Endgame, by the controversial author of A Million Little Pieces, sold in joint publishing and film dealJames Frey, best known for his partially-fabricated memoir A Million Little Pieces, has landed a reported $2m (£1.2m) film deal for his latest novel, a Hunger Games/Battle Royale-esque story... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-01-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Comic book blockbuster Iron Man 3 was the highest-earning film of 2013 around the world, ahead of Despicable Me 2 and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2013-12-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
The release of the latest Hunger Games film, backlist titles such as Harry Potter and success... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-12-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Harry Potter Alliance is a nonprofit coalition whose work so far has included creating a YouTube video titled 'The Hunger Games Are Real' which aims to raise awareness of poverty and hunger in the US. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-11-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Harry Potter Alliance is a nonprofit coalition whose work so far has included creating a YouTube video titled 'The Hunger Games Are Real' which aims to raise awareness of poverty and hunger in the US. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-11-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Hunger Games books and films come to fill a psychic void left by the Twilight series. For whatever reason, it seems our culture right now needs a mega-selling YA franchise built around a beautiful, stubborn teen heroine who waffles endlessly between two inexplicably patient lovers as she... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2013-11-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Suzanne Collins says she 'sort of completed' a goal of hers this fall by releasing her children's book 'Year of the Jungle,' which examines war from a child's point of view. Collins wants to write a book about war for every child age group, she says. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-11-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Book industry experts say dystopian literature, previously represented by bestselling series like 'The Hunger Games' and 'Allegiant,' is done as a trend. So what will be the next big genre in young adult fiction? Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-11-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Barnes and Noble has not had an easy go of it. The brick-and-mortar stalwart has seen its revenues and profits steeply decline as we've entered the age of the ebook. In fact, profits haven't just shrunk; they've disappeared. During the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2013, the company suffered a... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2013-06-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
According to a new report by the Association of American Publishers, children's and young adult books experienced a sales jump driven by hardcover sales of Suzanne Collins' trilogy. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
The most-challenged book series of 2012 was the 'Captain Underpants' books by Dav Pilkey. Former list-toppers 'ttyl' and 'The Hunger Games' are missing from the list entirely. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-04-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
It comes as no surprise that Nielsen BookScan's top-selling print book lists for 2012 are dominated by Fifty Shades and the Hunger Games. See what else is on the lists. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2012-12-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Collins' book, which will be based around her own experiences with a father in the military, will be released this fall. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-11-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Dr. Seuss, meet Harry Potter. Barbara Marcus, the former president of children's book publishing at Scholastic—the U.S. home of the Hogwarts wizard—has been named president and publisher of Random House Children's Books. The world's largest children's house publishes The Cat in the Hat and every... Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2012-09-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Fiscal 2012 was a good year made great by The Hunger Games,” Scholastic chairman Dick Robinson told analysts in a conference call last Thursday to discuss results in the year ended May 31, in which sales rose 14%, to $2.15 billion, and net income jumped from $39.4 million to $102.4 million. The... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-07-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
The final book in The Hunger Games trilogy is coming to the big-screen in two parts starting in 2014. Lionsgate Films announced today that The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1 will be released November 21, 2014, and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2 will follow on November 20, 2015. The... Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2012-07-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
According to the calendar, it may not be summer for a few more weeks, but tell that to booksellers, who launched their summer selling season on Memorial Day. One week in and many independents are anticipating an up summer. A mild winter and a strong first quarter contributed to a number of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
The three novels that comprise E L James' much-discussed Fifty Shades trilogy were the three... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Hunger Games may have had a heck of an opening weekend, but let's not forget who the top box office spot belongs to: a certain bespectacled boy wizard. Roughly a decade and half after the publication of the first book in the series -- and after several months of promises -- the ultra-popular... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2012-03-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
The literary genre is white-hot in Hollywood, with filmmakers bidding on unpublished books and paying as much as $1 million for the rights to relatively modest sellers.The back-to-back blockbuster successes of "Harry Potter," "Twilight" and now "The Hunger Games" have turned the hunt for fresh... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2012-03-27 00:00:00 UTC ]