Tag: 10 Things I Hate About You

  • How ’10 Things I Hate About You’ Gets Its Shakespearean Roots Right & Wrong

    How ’10 Things I Hate About You’ Gets Its Shakespearean Roots Right & Wrong

    The 1999 teen drama 10 Things I Hate About You, directed by Gil Junger, is loosely based on William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew. In this romantic comedy, Patrick (Heath Ledger) is paid to date Kat (Julia Stiles) so that other boys from their school can date her younger sister, Bianca (Larisa Oleynik). Just…

  • This Rom-Com Couple Was the Genre’s Absolute Worst

    This Rom-Com Couple Was the Genre’s Absolute Worst

    Despite the allure and the undeniably addictive appeal that rom-coms have for plenty of us, many of our favorites of the genre present relationships that are less than satisfactory. Although at the time of a film’s release, we may be swept along in the drama and romance, hindsight often reveals a more realistic — and…

  • Teenage stream: how Netflix resurrected the high school movie

    Teenage stream: how Netflix resurrected the high school movie

    While the genre has been slowly disappearing from the big screen, the streaming giant has quietly reviving high school-based sagasSince a defining John Hughes-led era in the 80s, spearheaded by The Breakfast Club and Sixteen Candles, and a resurgence in the 90s, with Clueless and 10 Things I Hate About You, teen movies have become…

  • Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel to Reunite in Family Comedy ‘Think Like a Dog’

    Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel to Reunite in Family Comedy ‘Think Like a Dog’

    Megan Fox and Josh Duhamel will star in the independent family comedy “Think Like a Dog.”The two appeared in “Transformers” and its sequel, “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen,” together.Written and directed by Gil Junger, “Think Like a Dog” follows a 12-year-old tech prodigy whose science fair experiment goes awry, creating a telepathic connection between him…

  • For Sale: ’10 Things I Hate About You’ House Where Heath Ledger Romanced Julia Stiles

    For Sale: ’10 Things I Hate About You’ House Where Heath Ledger Romanced Julia Stiles

    We can’t count 10 things we hate about this Tacoma, Washington, Victorian home.The house was home to Kat Stratford in the 1999 rom-com “10 Things I Hate About You” starring Julia Stiles and Heath Ledger, and it’s now on the market for $1.6 million.The house is the backdrop for several memorable scenes in the film,…

  • ‘Legally Blonde’ Scribe Karen McCullah Signs Up For Fashion Movie Rom-Com ‘The Stylist’

    ‘Legally Blonde’ Scribe Karen McCullah Signs Up For Fashion Movie Rom-Com ‘The Stylist’

    Exclusive: Legally Blonde and 10 Things I Hate About You scribe Karen McCullah has been tapped to adapt fashion and movie-world rom-com The Stylist, the 2016 debut novel from Rosie Nixon, Editor-in-Chief of UK celebrity news bible Hello Magazine.The Stylist charts the escapades of Amber Green, a fashion boutique worker, who is mistakenly offered a…

  • Broad Green’s ‘Fight Before Christmas’ Santa Movie Revived by Tucker Tooley

    Broad Green’s ‘Fight Before Christmas’ Santa Movie Revived by Tucker Tooley

    Tucker Tooley has acquired the holiday comedy “The Fight Before Christmas” from the now-defunct Broad Green Pictures.Tooley and Matt Alvarez (“Straight Outta Compton,” “Ride Along”) will produce the movie through Tooley Entertainment. Jason Barhydt of Tooley Entertainment will executive produce.Karen McCullah (“Legally Blonde”) will pen the script. The pic is targeting a fall production start…