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EXCLUSIVE: We hear that Candle Media’s Hello Sunshine has sold a film adaptation of the Alexene Farol Follmuth bestseller Twelfth Knight to Netflix, which Anyone But You scribe Ilana Wolpert will adapt. Twelfth Knight was a Reese's Book Club pick and spent four weeks on The New York Times bestseller…

Prime Video's next YA book-based TV show with a big audience and set at the beach will likely be We Were Liars, based on the book by E. Lockhart. The rights to the best-selling novel were optioned in 2022 by Julie Plec's My So-Called Company and Universal Television. Related…

Lucy Score's Things We Never Got Over has been out for over two and a half years with the two sequel books completing the Knockemout trilogy in 2023 ahead of the announcement that Things We Never Got Over is getting the television adaptation treatment. The first book in the trilogy is also one of the…

EXCLUSIVE: On the heels of a huge summer with It Ends with Us, its adaptation of the bestselling novel from Colleen Hoover, Wayfarer Studios is on to another literary adaptation to watch, as the company has won the film rights to Kirsty Greenwood’s USA Today bestselling romantic comedy The Love of My After…

EXCLUSIVE:  Fresh from the successful box office roll-out of Tim Burton's Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, its prolific producer Tommy Harper is joining forces with writer-producer Matt Charman (Bridge of Spies, Treason) to develop a series adaptation of Alice Feeney's bestselling book, Sometimes I Lie. The…

Several best-selling books have inspired new and returning television series this year as well as box office magnets like It Ends With Us and later in the fall — Wicked. Still novel adaptations more are in the works, like the many romantic comedies of Emily Henry and a few more Colleen Hoover…

EXCLUSIVE: HarperCollins imprint William Morrow has snapped up North American publishing rights to a new memoir from Jay Stratton, former Director of the U.S Government’s secretive UFO program, the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force, who led investigations into UAP and non-human intelligence for 16…

EXCLUSIVE: It can be tough out there on the mean streets of the 90210. To wit: A new book details some of the storied ZIP code’s most notorious crimes. Penned by veteran journalist Scott Huver, Beverly Hills Noir: Crime, Sin & Scandal in 90210 spins tales of true-crime stories spanning the legendary…

Over three months before the 20th edition of The Black List hits inboxes all over town, the Franklin Leonard founded platform is broadening its horizon into novels. “The Black List’s core mission has always been discovering, supporting, and amplifying exceptional writing–providing it with the…

EXCLUSIVE: Yvonne Strahovski (The Handmaid’s Tale, Stateless) is set to star and executive produce a series adaptation of A Woman of Intelligence, based on Karin Tanabe’s bestselling novel. UCP, a division of Universal Studio Group, is developing the project with Strahovski’s Anovi Peak Productions. A…

Sauron and war will strike again in Season 2 of Prime Video's Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. No matter the race — be it elves, ents, dwarves, wizards, etc. — preparations must be made in the brewing clash between good and evil. Related Stories …

SPOILER ALERT! This post contains details from the first episode of Pachinko Season 2. Pachinko creator Soo Hugh faced plenty of challenges in bringing an adaptation of Min Jin Lee's novel to life in the first season from the trilingual story-telling to the periods of Sunja's life featured in the…