The most unfortunate event in "Unfortunate Events" was the decision to cast a comedian as the villain in this dark children's tale. A film that might have been a masterpiece ends up missing the mark — ...

"When you look at really old stories, when you look at really lasting literature, it tends to have a flavor of terrible things going on," author Lemony Snicket (also known as bestselling author Daniel ...

Later, when notified that Jim Carrey was interested in the plum role in "Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events," Handler was stunned. "I couldn't believe that I hadn't thought of him before, ...

When author Daniel Handler was asked by studio executives if he had an actor in mind to play the delightfully dastardly Count Olaf in the first movie to be made from Handler’s popular series of ...

Meryl Streep and Jude Law are joining Jim Carrey on the “Lemony Snicket” ticket. Streep will play Aunt Josephine, and Law is being recruited by Brad Silberling to play narrator Lemony Snicket in the ...

LOS ANGELES Jim Carrey loves scaring kids. He's played the Grinch in "Dr. Seuss's How the Grinch Stole Christmas," the Riddler in "Batman Forever," the maniacal superhero in "The Mask" and now he's ...

As Lemony Snicket fans know, the series of events cataloged in his pseudonymous children's novels are truly and awfully, woefully and gruesomely unfortunate. To judge just how unfortunate, consider ...

I haven't read any of the Lemony Snicket books. But after seeing "Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events," I'm tempted to read a few, for there's nothing better than a dark story with a touch ...