It’s rare for novelists to make the leap to becoming filmmakers, but Dennis Cooper has not only made the transition, his latest movie Permanent Green Light is one of the year’s best. It reworks his longtime themes of young people, intimacy, and violence to create an affecting story of friendship, trauma, and attempted transcendence. Dennis […] Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'
[ Literrary Hub | 2019-11-18 09:47:50 UTC ]
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Waldorf Publishing refuses to accept such terms as “boutique” or “small press” as descriptive nomenclature for the company. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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French publisher cooperative La Place has plans to stay ahead of digital market changes and attain the necessary scale and data to compete with the duopoly. The post Inside French publisher programmatic cooperative La Place’s growth ambitions appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2017-05-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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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 at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Bookseller will run a film and TV product preview as part of a wider analysis of the impact of the broadcast media on the publishing business in the issue of the 26th May. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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U.K. publishing sales rose 7% in 2016 over 2015, fueled by rising exports from a Brexit-weakened pound. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-04-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sketch is fast becoming a favorite tool of modern web and UI designers. It’s a smart vector-based design app with a simple, clean, and intuitive interface. It has a range of powerful features, such as easy-to-use grids and layer alignment, unlimited artboards, and granular export. It’s easy to... Continue reading at Betanews
[ Betanews | 2017-04-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hodder Children’s Books, part of the Hachette Children’s Group, has acquired Moxie, a "timely and empowering" feminist YA novel from US author Jennifer Mathieu. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-04-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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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 at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-04-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Actors and producers Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman have acquired the movie rights to Lincoln In The Bardo by George Saunders. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-03-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Shirley MacLaine is on a roll. She became a trending topic on Twitter and Facebook when she appeared at last month’s Oscars with Charlize Theron. Earlier this year, she received the Los Angeles Film Critics Assn. Career Achievement Award and this month was honored at the Texas Film Awards in... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2017-03-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A sinister world rises from the soothing, if mischievous, voice of Adam Curtis: politicians and financiers have created alternate realities that prey on our fears while Facebook and other cyberspace distractions toy with our vanities with promises of escape and virtual redemption. At a time when... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2017-03-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Second quarter earnings rose 32% at HarperCollins,to $75 million, on a revenue gain of 4%. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-02-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Intended to further innovative product licensing and merchandising projects, the partnership between Frankfurt Book Fair and LIMA has an official opening in April. The post Frankfurt Book Fair and LIMA Strike Cooperative Agreement appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2017-02-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hachette Children’s Group (HCG) has struck an animated film deal for The Little Broomstick, a 1971 children’s title by Mary Stewart. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-12-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Industry veteran Frank Cooper is leaving BuzzFeed, where he has been CMO for the past 17 months. In marketing circles, Cooper has been seen as a key conduit between the digital publisher and advertisers because of his brand experience. He quit his post as PepsiCo's chief marketer in June 2015... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2016-11-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sovereign Films has acquired global film rights to We Love You, Charlie Freeman by Kaitlyn Greenidge (Algonquin Books). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-11-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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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 at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-11-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Literary agent Peter Cox on the story behind a spooky Halloween video for Michelle Paver's Thin Air. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-11-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Peter Jackson, the film director behind The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies, is adapting a film version of Philip Reeve’s Mortal Engines (Scholastic). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-10-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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CNN has made a point of being everywhere its users are, pushing hard to be the first publisher on emerging platforms like Snapchat, Facebook Messenger. This month, it's bringing its TV broadcast to Amazon Echo, an emerging platform projected to grow substantially in the coming years. Instead of... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2016-10-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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