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Oliver Stone On His Coming-Of-Age Memoir ‘Chasing The Light,’ The Challenge In Making A President Trump Movie & Times He Nearly Got Killed Making His Early Films – Q&A
EXCLUSIVE: Three-time Oscar-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone has gone back to his roots for Chasing the Light: Writing, Directing, and Surviving Platoon, Midnight Express, Scarface, Salvador and the Movie Game. Just published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, the book is a personal reminiscence, the coming of age of a great…
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‘Master Of Ceremonies’ Series Adaptation In The Works At Sony Pictures TV
EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures Television has acquired the rights to David Henry Sterry’s memoir Master of Ceremonies: A True Story of Love, Murder, Roller Skates & Chippendales, to develop as a series. Emmy-nominated Gordon Smith (Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul) is set to pen the series adaptation and showrun the project…
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‘Finding Freedom’ Excerpts Depict Harry And Meghan Against “The Vipers”
A new book that will be serialized by the Times of London this weekend is giving a shocking insider view of the reasons behind Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s “Megxit” from the Royal Family and its duties.
Finding Freedom: Harry, Meghan and the Making of a Modern Royal Family is officially out Aug. 11. It claims…
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Nina Dobrev To Star In & EP TV Series Adaptation Of ‘Woman 99’ With Bruna Papandrea
Nina Dobrev and Made Up Stories have acquired the rights to Greer Macallister's novel Woman 99 to develop as a TV series starring the Vampire Diaries alum. Dobrev also will executive produce alongside Made Up Stories founder Bruna Papandrea.
Historical thriller Woman 99 follows a young woman whose quest to free her…
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‘A Head Full Of Ghosts’ Horror Novelist Paul Tremblay Signs Three-Book Deal With William Morrow
EXCLUSIVE: Bestselling horror novelist Paul Tremblay, whose A Head Full Of Ghosts is set for a film adaptation directed by Scott Cooper, has signed a three-book deal with the William Morrow imprint of HarperCollins.
The publisher has acquired US and Canadian rights to three new books by the writer, the first of which…
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Joanna Cole Dies: Author Of ‘Magic School Bus’ Books Turned TV Series Was 75
Joanna Cole, whose Magic School Bus book series was beloved by millions of young readers and later turned into an animated television show, has died at age 75.
Her publisher, Scholastic, said Cole, a resident of Sioux City, Iowa, died Sunday from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
"Joanna Cole had the perfect touch for…
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Andrew McCarthy Sets Memoir Deal For Upcoming ‘Brat: An ’80s Story’
Grand Central Publishing has acquired actor Andrew McCarthy’s memoir Brat: An '80s Story, set for publication in Spring 2021.
"For years people have asked me, on a near daily basis, ‘What was it like back in the day?’,” McCarthy said in a statement. “Routinely, I’d offer up any number of stock responses. Finally I…
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Mary Trump Book Review: In The Chaos Of Donald Trump’s Presidency, Will His Niece’s Tell-All Matter?
As reporters rushed to post many of the juicy anecdotes and scorching analysis from Mary Trump’s new book this past week, they might have missed that the memoir also is a media critique.
In Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man, set to be published by Simon & Schuster on…
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Erica Armstrong Dunbar’s ‘Never Caught’ Book Getting Feature Treatment From Provenance Films
EXCLUSIVE: Provenance Films, a subsidiary of Provenance Ventures, has optioned the 2017 book Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge form author Erica Armstrong Dunbar for a feature. LaToya Morgan, whose writing credits include The Walking Dead, Into the Badlands, Shameless…
‘2 Dope Queens’ Co-Creator Phoebe Robinson To Launch Book Imprint With Plume
Phoebe Robinson, co-creator and co-host of the 2 Dope Queens podcast that was made into eight HBO specials and author of the bestselling You Can't Touch My Hair, is partnering with her publisher Plume to launch a new imprint.
The imprint, Tiny Reparations Books, will publishing literary fiction and nonfiction as well…
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‘Ready Player Two’ Sequel Novel Set For November Publication Date
Ready Player Two, novelist Ernest Cline’s sequel to his bestselling Ready Player One, will be published by Penguin Random House imprint Ballantine Books on Nov. 24 in North America, the publishing house announced today.
The book can be pre-ordered beginning today. International publication dates will be announced in…
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Editor & Publisher Nan A. Talese To Retire After Six-Decade Career
Nan A. Talese, President, Publisher and Editorial Director of her eponymous Doubleday imprint, will retire at the end of the year, bringing an end to one of publishing’s most celebrated careers that also included stints at Random House, Simon & Schuster and Houghton Mifflin.
Since starting her Nan A. Talese imprint at…
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