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EXCLUSIVE: The mysterious world of billionaire girlbosses and tastemakers in Laura Hankin’s A Special Place for Women is coming to television. In a competitive situation, Paramount Television Studios has acquired the rights to develop Hankin’s upcoming mystery novel into a television series, with the author set to…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a book about a chef that started at a slow boil and now has as many as eight offers on the table for film and television. Finding Freedom: A Cook’s Story; Remaking A Life From Scratch tells the story of Erin French. She currently runs The Lost Kitchen, a restaurant in a converted mill in Freedom, ME…

Better Call Saul star Bob Odenkirk is writing a memoir that his publisher Random House says will address “the highs and lows of showbiz, his legendary cult status as a comedian, and what it's like to reinvent a showbiz career after fifty and scale new heights.” Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama: A Memoir will be published…

EXCLUSIVE:  Unanimous Media's newly formed development arm Pathways Alliance is adapting Wes Moore's best seller, The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates for the big screen. The book is based on the true story of two men with the same name who lived just blocks away from each other in Baltimore and ended up in very…

EXCLUSIVE: This is a hot package which is being assembled right now: Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings director Destin Daniel Cretton is attached to direct an adaptation of the upcoming Viking nonfiction book Facing the Mountain by bestselling author Daniel James Brown. I’ve just been updated that this is…

EXCLUSIVE: Los Angeles-based producer MiLu Entertainment and Ian Reichbach, one of the lead writers on The Newsroom, are developing a TV series based on the Bacardi family’s experiences in 1950s Cuba. Reichbach is adapting NPR correspondent Tom Gjelten’s well-received book Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba, which…

This past week I happily immersed myself in the latest book by protean film critic/biographer/sometime novelist David Thomson, A Light in the Dark: A History of Movie Directors. Even as he approaches 80, the author of the invaluable Biographical Dictionary of Film editions is able to find fresh things to say about…

EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation, ABC Signature has acquired the rights to Cole Brown's critically acclaimed debut book Greyboy: Finding Blackness in a White World, to develop for television. Grown-ish star Yara Shahidi and her business partner and mother Keri Shahidi will develop the series and executive produce…

Former Vice President Mike Pence is writing his autobiography, signing with Simon & Schuster to publish his memoirs that will cover his life from Columbus, Indiana, to governor to his tenure as Donald Trump’s vice president. The publisher said that they signed a two-book deal with Pence, with the first book…

Cate Blanchett has joined author Lauren Hough in narrating the audiobook edition of Hough's Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing, to be published April 13. Book is a personal collection of essays from the heart of working-class America, shot through with the darkest elements the country can manifest — cults, homelessness…

A24 and Rhombus Media have optioned the rights to Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer and are developing the author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning debut novel for a television series. Published in April 2015, The Sympathizer centers on a half-French, half-Vietnamese man who served as a spy for Communist forces during the…

EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation, GLOW alum and author Betty Gilpin has sold her first book, an untitled collection of personal essays, to Flatiron Books, a division of Macmillan, for publication in spring 2022. "Betty is a technicolor hurricane of a writer. Her sharp, soulful, absurdly funny and slyly wise voice…