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EXCLUSIVE: Matthew Quick has been set to adapt Sorta Like A Rock Star, his 2010 young adult novel that is now near a deal to be set up at Netflix as the feature film directing debut for Bryce Dallas Howard. The film is being produced by Gotham Group's Lee Stollman and Ellen Goldsmith-Vein and Temple Hill. Fox…

Miramax says it has “won the bid to option” the feature film rights to Matthew Quick’s latest novel The Reason You're Alive for Allison Shearmur (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Cinderella), to produce. Quick, who wrote The Silver Linings Playbook, will adapt his latest book about a Vietnam war veteran who, post brain…

EXCLUSIVE: Emma Stone is coming attached to Love May Fail, an adaptation of the novel by Silver Linings Playbook author Matthew Quick. Mike White has written the script. The project is moving from Columbia Pictures to TriStar, one of several scripts that Hannah Minghella developed there and brought with her when she to…

EXCLUSIVE: Channing Tatum and the Weinstein Company have set Mike Vukadinovich to write Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock, the feature project that sees Tatum make his directorial debut alongside Reid Carolin. The project is an adaptation of Matthew Quick’s YA book of the same name about a high school student who plans to…

EXCLUSIVE: After making his breakthrough writing and directing the Golden Globe-nommed Bill Murray starrer St. Vincent, Ted Melfi has made a deal to reunite with The Weinstein Company. He’ll adapt and direct Every Exquisite Thing, the upcoming novel by Silver Linings Playbook author Matthew Quick. TWC bought the book…

EXCLUSIVE: Veteran agent Rich Green has joined the Media Rights Department of ICM Partners. Long one of the top brokerers of film and TV rights for books, Green joins ICM’s Los Angeles outpost after the talent agency Resolution announced it would fold. Green previously was an agent at CAA and UTA. His prolific list of…

EXCLUSIVE: Sam Raimi is in talks to direct Love May Fail, a novel by Silver Linings Playbook author Matthew Quick that Mike White has adapted. Matt Tolmach is producing. Elizabeth Cantillon is the exec producer. The project veers from Raimi’s blockbuster path that led him to most recently direct Oz The Great And Powerf…

EXCLUSIVE: Fox Searchlight has acquired screen rights to Sorta Like A Rock Star, the 2010 novel by Matthew Quick, who wrote Silver Linings Playbook. The film will be produced by Temple Hill’s Wyck Godfrey and Marty Bowen and Gotham Group’s Lee Stollman and Ellen Goldsmith-Vein. None of Quick’s novels are easy…

BREAKING: DreamWorks Studios has acquired the manuscript to Matthew Quick's latest novel, The Good Luck Of Right Now. It’s his followup to the Best Picture nominee Silver Linings Playbook and was bought by production president Holly Bario. The story follows the intertwined lives of four people, who are all outsiders…

There’s publishing news on two timely novels that have feature film ramifications. The Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown revealed that his new novel will be titled Inferno, coming from Doubleday on May 14. The book’s set in Europe and inspired by Dante, author of the 14th century poem The Divine Comedy, the author’s…