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EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures Television has optioned The City In The Middle Of The Night, Charlie Jane Anders’ praised sci-fi novel, for series development, with Sharon Hall’s (The Expanse, Utopia) Mom de Guerre Productions, which is under a first-look deal with SPT. The novel, published by Tor Books in February, is set…

EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation, Boies/Schiller Film Group has optioned rights to David Ignatius’ CIA thriller novel The Quantum Spy for series development, marking the company’s first foray into television. BSFG is partnering with Anonymous Content and Tony Krantz’s Flame Ventures on the project, which will be…

Oscar-winning producer and screenwriter Mark Boal (Zero Dark Thirty, The Hurt Locker) is set to adapt Mitchell Zuckoff's book Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11 for ABC. As previously announced, the network has been in development on a limited series based on the Harper Collins book to commemorate and honor the 20th…

EXCLUSIVE: Daniel Schulman’s bestselling nonfiction book Sons of Wichita: How the Koch Brothers Became America’s Most Powerful and Private Dynasty is in the works for the small screen. Stephen Robert Morse’s (Amanda Knox, Eurotrump) Observatory and Max Peltz’s Cavendish Pictures have optioned the rights to the book to…

Talk to any performer, and they probably have a horror story about the time they died on stage. It was a bad crowd, bad night, bad material, the venue wasn’t right. But now, there’s a book actually devoted to those who have, literally, died on stage. The Show Won't Go On: The Most Shocking, Bizarre, and Historic Deaths…

Book publishers are suing Amazon’s Audible, claiming the audiobook company’s speech-to-text feature is a violation of copyright laws. HarperCollins, Penguin Random House, Simon & Schuster, Scholastic and other major publishers claim that the Audible Captions feature will convert audio narration into unauthorized…

A coffee table book, feature-length documentary, and new series spotlighting the behind-the-scenes players who bring Disney stories to life will debut in December. One Day At Disney is a collaboration between Disney Publishing Worldwide and Disney+, the company's new streaming service debuting in the US in November…

EXCLUSIVE: Cavalry Media has acquired Bloodleaf, Crystal Smith’s recently published YA fantasy novel, to develop as a television series. Jennifer Bosari will oversee the project for Cavalry. A search is out for a writer. In Bloodleaf, Princess Aurelia is a prisoner to her crown and the heir that nobody wants. Fearing…

Game of Thrones creator George RR Martin won’t change what he plans to write to finish out his book series, even though some possible endings have already been explored on the HBO television show based on his novels. Speaking to The Guardian, Martin said that the TV show version had not been "very good" for him, and…

EXCLUSIVE: Internationally bestselling author Amy Ephron is turning her soon-to-be-released book, The Other Side of the Wall, into a live-action feature film. Ephron has teamed with Oscar-nominated Toy Story screenwriter Alec Sokolow to adapt the screenplay.  Ephron and Sokolow will also produce the pic with Nice…

EXCLUSIVE: TriStar Television is developing Alpha Girls, a Silicon Valley drama series based on Julian Guthrie’s praised new book, Alpha Girls: The Women Upstarts Who Took on Silicon Valley's Male Culture and Made the Deals of a Lifetime. The rights deal, orchestrated by producer Cathy Schulman, is said to be TriStar…

Imagine Kids+Family is teaming with Scholastic Entertainment to adapt into a feature film The Trail, the 2017 YA novel written by Meika Hashimoto. Quinn Emmett has been set to write the script for the story, which revolves around a 12-year old boy who, after a tragic loss, sets off on the adventure of a lifetime to…