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Nominations were unveiled Tuesday for the 33rd annual USC Libraries Scripter Award, which honors the writers of the year’s most accomplished film and episodic TV series adaptations as well as the works on which they are based. Winners will be announced Saturday, March 13 online, with the annual in-person awards…

EXCLUSIVE: Endeavor Content and Ink Factory are developing and co-producing a series adaptation of Yasmin Angoe’s anticipated debut novel Her Name Is Knight. The seven-figure deal was brokered by UTA in a competitive situation. Her Name Is Knight revolves around Nena Knight, codename Echo, a highly trained assassin…

Apple TV+ is nearing a series order for In With the Devil, a six-hour adaptation of a true crime memoir by James Keene that has Taron Egerton set to star as the author and Richard Jewell‘s Paul Walter Hauser in talks to join him as a suspected serial killer. Michael R. Roskam will direct a script by Dennis Lehane. It…

One of the more unexpected shifts in media habits during the pandemic, at least for me, has been a new interest in those little bird-box book libraries that inhabit front lawns in the quieter neighborhoods here. I regularly pass a dozen of them on a circuit of five or six miles around Santa Monica and Brentwood…

EXCLUSIVE: Wind River and A Private War outfit Savvy Media has acquired rights to Business Insider (formerly Wired) journalist Alex Davies' book Driven: The Race to Create the Autonomous Car. Released by Simon & Schuster on January 5, 2021, the book charts the quest to develop driverless cars and the fierce…

HBO has put in development a series adaptation of Tales of Dunk & Egg, a prequel to Game of Thrones, based on George R.R. Martin’s series of fantasy novellas. Tales of Dunk & Egg is one of a handful of new GoT prequel projects that are floating around at HBO as the network is aiming at having multiple GoT-universe…

Conservative publishing house Regnery has picked up Sen. Josh Hawley’s upcoming book The Tyranny of Big Tech that was dropped by Simon & Schuster after the Jan. 6 siege on the Capitol. The Missouri Republican had repeatedly supported and gave voice to President Donald Trump’s disinformation campaign about vote…

Slumdog Millionaire star Freida Pinto is set to star in and executive produce Spy Princess, a limited series based on Shrabani Basu’s Spy Princess: The Life of Noor Inayat Khan, the definitive biography of Noor’s life, from writer Olivia Hetreed (Girl With a Pearl Earring) and Red Room Films. Hetreed will pen the…

MTV Books is getting a relaunch in partnership with Simon & Schuster and with YA publishing industry vet Christian Trimmer heading up the endeavor. The Trimmer announcement suggests a ramp-up of MTV Entertainment’s book-to-tv & film pipeline and its hunt for new writer voices. Trimmer will be based in New York and…

EXCLUSIVE: PEN15 co-creator and star Anna Konkle’s latest memoir The Sane One has landed at Random House in a highly competitive situation. In the book she tells the story of growing up in a dysfunctional household, with parents who were separated but chose to remain living under the same roof on opposite sides of the…

EXCLUSIVE: BCDF Pictures has picked up the rights to Melissa Grey's Penguin Random House urban fantasy book series The Girl at Midnight, which they have been developing for TV and are now set to take out to buyers. Chris Hill, recently announced as scribe of runner biopic Tether, is developing the first novel in the…

Sen. Josh Hawley responded Thursday to what he called "the woke mob" at Simon & Schuster, which earlier in the day announced it was canceling publication of his upcoming book, calling the move “Orwellian." "This is not just a contract dispute. It's a direct assault on the First Amendment, Only approved speech can now…