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UPDATE, 2:10 PM: The daughter who has accused Woody Allen of molesting her decades ago is “in awe and so very grateful” to protesting staffers of the publisher set to put out the Oscar winning director’s now canceled memoir. Just over an hour after Hachette Book Group announced it had axed Allen’s April 7 set Apropos o…

Ava DuVernay has crossed many genres in her career, but now the Oscar nominee looks set to become the Queen of Dragons – at least in an animated sense. The Queen Sugar creator is teaming with Warner Bros Animation to develop Tui T. Sutherland's best-selling dragon filled Wings of Fire books into a high end small…

(UPDATED with statement from Hachette) Just over a month before an imprint of Hachette Book Group is set to publish Woody Allen's memoir, dozens of employees of the company staged a walkout in New York City today. With staffers emptying out of the 6th Avenue offices this afternoon, the move to the streets comes after…

EXCLUSIVE: Reel World Management, an LA-based production, financing, and distribution company that specializes in partnering with branded authors, is doing a feature adaptation of Testament, based on the 1975 novel by New York Times bestselling author David Morrell, who created the character of Rambo in his debut…

Life is imitating art as the coronavirus spreads, and people apparently can’t get enough of a book and film that depict world-shattering pandemics. The 1981 Dean Koontz novel The Eyes of Darkness and the 2011 film Contagion are suddenly hot items. The book is the No. 3 most-sold book on the Amazon charts for the week…

Jordan Fudge, Jeremy Allen and Zach White’s media fund New Slate Ventures has optioned the rights to Den of Thieves from Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist James B. Stewart. Oscar-nominated screenwriter Terence Winter (The Wolf of Wall Street, The Sopranos) is set to adapt the non-fiction book into a limited…

EXCLUSIVE: Keith C. Blackmore’s post-apocalyptic novel Mountain Man is climbing its way to the big screen. The Traveling Picture Show Company (TPSC) and Balcony 9 Productions have partnered with the author to produce the feature based on the novel, which is the first of a five-part book series. Productivity Media has…

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon has set for development The Inheritance Games, a TV series based on Jennifer Lynn Barnes’ upcoming YA novel, the first in a two-book series. The project hails from Sony Pictures TV and Josh Berman’s studio-based Osprey Productions, which landed the rights to the books in a competitive situation…

EXCLUSIVE: In the wake of winning a multi-studio and streamer auction for film rights to Judy Blume's classic novel Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret this morning as Deadline broke, Lionsgate continues to strut its stuff in the YA sphere. It is reteaming with Five Feet Apart filmmaker Justin Baldoni, who’ll direct…

Emmy-writing writer Mo Willems is bringing his work to the small screen. In a competitive situation, HBO Max has signed an exclusive, multi-year deal with Willems, establishing the beloved children’s author as HBO Max’s first artist in residence. As part of the two-year deal, HBO Max has acquired streaming rights to…

EXCLUSIVE: Keeping in the spirit of their wildly popular To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before and their recent follow-up To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You, ACE Entertainment has optioned the rights to Abigail Hing Wen's YA novel Loveboat, Taipei. The book was published on January 7 and has since topped the New York T…

Swedish teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg was “slowly disappearing into some kind of darkness” as she struggled with autism in her pre-teen years, according to a new book written by her mother. Malena Ernman details her 17-year-old daughter’s early life in a revealing new book, Our House is on Fire: Scenes of a…