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Anne Rice, the American writer whose Interview with the Vampire sold more than 150 million copies, has died. She was 80. Her son Christopher Rice, also an author, announced the news via Anne Rice's public Facebook page, writing that she had died following complications from a stroke. "The immensity of our family's…

Australian actor Sam Reid has been tapped to star as Lestat in Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire series for AMC and AMC+. The series, based on Rice’s book, is slated to begin production on its eight-episode first season later this year for premiere on AMC and its sister streamer AMC+ in 2022. The book famously…

AMC Networks has reached a deal to acquire Anne Rice's major literary works, The Vampire Chronicles and The Lives of the Mayfair Witches, for series development. The Vampire Chronicles series encompasses 18 titles, including Interview With The Vampire, The Vampire Lestat and The Queen of the Damned and The Tale of the…

Hulu is not moving forward with a planned series based on Anne Rice’s The Vampire Chronicles, Deadline has confirmed. We hear the rights did not expire on the project, but Hulu decided to pass. Paramount TV and Anonymous optioned the popular 11-book series in 2017, with plans to bring it to the small screen. Anne…

Hulu has put in development Anne Rice’s The Vampire Chronicles, Deadline has confirmed. Paramount TV and Anonymous optioned the popular 11-book series last year, with plans to bring it to the small screen. Anne Rice’s son Christopher Rice will serve as executive producer alongside Anne Rice and Anonymous Content's…

Best-selling author Anne Rice made waves in November when, in a Facebook post, she announced that had regained theatrical rights to her seminal series of novels The Vampire Chronicles that single-handledly redefined the vampire genre in the 1970s and ’80s and is beginning work on a television series adaptation with…

Like many of her fans, best-selling author Anne Rice would like to see her most famous creations on television. Whether that happens remains to be seen, but in a Facebook post yesterday, the creator of The Vampire Chronicles said that she has regained theatrical rights to the seminal series of novels that…

UPDATED, 4:33 PM: Focus Features said tonight that the Anne Rice adaptation Christ The Lord will open March 11, 2016, 12 days earlier than planned. Cyrus Nowrasteh‘s film was to open on the Wednesday before Easter, a couple of days ahead of Warner Bros’ Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice and Paramount’s Beverly Hills C…

Call it the Fifty Shades of Grey effect. Televisa USA has acquired the English-language television and digital rights to Anne Rice’s bestselling The Sleeping Beauty series of erotic novels. Rice will executive produce with Oscar-nominated producer Rachel Winter (Dallas Buyers Club); Endemol North America…

BREAKING: Universal Pictures, Imagine Entertainment, and Brian Grazer have acquired rights to Anne Rice’s The Vampire Chronicles in a juicy deal that spans the entire library of Rice’s bloodsucker series. Rice’s Vampire Chronicles novels are centered around 18th century French nobleman vamp Lestat de Lioncourt and…

EXCLUSIVE: Ocean Blue Entertainment, in conjunction with CJ Entertainment, Echo Lake and Ingenious Media, have set the financing for Christ The Lord, a feature adaptation of the Anne Rice bestselling novel Christ The Lord: Out of Egypt. A September 15 start date has been set in Italy. Focus Features, which obtained…