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...Hannibal the Cannibal made his debut in Thomas Harris' 1981 novel Red Dragon and reappeared in the 1988 Silence and the 1999 Hannibal. All three novels were filmed, Red Dragon twice (once under the title Manhunter). Now there's a fourth novel, a prequel to the others - Lecter's life to the age 18. Hannibal Rising has just been published, with all the hoopla and suspense-mongering of a Harry Potter novel: a first printing of 1.5 million, and no advance copies to reviewers. On Feb. 9 there will be a movie version, for which Harris did the screenplay. That...
...Critics had their own knives out when Hannibal Rising was published last week. They panned it with vigor and a near-unanimous weakness for cannibal puns. ("An indigestible back story!" "Toothless prequel!" "Hard to swallow!") Of the reviewers I've read, only Malcolm Jones over at Newsweek found some favor with the book, saying he preferred it to Silence, of which he "was never a huge fan," and ranking it second in the tetralogy to Red Dragon...
...popular culture, style trumps substance, and the mass murderer became a fashion plate, and the inspiration for dozens of upmarket killers in novels and films. Harris promoted Hannibal to leading player in the 1999 book, and has now done him the courtesy of a prequel: his life to the year...
...Aronofsky then went the route of so many phenoms: being courted and misused by the big studios. Having spent $60,000 to make Pi, and $4.5 million on Requiem, he suddenly had hundred of millions dangled in front of him to direct a Batman prequel, or an adaptation of Theodore Roszak's meta-cinematic novel Flicker. Projects collapsed; time marched...
...only about $15 million, much less than predicted. Come September, though, The Covenant took the top slot, and The Grudge 2 was #1 two weeks ago. Other horror pictures, Final Destination 3, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre: The Beginning and The Hills Have Eyes (a sequel, a prequel and a remake) weren't their weekends' champs, but each took in more than $15 million - or about 50% more than Clint Eastwood's Flags of Our Fathers did last week...