Alice Braga

CANNES, France (AP) — Fifty-five years after its publication, Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" is finally burning on the big screen. Everyone from Marlon Brando to Jean-Luc Godard to Brad Pitt has circled the classic 1957 novel over the last six decades, but Walter Salles' adaptation is the first to actually get made. The wait isn't for lack of desire: Kerouac passionately wanted to see his book made a film, even writing Brando a letter promising that he could turn the book's lyrical road tri...

AMC Networks, which encompasses IFC Films and sister distributor Sundance Selects, has acquired the U.S distribution rights to On The Road - the Walter Salles directed, big screen adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s beat generation classic. Executive produced by Francis Ford Coppola who bought the film rights back in 1968, after the “longest gestation period in film history”, Kerouac’s semi-autobiographical, road trip opus set in ‘50’s America will be released jointly by IFC Films and Sundance ...