When first footage of “The Giver” dropped three weeks ago, fans got irked. Big time. The film is based on an award-winning 1993 dystopian novel by Lois Lowry and depicts a world where people see in ...

Adam Chitwood is a former Managing Editor at Collider, where he covered film and television with a focus on interviews, features, and industry analysis. The Weinstein Company has released a new behind ...

“The Giver” was ahead of its time as a book. But as a movie, it’s too late. Published in 1993, Lois Lowry’s young-adult novel was a deeply felt, kid-centered dystopian fantasy. Its world of children ...

Before Katniss Everdeen, Tris Prior, and dozens of other teenage characters began raging against dystopian machines, there was a 12-year-old kid named Jonas—protagonist of The Giver, a slim novel ...

The new dystopian movie The Giver has drawn praise for its deep thematic content on the value of human life, suffering, free will and the dangers of a world that distorts language to do evil. “We all ...

Since its publication in 1993, Lois Lowry’s cherished YA novel The Giver has been a dream project of Jeff Bridges. He originally intended to direct the film adaptation with his father Lloyd Bridges in ...

When the 25-year-old Aussie was cast in the The Giver, fans freaked. Thwaites addresses their concerns, all the while proving why he’s one of Hollywood’s fastest rising stars. Editor-at-Large, ...

While dystopian films have always been fashionable, they have widely grown in popularity since the success of movies such as “The Hunger Games” and “The Matrix.” At this point, “The Giver” is old news ...

The Giver, based on Lois Lowry's Newbery-winning novel, is frankly a little late to the YA party, having arrived after similar movies such as Divergent, The Hunger Games, Percy Jackson and Harry ...