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'Go The F--- To Sleep'

Practically every successful work of fiction gets optioned for the movies eventually, but one book that seemed like a poor bet for a film adaptation may be coming to the big screen after all: "Go The F--- To Sleep."

Fox 2000 has announced they’ve purchased the film rights to Adam Mansbach's popular children's book parody, published by Akashic Books, in which a parent tries with increasing desperation to persuade their two-year-old offspring to settle down and take a nap, with a growing number of F bombs being dropped as the story goes along.

Jack Nicholson in 'The Shining' (Photo: Warner Bros. Pictures)

Recently departed 'Walking Dead' showrunner Glan Mazzara is reportedly in talks to write a prequel to Stephen King's iconic horror thriller "The Shining." According to The Hollywood Reporter, the project is tentatively titled "Overlook Hotel" and will be distributed by Warner Brothers.

Fox Searchlight

If you were asked to compile a dream cast for an indie comedy, who would make your list? Maybe Steve Carrell, Sam Rockwell, Toni Collette, Allison Janney, Maya Rudolph, Rob Corddry, and Amanda Peet?

If so, congratulations – your dreams are a reality for the producers of "The Way, Way Back," a new coming-of-age comedy going into limited release on July 5. The film is the first directorial project for Nat Faxon and Jim Rash, the Oscar-winning team who co-wrote "The Descendants," and the first trailer suggests this movie will have the same balance of humor and emotional honesty that made that movie a hit.

'Point Break' (Everett Collection)So there's going to be a remake of "Point Break," the 1991 action thriller directed by Kathryn Bigelow (yes, of "The Hurt Locker" and "Zero Dark Thirty" fame) and starring Keanu Reeves as a former pro football player turned FBI agent (whu?) who inflitrates a gang of surfer dudes led by the philosophy-spewing Bodhi (Patrick Swayze) who moonlight as masked bank robbers known as the Ex-Presidents (whoa!). Oh, and Gary Busey is in it, too.

We really don't know what Hollywood thinks it can gain by reworking an already perfect film, and one that is so much a product of its glorious time. With that in mind, we've conjured a list of ten other films from the best-ever decade of cinema (don't argue) that should never get a remake or a reboot or a re-imagining or whatever the hell the studio suits like to call it to make them feel better about the creative wasteland that is their jobs.

Chris Hemsworth in 'Thor' and in 'Rush' (Photo: Marvel Studios/Universal Pictures)

The opening of the cockpit for a Formula 1 racecar is required to be a maximum of 850 millimeters long (about 33 1/2 inches) and 520 millimeters wide (20 1/2 inches). So how are you supposed to fit a Norse god inside one of them?

That was the problem faced by Oscar-winning director Ron Howard in making his new movie, "Rush," the true story of a rivalry between two F1 drivers that electrified motorsports fans in the mid-1970s. To play the tall, blond, and brash British racing legend James Hunt, the director cast tall, blond, and brash Australian actor Chris Hemsworth, best known to audiences as the hammer-swinging Marvel hero Thor. But to turn the god of thunder into a titan of speed, Hemsworth had to trim down his world-famous "Avengers" physique.

'Hangover III' (Warner Bros.)The first trailer for "The Hangover Part III," which came out a mere two and a half months before the film's theatrical release, hinted at an even darker film than "The Hangover Part II" as the by-now-should-know-better Wolf Pack -- Phil (Bradley Cooper), Alan (Zach Galifianakis) and Stu (Ed Helms) -- embarks on one final misadventure fueled by copious alcohol consumption and outrageous law-breaking.

Now, we have the second trailer for the final "Hangover" (final, yes, as the advertising campaign has been proclaiming "It Ends," a la "Harry Potter"). And yes, it presents a film that looks rather mean-spirited but it also looks like it actually has a plot ... and, even better, it has John Goodman.