netflix, coming off a series of successful adaptations, has offered some insights into where and how its small-screen films and television shows have brought new, widespread attention to the source material. Before diving into the numbers, some notes. Netflix attributes the popularity of their adaptations across the globe to the books themselves–good source material is key to producing a great adaptation. What’s tricky about adaptations, of course, is that what someone envisions as they read differs from reader to reader. What a producer and team do when developing an adaptation is create an interpretation of the book and build a story from that. There are constraints in the visual medium that don’t exist in the book format. That’s why some favorite scenes or secondary characters …

February’s Exciting New Mystery & Thriller Adaptations To Watch

February’s Exciting New Mystery & Thriller Adaptations To Watch

Published by Jenni Sidey

Crime 101 [Movie Tie-in] by Don Winslow Don Winslow’s 2021 audiobook novella now has a movie tie-in paperback release that is novel-length and made up of six stories—beginning with the original Crime 101. It starts with the one last-job jewelry heist trope, and a relentless detective, as the collection dives into “themes of crime, vengeance, guilt, and redemption.” You can watch the same titled film in theaters on February 13th. And if you weren’t already sold on the jewelry heist trope, the cast alone absolutely sells this film: Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Barry Keoghan, Monica Barbaro, Corey Hawkins, Halle Berry, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Nick Nolte, and Tate Donovan. You can watch the trailer here. Bonus book recommendations: If “jewelry heist” is what piqued your interest, definitely check out:Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Cosby (one last job!) Diamond Doris: The True Story of the World’s Most Notorious Jewel Thief―A Daring Memoir of Audacious Heists, Defiance of Society’s Norms, and Glamorous Legacy Doris Payne (true crime memoir!) The Banks by Roxane Gay (one-last-job graphic novel!) Portrait of a …