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Updated with the latest: Colleen Hoover's popular thriller Verity is in the works for a feature film adaptation with Amazon MGM Studios starring Anne Hathaway, Dakota Johnson and Josh Hartnett. The film has gone into production, as evidenced by some snapshots shown below of two of its costars filming…

EXCLUSIVE: Sara Shepard, the bestselling author behind the popular Pretty Little Liars novels which have spawned several TV series, has signed with Gersh for representation. In addition to Pretty Little Liars, Shepard also penned The Perfectionists book series, both of which have collectively…

Macy's has optioned the NYT best-selling book When Women Ran Fifth Avenue: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion to develop into a fictionalized TV series. The book by journalist Julie Satow focuses on the untold stories of the women who built and shaped some of the most iconic…

Several best-selling books have inspired new and returning television series this year as well as box office movie magnets like the conclusion to Jon M. Chu’s Wicked and Regretting You based on Colleen Hoover’s book. Still novel adaptations more are in the works, like the many romantic comedies of Emi…

EXCLUSIVE: Financier, producer and distributor AETH Entertainment has acquired film rights to the debut novel Hollywood Hustle from actor Jon Lindstrom. Hollywood Hustle follows a fallen Hollywood star fighting for redemption when the cost of fame turns deadly. "From the opening pages, Holl…

Emmy winner Matthew Macfadyen (Succession) is attached to star as George Smiley in Legacy Of Spies, a TV series project based on John le Carré's series of novels featuring the career intelligence officer character. The Ink Factory, which owns the rights to le Carré's work, is producing and Fifth…

EXCLUSIVE: The Anne Rice estate and Dinner Partners LLC have signed with InkWell Management and Literate for representation. The aim is to promote the late author's available works across all media for series and film adaptations. The rights to the estate's literary properties are controlled by…

UTA's Co-Head of Media Rights, Jason Richman, is feeling reflective after one of the most shocking beginnings to a year the entertainment industry can remember. The prominent lit exec is considering how the industry has been recovering from the California wildfires that tore through neighborhoods in…

Experts say around half of what we see on TV is the result of an adapted novel or news article, and the books-to-screen market will be in the spotlight in the coming days. Ahead of next week’s London Book Fair, we’ve rounded up a selection of the hottest novels hitting the Olympia London conference…

Joseph Wambaugh, the writer who mined his years as a Los Angeles Police Department patrolman for a series of bestselling crime books including The Onion Field, The New Centurions, The Blue Knight and The Glitter Dome, and whose literary works were adapted for feature films and television series, died…

EXCLUSIVE: Hulu and 20th Television are in early development on Hip Hop Cop, a TV series adaptation of Ron Stallworth's memoir The Gangs of Zion (2024, Hachette Book Group), his first book since the 2018 release of Black Klansman: Race, Hate, and the Undercover Investigation of a Lifetime, Deadline…

There has been “an air of kismet” about Susan Morrison’s 10-years-in-the-making biography of Saturday Night Live creator and executive producer Lorne Michaels, the author said. The New Yorker editor managed to penetrate the still-secretive process of making the show, weaving in-the-room…