Focus Features has re-set the release for A Monster Calls — the cinematic adaptation of Patrick Ness's coming-of-age graphic novel — for a limited run on Dec. 23. It will go wide to 1,500 ...

Constructing the ominous tree creature that helps 12-year-old Conor (Lewis MacDougall) cope while his mother (Felicity Jones) battles an illness in A Monster Calls was an exercise in patience.

In ‘A Monster Calls,’ a boy learns the ropes of anguish and change Kennedy Center features the U.S. premiere of the heart-rending British stage adaptation of Patrick Ness’s novel May 30 ...

Watch a video review of A Monster Calls, which Deadline's Pete Hammond says has first-rate vidual effects but is definitely not for little children. Continue to Deadline SKIP AD.

'I think the themes of bullying, divorce, self blame, rage all belong to kids and they want to know about it,' says director J.A. Bayona. 'And we need to brave enough to tell them about it.' ...

A Monster Calls tells the story of a young boy struggling to cope with his mother’s terminal illness, who finds solace with the help of a terrifying monster that takes the form of a tree and ...

J.A. Bayona’s wistful fantasy “A Monster Calls,” adapted by Patrick Ness from his award-winning children’s novel, centers on 12-year-old Conor O’Malley, “a boy too old to be a kid, too ...

“A Monster Calls,” based on the novel by Patrick Ness and directed by J.A. Bayona, is in theaters everywhere starting Jan. 6. Movies More David ...

Kenneth Turan reviews “A Monster Calls,” directed by J.A. Bayona and starring Louis MacDougall, Felicity Jones, Liam Neeson, Sigourney Weaver, Toby Kebbell and Geraldine Chaplin.