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italic’>those film classics were all adapted from novels. Life of Pi captured the same audience that loved the book to the tune of $600 million, and 2015’s Fifty Shades of Gray seduced its readers to the tune of $570 million. That same year was also a bonanza for author Michael Punke whose obscure novel The Revenant became a Golden Globe and Academy award-winning movie which grossed over half a billion dollars. More recently, director Taika Waititi’s Jojo Rabbit amassed two Golden Globe nominations and other accolades (plus $88.4 million worldwide) with a film based on the critically acclaimed novel ‘Caging Skies’, by Christine Leunens.

Forrest Gump based on a novel that sold only 30,000 copies grossed over $670 million dollars. It later became a best-seller thanks to the Tom Hanks blockbuster.