It's a 7-year-old boy's dream team -- Steven Spielberg, Michael Crichton and David Koepp moving on from rampaging dinosaurs to marauding pirates. By Jay A. Fernandez, The Associated Press It’s a ...

The jacket copy for "Pirate Latitudes" states ambiguously that this book was "discovered as a complete manuscript in his files" after its author, Michael Crichton, died last year. Crichton was ...

When Michael Crichton died a year ago, he left completed on his desk the manuscript for this, his 16th novel, a characteristically riveting and marvelously improbable tale of English pirates on the ...

The story centres on pirates planning to attack Port Royal and raid a treasure-filled Spanish galleon. Discussing his plans for Latitudes and working relationship with Crichton, Spielberg said: ...

Steven Spielberg might direct another Michael Crichton novel again like he did 16 years ago with Jurassic Park. USA Today reports that Spielberg is developing a film out of a posthumously published ...

"Pirate Latitudes" (HarperCollins, 320 pages. $27.99), by Michael Crichton: It's pointless to complain about the cardboard characters, dreadful action-movie dialogue and wildly improbable plot points ...

When it comes to popular entertainment, the late Michael Crichton was about as successful as any writer could hope to be. His 15 novels and four nonfiction works have sold a staggering 150 million ...

When it comes to popular entertainment, the late Michael Crichton was about as successful as any writer could hope to be. His 15 novels and four nonfiction works have sold a staggering 150 million ...

DreamWorks Studios has acquired the film rights to the action-adventure novel "Pirate Latitudes," a Michael Crichton work discovered after his death in November. Steven Spielberg, who directed David ...

From an article in USA Today comes word that Steven Spielberg is planning to produce a feature film adaptation of Michael Crichton’s posthumously published ‘Pirate Latitudes.’ David Koepp is set to ...

Adventure Movies The Goonies 2 writer has a promising update: "This is the movie I want to see as one of its biggest fans.” Sci-Fi Movies Predator Badlands director explains how Steven Spielberg's ...