Production company New Pictures has optioned the TV and film rights to Sarah Govett’s YA novel The Territory (Firefly Press). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-11-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sony Pictures Animation has optioned the film rights to Sibéal Pounder’s Bad Mermaids series, illustrated by Jason Cockcroft and published by Bloomsbury. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-10-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Scottish author Claire McFall’s Ferryman trilogy has sold in 14 territories since the film rights were bought by Legendary Entertainment in January, says Ben Illis, founder of the Ben Illis Agency. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-03-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
When it was still a manuscript, The Woman in the Window inspired a publishers' bidding frenzy, reportedly earning its author Daniel Mallory a seven-figure advance. Film rights were optioned and it has now topped The New York Times bestseller list. Daniel Mallory (aka AJ Finn) talks to Stephen... Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2018-03-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Diversity in the book industry, Amazon and selling TV and film rights were some of the hot topics of the IPG's biggest ever autumn conference. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-09-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Director Mark Tonderai has acquired the film rights to Jacaranda Books title The Book of Harlan by Bernice L. McFadden. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-08-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Feature film rights for M A Bennett’s debut YA novel S.T.A.G.S have been bought by Chernin Entertainment, ahead of its UK publication. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-05-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Willow Smith has bought the film rights to YA fantasy trilogy Rebel of the Sands by Alwyn Hamilton (Faber) with a view to starring in it. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-04-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Twentieth Century Fox has signed the film rights to Jessica Townsend’s Nevermoor, a children’s manuscript that was subject to an eight-publisher auction at the Frankfurt Book Fair last month. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-11-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
LA-based production company Grandiosity Films has optioned the film rights to To War With Whitaker, the "celebrated diary" of Hermione Countess of Ranfurly. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-09-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Reese Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman have optioned the film rights to Liane Moriarty's novel Truly Madly Guilty (Michael Joseph). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-08-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Film rights to Andrew Michael Hurley’s The Loney (John Murray) have been optioned by DNA Films, with the support of Film4, after a five-way auction. The gothic novel is set on the Lancashire coast and follows a Catholic family who make an Easter pilgrimage from London to try and cure their mute... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-09-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
MGM has optioned the film rights to upcoming YA novel Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon. The production company struck a deal with publisher Penguin RandomHouse Children’s and has already hired J Mills Goodloe, the scriptwriter for Age of Adaline, to develop the project. The novel, which... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-08-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Film rights for Helen Macdonald’s H is for Hawk (Jonathan Cape) have been acquired by actress Lena Headey, who stars in the hugely successful television series “Game of Thrones”. The deal was brokered by Emily Hayward-Whitlock at Knight Hall Agency Ltd on behalf of Jessica Woollard at The... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-04-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Alcon Entertainment has acquired the film rights to Darkmouth, the newly released children’s fantasy novel by Irish author Shane Hegarty, for a "very high" six-figure dollar sum. The book, published today (29th January) by HarperCollins Children’s Books, is the first in a monster-hunting... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-01-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Pan Macmillan has won a six-figure auction for Dark Matter by Blake Crouch, an author previously published by Amazon Publishing. Editorial director Julie Crisp acquired UK and Commonwealth rights to the book from Alexis Hurley at Inkwell Managements, after seeing a 140-page partial. The book... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-01-24 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 ]
Film rights to Greg Mitchell’s new work of nonfiction, tentatively titled 'The Tunnels: JFK vs. CBS & NBC,' have already sold to FilmNation Entertainment. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
The film rights to Tom Rob Smith’s newly published The Farm (Simon & Schuster) have... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-03-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
The film rights to YA debut novel Half Bad by Sally Green have been snapped up by Fox 2000, hard... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-04-08 00:00:00 UTC ]