A former assistant to Toni Morrison, Ahearn was the steward of Baldwin’s archives and managed the film rights to his books. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-01-23 05:00:00 UTC ]
After she was dropped by her agent, Alex Aster turned to a books-obsessed corner of TikTok to gauge interest in her YA novel … and now Lightlark is one of the most eagerly anticipated releases of the yearHaving finally published her first novel, Alex Aster was feeling disheartened. The book had... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2022-08-16 13:32:30 UTC ]
Propagate Content has bagged the film rights for Avni Doshi's Booker Prize-shortlisted novel Burnt Sugar (Hamish Hamilton). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-11-06 05:42:15 UTC ]
Mark Gordon's new production company's London wing has picked up the forthcoming HarperCollins UK release. The post Film Rights: London’s BKS Agency Has an Option for Stephen McGinty’s ‘The Dive’ appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2021-05-21 18:13:27 UTC ]
The movie adaptation of Nico Walker’s Cherry—the best-selling debut novel about an Iraq veteran turned heroin addict turned bank robber—will be released in theaters in two days, directed by the Russo Brothers (who you might know from Avengers) and starring Tom Holland (who you might know from... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-02-24 18:21:44 UTC ]
Netflix has acquired film rights to all 15 titles in Andy McDermott's Nina Wilde and Eddie Chase series. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-09-28 14:06:57 UTC ]
Annabel Steadman’s fantasy series Skandar and the Unicorn Thief has won a seven-figure book contract, with film rights also sold to Sony PicturesA 28-year-old first-time author from Canterbury has landed what is believed to be the world’s largest ever book advance for a debut children’s writer,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-09-16 13:34:54 UTC ]
Sony Pictures has bought the film rights to Kevin Kwan's new novel Sex and Vanity (Hutchinson). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-07-12 16:38:32 UTC ]
Film4 has acquired TV and film rights to Lynda Clark's sci-fi novel, Beyond Kidding, published by Fairlight Books. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-06-29 14:42:54 UTC ]
TV and film rights in Manda Scott's historical thriller A Treachery of Spies have sold to London-based production outfits Beaglepug Films and Enriched Media Group. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-05-19 05:02:51 UTC ]
Film rights to Richard Osman’s debut novel, The Thursday Murder Club (Viking), have been snapped up by Amblin Partners in a 14-way auction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-03-05 16:08:49 UTC ]
TV and film rights for Maggie O’Farrell’s Women’s Prize for Fiction-longlisted Hamnet (Tinder Press) have been optioned by Hera Pictures. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-03-03 16:28:24 UTC ]
Good news, lovers of brooding Irish actors and tragicomic literary noir: Michael Fassbender—the Academy Award-nominated Hiberno-German star of Inglourious Basterds, Shame, and the latest incarnation of the X-Men movies—has optioned the film rights to Night Boat to Tangier, Irish author Kevin... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2019-12-18 17:38:18 UTC ]
Sony Pictures has secured the film rights for Thomas Taylor’s middle-grade novel Malamander for a “substantial” pre-empt, Walker Books has confirmed. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-07-15 15:19:58 UTC ]
Universal Pictures has reportedly optioned the film rights to author Jojo Moyes' forthcoming novel The Giver of Stars (Michael Joseph), with director Ol Parker of the "Mamma Mia!" sequel. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-06-24 14:37:21 UTC ]
John Murray has snapped up Costa First Novel winner Andrew Michael Hurley's third novel as film rights go to House Productions. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-05-31 14:10:44 UTC ]
Ebury imprint Del Rey has scooped the "compulsive and brutal, feminist speculative thriller" The Grace Year by Kim Liggett, with translation rights sold in 13 countries and Universal Pictures optioning the film rights. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-03-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amblin Partners has acquired the film rights to award-winning writer and journalist Simon Parkin’s forthcoming non-fiction book A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Secret Game That Won The War (Sceptre). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-02-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Michael B. Jordan’s Outlier Society and Warner Bros. have acquired the film rights to the epic fantasy novel “Black Leopard, Red Wolf” by Marlon James. The first novel of the Dark Star trilogy, “Black Leopard, Red Wolf” is based on African mythology. Set in a world of competing kingdoms and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2019-02-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Italian director Saverio Costanzo spoke with Fast Company about the challenge of adapting the first novel in the Neapolitan series (as a man, no less). In 2007, Italian director Saverio Costanzo wrote to the publisher of Elena Ferrante’s novella The Lost Daughter and asked if he could option the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2018-11-23 00:00:00 UTC ]