As previously reported, next month Terry McMillian is scheduled to participate in the upcoming Anguilla Literary Festival. In addition to celebrating various authors, the event also aims to influence aspiring authors with its informative workshops and empowering panel discussions.
During a recent interview with The Huffington Post, the former University of Arizona at Tucson English professor opened up on her involvement with the festive five-day event, her thoughts on Oprah Winfrey playing Whitney Houston's role in the sequel to "Waiting To Exhale" and her idea of a futuristic gang story hitting the silver screen.
How did you get involved with the Anguilla Literary Festival?
I was asked by Marva Allen [who owns Hue Man book store in Harlem], she and I are friends. And she was the one who mentioned it to me a while back, and I kind of lost the point that it's the very first literary conference [for the island]. But I'm excited! I think I'm going to teach a writing workshop.
During a recent interview with The Huffington Post, the former University of Arizona at Tucson English professor opened up on her involvement with the festive five-day event, her thoughts on Oprah Winfrey playing Whitney Houston's role in the sequel to "Waiting To Exhale" and her idea of a futuristic gang story hitting the silver screen.
How did you get involved with the Anguilla Literary Festival?
I was asked by Marva Allen [who owns Hue Man book store in Harlem], she and I are friends. And she was the one who mentioned it to me a while back, and I kind of lost the point that it's the very first literary conference [for the island]. But I'm excited! I think I'm going to teach a writing workshop.
- 4/17/2012
- by Brennan Williams
- Huffington Post
Fox 2000 will press ahead with planned follow-up 'in honour' of late singer, who had been set to reprise role in 1995 tearjerker
A planned sequel to the 1995 romantic tearjerker Waiting to Exhale is to move ahead despite the death of Whitney Houston, who had been expected to reprise her role as one of four unlucky-in-love women living in Phoenix, Arizona.
Elizabeth Gabler, of Fox 2000, said the studio would continue production on the follow-up "in honour" of Houston, who died on Saturday in a Beverly Hills hotel room hours before a pre-Grammy awards party that she was due to attend.
Waiting to Exhale was based on the novel by Terry McMillan, and the sequel will draw on McMillan's new book Getting to Happy, which was published in 2010 and continues the story of the lovelorn characters from the earlier tome.
"It's almost in her honour that we think to soldier on," Gabler told the Vulture blog.
A planned sequel to the 1995 romantic tearjerker Waiting to Exhale is to move ahead despite the death of Whitney Houston, who had been expected to reprise her role as one of four unlucky-in-love women living in Phoenix, Arizona.
Elizabeth Gabler, of Fox 2000, said the studio would continue production on the follow-up "in honour" of Houston, who died on Saturday in a Beverly Hills hotel room hours before a pre-Grammy awards party that she was due to attend.
Waiting to Exhale was based on the novel by Terry McMillan, and the sequel will draw on McMillan's new book Getting to Happy, which was published in 2010 and continues the story of the lovelorn characters from the earlier tome.
"It's almost in her honour that we think to soldier on," Gabler told the Vulture blog.
- 2/15/2012
- by Ben Child
- The Guardian - Film News
Whitney Houston's tragic passing on Saturday at age 48 has had the world talking, and it's not just speculation over what caused the singer's untimely death.
Fans and industry insiders who have been curious as to the fate of her as-of-yet unproduced projects, most notably "Getting to Happy," the sequel to her 1995 hit movie "Waiting to Exhale," finally have an answer: the show must go on.
Vulture reports that Fox 2000 Pictures President Elizabeth Gabler has confirmed that the movie will be coming to the big screen without Houston.
"I don't think she would want it to [get shelved]," says Gabler. "It's almost in her honor that we think to soldier on."
While "Getting to Happy" will still see the light of day, Houston's absence won't be the only change in the line-up. Writer Terry McMillan penned both the book and screenplay for "Waiting to Exhale," and began writing "Happy" with Fox 2000 exec Lori Lakin,...
Fans and industry insiders who have been curious as to the fate of her as-of-yet unproduced projects, most notably "Getting to Happy," the sequel to her 1995 hit movie "Waiting to Exhale," finally have an answer: the show must go on.
Vulture reports that Fox 2000 Pictures President Elizabeth Gabler has confirmed that the movie will be coming to the big screen without Houston.
"I don't think she would want it to [get shelved]," says Gabler. "It's almost in her honor that we think to soldier on."
While "Getting to Happy" will still see the light of day, Houston's absence won't be the only change in the line-up. Writer Terry McMillan penned both the book and screenplay for "Waiting to Exhale," and began writing "Happy" with Fox 2000 exec Lori Lakin,...
- 2/14/2012
- by Sarah Crow
- NextMovie
Despite the unexpected passing of Whitney Houston, Fox 2000 is moving forward with its proposed sequel to 1995's "Waiting to Exhale". Fox 2000's president Elizabeth Gabler tells Vulture that "It’s almost in her honor that we think to soldier on."
Author Terry McMillan penned the sequel "Getting to Happy" in late 2010 and Fox quickly picked up the rights. "Single Ladies" writer/producer Lori Lakin and McMillan have been working to adapt the book into a script for the past eighteen months.
With the film now becoming a priority however, the studio will likely soon hire new writers who’ll be able to work on it full-time under the supervision of original 'Exhale' director Forest Whitaker.
The original followed four female friends (including Whitney and Angela Bassett) living in Arizona, their relationships with men, and their friendship with one another. The film became something of a social phenomenon for its portrayal of middle-class suburban African-Americans,...
Author Terry McMillan penned the sequel "Getting to Happy" in late 2010 and Fox quickly picked up the rights. "Single Ladies" writer/producer Lori Lakin and McMillan have been working to adapt the book into a script for the past eighteen months.
With the film now becoming a priority however, the studio will likely soon hire new writers who’ll be able to work on it full-time under the supervision of original 'Exhale' director Forest Whitaker.
The original followed four female friends (including Whitney and Angela Bassett) living in Arizona, their relationships with men, and their friendship with one another. The film became something of a social phenomenon for its portrayal of middle-class suburban African-Americans,...
- 2/14/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Considering three of best-selling author Terry McMillan’s novels have been adapted to either the big- or little-screen, it’s no surprise that her latest endeavor, Getting to Happy, is receiving another life on celluloid. Twentieth Century Fox has confirmed that they’ve optioned the recently released sequel to Waiting to Exhale with McMillan and Lori Lakin Hutcherson writing the script together.
The two scribes first met when Hutcherson was a studio executive working with Fox 2000 chief Elizabeth Gabler on Waiting to Exhale, McMillan’s debut novel. McMillan was actually Hutcherson’s inspiration for quitting her Hollywood job to take up screenwriting full-time.
The two scribes first met when Hutcherson was a studio executive working with Fox 2000 chief Elizabeth Gabler on Waiting to Exhale, McMillan’s debut novel. McMillan was actually Hutcherson’s inspiration for quitting her Hollywood job to take up screenwriting full-time.
- 9/15/2010
- by Nicole Sperling
- EW - Inside Movies
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