Universal Products & Experiences has launched an extensive licensing program to support the November 22 release of the feature film 'Wicked," and nearly 75 brands and 20 retail partners have been announced to date. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-08-29 04:00:00 UTC ]
Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road” got to her: “Sure, it’s a novel full of unbelievable violence and apocalyptic nightmare stuff,” says the best-selling author of “Wonder,” “Pony” and “White Bird,” soon to be a feature film. “But the humanity and love is there right from the first line.” Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2023-08-24 09:00:41 UTC ]
It’s been a big year for Michelle Zauner. This spring, her much-lauded memoir Crying in H Mart was published, and last week her band Japanese Breakfast released Jubilee, another critically acclaimed album. And the excitement continues: yesterday, the Hollywood Reporter announced that Crying in H... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-06-08 14:46:24 UTC ]
Yōko Ogawa’s acclaimed surrealist novel—the story of a young woman, struggling to maintain her career as a writer on a island where objects are disappearing, who concocts a plan to hide her endangered editor from the Memory Police—was one of the sleeper hits of 2019, garnering rave reviews, a... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-10-09 15:15:45 UTC ]
Taika Waititi’s production company Piki Films has optioned New Zealand writer Tina Makereti’s novel The Imaginary Lives of James Poneke (Lightning Books, 2019) for adaptation as a feature film. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-06-28 17:50:39 UTC ]
Los Angeles-based Hey Baby has added Polish-born filmmaker Stash Capar to its roster, his first representation in the United States. Capar worked between the U.K., Scandinavia and Dubai on assignments as an editor and promo producer for a decade before filming his own indie project, which was... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2019-07-10 14:04:36 UTC ]
In a year when publishers have been talking about the "pivot to video," Cond Nast has some hard-won lessons to impartfor example, success in video can have less to do with quick-hit food clips than TV and even movie-length fare. Today, Cond Nast Entertainment is garnering a billion monthly views... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2017-12-21 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 ]
Big Hero 6 was created when Marvel's top brass was focused on X-Men. A decade later, Disney is bringing it back to life.When it was announced last year that the first-ever Marvel property that Disney Animation was going to tackle as a feature film was Big Hero 6, there was collective... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2014-11-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
PW talked to the editor of Lily King's buzzed-about new novel, which bowed on June 3 and received a starred review from PW and may be adapted into a feature film. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-06-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Writer and filmmaker Jonah Ansell shares how he took his story "Cadaver" from a poem written for his sister to a short film to a graphic novel and, hopefully, a feature film. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-02-13 00:00:00 UTC ]