Venom. Poster of the 2018 movie and cover of the 2012 comic book
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Venom
Todd McFarlane, David Michelinie, 2012
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Ruben Fleischer, 2018

While exploring space for new habitable worlds, a probe belonging to the bio-engineering corporation Life Foundation discovers a comet covered in symbiotic lifeforms. The Life Foundation recovers the other three and transports them to their research facility in San Francisco, where they discover that the symbiotes cannot survive without oxygen-breathing hosts, which often fatally reject the symbiosis.


Actors Anonymous. Poster of the 2017 movie and cover of the 2013 book
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Actors Anonymous
James Franco, 2013
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Melanie Aitkenhead, Abi Damaris Corbin, Shaun Duffy, 2017

This film is a cinematic adaptation of James Franco’s novel ‘Actors Anonymous,’ delving into the intricate lives of young actors in Hollywood. It unravels the rollercoaster journey, from the soaring highs to the crushing lows, unveiling the web of lies and heartbreak that accompanies their pursuit of stardom.


Thank You for Your Service. Poster of the 2017 movie and cover of the 2013 book
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Thank You for Your Service
David Finkel, 2013
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Jason Hall, 2017

After a harrowing 15-month combat experience in Iraq, the much-decorated Adam Schumann returns home to Kansas and a loving wife, Saskia. He also receives solace from two Iraq buddies living nearby, an American Samoan, Solo Aeiti, and Billy Waller, who commits suicide in front of his fiancée after discovering she has taken all his money and their child and left him.


The Gray Man. Poster of the 2022 movie and cover of the 2009 book
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The Gray Man
Mark Greaney, 2009
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Anthony Russo, Joe Russo, 2022

When Court Gentry, the CIA’s most skilled mercenary whose true identity is known to none, accidentally uncovers dark agency secrets, Lloyd Hansen, a psychopathic former colleague, puts a bounty on his head, setting off a global manhunt by international assassins.


In Dubious Battle. Poster of the 2016 movie and cover of the 1936 book
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In Dubious Battle
John Steinbeck, 1936
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James Franco, 2016

In Dubious Battle is the story of the working class during the Depression, striking against an increasingly cruel establishment in ways that would lead to the formation of workers’ rights, including a minimum wage. Two men form a union of workers after their wages are cut from $3 a day to $1 a day. The ending is apocalyptic.


Antlers. Poster of the 2021 movie and cover of the 2019 book, The Quiet Boy
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The Quiet Boy
Nick Antosca, 2019
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Scott Cooper, 2021

Julia Meadows, a school teacher in a small town in Oregon, and her brother, Paul, the local sheriff, become concerned about one of her students, a young boy named Lucas Weaver who is secretly keeping a supernatural creature inside his house.


Child of God. Poster of the 2013 movie and cover of the 1973 book
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Child of God
Cormac McCarthy, 1973
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James Franco, 2013

Set in mountainous Sevier County, Tennessee, in the 1950s, Child of God tells the story of Lester Ballard. Ballard is a dispossessed, violent man described as a child of God much like yourself perhaps. Successively deprived of parents and homes, and with few other ties, Ballard descends literally and figuratively to the level of a cave dweller, as he falls deeper into madness, crime and degradation.