Veronica Cossanteli’s middle-grade debut novel The Extincts (Chicken House) is being developed for film by Cirrina Studios, with a 2019 release planned. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2017-06-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Author Philippa Gregory insists on a “clause” in film contracts to prevent filmmakers from changing historic facts in her work. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-08-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Randall, who retired from Ten Speed in 2009 after 19 years with the company, died on August 12. She was 61. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-08-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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NBCUniversal is continuing under the spell of “Harry Potter,” striking an exclusive deal with Warner Bros. to bring films of the juggernaut franchise to two NBCUniversal cable channels. The agreement, announced Monday, extends the relationship between the two media companies by conveying... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2016-08-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sovereign Films has acquired global film rights to "extraordinary" true story Being a Beast by Charles Foster, published just this week by Profile. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-08-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The director of comic book film Suicide Squad shrugs off its bad reviews, saying he made the supervillain ensemble movie "for the fans". Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2016-08-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Actors Mel Gibson and Sean Penn are to star in "Professor and the Madman", a film adaptation of a novel about the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-08-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Netflix has acquired exclusive film rights for The Panama Papers, published in the UK by Oneworld. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-08-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Atlantic is to publish Science(ish), a book on the science behind films by Michael Brooks and Rick Edwards based on their popular podcast of the same name. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-07-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Orion’s Rebecca Gray has been promoted to the company's head of fiction publicity. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-07-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Jim Henson Company is producing a film adaptation of Terry Pratchett’s The Wee Free Men novel, with the screenplay written by Rhianna Pratchett, the late author’s daughter. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-07-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Lawndale has pulled off a coaching coup. The school announced on Wednesday that Dave Miller, who has coached at the collegiate and professional level and served as a Lakers analyst for Time Warner Cable, will be taking over as basketball coach. Miller was best known as a college assistant at USC,... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2016-07-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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With stores at Chelsea Market and Rockefeller Center, the long-time New York City bookseller is testing points South with a 2,000 sq. ft. store at Ponce City Market. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-07-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Peter Pearson, executive director of The Friends of the St. Paul Public Library, will retire December 31. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-07-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Bodley Head has acquired a "major" debut on the British policy of appeasement by historian Tim Bouverie. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-06-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Nelson, currently editorial director for Books and Kindle at Amazon (and formerly editor-in-chief of 'Publishers Weekly'), is joining the publisher's Harper imprint as v-p, executive editor and special advisor to the publisher, Jonathan Burnham. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-06-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hannah Griffiths, formerly fiction and paperback publisher at Faber, has been appointed as the new head of literary acquisitions at independent television, film and digital production and distribution company All3Media. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-06-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hudson, who held two high-ranking posts at Penguin Random House, has been named CEO of the company’s DK Publishing subsidiary. Hudson is succeeding John Duhigg, and will take on his new role July 1. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-06-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Labour politician Peter Hain’s AD & WAL (Biteback Publishing) has been optioned for a feature film by Fifty One Productions. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-06-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Buster Books will publish a book of beasts to coincide with the release of the film "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" in November. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-06-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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As advertisers turn their backs on newsprint, publishers who have been in denial about the digital revolution are confronted by an uncomfortable realityI am in Ireland to address the Irish Press Council’s annual general meeting in a lecture entitled “Have newspapers got a future?”My theme is... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2016-05-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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