There are very few authors who have sold more books than James Patterson – titans like Agatha Christie and William Shakespeare come to mind. He is certainly the worlds best-selling living author.

He has sold more than 350 million books to date and holds the Guinness World Record for most 1# New York Times bestselling titles with 67 and earns around $100 million a year. And he shows no sign of slowing down.

Of all the hardcover fiction sold in North America, Patterson accounts for an astonishing one out of every 26. Altogether, he has produced more than 130 novels. If you flip to the “books by” section in his latest novels, it actually takes up three full pages.

But despite this, Patterson has not had much success translating his books into films.

To compare, there have been 53 Agatha Christie films including Murder on the Orient Express, Death on the Nile, Ten Little Indians, and Murder Most Foul, just to name a few.

We look at Stephen King who has had 30 bestselling books – less than half of Patterson – yet there is no doubt that King’s film adaptions reign supreme. The latest IT is the highest-grossing horror film of all time. Misery’s Kathy Bates won an award for Best Actress. The Shawshank Redemption was nominated for 7 Oscars including Best Picture. The Shining, directed by  Stanley Kubrick while was famously snubbed by the Oscars is considered a classic.

Turning to Patterson, his most highly acclaimed and successful adaptations are Kiss the Girls and Along Came A Spider. Morgan Freeman stars in both these films as Alex Cross. Not too long ago, Paramount Studios tried to revive the Cross series with Tyler Perry, but it performed terribly with Perry earning a Razzie award.

Patterson’s other films haven’t fared much better – 10 in total – and expect for the two Morgan Freeman films, are mostly forgettable.

CBS produced Zoo, based upon on another Patterson book of the same name but was cancelled only after three seasons. 

Netflix has been putting out some great documentaries recently and among them is The Last Dance, a 10-part documentary series that explores Michael Jordan’s career, focusing on his last season with the Chicago Bulls.

The documentary series is about the Chicago Bulls during the Air Jordan era, and Jordan’s competitive spirit. Unfortunately, it glosses over one of the more defining moments in Michael Jordan’s career – moments that took Jordan from mere superstar athlete to a man that defined the sport. One of those moments was the release of the 1996 film Space Jam.

The unlikely pairing of Bugs Bunny with Michael Jordan ended up becoming a huge hit. However, the film may not have come to fruition if it wasn’t for the duos' appearance in a Super Bowl commercial.

In 1992, Nike aired an ad for Michael Jordan’s line of Air Jordan sneakers during that year’s Super Bowl that paired Jordan with the most popular creature in the Looney Tunes franchise.

The ad was the brainchild of advertising legend and lifelong cartoon fan Jim Riswold. It proved to be incredibly successful, and inspiring a 1993 follow-up in which Bugs Bunny and Michael Jordan re-team to retrieve a load of stolen Air Jordans from Martin Martian. However, it was Jordan’s agent David Falk who had the idea to go the extra mile and take this partnership to Hollywood.
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In the film, Michael Jordan finds himself becoming the player-coach of Bugs Bunny and team of cartoon characters after they challenge evil space minions to a basketball game to save themselves from interplanetary enslavement.
Little do they know that their adversaries have stolen the talent of the NBA’s best such as Charles Barkley and Patrick Ewing proving to be a challenge even for one of the best players ever to touch a basketball.
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Little do they know that their adversaries have stolen the talent of the NBA’s best such as Charles Barkley and Patrick Ewing proving to be a challenge even for one of the best players ever to touch a basketball.

Everybody loves a great death scene in a film. Whether it's a hero who dies tragically at the end of the story, or a villain who had it coming, death scenes are memorable. (Just think about all those countless teenagers who died in horror films.)

There are obviously so many memorable deaths, it's hard to pick but we've managed to come up with what we believe are the top 5 death scenes of all time. These are scenes that have become a part of our group lexicon.
 
Psycho
The infamous Psycho shower scene single-handedly gave Alfred Hitchcock the highest-grossing film of his career and created a precedent that Game of Thrones would use time and time again by killing off main characters.

In hindsight , it's easy to forget how much of a risk Hitchcock took in creating the scene in the first place. Janet Leigh was an American icon who at that time had already worked with a number of greats including Orson Welles, Errol Flynn and Gary Cooper. Killing her off in such a shocking and brutal way might not have gone well with a lot of audiences at the time.

For years, the scene has been one of the finest examples of what's possible in cinema when editing, shot selection, and a healthy dose of suspense all coalesce together in perfect unity to best serve the story being told.
 
 
Bonnie & Clyde
Happily hiding out at the home of an accomplice, the most famous lovers-turned-criminal duo played by Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway don't know that they would be killed when the authorities laid a trap for them. They stop to help a man switch a spare tire and were ambushed by unseen cops. The pair share one last look of love before they're positively riddled with machine-gun fire.
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It's grisly unsentimental, and a fitting conclusion to the picture that reinvented the crime film and one of the greatest love stories of all time.