EXCLUSIVE: In its first major executive hire, The Story Factory has named Alex Ott to be Vice President of Production and Development. Ott joins after spending eight years at David Ayer's Crave Films, where he sheperded and received co-producer or executive producer credits on the Ayer-directed Suicide Squad, End Of Wa…

Shane Salerno was an established screenwriter and documentary filmmaker when a conversation with novelist Don Winslow several years ago first spawned a now-substantial business, brokering book and movie deals for authors. "Don and I had been friends for years," Salerno says, "and one day he told me, 'I've had it, I'm…

EXCLUSIVE: In a multimillion-dollar publishing deal, The Cartel author Don Winslow has moved from Random House to HarperCollins Publishers, where he will publish his next two novels through the William Morrow imprint. The novel titles aren't being revealed at this point, but sources said that the first will be shopped…

EXCLUSIVE: In an intriguing pairing of two top crime novelists, a script is in the works by Don Winslow, author of novels that include Savages and The Winter Of Frankie Machine, and Chuck Hogan, whose Prince Of Thieves was turned into the Ben Affleck-directed The Town. The untitled script is a contemporary crime…