Friday Night Lights. Poster of the 2006 TV series and cover of the 1988 book, Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream
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Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream
H.G. Bissinger, 1988
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Peter Berg, 2006-2011

In the small town of Dillon, Texas, one night matters: Friday Night. Eric Taylor has recently been hired as the head football coach for the Dillon High School Panthers, the town’s pride and joy. The series displays the stress that the town gives the high school players to win, and the hope that the team gives to a small town.


The Wolf of Wall Street. Poster of the 2013 movie and cover of the 2007 book
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The Wolf of Wall Street
Jordan Belfort, 2007
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Martin Scorsese, 2013

In 1987, Jordan Belfort lands a job as a Wall Street stockbroker for L.F. Rothschild, employed under Mark Hanna, who quickly entices him with the sex- and drug-fueled stockbroker culture and passes on his idea that a broker’s only goal is to make money for himself.


Catch-22. Poster of the 2019 TV series and cover of the 1961 book
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Catch-22
Joseph Heller, 1961
TV series vs book
Luke Davies, David Michôd, 2019

John Yossarian is a United States Army Air Forces bombardier in World War II, furious that thousands of people are trying to kill him and that his own army keeps increasing the number of missions he must fly. He chose bombardier hoping the war would finish before his lengthy training but now sits exposed in the nose of a B-25 dropping bombs on strangers who are trying to kill him.


First Man. Poster of the 2018 movie and cover of the 2005 book, First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong
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First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong
James R. Hansen, 2005
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Damien Chazelle, 2018

In 1961, NASA test pilot Neil Armstrong is flying the X-15 rocket-powered spaceplane when it inadvertently bounces off the atmosphere. As Armstrong begins training, Deke Slayton impresses upon the new astronauts the importance of the Gemini program, as the Soviet Union had reached every milestone in the Space Race ahead of the United States.


Super Pumped. Poster of the 2022 TV series and cover of the 2019 book, Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber
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Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber
Mike Isaac, 2019
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Brian Koppelman, David Levien, 2022-

The roller-coaster ride of one of Silicon Valley’s most successful and most destructive companies, Uber, from the perspective of the company’s CEO Travis Kalanick, who is ultimately ousted in a boardroom coup after tense internal and external battles that ripple with unpredictable consequences.


Carol. Poster of the 2015 movie and cover of the 1952 book, The Price of Salt
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The Price of Salt
Patricia Highsmith, 1952
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Todd Haynes, 2015

During the Christmas season of 1952, aspiring photographer Therese Belivet is working in Frankenberg’s department store in Manhattan. A mutual friend, Dannie, invites Therese to his workplace, The New York Times, and offers to introduce her to a photo editor friend.


The Spectacular Now. Poster of the 2013 movie and cover of the 2008 book
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The Spectacular Now
Tim Tharp, 2008
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James Ponsoldt, 2013

Sutter Keely (Teller) is a charming and popular 18-year-old who has spent his senior year of high school partying and drinking alcohol. When his girlfriend Cassidy Roy (Larson) breaks up with him, Sutter goes home and writes a college application supplement, in which he says that his biggest hardship in life has been getting dumped by her. He goes out and gets blackout drunk after sneaking in to a bar.


Godzilla vs. Kong. Poster of the 2021 movie and cover of the book novelization
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Godzilla vs. Kong
Greg Keyes, 2021
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Adam Wingard, 2021

In a time when monsters walk the Earth, humanity’s fight for its future sets Godzilla and Kong on a collision course that will see the two most powerful forces of nature on the planet collide in a spectacular battle for the ages. As Monarch embarks on a perilous mission into uncharted terrain and unearths clues to the Titans’ origins, a human conspiracy threatens to wipe the creatures, both good and bad, from the face of the earth forever.


Slumberland. Poster of the 2022 movie and cover of the 1905 comic book, Little Nemo in Slumberland
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Little Nemo in Slumberland
Winsor McCay, 1905
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Francis Lawrence, 2022

A young girl finds a hidden map to the dreamland of Slumberland, and with the aid of an eccentric outlaw, she travels through dreams and escapes from nightmares in the hope of finding her deceased father.


Godzilla: King of the Monsters. Poster of the 2019 movie and cover of the book novelization
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Godzilla: King of the Monsters
Greg Keyes, 2019
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Michael Dougherty, 2019

Five years after the existence of giant monsters, now called Titans, was revealed to the world, Dr. Emma Russell, a paleobiologist working for the Titan-studying organization Monarch, and her daughter Madison witness the birth of a larva called Mothra. A group of eco-terrorists, led by former British Army Colonel Alan Jonah, attacks the base and kidnaps Emma and Madison, while Mothra flees and pupates under a nearby waterfall.


The Midnight Sky. Poster of the 2020 movie and cover of the 2016 book, Good Morning, Midnight
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Good Morning, Midnight
Lily Brooks-Dalton, 2016
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George Clooney, 2020

Scientist Augustine Lofthouse has devoted his life work to finding habitable planets where humanity can expand. Lofthouse refuses to join the other evacuees of his Arctic base, knowing he hasn’t got long to live due to an unidentified serious illness requiring hemodialysis.


The Day the Earth Stood Still. Poster of the 2008 movie and cover of the 2005 book
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The Day the Earth Stood Still
Harry Bates, 2005
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Scott Derrickson, 2008

In 1928, a solitary mountaineer exploring the Karakoram mountains in India encounters a glowing sphere. It is moving at 30,000 kilometers per second, enough to destroy all life on Earth. The United States government hastily assembles a group of scientists, including Helen Benson and her friend Michael Granier, to develop a survival plan.