Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett has the #1 book in the country with ‘The Russian Hoax.’ Plus Kevin Kwan’s ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ gets ready to hit the big screen, and newcomer Rosie Walsh’s ‘Ghosted’ gets some love from Liane Moriarty. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-08-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Roger Tagholm talks to the founder of Dublin's Maverick House, which has built a reputation for hard-hitting non-fiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-07-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Chanel Cleeton's ‘Next Year in Havana’ gets a major boost from Reese Witherspoon as her latest book club pick. Plus Gary John Bishop’s ‘Unfu*k Yourself’ lands in hardcover nonfiction a year after its publication, and Alexandra Bracken’s ’The Darkest Mind’ preps for the big screen. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-07-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
A Dave Chappelle anecdote boosts interest in—and sales of—a backlist memoir. Plus new year, new you titles are going strong four weeks into 2018, and David Levithan’s ‘Every Day’ heads to the big screen. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-02-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
African-American comic book characters are finally stepping up from sidekicksAfter five decades as sidekicks, secondary characters and niche titles, the black superhero’s time has finally come.Next month Marvel releases its eagerly awaited Black Panther movie, centred on a young African king who... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2018-01-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sue Grafton’s ‘Y Is for Yesterday’ is the #1 book in the country. Plus ‘My Struggle’ author Karl Ove Knausgaard debuts in Hardcover Nonfiction with ‘Autumn,’ and Vince Flynn’s ‘American Assassin’ heads to the big screen. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-09-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
A debut which made a splash at the London Book Fair this year may be set to make it onto the big screen after the 26-year-old author sold film rights to the title. Catalyst Global Media has optioned The Lido by Libby Page, which sold for six figures to Orion in the UK on the eve of London Book... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-07-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
After two Hollywood failures, 2000AD’s British publisher Rebellion is planning ‘one of the most expensive TV shows the UK has ever seen’ with Mega-City OneAfter two attempts to bring classic British comic character Judge Dredd to the big screen, the publishers of 2000AD have decided that the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2017-05-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Rapper and producer Jay Z has partnered with the Weinstein Company to produce a feature film and documentary series about Trayvon Martin, the unarmed African American teenager killed by George Zimmerman in 2012. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-03-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Back in 2010, when the picture book 'The Boss Baby' was published, author-illustrator Marla Frazee had no inclination that Alec Baldwin would one day voice her character on the big screen. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-03-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Go behind the scenes with Young and check out photos from the highly-anticipated film adaptation of ‘The Shack,’ which opens in theaters nationwide on March 3. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-01-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
It's been more than 50 years since Thor and Hulk first faced off against each other in the pages of a comic book - and now the epic battle of many Marvel fans' dreams looks set to take place on the big screen. Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2017-01-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
'Me Before You' by Jojo Moyes, which is being adapted to the big screen this summer, took the #1 spot on the iBooks bestsellers chart for the week ended February 7. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-02-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Read it before you see it: here are six religion book-to-film adaptations slated to hit theaters in 2016. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-01-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Robin Stevens’ children’s detective series Murder Most Unladylike has been optioned for television and film by independent production company Pilot Media. Pilot Media optioned the rights from Emily Hayward Whitlock, head of book to film at The Artists’ Partnership, who was acting on behalf of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-08-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
After two decades and 400 million copies of Goosebumps books sold worldwide, R.L. Stine gets to talk about the series in a whole new way: as a major motion picture. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Newly formed production company Monumental Pictures has acquired the film rights to Caitlin Moran’s novel How to Build a Girl (Ebury Press). Moran and John Niven will adapt the book for the big screen, with Film 4 backing the project. Moran’s debut novel follows teenager Johanna Morrigan, who... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-11-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
In the near decade that's passed since director Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller brought Miller's noir comic Sin City to the big screen, filmmaking technology has gotten better, comic book movies have become an official Big Deal, and 3-D has become a lot more palatable. What's more surprising... Continue reading >> [ Source: Wired | 2014-08-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
The film adaptation of Cheryl Strayed's memoir 'Wild' will be brought to the big screen by Fox Searchlight Pictures. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-07-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Partnership with Flingo ports video content to more than 15 million devices. With the rise of internet-connected televisions, the big screen is becoming another place for publishers to get their content in front of viewers. One recent example of this is a partnership between Bonnier and smart TV... Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2012-12-13 00:00:00 UTC ]