EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate has optioned the rights to the book How the Girl Guides Won the War for producer Marc Platt, which the company is negotiating with now with Walden Media. The project is not yet titled. J. Mills Goodloe already has been brought aboard to pen a feature adaptation. Goodloe has a very good track…

EXCLUSIVE: J. Mills Goodloe, the screenwriter who most recently penned The Mountain Between Us starring Idris Elba and Kate Winslet, has signed with ICM Partners. Fox’s The Mountain Between Us, helmed by Hany Abu-Assad, was adapted from Charles Martin’s novel. Goodloe also adapted Nicola Yoon’s Everything, Everything…

EXCLUSIVE: The Age Of Adaline scribe J. Mills Goodloe is set to rewrite the script for Andrea Portes’ 2014 YA novel Anatomy Of A Misfit, which Paramount picked up in a pre-emptive deal in 2014 for producer Allison Shearmur. Goodloe is rewriting the latest draft from Portes and Joel Silverman. The book, published by…

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros. has tapped J. Mills Goodloe to adapt novelist Nicholas Sparks' latest bestseller, The Best of Me. The studio acquired film rights to the book June of last year in advance of the book's publication last October by Grand Central. Denise DiNovi is producing with Sparks and Theresa Park is …