Adam Chitwood is a former Managing Editor at Collider, where he covered film and television with a focus on interviews, features, and industry analysis. Add another Harry Houdini project to pile. In ...

Adam Chitwood is a former Managing Editor at Collider, where he covered film and television with a focus on interviews, features, and industry analysis. We’ve got news concerning two upcoming ...

Chernin Entertainment is hoping to unshackle a Harry Houdini pic, picking up feature rights to Brian Selznick‘s “The Houdini Box.” The book, published in 1991, centers on a boy who’s trying ...

Chernin Entertainment brandished its magic wand to tap Irish filmmaker Kealan O’Rourke, who will write and direct the adaptation of Brian Selznick‘s young adult novel “The Houdini Box.” A ...

As famed escape artist Harry Houdini circles the globe performing one incredible stunt after another, Victor, a young devotee goes through his own rigorous magician’s training – locking himself in ...

Read this story for free. To continue reading, sign up for The Rundown and get unlimited access to WBEZ.org. I caught up with Selznick last week, while he was in Chicago working on the stage ...

Master puppeteer Blair Thomas will direct and create puppetry for CCT's The Houdini Box, already a recipient of two prestigious development grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. Book and ...

Magician Harry Houdini has popped up as a pivotal figure in two of the best works of modern popular literature, E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime and Michael Chabon's The Amazing Adventures Of Kavalier & Clay, ...

Chernin Entertainment brandished its magic wand to tap Irish filmmaker Kealan O’Rourke, who will write and direct the adaptation of Brian Selznick’s young adult novel “The Houdini Box.” A ...

Three reissues highlight different kinds of magic. In Brian Selznick's The Houdini Box, nine-year-old Victor's fascination with the enigmatic magician leads him to lock himself in trunks, hold his ...