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Reading in the Dark to be a feature
Posted on July 13, 2010 | No CommentsNorthern Irish helmer Tom Collins will produce and direct a feature adaptation of Seamus Deane’s tome “Reading in the Dark.” Script has already been penned by “Public Enemies” scribe Ronan […] -
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man – in development
Posted on July 13, 2010 | No CommentsCinema Libre is developing a feature version of John Perkins’ “Confessions of an Economic Hit Man,” his behind-the-scenes memoir about the global banking structure and Third World Development. Los Angeles-based […] -
My Life As An Experiment optioned
Posted on July 13, 2010 | No CommentsReveille and Jack Black’s Electric Dynamite Prods. have optioned the TV rights to journalist/author A.J. Jacobs’ best-selling non-fiction book My Life As An Experiment for a potential half-hour comedy series. Esquire Editor-at-Large […] -
Charlie Huston novel heading to HBO
Posted on July 12, 2010 | No CommentsAlan Ball, the Emmy winning writer/producer behind Six Feed Under and True Blood, has set up Charlie Huston’s novel, The Mystic Arts of of Erasing All Signs of Death, at […] -
Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan is back
Posted on July 12, 2010 | No CommentsJack Ryan, Tom Clancy’s famous CIA analyst, is back! A new film is on track to shoot soon, according to producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura. The film will be called “Moscow,” and […] -
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy remake gets cast
Posted on July 9, 2010 | No Comments“Got a rabbit to pull out of your hat, Percy? You’ve got that Britain-can-make-it look about you. Very intimidating.” – Bill Haydon, from Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy From Variety – A […] -
The Little Mermaid live action remake
Posted on July 8, 2010 | No CommentsWorking Title (the production company that brought us Pride & Prejudice, Nanny McPhee, and Bridget Jones) and director Joe Wright (Pride & Prejudice, Hanna) are developing a live-action adaptation of the […] -
Reviving Ophelia heading to Lifetime
Posted on July 8, 2010 | No CommentsReviving Ophelia, the famous nonfiction book about raising teenage daughters, is heading to Lifetime. First published in 1994, Mary Pipher’s Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls became a bestseller […] -
Have Space Suit, Will Travel – in development
Posted on July 6, 2010 | 2 CommentsThe rights to Robert Heinlein’s classic story, Have Space Suit, Will Travel, have been granted to Harry Kloor’s Jupiter 9 Prods by the Heinlein estate. Gotham Group’s Ellen Goldsmith-Vein and Peter […] -
Keep an eye out for Grassroots
Posted on July 6, 2010 | No CommentsFrom Cinematical – Grassroots is shaping up to be an interesting little Indy film. Based on the book Zioncheck for President: A true story of Idealism and Madness in American […]