Watch out, Twilight, you may have some competition coming your way.

Nancy Holder and Debbie Viguie’s young adult series Wicked, which centers around a young girl who finds out she is a descended from a coven of witches, will be going from the page to the big screen.

Aaron and Matthew Benay have written a screen adaptation based on the series, and DreamWorks quickly bought up the rights to put the story on film.

Being a fairly new deal, production details are as of yet undetermined, aside from the fact that the Gotham Group’s Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Lindsay Williams and Michael Prevett are producing.

If the popularity of such otherworldly book series as Twilight and Harry Potter and the success of their screen adaptations is any indicator, the Wicked series will likely also do very well.

If Wicked does end up drawing as much interest as Twilight has, might we see witches replacing vampires as the next big trend? Hm…

Want to see what the infamous Michael Moore has to say in his latest documentary? Well why not watch the entire thing here on Atomic Popcorn?

Moore’s latest piece is another open your eyes film.

“Slacker Uprising” takes place in the wake of “Fahrenheit 9/11,” during the run-up to the 2004 election, as I traveled for 42 days across America, visiting 62 cities in a failed attempt to remove George W. Bush from office. My goal was to help turn out a record number of young voters and others who had never voted before. (That part was a success. Young adults voted in greater numbers than in any election since 18-year-olds were given the right to vote. And the youth vote was the only age group that John Kerry won.)

You can read more about this film at the website. Or you can sit and watch and learn for yourself.

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