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Jim Bouton, whose groundbreaking book Ball Four was one of the first tell-all books in sports, has died at age 80. He passed today in Massachusetts from a brain disease linked to dementia. Bouton had great success as a pitcher with the New York Yankees in the early 1960s, winning 20 games and two World Series…

EXCLUSIVE: Divine Rights Media’s Mike Landry has partnered with Derek S. Jancisin to option the rights to Andy McDermott’s bestselling Wilde/Chase book series. The hope is to hatch a franchise, beginning with the first book in the series, The Hunt for Atlantis. Aaron Berg has been set to write and produce along with…

EXCLUSIVE: Howard Bryant’s book The Heritage: Black Athletes, a Divided America, and the Politics of Patriotism, is in the works for television. Maverick TV, an All3Media America Company, will adapt the book into a multi-part docuseries, with Sacha Jenkins (Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics and Men, Burn Motherf*cker Burn), and…

Gone Girl author Gillian Flynn has spoken out about her novel being used as a “sensationalized motive” in the disappearance of Connecticut mom Jennifer Dulos, who vanished after dropping her kids off at school on May 24. Flynn said she was “absolutely sickened” that lawyers for Dulos’s estranged husband Fotis Dulos…

Robert E. Bradford, a film and television producer, and the husband of novelist Barbara Taylor Bradford, died July 2 in New York's Weill Cornell Hospital after suffering a stroke at the couple’s Manhattan home the week prior. A spokesperson for the family confirmed his death. Bradford was 92. The couple celebrated…

The legacy of Edgar Allen Poe is, no surprise, a weird one. The author of The Raven remains a household name almost 170 years after his mysterious death but somehow Poe’s most enduring literary innovation (he invented the detective story) is widely overlooked. The Boston-born writer’s lurid death at age 40 while…

The Walking Dead comic book series is giving up the ghost. Just seven issues shy of No. 200, and without fanfare or warning, the bestselling monthly series from Image Comics and Skybound Entertainment will conclude with the special expanded issue that reaches stores on Wednesday. It’s an abrupt death for a…

EXCLUSIVE: Media entrepreneur and producer David Haring has picked up the rights to NYT bestselling author Kat Martin's book series Texas Trilogy, with plans on developing the first book, Beyond Reason, into a feature under his Tin Res Entertainment banner. This latest project adds to Tin Res’ current film slate…

President Donald Trump got in a little dig against CNN White House reporter Jim Acosta today. The exchange marked Acosta’s return to the beat after a brief sabbatical to promote his new HarperCollins book, The Enemy of the People. Acosta put Trump on the spot by asking if he ignored a question about the death of…

EXCLUSIVE: Producers Scott Steindorff and Dylan Russell of Stone Village Television have obtained film and TV rights to The Last Day, the upcoming debut novel by writer and comedian Andrew Hunter Murray. The deal is said to have closed at high six figures. Murray is part of the writing team behind the BBC show QI and…

One Signal Publishers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster's Atria Publishing Group, has acquired North American rights to an as-yet-untitled book by CNN’s Brian Stelter that will examine the relationship between Fox News and President Donald Trump, the publisher announced today. The book will be published in 2020…

EXCLUSIVE: Brad Anderson has been set to direct In Search of Captain Zero, a film based on Allan Weisbecker's true-life novel of the same name that has been adapted by Michael Bacall. The project hails from Ken Kao's Waypoint Entertainment, which recently produced Yorgos Lanthimos’ Oscar-nominated The Favourite, with…