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| New production firm options Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn trilogy | |
| People > Media Sales | January 11, 2010 |
| Paloppa Pictures has optioned Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn trilogy for feature film production... | |
| Studio 407 sells film option on Night and Fog | |
| People > Media Sales | December 23, 2009 |
 Long-time horror producer Gil Adler and new partner Shane McCarthy have optioned Alex Leung/Studio 407's sci-fi horror property Night and Fog...
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| Sam Worthington options The Last Days of American Crime | |
| People > Media Sales | November 20, 2009 |
 Sam Worthington has optioned Rick Remender's The Last Days of American Crime comic book series, and plans to produce and star in it...
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| Mandalay Pictures options Unthinkable | |
| People > Media Sales | November 20, 2009 |
 Mandalay Pictures optioned Mark Sable's five-issue comic book series Unthinkable, in which a think tank predicting terrorist scenarios is targeted when they start happening...
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| Roboticist Daniel H. Wilson sells Robopocalypse to Doubleday and DreamWorks | |
| People > Book & Novel Sales | November 10, 2009 |
| Daniel H. Wilson's Robopocalypse is a cautionary tale of man vs. machine, and is being fast-tracked to publication at Doubleday, and to film at DreamWorks... | |
| Nickelodeon pays $60 million to become the new home of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | |
| People > Film & Television | October 23, 2009 |
| Nickelodeon has paid $60 million for all rights to The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and is already planning a new television series, as well as a new feature film with its corporate partner Paramount. Co-creator Peter A. Laird said... | |
| Iain M. Banks "The Culture" may be coming to the big screen | |
| People > Media Sales | October 22, 2009 |
| British producer Film and Music Entertainment and director Dominic Murphy are at work on an adaptation of Iain M. Banks's "A Gift for the Culture"... | |
| Launch Pad Productions options F.M. Busby novella | |
| People > Media Sales | October 14, 2009 |
| F.M. Busby's "First Person Plural", which was first published in 1980, has been optioned by independent production firm Launch Pad Productions... | |
| Stephen King's "Colorado Kid" to be Canadian television production | |
| People > Media Sales | October 7, 2009 |
 Stephen King has taken "The Colorado Kid" to Canada's E1 to retain more control over the series to be known as Haven...
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| Justin Cronin's vampire novel The Passage to be adapted for film by John Logan for big money | |
| People > Media Sales | September 21, 2009 |
| Justin Cronin's third novel, futuristic vampire tale The Passage, is being adapted for the big screen by John Logan. Fox 2000 is paying Logan more than $1 million to turn the book into a script for Ridley Scott to direct... | |
| DreamWorks options A. Lee Martinez's Gil's All Fright Diner | |
| People > Media Sales | September 14, 2009 |
 DreamWrosk Animation has bought an option on A. Lee Martinez's first novel, Gil's All Fright Diner, and already has Barry Sonnenfeld attached to direct...
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| Jeff Somers options his "Avery Cates" books | |
| People > Media Sales | August 26, 2009 |
| Columbia Pictures optioned film rights to Jeff Somers' first three Avery Cates books—The Electric Church, The Digital Plague, and The Eternal Prison—for 18 months... | |
| True Blood season three, "Sookie" books 11-13, and more Charlaine Harris news | |
| People > Book & Novel Sales | August 18, 2009 |
| Agent Joshua Bilmes reports HBO's renewal of True Blood for a third season, the sale of the 11th, 12th, and 13th "Sookie Stackhouse" books, and more... | |
| Bradley Denton's Buddy Holly coming to the big screen, and he's giving away the book | |
| People > Media Sales | August 14, 2009 |
 Bradley Denton's 1991 novel Buddy Holly is Alive and Well and on Ganymede has a director and star attached for the feature film version. And to celebrate, Denton is giving away free pdf copies of the book...
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| Peter V. Brett's The Warded Man sells film rights to Anderson & Bolt | |
| People > Media Sales | July 29, 2009 |
 Paul W.S. Anderson and Jeremy Bolt, the team behind the Resident Evil franchise, buy the film rights to Peter V. Brett's The Warded Man, calling it fresh and epic...
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| Cory Doctorow sells film option on Little Brother | |
| People > Media Sales | June 18, 2009 |
 Cory Doctorow has sold a film option on his YA novel Little Brother to Don Murphy, who has produced films such as Transformers, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen...
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| The Familiars sells to Sony Animation | |
| People > Media Sales | June 11, 2009 |
| Sony Animation has pre-empted film rights to Adam Jay Epstein and Andrew Jacobson's recently sold YA fantasy trilogy The Familiars... | |
| Ben Bova's The Immortality Factor coming to the big screen | |
| People > Media Sales | June 10, 2009 |
| Ben Bova's The Immortality Factor (a revised and corrected version of his 1996 novel Brothers) has been optioned by Red Giant Media, and the screenplay... | |
| Papercutz to publish new Disney Fairies stories as graphic novels | |
| People > Manga/Graphic Novels | May 19, 2009 |
| Papercutz will begin publishing graphic novels of new Disney Fairies stories next April. They expect to issue four new books per year... | |
| Mike Richardson/Dark Horse's The Secret to be motion picture | |
| People > Media Sales | May 15, 2009 |
 The Secret, written by Mike Richardson and published by Dark Horse Entertainment, will become a motion picture under the company's production deal with Universal...
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| Carrie Ryan sells film rights to The Forest of Hands and Teeth | |
| People > Media Sales | May 7, 2009 |
 New independent studio Seven Star Pictures bought film rights to Carrie Ryan YA zombie novel The Forest of Hands and Teeth...
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| Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake to be telefilm on IFC | |
| People > Media Sales | April 1, 2009 |
 Laurell K. Hamilton's soon-to-be 17-book series about Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter has been picked up by IFC, which will make its first original event telefilm based on the books...
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| All My Friends are Superheroes to be film | |
| People > Media Sales | March 31, 2009 |
 Canadian author, filmmaker, and radio producer Andrew Kaufman's 2003 novel All My Friends are Superheroes has been optioned by small Canadian producer Topsail Entertainment. The book tells the story of...
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| Chris Gall's Dinotrux optioned by DreamWorks | |
| People > Media Sales | March 31, 2009 |
 DreamWorks Animation has optioned illustrator Chris Gall's third children's book, Dinotrux, for production as an animated feature. The book, set in a fictional prehistoric world...
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| The Strange Adventures of H.P. Lovecraft coming to the big screen | |
| People > Media Sales | March 27, 2009 |
 Image Comics is releasing the first issue of The Strange Adventures of H.P. Lovecraft in April. Later, Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment will turn it into a feature film...
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