While books about the outgoing US president have been bestsellers for the last four years, Trump might be a step too far for some publishersFact-checkers are quaking in their boots amid reports that Donald Trump could be being “courted for a new tome on his time in the White House”. The... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-11-11 14:24:45 UTC ]
Baby Cow Productions has optioned Olivia Potts’ memoir A Half Baked Idea (Fig Tree, 2019), for TV. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-07-06 15:05:58 UTC ]
Start Media has optioned the film and TV rights to Jonathan Stroud’s fantasy series The Bartimaeus Sequence, according to Deadline. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-06-02 10:41:06 UTC ]
Zaffre has bought two new novels from Stacey Halls as TV rights for her debut, The Familiars, have been snapped up. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-03-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
The big options this week include a TV deal for Michael Wolff's White House tell-all 'Fire and Fury,' and film deals for a backlist Kazuo Ishiguro novel and Celeste Ng's 2014 debut. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-01-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
This week's notable page-to-screen deals include a film vehicle for Jennifer Lawrence and a TV deal for a book on Watergate. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-01-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
This week's book to film deals include a TV deal for the new book by Robert Harris, and a TV deal for a memoir by Tina Brown. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-10-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Mick Finlay’s Sherlock-inspired novel Arrowood has been snapped up for a television adaptation by the makers of "Bad Education" with Kathy Burke joining as executive producer. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-03-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Irvine Welsh, the author of Trainspotting, is adapting his novel Crime for television, according to the Guardian. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-10-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Lisa McInerney's Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction-winning debut, The Glorious Heresies, has been optioned for TV in a deal with boutique TV production company Fifty Fathoms. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-09-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Production company Lime Pictures has acquired the TV rights to Dawn Kurtagich’s YA novel The Dead House. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-05-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bandit Television has acquired the television rights to Louise O’Neill’s Asking for It, a novel about sexual assault. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-04-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Anna Lena Films has acquired the film and TV rights for Wilbur Smith’s novel Desert God, published by HarperCollins. The rights were bought from Kevin Conroy Scott at Tibor Jones Management. The deal also includes film and TV rights to River God and The Seventh Scroll, also from the Epic... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-10-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Company Pictures, the production company behind adaptations of The White Queen and Wolf Hall, has... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-04-17 00:00:00 UTC ]