Stop-motion comedy ParaNorman, about a boy who helps save his town from a zombie invasion, was at three.
He just taped a pilot for "About a Boy, " based on the Nick Hornby novel and directed by Jon Favreau.
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Hornby is well known for his books Fever Pitch, High Fidelity and About A Boy, which have all made it to the big screen.
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Ang Lee won his second Oscar for directing Life of Pi, the adaptation of Yann Martel's fantasy novel about a boy stranded in a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger.
The novels, about a boy wizard who survives the attack that kills his parents, became a worldwide phenomenon and were turned into eight blockbuster films starring Daniel Radcliffe.
The defendant even compares himself to the protagonist of Mr. Kiarostami's "The Traveler" ("Mossafer, " 1974), about a boy so desperate to attend a soccer match that he steals and cheats.
In February Lee won his second best director Oscar for his 3D film Life of Pi, based on the Booker-winning novel about a shipwrecked boy and a Bengal tiger.
Aside from best director, the 3D film - based on the Booker-winning novel about a shipwrecked boy and a Bengal tiger - won awards for cinematography, score and visual effects.
And he'd written a draft of a novel about a young boy who had lost his father to a heart attack.
There was something about a little boy being rushed to an overcrowded hospital.
He gushes about a little boy with Down syndrome who kept coming back to him, running at full speed for extra hugs.
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"Through the Tunnel" is an accomplished fable about a young boy's initiation in Mediterranean waters, while "The Day Stalin Died" follows the pathos and comedy of a London writer and "To Room Nineteen" examines the effect of a single act of infidelity on a supposedly sturdy British marriage.
Green got the idea for "New Boy" after reading a short story about a young African boy's first day at school in Ireland.
In a mild surprise, "The Reader, " based on the best-selling novel about a postwar German boy who has an affair with an older woman with a Holocaust-related secret, took home nominations for best picture, best actress (Kate Winslet) and best director (Stephen Daldry).
" Krell recalls hearing an older American proudly "tell a story about how, as a boy, he memorized the names of all the senators.
Its overheated word patterns and lyrics about a heart standing still and a boy named Bill captivated a generation of lovelorn girls and set the stage for a long series of angst-ridden singles.
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Several times recently, he says, he's used information he discovered on his daughter's Facebook page to spark a discussion with her in person, most recently about the need for a boy to ask her out by calling, rather than texting or emailing.
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Police are renewing appeals for information about a missing Great Yarmouth boy on the 10th anniversary of his disappearance.
There is also a third child in Sandy's poster, a boy about my age, who is now the one wearing the knickers.
So not quite Monte Carlo or bust, but a week where we might learn quite a lot about the boy from Dunblane.
The government received a tip about the boy's real whereabouts and authorities began to go through the records of about 100 children who had been turned over to child protection services in southern Colombia in 2005.
Earlier this month, the BBC News website carried a story about a five-year-old boy in India who has become a policeman.
He plays a somewhat dim boy toy in the play about a pair of depressive middle-aged siblings whose movie-star sister threatens to upend their quiet life.
His drama "Golden Boy" about a violinist drawn to the big money of boxing, enjoyed a Broadway revival earlier this season.
The Turbo Express was about the size of a Game Boy but had a sharp active-matrix color display and could even be used as a portable TV with an optional tuner.
The identity of the deceased had not yet been established, but a few details were given, little more than that a boy of about sixteen had met his death following an assault.
The BBC's Cindy Sui, in Taipei, says the executions come at a time of inflamed public debate about the death penalty following the death of a boy in a video arcade.
Mrs Madikizela-Mandela's nomination followed a fresh allegation about her involvement in the 1988 murder of a teenage boy, Stompie Seipei.
He was no expert but had learned a little something about wine at his previous job working as a pool boy at a winemaker-run hotel.
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