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Ben Fountain Ben Fountain is the author of a short story collection, Brief Encounters with Che Guevara, and a novel, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk.

Mike Shatzkin has two pieces of advice for publishers; Alex Balk discusses abandoning his post-modern novel, Slumdog Millionaire screenwriter Simon Beaufoy has written an adaptation of Billy Lynn's novel, Long Halftime Walk; and other news.

10.22: The nominees are: «This Is How You Lose Her,» Dave Eggers» «A Hologram for the King,» «The Round House» by Louise Erdrich, «Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk» by Ben Fountain and Kevin Powers» «The Yellow Birds.»

For fiction, we have Junot Diaz with «This Is How You Lose Her,» Dave Eggers» «A Hologram for the King,» «The Round House» by Louise Erdrich, «Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk» by Ben Fountain and Kevin Powers» «The Yellow Birds.»

Fountain's debut novel, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, had been named a finalist for the 2012 National Book Award in Fiction only days earlier.

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• Ben Fountain, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (Read a Q&A about the novel.)

- Ben Fountain, author of Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, a National Book Award finalist» [A] novel of surprising beauty and piercing suspense.

For instance, Rick Riordan includes This Dark Endeavor by Kenneth Oppel in his list of 44 «Favorites», along with Dune by Frank Herbert; L.J. Smith appears to be a huge Agatha Christie fan with over 50 books of hers shelved; and Khaled Hosseini gave Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain 5 stars.

Coming on the heels of two other Iraq War novels, the powerful Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk and the blackly comic Fobbit (both 2012), is this first novel by a former soldier.

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Fountain's Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk — one of our Best Books of 2012 — won in the fiction category.

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Special Features Into Battle and Onto the Field: Stepping Inside Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk Assembling a Cast Recreating the Halftime Show The Brotherhood of Combat Deleted Scenes

40th anniversary of the Steadicam, Molly Haskell on Paul Verhoeven's Elle, Kenneth Lonergan's Manchester by the Sea, LGBT characters in American cinema, the hidden art of VFX, Kent Jones on the marginalization of cinema, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk

Garrett Hedlund, «Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk» (TriStar Pictures) The most satisfying of performances are those that surprise us.

Ang Lee has made some great films over the years, but «Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk» is not one of them.

Right now Silence and Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk hold all of the # 1 and # 2 votes from the Gold Rush Gang and...

Well, it's none other than Ang Lee's upcoming take on Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk.

Sony Pictures have debuted the brand new trailer for Ang Lee's ambitious Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, the Oscar - buzzed film that uses new technology...

Last year alone, she won praise for roles in Woody Allen's Cafe Society, Kelly Reichardt's Certain Women, and Ang Lee's Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, and directed a short film, Come Swim.

The New York Film Festival will fold two films into the mix, Ang Lee's Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk and Mike Mills» 20th Century Women.

Sony Pictures will open Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk in theaters everywhere starting November 11th, 2016 this fall.

And here's another featurette for Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk on «American Heroes», via YouTube:

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Ang Lee's Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk will be seen for the first time on October 14th, and we'll get our first test of the 120 frames - per - second process.

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With the exceptions of Martin Scorsese (Silence), Clint Eastwood (Sully), and Ang Lee (Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk), there's a sense that most of Hollywood's heavy - hitting directors (and award favorites) sat out 2016 or pursued other projects — Steven Spielberg, Quentin Tarantino, Christopher Nolan, David Fincher, the Andersons (Wes and Paul Thomas), James Cameron, Kathryn Bigelow, Ava Duvernay, Ryan Coogler, Ron Howard, Robert Zemeckis, Alfonso Cuaron, Alejandro Inarritu, David Lynch, et cetera.

Under Rothman's leadership, Sony is taking chances and pushing technological boundaries with Ang Lee's adaptation of «Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk,» which will be the first film to be shown in 120 frames per second.

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Sony Pictures has unveiled the first official trailer for Ang Lee's adaptation of the book Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, which is an emotional story of a soldier recounting his days in the Iraq war.

You can still watch the first teaser trailer for Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk here, for even more footage.

Golden Globe Award winner Ang Lee is taking a leap in movie technology with his upcoming Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk.

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Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk is directed by veteran Oscar - winning Taiwanese filmmaker Ang Lee, of Sense and Sensibility, The Ice Storm, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Brokeback Mountain, Lust Caution, Taking Woodstock and Life of Pi previously.

Steve Martin joins the cast of Ang Lee's Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (Deadline).

Next weekend has Denis Villeneuve's science fiction drama The Arrival, the ensemble comedy Almost Christmas, and the Naomi Watts thriller Shut In, while Ang Lee «s war drama Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk and Paul Verhoeven «s thriller Elle will debut in limited release.

Ang Lee wasn't able to be there in person, but he appeared on video to discuss details of the film Billy Lynn's LONG HALFTIME WALK starring Vin Diesel, Steve Martin, Chris Tucker, Garrett Hedlund, and Kristen Stewart.

Her film credit includes Snow White and the Huntsman (2012), Equals by Drake Doremus (2015), Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ang Lee (2016), and several Festival de Cannes Selections On the Road by Walter Salles (2012), Clouds of Sils Maria (2014) and Personal Shopper (2016) both by Olivier Assayas (2014) as well as Café Society by Woody Allen.

«Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk» Cast: Kristen Stewart, Chris Tucker, Vin Diesel, Garrett Hedlund Director: Ang Lee Release Date: Nov. 11 What it's about: Based on a novel of the same name, the film follows an Iraq war hero whose victory tour back in the U.S. is interrupted by jarring flashbacks.

Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk Book by: Ben Fountain Film Release Date: November 11 Amazonlink here

Anastasia (1997) becomes a stage musical this summer in London and is eyeing the 2016/2017 Broadway season • There are some who are suspicious that this news is not really official but Nicole Kidman is supposedly returning to Broadway this fall with Photograph 51, after its London run • Industry people got really excited about 3D high frame rate footage from Ang Lee's Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk at a Future of Cinema Conference • The Academy is STILL trying to explain their new voting rules.

Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk follows Billy Lynn (Joe Alwyn), a 19 - year - old soldier who has returned from Iraq to a hero's welcome.

The Birth of a Nation, Silence and Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk lead the charge with strong showings for Manchester by the Sea and Loving.

Steve Martin (Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk) and Armie Hammer (The Birth of a Nation) swap spots and nearly point totals putting Hammer is 2nd place now.

With just a few weeks until Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk starts hitting theaters, one final trailer has arrived, and it's full of quotes from critics who are primarily talking about the high frame rate that director Ang Lee used to shoot the war drama.

Most of the criticism from the first Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk reviews are with regards to the distracting presentation (which will end up not matter for general audiences, as we'll explain at the end).